catching up

Check out Haylee's cute little sailor outfit...thanks Mimi! :)
We've been playing with our friend Harrison A LOT this summer! It's been so much fun. He's even gone to bed at our house for about half the night a few nights so the mommies could play and hang out!
We have a new helper in the kitchen. She thinks that the dishwasher is her new toy. I keep telling her that in a few years (okay, maybe longer than a few) I'll sit and watch HER do all the loading! hehe :)
She got her first tooth on July 2nd and then her second on the 13th. I finally got a picture of them this week....so here ya go! :)

Trying to walk

Haylee wants to walk SO bad! She has learned to walk with her walking toy....check out these two videos- the second one includes a funny fall! :)

Daddy's girl

In camo & in the truck.

Man's Best Friend

While in Florida, they had to put down our childhood dog, Shelly. Anyone who knew her knew what a GREAT dog she was! She was 17 or 18 years old....she had a LOOONG life for a dog, but we'll sure miss her!




Here are some old pictures of her that my mom and sister found, scanned in, and emailed to me:

And here is one that I took while we were in Florida....she always loved to sleep on the cold tile! :)

Trip to Florida, Part 4 - Final Post

We drove to Titusville to visit the rest of my family. Here is a small sampling of pictures I took there.

My Mimi cooked a WONDERFUL meal for us all!!


Aunt Jenny playing with Haylee.

Haylee LOVES lemons.

Dad & Haylee @ 15th Street Fisheries.
My cousin Deonny feeding Haylee.
My GREAT Grandma Strom (Haylee's GREAT GREAT Grandma Strom!) feeding Haylee.
Mimi has a picture of me looking out this door when I was little...pretty neat. :)

That is all for the Florida trip...we had great visits with everyone...and are ALMOST all caught up on sleep! :)

Trip to Florida - Part 3: the beach

We took Haylee to the beach for the first time! We all wore white b/c we (and by "we" I mean Kristin) wanted to take family pictures on the beach. But they all humored me and I thanked them later.

You can image what kind of looks we got as everyone else on the beach was wearing bathing suits and laying out and swimming....we looked odd. But I think the pictures turned out pretty decent! Here are a few of my favorites...

To my family (and anyone else who cares), you can view the rest of them on my photography website: www.kristinrayphotography.photoreflect.com - click on "family beach pictures" to the left, password is: haylee

How come no matter what beach you go to, you see something like this? :)

Trip to Florida - Part 2: Flamingo Gardens

My parents live in the Fort Lauderdale/Miami area. There is a zoo/gardens place down the road from their house called Flamingo Gardens. I had been there about 5 or 6 year ago when they first moved down there...so mom and I took Tommy and Haylee. Here are a TON (but only a small portion of the lot I took) of pictures.

We found the humor in the title of this tree, I hope that you do too. The 2nd picture shows how the roots grow and why it's called what it is.

Trip to Florida - Part 1

We just got back yesterday from Florida. I took over 200 pictures...so I'm going to post pictures in parts. This first post is just pictures from hanging out at my parent's house....

Tommy cooked us dinner one night...
Pappy & Nana playing with Haylee.

We went for a walk in their neighborhood to check out some ducks at the pond.

Pappy feeding Haylee.

Nana & Haylee in the pool.

Haylee & Mom in the pool.

Of course there were PLENTY of places for mini photo sessions....here is one of my favorites!

Haylee found it entertaining to climb into the dog's kennel...crazy kid.

Aunt Steph feeding Haylee.


Check back soon....more to come...

5th of July

On Saturday we drove to Houston to visit Grandpa Ray, Joy, Great Granny, and several uncles. We had a nice visit. Haylee got lots more playing time in.

Here's Haylee & Grandpa Ray playing.
My friend Jennifer got Haylee her first purse for Christmas...look at it on her shoulder...haha!
Haylee & Great Granny playing...

This picture is from Sunday on our drive home. She was in such a good mood the entire trip!

4th of July

We drove to Houston for the weekend to visit Tommy's family. We had a great time. Haylee got lots of play time with Bebe & Pawpaw, Kristin got to ride a four-wheeler for the first time (YES-The FIRST time!), we managed to squeeze about 45 minutes of swimming in )between ALL the rain...all day), and then we saw a beautiful rainbow.

Thanks to Nana for the adorable 4th of July dress!!










More weekend pictures to come.....