Back at the ranch...

We went to visit Curt's grandparents at their ranch this morning, and I got to meet his grandpa's best friends who are visiting with them for a couple of days. Curt's grandparents have some fun animals on their ranch, and Sariah loved spending time with them on this visit. I took pictures, of course:

In front of the chicken coop, I think they were her favorite.

Feeding the horses.

More horses.

A bull, who shook a bunch of flies off at me right after I took this pic. Yay...



Kind of an unrelated picture, but I think she is making a pretty funny face here.

Happy birthday tomorrow Curtis.

I bought Curt's present about a month ago, and it's been sitting in the trunk of my car. It was the only good hiding place I could think of. Every year I have to get more sneaky, he likes to try to find his present and ruin the surprise. I ended up giving his gift to him tonight, because I am awesome.

I bought him a barbecue grill, and I had to put it together. It took a little while, and I had to backtrack once or twice, but I kind of enjoyed it. I usually leave the putting together of everything to Curtis, he loves it. But I think I'm gonna try to put more stuff together.

Wanna see what it looked like when I took it out of the package?

The finished product.

And Sariah, because she's so silly!

Happy Halloween!

...Just some of my favorites from today. Here's one from last year:




She's so big now, holy cow!

Lots of excitement, lots of insanity

Yesterday Curtis and I celebrated 4 years of marriage! I love him so much.

Today Sariah turned 2! My big girl! I love her so much, too.

I'm finally off the waiting list! I start nursing school in January. Yeeeeeeeee!

Curt's birthday is in a week. I need to figure something good out.

Garden

We started a small sq ft. vegetable garden in our backyard a little under a week ago. We planted lettuce, tomato, carrot, onion, and broccoli seeds. I'm going to try my best to keep everything alive because I've always had a black thumb. I'll make another garden post when things progress. Our broccoli has already started to grow a little, yay!

This is our garden so far, I plan to expand it when I get better at gardening.

Broccoli!

More little broccolis (because I am a dork.)

Pool time!

We found a fun pool center that is pretty close to our house. Since Curtis had the day off, we decided to go swimming this afternoon.

Haha, they are making the same face!


She really liked the water this time, the last few times we went swimming she hated it!


She even liked to go under the water (although her facial expression here says otherwise)


Surfboard-dad!



I think she looks like a little old sunbathing lady here, so cute!

Ready to go home.

Silly girl!

Going along with the theme of most of my blog posts so far, this one is about Riah and a couple of the cute/funny things she's done in the past few days that I happened to take pictures of.

When she woke up from her nap the other day, she lined up the stuffed animals in her crib behind the headboard. When I came in to get her she pointed at them and started giggling, so funny!


We bought a betta. Riah loves her new fish - she really enjoys watching him swim and eat and do other fish things. I think his name is going to be Monty, I asked Riah what we should name him and what she said sounded like "Monty" - although it could've easily been "monkey" - *shrugs*


She also likes to wash her hands/face in the sink. She can finally reach it with her stepping stool. The face she is making here cracks me up.


And here she is "helping" momma do dishes.

Alicia and Mikel's new baby!

We are now Aunt & Uncle to another beautiful baby! Her name is Jessica Ann and she weighs in at a hefty 9 lbs 1 oz, and is 22 inches long! Isn't she adorable? :)

I've finally started updating my flickr again.

Fun day at the park