Shark bait. Hoo ha ha.

Shark bait. Hoo ha ha.  

This is a shark shirt Ryker received in a special package in the mail from his Aunt Emily. He is showing his shark face.

Sorry for the picture overload. I can't help that my children are so adorable.

Here are 5 things to be excited about.

1. My birthday is on Monday! 

2. Brandon graduates 3 weeks from tomorrow!

3. I'm going to get my hair done next week!

4.  We get to visit our special friends next weekend!

5. We're going to Nebraska in 4 weeks to find a place to live!

28. That's how old I'm turning! I swear I was 19 last year. I don't feel close to 30.

 Ryker is always loving on Hannah. Sometimes she laughs, but most of the time she gets really mad.

 

 This is Hannah and my grandma. When I was little, my grandma gave me a doll dressed as a pioneer and a story about my triple-great grandma who came across the plains as a pioneer. Her name was Hannah. Now you know where my Hannah got her name. 

 I took this picture with my phone. Take that, Target Portrait Studios! I don't need your $3.99 portrait sheets anymore! I can do it myself!

 I love this girl. She is very much a mommy's girl. She won't let anyone else hold her (and she likes to be held! All the time!), and she cries if I leave the room. It bolsters my ego in a sick sort of way.

 I was experimenting with my amazing phone photo sessions. This picture should be cropped at the top. Ha. Oh well.

 Ryker and Daddy playing their weird blanket game. Brandon rolls up in the blanket and then Ryker tries to find an opening to get in. This keeps him entertained for a very long time.

 We went out to Antelope Island with my dad a few days ago. I've always thought Antelope Island is beautiful in its own salty sort of way.

 I wish I could say he wrote his name. Noooo, I wrote it. Ryker was freaked out about the sand. He didn't want to walk on it. It was damp, so it's not like he sunk in or anything. Ryker is JUST like Brandon when it comes to things like this. He's into the details. He has to have his socks just right, he can't have a stray hair on his clothes, he can't have dirty hands, he can't have any skin danglies on his fingers, his routines read like a book, and on and on. Everything has to be just so so. This is a good thing sometimes too. He likes to do everything his way, by himself, and he's always doing things with a purpose in mind. That being said, I find I can put a lot of trust in that little boy. Everything he does has a reason behind it. He colored on the walls one day, but he did it because he was drawing a train track so he could drive his train. He kept going in and out of the house today, refilling a cup of water, but I later found out that he was rinsing the sidewalk chalk off the patio with it. I just love that boy.

 One of Ryker's favorite activities is jumping on the trampoline.

 Washing his bike. He likes things clean.

 Playing at the park with Daddy.

 Ryker and his cousin Sophie. They'll miss each other so much when we move.

 Those eyes just melt me like butter in a microwave.

 Sorry this is blurry. They love to sit together in the mornings and watch Curious George. 

 Ryker and his cousin Brynn vandalizing the fence. They start so young these days.

Ryker had to have Brandon swing and hold his hand at the same time.

Why am I still awake? Everyone else has been in bed for 3 hours! If I stop right now, can I realistically be in bed in ten minutes?