Leila's BIrthday

Yay It hasn't been months since I've last posted!

This last weekend (the 24th) we went to Cheyenne for Leila's second birthday. For those of you who don't know Leila is Rylee's best friend. Leila was the first name Rylee learned and she loves playing with her. We went up to Cheyenne on Saturday and spent pretty much the whole day there. Ryan went golfing during the party because he missed the course there because it's a lot less crowded. After the party the girls played and we talked for a while before we had hamburgers and hot dogs for dinner. We ate quickly because we all decided to go to a showing of Captain America at the cheap theater there. I really should have brought a jacket to the theater because i have never been so cold in a movie theater before. I huddled next to Ryan just to stay warm. We didn't stay the night because i had several assignments due the next day for school, but it was a fun weekend and it was nice to get out of Colorado for the day.

Leila blowing out the candle on her birthday cake.

The girls playing in her new ball pit, Rylee is a pro since she has one too.

Getting started early :)

Trying to help Amy get Leila's "fake computer", as Joseph calls it, out of the box.

Rylee and dad watching the Broncos game on Sunday.

Stupid blog

So when i wrote those last posts i wrote them from "Moving" to "Labor Day Weekend" that's why they seem backwards when you read them.

Labor Day Weekend

This last weekend we went up to Cheyenne to see James (Ryan's cousin basically) who was home from Afghanistan where he flies medi-vac for the guard. It was a nice day we had lots of good food and played some fun games. I enjoyed watching Ryan, Brandon, Hannah, Amy, and sometimes James play Mario brothers. It's always fun to watch people play a game they aren't the greatest at, but try their hardest. I would have played but i can't even make it through a level without dieing, but oddly enough i used to be pretty good at play Halo. The rest of the weekend we were kind of lazy, Ryan went golfing and i finished a blanket that I've been working on for about the past 2 weeks. It took me so long because we were gone a lot and i can't sit and work on a blanket all day when i have a toddler. Also it's the biggest rag quilt blanket I've made, and i made the squares on the small side so that didn't help either.

Well that's all for now. I will try to post more frequently now that things should start to slow down, and maybe we can get used to this place.

Some of the edges hang over so it's bigger than it looks.

The close up of the blanket. It's a gift for a friend.

August

Well August was just all around not a great month. At the beginning of the month i didn't have a pretty fun few days in Arizona with Debbie, and Jenni at Ryan's cousin's wedding and baby shower. We had some amazing food, and stayed at one of the nicest resorts i have ever stayed at. There were a few downs like Ryan not being able to go. It's just not the same to go to a wedding and have no one to dance with. Also the drive was someone miserable, and i felt like i was going to melt in the heat. Oh my goodness! I hate being that hot! Jenni made fun of Debbie and i all weekend, but i don't care i hated being hot. I did enjoy sitting by the pool in the sun and not completely frying (because we were lower in elevation), but other then that i enjoyed the evening when it was still pretty warm but there wasn't any sun beating down on you. When i got back Rylee finally decided she would call me "mama", which she has said before, but always decided to call both Ryan and i "dada". That made me happy, but it was short lived, she now doesn't call me anything, but rather whines at me. Oh joy.

The rest of the month Ryan had to work and the one weekend that we weren't gone we were down at one of the apartments our family owns down here painting. I really am not a big fan of painting unless i benefit from it, but it had to be done and we will probably be back down there soon finishing it since we weren't able to get it all finished. Later that month we had a death in the family and we were up in Riverton two weekends in a row one to say good bye and the second one was for the funeral. It was nice to see nearly all of Ryan's family i just wish it had been for a different reason.

Ryan's first classroom"The wall" He mad the graffiti art i suggested the brick paper, it turned out great!

Walking with dad to the park in Hudson.

Rylee swinging on the big kid swing.First time on a marry go round, and thought it was fun. Mommy used to think it was fun until i got motion sickness.

Camp

Well later in July i went up to Lander to visit with Kara, and some other people from camp. This was Rylee's first time up at camp. She loved the open spaces for her to run around in. It was very different from when we were younger. There are so many people that don't go any more or just didn't go to camp this year. It was a little sad that the people i didn't know out number those i did.

But on a positive note i had a top ten funnies moment for me while we were up there. So Kara and i went up early and got to camp to visit about 10 am. So when all the campers went to have cabin rest (a nap) we went for a drive to hopefully get Rylee to take a nap, which she did. So when she was good and asleep i pulled over by a lake so i could get some pictures. Well we decided to try to get a picture together which meant propping up the camera and using the timer. Well we found a good spot because there was a large rock by the lake for us to stand on and there was a large rock across from it to put the camera on. Here is the problem in between the rocks there was sand. Well on one of the......oh 7 or 8 takes (we're picky, her more than me I've accepted i won't like it no matter what) i set the timer and set off down rock 1 towards rock 2. Well half way down the slanted part of rock one my foot hits some of that oh so lovely sand, that has mad it's way onto the rock, and from that point i slip backwards and somewhere in mid-slip me being the talented person i am twisted and ended up face planting in the sand at the bottom of rock 2. What happens i hear Bahahah coming from Kara (which is when the camera takes the photo) and i start to guffaw as well even though my knee was killing me. Like they always say it's better to laugh then cry. Below are the photo's that captured this lovely sequence of events, feel free to laugh as well knowing it's what I'd do.

Okay here is the sequence

We tried pulling our hair back because of the wind, it didn't work so well.I barley made it up on that rock before the picture took.Stupid windI didn't realize i had already pushed the timer button so i didn't even try to make it into this one.

Kara laughing at me after i biffed and landed on my face. I'm at the bottom of the rock she's on.

Moving

So i know i said i would try to write more frequently so i don't have to sit down and write these really long posts, but since my last post at the end of June we have been so busy it's like we didn't even have a summer. At the beginning of July we put our house up for sale, and had a few people come look at it right off the bat, but all real potential buyers stopped coming after our first open house. By the second weekend in July we were packing and on our way down to Colorado Springs. My dad, being the saint he is, offered to pay for our Uhaul because Ryan and i were just going to put everything on flat beds and take a couple trips. That would have been the worst decision we could have made. We managed to get 99.9% of our stuff in the one trip with the Uhaul, Debbie's truck, and my car. We made another trip about two weeks later to go get the house ready to be rented since we couldn't managed to sell it and we couldn't afford to pay two house payments. Although it would have been nice to have the house sold we were very relieved to have good renters move in quickly so we only had to pay half a months mortgage on the vacant house.

We have now been moved in and unpacked for almost two months. It's felt like an eternity though! We have tried hard to have an open mind, but every time i leave the house I'm reminded how much i don't want to be here. I have never seen such terrible driving in my LIFE! I swear i get flipped off at least twice a day, cut off at least 5, everyone races from one stop light to the next like they're starving and there's a cheeseburger at the next light, and people have a problem with stopping. I swear once you pull up to a "stop" light, NO ONE STOPS! NO INSTEAD WE ALL CREEP LIKE WE'LL DIE IF OUR CARS ACTUALLY STOP! Plus if YOU stop the person behind you is in your trunk by the time the light turns green which is 5 minutes from the time you "stopped"! On another note people's bubbles around here are like waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too small. If i can hear you breathing behind me your too close, or if i can't take one step backwards without hitting your stupid shopping cart your too d*** close. Sheesh i miss my wide open spaces and my large bubble! But we will survive and hopefully only have to be here this one year.