4 Years Old and 6 Months!!

Wow!! My baby turned 4 years old on Monday and my new baby turned 6 months. Time seems to fly as an adult, but I remember it being really slow as a kid. Bobby and I celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary at the end of July, it's still hard to believe we've already been married for 5 years.

Kamry is so close to crawling it's scary. Right now we are in Ely, NV visiting family and by the time we get home I'm sure she'll be faster than a tornado. Everyday she gets a little closer to sitting by herself and crawling. She's such a happy baby and smiles all the time, we just love having her in our family. We have a check-up in mid-August, so I'll post how big she's gotten then.

Kamry sitting by herself! I had to snap it quick because she fell seconds after taking the photo.


Richie had a really fun day on his birthday. It took him a while to decide it was okay for it to be his birthday. He kept wanting it to be someone else's birthday. We had a pretty easy day. We had a barbeque at the park with lots of family and friends to share it with. The kids played at the park until dinner was ready. We rounded them up and got everyone served. Grandma Jones was getting Richie some watermelon and sat it on the table by me and we look around and Richie was sitting at a picnic table 50 feet away. Granpa Bennett went and sat by him, which Richie really liked. Richie is really into Thomas the Train, so Grandma Jones got him a Thomas birthday cake which he really loved. It took Richie several tries to finally blow out all of the candles, he just wouldn't get close enough to the cake for his blowing to work. He got a 2 new outfits, 2 new games, a puzzle, socks, bubbles, and tub toys. It was a really fun birthday and everyone enjoyed getting together for some fun. I've really missed living so close to family and have fun birthday get-togethers.

I never remember to get pictures of Bobby's side of the family, so this picture is proof that we do see them. Uncle Beau eating dinner at Richie's birthday.



Richie's cool Thomas Birthday Cake!!!

Richie with his presents and birthday cake.



One of Richie's presents was taking a train ride. In Ely they have a historic train that runs 2 routes and you get to hear the history of the area, it's really quite fun and informative. This year they are having a special where kids are free, so we only had to pay for my ticket. We went on August 3rd and there were only 4 people besides myself, Richie, and my nephew Jayden. The train has 2 indoor cars and 1 outdoor car. For most of the ride we sat indoors and the boys looked out the windows at the weeds and desert landscape. We went outside for 5 min. or so. We rode close to a town called McGill that is a 15 min. drive (30 min train ride) from Ely. On the way back to the train depot the conductor punched our tickets. For the boys he punched the first letter of their name. Somehow we got on the topic of it being Richie's birthday the day before, so after we got back to the train station the Engineer let us climb into the Engine and Richie got to pull the train whistle 4 times (1 for each year since he was born). It has been a great couple days!!!

Jayden and Richie in front of the Engine.



Jayden and Richie in the outdoor car on the train.