Monday, June 29, 2009

Life Lately

We have been in the midst of a deck project. Ryan has been working like a mad man to get the deck on the back of the house before Jared's birthday. Jared has been walking up a storm! He walks around with his hands up in the air as if to say, "Look Mom, No hands!" He also likes to climb! He is pretty much completely off of baby food and eats mostly table food now!


This is the aftermath of the first taste of advacadoes...
As you can see, they were a hit (just not the cleaning up part)!



This is his new smile...melts my heart!



Cutie Katelyn :)



She is such a "little Mommy" to Jared!



She loves to pose!




It was only a matter of time before he stole Aunt Kathryn's glasses






The beginning of the deck project!


Ryan passed his P.E.!!!
He is now a certified Engineer!
This was his first engineering masterpiece...certified and stamped!


Katelyn came to spend the night and we had fun in the pool!
I don't think Jared quit laughing the whole time he was in tehre with her!




She can put her face under water!
















Jared got into his goldfish before I could stop him and dumped them all over the floor!
The lighting was too good to pass up a few photos!



It's making a lot of progress!
Just a little more floor to go and some rails and we will be ready!




The deck boards are going to cover the existing concrete slab and go all the way to the house the whole way across.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Jared, How Old Are You Gonna Be?

Aloha :) (Part 1)

***After a second look at this post once I had posted it, i realized that blogger cropped all of the pictures. If you click on them you can see the full version.***

Whew! How is it that a week in Hawaii takes TWO weeks to recover from? We are finally getting back into the swing of things. Ryan has been working diligently on the deck on the back of the house for Jared's birthday party. I am pretty impressed with him! Especially when my car said it was 104 degrees here today!! Anyway, here are the first half of our pictures from Hawaii. We had a blast! Maui is incredibly beautiful!


On the plane from L.A. to Maui...almost there!!

We watched the sun come up on our first morning there since we were up at 3:00 a.m. Hawaii time!! I figured it was a prefect chance for a photo shoot :)



Which way to the gun show?

Ryan about to go kayaking on our second day there.





Right after I took this last picture of them going out into the ocean...we realized the van wouldn't start!

Another perfect oportunity for a photo shoot :)

STRANDED!!!


First time to touch sand EVER!




Mommy and Jared


Aunt Stacey and Jared


Getting sleepy









First tiome Jared's tootsies felt sand between them :)


Not too sure about it so he stands like a flamingo




Jared and Daddy @ the beach in Kihea

















Ryan and Satcey are the ones floating in the very center of the pic.
They were boogey boarding!


















After tasting a few handfulls of sand...yuck!


Ryan and me in Mr. David's backyard.


Baby Beach in Lahaina


Still tasting sand



Best freidns :)

















Coming soon...Part 2!!!