Joe was completely stir crazy from being at home all day yesterday (waiting for our freezer delivery), so we met up with Zack at City Park. Shawn called just before they left to warn me that they were bringing a “giant” dump truck, so we packed one of Joe’s too. I had a hunch I should have packed both of Joe’s trucks, but didn’t. My bad.

Z took one look at Joe's big Tonka dump truck and we knew that an all-morning battle would be inevitable. So I just ran home and picked up Joe's second truck. Five minutes later, I was back with Joe's other dump truck. I do love living in the city!

As I arrived with the other dump truck, Z yelled “thank you” over and over as he ran to greet me…er, I mean, greet the truck!

Boy meets truck.

It was a first! For once, they didn’t argue over who got which truck, even though the trucks looked just a little different.

And they're off!

Buds

They even took turns being in the lead spot as they tooled around (and around and around) the park.

Z's in the lead!

Joe's in the lead!

The boys spent nearly two hours “driving” around the “roads” in the park, picking up pinecones and leaves (and, of course, dumping them out), following each other around, and traversing the hills. They only stopped for one quick snack.

Dump truck races. And, yes, the flames do make it go faster.

They had a really good time, but apparently boys take the whole truck thing pretty seriously.

That's a man on a serious dump truck mission.

They probably had the most fun sending their dump trucks down a steep hill to see which one would get to the bottom first.

Ready, set, go! And they actually let go at the same time...for once.

Dump truck races are quite exciting, don't you know?

And they showed great sportsmanship no matter whose truck "won!"

They even retrieved their own trucks at the bottom of the hill AND climbed back up.

Of course, it wouldn’t be a good dump truck play date if they didn’t find the mud puddle.

What you don't see is the mommy just out of the frame racing to rescue the kiddos before they got covered in mud!

The boys also had fun playing hide-and-seek and running around without the dump trucks.

Hiding in the rose bushes!

We recently clocked Joe at 5.1 miles per hour at the health exhibit at the Museum of Nature and Science (which, coincidentally, was only a few hundred yards behind the boys while they were running.)

It was an absolutely gorgeous day and a beautiful reminder why we live in Denver.

The view we were able to enjoy while the boys played in City Park, which is walking distance from our house.