Foot Fetish

So Rayden is weird and loves feet. I always find him at the shoe rack buy the door tring to eat all the shoes. (Really Gross) He is like a puppy. Yesterday during Relief Society he was crawling around touching all the ladies shoes and feet...I always feel like everyone is thinking why isn't that lady taking her kid out to the foyer because he is always being crazy. On the way home from running this morning I looked back at Rayden in his car seat and saw him holding his foot up to his mouth so he could eat his toe. I tried to get a picture of his foot in his mouth but it didn't work out. He always pulls his sock off and it is so weird because he only ever takes his left sock off. I have one silly baby!

I believe it's jogging or yogging, it might be a soft j.

I made some friends on base who go running in the morning so I bought a jogging stroller a couple weeks ago. We usually run around 3 miles. At first my mile time was like 13 or so minutes and today we went 3.08 miles and our fasest mile was 10.5 minutes. I'm always way in the back and today I thought I was going to die! When I told them that I wanted to join them they said I had to run the 5K with them on April 9th. I thought they were out of there minds but now that I have been running with them I'm not so scared anymore. A 5K is 3 miles and that is what we have been running. I should take a picture of Rayden all bundled up in his stroller.

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.