Fun at the Park!

After a week of both Reed and I feeling crummy, I decided to take advantage of feeling better, and the beautiful day today! I had too many great pics not to share them with you! SO enjoy!


I will make a slide show to give you a good visual of Reed crawling back up that red slide!! It was so fun to go to the park with him, and I can't wait to do it more this summer!!

Check out my Slide Show!

Jacksonville Visit

This past weekend Ryan, Reed and I traveled to Jacksonville. We spent part of Friday, all of Saturday, and part of Sunday there. Saturday was spent preparing for one of my best friends bridal shower ( the purpose of the trip). We had a great time reminiscing, catching up and just hanging out. I don't have any pictures of the shower - but it was a memorable event!

Our good friends Max and Kathleen, and their son Jackson also came to Jacksonville for the shower. We had a great time hanging out with them and watching the boys play together. Jackson is about 2 months older than Reed and has a good 5-6 lbs on him. At this age, most of you know, 5-6 lbs is ALOT!! Nevertheless, the 2 had a good time playing together:

Reed had to stand up for himself! ;)

Pretty cute. You can tell that they will be friends. ;)

While in Jacksonville we also heard some very exciting news. My college roommate, and one of my best friends, is PREGNANT!! She got married in October - and is expecting the little one in Novemeber! We can't wait to meet the little Incinelli! Congrats Christy and Jared!!

Happy Easter - A little late

We had a great day celebrating our risen Savior! Here are just a few pics of our day!

Fun Pictures

Here are a few more fun pictures Joan took a few weeks ago:

Although he looks terrified, really he is quite happy! This is the face that goes along with a very recognizable scream/song!

This is just a sweet toothy smile to counter the scary pic above!

Enjoy!!

Catching up

OK, so it seems that our technical problems are over! Keep you fingers crossed! I have put a bunch of pictures up to try to bring you up to date on what has been going on in this Dender house.

Reed love his Leo!! Oh, and he loved chewing on his "nose sucker"! Lol! Most of you know that you will do whatever it takes to make your baby happy! And if that means letting him chew on a seriously cleaned "nose sucker" so be it!!

This is from our visit to South Carolina. In the middle of January Ryan, Reed and I traveled up to Charleston to visit some good friends of ours. The trip happened to fall on the same weekend that Reed's 2 bottom teeth decided to finally grace us with their presence. ( Now he has 4 teeth, 2 top and 2 bottom) As exciting as that was, it made for some long nights. Nevertheless we have a great time, and Reed and Jackson seemed to have fun as well!

In the beginning of February Ryan and Reed were both baptized. This was such a special day for our family. Ryan was able to publicly say that he had given over Lordship of his life to his savior Jesus Christ, and as a family we were able to proclaim before God and our congregation that we recognize that Reed is a gift from God, and that we will raise recognizing this daily! Although I have not received any of the pictures from the baptism ( because I was on stage with them - therefore not the one taking the pictures), the picture above is from the same day as the baptism. It reminded me of Risky Business, so I thought I would share it anyways!

This one is just a cute picture of Father and Son around the house!

And one more of our precious happy baby!

I hope this finds you all doing well! I will try to post a VIDEO (Oh BoY) soon of Reed crawling around, and pulling up and such! Glad to be back in the blogging world, and hope to post more often!

It's Amazing!!

It Works!!!! After almost 2 months of technical troubles I finally am able to upload this picture. I don't know what is different about this one...but who cares! I am still not able to upload some others, so maybe it has something to do with our camera?! Above is our little man "hammin'" it up for our close friend Joan! ( I guess the blog likes her camera?) Anyways, he has such a great personality, and LOVES people. He constantly flirts with all the ladies we come across, and is always getting the attention back from them that he wants!

Reed is now eating baby food, at least twice a day. His favorites are applesauce and sweet potatoes..and definitley HATES bananas!!

He has 4 teeth now, two bottom and two top! Hopefully he will go back to sleeping through the night because it seems that those pesky little teeth have been waking him up quite often for the last 2 1/2 months!!

He is also crawling around, and getting into plenty of trouble. He loves Leo (our dog) and loves to play in his bowls! YUCK!

Reed also recently moved up to a big boy bathtub, and seems to enjoy bathtime!!

Well, I wish I could put some more pics up...this is getting frustrating!! I will try again later!!

In the mean time, you can be praying for our family, and our lack of sleep! ;)