Happy Birthday Nora

Nora turned 2 yesterday. She enjoyed the cake and kept asking "more please" when opening her gifts. Our little girl is growing so fast!

Summer is half gone

I worked July 4th weekend so not many photos. Jim pretends he cant use a camera. He says its because he has no photography skills but I remind him you can computer edit alot.
I took the kids to the zoo today. A rare nice summer day AND I had off of work. I took them into the Wings Down Under bird exhibit. Ry was okay until the birds really started flying down on us. He was afraid he was going to get pooped on. Evan was the bird magnet and loved feeding them. Nora was fascinated by the birds but kept trying to bop them on the head with the birdseed popsicle stick to try to get them to eat.
The tshirts they did at the gym childcare. The boys wanted them to be red and blue. But we didnt have alot of time and it was hard to really tie dye with all those kids and only 3 buckets. So they quick dip in the blue and red of course made them purple. They decided to make Noras plain yellow so that was easy.

Back from Arizona

We got back from our unplanned last minute trip to visit family in Arizona on Sunday night (actually 1am Monday morning to be exact). The kids LOVED playing with their cousins they hadnt seen in a few years. We took them on some hiking trails around Phoenix and basically just relaxed by the pool most of the time. Temp was about 100 every day. Now the boys are BEGGING us to get an inground pool so they can learn to swim better they say. Now we are slowly getting the house organized again. We need a vacation from our vacation!

Muchos fotos

Random pics from the last couple of weeks. Ry's dance recital photos are by Frophoto and scanned in.
Hard to get a pic of Nora lately. She either doesnt want to look at the camera. Or shes talking or her eyes are closed. Sometimes I just give up and take a picture of her having a fit. :)
On Ry's team all players switch off positions. Yes hes a lefty.
And Evans just been a crabby busy body. Hes got a bad case of the 4 year old whines.

Recital

Ry and his group did great at their recital last weekend. The lil' cowboys danced to Cotton Eyed Joe. It was just the four boys ages 7 and 8. They had a good time!
Weather is slowly warming up for good so Evan and Nora have been getting outside play time. Last day of school is June 11th.
Baseball has started. Ry's second year of coach pitch. Hes playing on the Orioles. Games twice a week thru June.

River

River got real sick and we chose to put him down yesterday. The decision was a bit hard but it was harder seeing him so uncomfortable. He was 13 years old. The boys were a bit sad but they are doing okay. Canyon seems to look around a bit but even she seemed to know it was River's time to go. This photo was taken the day before.

Zoo

I took Evan and Nora to the zoo this week. Was trying out my new camera again a bit.