The Ridenours

Monday, June 16, 2008

Parades and more

Here's a cute picture of Hutch kissing his little sister Gwyneth.

He told me "mommy, we love Gwyneth. We love to take care of her!" He is such a nice brother

Gwyneth started eating cereal last week. She is starting to get the hang of it. She isn't as cereal-crazy as my boys were at first!

The other day, Gwyneth was crying and I laid her down on the floor because I had to do something quickly before I could feed her. I came back in five seconds later and she had turned over and was happy! It's like a carpet commercial.

Haydn got a slip and slide racing thing for his birthday. John got it out for the boys and they had a BLAST!!

This past weekend was Rockford Days, and Haydn was chosen from his t-ball team to be on the float. We went uptown with John's mom and Brent and Sharon to watch him. He was so excited!

Hutch fell asleep while waiting!

Gwyneth with Granny Sharon

Hutch was the only kid around, so for once he had no competition getting candy! Grandma Nancy helped him gather it up at a leisurely pace! He ended up with a HUGE HUGE HUGE pile!

Haydn claims he didn't even see us, although all of us were yelling and waving. They were so caught up in winging candy that they weren't even paying attention. It was hilarious. Haydn is the one in the green shirt about ready to fall off the wagon. I didn't get a good picture between laughing so hard and protecting Gwyneth from candy!

We went to the festival in the park and rode rides and ate dinner. John had a blast on the slide with Hutch, but I left my camera in the van, accidentally.

We headed back home for a fire and then over across the road to the school yard to watch the fireworks. They were very impressive for a community our size.

I was so exicted to take pictures of them, since my camera has a fireworks setting. I mean, how often do you get to actually use that setting?! Most of them were blurry, so obviously I need more practice. But I thought this one looked cool even though it was blurry.

After the show! And time for bed!!

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

We've had a couple of bad storms this past week. There have been at least 6 confirmed tornado touchdowns in Van Wert County. The other night after the first storm, we drove around the block and snapped some cool sky pictures. It was so unreal.

There was a full beautiful rainbow that was so close to us, I could NOT get the whole thing in the picture! The sky was SOOOO purple inside the rainbow. It was amazing. I've never seen such purple vibrant clouds.

The Sunset was so eerie. Pictures never do the sky justice!

Saturday was Charlene's graduation party! Congratulations Charley! She had such a nice party, and it was great to see everyone.

Lainey and Gwyneth Papa and Nana's "two girls"!

Hutch snagging a gatorade

Jacob and Haydn in the pool. This was nice since it was SO HOT!

We were glad to see Aunt Frances there. Of course, the kids wouldn't sit still!! (:

Gwyneth got to play with Aunt Connie (I don't know who had more fun!) And Aunt Connie got to put her to sleep!

A cute one of Tiff and Camdyn

The next day, Bobbie invited us over after church to eat up leftovers. It was also mom's birthday, so we gave her a "birthday cake"!!! It oddly resembled Charlene's cake the night before. Papa staging a kiss with Hutch!
Eric, overly-excited to have his picture taken!!!

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Good Luck Caleb!!

Our nephew Caleb (on the right) left last night for North Dakota for the summer (about 6 weeks?) to help his aunt Autumn and uncle Nathan on their farm. We are so excited for him, and know that he will have a great time. But-we still will miss him ): Caleb- you are a great young man, and have a super time! We'll see you soon! We had a little going away party for him Monday night, but I forgot my camera. This picture is from Mother's Day (with Camdyn).

Last night when he left, Haydn WAILED for about half an hour, poor kid. He really thinks the world of Caleb, and doesn't really have a good concept of time. To him, it seems like he'll be gone Forever! To cheer him and Elliott up, we had Elliott over to spend the night tonight.

The two of them hamming it up!

After supper, we broke out a juicy watermelon on the front porch!

Digging in!

They had a really fun and busy night running running running around! Notice that there's no Hutch? He crashed out early, and missed out on the watermelon!

Little Miss Ma'am, and The Hair!

Oh, and now there are two eggs! (there were three, but now one's missing?!)

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Robin's Egg Blue

I have hanging baskets on our front porch, and we noticed this morning that there was a nest in one of them!! We checked, but it was empty. After running some errands today, we came home this evening and checked it out. Yep!! There is an egg!! Haydn wanted to get a better glimpse of it, so I just stuck my camera up in the air and snapped a shot. I intended on erasing it, but it looked so neat! It will be exciting to watch what happens.

While we were outside this morning, I thought I'd take a couple of the kids (while they were actually clean, which doesn't last very long!) Haydn was very cooperative. Thank you, Haydn.

Hutch, on the other hand, was not into pictures. I've learned that he isn't into pictures very often. Here is the best one of the two of them, and FORGET any alone! He covered his face and was out of there.

You can't tell very well, but Hutch has a skinned nose. He did a Petie on the blacktop at the ballpark last night while we were watching John's softball game, and Ouch!

...and Miss Gwyneth, getting sleepy before bedtime.

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Doing boy things!

While Gwyneth and I were hanging out and taking pictures of flowers, (: the boys were outside doing garage things. John came in and asked for the camera, and this is what he came back with!

This is John's "project"! Sometime I'll post what it looked like (well actually the TWO trucks) when he got it! It has a long way to go, but it's definitely come a long way already!