Our Week with Riley

When we returned from Miami we came heavy one awesome little girl - Riley.  We spent a week with her at our house, and I must say I felt so spoiled with her around.  She was such a huge help to me!  

One day we drove up to Pymatuning to spend the day with our other Shadle cousins.  Although technically they are Mike's cousins.  In the picture is Carter, Andrew, Ava, Jordan, Tanner, Alyssa, Dawson and Riley.  Little Ethan {who is two weeks younger than Andrew} was taking a nap during this picture, but he was there!

A little background for my kiddos:

Tanner, Jordan, Alyssa and Ethan are the children of Nikki and Todd.  Todd is Bo's brother.

We also took Miss Riley to the Akron zoo for a fun morning.

Her favorite animal was the jaguar.  Can you see him lying underneath the little structure?  She also loved this poncho.  It belonged to Ava, but she has always refused to wear it.  Riley took a shining to it, and would walk around saying "this makes everything fashionable!"  I swear she wore it for three days straight!

Ava and Riley penguin

Riley also went to summer camp with Carter, spent some time with Aunt Pam and Aunt Lee and hung out at the pool too.  We really enjoyed our time with her, she is becoming such a wonderful young lady!