Saturday, March 7, 2009

Thanks Daddy!

Daddy spoiled us for Valentines! I know I am late posting this, but bear with me.

Mom got flowers!

Legos for Brennan

Hotwheels for Connor

Valentine PJ's for Ryleigh
We wanted to get the pictures to you sooner than later, Daddy. We love you!

Dress Up Time



Connor loves to dress up. But he calls it "play costumes". It can keep him busy for quite awhile. On this day, Ryleigh was catching on!

This is a story I have on Connor that I have meant to write down. A few months ago I let Connor wear his Superman costume to the mall. He was very surprised I let him do this. But it was worth it. Everyone was pointing and saying how cute he was. A few people tried talking to him, saying "Hello Superman". He just looked at them like they were crazy! "I'm not superman I am just dressed up like him" he would say. When we left the mall he asked me why those people didn't know he wasn't superman? He was baffled!

On Top of the World

Do you have a moment in your life when you felt like you were sitting on top of the world?

Mine was back in 2001. I had been married for about three months so who wouldn't feel great? I had just graduated from college with a bachelors in Psychology and pregnant with Brennan. I was driving myself to Alabama to embark on my next adventure and feeling wonderful. I know, you are asking why if I was moving to Alabama I was anything but comatosed. Well, not only were my dreams coming true but Kyle's as well. He had been accepted into the Army's flight program. We were excited for the future and naive enough to think everything would be smooth sailing.

I am not sure what my point is to be honest. I just loved this picture of Ryleigh and I look forward to sharing many "On top of the World" moments with her.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Happy Valentine's Daddy



Snow again!

It is no secret around here that I am not a fan of SNOW! After spending 2 years in Arizona I have been spoiled with beautiful sunshine. I find it comical that Kyle's favorite sport is skiing. I however have vowed to never put myself or anyone else through the torture or danger of me strapping skis on.

But, because Kyle is so remorseful that he is missing out on this year of living near the snow and because my kids like to give me such a hard time about my dislike for the snow I have tried to be a good sport.

I took the kids sledding at Christmas. The first time Connor went down he ended up with snow in his face and said, "I'm never doing that ever again!" I wanted to say, That's right, me neither! Instead I encouraged him to warm up and try again. He did end up liking it, darn it! Brennan thought this was the best day ever. He slid down in pure delight until the last two runs when the crash was just a little too much to bare.

Connor in misery!

Papa and all of us enjoying the day! ( I did have fun too!)

Ryleigh shares my thoughts. She is disgusted when the snow falls on her! She wants it off immediately. But, if the boys are going out to play in it then she will follow. Today, however, the boys were coming in before I had finished dressing her in all her clothes. You can bet I made them go back outside for another 5 minutes of funin the snow! Too bad it never lasts longer than5 minutes.

Oh gross!

Dress Up?

For months after Ryleigh was born people would ask me if it was different having a girl. I would always reply, "She sure screams louder!" It just didn't feel that different and I was a little hesitant to make it seems as though I loved her any more than my boys. But lately the difference has become more apparent. Don't get me wrong she can still scream louder than anyone I know, but I'm talking about all the fun "girly things" she does.

At about a year old I started putting bows in her hair. Now she brings me bows to put in her hair.

She has a fettish with shoes. If I need her to have them on, she takes them off. If she doesn't need to have them on, she must wear them at that exact moment. And in the car we play a little game. I put them on her before we leave, she takes them off socks and all while in the car. I tried just not putting them back on and letting her go bare foot, that caused a huge raucous!

We have now moved on to "Dress up". You tell me. Does this count as Dress up?

She is putting on Connor's Superman "Dirty" Underwear


Here she is modeling Mommy's Sportsbra and Daddy's Athletic shorts. What can I say, it was laundry day!


And this was her latest creation. Just wear it all at once! At least it was clean!

I'm not sure, but I think I may be in trouble. Any suggestions?

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Halloween

Happy Halloween, Daddy! We Love You!











Well, lets just say it feels like the plague set in this week. We came down with the stomach virus and it put a cramp in our Halloween plans. I was bummmed because I actually made the boys' costumes this year. Luckily, we did get to go trick or treating! We made it around the block and then Brennan requested to go home and pass out candy. I was quite surprised. But, he had more fun feeling big and passing out candy then anything else. Anytime the doorbell rang he would say, "Well, I've got customers!"