Rylie's spotlight

Rylie at Mason's birthday with her cousin Mary.

Sara, Rylie, Mary

Rylie's first fishing trip with Dad. They were both so excited to go and soon realized that it might not be what they had envisioned. Dad's vision - quiet, relaxing fishing trip, showing his firstborn the ropes, each casting and reeling in numerous fish on their own. Reality - Dad answering a million questions, stressed his firstborn will fall in, casting his then hers, reeling in his and hers because she as lost interest, no fish. Rylie's vision - hold this cool pole dad is so excited about and wave it around if I want, see lots of fish and maybe touch one, get in the water, go home after 5 minutes. Reality - quietly, stand still for a long time holding this pole in one place and trying to get a fish somehow with a worm.

It's all about the memories.

Our First Garden

I asked for a garden for Mother's Day and look what I got. Before there was just dead grass where you see dirt. Our landlord brought some furtilizing mulch and a rototiller and made this great spot. He was very kind to donate his time and labor to us. Mason only ate one handful of dirt the whole day and Rylie was a good sport to let us work. It took all day of working to get it done. We went from dead grass to a furtile, organized, planted and watered plot. Just a week later the corn is about an inch high as well as the watermelon and cantaloupe. We are so excited to see it growing so fast. Jacob and I both check on it at least twice a day. I hope it really grows something! So far, so good. Thanks Mom and Dad for teaching me how to plant a garden.

Mason's birthday

We celebrated Mason's first birthday on Sunday with his Harris cousins.

Great cake mom, now let's dig in!!

Here. There's some on this finger for you.