Ryley's First Violin Recital

Thanksgiving

Since my mom and dad were out of town visiting Jake for his graduation from pilot training, we had to cook our own turkey. Luckily our ward is full of fun people so we had a group of friends come over for a great day.

I love Family Fun Magazine! There's lots of fun, crafty ideas for me and Ryley to do.




We had a fun football game first to work up an appetite.


Here's our fun friends.




Not a bad spread of a bunch of graduate students.

Evelyn reading scriptures.avi

Halloween

Picking Pumpkins at the farm




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Trick-or-Treating!! The best part!







Jensen's Preschool Party



Ryley's 1st grade class party

Disney on Ice

We went on a Mommy-Daughter date with some other girls from our ward to Disney on Ice! So Fun! What cute little princesses! My favorite part was Rapunzel swinging from her hair.

Fall Time!

Lots of leaves around here! Unfortunately there's also a lot of dog-owners who don't pick up their dogs' business around here too. Ryley came home with nice smear on her leg. Lame.

Annapolis Boat Show

It was our first time to our state capitol, Annapolis. The town is really quaint, but the boats we toured were quite extravagant. My mom and dad are in the market... but sadly we're far from it. We're still in the dreaming phase.

Marathon Relay

No, I'm not quite ready for a real marathon, but a relay was just right for me. It was a fun day! Lots of people cheering us on as we ran along the harbor and through the streets of Baltimore. Everyone in our group ran faster than we expected and we barely made it to our checkpoints in time for the hand offs.

Ryley #7

Ryley Turns 7 years old!!
I think it's about time she started brushing her teeth.


Goofy girl.

Jared's Homecoming

Waiting in the airport for Jared to come home from Chile!!






Yeah!! He's HOME!!


Jared, meeting Evelyn for the first time.



Having lots of fun with Jared. Boating, Rope Swinging...



Kayaking...


Hiking, Swimming...etc.




Welcome home Jared! We missed you!

One last beach trip!

We went camping at the beach this past weekend to celebrate Ryley's 7th birthday. The Atlantic Ocean was still nice and warm... but the weather was not so warm unfortunately. We still had fun, of course, and we were lucky to have some friends and my mom and dad there to join us. The waves were HUGE and perfect for boogie boarding! I just wish I had a surf board.

Summertime 2011

These pictures aren't in order. We had a fun-filled summer and we're sad to see it coming to a close. Ryley starts 1st grade tomorrow morning! We met her teacher and think she's pretty nice.

Here's a picture of Ryley in her beautiful Ballet outfit before her ballet performance in the spring.



We made some fun crafts this summer. One of our favorite was the flying tissue-paper fish.


I had a birthday and now I'm older, Yeah!! I got to pick my own bouquet of flowers at a pick-your-own farm. We found some pretty exotic looking ones. Ammon made me my brownie birthday cake.


The slip-n-slide at Grandma and Grandpa Jensen's house in WV!







Kayaking in WV










Jensen turned 4 years old! He wanted a Chick Hicks birthday cake. I don't know why he likes the bad guy in the Cars movie? We had a fun pool party with some of his little buddies.




This is at the Inner Harbor area in downtown Baltimore. The fountains are so much fun!









We took a day trip to Ocean City. We love the beach!













Jensen's favorite thing these days is swinging on a rope swing! We seem to keep finding them on our adventures too! How convenient. This one is on a little sandy beach on Cheat Lake. My mom and dad took us out on their boat to waterski and then we had a little cookout on the shore.






Goofy Grandparents!



We did a lot of fruit picking again this year. Yummy peaches! We also got cherries, blueberries, raspberries, plums and we can't wait until the apples are ready.











We did a lot of hiking and fishing. We decided to invest in some trail maps and we've found lots of new places to explore.















We even caught a couple of fish worth keeping and eating! Yummy.




Some of our fishing places we rode our bikes to.







We even found a little waterfall.


We caught lots of other wildlife too, including frogs and crawfish.


Of course Ryley had to check and make sure it wasn't a prince.




Ryley wanted Evelyn to kiss it too. Evelyn willingly complied.


This little girl loves to get dirty.


The only downside to all the hiking has been the bee stings. The bees seem to be attracted to Jensen and he's gotten 5 so far this summer. I don't know why they like him. No one else has gotten stung. Luckily he's not allergic!


Evelyn meets a crawfish. So excited!



The pool has been the main attraction since it's been a hot summer. Ryley and Jensen can swim like little fishies and even Evelyn loves to kick her legs like crazy.







We still haven't ventured to try catching our own crabs yet, but we found some at a roadside stand. They were tasty!


We also had an earthquake this past week that was pretty exciting. We're on the second floor of our building so we were swaying a little bit when it happened. The kids were kind of scared, but thankfully everything was ok.