Ruidoso, NM

This was the beautiful house we stay at in Ruidoso, New Mexico with all of my family. We had such a great time catching up and laughing!

This was our view from the deck on our last night there.

Max loving on his Dad before the horse race started. He enjoyed watching the long races because the horses were farther away. He wasn't real crazy about having the horses zoom right past him and fling dirt his direction.

Jase, Max and Jonathan got in the bathtub because Gram wanted a picture of all her boys in it. It was a little hard to get a 3 year old and a 1 year old to stay still long enough to get a good picture.

Max loved exploring around the house where we were staying. He especially loved all the rocks and sticks ( in his words, rockies and stickies).

Max had fun hanging out with Jonathan at the horse races! I think Jonathan won the most money...we teach them young in my family :)

I LOVE summer!!

We are having so much fun outside this summer! Max would stay out there ALL day if we would let him. He cries when it's time to come in and the only way we can actually get him even a little bit interested in coming in the house is to tell him he's taking a bath. He goes from the cool water outside to the warm water inside. I think we have a little fish :)

New Sandbox

Mamaw got Max a new sandbox! It's the same kind we had as a kid...a green turtle with a shell that's a lid. Max's favorite thing to do right now is to get in the pool and then go roll around in the sand. Did I mention that the sand is purple? Yes, Mamaw found purple sand and Max is loving every single piece of it!

New Pool

This is the pool Max started off with...a small pool just his size.

Dad was not satisfied with that pool so he had to get the very best pool Max could have. Of course we love the new improved one much better and we're enjoying our time together outside!

Help! I'm stuck!

I couldn't resist putting this picture up because it's priceless! Max has learned to take out these drawers and loves to take every single one of them out each day. He accidentally fell in one and he wasn't amused....he hasn't messed with the drawers since!

Max & Mickey

Max has been obsessed over Mickey lately so Joseph and I bought him some Mickey Mouse pajamas when we were at Target. I showed them to him last and he got SO excited! He ran all around the house screaming Mickey, Mickey, Mickey and he refused to put them down. Since he was so excited about the pajamas we decided it was time to go on an adventure to find a toy Mickey (we've been looking). We discovered there was a Disney store at the mall by our house so we packed up Max and his pajamas- he wasn't going anywhere without them. We picked out the perfect Mickey Mouse and Max has now turned in his pjs for the real deal. The pictures capture our fun Mickey adventure. I can't wait to take him to Disney World one day...I hope he still loves Mickey as much then!

Okie the Horse

While we were at Mamaw & Pawpaw's we went next door and met Okie the horse. Max loves animals and it's so fun to watch him learn about the world around him. He's learning to say all the names of the animals and it's so cute because he adds a long eeeeee at the end of everything. All day we heard horseeeee and duckyyyyy. So cute!