Hey Everyone! So I did keep a blog with Benjamin but since he was around eight months old I have not invested as much time. But thanks to some awesome sister-in-laws who keep blogs with their families, I've been very inspired to start keeping one again for our little family. As far as an update for our family, here we go :-) Cody has been working construction this summer. He's amazing and has been working so hard. On Monday he starts his first day of school at University of Western States!!! We are SOOO excited :-) We're finally starting that last stage of school before Cody can start his career as Dr. Leder. Woot Woot! I am so proud of him. Today we went and got him a fold down/portable adjustment table that we found for really cheap. It's awesome and it got us even more excited for him to start school.
        Our Benjamin is doing great. He is growing up more and more every day. His latest and greatest is that we've been learning about each of the planets and what order that they go in. His favorite so far is Saturn. Every time we go outside, day or night, he'll look at the sky and say "Saturn?" and then he'll shake his head and say "No, no Saturn." It's so funny and cracks us up every time. He's definitely obsessed with anything having to do with the sky or things that belong in the sky. The Moon (especially the Moon), the Sun, airplanes, birdies, clouds, stars, and now he's into all of the awesome planets. He's getting a lot better at speaking in full sentences, carrying on conversations, and telling us that he loves us :-)
            Our Beautiful Smiley Rylee is doing great. She is such a sweet spirited and funny little baby. She has been learning to walk these last two weeks and she's doing great so far. She keeps falling down and getting bumps and bruises :-( but she's getting better and she's definitely on her way to getting around better. She LOVES to eat. She's such a bottomless pit when it comes to food. She'll be eleven months old in four days and it's crazy to think that she's almost a year old. So far she says Mama, Dada, Ben, duck, num num, and ball. She is so funny. She watches Ben vroom his cars around all day long, and she loves to play with cars too, so this week she started making car noises too. The only thing is that the noise she makes sound more like a tooting sound than a car driving :-) She poofs up her cheeks, squints her eyes, and makes the cars fly while making that noise. It is sooo funny. We laugh so hard every time she does it. She also is learning to climb the stairs and up till this point she hasn't really gotten into trouble for anything, but now when she starts climbing the stairs we'll say "Rylee, no no, whatcha doin sis?" and she gets this adorable, little mischievous grin on her face, cracks up, and starts climbing the stairs again. When we ask her what she's doing again she slides down the stairs and it starts all over again. It's so fun to see her growing, getting to know who she is, and to see more and more her cute little personality surfacing. We love our Rye Rye :-)
        Well this week we are headed to the Coast :-) It is the first time we're going camping as the four of us so we are SUPER excited. It should be a blast and I'll be posting tons of pictures so check back soon and I'll have some cute babies for you to see :-)