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Ryan and I flew up to Utah last week to be with my familia and we have been in heaven.
We have been moving lots of boxes into their new home and enjoying the gorgeous Utah weather while spending most of our time in their backyard.
Seriously beautiful. I love these mountains.

The only thing missing is my sweet husband who has prep courses and is studying like crazy. 
(so ready for this Bar to be over!)


Luckily he gets here in 2 days for the 4th weekend! 
and Ryan and I am MORE than ready to see him. Yayy!


Ryan is in heaven overload with all my siblings.
Combine my siblings with this little splash pad and he will never want to leave.
But seriously.

He could eat pizza and fruit all day every day every day.
Especially Bananas, apples, and watermelon.
Oh and yogurt. He's obsessed.

If I let him, he would have an ice cream cone every night.
Every time I pull the ice cream out of the freezer he says "mmmm mhmmm" and rubs his belly.
He knows what's up.


At 21 months Ryan knows his alphabet.
Mr. Smarty pants.
He has a hard time saying a few of the letters like H, J, and X.
But he recognizes all of them.
In Ryan's vocabulary the first letter (or first few letters) is/are usually silent ha.
Outside - "IDE"
House - "Ouse"
Hello - "ello"

I LOVE when he says his name.
He can't quite say his "R's" so he calls himself "Yayan"
When we pull up to our house he says "Yayan ouse"

He can dance like no ones business when he gets in "squat mode"
It's his signature move.
Squats to the beat with a little hand waving.


You can't get more "boy" than Ryan.
Outside- all day every day.
Rain or extreme heat, all he wants to do is be outside.
So we live in our swimsuits.

Tannest little 21 month old.
I'm one of those "sunscreen intense" moms, and this kid doesn't burn.
Seriously child.

He LOVES animals.
He still wont say what any animal is called he just does the sound.
Example if he wants his dog he says, "Mamma, Woof Woof, Pzzz" (Pzz= Please)


FAVORITE character- Elmo.
He calls him "melmo"
Every day he wakes up and the first thing he says is "Mamma, Melmo?"
(as if I forgot about turning it on in the morning)
We watch Sesame Street every morning for breakfast.


Just started saying NO and it's brought a whole new element to parenting.
~Awesome.
We are pretty strict with him, and "No" doesn't fly in our house,
but it's going to be a long process of learning for this kid.

However, he's a really good "please" and "thank you" sayer.
I won't give him anything without asking "what do you say Ryan?"

His favorite thing to say is "ohhh yaaaa"
Example "Ryan do you want to go swimming?" Ryan- "Ohhh yaaa"


He is the KING of motorized vehicles.
He has a slight obsession (Just like his dad)
Seriously ask him what any of them say.
The Dump Truck, the Digger, the Plane, the Moped, the Cruise Ship, the Speed boat, 
anything motorized he knows what it says.
**(I didn't even know they all had different noises, my husband teaches him, ha definitely not anything coming from me on the motors)


He has a blanket that he can't live without.
The other night Aaron and I tried to trick him in giving him the wrong blanket (in the dark) to see if he would sleep, HA talk about the worst idea ever.
We left the room and the high pitched piercing screaming followed.

Putting that blanket in the wash once a week is like DEATH for Ryan.
He sits by the dryer calling "bankie, bankie" and bawling until it finishes.
It's terrible.

He just started saying "aaamen" at the end of his nightly prayers
and it's the cutest thing ever.

LOVES to learn.
Loves his books.
Such a little sponge these days.
We try and work on a new word every day.
Today it was "KITE".
He has walked around the house this morning saying "ITE, ITE"

Other than the blankie tantrums, and occasional "not getting what he wants" tantrums,
he's the biggest sweetheart in the world.


21 months of a whole new kind of love.
Seriously.
This is my dad.
He's the coolest person ever.
I like to copy everything he does.


Mom says we are way too much alike for our own good.
She says I sneeze like him, (what the)
talk like him,
 make the same faces as him,
laugh like him,
fall asleep like he does,
share all the same obsessions he does, (like cars and balls)
and look just like him as a baby.


Sometimes my dad is crazy.
He does crazy things like throw me in the air (higher than I like) and scare me to death.




But no one makes me laugh like daddy does.
Every day I wait by the garage door for him to come home and when he walks in the door I jump on him.
We play with cars and trucks and balls.


Daddy is teaching me how to run fast like he does.
Mom says she hopes I can beat him in a sprint one day.




He says I'm his best bud,
and he's my hero.
So I have to be honest and tell you, there are 2 down sides to Dominican Republic.
It's about 199 percent humidity and there are 222 million mosquitoes.
No really, I thought Houston was humid but this puts Houston to the dust!
I did not bring a curling iron. The hair waved, and I gave up on the straightener.


Other than that the island is perfect.

Just be prepared with "OFF" mosquito spray and you will survive:)


So my mother-in-law and I took water aerobics from this guy.


 As soon as it started we wondered if this guy was serious.
Look at that face of his!?
Literally just a dance party in the pool.
We may have burned about 30 calories dancing and 100 calories from laughing so hard.


Then Aaron and I went on an adventure.


(Sorry for the kiss picture- the tour guide made us do it.;)


My sweet in-laws took the babe and we doom-buggied around the island.
There were a few times where I just closed my eyes and held on for dear life because it freaked me out to watch where we were going!


We stopped at these pretty pools in the jungle to swim.
I felt like we were on the bachelor.


So fun and so dirty.
My husband has no fear on this thing.


Can we talk about unlimited fruit from room service?


I would order fruit plates all day. 10 PM or 8 AM it didn't matter what time.


Just a little piece of heaven.
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