My Favorite Pictures

Miss M's first day of school
C.B. in the backyard
Big D playing with his food Miss M with her baby cousin
Big D enjoys his fruit
Big D with a Banana
C.B. washing his cares away
The whole gang at Banana's Baptism
Miss M and me at a Leader-Daughter weekend

Me and my dad at the St. Patrick's Day parade in Dogtown

Cute and Sweet

You might think I am on a food kick judging by these last two posts. Maybe I am, but I couldn't resist displaying this picture of the cake we had at my nephews' double baptism.

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The boys' moms (Terri and Debbie) and I worked on this together, and I think the team approach really paid off! Believe it or not, it even tasted pretty good under all that fondant icing.

Ice cream with a Banana

Sorry this took so long; but between problems with Blogger and my laptop on the fritz it's been a little hard to keep this going. Not to mention keeping up with school, scouts, church, and everything else that is life here at the Reddy Zoo. Anyway, I'll try to be better. Enjoy!!

Ice Cream!

Yummy!

Uh-Oh...that was a BIG bite

BRAIN FREEZE!!!

Insert raspberry noise here...

Lake Wappapello

Funny name...fun camping trip. We went with Uncle Dave and Aunt Tara for four days and had a blast. Here are some highlights:

C.B. looks pretty serious about fishing

Big D puts a fish back into the water

C.B. uses the FORCE on his brother

Yes...we actually brought lightsabers along on our camping trip.

The Banana with her Daddy

Aunt Tara with Miss M and C.B.

Uncle Dave & Aunt Tara found "Rocket" in the road.
Rocket was awesome in the turtle races.
He won every race but one. What a champion!
Aunt Tara with Banana
Miss M with the Lake Wappapello sunset in the background
Miss M and Dad drive the boat
Big D found a toad

Our bathing beauty, Banana

Welcome, Baby Luke!

The Reddy Zoo is proud to welcome it's newest nephew/cousin, Luke Michael. This little bundle of joy was brought into the world on June 6, looking a bit like a clone of his big brother. We are happy to have our seventh nephew and thirteenth cousin. We are awaiting the birth of one more cousin (boy) this summer and the adoption of two more boy cousins from Russia by next year's end. We LOVE our big family!!

Bathtime for Baby!

These are just a couple of cute pics of the Banana having a bath in the kitchen sink. She had a great time splashing water all over everywhere. She did get clean eventually.

So long for the summer to Sunday School

We closed out our FIFTH year of Sunday School this weekend with a wonderful last class and end-of-year picnic. All the kids were good listeners while Miss Joan read a story, they worked hard on their crafts and clapped for each other when special prizes were handed out at the end. Miss M, a Sunday School alum, was on hand to help the younger kids. The teachers expressed their gratitude to Miss (Aunt) Joan for all her hard work these past five years, since this is her last year. She helped make this one another great Sunday School year. C.B. is already looking forward to the next one when he will be old enough to go with Big D - yeah!

Our Boy is an Olympic Champion!

Big D had his last preschool class with Miss Anne today. It was a fun day where the kids got to be Olympic athletes for the day. They performed tricks on the mini-trampoline, guided a flying disc through a hoop, scored goals using hockey sticks, and even ran on old-fashioned foot race. All the children did such a good job they were given gold medals for their accomplishments. It was such a great day. We'll miss you, Miss Anne!

Not Quite American Idol

Miss M's School Picnic is this weekend, and they kicked off the celebration last night with a Talent Show. Some of the girls from Miss M's class got together and learned a dance which they performed with great enthusiasm. They had a great time and they looked pretty good up there on the stage, although our pictures didn't really turn out so well.