Ry Ry!

So it's official, Ryan, Ashley, Ethan and Kris are gone. I put pictures of Reese and Ryan on her little shelf by her crib, because I don't want her to forget him. And first thing this morning she did was point to the pictures and say Ry Ry!

Sorry I can't figure out how to turn this pic. But it's so cute with Ryan's arm around Reese, Yes by the way they are driving this, but it's going pretty slow. And Jeremy is real close in case.
Okay hopefully Ashley doesn't care that I put these on there but everyone stays covered. This is after the dinosaur park, and then we came home and Ryan got a haircut, they both ate popsicles and played in the mud. They were so filthy they both got in the bath together. They were having so much fun and being so cute!

Dinosaurs!

Because this was Ryan and Ethan's last week we took all the kids to Dinosaur Park.

Is it sad that her favorite part was the ducks?
The park is starting to get a little shady, we saw this hoodlum loitering around. (okay that's Ethan and I couldn't resist teasing about his doorag, even though is is way cute.)

Ryan was there to put his arm around Reese. At one point Reese was getting close to a dinosaur and Ryan yelled, " No! Reese, don't go by dinosaur!" He's always trying to protect her, and I love it.

Doesn't she look like she's having tons of fun?

Baby contest!

So hopefully no one thinks I am a bad mom but I entered Reese in a baby contest on Saturday. It was in Harrisville for their little celebration they do. I just thought it would be fun. She won three out of five categories, ( and barely lost one.) She won cutest dimples, longest eyelashes, and most energetic. She barely lost in fastest walker, and it was kind of my fault. She was way ahead and almost across the finish line and I reached out to grab her and she thought I was playing and turned around and ran the other way, so then she lost. Oh well for the crowd that was the most entertaining part. They made her strip down to a diaper, although I had her wear her cute boots. And as we were walking to the car it looked like she was going to hitchhike and run away because her prize looked like a suit case. 

Grass!!

It's official, we have grass! Hooray. It used to be just covered in weeds, so this is very exciting. Now Reese doesn't have to play in dirt and rocks. We had lots of help, a bunch of Deamers,  and my parents and brother came over even though my sister got married that day. My brother came over about a week before on a huge tractor and helped us get it all ready, thanks Ben! Even Reese helped on the little tractor with Jeremy. It's so nice to have it done, if you need us we'll be hanging out in the back yard, (well once it gets cooler especially.)

Happy Pioneer Day!

Well, we decided to be lazy and hang around at home instead of going to the parade, (it was a little too hot for me to want to go too far.) So as you can see we did a lot of eating. Ryan, Reese's little protector was there to make sure she had plenty to drink. The kids all had a nice dip in the little pool. Hadley and Kennedy ,(the twins) Ethan took his first little dip, and even cousin Tatton came over for a swim. So we were all a little sticky after the day was over. But we had a nice pioneer day.

Let's go swimmin'

Reese has been doing swim classes this summer, it has been a lot of fun. It was a mommy and me class. The very first time we went swimming this year Reese was pretty scared. She would only hold on to me so tight with her head on my shoulder with only a little foot in the water. But since the swim lesson she has done so much better. Now she wishes I wasn't holding on to her at all. She graduated the class, (although it doesn't matter, she can still go to the next level next year.) Now she loves to swim!

A Trip To The Zoo!

So to finish off the anniversary we took Reese to the zoo. She's at such a fun age she loved it! I think her favorite part was the ducks (which she could see anywhere.) They were quacking like crazy and Reese was quacking right along with them. She got pretty tired after a while good thing for the stroller, (and daddy's shoulders). She made a few animal sounds for the first time once she saw them in real life, (like the monkey and elephant.) and she was a little afraid of the monkeys because they would come too close to the glass for her comfort. But she did so good and was so much fun to take, it was a great day!