365 DAYS

Well, Ryan is a year old now. It seems that time has past so quickly but at the same time, he seems to have become such a part of our lives that he has been around for much longer. He also seems to act much older at times, exerting such a huge personality for such a tiny body! We are so happy to have little Ryan in our family. On his birthday we had a party with family and friends to celebrate the occasion. It was really fun and even though I am certain Ryan had no idea what was going on, he seemed to have a great time. We were so excited to have so many of his friends celebrate with us.

Funny, the entire time, Ryan had a baseball balloon tied to his belt loop because he kept getting frustrated when the balloon would get away from him. If you look in the pictures, in some of them you can see the balloon floating above his head. And we still have all of the balloons at home, he has been playing with them while they slowly deflate!

This picture is for Sara. This is the banner that I found online. The party was a baseball theme.

Ryan opening his presents with Mom and Dad. It was a little challenging to keep him interested....he wanted to look at everything except the presents!

Ryan in his cutie baseball shirt!

The cake! I made it with my friend Tami, when she went with me to order it and they said it would be over $200, we decided we could make it ourselves...I mean hello, I have seen like a million Ace of Cakes episodes. It turned out pretty good. The balls and the bat are made of chocolate!

Ryan enjoying a chocolate baseball....it was his birthday after all.


I can't believe he is already a year. Time has flown by too fast. We love you Ryan!!

A Quarter of Century

Well, my 25th birthday came and went. To make it seem like a bigger deal, I have been referring to myself as a quarter of a century. It makes me sound older, or maybe just ridiculous. The day was fun, we went to the Cheesecake Factory...and like my friend Chris says, when you have 10 pages of "specialities" are they really that special? I think not. I was given a telephoto lens for my birthday which was totally awesome!


Other than that, we recently got back from the beach. Which was really awesome...except for Hurricane Gustav being there are the same time as us. The first day was beautiful and really warm. The second day was nice but kind of windy. By the third day, the beach was gone and the Gulf had swollen all the way up to the condo we were staying in. Luckily, we were only there for the long weekend so we were heading home anyway. We were excited because our friends Ginny and Shawn came with us and of course brought their little girl Charlotte.


While we were there, we put Ryan in this trampoline bungee thing and I have the best video ever, so stay tuned, but I will post a picture of it right now. The thing is, he was the smallest kid there, (obviously as he barely met the 20 lbs requirement) and people all over were watching him. Some of them thought he would pop right out the top and I'm sure they thought I was a bad parent for putting him it but he LOVED it. And he cried when we took him out. The beach was pretty low key and we had a good time just getting away. Enjoy the pics!!

Ryan hanging out on the balcony. He loved it out there. This is also one a MILLION crackers that he ate while we were there. It seemed to be his food of choice.

The view from the balcony.

Ryan getting started on the bungee trampoline!

He was squealing and flapping his arms the whole time, it was hysterical!!

They had this kidzone area, which had like sprayers and stuff. Ryan liked it, Charlotte did not! The huge bucket of splashing water freaked her out! I don't know if Ginny knows I took that picture :)

Mom and Ryan in the lazy river. This would have been a lot more fun if I had a tube myself, but since I was keeping up with Ryan I just walked around with his little floatie.

That is Matt body surfing in the double red flag waves. Ginny, Shawn and I were laughing so hard. It was awesome.