More of Liam's Birthday pics...

As promised, here are more of Liam's birthday pics. he loved the ice cream cake that Ryan made from him. Of course his tummy didn't like it later....all the sugar gave him some "poop" issues....

Happy Birthday Liam!!!!

Here is our little bundle of joy on Friday 7/13/07



And here he is our walking monster 1 year later almost to the minute...



More Pics to come, but those of you that can't wait....check out the video of him walking. He does more walking than crawling these days!

You asked for it...

Ok, Ok, so I am way behind on my posts, but what else is new? The job is keeping me busy and Ryan has been pretty busy too, although he isn't in school anymore...hmmm...


Anyway, we went camping over 4th of July weekend. It was fun! The weather was good, not too hot, but no rain!!

Here is a pic of Tyler running around with his"light-saber" that Ryan made for him!

Liam had so much fun camping! I am not sure, which kid has more fun, Tyler or Liam!

Liam eating dirt!
Liam up against a fallen tree in the campsite!

Tyler by the Clackamas River, the river was WAY too cold!! But the dogs had fun and Tyler loved throwing rocks in the river!
Tyler in a hammock.
Tyler and Liam playing in the pool in the backyard.

All my handsome men after their haircuts!

Look!!! Tyler isn't crying!!!! He usually screams up a storm and it is pretty embarassing, but this time he promised that he wouldn't cry and he didn't!!

He almost cried, but he held it together!

Tyler wanted it sit in the motorcycle like his Uncle Mike!!

Look at that Handsome boy!

Liam loved to play with all the toys at the hair cut place!

Liam did great with his haircut! He didn't cry at all!!

CRAZY HAIR before the haircut!

Before!

Liam loves to play outside, he does a good job walking outside!

A couple of weeks ago, Ryan set up a tent outside and him and Tyler slept outside the entire night in the tent. Of course, Tyler didn't go to sleep until after 10pm, but he had so much fun!! Ryan is going to take him backpacking in a couple of weeks.

Ryan was testing out his new gear in the backyard!

Since Tyler has been so into dinosaurs, we are lucky that all the museums and the zoo have dinosaur exhibits....We took Ty and Liam to the zoo for the dinosaur exhibit and he wasn't sure what to make of it, the dinosaurs were very big and very loud!!! At the end of the dinosaur exhibit there was a slide and Tyler went down it about 10 times!!

The big T-Rex, it was a robotic T-Rex, so it moved pretty fast and made a very loud roar!! Tyler was pretty shocked until he got used to it!

Here is some cute video of Tyler and Liam sharing ice cream!

Video???

Ok, so I have messed around and messed around with this video...I know that I was able to rotate it once, but I can't figure out how to do it again....so just tilt your head to the left and ENJOY!!

The first video was taken about 1 month ago, the 2nd video is so cute and it was taken on Friday.

Jobs...jobs...jobs...change!!

Liam "posing for the camera"
More poses...what a ham!!!!

Tree-hugger!
Tyler is pretty hard to get a picture of these days, that kid is fast and doesn't sit still at all!!!


Tyler having fun at a party!!

Liam is almost a computer tech!
Liam liked the swing!!

Ok some random stuff! Of course, the big news was Ryan's graduation!! YEAH after 7 years, I don't think either of us really think he is done. It will be short lived because he is off to grad school soon!

Luckily Ryan got another job offer with Intel, right in his same area, just as a Engineer! So, unlike me he will be using his degree. He is just waiting on some details before all that is official, but if everything goes through, it will be a Monday-Friday 8-5 type job, so we might even be able to have a normal life.

With all the excitement with Ryan...I actually have had quite a bit of excitement with my career. I quit my job at Emerald Staffing after 5 1/2 years to accept an offer at Leonard Adams Insurance to be the Assistant to the Commercial Lines Manager. I am hoping it is a good career move for me. The company is bigger and it is a new industry! I will be doing all their Human Resources and general management there, of course that is all after I learn to speak insurance! I start my new job on Monday! So wish me luck!

My friend at work had a going away party for me on Friday, so alot of the above pics are from that! Tyler and Liam had so much fun!!

Ryan Graduated!!!

After 7 LONG years!! Ryan graduated on Friday! Of course it isn't "really" official yet because PSU mails the diploma's out (stupid-I know). But at least he went to the ceremony and his name was on the program as a graduate, so I am feeling pretty confident that he finished!

I tried to take some pictures but the lighting was horrible! You would think that for the commencement ceremony for the Electrical Engineering department that they would at least figure out how to use some lights, but I guess some things just aren't meant to be!

Enjoy the few pics and Congrats to RYAN!!!