photo catch-up

Blogger hates me today and gave me errors on many of the photos I tried to upload. Oh well...here are a few for those who have been hounding me. :-)

On June 8th, Tony volunteered at the Eagle Creek Kids Fishing Derby. He does this every year, although this is the first time that Ryan and I have tagged along. We were excited to be joined by Angie and Isaac, too!

Apparently not all little boys have the "I love to play with worms" gene...sorry Isaac!

On the 14th, we headed over to Arbuckle Acres for the annual duck race, which had been rained out on May 31st. It was kind of lame, but Ryan got another pony ride. I was so proud of him for not freaking out when the pony stopped halfway through to pee!

Since the duck race events were not very entertaining, we squeezed in some playground time before heading home.

On Friday, I scored at a garage sale and got a Little Tikes Cozy Coupe and Tough Tire Trike for $12 total! We got out a bucket to wash them down on Saturday, and Ryan decided that Tony's truck could use a little washing, too.

The boys hit 7-11 while I was grocery shopping Saturday night - love the red slushy tongue!

Ryan and I also checked out the aquatic center in Danville Friday afternoon - we had a blast! It wasn't quite as hot as it has been recently, so there was definitely some shivering going on. Planning to check out the ones in Plainfield and Mooresville sometime soon, too. What is up with Brownsburg that we have nothing like this???

On Sunday we got to help sweet Miss Ani celebrate her 1st birthday! We had a blast visiting with friends, and Ryan really liked the cake! :-) Happy Birthday, Ani!

it's huge!

We got a new bed last night! I'm so excited! We upgraded to a king-size, which I got to pick out, and we all slept soooo well last night. None of us wanted to get up this morning! I had to quickly find some new bedding during lunch yesterday - not a decision I like to make spur of the moment, but I think I can live with this set. I can't believe how much more expensive king-size bedding is! Now to find some fun queen-size bedding for Ry's new bed (he gets our old one). I can't believe how big our old bed looks in his room! And I can't believe how small our room looks with a king-size bed in it! But I don't care - its not like we do anything in there besides sleep and sort laundry.

Will try to post some pics this weekend - have lots of cute ones to share! Ryan has been going through a nudist phase this week...as soon as we get home, he beelines to the backdoor while taking off his clothes, anxious to get in the pool. No time for swim trunks, mom! :-) And I don't think I ever posted any pics of our experience with the frog last weekend....

Happy Father's Day to all of the daddy's out there (although I'm not sure any actually read my blog, except maybe my brother)! :-)

okay, okay, i'll post

Warning - there is a whole lot of cuteness going on in this post! :-)

First of all, for those who may or may not know what has been going on with me for the past couple of weeks, just know that I'm staying at my current job and all is right in the world.

Second, can I just say how excited I am that it is finally time for this?? Mom and I are going Friday...I can't wait!

Third, how did this kiddo get to be such a big boy so fast?

Wearing his cute raincoat for the first time, helping Dada fix the fence after Ben dug out of it AGAIN and broke 5 more planks. Anyone want an almost-6-years-old beagle/lab? ;-) The matching hat didn't fit on Ry's big ol' head, so he had to wear a beach hat.

Call me a terrible mother who doesn't teach her kid manners if you must, but I found this hilariously adorable. Last Sunday, I really wanted to go to Flap Jack's for breakfast, but we had gone on Saturday and I felt guilty going twice in the same weekend. So I sent Tony off for donuts. Except it was the first time in 2 years and 4 months that Ryan had let us sleep in (he slept until 9! I woke up at 8 - grr), so Hilligoss was already out of the good stuff and Marsh had not much left. Tony was able to find a few goodies for us and luckily he and I grabbed our's before Ryan got up because, as you will soon see, Ryan decided he needed to try each one before settling on a winner.

I'm not sure if a winner was ever declared, but the chocolate icing on the Bavarian was about the only thing he ate.

We might actually get our garden planted this week! The weather has been so insane lately that we've been too scared to plant yet for fear of one last frost. Tony (and Ryan) tilled up our newly expanded garden area last night, and I think they may be planting this afternoon. We planted my strawberries and blueberries last weekend on the side of the house - hopefully they will live! Not a great selection this year.

Anyway, here is Ryan playing with his dump truck in the garden...

Chasing Mama with a worm...

"Tilling" with Dada....

And a lovely dirt smile. Okay, it's a fake smile. He won't smile at the camera, but if I say "show me your teeth!" it kind of looks like a grin. I'll take what I can get.

outtakes

Our family pictures on Saturday turned out FABULOUS! It was SO hard to narrow down which ones we were going to purchase - luckily one of the great things about Portrait Innovations is that they give you a CD with all of your photos on it - not just the ones you purchased. :-) Thought I'd post a few of the outtakes from our session...see the little slideshow below.

We had a dreary Mother's Day here, as far as the weather went, but we had a great time hanging out with family! Hard to believe it was my 3rd Mother's Day already!

the weekend - finally!

Okay, so its Thursday and I'm just now posting about the weekend - it could be worse, right? I didn't want to post until I had pics ready, and I just pulled them off the camera this morning.

Friday ended with dinner at Nana's (Chicago's Pizza - took 90 minutes and then the order was wrong! Grr.)...where we got to meet Nana's new puppy, Tillie Mae!

Here Ryan is telling Tillie to look at the camera - too bad he rarely does when I tell HIM that! :-)

Here they are wrestling over the soccer ball.

Okay, this is not posed, I swear! And I'm totally getting one of these for my house (kidding!) because Ry just crawled right in and stayed for like 10 minutes!

Saturday morning we did some garage sale-ing with Sandy, then home for lunch and a nap. Tony and I went to a party that night for Erika and Erin's (twins) 30th birthday, and Ryan spent the night at Sandy's for the first time.

Sunday we headed to the zoo for some shark-petting, giraffe-feeding, choo-choo-riding fun. Here we are waiting in line for the giraffe feeding. There was a very, um, frisky male that day attacking all of the ladies! They just kept running from him - ha!

Who needs the stroller when Dada is around?

Ahh...the choo choo. I hate this thing. It used to be cool because it took you all around the actual zoo. Now you get to go "behind the scenes" and see the...are you ready for this...maintenance facility! Whoo-hoo! Oh well, the kid loves trains, so what can you do?

This weekend calls for a possible day off tomorrow, and dinner with Nana at Los Toros tomorrow night, family pictures at Portrait Innovations on Saturday morning, a hog roast at Bob and Addie's Saturday night, and Mother's Day activities on Sunday. Hope all you moms out there have a fabulous day on Sunday!