:: Our Big Boy ::

Ryker had his first encounter with a dog {Georgia} and he LOVES them. He doesn't even mind big doggy kisses. I love how he reaches for her all on his own. The other night at dinner he was sitting in the high chair and Georgia came up to him and he was just a giggling like crazy. 

Don't judge me and my crazy wet hair in this picture. Notice Ryker sitting up all on his own. He is getting pretty good at it. 

:: Parker and Ryker unite ::

I love my Paris girls. We will always and for very be great friends. Even though I am the only one from Utah we still always manage to meet up here. It works out great. We missed you Jaclyn Peterson :(

 This is Samantha's I don't think I could handle twins face. And Ryker's Please don't drop me face. 

 My girls and our baby boys. It was fun to meet Parker finally. He was so sweet and tiny. Both babies did great at lunch and Brady was a trooper being our photographer and enduring the girl chat. 

 Ryker loving on Auntie Samantha. 

 Marissa giving a classic Marissa face. Love it. She was not used to holding such a big guy. 

Sweet little Parker just slept the entire time. It was such a change to be holding such a tiny guy. I hope we can keep up the tradition of seeing each other often even as we grow up and have families of our own. 

:: Ryker's First Plane Ride ::

Ryker did really well on his first plane ride. He slept for most of our fist flight and played with his toys really well. He even got spoiled and got to share a laffy taffy with daddy. He LOVED it. He was not very happy when we took it away from him. He already is like his daddy and has a LOVE for candy. 

They sweet flight attendant could not get enough of this sweet little guy. 

When we got to Denver we almost missed our connecting flight. It took them forever to get the stroller and once we finally got tiny in we had 15 minuets to sprint 20 gates to catch our plane. Lets just say it was a sight to see us running down the terminal with me pushing the stroller like a crazy woman in heals and Brady not far behind with 60 pounds of carry on's. We were about dying after our little sprint because of the altitude change. Our lungs could not quite handle it. But we made our flight and that is the most important part. 

:: Delta Gang Party ::

Oh how we LOVE our Delta friends. They are the best. Tom and Amanda were great host of a Welcome Home party for us, Meet Ryker, Happy Birthday Brittney, and Merry Christmas Party. It has been six months since we have seen our wonderful friends and it was good to be home and party like the good old days with them. 

 I love my Delta Wives club and have missed our girls nights. Marrying Brady introduced me to so many wonderful girls. I did not have very many girl friends before these gals came along and I am so lucky to have them be my friends. It is always so much fun that we all get along so well and all of our husbands are best friends also. Now lets just hope our munchkins will all be friends also. 

 The boys! Brady was so giddy to see all of his best friends. He has missed them all very much. These guys are so funny when they all get together. They make the rest of us laugh our heads off. 

 Ryker and Hayden got to finally meet. They loved each other so much. 

Two hot mama's and our little studs. It is hard to believe that Hayden is 7 months older than Ryker. Ryker weighs as much as him {maybe more} and he is getting close to catching him in hight. These two little guys did so great all night long. We even kept them up well past their bedtimes and they were just as happy as can be. Which made for happy parents that we got to stay and hangout longer. 

I can't wait for our New Years Eve Party to see everyone again. 

:: Finished ::

I did it. I finally finished Ryker's room. I had this idea in my head since before Ryker was born to create this tree and I finally completed. I learned how to make the tree out of contact paper with the help of Erin and thanks to my Cricket for the fun birds, owls, and dragon flys. I think it turned out great and completed his room. 

:: Christmas in Atlanta ::

Even though we were only in Atlanta for 2 weeks in December I still decorated our house for Christmas and Ryker got to open one present before we flew home to Utah.

 I know I am a lame mom and didn't get Ryker his own stocking yet. Next year then he will actually be able to enjoy it. 

 My favorite part of Christmas and the decorations is the yummy candles. I love the smell of Christmas. 

 I was having so much fun with my Cricket one night I ended up making all kinds of creations. 

 Contact paper is my newest addiction. You can make anything out of this stuff and its so cheap. I love it. We always get a real tree but this year we did not since we were not going to be in Georgia for very long to enjoy it. My friend Erin had this great idea to make one on the wall. I love how it turned out. It will have to work for now. 

 Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas. 

Ryker and Daddy got to open a present (Thanks Pete and Shellie) before we left for Utah. Too bad we didn't have time to play with it before we left. Ryker was not too interested in opening it. Lets hope Christmas morning he has more fun with gifts. 

:: Brady ::

Yes. Brady is alive. Bearly. But alive. 

He has had a very tough semester and has been studying his brains out. You have not seen him much on here because we {Ryker and I} I not seen him much either. We are so excited he will be done with finals in 3 days and then we get Brady Michael {not school Brady} for a month of vacation. 

 bahahahahhahaha . . . .  I was downloading pictures tonight and found these beauties on the camera. So Brady did "no shave November" with his "bro's" at school. I was not a fan of it AT ALL. So December 1 before Brady went to bed {2am} shaved this sexy stash. 

 While looking at these pictures for the first time I might have laughed so hard I peed a little. 

I am SUPER glad this is the face I woke up to. Nice and smooth with no facial hair. That is my kind of man. I love you sweets. 

And just a little bit of Ryker. I keep trying to catch him talking and laughing on video but he gets all camera shy every time I pull it out. I need to work on my sneakieness. 

:: sissy in town ::

The week before Thanksgiving Kelsey and her girls {Ali and Sophi} came to Atlanta for vacation and a past due sister week of fun. The hardest part about growing up has been having my family be spread across the world and not being able to physically enjoy their company and their munchkins grow. I am truly blessed to live in this day and age where we have cell phones, the internet, and my favorite skype. Through these wonderful inventions a am able to see my sweet loved ones around the world and still feel apart of their lives and it allows my nieces and nephews to not forget me and my sweet baby Ryker. 

Ryker and Sophi first meeting. They are going to be best friends just like Liam and Ali are. I love that they are so close in age. 

Hop on board Ali's train. We got lots of morning play time. 

 Ryker and Sophi having fun doing their daily exercise of tummy time while watching the singing cow. Oh and yes that is a pile of spit up under Ryker. This is how tummy time rolls at our house. It makes him spit up big time and then he usually face plants it in the yucky spit up pile before I can wipe it up. 

 Ali did such a good job climbing at the park. 

 These were crazy bumpy slides that Kels and Ali had tons of fun racing down. 

 My sweet Ryker baby. Kell-a-bell and I were getting many weird looks as we were crawling through tunnels and chasing Ali around the playground with Ryker and Sophi in the Bjorn's and bouncing like crazy.  It was a great workout. 

 Ryker being a "typical" boy and picking on Sophi and trying to steal her binki. 

 My favorite place to take people when they come to town. The largest aquarium in the country. It was Ali's first aquarium visit and she had a blast seeing all of the fish and she really liked touching the stingrays and sharks. 

 Checking out the beautiful Amazon fish. 

 Kell.a.bell. must have been missing Anthony a lot this day because she was trying to smooch this fishy. 

Kell.a.bell. was super sweet and helped my back out and traded me babies. Carrying a 19 lb baby in the Bjorn is not so nice on the back for long periods of time. Oh and my tiny guy was a trooper at the aquarium  he had just gotten shots that morning. Good think his Auntie Kels gave him lots of loves.  

Snuggle time with Auntie Kell.a.bell. We had fun hanging out in our PJ's playing with the kids, cooking, eating, sewing, crafting, staying up late-ing, laughing until we cry-ing, reading cook books, playing games-ing, and skyping with Mugs all week. We didn't leave the house too much but we didn't even care. We had a blast and I can't wait to have another sister vacation. 

 Ali was pretty good at blowing bubbles in her milk at dinner. She got to have lots of pink milk while at my house. 

 Brady was here. But not really. School. School. and more School. On our way to Tennessee for Thanksgiving. Can you tell how excited Ryker was to be in his car seat for 2 hours. My poor guy HATES the car. Brady even tried teaching how to drive and he was not thinking it was cool. Give it a few years Brady. 

 NANA!!!!! 

These 3 were so excited to see their Nana!

Sister's are the BEST!!! 

:: A Tennessee Thanksgiving ::

For Thanksgiving this year we decided to all {Pete + family, Kels + family, Nana & Papa, and me + family} meet in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It was a do'able drive for all of us. Brady and I got the best end of the deal it was only a 2 hour drive for us. It was so fun Nana and Papa rented a cabin so we could all be together.  

Dance Party. Take one. 

We all arrived on Wednesday. Later that night Papa broke out a super cool toy that we all enjoyed for the weekend - glow sticks. Yes, we know our family has mad dancing skills.

Nana and Pete chillin with Tiny {Ryker} and Little Squish {Sophi}.

Sweet Bells kept having me take pictures of her and then she would look at them to make sure they were good enough. This one was her favorite. I love that as soon as she walked into the house with her backpack she came to me and sat down in my lap and had me read her a book. It made my day that she loved on me and she had not seen me in a year. She was also my ice cream buddy. Anytime I was eating a bowl she would alway find me and ask me to share with her.

The one and only HAPPY THANKSGIVING picture. I know lame that I didn't take more but Nana was loving hanging out with most {we missed you Liam and Lyra} of her grand babies.

My Ryker baby had his first HUGE blow out on this trip. He was covered from head to toe in poop. We couldn't find the camera before we got him in the bath or should I say sink. It was pretty funny Ali said "eewww Ryker has poop in his hair". It made me laugh pretty hard. How can you be mad at this cute face? It's too kissable.

We played tons of games all weekend and it was JUST what we needed! I love playing games and eating treats until the weee hours of the morning while laughing until I cry.

The BEST part of the day was hearing Pappy gobble like a turkey. Don't judge me because I look 9 months prego in this video - just listen to Pappy.

This is what happens to us when we are up past our bedtime. We turn CRAZY!

Joey, Arabella, and Ali were playing so cute together. So much cousin fun!

Getting ready to go on our first train ride. It was FREEZING on Friday. Very different from the day before when it was t-shirt weather. Winter in the south is VERY different from Utah winter. Here it can't seem to make up its mind if it wants to be cold winter weather or warm fall weather. It makes for dressing tricky.

I love Ryker's new puppy dog coat. Thanks Nana.

Our good looking family. Love ya'll and I am so grateful we were able to go on this vacation together.

Hop on board the animal train, the animal train, learning about letters really is lots of fun. I totally had this song from the toy train in my head the entire time.

Sophi it's OK I would be sad too if my hat was twisted and covering my eye. I love this picture of the Booth family.

Now I didn't see this but Pete did and I'm sure glad he took a picture because we sure did miss you Mugsie and of course you are the one we thought of when we saw this truck.

The WII is a great family gaming unit. Even Pappy got into playing it.

Rabner family. This picture is perfect for them being in front of a train - these boys LOVE trains.

This is where these three wholagens spent most of their time. They made a pretty good team at Mario.

We had a blast being together and you would have thought that Brady and I would have taken at least one picture of the 3 of us and some how we didn't. So lets hope we are better with the camera over Christmas so Ryker can have good memories of his first Christmas.