Marshmallow Boy

Here he is eatting his marshmallow at the school candy making day. He isn't much for chocolate so he choose the marshmallow with sprinkles! HA...

Hammonds Candy!

Yesterday we had our 2nd Field Trip for School. We went to Hammonds Candy Factory in Denver. I mostly think Rylan enjoyed the after candy, he was kind of a handful with Mommy and Daddy there. After the tour we went back to school for more candy making. He had a good sugary day!!!

Making Valentines!!

Shoveling Snow

Hanging Out In Trees

This past week we had such awesome weather and we enjoyed it quite a bit. Rylan turned 2.5 on Sunday (18th) and played outside that day. Here he is hanging out in our tree out front! We also went to the zoo this past Monday and it was over 70 degrees. Glad we enjoyed it while we could because it's 17 degrees and snowing today...ha ha...only in Colorado!

National Western Stock Show - Denver, CO

Today we had a blast going to the National Western Stock Show with Sierra & Sydney!! It was SO much fun, the kids were in heaven! Rylan got to ride a pony, which he REALLY wanted to do and Mommy thought, 'there is no way he is actually going to do this'...Mommy was wrong. Rylan really enjoyed his fresh milk and cookies too (picture above drinking cold yummy milk). We may head up there one more time before the show is gone!

Cowboy Day at School

Today was Cowboy Day at Rylan's School. I am guessing that it is Cowboy Day because the Western Stock Show is going on downtown for the next week or so. Anyway, Rylan did participate and dress up. The first 2 pix are from when we got home from school and the bottom 2 are from the morning before school. He would not put his hat on for me...but at school he wore it after I left (so the teacher said)! His teacher got some really cute pix of him in his hat too. I think all in all he had a good time today!

Final Christmas Posting

The final pictures...Rylan got a really cool Tool Bench from Santa this year and has been playing with it a ton. He also got numerous books, puzzles, and a bean bag. Lots of fun stuff! With 15 people on Christmas Day you can imagine what our front room looked like...probably 300 presents or so! Fun times. Our kitchen was so full or treats etc that Nancy had to balance the cookie sheet on her head for lack of room!

HAHAHA....I need a blue martini now (I won't post the pix from that 3 hour event prior to Christmas, it includes funny hats, several pairs of eyeglasses and a Dorothy gone bad costume...Dad and Greg had to leave the premises! Kade stayed...our bartender! :). Rylan was very sad when everyone left...he was asking where Doh-Doh an Papa went...and he said "I love them, I want them to come back"!

Christmas 2008, Pt II

OK, posting #2...so we had a total of 15 relatives with us for the Christmas Holiday (18 for dinner). We had a blast too! The first shot is of Greg's Brother's Terry's family, they came out from MO to visit. The other pix are my Dad reading 'Twas the Night Before Christmas" as he always did for us when we were young on Christmas Eve, the big 9ft tree, and rylan and Kara...oh and Kara and Paige!

Christmas 2008!

Our wonderful neighbors next door had their annual Christmas Party the Saturday before Christmas. Paige and Zach (my neice and nephew) were visiting us and went along - my parents were supposed to be here but didn't make it in time due to weather in Santa Fe, NM (they drove from AZ). We had a good time even though Rylan was still sick and it was hard to get a pix of him with Santa and Mrs Claus. He only stayed 30 minutes or so. Paige and Zach were so excited to see Mr an Mrs Claus!!

School Christmas Program

On Tuesday Night, Rylan had his School Christmas Program. It was soo cute! Rylan wore his Rudolph Blinking Shirt-he did not want to change like Mommy was thinking. He mostly stood up there and looked at his friends, engaged a little in the second song and clapped his hands at the end of each song! They sang 2 songs in their class and then did a finale with all of the classes. It was really hard to get pictures, because there were so many people there. The church was even more full than on Sundays! Here are some after pix too...

Enjoying the Holidays...

Here are some fun pictures of Rylan enjoying the Holiday Season. First decorating the tree (which he redecorates every day), sledding with Daddy in -2 temperatures today (he was only out a few minutes but he was crying to go out), PJ day at school (throwing chalk at me cuz he didn't want his pix taken), making sugar cookies, and finally playing in the big Christmas Tree Box (Daddy decided to buy the 9ft, 1000 lite tree from Costco-ouch)! Hope you are all enjoying your Holiday Season!

Rylan's 1st Snowman

When Mommy was out shopping today (tis the season) she got a phone call from Daddy to get s carrot! When I arrived home I found an awesome snowman in our yard. We had to run out and take a picture of Rylan's first snowman and him getting ready to put the carrot on for his nose. Last night was our first snowfall of record and it is a heavy wet snow. Can't wait for more, so we can sled!