We Have A Lot To Be Thankful For!

We spent most of the Thanksgiving week in Abilene. Rylan had a blast with everyone and I got some great pictures. Most of all, this week was just another reminder of how much we have to be thankful for. Enjoy the pictures...there's a lot of them!!

Fun At RoRo's House

RoRo teaching him to go down the stairs on his bottom

Having fun in RoRo's backyard

Playing in the leaves is so much fun!

Helping Papa Feed The Cows

"I can feed the cows just like Papa!"

Rylan "driving" Papa's tractor

Helping Nonni Decorate The Tree...I'm A Big Helper!

Helping (or so he thinks) untangle the beads

Who says you can't hang 5 strands of beads on one limb?!

Concentrating very hard

Photo Shoot At ACU

Walking with daddy

Hope everyone had a great THANKSGIVING!!

A Fun Filled Weekend!!

We have had such a fun weekend. It started off with my mom (RoRo) and my grandmother (Meme) coming into town on Thursday afternoon. They kept Rylan home from daycare on Friday and he had a blast with them! Then, Friday evening my dad, brother and nephew all came in from Albuquerque for my nephew to play in a soccer tournament here in the Dallas area. We spent all day at soccer games and then went back to their hotel for some late night pizza. We finally got back home to our house about 10:00 Saturday night. Today we had another busy, but fun day. We met my dad, brother and nephew at Logan's for lunch before they headed out of town. RoRo and Meme came back home with us for one more night. This afternoon we set up the Christmas tree and also put together Rylan's spring horse. It has been a long weekend, but we've had had a ton of fun and Rylan has entertained everyone!

"Brrrr...It's chilly momma!"

Rylan and daddy playing some soccer on the sideline

Having so much fun with the soccer ball!

When daddy stopped playing with him, Rylan started playing with a girls soccer that was warming up for their game...he doesn't know a stranger

"This soccer thing is kinda fun!"

Parker and Rylan together at lunch

Rylan helped put Santa on top of the tree this year.

Helping pick out the ornaments for the tree

"Put this one on the tree momma!"

Daddy and Rylan doing a little tree decorating

Rylan trying out his spring horse for the first time.

He wasn't too sure about being on his horse by himself so daddy rode with him

Momma's turn to ride

It's So Much More Fun In Mommy & Daddy's Bed!

"It's 5:15am...why is everyone sleeping?!"

"Wake up Boston!!"

"Oh sorry daddy, were you still trying to sleep?"

My Whole World In One Picture

I love this picture of my two boys! I couldn't imagine my life without either of them, and I am blessed beyond my wildest dreams to be Cody's wife and Rylan's mommy.

First He'll Win The Heisman...Then He'll Play Pro Baseball

Cody's football season is over and what do we do? We spend the weekend watching more football! We've spent a lazy Sunday at home watching football games and Rylan has really gotten into it. He LOVES to watch football lately. He's even picked up on the fact that different positions use different stances. He's hilarious to watch!

This is his linebacker stance.

This is his lineman stance.

The Faux Hawk

So I couldn't resist! I am in love with little boys having a faux hawk so we tried it out on Rylan this morning. How cute is he?!!

The Little Lion Is Finally Feeling Better

What a week this has been!! Tuesday afternoon Rylan's school called me around 3:00 to tell me that he was running fever and acting pretty sick. I went to pick him up and made plans to stay home with him on Wednesday. His fever continued into Wednesday and when he woke up from his nap at noon his fever was 104+. I called the pediatrician's office and they had me bring him right in. He had been on an antibiotic for 5 days at this point so the fever was concerning. Well, after the pediatrician checked him out she made the decision to send us to Children's Legacy to have some more test run. So, off I went to Children's. When we got there the doctor decided to start IV access on him and get some blood work. The nurses were great, but unfortunately it took 2 sticks to get the IV. He was a pathetic little site in my lap with his arm all taped up to the arm board. After the lab work came back the doctor came in to tell us that he thought Rylan had Epstein Barr virus on top of the Strep he already had. Rylan's fever finally went away yesterday, but today he broke out in a rash all over his body which makes me fairly positive that he actually had Roseola. We were able to dress him up in his costume and go to Cody's game for a little while. He was pretty popular in the stands with his costume. Anyway, we are thankful that this stressful week has come to an end and Rylan is now fever free!