TP Fun

Every child has their moment of fun when they escape their parents view and sneak into the bathroom and get a hold of the toilet paper!!!  Ryan was obviously no different!  This was at our Bellatrix House on Miramar.  He crawled quietly out of my sight and within a few minutes, or maybe seconds, he was out of toilet paper fun!  I found him as happy as could be feeling quite accomplished with his latest adventures!  March 2002 

Strummin' & Singin'

July 2005

The kids all wanted guitars one year...so Christmas arrived and guitars were found under the tree.  This is one of my favorite pictures of Ryan with his guitar.  It was summer 2005 on Okinawa at our Kishaba House.  He was just walking around after church one afternoon strummin' his own tune and singin' his own song....

HOURS To Do......Seconds To Destroy!

While living on the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, Ca. the entire neighborhood had worked for HOURS on Jorden's latest puzzle.  We had it in the garage and everyone just randomly worked on it for several weeks.....the sand....the blue....the shadow.....the house.....sooo much of it looked the exact same!  We were nearing the end!  I took a picture of Ed putting in the last piece! We were all excited at finishing it and talked about glueing it and framing it to hang in Jorden's room or the garage.....well.....while we were out in the front yard talking and doing whatever, Thing One and Thing Two got busy!  What had taken weeks to finish was one obliterated, sobbery mess in what seemed no time flat! Yes, there was drool on many of the puzzle pieces as we tried to gather them all together.  Those two little rascals had not only detroyed it but had thrown the itty bitty pieces EVERYWHERE!!!!  I think they even ate some pieces as there were some missing when we eventually put it back together again in a different military house, on a different military base, in a different country.....Okinawa 

The Finished Project

Ed putting in the last piece!

Thing One & Thing Two....GUILTY!!!

Teach Me Jorden, PLEASE!!!

While living on the little island of Okinaqa Ryan became quite aware of his big brothers skaeboarding abilities.  Ryan had wanted Big Brother Jorden to teach him how to skateboard from the time he saw Jorden jump the stairs.  He loves to watch how fast Jorden goes and how high he gets in the air!  He thinks the wipe outs are pretty cool too!  He wanted Jorden to show him how to jump in the air and flip his skateboard and land back on it.....Jorden did his best....

Jorden watching Ryan

Ryan Jumping!

Ryan thinking he did it!