Christmas 2009

Cook in training (she got a kitchen set for Christmas)

With all the gifts she got, all she played with was this blue spoon

Precious wool peacoat that I MADE her wear

The peacoat looks more like a robe or a smoking jacket

See all that kitchen stuff? And she's only playing with the blue spoon

Looking cool with her hand in her pocket...I just noticed that...

I made this mess on my own, seriously? Sad...

Its really a coat, not a dress

Whipping up a yummy Christmas breakfast (air is calorie free)

One last pic of the "smoking jacket"

Christmas has come and gone and I haven't posted in a long time...I feel like so much has happened this year and I can barely remember half of it...but, since it is history, I won't worry about it because it will do what history does best and will soon be repeated...

In the meantime, I will post Christmas pictures of Miss Ryan in all her splendor and minimal gift opening skills...I'm sure they will get better as time goes on but for now I will continue to purchase gifts, wrap and open those gifts and clean up after myself, all in the name of making sure Ryan has an awesome Christmas...

Christmas Pictures 2009

Ryan took pictures last week with Cecilee Poppell for her Christmas cards...it was a dismal day and rained toward the end, I really think that it was Ryan who ordered the "rain" so that my little diva could finish her photo shoot on her time...We had a good time and I hope to be sending cards out shortly...Merry Christmas!!!

Thanksgiving 2009...

Wow, I can't belive how much Ryan is growing...every day is something new...I can't believe it!...Anyway, we had an awesome Thanksgiving with the Shulers and the Longfellows...I only took pictures of Ryan so here are pics of her with Amelia at the Longfellow house and then her with Addisyn and Olivia at the Shuler house...

Granny J's aresnal...

Granny J does it again...she took some pictures of Ryan last week and was playing with photoshop and must've had fun playing with Ryan's photos...we've had a good time thus far getting ready for Christmas and putting up the tree...Ryan loves the Christmas tree and I love saying "no touching" every time she breathes close to it...At least she gets to play outside at granny j's house and look cute doing it...

Halloween 2009

I love Halloween...I really do...I don't do all the decorations and stuff but I really love Halloween!!! If I didn't love it so much, I would have already had my Christmas tree put up like Kylia and Jaren (yeah, they really do have their trees and Christmas decorations up already). But my favorite thing about Halloween is pumpkin carving...last year Ryan was barely able to hold her head up but this year is a totally different story...take a look, the difference is amazing to me...time really does fly!!! She was a baby chick for Halloween this year and we had Trunk or Treat at the church in Bristol...I've got to work on her begging for candy skills, we came home empty handed because she spent the whole night running around and I spent the whole night chasing after her. We still had a blast after it was all over...till next year!!!