Halloween

We had a busy day on Sunday for Halloween! We first went to Broadmoor's Fall Fest in the forest for about an hour. Most of the games and jumpy's were for older kids, but Ryleigh did pluck a duck and got 3 pieces of candy! She saw a few of her friends. We then went to Jarred's parents to let Ryleigh trick-or-treat at their house and one of their neighbor's houses. Ryleigh even saw "Jarred's other brother Darryl" who came out of the basement for Halloween. :) After visiting with Jarred's family, we headed over to my parents "city" house. (My parents moved to Shreveport last month and live not too far from us! But they frequent Ruston on the weekends!) Ryleigh trick-or-treated at my parents house and around their neighborhood amongst the tons of other kids! She really had a good time and surprised me that she was not shy about going up to houses. She would never say anything, but enjoyed getting the candy and goodies! :) Finally, we ended up in our neighborhood and only went to a couple of houses around ours. We were tired from the busy day!
Ryleigh was (of course) Minnie Mouse for Halloween and looked so cute in her costume and Minnie ears. All of the little kids that saw her kept saying, "there's Minnie Mouse"!

Here are some pics from our day!

Ryleigh and Emma at the Fall Fest






Minnie Mouse


"Jarred's other brother Darryl"


Cram Fam


M's from Bear


Minnie to Minnie

Roll'n into Fayetteville

Jarred turned the big 3-0 last Wednesday and as one of his birthday presents from his parents, we went to the Bama @ Arkansas game in Fayetteville on Saturday. Ryleigh went back with my dad Friday afternoon to spend the weekend with MiMi and Papaw. Jarred and I had a date night for his birthday dinner at Longhorn. Saturday morning we woke up at 5:45am(!), left the house at about 6:30, picked up Rance, Elissa and Kadyn, got some McDonalds breakfast and were out of Shreveport by 7:00. We arrived in Fayetteville at about 1:00. The game started at 2:30. We were amongst some Bama fans, so that was nice. (but the hog calling was still annoying!) Bama didn't play well for most of the game, but they played well when it counted...the end! We were glad they pulled out the "W" and it was an exciting game. We grabbed some fast food and got on the road after 8...arriving back in Shreveport after 2:00am! It was a long, tiring day, but it was a lot of fun and we enjoyed celebrating Jarred's birthday! :)

Here are some pics from the game!
Jarred being camera shy...

There we go, much better!

Winding mountain roads up to Fayetteville

Spotted the Goodyear blimp on our hike to the stadium.



Handoff to Ingram.


PAT for 24-20!






GAMECHANGER

Ryleigh's 2nd Birthday - Part 2

Here are more pictures of Ryleigh's birthday party at Gymboree!

Ryleigh's 2nd Birthday - Part 1

It is hard to believe that our little girl turned 2 on Sunday!! We had Ryleigh's birthday party at Gymboree Play & Music from 10:00am-11:30am on Saturday. Ryleigh and 8 of her friends had a great time! It was nice to not have to worry with cleaning up before and after the party! :)
We were just glad that Jarred was able to join us...Friday he worked his regular work day, but had a situation with a juvenile that he had to work around the clock for. He ended up getting home at 7:30am Saturday after waking up at 5:30am Friday and not having any sleep! He was a trooper though and didn't complain one bit nor acted tired although we know he was!
Here are part 1 of the pictures...more to come!

Play Date

We had our friends, the Martino's, over last weekend for some grilling out and to let the girls play. We enjoyed visiting, eating some good food and, as always, laughing at the kids!
Here are some pics from the day!

Lately

We've been enjoying the summer, spending most of our weekends at the pool! I got a new camera, so I've been trying to learn more about it and take more pictures. Here a some pictures from the last few weeks.

Ryleigh's New Ride

Our nice neighbors gave Ryleigh this new ride. She loves her "Jeep" and can press the pedal quite well. She hasn't mastered turning just yet! :)

More Summer Fun!

Books, Books and More Books

Ryleigh LOVES books! I must have read Goodnight Moon about 6 times in a row the other night. She loves Jarred to read her the same ones every night. And it's amazing that she can pick out those 3 books out of the billions she has! She always grabs her Mickey book, The Spooky Old Tree and Oh the Thinks You Can Think. One page in The Spooky Old Tree, a crocodile jumps up and takes a bite out of the stairs. Jarred taught Ryleigh to make sounds to go along with this page...



And this is from Oh the Thinks You Can Think. She loves the elephant page!

Days of Summer

Since Memorial Day we have been soaking up the sun and enjoying the pool at Jarred's parents house. Ryleigh gets to enjoy it during the week some, but we all get to join the fun on the weekends! Ryleigh is getting used to the water and she'll be swimming before we know it! :)
Here are several pics and a video over the last few weeks of our swimming days.


Might tis well take a drink...


Splish Splash





She had Rance's sunshades on top of her head. She sees me doing this and puts them on the top of her head too! Too cute!

Post Snow Cone...






Not sure what she's doing with her fingers...she's done this all day!



Fun in the pool today!


Sopping Wet afterwards...