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!

Official farewell

Well the time has come. Riley as officially outgrown her newborn clothes.

To commemorate this event Maryanne took some pictures of her clothes. I know it is kind of silly, but I didn't realize just how quickly she would grow. Although I didn't post a picture of her, she is SO long. When we weighed her the other day she is now 11lbs and just 1/4 in shy of 23 inches. Although I will miss some of her little outfits, it sure is amazing to watch my little girl grow so fast. Not to mention I just love these pictures of her clothes.

Beautiful Baby

Riley is growing so fast and doing new things each day. We both thought it was so cute how she would pick her head up and look around while Ryne was holding her. She is so strong! The night she was born she would hold her head up and flop it back down, but now she holds it for a few seconds and makes the cutest faces. Ryne and I both thought that she just looked so cute in her little outfit too. Although you can't really tell in these pictures, she is so long and active. We can't get her to sit still long enough to get a good picture of her all stretched out. We will keep working on it though. :)

Wonderful Weekend

Mr Lee with Riley. I think she looked so cute in her bunny hat.
Riley just looks so comfy. She sure did like all the attention she got.
It was so wonderful for all of us to be home this weekend. -I love you all so much and miss you greatly!-
G-ma next door even got to come. It was so good to see her.
It was so sweet, Rynes parents got down a wooden cradle that had been made for Ryne when he was small. It wont be long before she wont fit in it any more.

This weekend was so good for Ryne and I. I know its a little late on the post but...

We had Monday off from school and it is amazing what a difference it made to get to stay one extra night. The weekend was full of good conversations and good visits. Saturday night we got to have some one-on-one time with caitlin while everyone else (my family included) were at the Jazz Jubilee. It was good for all of us. -Thank you Grandma and Grandpa Bergren for letting us stay with you guys this weekend, we had such a good time and miss you all. - It was also neat that Sarah and my Grandmother Anne came down for the Jazz Jubilee. All four of the sisters were together and we all got to visit and see grandma next door. All in all, we had a wonderful time. We love and miss you all and cant wait to see you again. Hopefully it wont be too long.

1 Month Appointment

Today we took Riley to her first doctors appointment. Her doctor is Kae McCrory and we absolutely love her (she is the one in the pink) She said that Riley is doing very well and looks great. She is now 22.25 inches long which is in the 85%; she weighs 9lbs 60z which is in the 50%. Once again she didnt like getting down to her birthday suit, but other than that she did very good.

Riley Pictures!

Ryne and I have been blessed with great friends here at LeTourneau. We have become good friends with a couple of our neighbors: Tommy and Desnekka (we call her Desi for obvious reasons) and Maryanne and Josh and their sons Corbin and Vincent. Maryanne has a talent for taking pictures. She is the one who took our TeamRB photos last semester. We were just piddle fartin around the other day and she took a few pictures of Riley for me. She will be taking some new TeamRB pictures soon but for now here are a few of Miss Riley.