It's a rough life....

Just a few pictures to show what a difficult life I lead....

Kicking back, drinking juice after a hard afternoon of racing my truck.

Kicking back eating an ice cream cone.

And here, well I'm just too cool for my own good!

Daddy's Little Helper

With so many chores to get done over the weekend, we sure are lucky to have such a big helper. Ryan is such a daddy's boy. He loves to follow his dad around and do whatever he's doing. It makes me so happy to watch them. I love my boys!

Here's the live action shot.....how cute is that?

Gone Fishing

This weekend we went to visit Mammy.  While we were there, Corey's Uncle took Ryan on his first fishing trip.  We all loaded up and drove to a nearby pond that is stocked for fishing.  Ryan was given one of Pappy's old fishing poles and Uncle Dean showed him how to do it.  It was very sweet and Ryan loved it.  

Unfortunately, the fish weren't biting at the pond so we moved a different spot.  It was a creek and they fished off the bridge.  No sooner had Dean put the hook in the water did they have a fish.  Now Ryan liked fishing but he didn't want any part of the actual fish.  

The Big Catch!

Update on my quest for the Wii Fit

Update:  It's now Saturday afternoon, and I still have not located my Wii Fit.  My prospects are not looking good either.  Several of the places  I've check say they don't expect to have any soon.  Our Best Buy went so far as to say they won't have any for as many as 4 weeks.  It's not looking good!

Wii

In my house it was pretty much inevitable that Ryan was going to play video games, much to my chagrin. His dad is a “gamer”. In the past, I have been less than enthusiastic when my husband wanted to get a new video game. He mostly played online PC games, but has had various console video game system at different times as well. It has never been something I was into. All that changed last year when we got the Wii by Nintendo.
I love it! We play together as a family. I play it alone after Ryan has gone to bed. I took it home to Seattle, which prompted JuJu’s family to get one. It is great. I love the fact that even though I have always sucked at video games I can do fairly well at this one, even beat my husband at several games. Plus my three year old can play the games. Nothing is more frustrating then trying to explain to a small child that they just don’t posses the coordination required to play most of these other games. It's not a problem with the Wii.

Here is Ryan playing our newest game, “Mario Kart”

The next game on the list to buy was the "Wii Fit". I have been anxiously awaiting the release date, which was May 21st. (Yesterday) I went to Best Buy on my lunch hour to get it, naively thinking it would be early enough that they should still have a few copies. Negative! I tried 3 other places, no dice! Everyone asked, "did you reserve a copy?" Well, no my husband said there was no need to. Unfortunately, that was a bad call on his part. One place told me it will be two weeks before they have any more. I'm very disappointed. Hopefully I don't have to wait that long. I'll keep you posted.

Watch out David Beckham

Again It's possible I'm a little bit biased but, I think I may have a superstar on my hands, you be the judge.

Musee d'Ryan

WARNING:  Parental Bragging ahead!!

Ryan loves to paint.

I think he's pretty good.

Here are some of his most recent 

masterpieces:

This last one is my favorite.

I am actually thinking of framing it

 and hanging it up.