Cape Fear Valley River Trail and Valentine's Day

 Ryan's favorite thing to do with the camera is try to find the perfect place to put it and set the timer just in time for him to get in the picture. He does a pretty great job; this is how we get most of our family pictures these day. The Cape Fear Trail is one of our favorite things to do on a day off.  We had fun playing on the old tracks at the trail. We have ridden bikes and played at this trail quite a bit. It's beautiful and well maintained.

 I love that this wasn't a set up picture. Anytime Raiyah will let him, Malakai takes her hand and loves to just walk with her.

 Valentine's was a great day. All Raiyah wanted was to go on a Daddy Daughter date. She kept talking about it for over a week. So while Malakai went to a Sunbeams Valentinen's Party Ryan took Raiyah shopping at the mall and for dessert. She felt like the most loved daughter in the world. I couldn't ask for a better valentine than to know what a wonderful father Ryan is. That night my sweet friend Kaci watched the kids while Ryan and I went to a wonerful Japanese resturaunt and bought me new running shoes. Oh, and my favorite part. Ryan spent the whole night before making me a handmade valentine. It's packed or I would take a picture. It was a owl he cut out all the little details and then wrote, "Owl" always love you. It was very sweet and he was so excited to give it to me. TE AMO