All about Ryan

I haven't written about Ryan for a while. He is such a funny kid and growing up way to fast. He loves to play outside and right now is really sad that it is getting colder. He has discovered the computer and plays, playhouse disney games all the time. He has also discovered Scooby doo and loves to watch it. He is getting more and more used to having a little brother, but always tells me that Jackson is "Driving me Crazy" I am going to put some fun pictures of Ryan up for you to see.
He told me that his bike was really dirty so he washed his bike and then we went in the back and hosed it off. He had so much fun!
He loves to play Chris' Risk game, he calls it the horsey game. He gets mad because he can only play it when Jackson is sleeping.

Idaho Falls Zoo

This summer we went to the zoo. I wanted to take Ryan there, since the last time we went to a zoo was when he was a year old in Salt Lake. Ryan was so excited and couldn't stop talking about going. We went and there was a lot of things that were closed. We started at the petting zoo and Ryan got to pet the goats and comb their fur. He thought that was really fun, but everything else was under construction so that wasn't real great. We went through the zoo and the animals were all sleeping and either weren't outside or were sleeping so the zoo wasn't that great. The best part was that as we were leaving they were letting the penguins out for a walk and Ryan got to see them. He got in trouble for trying to pet one, but loved it anyway. It was kinda sad that there weren't many animals and wasn't that fun, so hopefully next year we can go to Salt Lake again. Here are pictures of our adventure.
Ryan combing the goats
Jackson loved being out of the stroller
Jackson thought the gorilla was really weird
The cute penguins

Jackson is 7 months!

Jackson is getting so big and is still chubbier than ever. He is now 7 months and getting into everything. He loves to crawl and is now standing up to anything that will keep him stable. He loves to follow mommy around and whine. He loves to play with Ryan if they play nice, but Jackson always ends up crying somehow. He hasn't been weighed officially, but we think he is about 22 lbs and close to getting into his big boy carseat. We are having trouble's with the whole baby food thing. He won't eat it very much, I don't know if this is because he is teething or if he just would rather eat a bottle or people food. So he eats lots of baby snacks and bottles, we are hoping that he will get over that real soon so he will eat more than just bottles. He got two bottom teeth in and are working on the top two. He has been sick lately with teething so he isn't much fun. We love to play with him and hear him giggle. He is such a fun and happy little boy!


He is better at crawling now, but this is so cute!
Such a chubby baby, at his cousin's birthday party!
He was crying until I put the camera up to his face and he would start to laugh

Chukars Baseball game

Chris' boss invited us to go with his family to see a Chukars baseball game. It was lots of fun. Jackson got to stay with Grandpa and Grandma Williams for the night, since we didn't think he would have any fun. Ryan thought it was cool, but got bored half way through. After the game was over they got to run the bases with all the kids that were there that night. He had so much fun, but we won't be taking him to another game until he is a little older.

Running the bases with Daddy

Family Reunions and Friends

I need to get going on all our fun summer events. We went camping every weekend for about three weeks. You bet I was way done with camping for the year. First was my Family Reunion at Camp Cumorah in Bone Idaho. It was lots of fun to see all my Aunts, Uncles and Cousins. We also liked seeing all my family since everyone was there, which is hard when you have seven kids in your family. There was lots to do and explore, Ryan loved to play with all the other cousins and swim in the lake. Didn't get a lot of pictures, because the camera was lost for a while so we only have pictures of swimming.
Ryan got to make a sword and shield. It was a Renaissance theme
Jackson and Noah meeting for the first time. We love cousins!
Taken a ride in the boat with Tyler
Such a long day

Next weekend we had our wonderful friends the Thompson's from Boise finally come and visit us. We had so much fun. We went camping for one night and then we just hung out here in good ole Rexburg. What great fun we have whenever we are with them. We miss them lots since we moved from Boise. Ryan and their little girl Kenzie always love to play together. They are great friends.

The whole gang!
The best of friends!

The last and final weekend of our camping extravaganza was going to Yellowstone and camping with Chris' brother, sister and of course our brother -in-law Lane. We had lots of fun and even had matching t-shirts. It was a really great way to end our summer of camping.



Chris' sister Holly, her husband Lane and Uncle Michal with Ryan
Aunt Holly bought Jackson this cute hat, because it was hot and she thought he needed it!
Our cute Ryan!!

We had so much fun being with people we love!

Jackson is 6 months

I can't believe how fast time is going. Jackson is now 6 months old. He is a chubby little thing weighing in at 20 lbs and 27 1/2 inches. He has started eating more foods, but isn't quite sure about the whole thing. I forgot how hard it was having to remember to feed someone like that again. Ryan will eat whatever I am eating so he is easy. He is sort of scooting/crawling. He gets up on all fours and then flattens to his belly and scoots and then back up on all fours. He hates that he can't go faster and gets really frustrated about it. I can't believe how big he is getting and almost want him to stop because soon he won't be a baby anymore. He is really fun to play with and a very calm baby for the most part. He just plays on the floor and rolls around until he gets what he wants to play with.
My favorite church outfit, Chris doesn't like the hat, but I love it.
One night we went on a bike ride and I got Jackson out of the back of the bike and I set him by Chris the next thing I know he is asleep next to him. It was really cute!
This was when we went to Old Faithful.

So far behind

I am sorry, I have so much to blog about our fun summer activities. I don't get much time to myself on the computer these days. So it will be lots of pictures. Here we go

We went to Rigby lake with some of our neighbors one Saturday and Ryan loved it. He got to play in the water and sand with his friend Ty. Jackson wasn't to sure about the water or the sand.

Ryan came to sacrament meeting from Primary with these paper ears on his head. I thought it was so cute and that they had just learned about ears in primary. Then he started talking about how he was like President Monson and started to wiggle his ears. That is so clever. They learned about Pres. Monson by telling him the ears story. He now loves Pres. Monson and talks about it all the time.

We went to the Splash Park and played in the water, and Ryan's little friend Ella was there so they played together.

Since Jackson has gotten huge, we tried on some pj's that Chris' Aunt bought for the boys a while ago. They are 12 month jammies and actually fit him. So we put them on one night and had to take pictures. Ryan loves that he has matching stuff with Jackson.

Here are some random pictures of the boys and us.