Happy New Year!

I hope all of you had a wonderful Xmas and a Happy New Year. We are getting back into the swing of things for the New Year! I will get some Xmas pics on here when I get them downloaded to my computer! Happy 2009!

1st Dress Up

This morning we were getting dressed for the day and after I put her down to go play. She immediately went back into her bedroom and got her bib out of her dresser and put it on, then she went and found her hat and put it on. She loves bibs and hats. She will go pull them out of the drawers and play with them. This morning though, she put them on and wore them the whole morning until it was time to go. I then made her take them off. I know, so mean, wouldn't let her wear them out of the house! I had to take a picture, it was to funny.

Dewberry Farms

This past weekend we headed out to Dewberry Farms, it was a lot of fun and Rylie had a great time. Nonnie and Paps went with us so we all took turns chasing Rylie around. Below are just a few of my favorite pics :)


Mom, Dad, and Rylie before we left


Rylie crawling through the long tube to the other side, you can't really tell, but she is laughing


This was her least favorite ride of all. She is not screaming yet, but once the wheels starting turning, Jon had to go get her, she starting screaming and cried the whole way!


She loved the goats. We fed them several times and she went back and visited them several times.


She was watching the ducks and didn't understand why she couldn't go swimming with them. She headed straight for the water.


She looked like such a big girl on the horse tire swing. Of course, I was having a heart attack the whole time Dad was pushing her.


She loves slides, she is sliding down the tube slide.

Rylie, Nonnie, and Paps

Once upon a time there was one little Aggie and one little Red Raider sitting on a bench reading there two little books. They were so oblivious to the hostile world of College Football around them :) They remained friends in their young little lives not knowing their teams weren't friends, but rival competitors.

I thank the lord each day that we can have precious moments like this with our children. That they are so innocent and sweet in their young lives. Who knows where they will end up, but we will be proud either way!

Happy Halloween

We hope everyone had a great Halloween, this Halloween was a lot more fun, now that Rylie is getting bigger, not that she still knew what was going on, but at least she could participate a little. Rylie was a fairy. We only went to the houses on the streeet and on the way home from the last house, she was already walking slowly, she was very tired.



We got her pictures made in her costume and this was getting ready for the pictures a couple of weeks before


This was actually on Halloween, we were getting ready to go out and she discovered candy was in her basket! She was really interested in what was in there and then she dumped it out.

Our first stop was two houses down and we ran into our buddies, Ryan and Sydney. She was not too sure about Ryan and his spiderman costume, she just kept walking around him in a circle looking at him. It was hilarious. She was very curious.

After a few houses, she learned how to knock on the door, this is her knocking all by herself!

She was very excited, because she got a lollipop, which she proceeded to eat right then and there, we couldn't leave the doorstep until it was opened!

I can't wait to see everyone else's pictures too.

Little Miss Rylie

Yesterday was the first of many I am sure! She has really started to develop I guess what you would call a "personality"

It stated with her oatmeal, she didn't want to eat it, so she rolled her eyes at me, I thought, well maybe she didn't mean too, yeah right :)

Then when we were getting dressed she decided her doll stroller was for her and then proceeded to fight me on her bow, which after this pic, was no more. She didn't wear it the rest of the day.

We were then headed out the door to run some erronds and I told her to come on and she stood there and shook her head "no" at me. All day, everything was "no" She didn't say no, but she just shook her head.

I am not quite sure what happened to my sweet little girl, I am sure she is still in there somewhere :)

The whole day went on like this, luckily she slept until almost 9 this morning and has been much better today. Although, I am not in denial, I know there will be plenty more "no" days!!!

Traveling and Festivals

We have had a busy week or so. We have been to Great Granparents, Mutti and Putti's house. We had a blast, there are some pics below. We then returned home on Wednesday and had a full filled weekend at the festivals.





I went in to get Rylie to wake her from her nap, she had already been asleep 3 hours and she was sound asleep with her foot hanging out of the bed. She didn't even wake when I took the pic



Pic with Mutti and Putti

Mommy, Rylie, and Daddy at Mutti and Putti's




Rylie riding her car while Putti is BBQ


This was hilarious, her car got stuck on a rock, so she got off and starting pushing it.






Rylie at the festival


Getting her face painted at the festival, she is getting a pumpkin, I couldn't believe she actually sat there and let the girl do i