Visit to Huntsville

We were so excited to get to go back to my cousin Becky's house in Huntsville to visit with my dad's side of the family!  My cousin Natalie flew back to "The States" with her mom.  I always have so much fun spending time with my family.  Anytime we're together making new memories, it always brings back the old memories of Memorial Days and Thanksgivings spent together.

Me, my sister Bonnie, my little 1st cousin-twice removed (yes I looked it up) Jaelynn, and Ashlyn.

Me and Ashlyn with My Aunt Teresa and Cousin Natalie.

Me and David with "The Next Generation" of cousins.  I love them ALL!!!

David's Birthday

On August 9th, 31 years ago, a little baby entered this world who would grow into one of the most wonderful, amazing men I have ever encountered. This man took a piece of my heart that God intended just for him. This man helped create the most perfect little girl with me. I can't imagine a better life than the one I share with him. He is the most perfect man for me. To my fabulous husband David, Happy Birthday. I pray we get to spend many more celebrating together.

Watermelon, Stairs, Playing in the Pool and Miniature Books

Pictures are my favorite part about the blog and there are a bunch in this post. :o)  Mostly just random stuff from the last few months.

 She wasn't so sure about this watermelon stuff...

 Daddy says, "I'll eat it if you don't..."

 "Ok...I'll try it."  Watermelon was a big hit. LOL

 Steps all by herself (with very careful 2 inches behind her supervision).

 Yep.  She climbed every single one of these steps on her own to make it to Uncle Joe!

The Champion of the Day...Miss Ashlyn Ryan!

 My itty, bitty, teeny, weeny (well not yellow polka dot) bikini.

 "Where does the water keep going?"

 "Oh...that's where the water is going!"

 Ashlyn LOVES playing in the water...she will play in it as long as you will let her!

 Thank you Granny for my miniature books.  She loves them!  They are just her size!

Walking up a storm! - Revised Edition

So in my efforts to get organized this year, I chose Picasa Web Albums to try to organize my photos...it also let me upload videos.  Thankfully, I didn't delete anything from my original media - because you can upload the videos...but you can't get them back...uuugghhh....not to mention the pictures may now be stored one additional place, but they are no more organized that when I started out.  Anyways, here is the revised edition of the blog post with the videos that transferred only as photos before.

Ashlyn took her very first step on July 6th. She took her first set of steps on the 8th...then she decided she didn't like it so much and continued to crawl around with her goofy, little crawl until July 26th of 2011. She just got up that morning and walked - she walked all day and hasn't stopped since! Now she is practically running!

Ashlyn loves sweets!  I try to limit the amount of processed, sugary, not any nutritional value kind of sweets, but every once in a while, everyone deserves an oreo. :)

10 and 11 month Onesie Pictures

Here goes my attempt at updating my blog...I'm WAY BEHIND!  Here are Ashlyn's 10 and 11 month onesie pictures.  One more left to post!  I can't believe we made it through a year of onesie pictures!  My baby is such a big girl now!

Family Pictures 2011

These don't need much introduction...but may I present...our annual family pictures...Version 2011! I love how they turned out. We had a great photographer and choosing between them was next to impossible.