Happy Birthday to my Ryann

Still hard to believe she is turning 5 today...where does the time go? She's growing up whether I want her to or not! This is her last full week of preschool, they go tomorrow (Friday) and Monday and then Wednesday they have a class picnic. I got the honor of making the teacher present this year (even though I'm not the parent coordinator!) I guess you could say I got recruited because I was more artsy than her and she didn't know what to do.

Ryann's such a fun kid, is always keeping us on our toes and a joy to be around (well most of the time!) There are times when she drives us up the wall and we have to double check and make sure it's not her blood sugar that's making her act out or if it's just her being her! I think that's pretty accurate for most kids though. Here are some of Ryann's favorites at the age of now 5!

Ryann at 5
Size (clothes) 5/6
Size (shoe) 11
Favorite food: salad
Favorite animal: doggy
Favotite colors: pink and purple
Favorite games to plays: starwars, princess and kitty cat game on the Wii
Favorite toy: bike
Favorite thing to do: play at a friend's house
Favotite places to go: Chuckee Cheese, Olive Garden and Red Robin
Favorite movies: Sleeping Beauty, Dalmations
Favorite TV shows: Wow, Wow Wubzy, Little Bear, Toot and Puddle, Mermaid

Anyways, these are just a few of her favorite things (can you hear that song from the Sound of Music?) So Happy Birthday my little peanut! Can't believe it's been 5 years since I was in the hospital having a c-section with you. We are so very lucky and blessed to have you in our lives. We love you very much.

We also want to wish Zach a very happy birthday as well (Zach is Ryann's cousin who gets to share this very special day with Ryann. They are one year apart. Makes it easy to remember birthdays when they get to share them!)

So Happy Birthday Ryann and Zach!

Ryann....

Ryann is now blogging!! Check her out!

http://ryannsmusings.blogspot.com/

Mother's Day Pictures

Okay...so they aren't exactly the pictures I wanted to get. Things were just crazy as usual on Sunday and with me being sick I just didn't get everyone organized (not to mention showered) in time for me to do anything. But I did get some fun pictures of the kids playing in the yard. My promised Mother's Day shoot as been postponed to later on in the week. I also noticed that the only pictures of Doogie I got were in the group shots...think he must of been in the house at the time. And the group shots aren't that great...they were too busy eating their popsicles to want to pose for me! Next time I'll have to hold out on the popsicles until they pose for me!

Happy Mother's Day and pictures from Game 9

Happy Mother's Day to all the Mom's and Grandma's out there! We won't be doing too much this year for Mother's Day, since I finally came down with this crud that seems to be going around. I did tell them that I want a photoshoot for my Mother's Day present where they all cooperate and look at the camera for me! LOL! Yeah...we'll see if that ever happens, but I can hope!

The kids had another baseball game yesterday and the weather was beautiful for it (the last few games had been rainy, windy and cold!) So it was nice to have that sun out and shining. I decided I had enough "batting" pictures and decided to move around the field and also get shots of the kids running down to first base. I love some of the expressions I caught as they were running (one of the kid's likes to stick out his tongue when he's running!)

So anyways, hopefully I'll be posting my Mother's Day photo shoot pictures soon (as long as everyone cooperates!) And we are wishing all of you a very Happy Mother's Day from the Crowes.

Busy, busy, busy...

Whew! I know I've been horrible at updating lately. It's getting towards the end of the school year which means for some reason everything starts kicking in high gear. I'm helping out with the school yearbook for Doogie and Jayde's school so that has been keeping me busy (and a tad stressed!), I'm also helping to do the end of the year teacher present for Ryann's class and lately it seems like I'm in someone's class helping out every day of the week! Thank goodness for grandparents who can watch the other kids for me during this time. Anyways, all the pictures I seem to be taking lately seem to be of baseball or school activities! So I need to start pulling my camera out for other things.

We've also been fighting off this darn cold that seems to be going around (no, it isn't swine flu!) Last week we were in the Dr.'s office almost every day with someone, including ER visits, Jaxon was in a couple times and then Jayde was in for her ear (she either ruptured her ear drum or had a really bad infection, she had pus coming out of her ear) either way they treat it the same way.

Last Monday, we were up in Spokane for Ryann's diabetes check up, which went fine and we also took an insulin pump class. Just one of the many hoops our insurance company makes us jump through to get a pump for her. We are hoping to get one by the time she goes to elementary school. Getting a pump would just make our lives (and of course Ryann's) so much more easier.

Ryann's birthday is coming up, and she is pretty excited about that. She checks the calendar everyday to check how many more days are left. I was going to do a family party the day of her birthday (a Thursday) but found out that Doogie has a music performance that night (and they also have baseball practice) so I think I will be doing it the weekend before her birthday since we (or atleast Doug and Ryann) are planning on going up to Seattle the weekend after her birthday to walk/run in a diabetes race. Ryann is pretty pumped about that and has been calling it her race! I might not be able to go because I got hired for a big photography job! I'm pretty excited about it! I originally turned it down because I knew we were going to Seattle, but Doug (being the great supportive husband he is) told me that I just couldn't pass up that opportunity and that he would take Ryann up to Seattle so that I could do this. So while I'm bummed about missing Ryann's diabetes race I'm also very excited (and nervous) about this oportunity and I also know that there will be many more diabetes races to do.

So anyways, nothing really super exciting happening. Just fighting off illnesses, playing baseball, going to school (the kids) and upcoming birthdays and photography jobs.

Seventh Baseball Game and Team and Individual Pictures

There won't be any pictures from game 8. I went for a while (it was raining out) but I was too busy chasing the three little ones around and didn't get an opportunity to take any pictures.

I took the oportunity to shoot some pictures along with the photographer who was taking the team and individual pictures. I think alot of them came out pretty well! Practice, practice, practice and eventually my photography business will get off the ground!

Fifth Baseball Game

There won't be any pictures from Game 6. We in Spokane for the day for Ryann's Diabetes check-up and also working on getting her a pump.