THERE'S JUST NO WAY

I was feeling a little old when my sweet little boy Rylan turned five. Then today these boys went to their first HIGH SCHOOL dance and I am feeling REALLY old!

This group of boys have been best friends sense Kindergarten, and they were 4 when I went to my first Sadie's dance. There is 12 years between Cody and I and now that Cody is 16 all I can think about is what he was like when I was at his age. My friends just loved him, he was the only 4 year we knew that could hang out with us until midnight or sometimes 1am. My friends and I spent a lot of time at my house and he was always right there. He never missed anything and the truth is we all loved him hanging around. I am so glad that Cody love's High School as much as I did. Cody and his girlfriend, Breezy were broken up for a little while and so his friend Katlyn asked him to Sadie's before he decided he just loved Breezy so much!

RYLAN'S 1st CAVITY

I took the kids to the dentist a few weeks back to have their teeth cleaned. Paislee had beautiful teeth and Rylan ended up with 2 cavities. So today I had the wonderful pleasure of taking my son to the dentist to have his first cavity filled. They gave him some laughing gas to help relax him, and he sure enjoyed it. He was trying so hard to talk and once he realized that we couldn't understand him with all the stuff in his mouth he just laughed and laughed. He kept asking me to hold his hands and I kept telling him I was. After about 5 times of me telling him I was holding his hands I pulled are hands up so he could see that we were in fact holding hands. He started to laugh again and then told me yet again to hold his hands. Needless to say he was a hoot on the laughing gas!

When it was all over he got to choose a toy!!!

A DOGGY DOG NIGHT

We have had some difficult times the last few weeks with dogs and when our German Sheppard starting loosing her hair I thought the drama was starting again. I am not talking about a little shedding, I am talking clumps of hair left through out my house. I was starting to worry the other dogs might be picking on her. I told Jordan if she is sick she is in big trouble because we can't afford to take her to the vet. I asked Jordan to brush her out and see if he can determine what exactly is wrong with this dog. I went up stairs and about 30 minutes later I was in shock. There was a whole other dog laying on my floor.

This morning I took about 10 minutes before I showered and brushed her again. I got a pile of hair about the size of a cat!

I now know why Cruella Deville wanted a coat made out of puppy fur, it soooo soft!

BALL TIME

We had the Bouncy House a few days and one night I could hear Rylan telling Paislee to hurry up before Mom sees what we are doing. As a mother that is never a good thing to hear! I walked around the corner and saw this:

They had taken all the balls from the ball bucket and thrown them in the bouncy house!!! I couldn't help but smile.

RYLAN

RYLAN

44 inches (75th %)

39.8 pounds (50th %)

Rylan's likes at the ripe old age of

FIVE

~BAKUGANS

~Playing with his Bakugan's

~Watching Bakugan video's on You Tube

~Sleeping in the chair in mom's room at night

~Going to Grandma Zip's to build Lego's

~Going to Grandma Coache's to play volleyball

~Playing with his sister (most of the time)

~Going to Primary

~Riding the horses with Grandpa Mark

~Driving his jeep to the park

~Dropping toys of the balcony

~Making sure Mom knows it was Paislee's idea when things get thrown of the balcony

~Just staying home

~Staying in his pajama's all day

~Taking long baths

~Dancing the the music with his sister Paislee

~Scoobie Doo

~Cartoon Network

~Playing games with his family

~Snuggle time with Mom

~Pink Milk

When Rylan grows up he wants to be a Basketball Player like Uncle Cody!

What I love about Rylan

~I love his love for his sister

~I love his love for animals

~I love his love for his extended family

~I love his tender heart

~I love that he asks me if i miss him when he is not with me and tells me how much he missed me
~I love that he stays in his pajamas as long as he can get away with it

~I love that he is finally enjoying Primary

~I love that he enjoys playing outside so much

~I love all his many facial expressions and constint rolling of his eyes

~I love that he always tells me how much he loves me

WHAT CAN I SAY I JUST LOVE THIS BOY

RYLAN IS 5!!!!

I truly have no clue where these five years have gone. I can't believe how grown up Rylan is becoming. This year Rylan wanted to invite a few of his friends to his birthday party so we brought Grandma Zip's bouncy house over and set it up in our formal living room. The kids had a blast with it in the house. With me being new to actual birthday parties I thought it would be fun to have a pinata, instead of doing goody bags for the kids. Not really thinking that it would be cold and dark out side, well I figured that out real fast and we moved the pinata inside!

We had to have cousin Jordan give it a good hit to get the candy out of it!

Earlier in the day Katilyn and Grandma came over to give Rylan a few surprises.BAKUGAN sheets!!!

Rylan was so anxious for Dad to get home so he could open his presents!

DISNEY ON ICE

Wednesday night I surprised Rylan and Paislee and took them to see Disney on Ice. I was a little worried about taking them both by myself, but they were way to excited to cause any trouble!!! The excitement Rylan had as we walked into the Thomas & Mack was the best feeling ever. Paislee kept asking if we were at Disneyland. (With all the vender's you would have thought so) It was a great night and the show was really good. Earlier in the day I told them we were going to go bowling. It didn't take long for Rylan to figure out that we weren't going bowling. He was guessing all the way there what we were doing. He was not happy to not know what was going on. He must get that from his dad!!!

Silly me thought the show started at 7pm and it really started at 7:30 so we were about an hour early, but they sure didn't care.

Minnie, Micky, Goofy & Donald

My favorite was Cars!

Timon & Pumba, Lion King

Sebastian, Little Mermaid

They also had Tinkerbell and the Fairy's but Paislee had to go to the bathroom, twice in that part so I didn't get any pictures.

URGENT CARE

Sunday nights at my moms are never a dull occasion. Last Sunday Uncle Jake and Uncle Cody started to get feisty. They started to wrestle and of course Rylan had to get right in the middle of it all. Jake ended up rolling his entire 225 pound body onto Rylans 5 pound foot. Rylan cried for a minute and then went back to playing so I really didn't think much about it until he woke up at 4 am in pain. You would think a good mother would have taken him to the doctor Monday morning, well not me. I let him keep walking on it until Friday when he was crawling around the house instead of using his foot. Yes I know, there will not be any mother of the year awards coming my way. Luckily he just has a really bad sprain and he should be using it so it doesn't get stiff. He is still not using the foot like the doctor told him to, but at least I know it isn't broken!!!

Sitting in the waiting room

Waiting for the doctor

The hurt foot

Getting X-rays

TO INFINITY AND BEYOND

Rylan has always liked Disney's Toy Story, I wouldn't say it is a favorite but he likes it. Well my children were in desperate need of pajamas, so on Black Friday Jordan and I went to Walmart and got some pajamas for both Rylan and Paislee. We got Rylan a pair of Buzz pajamas and because the choices were limited I got Paislee a pair of Woody pajamas. Boy was I in trouble. You would have thought Paislee's world was crashing down on her. She was so upset that she didn't have Buzz pajamas. Luckily they had Buzz pajamas at Kohl's when I was there the next day. How was I supposed to know she loved the Buzz so much?!? The problem now is that Rylan doesn't like to match his sister. This was a very rare event to have them both wearing their Buzz pajamas last night!

Please excuse her hair, she had it in pigtails that day!

BICYCLE ADVENTURES

Jordan and I were more excited to give Rylan his bike for Christmas this year than Rylan was to get it. He didn't hardly acknowledge that the bike was sitting under the tree let alone wanting to get on the bike. For a little boy who can not spend enough time outside, we were pretty disappointed that he was not excited. Once Christmas was over and the new toys just weren't as great as the day before he started to get on the bike. Before I knew it I had black skid markers all over my kitchen. He was definitely into the bike. Thursday after spending the the afternoon over at the park he wanted the training wheels OFF! I was a little worried about this because it had only been a week that he truly had ever ridden a bike. Once daddy got home the first thing Rylan did was ask him to take the training wheels off. So off they came!!! Jordan spent about an hour in the cult-a-sack with him. I couldn't believe, first that my husband was so patient with Ryland and second, that Rylan was actually doing really good. He has practiced a few times and is getting to the point were we might be ready to venture out of the cult-a-sack.

Paislee wanted a turn too!!!

GOODBYE 2009 HELLO 2010

I would like to happily say good bye to 2009! 2009 was an incredibly humbling year for me. Jordan lost his job for the second time in March, and I lost mine in May. I was lucky to find a new job very quickly and it has turned out to be a very big blessing. Jordan has had a few side jobs and ended up spending the whole summer in Utah working. It is crazy how you can go from feeling like you have enough to live nicely to having no money and yet still feel like you have it all. With that I would like to say good bye to 2009. Dear 2009, Thank you for giving me the experiences my life truly needed, thank you for teaching me how to live with not much and yet truly learn to love. Thank you for teaching me to trust in the lord. Thank you for teaching me patience and what is important. Thank you for letting me grow in these experiences without regret. However 2009, we must part ways taking from you what I learned and moving forward with surety of FAITH that I know I have the best in my life, and yet I have so much to look forward to! Please 2010 please be nicer to my family. I am just not to sure how much more I can take!