Easter Vacation

Family Shot at New Melones Lake - Easter Pic Nic

Doing her gymnastics on the floor!

Raygens first easter egg she found

Raygen sitting in the bike basket at the bike shop

We tried on a helmet for her to wear. she liked it!

Easter vacation was finally the rest we needed! although Dad had baseball games 4 out

of the 5 days off so mom and Raygen got to spend a lot of time together. It did rain for 1/2 the time and snowed, too, so we couldn't go outside a lot. We got the kitchen island all done. Ryan built it himself and tiled it to match the kitchen himself, also. It looks awesome! I will post a picture later. Raygens first birthday is rapidly approaching. It looks like we're going to celebrate at the local marina and grandpa is going to barrel chicken and tri tip. Anyday she will be walking, all she wants to do is walk around with people helping her and now she is trying to move furniture to furniture...getting more daring. Grandma penny and Aunt Lynn are coming to visit for 3 weeks and my birthday here pretty soon...so she'll have quality time with her Midwest family!

update at last!

Raygen was pointing out the VW that she wanted for herself as we waited for the passat to get worked on.

So it's been forever that I have updated the blog!!! I have let months go by. I am blaming it on softball starting. Not only does mom and dad work full time but we are both coaching full time, so an extra 20 hours a week on top of the job. It's tough!!!!!! I won't complain much as I'm sure I'll have a break here pretty soon as Ryan and I both were served pink slips for layoff notices in our district. It is a hard time to be a teacher in California. That's for sure!....and I'm sure one of us will feel the pain of the layoff. Ryan is currently getting his Single subject in Math, so it makes him more marketable. He will be the only one in our district with that credential, so it would be really stupid of them to let him go, so I'm sure if someone is laid off it will be me :(

Anyhow, back to little miss Raygen! She is getting so big, so fast! she doesn't want to crawl. She scoots and pushes herself around. She is way more interested in walking. She pulls herself up and surfs the couch and coffee tables. I am putting some pics of the last few months, as I haven't put any on here in a long time. She has learned how to clap on Que. She waves all the time and points at everything (even at restaurants and stores...)which is a little embarrassing. I say, "ohh sorry she is just learning to do that so she points at everything." She loves her dogs and esp. her cat. She chases them around in her walker and laughs at them because they run away from her.

She is 10 1/2 months old, I cannot believe it's almost been a year since she was born. Parenting gets easier and easier ...boy, those first 5 months were really hard, but now she sleeps like a champ through the night 7-8pm till 630-7am, which is awesome. It's amazing what sleep will do for you. BUT we have #2 on the way, so I'm sure the lack of sleep will be coming around the corner real soon!!!! I will try and enjoy my next 4 1/2 months of sleep. I am crossing my fingers that the next one will be a SUPER sleeper... ha

Towel Tricks

Raygen enjoyed her visit so much from Jaime!

Raygie and Dutch

Here's a great look at Raygen and Dutch playing in the morning! She loves her animal brothers...all 3 of them!!!

My new hat!!

She got a really neat, comfy winter hat that she's been able to try out plenty on her walks!!!

Her bumpy seat is now in use! She loves to sit in her crib and play with the aquarium she has hanging from the crib!! As you can see from the pic, she can turn it on and off all by herself now!! She is the queen of her crib now that she can sit up in her throne!! She sure lets us know by her smile!

Speaking of smiles, when she isn't, she is crying and not very happy. This is due to the coming in of her new teeth!! She's got two coming in on the bottom and the two at the top middle have just broken through the skin. Oh how she loves her new life of eating crackers and other solids!!!!

We will post more very soon!

We're baaaack!

It's been awhile since we've put pics up for all to see. Raygen told dad that he needed to put new pics of her for all her friends to see! Okay little buddy, you get your wish!!! Today she got herself a new hiking backpack that she can ride in! Daddy is excited because it is much more comfortable for him than her old tiny backpack and she had a blast sitting on daddy's back cruising around the neighborhood!! Here's some new shots of our little ham!

Here's a first, Raygie with a baseball cap on! I think she is going to like the stright brim, daddy shouldn't have curved it for me cause I'm all about the straight bill!!!

This is one of my favorite pics of mommy and Raygie!!! Look at the pose on Raygen and how proud she is of her bow that is equally as big as her head! haaaa

I think she definitely does have daddy's nose!! Raygen loved showing off her new outfit for Christmas Eve as well as the oh so cute jacket that matched... Her first Christmas has past and we have collected so many great memories, although as I write she is being a little fuss bucket with whoever holds her...I think she is holding out for a piece of daddy's birthday cake from yesterday!!!!

Raygen's 1st Radio Flyer from Annie. She was posing like a little model! She loved sitting in her all terrain wagon. She can't wait to go in walks in her new wagon...she has to get a little bigger, but pretty soon! Thank you Annie for my present, I will you use it for many years to come.

Family Photo Christmas Eve: We went to Nana's house in Sugar Pine. She had her first gift exchange. She loved playing with the paper. She got a brand new outfit from Elise and Jaime for christmas with a little pink pea coat, which was too cute! She definitly had a good time and a good christmas Eve!

Ryan and Raygen in her first snow. We had a lot of snow to play in, so much snow that we had no school for 2 days. We also had no electricity for the most part. She got scared at night because it was so dark in the house and we just had candle light. She just loved watching the snow fall when we took her outside.