San Diego Zoo

My mom always does some extra school activities and made some fun cash for vacation, with that she treated us all to the San Diego Zoo and Sea World!! First set of pictures is the zoo. Ryder, much like his mom, LOVES animals. He wanted to touch everything! His favorite part was petting the goats, but I think he liked the giraffes too.

Ryder hugging a goat

and another goat...

and another goat...my kid loves goats.

Ryder on the Hippo

More hippo, with his buddies

Ricky feeding Ryder to an elephant

On the elephant with Jackson, drinking and driving


Ryder having mama drama, with his llama in red pajamas, in front of the real llamas (say that 5 times fast!)

My favorite was the giraffes...I swear I was not going to post pictures of animals unless there was a person in them, but I could not help myself.

Ryder and I watching the giraffes, we were so close, I was afraid they were going to reach their long necks out and start eating Ryder's goldfish! (not so much afraid...as really hoping they would!)


The Rahne Family...I swear there was an elephant back there, he just did not make the picture. oops.

The Rahne Family

Granny bought each kid a toy...Ryder loved his San Diego Zoo stuffed Panda

Summer Vacation Part 1, San Diego

Summer vacation has come to an end for the Rahne family. We had a wonderful time, we traveled coast to coast...literally. Out vacation time started in San Diego with my family (Neubergers). My parents treat us to a family vacation every other year...thank you mom and dad. It is so fun having the 3 kiddos together. We took so many pictures, I am breaking it up into 4 posts. First post...Padres game. This was all of the kids first professional baseball game and they did great. All three made it to the end of the game, and were cheery and pleasant the whole time. The Padres lost that night (boo) but we had a great time cheering them on. Thanks to Ricky (and his friend Rob) for getting the whole family tickets and giving us a tour of the facility and all the fun Padres clothes and memorabilia. Enjoy the pictures.

I love the pictures of the three kids. They are never all looking in the same direction, and of course, Ryder is never smiling, but they always look so cute!Front! In front of Mr. Padre

Back! Watching batting practice.


Before the game

Hanging out with Uncle Mike (maybe he can use Ryder to pick up a girl from the Tilted Kilt)


Ryder eating his first ballpark peanuts (had his first ballpark hotdog as well)

The Rahne family...in all their Padres gear.

The whole crew

The whole crew...again. Great picture, just happened to work out.

Rahne Family Photos

Every year we have to submit a picture to the K-State football program. It worked out well, since it cooresponded with Ryder's one year birthday. We combined the efforts and had a double photo session. I picked a couple favorites and posted them, which was really hard to do...as you can tell by how many I posted! I absolutely love our photographer, Brandi with La Brista Photography, she is so creative and patient. We always LOVE our pictures. Thank you Brandi!!

Flash Floods hit Manhattan

The past couple of weeks it has done nothing but rain. So, the ground finally hit its saturation point and what bad timing, on Wednesday we had 5 more inches of rain (per a friend's rain gauge). The town of Manhattan flooded.

We lucked out, our house sits on a berm about 3 foot above the rest of the neighborhood. The others were not so lucky. Check out the pictures...it will be hard to grasp if you do not know our neighborhood, but I will try and describe location.

This is our streets (Whitetail) intersection with Fairman, this about 5 houses away.

This is looking out towards the main road...no one is getting in or out.


This is from our next store neighbors yard. The neighbor had some work being done in her yard and the water swallowed up the excavator.



As you can see, the water kept rising...


This is a picture from our backyard, which was saturated but not flooded. There is (was) a golf course on the other side of the creek. It was completely underwater.


Honestly, with the streets flooded and our yards flooded, our row of houses looked like an island. Everyone in the neighborhood pulled together and helped out those that needed it. Even nature needed a hand, a frightened fawn was misplaced due to the flooding and came up into the neighborhood, unfortunately the poor thing fell about 5 foot into a window well and could not get out. Nice neighbors and the City of Manhattan lifted her out and dried her off and sent her on her way. No picture of that, I did not want to walk over, the poor thing was frightened and letting out a sad screaming noise, I know I would have been in tears.

We are walking!!

This will be a quick post. The other day I put Ryder down, he was standing at the couch and I went to open the front door. When I turned around from opening the door, Ryder was standing behind me. He had walked over. Since then...he just walks. Enjoy the video...I know we have been enjoying our little walker!

These flat feet are made for walking...

Here is a quick video of Ryder taking a couple steps. He is trying out his walking legs these days. I think he finally realized that it hurts his knees to crawl everywhere and that he can hold toys while he walks.

Memorial Day Weekend...

This Memorial day weekend was a success. We had Ricky's dad and step mom in town and we had a great visit. They did not get off easy, we put them to work the first day babysitting Ryder and then it was out into the yard for landscaping and back into the house for baby proofing and finally we cleaned out the garage. We let them relax with with some golf and a nice Memorial day picnic with our neighbors, the Walkers. It was a great time for all.

I was so busy working that I did not take many pictures, but we did have a nice rain on Saturday, so we dressed up Ryder in his boots and raincoat (thanks Granny and Pup-pup) and went out to splash in some puddles. Plus, we got a couple good father son pictures.

Snazzy Boots...

Ryder getting the hang of splashing...

So cute in my Janie & Jack rain outfit

Relaxing after a LONG days work

Ryder learning about power tools from Ricky...