The Pick for the Day....

We've been eating a lot of fresh vegetables since we have a yard and a garden now. This was the pick from last night. Ryan ate nearly this whole head of broccoli raw. He sat down in his chair outside and told me it was time for dinner and that we were having broccoli.

I love my little guy. Thank you for not being a picky eater!

What We've Been Up To

Enjoy some random pictures.

Ryan at the discovery museum. He did not want to leave this place.

Ryan with his friend Joe. We've been playing a lot with them lately! They are such good friends.

We've been playing a lot outside.

Ryan has recently discovered that he loves to eat salad. He asks for one everyday! This makes me happy

Ryan playing outside more.

Ryan studying a bug on the wall outside of Grandma Fila and Edpa's house.

Playing blocks with Grandma Fila,

Ryan eating green smoothie at Grandma and Edpa's house.

Karen's Family Photos

On Sunday I went out to Karen's house and took her family pictures. About 5 mintues before we head out it starts stroming and then as we drive to the spot it starts raining. Karen has everyone get out anyway! We take a few picture and then as we are heading back into the car and everyone is wet the rain stops so I made them stay for a little while longer. Anyway, here are some of my favorites.


Notice the rain pouring down on them in this pictures. Jason Welch has a very nice voice and sang us all, "singing in the rain!" At least I know they had a good time.Below: Ashlyn

Alex: I can't believe how big he is now!

All the kids together.

Max
Elsie
Jason Welch

100th post and California

This will be my 100th post!

Aside from that we went to Idaho to visit Mike's family two weeks ago and then flew to San Diego to stay in a condo with my parents for a week. Here are some pictures of California. No pictures of Idaho.... I didn't take my camera with me.






All these pictures are on a beach. Ryan didn't want to get in the water. He's developed a fear for whatever reason so we had to hold him when we got close to the ocean. Silly boy.




Scripps Aquarium. Very cool place.
Sorry it's a little blurry... it was dark.

Jaxson(my nephew) had his birthday while we were there. Ryan slept through the whole birthday party. He took a 3 1/2 hour nap that day and I ended up waking him up.
On the last day we were there we went down to the harbor. Ryan ended up feeding the pigeons and really enjoyed himself.


Thanks mom and dad for letting Ryan and I come vacation with you! We had such a great time.

Recent Pictures

Before Mike's Dad left to go back home we had him take a few quick pictures of us. Here are some of my favorites.

I included the one below so ya'll could get a feel about how big I'm getting. I feel huge but maybe it's just the summer heat!
And another one of my boys!

Mike's sister, Christine and her family came into town just before we left to Yellowstone. We had a great time hanging out for a few hours and here are some highlights. Ryan had a really great time playing with his cousins. We just wish they lived closer!

Family Time

So we took our first real family vacation together this last week and had a blast! We went to Island Park, which is about 20 minutes from West Yellowstone.
Ryan and Mike at Mesa Falls.
Edpa and Alex happened to be in the area so we got to hang out with them for a day and go into Yellowstone with them.
It was windy at the geysers but they were very beautiful.

Ryan loves to be in his hiking backpack and it gave cousin Alex a good workout.
The next day we tried our luck at fishing. NO FISH in a kid's fishing pond but Ryan had fun anyways! Below: Edpa fishing with Ryan.

Above: Ryan and Daddy fishing.
Ryan trying his luck all by himself.
Then of course, we just did a doing things outside. Mostly playing in the dirt.

And throwing rocks into the lake while daddy fished.
We also did a lot of swimming since our resort had a kids swimming area. Ryan said that was his favorite thing, but no pictures of that.

We had a blast and would love it even more if there weren't so many mosquitoes!