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!

'Going to Work'

Rylan had a babysitter on Wednesday this past week for a couple of hours. When Mommy came home Rylan said he was 'going to work'. He packed up a small 'work bag' with the following items: calculator, pen, purple crayon, police badge, credit card, small memo pad, wallet, sunglasses, tape measure and key chain. So off we went to work at the grocery store! After the grocery store we headed home and when we reached the house Rylan was very intent on 'going to work not home'. I let him out of the car when we got home and he said 'bye Mommy I am going to work' and started walking down the sidewalk. Of course I decided to hold his hand and see where this 'work' was! We walked down the street and when he wouldn't return home I picked him up and brought him home. He still wanted to 'go to work'. I gave him a bunch of note cards, address labels and envelopes so he could work. Here he is, and of course we don't where pants when we work!!! Notice all the items on his work desk! He has quite an imagination right now.

The Hop

We went to the coolest place today called The Hop. It is maybe 5 minutes from our house and it was a blast. It's an indoor play area for kids. When we went there were mostly toddles and young children. They have around 9 bounce houses and climbing toys to play on and slide on. They also have small cars, free video games, air hockey, and FuseBall. Rylan and his friends had so much fun (Pix-AmyMae and Rylan). It was only $5 to get in. I'd recommend this anyday!!

Funny Days

This past Friday Night Rylan came up to Daddy with his luggage in hand and said 'Bye Bye Daddy', Greg asked 'Where are you going', Rylan replied 'the airport'. Rylan proceded to go over to the door and try and open it. He also let Daddy know when he got to the airport he was going to go to the airplane. His Frog Luggage was packed suffiently with: 1 diaper, 1 helicopter, 1 lizard, 1 Nemo Plastic Fish, several packs of vanilla pudding, 2 blueberry bars, 2 cheese & crackers sets, 1 chocolate chip bar and 1 pack of Instant Breakfast! He was ready for his trip...

Daddy took him to the hardware store instead!!! :)

Now he has been pulling this whole airport thing everyday since then. Sometimes multiple times a day and sometimes he wants to take special toys with him. On one day he actually dressed up the Frog on his luggage to get ready for the airport (shoes & hat).

The final picture here is of our crazy puzzle boy. He does puzzles all the time. He even does 60 piece puzzles and map puzzles. He can name most of the states and tell you what happens there (potatoes=Idaho, sunflowers=Kansas, etc).

Butterfly 'Farm'

We went to the Butterfly 'Farm' (Pavillion) when Grandma DoDo was here. She had never been and really enjoyed all the pretty butterflies but she didn't like the bugs. Rylan was afraid of the bugs and spiders. He did like Dory & Nemo and the big spiderweb you can climb. In the pix where he is on the ground he is looking at 2 black & white butterflies on the rocks (hard to see). The finally the first pix is of his new haircut...she really got it short this time! I think the curls will come back, at least we won't need a haircut for quite some time!!!

Finally Halloween Night...

Rylan proudly wore his bear costume for Halloween. He also wore it MANY times before Halloween and really enjoyed playing in it around the house. Silly Boy...we had a fun night!

(the first 2 pix are of him before Halloween playing in the house with the full bear outfit on)

Halloween Madness

We had so much going on the week of Halloween. Rylan had a small party here at our house, he had a school party, and a Trunk-or-Treat at church and then finally we did the Pumpkin Patch, and went out for Halloween Night in our neighborhood (where Rylan got many special treats)! Grandma 'DoDo' came from Arizona for the week too, she dressed up as well and celebrated with us. Also Grandma Peggy game Halloween night and through the weekend. The 2 Grandma's did some serious shopping the Saturday after Halloween!!! :)

Silver Dollar City

So the last time I was in Silver Dollar City in Branson, MO was in 8th Grade with my good friend Amy. Wow, it's changed alot-well Branson has SDC is about the same. We had a nice time and spent from 10am-5pm at the park. Rylan liked riding the rides in the kiddie area and we enjoyed walking around on a cool fall day with lots of colors. We were bummed that Rylan could not play in Huck's Tree House (Tom Sawyer's friend).