Porter Peach Classic

Today was a very long but enjoyable day. We were up at 4am to drive to Porter. We arrived at 6:30am and Ryan got registered and warmed up for his 1st 5k. The race started at 7am and Ryan did a really good job. He finished with a time of 22:14. He was 1st place in his age group, 2nd in his weight class and 14th overall. The kids slept while we drove so they were great sports at the race. We even sighed Kiya up for the 50 yard dash. She did good. She was a little confused of when she was to start and then when she did she was trying to stay back with another girl. So cute. We walked around the little town fair that they had set up. Kiya got a PINK halo. We got some peaches and some peach jam. Kiya also liked the award ceremony. She wanted to keep daddy's medals. When we got home it still seemed so early in the day. We got a lot of little projects done. Ryan got a nap in as well. These are the days that it makes sense the saying "Early to bed Early to rise makes a man feel healthy, wealthy and wise." Too bad that I am not as great at following it,also perhaps 4am is a little too early.

Chillin'

I just thought that this was a really cute picture of Brekken chillin' in his baseball chair.

Kiya's Fairytale Afternoon

One afternoon about 2 weeks ago Kiya was playing dress up. I had Brekken on the floor next to me as I was working on some projects. He was getting board of laying there so I had just helped him get in his "sitting" position (we are practicing) when Kiya came in with a crown and put it on his head. I was informed that he was Prince Eric and that she was Sleeping Beauty.

"Prince Eric"- He does pretty good at sitting like this on his on for a while.


My Sleeping Beauty and Prince Eric. (I know that you can't see Brekken's eyes but it was the only one where Kiya wasn't blury. I tried to get more but Brekken was done with sitting)

A Few funny Kiya moments

A Couple of sundays ago Ryan was making real mashed potatoes. Kiya was "helping" and she then decided she wanted to eat one. Raw. We found it hilarious, she won't eat mashed potatoes but she will eat raw ones. She was munchin on this on for a couple of minutes but she ate it all. In fact I think she ate part of another one as well. It cracks me up at the things kids do. Oh and not that this relates to potatoes but it does go with funny kids. Not long after Brekken was born we were driving somewhere on a beautiful sunny day and out of no where Kiya says to me. " Momma, Jesus is in my eyes!" I had to ask her to repeat herself, she did, and I was left speechless. How do you explain the difference between the sun and the son? All that I could say was "Yes the sun is in your eyes." So cute. Another very cute thing she said to me recently was concerning my mom. As many of you may know she was in a car accident shortly after returning home from visiting us. Kiya love her nonna so much, in fact I saw a shirt that said "Momma your fired! Nanna is here," I think I need to get it for Kiya. Anyway so we were again in the car when Kiya told me that Nonna was comming in 5 weeks. I tried to explain to her that Nonna could not come in 5 weeks because her bones were still hurt from when she broke her car. She proceeds to tell me that Nonna can borrow our car. (Obviously she wasn't thinking about Nonnas ouchie bones being the reason that Nonna can't come.) So to her remark I replied " Nonna lives across the ocean. I don't think she will be able to borrow our car." She had a solution for that problem. She informed me that "we can borrow Jesus's boat and take it to her." Again, I found myself speechless. I love Kiya so much. She had such a fun personality.

4th of July

We had such a great 4th of July. We had some friends come up to our house. They came to the Parade with us and we played and went swimming. They also joined us for fireworks. We had a BBQ at some friends house with a whole bunch of people. It was a great time. We were able to do fireworks from their house. It was a pretty darn good show. Ryan got a bunch of fireworks from one of his paitents. His patient knows his fireworks he got us some awesome ones for a great deal. We are so grateful to live in this country and for all the freedoms that we have.

The Zoo with Daddy

Ryan hasn't been able to go to the Zoo with us much this year so we decided to go on saturday. We didn't decide until noon and by the time we got some things done around the house, and got ready to go it was HOT but Kiya was really excited to go and so we went. Even in the heat we had a great time.

Brekken enjoyed the ride.

Daddy got Kiya Ice Cream. Yummy!

Looks like an advertisement for Coca Cola. Mom and dad got some refreshing drinks.


Daddy always makes things so much fun. Kiya likes to go to the Zoo with him because he makes such good animal sounds and actions. Here she is doing her gorilla impression.

New Car Seats!!

So Brekken was almost over the car seat limit in his car seat and Kiya was quickly approaching the limits of her seat. We did a lot of reasearch before we got their car seats, and we got some money that we were not planning on so we were able to get the ones that we wanted. We are so excited about them, and the kids love them. Well that is my interpretation of them both sleeping a lot more in the car.

Brekken used to scream in his carseat for long periods of time. Now he fusses for a minute or two and usually passes out. He looks so cute and comfortable sleeping in car seat.


Kiya loves her seat, mostly because it is pink. I love it because she can be in a harness for a long time but her seat will convert to a booster when we need it to. We have had trouble with car seats for her because her torso is so long. This one is perfect. She also looks comfy when she falls asleep in the car (which she has been doing more lately with this new seat).

The Baseball Lovers Dream Chair

I wish I could inserts sound effects into this post, but I can't so you will have to use your good imagination skills.
Since Brekkens 4 month appointment I have been doing some research on carseats. At his appointment I discovered that he would very shortly be surpassing the height limit on his infant seat. (heartbreak- My baby is outgrowing his infant seat) So I had decided between a couple but I wanted to try him in them before I bought them. Much to Ryans dismay when he came home from school one evening I drug the family to a local store that had the seats I was looking at. We had tried out the seats and made a decision. We were about to leave and Brekken had a near blowout. (Yuck) While I was changing him Ryan and Kiya were wandering around near the bathrooms when there it was! ( uha! Picture a light beaming down on the holy grail) The coolest baseball chair ever. Ryans spirits turned up. He looked like a kid in a candy store ready to wet himself, ( Oh he might get me for that comment) when I returned from the restrooms. He had the biggest smile and the cutest puppydog eyes. We had to get the chair. I'm not so sure I had a choice in it. I don't think I would have been able to pry it from his clutches. It is pretty darn cute I will have to admit, but I probably over exagerated Ryans enthusiasm. It makes for a better story though.

Here it is in all it's Glory!

Some fun pictures of the kids

Kiya loves her brother soo much. She is always loving on him. I thought it was such a sweet picture of the two of them.

Brekken loves to stand, but he hasn't quite figured out how to stay standing. We are in trouble when he does.

Timmmmbbbbeeeerrrrr!!!!

Time to eat?

Brekken thinks he is such a big boy! So we decided to start him out on a little KFC.

Ryan thought it was a great idea. I begged to differ. I won. We started him on rice cereal and he absolutely loves it.

Fun in the Sun

We are having so much fun this summer. We are doing a lot of swimming, trips to the zoo, lake trips, and anything fun outdoors that we can think of.

Kiya has her floaties on and this was pre-swimming lessons. She does not wear them now and likes to do down submarine bubble machine, diving for diving sticks, and of course try to go in the deeper end without mom and dad.

We were out at the lake and brekken fell asleep, and the only shade we found for him was in the storage basket of the double lawn chair, he seemed to like it.

This was kiyas first day of swimming lessons and she found all these different things to take like a hat, headband, stuffed animal, and she also was a big girl and dressed herself.