It's been too long

I have seriously neglected photographing my child since July. Things have just been more than busy with work and soccer. I do have to say I am SOOOOOO proud of my girls (the U-14 girls team that I coach) because we have been to two tournaments in the past three weekends and we have won both of them. Thunder Road, was in Auburn, Al two weeks ago and they swept the whole tournament with a seat clenching 3-2 score in the finals. The second tournament was this weekend in Atlanta, The Atlanta Cup. It was a long weekend, but well worth it, the girls placed 1st in one of the most competitive tournaments in the South. I do not have a picture of that because the finals were this morning, but let's just say the smiles were a beaming! I am just so proud of these girls, they are a crazy bunch, but really fun to be around. I love to catch little parts of their conversations, because they are so similar to those I used to have when I was their age. I love that they are creating memories they will hopefully hold on to forever.
SO, with all of this awesome soccer, my photographer abilities are incapacitated by the end of the day. So I MADE myself get out the camera last week to capture the life that is Ryan Lily. We went outside to play in the rain, ate spaghetti, and learned a new trick...

I love this picture

Trying to do the splits

Flirting with the camera, her hair is not normally this curly- it was the humidity
Daddy showing her how to do a trick

Trying it together

Mastered it!
This is how dinner time looks every night. We are so proud of our non-begging dogs.
She really does try to use the fork, but this is usually how it turns out

Loving dinner time

This is a look we get quite often when we tell her to sit down in the tub

And this is the look she gives us when she decides not to listen...oh well she'll learn one day!