Grandma's Tahoe Photo Shoot

For as long as I can remember, Grandma has dreamed of having a photoshoot of all her granddaughters in white dresses running through the woods with crowns on their heads. We got pretty close in Tahoe this summer.

Cousin Sydney blowing bubbls. Wyatt chasing Ian. Tanner holding Lincoln. The girl cousins are so beautiful!

And the boys in their retro white T-shirts aren't too shabby. Ryan was in heaven!

Props and thanks to Aunt Kathryn for another amazing job on the photography!

Getting a Handle on Daddy...

Friday nights often consist of walks and dancing at Lake Sumter Landing.
And puppies! Everywhere, puppies. Wyatt especially loves this.

Ryan has dicovered she needs no stroller for this event.

Daddy's more fun. And he has built in handles, like the passenger seat of a car!

(Check out his weird looking ears in the bottom pic.)

Other than ocassionally encountering a territorial, gerriatric line dance group

(true story) we always have a great fun.

Random Family Stuff...

After dropping Atticus off to school I was walking through the garage and saw this:It made me think of some other fun pictures from the past few weeks.

Yippee...Ryan is finally almost 15 pounds!

(As verified by our favorite Winn Dixie greengrocer, Gene.)

I found this random shot on my camera. I thought Atticus did a pretty great job of capturing our obsessions simultaneously: Atticus's transformers, my keyboard, and Wyatt's 2 favorite books.

A few Saturdays ago Atticus did some accessorizing. He used boxers, briefs, AND boxer-briefs...So diplomatic.

Safety first for Ryan at Lowe's.

I'll take naked-vacuumer over naked-napper any day.

Family Olympics, Summer 2008

All eyes were on Florida last night as "Family Olympics, 2008 - Wildwood" kicked off at Boone stadium. The opening events were simply the beginning of a 2-week celebration of culture and competition some call...the Summer Olympics.

The players: Atticus Jonah, Gabriel Wyatt, Ryan Sierra

The Officials: Daddy and Mommy

Atticus rocked the standing long jump with a whopping 52".
But it was Ryan who took the gold when height to jump ratio was considered.

Turns out white girls CAN jump!

Some groupies joined up part way through.

Reagan MacKenzie and Samantha Lee were tremendous assets to Team Boone.

The sprint was the favorite event of all five athletes.
The girls especially loved that the finish tape was hot pink.

NBC news crew scheduled to record the games were held up with flat tires.

Luckily we had out little digital camera.

(It reminds Paris of the old silent movies.)

The pole climbing event was harrowing.

And, of course, tree swinging.

Wyatt got perfect 10's.

The invasion of two monkeys into Olympic Stadium was something all in attendance are sure to remember for the rest of their lives.

We can only hope the Olympians in China have as good a time as we did.

(Doubtful.)

The First Supper...

After showing absolutely NO interest in baby cereals we finally got Ryan's attention with butternut squash. We think the part where she sucks her thumb is particularly cute.

Everywhere we go people comment on how cute her thumb-sucking is.

Between that and those baby blues she steals the show!

5 Months, and life's Good!

Ryan is thoroughly delightful lately. It's hard to imagine she's the same girl who was colicky for awhile. This clip is a great depiction of her general demeanor.

Thinking on her Feet...

Ryan is enchanted by her feet lately.

It might be these ADORABLE flip flops. (Just what is it about baby shoes that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside anyway?)

Or the fact that when I put her into her sling she folds up with her feet up to her chin.

Or maybe she's just bored.

Whatever the reason, I'm grateful. When we found ourselves at the water park with no pacifier she got resourceful. Look closely...that's her TOE she's gumming.

She was so popular, too. Everywhere we went peoplesaid, "Oh, look at those beautiful eyes! She's so perfect. So beautiful." I agree.