4 months old

Rylie turned 4 months old on the 14th of July. She is smiling, laughing, sucking on her fingers, and has found her toes. She loves her brothers and sisters for the most part - sometimes they are a little overwhelming. She is a pretty happy baby for the most part.

Rylie at 4 months old.

Chicken Feeding

These pictures are from today. We let our chickens out to be free since they were getting pretty big. They are very tame chickens Hayden and Kyrstn can catch them very easily. I guess they thought this one needed some help eating. The chicken did not mind at all, I guess it is use to them "helping" it do something alot of the time. Rylie and Ryder slept through the fun of feeding the chicken but got in on the fun of playing in the mud. No pictures of that - sorry.

Vacation Bible School

Hayden and Kyrstn have had several opportunities to attend vacation bible school this summer. These are some pictures of the one they attended last week. They had a lot of fun.

Fourth of July

On July 4th we celebrated Melodys grandparents 60th wedding anniversary. There were about 40 people there to ride in the parade as part of the family then we went out to their house and had a fish fry, visit, play games like horse shoes and washers. That night we went back into town and watched the fireworks. It was good to see everyone together again, especially to celebrate such a great accomplishment.

Kyrstn sitting with GG eating her cupcake.

Ryder with papa trying to blow bubbles.

Hayden always enjoys playing with his cousin Cutter. He even got to meet a new cousin that joined our family that is about his age.

Montgomery family

Ryder enjoyed the fireworks. He even lasted most of the night. Kyrstn did not last at all I think she fell asleep before the show began, and Hayden of course talked the entire way through the fireworks.

Kindergarten

Hayden had his kindergarten awards ceremony. He recieved the science award in his class. He was very excited because he loves science - he pretends like he is a scientist a lot. He is looking forward to 1st grade for the most part. Mainly enjoying the summer and playing outside with the chickens and in the mud.

Austin Pictures

Here are some pictures from our trip to Austin back in May.

This is what part of the capital grounds looked like when we got there.

Hayden dressed as an XIT cowboy.

Kyrstn dressed as an XIT cowgirl.

The kids really enjoyed the ceiling. They liked the top floor the best and wanted to go higher.

Ryder enjoying the ride.

Hayden, Kyrstn and Russell playing in the tree where we had our picnic

Hayden and Kyrstn trying to catch the pigeons.

At the Austin Childrens Museum

Davis graduating

Sydney and Kyrstn playing at the park.

Hayden and Taylor trying to fly like Mary Poppins.

Sydney and Kyrstn playing princess

Major and Ryder giving each other a headbut.

Major and Ryder playing together.

Motorcycle ride

Hayden had his first motorcycle ride with daddy on May 26. He really enjoyed it.

Hayden's Music Program

The kindergarten had a end of the year music program where they sang different nursery ryhmes and changed them up a little. The kids all dressed up as different characters, Hayden dressed as the mouse that ran up the clock in Hickory Dickory Dock. There were a lot of different characters accounted for in the music program and they did a great job - it was so much fun to watch. Hayden was very excited about dressing up especially with his tail.

During the program.

Hayden in his mouse costume even with a tail after the program.

3 months old

Rylie at 3 months

(she is almost 4 months old now)

Rylie & Kyrstn

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.