Upon my mother's request.....a post of neverending pictures!

For New Years Brian's brother Carl and his family came all the way from Fort Collins, CO. Ryanna was in heaven having 2 girls to run around with and a baby boy to look at. She was allowed to touch his toes and thoroughly enjoyed it. The girls had a great time at our 6pm New Year's Eve party. Listen to Ryanna "blow" on the noise maker. Enjoy the chaos.


Devon awarded us with smiles to melt our hearts. I was lucky enough to catch this one on film.
My main New Year's resolution is to be more domestic by cooking and having a dinner plan for the week. This is the first batch of cinnamon rolls I tried and everyone ate them so that's a good sign. We've also been eating my bread all week which makes me feel like a little Elna. :) Ryanna asks for honey bread every meal giving me motivation to keep this up.
Coloring while wearing a sleeping beauty dress and a pumpkin hat. A daily occurance.
So it has finally happened. Ryanna has moved out of the "baby room" with the crib and is now 100% moved into the "big girl room" with the toddler bed(thanks Josh and Kristen!). Pink bear, Daisy(they puppy from Uncle Jim), and glow baby are her constant companions and she reads to them. She's really growing up!

So here is the Sleeping Beauty dress I bought for her on clearance after Halloween. Behind her is the princess table and chairs from Grandma and Grandpa Scoffield which she loves.

Check out the house she made for her ponies. Maybe she'll be an architect.

Christmas morning fun!

Ryanna's haul: blocks, stroller, dolly, books, puzzles, ponies, clothes, hat from Grandma Baldwin, and Daisy puppy(that Uncle Jim gave her when he visited a few weeks ago).

Brian's haul: 2 video games, clothes, video, pedigree from his Mom

Kristin's gift from Brian: a bench for our entryway to store shoes in. This was exactly what I wanted and am so grateful that Santa delivered!

Here it is. It looks so good! The shoes used to be scattered all over making a mess and looking horrible.

This was the first day we played in the snow and Ryanna had fun.....as long as her boots weren't getting snow on them. She would get upset and say "sorry boots, sorry boots" whenever snow touched them.

It's hilarious to dump an entire bowl of applesauce on our head......why doesn't Mom see the humor?

Ryanna and I read through the nativity story and Ryanna loved it. She wanted to know the name of every piece as we set it up. Her favorite was baby Jesus and all month long she would get out the book and find him.Getting home from church with her hair still in place!!!!