Camping at Whistler Bend and Rylie's first swim lesson

So many of you know that Matt and I are in Kauai right now and may be wondering what is with this title and post. Well, I figured that I hadn't got these photos up yet and I have some extra time to do this sort of thing here on vacation that while I collected a few more photos of our trip, I would catch up on some posting that is long overdue. So, here are the photos from our camping trip to Whistlers Bend park over memorial day weekend and some of Rylie's first time going to the swimming pool. I have included the post I had originally typed for our camping trip but had saved as a draft for the past 3 weeks since I didn't have the photos to go along with it. I plan on trying to post every couple of days during our trip here....we will see how that goes :) No promises!!

Here we go...

Written 5/31

Sorry for the delay on these photos, I was waiting on my new computer....don't have all the photo stuff downloaded yet but working on it :) Please bare with me that the program I have to work with is a different one so none of the photos are cropped or messed with since I have no clue how to do it yet with this thing!

Anyways, we all had a great time camping, playing disc golf and hanging out. Matt and I got there on Wednesday night to make sure with the Memorial day crowd that we would have a spot. Oh, I think we got there in plenty of time :) David joined us for a round of disc golf on Wed night and camped from Thursday night on along with little miss Rylie. The rest of the crew; Krystal, Bryce, Beth and Jacob showed up Friday. We even had some dinner guests on Friday night; Kari, Ryan, Asa, Rogan, Rasha, Steve, Cedric, Debbie and Orlie all came out for the evening! It was a mini reunion :) We were actually talking about (actually Kari came up with this) getting together a camping family reunion at the group sites at Whislter Bend tentatively scheduled for early August '10....yes I know that is a long way off but with this family you have to!!!!

Anyways, hope everyone had a good relaxing holiday weekend off. Ours was great until we got back to Corvallis and I got the news that my manager is quitting effective next Friday....which just means crazy chaos for the next couple of months :( oh well. Here are some pics from camping;

"yeah, so what if I have a dirty face, I'm camping out here ya know!"

Rogan (7 months) and Rylie (10 months)

Uncle Bryce decided Rylie needed Cheerio horns


Sorry Krystal, I know you just woke up but I had to put this up with Rylie's "Alfalfa" style going on


Crazy Aunt Bethany

The ever inviting, ever mesmerizing fire

A couple of weeks after our camping trip, Matt and I headed back down to Roseburg so Matt and David could play in a disc golf tournament together. From the sounds of it, they both had a great time. Although they both returned home on Sunday completely sleep deprived and exhausted. (I didn't think disc golf was that strenuous!) Anyways, while the boys were playing I stayed at my parents house and hung out. Krystal and I did take Rylie to the YMCA to take her into the pool for the first time and see if she was going to take after her mom or aunt and be a great swimmer! Well, I think you can see from the photos that the answer to that question is YES. She absolutely loved it and was smiling and giggling the whole time.

Underwater

Re-surfacing

That was fun!

Ok, now that I am caught up, get ready for some Hawaii photos!!

It's a...........

We had our ultrasound today and the technician was pretty sure (she says she has never been wrong) that we are having a......

















......GIRL!!!!!

I was so sure that it was going to be a boy that I am still in shock! I didn't know what to say for a while after she told us. Even before she had said anything I saw the image on the screen and saw the tell tale 3 little dots or lines that is a girl. I am attempting to put up some pictures and even a short video. She seems to already have found her thumb! This ultrasound has our due date at October 21st which is what our first one said as well, so I think I am going to change it on my calender to the 21st....although I wouldn't be sad if she decides to come a little early :) Anyways, that is our crazy news for the week, and yes I still have camping photos from a couple of weeks ago to put up, I haven't forgot :)

Sucking her thumb already!!!!

I have an anterior placenta which means that the placenta is attached to the front of my abdomen as opposed to the the back, which is more common. That is what you see there on the right side (the left side of her face), so no, it isn't a tumor :)

little miss was quite the squirmy thing, she was moving all over the place and loves to have her hands up by her face like she is about to punch someone :)

So here is the video of our little one, it is pretty amazing what technology can do!

Bend, Seattle and Belly Pics!

So once again I am playing catch up :( Partly due to my very uncreativeness of late and also due to my stupid computer....again. But hopefully the later part will change here in a week or so when I get my new computer! :) Anyways, for a quick catch-up.....

Bend-
At the end of April we headed over to Bend to hang out....I also worked one day which easily paid for the trip over. Since it was almost a month ago now....boy, I am behind....I don't have a whole lot to type. I took a few fun pics of Brooklyn though;

"I know I'm cute...."

Run Brooklyn from that crazy dog!

Awe, she loves her :)

Somebody's hungry and wants more food!

Now was this before or after she had that second plate of food?

Seattle-
A couple of weekends ago we headed up to Seattle to hang out with Jon and Tami and of course Audrey. Once again we ate too much (this time though I didn't drink too much :), and had a great time. The weather was awesome (something that Jon and Tami were both trying to convince us happened all the time in Seattle...yeah right, I know better!) Matt found a disc golf course near by and since he always has his discs in the car ready to go, we all went out and played, sort of :)

What's a trip to Seattle without a silly pic of Audrey?

the little league slugger...


While Audrey was at her t-ball game, we went on a walk through Discovery Park, I know you can't see them but those are the Olympic Mountains...one of these days I am going to get a good photo of them so you all believe me :)

Audrey making a beautiful throw

....and watching her disc sail perfectly into the basket


...look! there's her disc, Matt has some competition :)


Did I mention it was Mother's Day? Happy Mother's Day!!!

Belly Pics-
I really thought I had taken more between 13 and 17 weeks :( Man, I really need to get on it, so here are week 17 and 18....definitely see something now, some clothes seem to make my belly pop out more than others :) Had a super boring appointment mid-April, in fact it was so non-eventful that they scheduled me out 6 weeks instead of the usual 4 weeks for the next one! The next appointment I assume will again be pretty routine but the week after (June 3rd) we have our big ultrasound and if Frog cooperates for the camera, we will know what we will be having! ;) Just a couple more weeks!

17 weeks

18 weeks

Belly Pics 5/10/13 weeks

Ok, so here are a few belly pics....don't laugh :) After looking at them I see I need to be more consistent with position and background....it really isn't interesting until the next couple of months anyway! As you can see, my chub from week 5 is still there on week 13 just a little more obvious :) So here you go, I will try and start keeping a better post now that I can sort of see a "bump". We find out what the bump is on June 3, so stay tuned!

week 5

week 10

week 13

Meet the Naked Dude

Guess what we just found on the internet....

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/police_arrest_man_after_errati.html

we must have been just behind him....didn't see any clothes or car seats :)

Easter Bunnies and Naked Dude

Happy Easter everyone! Hope you all had a good weekend and for those of you here in Oregon, stayed out of the rain!!! It seems every Easter you can count on a rainy day....poor little kids looking for eggs :( No wonder most of my memories of Easter eggs hunts were inside a house!! Anyways, about the title....No we didn't see the Easter bunny but we did see the other this morning! :)

So the story goes; Matt and I are driving up to Portland to Beth and Jacob's for Easter lunch but as soon as we get onto the freeway traffic is slowed way down....oh boy. But only after a few miles, it clears right up....no problem we are back on track. At this time we see a state trooper car on a side road next to us flying past, he must have been going 80-85, and when he finally got to the on ramp he was right behind us. Of course we move over as do the cars in front of us and the cop car is gone. We get a few more miles down the road and again I see a trooper speeding along a side road and fly onto the freeway as another cop comes whizzing behind us. "Oh great, there is a huge accident in front and we are going to be stopped for hours", but we were wrong! By the time we got to Salem, we saw a line of cop cars about a mile ahead of us....Car Chase! Finally the action stopped with traffic slowing down while passing about 8 cop cars all surrounding a little red car pulled up on the middle grass median...one cop had a very large shotgun out pointing it at someone on the ground with several other cops restraining someone. Well, as we passed we got a pretty good look at this white, buck naked guy face down in the grass with his hands cuffed behind him. The female cop who was waving people pass had this look of disgust and humor on her face....you could tell she couldn't believe what she was doing on Easter morning! We have been searching but haven't found the story on the news that explains why the dude was completly naked!

Well we made it up to Beth and Jacob's, and had a lot of good stuff to eat. I have a couple of photos of the carrot cake Beth made that was just awesome! Bob and his gang stopped by for a few minutes and I finally got some updated pics of Ryder.

So here are just a few photos from today, mostly of Ryder, sorry I wasn't quick enough to get a photo of Mr. Naked Driver! :)

The Yummy Carrot Cake!

I love his mohawk

Kelsea and Ryder

Look at those Blue eyes!


Looking up at Jacob...


....still keeping a close eye on him :)

BBQ and Birthdays

This past Saturday we had quite the gang over for Beth and Bryce's, and later realized Rasha's, birthday. What started out as just Matt's siblings ended up being a whole lot more people and a whole lot more fun :) My mom put on a little magic show, I don't know what was more fun to watch, the show or Cedric and Asa's faces. Besides the birthdays, Matt and I were showing off our finally finished house, especially now that it is officially on the market. I thought I had taken many more photos but I guess I got too distracted talking to everyone! Here are just a few from the party, mostly the little kids and a few more of Rylie for Amma Pam. Thanks to everyone who made the trip, it was a lot of fun and made us realize how we need to get together more often!

Bryce's Peep arrangement...which resulted in blue mouthed kids!

Watching the Magic show

Jared the "Instant Magician"

Asa trying to figure out where that rabbit came from.

Cedric concentrating hard on the trick

Drooling little Rogan

Rogan and Karie

Miss Rylie being tortured

With her friend the duck