Ryan, Rachel, Kate and baby Spencer

Before Kate was born Ryan wasn't interested in holding brand new babies, but now when we went to see baby Spencer he was the first one who volunteered to hold him. So it's crazy what having kids will do to you.

We were so lucky to be able to go and see baby Spencer (Samantha and Steven's new baby) right after he was born.

Jay and Jen moments

The Jay and Jen Wells family in front of their house while it was still being built.

This is when we went with Jay and Jen to the Bennion's cabin in Evenston Wyoming, and we were all hungry and ready to cook our tin foil dinners. so we finally got the coals ready and put our dinners on the fire, and then it started to rain and smoulder our precious hot coals. So Jay built a contraption of wood and whatever else he could find to protect the fire. We were all under the roof of the cabin getting out of the rain and hail but Jay wanted to save the fire so we could eat our dinners. This is a picture of him attempting to get out of the rain.

The LARGER Wells family collection of photos

Avery and Ryan with fire charcoal on his face

Here is the cutest picture of
Avery that Ryan took while
we were in New Mexico for
the 4th of July.

Kate's first birthday

Well Kate wasn't feeling very well on her first birthday due to allergies or something but once we got her cake in front of her she cheered up. It took her only a few minutes before she got the hang of it. She dug her hands in and smeared it on her face I think she even got some in her mouth but she seemed to have a fun time. then we gave her her first baby doll and after that it didn't matter what was going on she had to have that doll by her side. it was very cute.

first steps

You can't really tell in this picture but Kate was walking to me and I was trying to capture the moment of her first steps.

Add a little spice

Ryan and I were at 7-peaks and saw a guy with platinum white hair, he leaned over and said he wanted to do that for the summer while he wasn't teaching, so we did it that night.

If you didn't know, we thought or I guess I should say that I thought I was ready for a cat and we heard about munchkin cats that have little short legs like the weiner dogs. So we went to just look at them, but ended up with two. For the next week I started to realize that I'm not ready for animals in the house the fur, the smell and the meowing along with taking care of Kate was not something I wanted to deal with, anyway they're gone now but they sure were cute with their little legs.