Pooped

Yesterday I made my first successfull attempt at taking a walk with Riley and the dogs. I had Riley in the Jeep body carrier and the dogs behaved really well...I think they were just glad to see something other than our backyard for a change! Riley was bright eyed through the first half of the walk and then I looked down and she had her head resting on both of her hands and she was passed out...here is a pic of her when we got home!

Let it snow...Let it snow...

We had our first snow of the year this morning...it was beautiful to wake up to the snow covering the trees and the houses! I am not a fan of the cold weather that goes along with the snow so Riley and I stayed in all day and didn't get out of our pj's! By mid-afternoon all the snow was gone so it was short lived...bring on the spring weather because we are done with winter!

Here's Hank and Kadie checking it out and making yellow snow...haha! For those of you who know Hank that means that he made approximately 2,546 patches of yellow snow as he likes to mark the whole yard every morning...such a guy!

Here's Riley chillin on her boppy pillow!

The search for the thumb...

Riley is destined to find her thumb...how glorious that will be! This little girl really likes to suck and I hesitated to introduce her to a binky, but there's no way we would have survived without it! The binky is her friend and although she sleeps great at night, the last few hours of her slumber require someone to be on binky patrol...that means you must be on hand to insert the binky as soon as it pops out of her mouth! It will be nice when she can get the thumb in on her own and the duties of binky patrol will no longer be required...however, I'm sure that we'll miss the binky patrol when that day comes as well!

For now her thumb is not big enough to make her happy so she resorts to sucking on her entire fist...it's so cute and the loud sucking noises that accompany it are priceless!

Showering Jamie!!!

We had our third baby shower this past weekend from our small group girls...and we have 4 more to go!!! We threw a shower for Jamie and Baby Gabe who should arrive in early May! We all got together Friday night to get the food prepped and then we held the shower on Saturday! It was a lot of fun and Jamie got some great stuff!

Isn't that cake adorable?

Chocolate fountains...yum!

Jamie and all of her presents! You can't even tell she's pregnant in this pic...she has a super cute bump though!

Absence makes the heart grow fonder...

Riley and Kaleb...back together again! It had been several weeks since we had gotten these two little munchkins together and last Friday after a fun lunch with all the girls Tara and I got to spend the afternoon together. Both babies napped for a couple of hours so we were able to catch up, have coffee cheesecake, and relax a little! Once the babies woke up they played and then it was time for a photo shoot! They were so cute and we couldn't get Riley to smile and it turns out she was sitting in a poopy diaper through the whole shoot...I wouldn't smile either!

We put her arm through his...so cute! We are so silly!

Riley kept wanting to nuzzle up to him...I'll have to have a talk with her about not making the first move!

"Mom and Dad, we'll be on our best behavior...we promise!"

San Antonio

As soon as we got home from College Station we fed Riley, changed her diaper, and loaded her up for a trip to the Riverwalk...I'm telling you this girl is a trooper! We walked along the river and had dinner at Casa Rio...yummy! I even had my first margarita in a year...it was AWESOME!

AGGIELAND

Riley made her first visit to Aggieland while we were in Texas and it was a quick trip, but we had a blast! We had great food, shopped for Aggie gear, went to a basketball game (although we lost), and took Riley on a tour of campus! She looked so cute in her Aggie clothes and she was a champ...we drug her around all day long and she was so good! She survived through the loud basketball game for the entire first half and then somehow managed to fall asleep for a nap for the second half and sadly she didn't miss much!

Here she is cheering on the Aggies to BTHO Nebraska!

Here is our family pic at the basketball game!

This is my little tv watcher...she is just like her dad! She is enamoured by the TV and obviously at this age it must just be the changing colors and contrasts that attract her attention, but once her eyes catch the TV she is glued and with her mouth open! After staying with Dale and Phoebe she has now raised the bar on her TV watching accomodations and wants an electric reclining leather media chair...we'll see about that!

Here began our campus tour where Jason just told Riley stories of our days on campus as we walked all over...it was really fun and the weather was awesome! This first pic is of us in front of the arches of the quad...the corps dorm area where Jason spent 4 years of his life!

Here we are at the Century Tree...where it all began! This tree is incredible and as you can see its branches span so far that they create a beautiful canopy. This is a very common spot for proposals to happen and this is where Jason proposed to me 4 and a half years ago! Here is a picture of our proposal!

Here's Grammy and JoePa with Riley in front of Kyle Field...we figured out she will be class of 2030...whoop!