Happy Birthday!!

Today is Great-Great Grandma Washburn's Birthday! - Riley wanted to send you birthday hugs and kisses.

Hopefully we will all get together real soon.

We love you and are thinking of you, happy birthday!

Valentines Day!

This is the Valentines bear that Mrs. Nadene and Mr. Billy, from church, gave to Riley.
These are Riley's first babysitters. They are my good friends Emily and Rebecca from school. They are so great. Thanks you guys for watching Riley for Ryne and I. Yall are the best!!
Hope you had fun.

Our friend Brandon left this for us on our doorstep. I thought it was sweet.
Corban made Riley and me Valentines and cookies. I couldn't get him to hold the cards right for a picture. Oh well. Thanks Corban (and Maryann) for our Valentine goodies.
We got dressed up for a night out. (Didn't Ryne look snazzy?)
Heres our leading lady. This is a 3month outfit. She is growing so much.

Thanks Shelley for the adorable valentines outfit. I love and miss you. Riley looked so cute.

Riley has slept through the night the past 3 nights. It has been great! So I thought I'd show you a picture of her sleeping.

We had such a nice day yesterday. I cleaned house, caught up on some homework, and made some valentine pies. It was fun to dress Riley up for her fist Valentines. She got so many different cards and gifts. Thank you all for loving on our precious girl!

Photo Shoot!

*Sisterly Love*

It was so hard for us not to smile.
Maryann told us to make silly faces. I think we couldn't stop laughing.

We loved this old wonder bread truck.
Beautiful!
I did not particularly like this one of me, but Hannah and Leah looked too cute.

Stunning!

As a surprise to Hannah and Leah, Maryann took some pictures of the three of us.

It is so much fun to do something like this, so we thought it would be a nice treat. Maryann said she likes to practice and of course we don't mind.

Maryann, thank you so much for doing this for us. Not only are your pictures wonderful, you are so much fun to be with.

We had a BLAST!

Girls, thanks for being such good sports. (especially for getting in that sticky grass)

I love you so much.

Sarah, we missed you alot! We can't wait to see you again so we can get some pictures of all the sisters!

- as you can see I had a hard time picking and choosing for the blog :)

What a weekend!

This is us trying to learn to longboard
This was the cake at my Shower on Sunday. We love our new church and they have been so good to us.
This is Riley while we all played outside on Saturday.
Leah and "moo" before we met Aunt Debbie.
Ryne was so nice to watch Riley so I could have some one-on-one sister time with the girls. :)

This weekend was wonderful as well as exhausting.

Hannah and Leah came to see Ryne, Riley and I this weekend and it was so much fun. Friday night we didn't do to much. We just got them settled in and visited. Saturday we got up early and met Aunt Debbie to give her and her friend their new puppie. "Moo", was Leah's first puppy to be sold! We came home and spent almost the rest of the day outside. It was such a nice day, so Tommy, Desi, Josh, Maryanne, Corban, Vincent, Brandon, and all of us played outside. We threw around a football, learned to longboard (o.k. more like attempt) and visited. It was a blast! That night we took the girls out to dinner at our favorite mexican resteraunt Papacitas. Oh and Brandon too since we were having mexican food :)

Sunday was a good, but long day too. First we went to church where everyone was excited to meet some of my sisters. After church we had lunch and a shower for Riley. It was so much fun and Aunt Beth and Laura even got to come. Riley got lots of great stuff. Thanks to all the ladies at Chalkhill Community Church for putting together such a wonderful shower for Ryne, Riley, and I. After the shower we came home where we got to visit with Aunt B and Laura a while longer. It was so great to catch up and talk about how things were going. Laura even held Riley and fed her. She did such a great job. It is funny because I can still remember getting to hold her and feed her. Beths kids sure are growing up fast! Corban was also excited to have a new playmate, even if it was just for the afternoon.

Aunt B and Laura, thank you both so much for coming. We love you both and we had lots of fun. Tell Bruce and the boys we said hello!

That evening Maryann invited us all over for dinner. It was GREAT. We had salad, homeade breadsticks and manacotti. Thanks Josh and Maryanne for having us all over. We had such a good time, and Hannah and Leah just loved Corban! Alas, the last day of our wonderful weekend had to come to an end. On monday Ryne watched Riley so we could go shopping in Tyler. Hopefully it was as good for Hannah and Leah as it was for me. Thanks Hannah and Leah for coming down this weekend. I knew I missed you, but I didn't realize just how much until today when yall weren't here.

Oh and thanks honey and preacher for letting them drive here all by themselves. They did a great job!

All in all, it was perfect.

p.s. Ryne and I played basketball with Hannah and Leah Sunday night

Bergrens vs. Blantons

-We totally won!

Smiley Riley

Today Riley is 2 months old! She has grown and changed so much.

Ryne loves to play with her and make her smile. These are a couple of snap shots he took while I was gone. She is such a daddy's girl! She smiles constantly when she is with Ryne. Everyone said that she would grow quickly. I just did not realize how quick. She has been such a blessing.

At 2 months...

Riley loves her swing, eating, sleeping (of course), being bounced, and diffent sounds (especially her baby einstein cd's)

She doesn't like being left alone (she wants to be where the action is) or wet diapers.

She usually lets us know pretty quick when its time for a diaper change. Also, although she did NOT like bath time at first, she has really started to like her bathtimes and splashing around in the water. She is a really good sleeper too. She slept through the night 3 times in a row last week and is back to about 1-2 times a night now. We are so close to getting her to sleep through the night. I don't think it will be much longer now. :)

*Riley*

Today I had a conference that I had to go to, so Maryanne watched Riley while Ryne and I were gone. When I got home to pick her up Maryanne had taken some snapshots of Riley. I was so excited. I love these new pictures. Thanks Maryanne for watching Riley and for these wonderful photos!