Ryan tells all

What it's really like to be a baby

Then Ryan's most recent visit to the quad playground

Raven

This is my dad's raven bead he sent into space with my uncle. For an article from our local newspaper copy and paste this link into your web browser.

http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/east_king/svr/lifestyle/62937027.html

Jesse gets ahold of the camera...

Yep that's right I went crazy and bought MORE peaches. These however were not as tasty... it was the peaches not me.

Canning with a small stove top. I have to change burners a lot.

This is what the boiling water did to the windows. Lots of steam.

It took Jesse awhile to figure out a good camera setting. Those are our Halloween lights outside on our balcony and our glow-in-the-dark bat window gel clingy things.

Just my baby (and his dad)

On Sunday I was walking home from church with Ryan (Jesse was in a meeting) and more focused on how he was almost asleep than his head... I got a few steps before I noticed...

Bird poop... washing it off an almost asleep baby was hard, needless to say he woke up :(

Marie...you may recognize this outfit... it fits him now, maybe almost too small. Newborn sized clothing needs a new definition.

Little elf boy

Ryan before our daily(ish) walk. Do not be fooled by the cute appearance he burst into tears after the photo and I ended up carrying him instead.

Jesse tired after church. Ryan not tired after sleeing through church.

Laundry

New clean jammies - just washed

Laundry is always an adventure... living on the 3rd floor makes it more exciting. My neighbor offered to watch Ryan whenever I need to do laundry. I, however, manage to do laundry when she is not home. Ryan either gets to be in the wrap or ...

ride

He quite enjoys riding and luckily for me he isn't able to roll out and has not yet spit up on the clean laundry.

This is how we know it is time to clip his fingernails

New shirt from a recent DI trip

Everything in this picture is second hand (even the socks and blanket)... well except the diaper...

Peaches

I found a wonderful deal on peaches... they came out to be around 27 cents a pound. The only problem being you have to buy a half bushel (about 22 pounds). They are delicious peaches, but we can not eat all of them and thus the canning began. Jesse came home to a sticky film all over the kitchen. But now we have canned peaches.

The process of me canning

Some finished jam...














Ryan's spot during canning, He slept through the jam making and did really well for most of the peaches...

What Ryan really thinks about canning.

Ward Ice Cream Social

For the second year in a row our quad won the Wymount Opening Social tug-of-war... we had to defend our title right? Well I suppose it helps that we are right next to the field where it takes place and we had twice as many people pulling as any other quad. So, we won ice cream!

What?

The creamery by DT closed down and BYU is down to about 3 ice cream flavors and a limited supply of it. We got mostly vanilla and some cookies and cream. The best part was the topping... whipped cream, cherries, nuts, caramel and chocolate sauce.

Hey can I take your picture?

BYU has this thing about watering our quad... everyday. Now we have a swamp.

Some of the kids from the quad enjoying the ice cream.

Justins and one more baby