Belize

(photo courtesy of our friend Sallie Martin)

Ryan and I went on a scuba diving trip to Ambergris Caye, Belize with our friends through Adventure Sports. It was a week long trip and we had a wonderful time. The weather was wonderful, the diving was awesome, the water was beautiful, the food was great, the hotel was nice, and a good time was had with all of our great friends! We went out diving each morning and saw lots of cool things like nurse sharks, turtles, mooray eels, & goliath groupers. We would relax by the pool in the afternoon and have a few cocktails with all of our group and then go out to dinner in the evenings. One of the days we went back inland and did a jungle tour that included ziplining and cave tubing. I took over 400 pics and this is a link to some of them on Facebook. Here are just a few of us enjoying our trip!

Back Blogging

I am going to appoint myself Queen of Back-Blogging. I start so many blogs and then never get around to uploading the pics to go along with them........then finally one day I get it all done (while procratinating housework most likely). So, as you might have guessed.......I just posted quite a few "old" entries to the blog. Enjoy!

16 Month update

Little Miss Natalie is busier than ever these days. She is learning to run and enjoys practicing that everyday. Her vocabulary continues to grow each day and is constantly amazing Ryan and I both. She picked up some more signs from her favorite DVD- horse, cracker, cereal, Mom, & Dad. She can sing some of the words to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and also Row Row Row Your Boat. It is too cute!



She has a new found love of dirt and likes to play in it any chance she gets. This is a huge thrill for her but not so much for me b/c I'm not really a dirt kinda girl. She is beginning to want to climb things...like up on to the top of her picnic table, up onto the fireplace hearth, and she also tries to climb on to the top of the coffee table too! She can reach almost anything on the counters now by standing on her tippy toes and really stretching. We think we've put things out of her reach and suddenly she comes around the corner with it in her hand. All you can do is smile and laugh!

Happy 4th of July

We traveled down to Glenwood, AL (by way of my sister's house in Ramer) to celebrate July 4th with my Step-Mom's family. On Friday afternoon my Dad, Step-Mom, and Grandmother came over to my sister's house in Ramer to visit with us & see Natalie. Then on Saturday, we headed to Glenwood for the cook-out. They had lots of good food (and delicious dessert!). Natalie had a blast following around the big girls and trying to do whatever they were doing. She got dirtier than she has ever been playing in the sand and going back & forth over to the big drink tubs to get handfuls of ice & water. We ended the day with a swim in the pool. Hope everyone had a Happy 4th!

Foo Foo

We have a new creature who comes to visit us outside our kitchen window..........little bunny Foo Foo. Ryan set up a bird feeder (that I gave him for our anniversary) right outside the window and we have birds, squirrels, and chipmunks who visit it daily. Now, just in the past few weeks, we've noticed a rabbit in our yard. All of the sudden, last night & this morning, the bunny has come over to eat the grass that is springing up from the seeds on the ground. Natalie goes crazy and says, "foo foo, foo foo" over & over. Too cute! I sing Little Bunny Foo Foo to her and do the hand motions so when I told her that was a bunny outside the window she immediately called him Foo Foo. When he hopped away she said, "Bye Bye Foo Foo".