Halloween Night

Our night started out at a festival at our parents church. They had lots of games and some yummy food. Then we headed home so Scott could take Ryan and Kenzie trick or treating while I stayed back and handed out candy. We have lots of kids in our neighborhood and kids that come over to our neighborhood so we saw lots of cute costumes that night. Ryan even got to pass out candy and I am not sure which was his favorite getting or receiving. All in all we had a great night. 

Ryan trying to hit the balloon with the dart YIKES!!

Ryan, Evan, Ashley and Kenzie...we are missing Kaitlyn. 

At first Kenzie was a little scared of all the costumes so she stayed in Papa's arms for awhile

Ryan was so excited when he won something at the ring toss. 

Kenzie was happy to have a baby bounce house

In the bubbles

Scott took the kids on the cake walk

Kaitlyn trying to win at the cake walk

Aunt Wendy helped Ryan at bingo and he WON!! 

Kenzie trick or treating at our sweet neighbors who had a special treat just for her.

Ryan giving hand fulls of candy to his favorite people

Halloween Playgroup

The Wacky Wednesday play group, which is now on Fridays, had their annual halloween party. It is always SO much fun each year seeing all the kids in their cute costumes.  We also bring can foods to take to the food pantry and this year the goal was 20 bags of food. I think we made it!! It is so wonderful teaching the kids each year to give back and to show them how blessed they are with what they have and how nice it is to give that to others. After laying all the food out the kids were able to load the bags to get them ready to be delivered. What a fun day we all had!

Group picture

The big kids

Getting ready to eat

Making spiders

Jack & McKenzie looking at all the yummy food

Ms. Kelly explaining to all the kids about why we give back

Loading the bags

Ready to be delivered

Super Hero Party

Ryan's super hero party was last Saturday and we had a blast. Scott came up with the idea of making capes out of a plastic table cloth for the kids that didn't have one and super hero symbols for them to put on. They also each had silly string as their "power" to spray at each other and at Spiderman. Wonder woman and a clown was there to face paint and make animal balloons. 

Kenzie was showing us her super moves too

These are the symbols that we made

Passing out silly string

Fun games were played

Cake time

What a face....so strong

Sweet Girl

Fun balloons

Happy Birthday sweet boy. We love you!!

4 Years!!!

It brings back such great memories as I look through all of Ryan's pictures the last years. Seeing him for the first time melted my heart and I don't know if I ever could have imagined the joy he would bring me in just 4 years. Everyday is such an adventure with my very active energetic loving son. There are moments when we are both sitting still,which doesn't happen very often, that I look at him and cannot help but smile wondering how I got so blessed to call him mine. 

Ryan, I love you more than I can ever express. The day you were born was one of my most happiest moments ever and the fact that I get to spend each day with someone that brings me such joy is something I hope I never take for granted. Even though you challenge me each day in ways I never thought I would be challenged you bring out a love inside of me that I never thought was there. I pray each day God gives us wisdom to raise you as He would and I promise that with all that is inside of me I will do my best to be the parent that God has called me to be. I love you sweet, sweet boy and I am so happy to be celebrating with you today. 

Super Ryan

In about a week and a half Ryan will turn 4 and have a super hero party. Every chance Ryan gets he dresses up as some kind of super hero. It is so funny to see what he gathers to put on to create this certain hero that he wants to be. He runs around the house in his home-made costume, jumps from couch to couch (yes we have tried to explain he cannot do this everywhere) and makes very interesting faces as he is doing all of this. So since he thinks he is a super hero the party will fit him well. We are looking forward to celebrating our little superhero turning 4. 

Ft Worth Zoo

Ever since Scott and I met we kept saying we wanted to go to the Ft. Worth zoo. Two kids and 7 1/2 years later we finally made it there. Scott had off on Labor Day (yes, I know was a month ago) and we decided to take the WHOLE family. My grandmother, two aunts, uncle, dad and mom went and we had such a great time. McKenzie's favorite was the giraffe's. At home she carries around a big giraffe so to see them actually move was so much fun for her. Ryan loved it all. He spent the whole time running, of course, because he was so excited to see everything. My sweet aunt Del carried Kenzie around the whole time because once out of the stroller there was no way Kenzie was getting back in. We are looking forward to going again one day.

You can see Ryan running to the next thing and there is my aunt caring Kenzie

Ryan laid out the map reading to figure out where we were going.

We got to feed the birds

There is no better way to end the day at the zoo then with ICE CREAM!!! YUMMY

Go Cubs!!!

Ryan's first game was last Wednesday and it was so fun for not only him, but the rest of the 15 people that were there cheering him on. To be completely honest I felt a little nervous before the game. I wanted to make sure I had everything together and he enjoyed himself. the video camera and real camera needed to be in each hand. During the game I kept trying to get the perfect picture as well as the perfect video. Tricky!!! He did such a great job. At one point he was pitching and ran up to get the ball after it was hit and threw it to first base. (of course he did this all with lots of coaching from everyone) It was such a good play with a lot of excitement. When it was all over he yelled out "MOM" from the field. I just knew he was ready to see the excitement on my face and a thumbs up for his great performance, but instead he said "look there is hot air balloon over there." What??? Ok.....hot air balloon???? What about the great play you just made?? Anyway, the important thing is he had so much fun with the game and the scenery. :)

A few pictures before the game

The warm up

Keep your eye on the ball

Run Ryan Run.....

Sitting in the "dugout"

Good game, good game

Snack time after the game

After game meeting

Ryan's fans...all 15 of them. He can never say no one supported him.