"Congratulations [Ryan], it's a...squid."
Actually, the sonographer is 85% sure he's a boy; he wasn't the most cooperative during his photo shoot, but there is (I feel in my expert opinion) enough evidence to support the high probability of a baby brother for Reese.

(The top of his head is to the upper left of the picture and he is in the V pilates position with his feet to the the upper right corner of the picture).

Reese making the Yates face.

Reese's Valentine

Reese wanted to surprise his girl (Annaliese Coates) on Valentine's Day.

He's either nervous or rethinking this Valentine thing.

I know I'm biased, but is this not the cutest thing? (Don't worry it's just a ring pop).

Happy Day Valentine!

There were more cooperative pictures of this group, but this one's my favorite.

We celebrated Valentine's Day early since Ryan was gone. My boys took me to The Cheesecake Factory. It was delicious of course. Reese even let me have some of his Strawberry Shortcake. We then went to Barnes and Noble to look at books, but I think we mostly just read Reese books that he already has at home. He would get really excited about those books.

Happy Day Valentine...I love you the most!

Happy New Year

What better way to kick off the new year than to watch Texas Tech win a bowl game! Ryan and my mom were out of town so we watched the game with my dad; by the time we got over there he had lunch made - chips and salsa, popcorn, and coke. Total Yates Lunch, we loved it.

We also started off the new year by going back to Arizona for fun and to see the new baby. Reese is kissing Madeline.

Emet and Reese riding in an electric Lightning McQueen. They were so cute until a series of unfortunate events took place and the two boys got wedged in the car so they couldn't get out, alone in the dark, hanging half off the curb. It was really funny but sad to see these two little boys crying so hard because it was kind of scary; they were out there for a while...oops!

In-N-Out Burger.

Gracie always looks something like this. She's pretty tough like a tomboy, but always has bling and jewelry on. We came up with a new nickname - Tough Sparkle Cookie.

Christmas Day

Christmas Morning. Reese is pretty easy to shop for, he loves balloons and Spongebob. We probably could have ended it all right then.

The cats are always eager to help open stockings.

Reese received an awesome flight jacket (with real Air Force patches on it from Poppy) and a plane you take apart and put back together with power tools from Poppy and Gmom.

Smed and I wrote a book for Grandmom and Grandpop for Christmas and this really is a look of enjoyment from Grandmom; believe it or not.

We also did a Chinese gift exchange this year with all the extended relatives and my dad actually stole this cake plate from someone to keep for himself. I was the one that brought the cake plate and had I known it was going to be that easy to shop for him, a lot of anguish could have been spared.

This picture just cracks me up; is it a glimpse of a far off future? Reese on his ride telling Annaliese what to get at the grocery store? Or is she taking out of the basket what he put in?

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve at the Guthrie's was fun. We finally had all the cousins together to get a picture. Avery is holding Reese, her brother Benjamin is in the middle and Rhett is on the end. Benjamin kept making faces for all the pictures, which didn't go over so well with G.G. (Grandma Guthrie) but it made for some funny pictures later.

Avery felt it her duty to help Reese to every snack in the house, which he was grateful for; this is the lemon tart. Avery was really sweet with Reese and wanted to make sure he was taken care of.

G.G. and Pappa found the best gift for Reese, this horse, which has been a huge hit!

All the Guthries together.

Christmas Events

Reese decorating his own Christmas Tree with Star Wars ornaments.

The infamous cookie day and it's aftermath.

So our Guthrie family tradition is to go look at Christmas Lights and this year we went to Macaroni Grill before hand...this is why we can't take Reese anywhere nice. I would like to say the eating of the bread with a knife and the red bell peppers in the hair happened while we were not paying attention...but I can't.

This is how Reese looked at the lights, it was really fun until he wanted to climb out of the sun roof, so we called it a night.

Getting excited about Christmas!

Thanksgiving in Phoenix

Shopping with Evi and Zoe at Target.

So we went to a train park in Scottsdale for Gracie and Emet's combined birthday party. Gracie was more entertaining eating her cake than Emet since it was her 1st Birthday. We did a lot of playing and watching the train circle around the park (which was Reese's favorite part) and I guess we just wore Reese out because while we were standing in line for the train, this happened...

He missed the whole train ride and then some.


Reese managed to find the only marker without a cap.

Emet, Evi, and Zoe were tired of an undecorated tree, so they took matters into their own hands, and of course their parents were gone, so I let them.

(Those are kitchen toys a.k.a. ornaments).

Evi was helping Reese ride the tricycle, but fast forward 10 minutes and Reese thought he could do it on his own. I come outside to a crying toddler with a brown face with a streak of tears rolling down one cheek and a bruise on his forehead; he some how managed to end up face down under the trike. (Note: stream of tears below).

And of course, our obligatory stop at In-N-Out Burger.