Here's Mae signing "auntie" while proudly wearing her Army hat all around the house! She loves that hat!

Cutie Pie

Here's Mae peeking out of her toy chest! Here's our kitty ... about time he got a photo on our site!

Here's a photo of Mae and her Mommy just goofing around.

Mae is starting to really love reading books .... her attention span is getting long enough to let us actually FINISH the books!

Mae got a cool shirt from her Awesome Army Aunt!

Just the three of us

We went camping this weekend - just the three of us plus Rhodie. It rained all Sat night, but other than that we had a great time!
Here's Mae on the slide (I know her eyes are shut but other than that it's a great photo):

Daddy and his little girl enjoying some quality time together :)

I Love Lucy

Here is our little 50's housewife in her dress and apron:

And for a bonus ... we had our gazebo sitting in our yard over Mae's pool (guess what? It wasn't staked down). Anyways, a huge storm came through and our gazebo blew across the streeet and landed in our neighbor's yard! Luckily it has maybe 1" diameter burn hole from friction when sliding across the street but that's it! Phew!

Rollin' down the river

This weekend we had an awesome time boating with Dave, Angie & Owen! They have a wicked cool boat and all the toys to go with it!
Here I am embarking on the world of wakeboarding ... Meanwhile Jeb & Mae watch from the boat ...

And finally I get up! Yay!

Mae LOVED swimming in the river. She was so happy playing on the platform at the back of the boat and jumping into our arms - she loved it loved it loved it!

Here we are chilling with our tired babes.

Jeb got to try the air chair out - he was super fast at learning how to do it!

Look at him go!

Then to cap off the excitement of the day the kids popped the boat's throttle out of neutral but we didn't notice it and thought the boat was dead and needed a tow .... we figured out the problem about 1/4 mile from the dock. Whoopsies!

And then to really put the icing on the cake a tire blew on their trailer driving home!

Family Reunion

This past weekend we went out to Nebraska for a family reunion. It was awesome! We got to spend time with all of Jeb's siblings and their families, Jeb's parents and grandma and grandpa and part of Jeb's father's sister's family (got that?)! We had such a wonderful time... it's really sad that we live so far away from them all.

I was not the official photographer of the weekend, so I only took a few photos here and there. But, here are some of the better ones I took (hopefully we can post some better photos later after Jeri and Julie share theirs).

A family pic:
Grandpa R. with his five beautiful great-granddaughters. JJ is the most-sweet, most-adorable baby - look at how she poses for this picture!

Four-generations photo with Jeb, his dad, and his dad's mom. Mae was DEFINITELY ready for bed at this point in the night ...

Aunt Jeri and Uncle Eric with a pouty-Mae:

Ha!

The boys chugging wine and busting out their guns :)

We took a tractor ride through an orchard ...

Somehow Julie (aka Super Mom) not only held but also entertained both JJ and Mae for most of the ride - she is a wonder woman!

Our beautiful niece Ella in a hammock!

And Jolie-who-is-growing-up-too-fast in her own little nest!

Catching up!

It's been a long time since I sat down to do this, but we now have a new laptop and so I don't have an excuse anymore! Here is a random collection of photographs from the last couple of months!

Ok ... so I managed to upload all of these photos in reverse chronological order so you'll actually be looking at the most-recent pictures first! Oops!

Here's Mae feeding a pony (just her size) at Lake Tobias this past weekend..
She loved the petting zoo!

The goat you see right behind her on the right (big white one) followed us around everywhere! He must have known we were suckers and would keep feeding him!

This is Mae's first ponytail ... she was having a lot of fun with all her clippies.

For Fourth of July we went to visit Jeb's parents in Ohio. We took a visit to Young's Dairy while out there.

Seems we go to a lot of petting zoos!

Mae playing with her grandpa...

Grandpa was in the parade so here he is after fulfilling his duties as a fireman!

Waiting for the parade to start ...

Camping at Codorus with my side of the family ... Mae's first time in a real pool (as opposed to her kiddie pools).

Here's a crazy photo of Mae ... she is playing with pudding dyed purple!

Grandma S stayed at our house after her 1st birthday party ... we had a great week!

(Sorry - no photos of the 1st birthday party - Lisa's dad took all of those!)

Here is Mae bulking up!

Mae opening birthday presents (and wearing her dress from Uncle & Aunt J)

Easter family portrait

Mae taking a ride with her little friends