Eat Mor Chikin

The things we will do for free food :)

But we got $36 worth of free food--totally worth it!!

My favorite cows!

A little Chuck E Cheese Birthday

Reid and the birthday girl

Fun birthday door with birthday girl!

Driving with Chuck E

Her favorite ride

and the mouse himself!

Her dog from Everett

blowing her candles out. kids with mamas on bed rest get cookie cakes. thankfully she didn't mind :)

SO excited about her new Cinderella doll from Mimi

playing with her birthday chalk

And apparently she joined a 3 year old gang......

Late night birthday decorations!

After Rylie went to bed the night before her birthday, the boys got busy decorating the apartment for her!

They had bought some Birthday Princess streamers and pink balloons earlier in the day and were so excited to decorate for her!

Fun birthday door!

Birthday balloon flower :)

Paci Fairy!

So Rylie had a sort of love affair with her paci. She only had it when she slept, but she LOVED it. We decided that 3 was way a bit too old to have a paci, so the night before her birthday she left her pacis in a bag by the door for the paci fairy!

Really excited!

Bag o pacis

The paci fairy left her these two stuffed animals. She LOVES them and snuggles with them every night instead of making out with sucking on her paci!

She has really done SO well! We are so proud of her!

Devils Backbone

One Saturday morning Matt took the boys hiking at a place called Devils Backbone, part of the Rocky Mountains.

They had such a great time!

And saw this.....oh my.

And then took pictures right. next. to. it.

At the keyhole

My three boys!

Boys in keyhole

Everett looking up at where they had hiked.

Happy July 4th!

For the 4th of July we went to a picnic at a park with all the rest of the people who are going through the training with us out here. I didn't get any pictures at the picnic since I was stuck in the chair wih my feet up, but I promise you there was running around, eating, playing football, flag waving, and LOTS of fun!

Rylie's First day of "school"

Rylie has been talking about wearing her backpack adn going to school like her brothers for the whole last year. So she was SO excited when we got to CO and she got to go to "school" everyday with her backpack and lunch bag.

Growing up so fast!

On the road again.....

On our way to Colorado for training, we stopped in Tulsa, OK to see my grandmother and invade the retirement community she lives in. Good news--no elderly people were knocked over or hurt in any way......but i was worried they might be! Those peeps haven't seen energy like my kids have in a long time!

And of course we had to get some Krispy Kreme doughnuts every some mornings.

My cousin and his sweet wife had our whole family--aunts, cousins, grandma--over for a cook out one night while we were there. They both are SO great with the kids--had books for them as presents, planned a water balloon fight, had oreo dirt cake with worms--in a sand bucket!-for dessert!

We all had such a great time!

Then one day we went down to see my other cousin and his sweet wife,  and their itty bitty week old yumminess, Jackson. We are so thankful that we got to see them and meet Jackson!

Greg, Jackson, and Mimi

Our family with Aunt Diane, Mimi, Greg, Jennifer, and Jackson

And of course....

the obligatory pictures on the beach. I don't know about you, but my family just loves taking these.

They acted like the camera might shoot spears at them....

So, this is what we got from the torture picture session.

Ry

Everett

(there wasn't even a postable one of Reid......)

the three littles......next summer there will be four.....

I'm sure the picture taking will be much easier then. sigh.

the fam

so this is the door to the boardwalk to the beach.

 I thought it would be fun to take a picture of the kids in front of it every summer to see how they've grown.

no one else seemed to want to sign up for annual picures......

one of my favorites and the only real smiles we got all night :)

Rainbow Connection

Some dear friends, Crit and Camille, came down to see us for a night while we were in SSI. Sadly, they came at the same time as the hurricane.....but in the middle of all the rain, we got to see a BEAUTIFUL double rainbow! We all ran up to the roof to see it. If you look clodely, you can see the second rainbow to the right of the people.....

and yes, I have a snuggie on. Don't judge people...who doesn't love a blanket with sleeves??

:)

Bike rides to dinner

One of our favorite things to do at the beach is to ride our bikes to dinner. It is about a mile and a half to the village, so not too far. We keep the boys bikes at the beach house since we moved, and Ry rides on the back of Matt's bike. There is a sidewak alomst the whole way and a beautiful view of the marsh.

Here she is showing off her seat!

Me and my littles

me and my girl

KK and Papa and the grands