Blake Livelyiskicking her family outingsup a notch.
TheGossip Girlalum—mom to kidsJames, 11,Inez, 9,Betty, 6, andOlin, 3, with husbandRyan Reynolds—shared a rareglimpseinto the family’s recentday out as they watchedThe Proposalstar’ssoccer team Wrexham AFC take on the Liverpool Football Club atYankee Stadium.
In a photo carousel shared toInstagramAug. 7, Lively included several snaps of herself and Reynolds as they posed together in front of a Yankees mural, watched the game from the stands and shared a sweet embrace with their children and each other.
The slideshow also included several pics of the duo alongside friends and family who joined them for the occasion. In another photo Lively, 38, showed off her black heels and anklets before swapping them for a pair of Nike sneakers.
“@wrexham_afc playing @liverpoolfc at @yankees Stadium… One of the most surreal moments of this wild and beautiful ride,” she captioned the photos. “Thank you to all our friends, family and Wrexham loved ones who came out to cheer on this extraordinary team and for those who have been there all along.”
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TheSimple Favoractress also gave a shout out to her friend and photographerGuy Aroch, thanking him for joining them and also “for bringing your camera along and taking these pics.”
“You’ve shown us time and time again, there’s no better gift than having great memories with your loved ones captured,” she added. “Love you buddy.”
And Lively has certainly been sharing more memories of her and Reynold’s family as of late, including asweet look at Olin FaceTiming with his dadwhile Reynolds was at San Diego Comic-Con in July.
In the photo posted to Lively’s Instagram Story at the time, Reynolds, 49, could be seen wearing a denim version of his Deadpool costume as Olin held up a picture book.
“When you’re reading a Captain America book,” Lively captioned the photo, “and you get interrupted by a FaceTime from Dad.”
For more from Lively and Reynolds on the joys of parenthood, keep reading.
Press Agency/NurPhoto/ShutterstockThis Will Make Your Head Spin”I have seen Frozen with my daughters so, so many times and people don’t know this, but if you play Frozen backwards, it’s actually a shot for shot remake of The Exorcist,” Reynolds joked on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2018.Rob Latour/Variety/REX/ShutterstockFun UncleOn Dec. 15, 2016, Reynolds and Lively debuted their daughters James and Inez for the first time, at the actor’s Hollywood Walk of Fame Ceremony (a common setting for notoriously private celebrities to introduce the world to their kids). During his speech, Reynolds said to his wife, “You make everything better—absolutely everything in my life better. You’ve given us two of the most incredible children that I could ever hope to have. You’ve made me the father of my dreams when I thought I only had fun uncle potential.”Getty ImagesBest Thing EverIn August 2016, before the birth of the couple’s second daughter, Reynolds told E! News, “There’s nothing on earth more grounding than having a baby. It’s the best thing that could ever happen to someone.”Neilson Barnard/Getty ImagesThe Messy Side”It’s tough when you get pooped on and barfed on, but having a baby is wonderful,” the proud mama told NW Magazine in 2016. “Even when it’s tough and I’m exhausted, I think, ‘I am so fortunate.'”Eric Charbonneau/WireImageA Bullet for BabyDuring a visit to the Late Show with David Letterman in 2015, Reynolds gushed about his marriage and his daughter, but made sure viewers knew who was more important. “‘I would take a bullet for you. I could never love anything as much as I love you.’ I would say that to my wife. And the second I looked in that baby’s eyes, I knew in that exact moment that if we were ever under attack, I would use my wife as a human shield to protect that baby.”Jason LaVeris/FilmMagicThe Joys of FatherhoodIn tradition with his dark sense of humor, Reynolds shared this little parenting joke with his Twitter followers in 2016: “Being a father is the single greatest feeling on earth. Not including those wonderful years I spent without a child, of course.”Gennady Avramenko/Epsilon/Getty ImagesDaddy’s Dirty Work”I always do the dirty work,” Reynolds said on NBC’s Today show in 2016. “I’m happy to do the dirty work. So does she, but I’m always, I love getting up in the middle of the night, I’m fine with that, you know, all that stuff.”
Fatherhood, he said, has been “amazing.”Daniel Zuchnik/WireImageMorning Duties”I had one of those mornings, rare mornings, where my daughter just didn’t want me to leave—and it was only because my wife was asleep,” Reynolds said in 2016. “But it was like, you didn’t want to go. You just like, it kills you.”George Pimentel/WireImageThere’s Dad!”You know, what was really weird was, we were watching the Super Bowl and my daughter saw it and she totally recognized me. There was like 12 of me, which is just like, to her, was like 24 useless boobs,” Reynolds said in 2016. “She was so not impressed. She was like, ‘Eh, whatever.'”Taylor Hill/WireImageBecoming A Big Kid”Damn it’s hard letting your infant daughter go somewhere alone for the first time, I was a total mess dropping her off at Burning Man,” Ryan joked to his Twitter followers in 2016.Ken McKay/ITV/REX ShutterstockLook Who’s Talking”She’s great, man. She’s great,” the proud papa gushed in 2015 before revealing whether the couple’s then-only child James has started speaking. “We’re getting a lot of sounds, nothing that sounds like discernible English at this point,” he quipped, adding, “I’m mocking her a lot.”Stephen Lovekin/Getty ImagesSilly Love”@vancityreynolds Since the day our baby was born, I’ve felt so strongly in my heart that you were most likely the father,” Lively wrote on Instagram in 2015. “#ILoveYouSoMuchItsSilly.”Nicholas Hunt/Getty ImagesIt’s a Constant Surprise”Having a baby is just living in the constant unexpected,” Lively said in 2016. “You never know when you’re gonna get crapped on or when you’re gonna get a big smile or when that smile immediately turns into hysterics. It might be like living with a drug addict. But you have a baby and you think, ‘I can’t imagine ever not having a baby,’ because they grow up so quickly. I’d be an 80-year-old woman with a baby if I could.”Raymond Hall/GC ImagesFamily Is Everything “It’s the best,” Lively said in 2015. “It’s the thing that binds us all—family. We have very unique jobs for a living, but we all are a part of someone’s family. It’s a nice thing.”Dominique Charriau/WireImageFather’s Day Gift”On Father’s Day, my daughter smiled at me,” Reynolds tweeted in 2015. “It was all the gift I needed as I packed a bag and left for 6 years to write a book on parenting.”Robin Marchant/Getty ImagesEverything’s Worth It”There have been times where I woke up, literally had no idea I had been walking for five minutes,” he told E! News while promoting his movie Woman in Gold in 2015.
“But you love it. You wake up in the middle of the night, you got a big stupid smile on your face. I was telling someone else that. Anything else that woke you up every 45 minutes, you’d kill it. But when it’s a baby, it’s the best thing that ever happened to you.”Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImageProud Papa”One of the most common things in the world is making out, having a couple of drinks, and then doing it, and then having a baby. I was perfectly sober for this one though. I gotta say,” Reynolds joked in 2016.
“It’s amazing. I just always marvel how common it is and yet how profound it is. And I always laugh because you know celebrities you always cringe when they talk about their kids. Like ‘my child is the only one that has ever exited a womb out, ever.'”Andreas Rentz/Getty ImagesDaddy’s Little Girl”Well, a lot of people have done this, so you always want to temper it with a little of self-effacement. But I love it,” Reynolds said in 2015 about then-only child James. “I truly worship that kid. It’s terrible. She has me so far wrapped around her finger it’s dumb. She says ‘Dada’ and I will walk through a cement wall to get to her.”For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! News App
