May Update

Ok this is my (Ryan) first try in updating the blog. This update covers our exploits in May. We went to a National Park outside of Utrecht and went hiking. Alex also spent quite a bit of time playing with his buddy Noah.

So the partner I work with suggested we go to this park outside of Utrecht (a city about 45 minutes east of us). We made our way over there and went hiking with Alex. It ended up being a pretty long trip as we were not sure exactly where we are going but finally figured out to following a certain color signs and we ended up back by our car.

Here is a picture of the scenary from a top a 10 story wooden tower in the middle of the forest (yours truly got to hike up that and take the picture while Alex was napping in the stroller below) -

Alex had a good time in the forest - one of his favorite things was looking for bugs - Mommy was always around to make sure he did no harm to any of the bugs -

Here is Alex just wondering around the forest - the kid has no fear he would just take off without even looking back -



Here is sitting on what he called a "big stick"

So Alex got a little bored with nature and he went to the bubbles (one of his favorite things to do currently) -

Alex also got a little tired of walking and did not want to ride in the stroller so his favorite new thing is to ride on dad's shoulders. My shoulders can take it but when he starts wigglying around that 40 lbs is tough on my neck.

Here are some random pictures of Alex from May -

Alex really likes his fruit (bananas, apples, oranges, strawberries, grapes, just about anything) -

Alex and Mommy being cute -

Evidently Mommy gets bored sometimes and since Alex's hair has gotten a little long - she likes to see what it would be like to have a little girl -

Noah and Alex playing with their hard hats and golf clubs quite the combination

Noah's family actually has a back yard and it got pretty warm over here in May so we spent some time over there and let Alex play in the pool with Noah -

Alex and Noah decided to play a game in the pool with them falling down together - they were cracking themselves up.



Oh yea Carlye and I actually got a night off from chasing Alex around and had a nice dinner on our 9th anniversary.




Hope everyone is doing well.