Our latest evening ritual...

The past week or so Ryan has been in the habit of watering her "flowery garden" as she calls it (I think it's from a Dora episode..). It's just the flowers in our front flower beds. Anyway, she got the idea from Grammy (Chris's mom). She has a watering can as a play toy in her bath, and now has realized its full potential! : ) She LOVES getting in the flowers and watering them *usually a whole can for one flower*! Anyway--of course I had to take pictures of it because its just so "ryan" and so cute!

Silly Side Up

A few more of the photos...

Family Pictures

Over the Easter break, we had family pictures made. For those of you who feel like you don't get family pictures done often enough, rest assured--we are worse! It has been over a year!! When your child is just 2 1/2, that's nearly half her life without a family photo made!! Pathetic! Tomorrow we are supposed to get our first real slideshow of pictures, but Sandy Shannon, the photographer (who is fantastic by the way!) sent me a sneak peek today. It completely made my day!

A fun weekend yet again!

This weekend Texas A&M's Vet school was hosting an "Open House" event with a petting zoo, exhibits, and more. Check out a few of the things we saw...
This is Radar, the world's largest horse. He stands 21 and 1/2 hands high! Want to see how tall that is???
Pretty stinkin' tall!!
And just around the corner from the world's largest horse...a miniature DONKEY! The sign next to him said not to stick your hands in because he thinks your fingers are carrots. Ryan got a little scared and decided to keep several feet away!
A kangaroo!! In the petting zoo!! She was so soft and Ryan loved petting her. My batteries ran low so I didn't get a good one of her petting it.

And on the way out...dandilions!!! : ) Chris and I tried to show her how to make a wish and blow--Ryan said, "Blow away flowers, blow away" rather than actually blowing on them! It was very cute!

Just a little political

I've never been huge into politics, but I like to vote--especially for President. Chris and I have been pretty into the Presidential election this year. In Texas, you have a chance to actually vote in the "primary" twice (often known as the Texas Two Step)--once in the general primary and then later that night you can caucus. I did that and somehow became a delegate. Yesterday was the county convention caucus where we had to vote yet again to send on delegates to the state. Check out the nearly 700 people I was with to support my candidate....pretty cool to see the process at work and be a part of history. : )

And no, I'm not making a big deal about who I'm for in the election--everyone is entitled to their own vote and who am I to say that you need to vote like I do? May the best person win....

Ry's new room

Here we go, as promised--pictures of Ry's new room. We decided to do something a little more "calm" than the bright pink and green we'd had in her room. After searching far and wide for a new comforter we liked, Chris and I were in an adorable restaurant in Huntsville which was decorated with a kind of "shabby chic" style and I just loved it--that was the inspiration for the room. We moved the dresser where the ABC cards used to be (I LOVE those and hated taking them down, but we repurposed some--in frames by her bed!)
Megan (Chris's mom) bought the new bedspread for the room and we picked the color from that (Celtic Gray)--which is a little blue-ish and gray-ish together. It looks GREAT on the walls and put together the rest with just stuff we already had around the house--a low cost renovation! : ) Ryan also LOVES it--the day after we painted and such, she spent SO much time just playing by herself in her "new"room. She kept saying to us,"This is good--this is good" when we asked her if she liked her room. Again, well worth the effort!

The bedspread is that Celtic Gray stripes with small soft pink and a little darker pink flowers between them. It is one of those soft quilt types that instantly feels like you've washed it a hundred times--perfect!!