Weekend Fun With the Wee Men

So, a couple of weeks ago, I watched my nephews so that my brother and his wife could go away for their anniversary. (Their anniversary isn't until December 15th, but they'll have a brand new baby by then, so going away alone would be pretty much out of the question.) I decided that I should take the boys on a little adventure. Usually, an adventure for me and the boys includes a trip to Target (where else!?!) hehe, so I made sure this one was a little different. I took them to the Mary Vagle Nature Center in Fontana. It's sort of a little nature preserve area in the Jurupa Hills. It has a man made lake with lots of ducks, geese, turtles, plants, etc. They also have a building that you can go into where they have snakes, spiders, chinchillas, bugs, etc. First, we went over to the lake and fed the ducks.

After feeding the ducks, we went inside where we got to look at some cool animals. Cy got hold of a magnifying glass and so, of course he had to use it to look at everything through it. Like:this snake...
and these chinchillas!

They also got to see a couple of bearded dragonshuge tarantulasgross beetles We got to learn about and look at different mineralsand Joey taught us all about the chinchillas!
These are just a few of the things we got to see and it was way cool!

When we went back outside, the boys wanted to walk around the lake.


These are just some shots from our walk around the lake.
I know that the last 2 are almost the same, but I couldn't decide which was cuter, so I put them both up. : )

After this, we drove to the library, where each little man got to choose a story for me to read to them.

That night, we decided to make some spooky root beer and a cool Jack 'o Lantern cookie. The boys got to help mix everything up and then at the end I put in some dry ice, which the boys thought was awesome! Our made-from-scratch root beer turned out pretty delicious, if I do say so myself. ; )






I had tons of fun with my sweet nephews! I love being their auntie!