Dragons can be really nice

Jack is a dragon for Halloween. Since he is too little for the candy and I will just eat it myself, we won't be trick or treating. But we did take photos of his costume and took him to the ward trunk or treat. He is a mighty cute dragon if you ask us.

5 Months

Jack is 5 months old. What the what? He is a crazy good baby and so funny with his smiles and tricks. He is rolling all over like a master and got his first tooth just yesterday. I am just hoping he takes his sweet time with learning to crawl.

We love his little personality that shows more every day...even when those days are his "diva" days. Jack loves attention so if someone isn't looking at him, he will make it known that he wants attention. Then he will ham it up. Diva. My favorite is when he does his fake cough to get people's attention. If you have ever seen Zoolander, he totally does the black lung cough, cracks us right up. Jack, we love you buddy.

A Family Adventure

Lately, I feel like I spend a lot of time inside or running errands. So boring. Between working from home and keeping Jack entertained, I felt like we needed a family adventure to get out of the house doing something fun. So on Columbus Day (you know, one of those holidays that you only really celebrate when you work for the federal government...), we went to the National Arboretum. We have driven by several times and always said we would go there. We finally went and it is a great place, full of fun and beautiful nature type stuff. The bonsai tree exhibit is pretty dang awesome if you are ever in the area.

Jack loved the time outside and, especially, time with his daddy. This kid LOVES his daddy. He always has a smile for Ryan. I would be jealous but it just seriously makes me so happy to see these two together so I like it.

 Jack is too cute in this photo so I am just going to ignore my face in it. You should too.

We love DC so we need to have more Bessey Adventures to explore the places we always say we will go but haven't yet. Maybe on the next federal holiday that no one else gets off.

The Ragnar

Guess what, it's a post about someone other than Jack! He isn't going to be happy that the attention isn't on him...he is getting to be a bit of a diva so we are trying to straighten him out.

Ryan ran the Ragnar a couple of weeks ago and their team totally rocked it! The Ragnar was 197 miles total and they went from Cumberland, Maryland into National Harbor, which is just outside of DC. The Part-Time Models team came in 66th overall (out of 293 teams) and was a team of 12 guys. It was about 36 hours of straight guy time so I am sure that there are all sorts of inside jokes and stories that Ryan could share but I doubt I would think they were funny so I just asked how the race went and called it good. The wives and babes all went to National Harbor to meet the men and cheer them on as the team crossed the finish line. We are proud of you Ry!

 Ryan's van of dudes

 

 

 If you know Ryan, you know he loves blowing the conch shell.

I hate it. So naturally, it goes everywhere with him.

 Part-time Models

 

 

I love these friends of ours!

Jack and his girlfriend Izzy helped man the water table at the finish line.