i sent this : <3 to rylan in a text message one day,most people know it as a Heart. well, ry thought it was a sideways view of puckered lips.. he thought it was the best thing ever, and i thought that was the cutest thing ive ever heard.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

pickin taters

Back When i planted my potatoes. (March 28th) i was so excited for June to come. Dug em up today! weighed them and it came to 8.10 pounds worth of Taters! THEN, there was this random plant OUt of the raised bed things that i thought looked like potatoes, so i pulled that up too, and got 4 more Red potatoes.
So much fun. I am excited to try them:D






Case turns 1 ♥










Cupcakes at Cases



















Family ♥. wish ALL of our fam could have been there.
I can't believe Our Handsome Baby is ONE. SUch a Long year it has been for us, things are getting easier. So glad to have him.

Color Me Mine

as an Anniversary Tradition, we will go to Color Me Mine, and paint a piece of Pottery. we decided this at our first year anniversary when we didnt have any money, to do this, and then splurged and went to the Olive garden. well, we loved it so much, we decided to keep Color Me Mine as a yearly thing.
This year, though, we decided to do One Big platter, so Case could get in on it too :)









so its a platter with all of our handprints on it. i know i know, no final pic. ill get one of alll the color me mines we've done to make up for it, hows that sound?

June6. 20011

Got up, got ready, left town at 9:am got to Hanford at 10, met up with some friends, Stelle, and Lisa and Luis, and a fun Breakfast and visit, and then began our Car shopping.!


A long day. Looked at all our options in Hanford, then went to Fresno checked our options there. Decided with a Lincoln MKX we saw in Hanford. everything we wanted. dont have a picure of it here, but its perfect for space we need for all of our stuff for trips to SF, comfortable, AC works for the blazing heat here in the Valley and we're just so excited for it.

Please excuse why Case looks like a homeless child. In the last stop in Fresno, we didnt notice that he unhooked his Gtube, (filled with the chocolate version of Pediasure) and started swinging around his tube as the milk still pumped out. hahahah he had chocolate all over him. It was the end of the day by this time and he already went through the other 3 outfits we had..(by throwing up on them) so he was stuck in this. we cleaned him up as best as we could, but he didnt seem to mind..it was so funny though..:) We drove back to Hanford, and checked out and finally went home to a warm bath for Case, and a glorious anniversary present.
the second best anniversary present so far. The BEST anniversary present will always be Case.

BBQ and Bubbles

the title says it all. The first week of June the weather still wasn't blazing hot, so we decided to cook our dinner on the BBQ that night. we had potatoes Tri Tip, asparagus.. mmmmm

Case got to hang with the Dogs Jasper and Maggie, and we blew some bubbles. Fun FUn:D

Thursday, June 2, 2011

The Greatest Place on Earth!

Nope, not Disneyland. ;) one of our fav. spots (im sure ive mentioned More than once) is the Ranch. you're just 20 minutes from town, but you feel Hours and Hours away
Luke was leaving the next morning, so we decided to go for a drive, shoot some guns, and have a few beers. left Case with Gram.
drove up in Rys truck, got into the convertible Toyota complete with a bus seat (literally) in the back and headed out. (it is THE place where we collect the horned toads for the races every Derby,.. Also, it is our school Mascot.- another fun fact is my dad knew the guy that drew the ORIGINAL horned toad mascot for the high school)

Beautiful isn't it!


Ry Hit the bottle!





I hit the bottle too! (in the background you can sort of see Coalinga. not real well in this pic, but its there )




The hill in the pic above and below with the tree on it is called Toggenburg. i have no idea why its named that..ill have to ask.. but you can see it from town. Its the tallest hill on the ridge you can see from town. we find ourselves looking at it from time to time from town and just being so happy that we can head up there any time. awwww ;) one year on fourth of July we want to go up there and bbq on that spot (where we were shooting guns) cause you can see Coalinga from there. i bet the fireworks would be cool



See the Doe on the side of that hill? so cool. we think she had a fawn with her, because she was stopped there, but not looking at us,.. she waslooking ahead of her in that brush..so cool










Ry Lived up at the ranch until he was four. His mom kept buggin his dad to 'build these boys a tree house!' his dad didnt do it fast enough so she did it.. Ry said it was like a death trap. if you stepped in the middle you'd fall out! hahahah, i love how its still standing. you can see it from the house they used to live in.:)