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.