I tidied the family room again, for the third time in the last hour.Riley’s parents were scheduled to drop her off at any moment. It was a Sunday af...ernoon, and the three of them had flown into Boston, intending to start Riley’s college visits in New England. Her parents were spending the night in a local hotel; when I invited Riley to spend the night with me in my new condo, she’d been reluctant at first.“You can stay in the guest room, Riley,” I reassured her. “It’s comfortable, there’s a. If there were guests on the ranch who weren't a part of the production, then Theresa was with them. She was so cute! And in just a week, little Eleanor would be a year old. I was already beginning to feel like time was flying. My son was nine months old. He was crawling as fast as his little knees would let him—which wasn't very fast. He was still so chubby from drinking all that fresh mommy milk that his knees barely reached the floor around his tummy.After the Irvings and the Owenses had. " Does she?" Dad loved Nikki. But he was used to her schemes and bizarre ideas by now and so couldn't keep the tinge of exasperation out of his next words. "And what other wonderful words of wisdom have fallen from the lips of our lovely Miss Hall?" She likes your hairy chest especially," I answered with a smirk. Dad lifted his eyes to the heavens in response. I snuggled even closer to him."Somebody should have put her over his lap years ago and given her rear end a good tanning," dad said with. "Did you manageto bring anything?" Sure." And this time Logan gave a genuine smile. He took the bag offhis back and took out what looked like two large bottles of soda.Although the labels said cream soda, Ryan guessed they were somethingmore. "Beer," Logan explained, "I had to put it in these so mom and dadwouldn't figure it out."The other began showing what they'd gotten their hands on. Gus had fourcans of beer. He'd been taking one out the fridge each time his dadhadbought a pack over the.