Waiting For Santa - Christmas Eve 2009

These pictures say it all...the night before Christmas...

Caldwell's Christmas Party 2009!!!

We have the most FABULOUS neighbors ever...besides doing SOOOO much for us they also have the BEST Christmas Party ever. We had a blast...here are some highlight pictures.

Holiday Fun...

Rylan's Christmas Program

This program was the cutest thing ever!! Rylan sang his heart out, they sang Jingle Bells, Ring Those Bells, and We Wish You A Merry Christmas. His BFF Sydney beside him in striped dress sang her heart out too and loved shaking her bells..he has his hand on his head so he doesn't get hit! They were sooooo silly....

Family....

Here are some fun pictures from recent times. My parents came out for 10 days in early December and we all had a great time...lots of baby holding. The weather was horrible for us but we managed. Kara, my neice came out too, to visit with Grandma and Grandpa...Rylan just LOVES having her here and would love for her to be here all the time (we need to work on that). The picture of Rylan and Sydney was just too cute not to post - they are playing doctor, there recent fav pasttime...see Syd with the shot? HAHAHA...

Introducing Rylan's Little Brother...

Matthew Keenan Ball

Born Nov. 6, 2009

7.5 lbs, 20 3/4 inches long

****Rylan is truely enjoying having a baby in the house! He wanted to know the other day if there was another in my tummy, I said 'ABSOLUTELY NOT'! Matthew has a been a great baby so far. We had some hurdles in the beginning but we are both doing fine now! The picture in the car seat is at 2 days old on the way home and the others are at 10 days old!

Happy Halloween 2009!

Happy Halloween!! We hope everyone had a great weekend. Of course we started out the evening eating our traditional dinner of chili dogs...this year my neighbor made them (we get people hooked on that idea)!!! Rylan had a blast trick or treating last night and kept wanting to go and go. Daddy hung out dressed in black on the front porch scaring kids and passing out candy while Mommy and Rylan went out to trick or treat...I don't know who had more fun! On Friday Night we went to Rylan's School/Church trick or treating and had fun with our good friends Sydney and Joshua!

SNOW DAYS...

For the past 2 days we have had our first true snow days (it did snow a week or so ago but not much). Yesterday we hung around the house and made Apple Oatmeal Cookies. Today mommy took Rylan out to play and he had a wonderful time walking in the deep snow, throwing snowballs and climbing the snow mountains! Mommy made an awesome snow fort and as she was finishing it Rylan tackled it and it was demolished. At least I got a shot before I was done and before he trampled it down! I had a feeling...

Rylan always has a great time playing in the leaves every year! This year mommy had to do the raking...although my Dr. doesn't think I should be doing it! HA, I was just hoping maybe it would throw me into labor! Because of the cold weather early this year our leaves fell early and we didn't get much color. But we had fun playing anyway....

Miller Farms Preschool Field Trip

Rylan had his first field trip with school at the beginning of October. We went to Miller Farms on a beautiful sunny day! We ended up going a day early with another class which was a wonderful idea because the next day it snowed! We took my neighbor Terri with us because Daddy had his foot surgery the day before. We ended up picking: pie pumpkins, red potatoes, yellow onions, carrots, cabbage, and some corn (it was frozen though). I made some homemade vegi soup with our loot. If you look back a year ago in October we went to the same place...but it was much colder!!