A Dinner at Sherwood...ahhhhh

This is Ry and her cousin Bailey!!! They love each other so much and its so cute to watch them together when they first see each other!! They grab hands and give each other hugs and its just precious!!

We had a Carter Family party (Shane's mom's family) at a resort called Sherwood in Sardine Canyon, anyways it was quite the night!! Rylee and Bailey wanted to do nothing but run around and make noise and run around and make noise ect...Our Dinner took about two hours to get and not to mention it was really expensive, WOW!!! (not really sure I'll be visiting there again)

So we were definitely ready to go when dinner was done, Ry was crying and Bay was crying and well lets just say we are glad the place wasn't packed with people but we definitely had the two entertainers for the night...hahah Merry Christmas from Rylee & Bailey!!!

A Twilightful Love Story

AND SO THE LION FELL IN LOVE WITH THE LAMB

So I saw Twilight for the second time today and loved it just as much as the first time!!! I'm a huge fan of the books and I thought the movie followed the book pretty good!! You can't go to this movie expecting it to be the best movie you have ever seen, you have to have an open mind and just enjoy the love story of Bella and Edward!!

Happy Halloween....Welcome November!!!

Our neighborhood had a little party on Monday for all the little kids and my next door neighbor is a photographer and brought all her stuff over and took all the kids pics... It was a lot of fun and got everyone ready for Halloween!!!

This is Rylee and Shane's cousins' little boys, we went around with them trick or treating and it was a lot of fun!!!

Rylee and Allie, she is one of the little girls that live on our street!!!

Rylee wanted to take her pumpkin around for her treat bag, and by the end of the night it was pretty heavy, she would not for the life of her let anyone hold it for her... She started to carry it like a purse because the handle was starting to hurt her hand from being full of candy.... it was pretty funny!!!

Rylee and Shane walking along, Ry got tired towards the end and let Shane hold her, but would not let anyone touch that pumpkin filled with "HER CANDY" and that was made pretty clear every 5 min.... hahah :)

We let her have one sucker after going through her candy and that was enough... well for today anyways, she had already eaten a bunch of candy earlier that day!!! Geesh I'm glad Halloween is over all that candy makes my teeth hurt just looking at it!!! ;)

Halloween Costume Result...ARRRRG

We went to Shane's work party last weekend and we had a lot of fun!!! There was good food, fun and games... We didn't win for best costume but we had fun anyway!! (the guy who won was Shane's boss, he dressed up as some Doctor Evil guy from Austin Powers, whatever...)

The guy in the Army stuff is Shane's younger brother Solomon, he also works for the same company as Shane does. And of course there's Ry she has to be in every picture lately it's pretty funny!!

This was taken at the Party!!!

CuTe LiTtle gIrLs!!!

Sophie Tobey.......Bailey Smith.......Rylee Smith

Sophie is Shane's cousins' little girl and Bailey and Rylee are cousins..

On Saturday we went to dinner with the Smith Family to celebrate Shane's grandma's birthday..

These three little girls were the highlight of the night and were having such a good time laughing and playing together!!!

I Need A Halloween Costume Idea.....

Alright so Shane started a new job recently and they are having a big Halloween party in a couple of weeks and Shane is really excited to go.... Don't get me wrong I love Halloween but I don't think that I have had a good Halloween costume since I was probably 10... So I'm in dyer need of a good couples idea... At this party they are going to have contests and prizes (good prizes I hear) for the best dressed and a bunch of other categories!!! Well I want to win because like I said they are good prizes but I have no idea what to do for Shane and I..... So if there are any Halloween experts out there with some good ideas, that are pretty easy to throw together then please pass your knowledge my way!!! Thanks again and Happy Haunting!!!!

The Circus

On Saturday we took Rylee to the Circus in Salt Lake, we had a great time and Ry loved all the animals and clowns.... She danced around and sang to all the music and was fascinated by the elephants, she loved those the most!!!

The elephants by far were the best part, they were so amazing with what they were able to do and the tricks they did, I felt sorry for them just because they are locked up and have to be the center of a circus act but they were entertaining!!!

This is Ry before we left, she was so excited she couldn't contain herself!!! She would tell everyone that she was going to the Circus to see the elephants, tigers and horses!!!

Me and Ry bug  before we left, doing our posing of course!!!

Shaner, Me and Ry before we went into the Circus

My mom came with us and Ry was really excited to see her when she walked up!!!

Me and my Shaner, love you!!!

Rylee, Grandpa Shane and Dad getting ready for the show to start!!

It was so fun to have grandpa Shane come down with us, he was nice to let us ride down with him in his Escape, instead of everyone squishing into our little car!!!

After the show we walked over to the Gateway and got some food and of course my mom had to buy Ry some ice cream, it was a great ending to a fun filled day!!!

The Hunting Season Begins

Alright so my brothers are obsessive hunters and on Saturday was the opening morning for the bow hunt. Me and my mom and Rylee drove up the canyon for a drive up where my brothers were at. It was like 44 degrees and it was freezing so we just stayed in the car and drove around for a while....We saw a doe and her two fawns and Rylee kept saying "Bambi, Bambi" (she loves Bambi right now)... Well we got a call a little later and found out that my brother's friend Tyrell (Rylee's new crush) had gotten a deer!! We drove over to where they were bringing it down the mountain and as you can tell from the photo below, Rylee thought it was the coolest thing in the world to be able to touch a "Bambi".... I'm so glad she wasn't upset about it not still moving around, didn't quite know how to explain that part to her....

This is the hunting party.... My brother Chad, Tyrell, my brother Brett, & Ricky!!!

This is Tyrell with his deer....Tyrell is Rylee's new crush!! It was so cute, when he comes over to my mom's she goes up and gives him hugs and she always asks where "Ty" is when he's not there... its so funny!!!

This Ty and Brett with Ty's deer..... Brett has seen monster bucks but wasn't able to find his on Saturday, I'm pretty sure he'll be up there every day until he finds it!!

My Little Munchkins

Ry Bug at the Cache Valley Fair

She loved the little goats and kept trying to climb up the fences so she could get in with them and play..... oh dear

Shaner at Fort Lewis Washington this summer for training

Shane and his Squad/platoon at Fort Lewis

He's probably talking to me in this pic...hahaha

Shaner will finally be home this next Friday, at least until next June!!!! YEAH

Good Ole Preston Parade

Last weekend we went up to Preston and went to the parade with: Shane & Liz and JaCee & Bailey. It was definitely a small town parade, everyone was there and there was tractors, horses and girls dressed in dresses waving, and more tractors and.......ya

Ry was a little better and grabbing the candy on this go-around, it being her second parade and all!!!

This is Grandpa Shane holding his granddaughters!!! Precious!!

Ry getting ready to run....

Jacee, Liz & Bailey enjoying the nice summer night!!!

Carter Family Reunion

Last weekend Shane's mom side of the family had their family reunion up Cinnamon Creek Canyon... (South end of Cache Valley area) There were lots of fun little cousins there for Rylee to play with and get into mischief of course. Above is Rylee and Bailey playing in a handcart.

Shane was home for the weekend before he headed to Colorado for three weeks and was able to spend some time with us and his family. This is Shane pulling around all the little girls, he was deemed their horse for the night :) That was until all the girls were just sitting in the cart without anyone holding the front end up.....the next thing we knew the girls started to all move to the back of the cart and it flipped and Rylee was in the back and hit the ground face first....She came up with a mouth full of dirt and rocks, a bloody nose, and two fat lips....

The pic below is a couple days later after her face started to look normal again, I tried to take a pic of it when it happened but she wouldn't have anything to do with it, I don't blame her either!! She ended up with cuts and bruises to show for her crash in the lovely Pioneer Handcart!!!

Happy 24th of July

 

The Draper Parade was just on the street above my mom's house so we just woke up Saturday morning and walked up to the Parade. My brother Brett, Brianne, my mom, Rylee & Annie waiting for the parade to start!!

It was Rylee's first parade and she really didn't know what to do!! There were lots of kids all around and when they started to throw candy she just would turn around and look at me like "Mom is it okay that I go and pick this stuff up" it was hilarious.

About half way through the parade her bag was full of candy and she didn't want to pick it up anymore so she grabbed a sucker and came and sat on my lap for the rest of the parade!!! Wished dad was here to see Ry, love you dad!!!

Rylee Found Her New Favorite Thing To Do

We were at Draper Days last weekend and they had little pony rides and Rylee was in Heaven...She just kept going round and round and thought she was so cool...She rode a horse called "Scarecrow" and that was all she talked about for the next couple of days was the horses that she got to ride!!!

Here is a little clip of Ry on her horse ride...

Definitely, Maybe

Instead of being productive at night after Rylee goes to bed I decided to watch a movie. This one has been out for a little while and I had heard things about it and of course it is a romance story so I had to watch it..... And it was so good, well I liked it anyways, so if any of you are wanting to watch a cute romantic movie this is a pretty good one!!!  p.s. some language

Busy Week...Happy 2nd Birthday Rylee...Happy 4th of July...

Rylee got a fun bat at tee from Aunt JaCee & Bailey... She picked up the bat and started swinging away.... it was great!!! Ry and her cute cousin Bailey were posin' for the camera....

Shane & Liz came over for dinner on Thursday with JaCee & Bailey and we had a little party for Ry it was a lot of fun!!! Thanks so much for the fun Simba pillow, PJs, and the bat and Tee!!!

Earlier in the week, I was at my mom's and we had a lil party with my mom's side of the family and it was a lot of fun..... Thank you everyone for the wonderful gifts, Rylee got spoiled.... She cant put them down for one minute and she loved all the cute dresses!!!

Rylee loves the water as if you couldn't tell and this is her and my cousin Cole playing in the pool....

Fun pic eating cake and hanging out on the deck at my mom's.....We had a lot of fun this week, thanks so much to our family and friends who helped make it so fun for Rylee!!!