Rylie

Rylie turned two months old on Wednesday -the day we left for Austin. She and Ryder go to the dr. for their 2 month and 18 month checkup next week. We weighed her at Stephanie and Karrolls house and she was 10 lbs. She is doing great. After she had her hard start in NICU for the first 5 days they got her all better on the oxyhood and things and now she is growing like a weed. She is holding her head up pretty good for her age and just goes along with all the business we take her to. Karate, tumbling, and t-ball. What a good sport she is.

Weekend

We had a very good, busy weekend. It started wednesday afternoon we left for Austin. On Thursday we went to the Capital building and to the childrens museum. The capital building was so fun to see, Hayden really enjoyed it. They had been studing Texas the week or two before we left. The capital grounds were pretty torn up from the storm that happened Wednesday night. There were several trees uprooted and many more with broken limbs. We did not see any broken windows but the news reported it. The grounds people were working very hard to get it cleaned back up. We had a picnic after the capital building at a near by park and Hayden and Kyrstn really enjoyed that, there were several pigeons around so they fed them some bread then tried catching them and then played on a big tree that was close. They even go to see the homeless people because apparently we ate at the park where they rest and things. We had a couple of people come up to us asking for drinks and they had never seen people do that before - it was a good experience for them. We thanked God for providing us with extras and for protection. There was one guy that even drew a picture for us of a little girl and boy playing on a tree - I think maybe it was Hayden and Kyrstn but not sure. Hayden got to spend the night with Sarah and Davis Thursday night. Davis, my brother-in-law, graduated from pharmacy school and we are all very excited about that. Now they are going to be moving to Lubbock. Davis will start his job with Covenant in June. We just went to the graduation on Friday morning that was just the pharmacy graduates. It was very nice and just long enough for the kids - much longer and I don't think they could have handled it. After graduation we went to eat at Salt Lick BBQ. It was very good BBQ - a long way from where we were though - we thought we were not going to make it. We finally did and had a good time. After that we went over to Stephanie and Karrolls to visit with them. What a good time we had. All the kids loved playing with each other and it was so nice since they are all about the same age. Major is so cute and doing very well. He just scoots around as fast as he can. While we were there he was wanting to walk around. They said he has not been trying to walk around that much. While we were there we met June and Greg - they are very nice people. We stayed there for a while then went over to Sarah and Davis so that Kyrstn could spend the night with them. We went back over to their apt Saturday morning and had lunch and picked up Kyrstn the headed to Dallas to visit Russell's uncle Ronny and his family. We had a nice visit with them Saturday night, Sunday and left Monday. The kids really enjoyed it because they have a pool and got to go swimming right after we got there and almost all day on Sunday. We headed home Monday since Russell had to get back to work - no more vacation days and Hayden needed to get back to kindergarten since they have 6 days left. I will post some pictures from our weekend later. Hopefully soon.

Alvin

During the Easter season we went up to visit my granny at the nursing home. They had an Easter egg hunt and gave some prizes for the kids. Hayden won a duck and named him Alvin. We stopped at a local feed store and picked up 3 chickens for Kyrstn, Ryder and Rylie. I think they got named Simon, Theodore and Dave. The kids have had a lot of fun with them since then. They are much bigger now - except for Alvin which died a couple weeks ago from the weather.

Alvin resting on Hayden sholder.

Playing with Alvin.

Ryder checking Alvin out - he was not real sure about that.

Alvin resting on Tinas head.

Rylie

Some pictures of Rylie.

Hayden

Haydens handsome school picture.

Garden

We planted most of our garden last weekend. Then this past week we got 4.25 inches of rain. So God really watered our garden for us. Then Ryder the other day went over and started playing in the mud. He really had a good time.

Another Game

The kids had another game today. It was really windy and dirty - blowing dirt really bad. But the kids played really well today - better than they have before. Hopefully they do not need windy weather to play that well. These pictures are from the previous game. The weather then was really nice. They did not play well at that game but they did play the same team as today.

Ryder watching the game.

Hayden in the outfield

Kyrstn at bat.