Birthday Recap

We had a great time celebrating Rylands birthday on Saturday. The day started off with taking a bath with baby cousin Adelaide. They thought that was great.

Then we had pizza, breadsticks and salad for lunch. Yummy!

Then it was on to opening the presents. He was beyond spoiled, thanks everyone! He will have a new outfit to wear for the next couple weeks and toys to keep him busy until Christmas! :)

Then it was on to the cake. First off, thanks to my very talented sister in law Maria for doing such a great job on this cake! Are you kidding me, it looked too good to eat. She is amazing and did most of the work. I was good for an opinion, she did all the hard part! Thanks Maria, it looked and tasted great!


Ryland loved his own personal paw cake. He didn't quite know what to do with it at first. Once he figured out it tasted good.....well the pictures pretty much say the rest there. He loved every minute of it. Who wouldn't love diving into cake with your hands and no one telling you not to do it?



What was left of Ryland's cake....not bad for a little guy!

He love, LOVED and still loves the balloons Marie and Lisa picked up for him. Good thing they still have air in them, he plays with them all the time. Here he is after his party playing with his Grandpa. He would have done this for hours. And why is it that sometimes when I try to post movies on this it just doesn't work...no matter what I do?? So I guess this picture will have to suffice and you will have to look to a future post for that movie!

As you can imagine, he was very tired after all the fun. He fell fast asleep in Marie's arms after playing with his new toys for over an hour after we got home. Thanks to Grandpa Tom for getting down on the ground with him and throwing his balls around with him. He loved every minute of it. You can come back anytime and crawl around on the floor with him! :)

Thanks to everyone for coming and supporting Ryland on his big day. I can't believe how fast this last year went. We couldn't have made it without all your love and support. Happy Birthday Ryland! We love you!
P.S. Now that Ryland is one, he weighs 24 pounds and walks EVERYWHERE! He has discovered the great outdoors and loves to be outside. Thanks goodness the sun has come out and it is warming up finally! I am sure this next year is going to be as great as the last!

Happy Birthday Ryland

Ryland is one year old today! I can't believe it! He is such a great kid and we had so much fun celebrating all day today! I just had to post real quick about how much we love him and how he means the world to us! We love you Ryland, we hope you had a great birthday! Check back soon for a picture update on all of the festivities! Happy Birthday Ryland! Thanks to everyone who came and helped make his day special and spoiled him!! We love you all!

Our little model

Lance and I decided with Rylands up and coming birthday on Saturday it would be a good time to get some family pictures done. We couldn't be happier with the results! Seriously, every time I look at them I find a new favorite! I had a friend from high school take them for us. Whitney did a great GREAT job, her skills even included laying in lovely duck crap to get the perfect shot, seriously. Hank was a pretty good attention getter for Ryland as well! :) Of course Ryland caught a cold a couple days before the pictures. Thanks to Whits amazing photo shop skills, you would have never known his nose was red and super dry. Thanks so much Whitney! You did great work! You can get more info on her by clicking here. Enjoy! P.S. It was REALLY hard to narrow these down to a few of my favorites to post....so there just might be a lot of pictures below!










Happy Birthday on Saturday Ryland!

Baby Cousin Adelaide

Ryland was able to spend all of last week hanging out with baby cousin Adelaide. They had a great time together. He keeps looking up the stairs wishing she would come back down them! :) We were sorry to hear about Luke's brother Jake. We hope you guys are doing okay.
Aren't they just so cute together! I love Adelaide in this one!

This is what Ryland spent most of his week doing with Adelaide. They played really well together, it was fun to watch. He loved pushing her around in his walker. He seriously would have done it all day if we let him. Thankfully she didn't mind it.

Here is a movie of him pushing her around. So funny.

We can't wait to see them again!