Wedding

 Todd's cousin was married this past weekend in Friday Harbor on the San Juan Islands.  We had to drive an hour and a half to get to the ferry then an hour on the ferry to just get there.  It was beautiful out there but I don't like being stuck on an island relying on the ferry as your only way off!  The wedding was a fairy tale garden wedding.  It was so fun to visit with Todd's uncle Bill and his family again.  I decided to try to get a good photo of Bryant to hang on the wall by the girl's Eight year old baptism photos.  I think I got some good ones.  He doesn't last long so we just kept walking around to find a good place for pictures and he was a good sport until the end!

 Sydney loves her daddy! 

 The kids were sitting on the back of the car getting ready to change their clothes and fell in, too funny!  Taylor was the Tate-sitter!  She saved the wedding for Cousin Shannon!  Look at those runner thighs and bum, goodness!

Pinewood Derby 2013

 First time ever to scouts, because of baseball games on the same night, just happened to be Pinewood Derby!  Bryant worked on design and cutting with his dad and then he painted his car all by himself!  Purple, blue and green! 

 This is too funny!  Can you tell this was his first time ever to participate in a flag ceremony?  Ha ha, he is saluting at who knows what, not the flag!  Below he is just chilling while waiting for the races to begin.

 His car just kept winning, he was loving it!  Here he is with the winners, he took third place and was all smiles!  What a great fun introduction into cub scouts!  The next time he was able to make it a police detective came and took them through a staged crime scene!  

First year of kid pitch 2013

 I have to say the kids have improved so much over the season.  At first almost everyone walked and pitches were wild.  When Bryant is bored he practices his pitching stance, he is actually an okay pitcher too.

 This year his father has umpired a lot of his games and Bryant enjoys this.  Todd is a very vocal ump, watch out on strike three- you will definitely know you are out!  He makes a lot of kids cry, so sad...  he loves it though.

100 meter race

Poor Taylor has been suffering from chondro malacia, which is runner's knee.  Her knee cap moves slightly to the side when she runs which causes inflamation and pain under her knee cap.  She is supposed to be icing, taking ibuproferin and wearing a knee sleave to help it.  She won't wear the knee sleave because she doesn't like it...  I guess she'll never know if it helps or not then!

Second 8th Birthday Party!

 Second 8th Birthday party!  All three sets of Grandparents were here except Papa, who was home with bad back pain.  Aunt Kacie and her kids drove 14 hours to be with us too, crazy!  Aunt Sherry and Uncle Ben were here too.

 This is after the baptism, I didn't get any photos of them in their white clothing as we arrived right before it started and Todd and Bryant were already in the chapel sitting up front... darn.  Then they rush into the font so fast I missed them again.  Oh well.  The photos below were so funny as he didn't want his photo taken anymore and by the time we got the one with Aunt Sherry, he was so done! Ha ha!

 Grandma & Grandpa Ryan

 Grandma & Grandma Jensen

 Nana & Aunt Louise minus Papa

 Aunt Sherry

 box one

 box two

 box three

 box four

 box five

 box six

 and inside the final box was Bryant's new Scriptures from Gpa & Gma Ryan!  So fun, he had a blast opening each and ever box!

First 8th Birthday Party

 We are so fortunate to have some really great friends here in Renton.  The Allen family came over to celebrate Bryant's eighth birthday with us.  We had chicken drumsticks, mini corndogs, a couple of salads and a vanilla cake and icecream per the birthday boy's request.  It was my first cake I ever made from scratch and it was good, more dense, but still good.  Everyone ate it so it must not have been that bad...

 The boys playing Lego Star Wars, that is all Bry is into lately!

 My friend did something really fun for the gift.  There were eight gifts in the bag all tied together on ribbon and you took out the first one and saw it then tugged on the ribbon to bring out the next gift until the end!  All the boys checking out the big Lego Star Wars set from Mom and Dad.  Dad had fun putting it together "with" Bryant. 

 This is a typical scene as of late.  The kids are on spring break and we are watching a lot of Star Wars movies, like all of them over and over again...while playing with lego!  Happy Birthday Bryant!

Basketball fun!

This year Bryant wanted to play basketball so badly!  He had a great coach and super nice boys on his team.  I would say he learned a lot playing and had too much fun.  He always had a smile on his face!

 Nice D Bry!

 At least Coach was looking...