Ryan Christian Beck

Ryan was born at 8:15 a.m. on April 21, 2008. He weighed 8.10 lbs., had both testicles (this is actually important because Tal lost one to his abdomen for a couple of months!), and was 21 inches long. Sandy was a champ as always through the pregnancy, labor, and delivery. The lower half of her body was not completely numb as was expected. She ended up feeling a lot of the delivery, but she managed to "push" on through (sorry for the lame pun). Ryan has already figured out how to work his "fountain drink" with free refills if ya know what I mean! Finally we have a child that is the same blood type as Sandy, this will help protect against jaundice. Ry is nearly 12 hours old and is yet to drop a deuce or take a leak!

Zoo

Talan got bit by a turkey at the zoo and is showing his Mommy his ouwie. He survived and continued to feed all of the animals. Tal is fearless, he isn't afraid of any of the animals.

"Mommy shower"

Kim knew that I was wierd about having a baby shower since this is my 3rd child, so she and Summer threw me a surprise "mommy shower". The theme was "Pamper Me". What could be better than that? I got lots of amazing things that are going to be wonderful! Thank you to all my amazing friends!!!

Happy 30th Birthday Cutie!!!

I threw Spencer a surprise party for his birthday. It was so much fun! Mike was amazing and made enough marshmallow guns for each family! Everyone was going crazy with them. Spencer used it to blow out his candles. We had a lot of other activities planned, but nobody wanted to stop playing with the guns. There were marshmallows all over the park, which was super fun to clean-up, but it was worth it! It was also a hat party. Everyone had to bring a dish that went along with their hat. Everyone was really creative and made it super fun!

Hill Wagon/Mtn. Riding

The top picture is of Maddy showing off her "rockhopping" skills (never mind the foot in the lower right corner). The next two pictures are of us riding down this hill we found a week ago and had to go back for the photo opp. Maddy started out going slow down the hill, using her brakes almost the whole way, by the third time down she started pedaling at the top. She is going to be awesome at the adventure sports.

Girls (& Tal) Just Wanna Have Fu'un

Maddy has been asking to have a slumber party for quite some time now. Since she has become quite a good sleeper, we decided that she had earned it. These pictures show the sequence of events minus the movie "Enchanted." Between pizza and the movie, Maddy, Paris, Sydney, and Tal had a dance party, grooving out to Rhianna's Umbrella. It was a perfect night until it came to getting them to stop talking and stealing one another's pillow.