Long time, no see!

Ok so it has obviously been way too long since I have posted anything. There is nothing of Thomas Rayden!

Rayden is huge and has started walking. When we sit down and try to get him to walk to us back and forth he won't do it but he will take a few steps when he wants to.


He has 6 teeth and 2 more coming in.


I love this face he makes! He looks like he wants kisses but that is not what it is. His kisses are open mouth and wet! He started making this face when he was whining but now he just does it to be silly.


Rayden loves bathtime. When Ryan or myself wants to take a bath or a shower we put Rayden in his walker in the bathroom with us. We have to get creative sometimes so Rayden won't cry the whole time. I usually just give him some crunchies to munch on. In this picture Ryan was taking a bath and so we gave Rayden some of the bubbles to play with to keep him happy.

Haircut

So I'm not the best at taking pictures of myself obviously haha. I got my haircut the other day and I feel a lot better now. My hair was long and my bangs were past my chin. My last haircut was at Christmas time so a haircut was much needed. When I asked Ryan how I should cut my hair...if I should cut it short into an a line again or just get it trimmed, he said that he liked it longer. I cut it short anyway :) and he ended up really liking it.

Safety Bracelets

Everytime we go to the NEX (the Navy Exchange store on base) Ryan wants to buy parachute cord and I always say no. A couple weeks ago Ryan found a pattern online to make safety bracelets out of the parachute cord. They are called safety bracelets because each bracelet is made out one long piece of the cord (except the mixed color one)... usually 8-16 feet long. You are supposed to wear them like when you go hiking or something so if you get into trouble you can undo your bracelet have a good amount of cord to help you get out of your bad situation or whatever. Ryan thought that they were pretty sweet so we made some and he is happy now.

Pismo Beach

Ryan had a 3 1/2 day weekend for Memorial Day so yesterday we went to Pismo Beach. Ryan and his buddy rented wet suits and boogie boards. last summer me and Ryan went together and rented boogie boards...it was a lot of fun but I for some reason couldn't catch the wave haha.



This trip to Pismo I pretty much just sat on the beach and soaked in the sun. We bought Marcie some sand toys...and thank goodness we did because she ended up not liking the ocean so much.







I went down to the edge of the water at one point and the coolest thing ever in life happened. So me and Cherie were standing in the little waves and all these things kept hitting our ankles. We were like what the heck is that...so we looked down and there were baby turtles all around us going out to sea in the waves! It was so crazy. I don't know how they made it to the water with all those people on the beach and birds in the air or how we were the only two people to even notice them. I had my camera in hand but by the time I thought about it and was going to take a video they were farther out and deeper in the water :(







I just happened to put sunscreen like everywhere except my fat, swollen and dirty feet haha. Ryan got mad at me once he noticed. But his back got just as burnt as my feet. Everywhere else was fine except silly random spots that got missed.

Baptism

A few weeks back the Sister Missionaries asked if they could teach a young man at our house and of course we said yes. He only had a two lessons at our house but he became friends with Ryan. He is in the NAVY as well and lives in the barracks because he is single. While he was being taught he quit drinking and smoking and all that good stuff. His baptism was last Saturday and he asked Ryan to baptize him. When we got to the stake center they couldn't find any more jumpsuits to fit Ryan...so he ended up with these huge scrub pants. It was pretty funny.

Tribal Dance

Last Friday Ryan performed a tribal dance with a group of guys he works with at the hopsital. Ryan was volunteered by someone else to participate so he wasn't very excited about it...but I believe he enjoyed doing it in the end. Their performance was part of the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month ceremony. They were supposed to wear lava lavas but obviously ended up with a lot less on. Luckily Ryan had some basketball shorts on underneath unlike some of the guys there...they just had their undies! They painted six packs on themselves and some other war paint. Ryan is the whitest one and he is on the very right when they line up at the beginning. :) And the part where everyone is laughing they are shaking their bums.

Snail

On my way home from walking to get the mail I found this silly snail on the sidewalk. I picked him up and decided to take him home to my sidewalk :) so I could show Cherie and Marcie and Ryan when he got home from work.



This is what happened to the poor snail when Marcie woke up from her nap and went outside...I don't think she ever even saw him. Haha It was funny but sad.