Christmas '09

Here's our Christmas in reverse order...sorry couldn't get the pictures to change:) We had a wonderful Christmas with our whole family. Cory's Mom, my parents and brother all stayed at our house Christmas Eve (yes my parents only live 5 minutes away but they wanted to be there in the morning). My Dad said it was the best Christmas he'd had in a long time and I think we all felt that way!!

Surprise

We had a surprise party for my Mom over the weekend for her 60th birthday. We all had such a great time and she was completely surprised. Here are a few pictures from the night...

Hi-ho Hi-ho a hunting we will go!

Well, I knew it was going to happen sooner or later...Cory shot his dream deer. So now I get to look forward to having a deer head on my living room wall. I just don't get hunting...who in their right mind would want to intentionally get up at the crack of dawn in the freezing cold and sit for hours and look for a deer or some sort of animal to shoot. Even though I don't get it, Cory sure does seem to enjoy it and can't wait for the day when Rylan can go with him and I guess that's all that matters.

Monkey see, Monkey Do

I think Rylan has taken being a monkey for Halloween to a whole new level. He is climbing onto everything, but we are usually right there to prevent it. Well, yesterday I was getting ready for our weekly trek to Wal-Mart. Cory was hunting so it would be just Rylan and I. I put on Mickey Mouse and went to put on my makeup. It soon was too quiet so I knew something was up. I looked in the living room and he was no longer where I'd left him. I scanned the room but wasn't looking up. I soon heard a little voice say "Hi" and there was Rylan chilling out on top of the kitchen table going through my purse!!! Somehow he'd shimmied up the chair (our table is a pub table) and crawled all the way across to dig through my purse...ugh I think he's turning into Evel Kenievel. Luckily, he'd dug the camera out of my purse already so I could document the heart attack he gave me:)

I've got nothing!

I try to post something every week, but this week I got nothin'! Rylan amazes me everyday by doing something new. His latest is "Shoo Fly" any type of insect that he sees (in a book or real) gets swatted at and he says shoo fly. So funny! He is getting so big! He is also obsessed with belly buttons (his, ours, complete strangers, it doesn't matter). This is fine till were at Wal-Mart and he wants to see my bellybutton...oh well!

Trick or Treat

We had such a fun Halloween; here is a small recap. (Sadly, I didn't take any pictures of the actual trick or treating.) We took Rylan to a church carnival first. He enjoyed seeing all the kids dressed up and walking around, but was to small to play the games. We soon went home with our friends that had brought their kiddos over (I actually think it was more for the guys to drink beer and watch UT play), but they said it was so the kids could trick or treat together. When it finally was dark we pillaged the neighborhood of candy. It didn't take Rylan long to get the hang of trick or treating. His only problem was that he either wanted to go inside the people's house or give them candy instead. We only walked about two blocks but our buckets runeth over so we decided to head home. Rylan had such a great time running and playing. It was almost 11 (gasp) before that child went to bed and no he didn't even have any candy. You'd think after all the days activities and staying up so late that Rylan would conk out. But no Momma had to pay for all that fun with a little boy that decided to cry out every two hours. Ughh...but I was rewarded with a three hour nap the next day.

Children of the Corn

This weekend we meet up with some great friends that we haven't seen in a long time and all headed to the pumpkin patch. Rylan had such a great time and used up so much energy!!
Who knew a tub of corn could be so much fun. We had to pry Rylan away...hmm so I'm guessing for Christmas we can just get him a tub of corn and we'll be set (that's a lot cheaper than a playhouse).