Easter, Winter in May, and Miss B turns 2 :)

One of the things I'm reminded on a daily basis, is how truly blessed we are! These pics show it for sure!

He worked as a great spot for hiding eggs :)

Since Ross was sick, Miss B hunted for eggs in her  "jamas" :)

Enjoyin' her Easter Basket treats w/ Nini :)

Yes, this was what she had to wear in May!

But it's never too cold for his annual hair cut, especially when it's this long :)

She loves to play basketball!

Time at the zoo, just like daddy promised :)

She loves them...daddy and lions ;)

A few pre-birthday party gifts :)

She's one cute 2-year-old :)

Sportin' some of her gifts...she just couldn't wait :)

B's birthday cake made by Deb, from Ross' work...turned out awesome!!

I think Tank enjoys having Jack around ;)

Love having our family and friends over!!

Crazy how interested she became in opening gifts over a years time ;)

Kypton...so handsome :)

Sager...love him....

Jack playing with the cousins...so fun!

Shaye Shaye and her beautiful baby blues :)

Pics :)

As I'm sitting here waiting for Ross to come out of shoulder surgery, I thought I would upload pics that I have had on our computer for a little while now of Blakes and what has been going on at our house. :)

B and I had the awesome privilege of being the witnesses at the signing of our great friends' marriage license! Pretty excited for 03/30/13!!!!

She has fallen in love with her Bitty Baby all over again!

She melts my heart..... :)

The morning of Baby #2's ultrasound...she's pretty proud of her "big sister" shirt :)

Sledding for the first time with dad....not so sure what she thinks?

Outside of our house

2nd snow and much for comfortable sledding with dada :)

Her face says it all :)

again...just look at the face :)

Happy Easter "a little" early :)

This year the Rethmeier family wanted to celebrate Easter/decorate eggs a little early and here's why....

What is coloring Easter eggs without having a few chocolate chip cookies??

Excited for the night :)

Laughing at Dada for eating off the mixers :)

This egg coloring stuff is serious business!

Do y'all know why we wanted to color eggs early yet?? :)

Besides being extremely thankful for Jesus returning to this earth, we have some good news to share and no, not that good news (silly, Christians...) Although similar, we are celebrating the birth of our second child not the death and resurrection of a savior. If you would like to know the gender, name or both, we will take the highest bidder. The reserve set at $1000. Auction ends July 5, 2013. If you would like to  purchase the name or gender or both please contact Ross. Tuesdays only 5:46-5:47 pm via text. (Can y'all tell who was writing the last few sentences? ;))

Baby Reth #2 :)

Looks alot like his/her sister :)

Can't wait to meet him/her July 6!!! :)

November :)

We have had an awesome start to November by celebrating birthdays, being with our family and friends, and enjoying Dada's (Ross's) creative inventions! :) Since Ross had Veteran's Day off, which also happened to be his birthday, he and Blakely spent the day together just playing. :) As much as I wanted to be with them, I think they both enjoyed the daddy/daughter time! Here are some pics of what we've been upto and how God has blessed us! :)

I come back from loading the washer and this is what I see....she carried the computer to her table and started "typing"....hmmm..maybe we're on the computer too much?? ;)

Dada took all of the pillows and "invented" our very one jumping house :)

jumping beans  :)

After a long morning of jumping, she needed a break ;)

Letting Clinton read to her :)

Griffin enjoying the rocking horse!

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Blakely eating her lunch in a "big girl" chair :)

Papa pulling Shaye in our mini Radio Flyer :)

All of the cousins jumping on/off the ottoman :)

Shaye mastering the walker!

Sage :)

Dada's transformation of the diaper box and jump rope :)

B wanting to pull herself in her new "toy"

Cousins enjoying a snack at Uncle Ross's birthday party :)

Happy Halloween 2012!

Sickness has taken over our house, so we were unable to do alot for Halloween this year. However, I really enjoyed making B's costume (something I was able to do while resting and fighting off an upper respiratory infection ;) ) and my parents stopped by on Beggar's night to help pass out candy with Ross and Blakes.


Earlier in the week we also had another visitor stop by our back door...our very friendly yet somewhat intimidating neighbor's St. Bernard, Paige. :)

Hope everyone's having a great start to November! What a great time to think about all our blessings! So thankful for sooo many things! :)

She's so sweet...makes our house seem a little smaller tho!

Blakely trying to boss Paige around like she does Tank...didn't work so well ;)

After a long day...Blakes and I came home to freshly cooked Papa Murphy's pizza from Ross! So thankful for him!

Should have known my daughter who hates hats woud not want to wear the Minnie ears I made her...

B picked up on Nini holding the ears over her head ;)

Love them...almost as much as Blakely loves her Minnie doll her Granddaddy got her :)

here's a pic of her costume with out her in it :)