The newest member of the No Cavities Club!

Lauren went to the dentist today! She was very brave and so was the dentist. She chipped a tooth in the front and we wanted to get it checked out. It turned out to be no big deal. Everyone at the office fell in love with Lauren but I can not say the feelings were mutual. The good news is that Lauren is now a member of the No Cavities Club. Her name is now entered in to a drawing for a Toys R Us gift card. She also got a new toothbrush, dental floss (not sure about that one) and two new toys that she got to pick out. All in all it wasn't that bad.

Lauren got a sticker for being so brave and so did Abby!

Josephine Rose Reed

We are excited to welcome the newest Reed girl into our family. Our sweet niece Josie was born on July 30th and she definitely lives up to the cuteness that her sister and cousin have well established as a Reed girl trait. We think she is going to look a lot like her sister, lucky girl, except with darker hair. God has really grown our family and we feel so blessed. What an amazing gift we have to get to watch these little ones grow up. We can't wait!




Josie Rose

Scott with all the Reed girls
What a hand full!

Uncle Scott with his two nieces

Aunt Heather with sweet Josie

Big cousin Lauren giving Josie kisses on her feet

This is how Lauren rolls

Lauren has her own set of wheels and we could settle for nothing less then the little tykes coup in pink, of course. Actually I got this car at a garage sale and I literally almost wrecked my car trying to get out and grab it. Anyway Lauren absolutely loves it. She hops in the driver's seat, closes the door, waves, and then says," bye-bye, I love you"! It makes me smile every time. Oh and as a bonus, the horn plays twinkle twinkle little star. How cute is that!

A Magical Night at Chick-fil-A

On the way to the ball Cinderella stopped by the Chick-fil-A in Pearland. We heard that she would be stopping by so of course Lauren got all dressed up and was so excited to meet her. She talked all day about eating dinner with Cin-da-ella. Well, when the magical moment was finally upon us Lauren panicked. I was so hoping for a cute picture, but this is what I got. Actually I think I might like these better because they really crack me up.

I love the look on Cinderella's face in this picture.
I know she is thinking somebody please take this child away.

Costa Rica-Pura Vida

We just returned from a 4 day vacation in Costa Rica (we meaning Heather and Scott-no Lauren). I don't think I even have the words to describe what a wonderful time we had together. I hope the pictures do justice to the paradise where we were living. It was absolutely breath taking. I woke up every morning saying out loud how gorgeous it was. I tried to sleep in but Scott was up and at 'em early, which was so out of character. I am going to try to briefly describe each day because each day was so different but also so perfect.

Day 1
The Costa Rica airport was a little crazy, but we found the driver of our van right away and we headed to paradise. We spent the afternoon by the pool and in the hot tub. It rained a little, but we didn't care, we just enjoyed being together. When we were getting ready for dinner there was a small earthquake that shook us around a bit. We weren't sure why the floor was shaking until later on that night when we over heard some people talking about the earthquake.

Day 2
We slept in, but like I said Scott turned into a vacation early bird. Weird! We went down to the beach in the morning and just enjoyed lounging around and playing in the ocean. The ocean had super strong waves so it was fun to play, but not relaxing. We went snorkeling in the afternoon and Scott found out very quickly that a life jacket makes snorkeling for 45 minutes much more enjoyable than trying to swim the whole time. It was absolutely amazing. We saw a ton of fish and it was just cool to actually get to see what is swimming around you in the ocean. We both loved it.

Day 3
This was our adventure day. We started off by taking a van ride to the nearby surfing town called Tamarindo. This is were the adventure begins. From here we drove ATV's through the rain forest and I almost broke my leg, but I still managed to have fun. Our tour guide took us through some crazy stuff and as you can tell by the pictures we were covered in mud at the end. So we drove these crazy things to a canopy zip line. Basically you ride a zip line from platform to platform (8 platforms in all) through the jungle. We even rode one of the zip lines backwards while hanging upside down. UPDATE: Zip Line pictures now posted!

Day 4
I told Scott that I wanted no adventure this day, just relaxation. He tried to talk me in to kayaking but I stuck to my no adventure rule. We spent the whole day just relaxing by the beach and at the pool. Scott has the sunburn to prove it. We watched the sunset on the beach and just enjoyed how beautiful everything was. We had steak and lobster for dinner and ice cream for dessert. I am not sure that life gets much better.

Anybody got any marshmallows.

Heather at the pool in front of our room.

The locals called this little guy "mopachin". He looked like a cross between an anteater and a raccoon. He seemed pretty friendly.

Here's Scott before leaving for the ATV/canopy tour. Clean and confident. That would change.

It looks like we're racing here, but actually we were just sitting there waiting for the people ahead of us to get unstuck in this...

Our guides even got stuck in this. To be fair, they only had two wheel drive. Heather almost lost her leg during this little stretch. Scary!

In the middle of the ATV tour, we stopped for a nice zip through the treetops of the Rain Forest.

In addition to trees, we were also dangling high above streams like this one.

Here goes Heather...


and there goes Scott.

We were waiting on others to go and making sure we were still alive.

For some real thrills, they let us go upside down.

Scott managed to bump his head along the way, but he doesn't even remember feeling it.

This is after the ATV and canopy tour. If you look closely, we're covered in mud from the knees down.

This was the thought that was constantly in the back of our minds during the trip. Sometimes more prominently in Heather's though.

The guy on the right is pre-sunburn Scott. Post-sunburn Scott looks like a tomato.

Scott's body-surfing here. He spent the rest of the day cleaning sand out of his swimsuit.

Heather took it a little easier in the ocean.

The sun set around 6:30 local time. It was beautiful though.

Big waves!

Here's our room. Somehow we were in bed by 10:30 every night.

This is the golf course that Scott didn't get to play :(
It was covered with monkeys when we rode by it though!

Lauren's catching up on current events with Granddaddy.

Grammie and Granddaddy came down to watch Lauren while we jetted off to Costa Rica. They probably need a vacation now.