Day at the Zoo

William was a bit under the weather today, so he had to stay home but Lily, Ryan and I had a great time at the zoo!

Frog parking only. All others will to "toad". :-)

Otters are my favorite and they were very playful today!

Love this picture!

The lemurs were in fine spirits too!

Climbing like the goats.

Emilia Jane

It has been a busy month! Not only did we get married, but newest niece Emilia made her appearance on the 19th! She's absolutely adorable - not that I expected anything less!

Transportation Museum

While Dad was in town for the wedding, we found a little time to take a trip over to the transportation museum (a favorite of William's.)

Lily was exceedingly excited by this toilet she found on one of the trains.

William was scared to cross this track as this train looks like it's coming. Dad was kind enough to "stop" it for us!

A partial Deetz family pic on the milk train (my apologies for the orientation - can't seem to figure out how to rotate pictures on here!)

I love this picture of William because it's so him, but also because he got his head stuck in this window right after this shot was taken. The next few minutes were spent trying to convince him he had to stick his head out further and turn it to get it back in while he was yelling "stuck! stuck! stuck!" Poor kid!

Lily and William get a ride from Carl and Grandpa.

Honeymoon Staycation

Ryan and I will be taking our official honeymoon to Costa Rica in January (we can't wait!), but we did a little staycation honeymoon the week after the wedding. Ryan wasn't feeling too well for a portion of the week, so we didn't do much, but we did get a few fun activities in.

Our first trip was to Meramec Caverns. It's a pretty cool cave!

We also went horseback riding on a very pretty trail not too far outside of St. Louis. The horses all had some serious personality which made it extra fun!

Happy 1 Month Anniversary to Us!

Today marks me and Ryan's 1 month anniversary! Many people have asked us how we're liking married life and, for the most part, we believe it's pretty much like before married life. :-) But, regardless, we're enjoying it!

I've been very delinquent about blogging all that we've been up to lately, so I'll try to do some catching up... again.

The wedding was absolutely perfect as far as we were concerned. The weather was great, the venues were beautiful, our wedding party was awesome and we had a great time. We were so happy to see so many family and friends and had a great time dancing the night away. We still catch ourselves reminding each other about fun memories from that weekend.

We won't get our pictures back until mid November, but here are some shots we've rounded up from others. (I know several of you still have photos out there and we want to see them!)

Ryan has said from the beginning that he wanted a ring tatoo instead of a regular metal ring. We got him a ring from Spencer's for the actual ceremony (classy, I know) and then he went to get the tatoo the following week. The tatoo artist warned us that ring tatoos don't hold up too well, so we'll see how it works out in the long run, but for now, it's pretty cool!