Monday, June 21, 2010

Zoo Birthday and Memorial Day!


Jarrett, Ryder and Max at the zoo. The boys loved the giraffe


Lovely family picture. The boys look so thrilled!

Max and Ryder are the best of buds!


Ryder with my dad. He is checking out the monkeys.
He was a little scared of them!



Ryder on his new 4-wheeler. He pushes this everywhere!




Ryder was pumped about his new bike. Here he is on the track.
Testing it out.



Max and Ryder blowing out the candle for like the 30th time!




Mickey cake. Kind of special looking but Ryder loved it!




Uncle Jake enjoying the celebration!



Family picture rocking the Mickey ears!



Cousin Max




My mom and dad




Ready to hit the trail!



I forgot to turn this picture obviously. But it's Jake and Ryder



The group! Colby McClellen, Me, Ryan Frandsen, Jake, Taylor
Bumgardner, Sean Olsen, Jarrett, Ryder, Dad and Mom.

So this is a super long post I know and I did it backwards and not is chronological order but oh well. For Memorial Day we didn't do anything to fabulous, but Monday we kept with tradition and went 4-wheeling up 12 mile to battle the mud. This is always my favorite ride of the year and this year was the snowiest, muddiest one yet. We went with my mom and dad, my little brother Jake, 2 cousins Colby and Taylor and 2 of Jake's friends Ryan and Sean (we refere to them and Aunt Ryan and Aunt Sean at my house, cause they are always with Jake and Ryder loves them!). It was way fun to go riding we had to go through tons of snow drifts and we weren't able to make it up very far. Deep Lake was still frozen solid which was crazy for the last day of May.
On June 3 my baby turned 2. Well I guess he doesn't act like a baby anymore so I really shouldn't call him that. We just had a little BBQ for his big day at our house with Jarrett's mom and dad and my mom and dad, cousin Max and uncle Jake. Ryder is in love with Mickey Mouse (well really Minnie and Daisey) lately so I attempted to make a Mickey cake. It was kind of special but it worked. He got tons of great stuff. We got him a little bike. It is so small it is the cutest thing ever. We have this empty lot next to us. All the neighborhood kids love to ride their bikes on it (they call it the track) and Jarrett has make a few jumps for them out their. Ryder loves to watch them ride and always goes and hangs out with them. He thinks he is so big. As soon as he saw his bike he took it over to the track to ride his bike. It was cute.
The Saturday after Ryder's birthday we took him to the zoo. My mom and dad and Jarrett's parents and his nephew Max came with us. It was so fun to see the little boys get so excited about the animals. Max and Ryder are only 6 months apart and love to hang out with each other. It was a great day, topped off with a little shopping for our nameless little girl!