NEW POST BELOW!
1.22.2010
My first official Playgroup
My first playgroup with my buddies Asher and Isaac, and my girlfriend, Caroline! We had lot's of fun!
NEW POST BELOW!
NEW POST BELOW!
New view from my crib....
After getting him up from his nap the other day I let him stand up holding onto his crib and he thought it was the coolest thing! I guess he had never seen his room from that view before! It's the little things....
1.17.2010
Little Andy
I don't love the fact that he looks so old in this picture! But I do love that he looks just like his daddy!
1.13.2010
Lovin' life......
I know I keep saying this but I just can't believe how much fun being a mom is....I'm so completely in love...Ryder makes me smile all day long! It seems that most people subtract from the number of kids they think they want once they have their first one but Ryder has added to mine! If the Lord so chooses, 5 would be great! (my request to the Lord is to make them all as easy as Ryder though(:
Today we were at a friends house and he all of the sudden started sitting up! I was shocked! Then when I brought him home we made him do it for daddy...
Lookin like his daddy or what?!
Love the butt in the air...
Yes, I am pretty much always as happy as I look in the pic above and as laid back as I look in the pic below!
1.12.2010
Roll Tide from LA!!!
We had an AWESOME trip to LA! It was such a blessing because some of our best friends (Patrick, Noelle, Graham, and baby on the way) just moved out there a few months ago so we got to stay with them which was such a treat! We had a blast getting to catch up with them and see their new life in LA...they showed us around to some of the hot spots that we would have never known about otherwise. Oh, yeah, and then there was a big game out there too....Roll Tide!!!
Dad, my brother Tyler, my cousin Lee, Andy, and my cousin Patton...there were about 5 other family members there that didn't make it in this pic...we have lots of die hard bama fans in the fam!
Cousins!!!
Julie and Andy
Patrick , Andy, and I
Graham and "Mr. Andy"...she wanted him to hold her the entire time we were there!
Lauren and Cameron
Noelle took us to the "farmers market"..this awesome place where they have amazing food..we had some delicious crepes from a zagat rated place..yummy!
at a really cool park...clearly not in the right attire...next time we'll take our hiking clothes because it was so beautiful!
Dad, my brother Tyler, my cousin Lee, Andy, and my cousin Patton...there were about 5 other family members there that didn't make it in this pic...we have lots of die hard bama fans in the fam!
Cousins!!!
Julie and Andy
Patrick , Andy, and I
Graham and "Mr. Andy"...she wanted him to hold her the entire time we were there!
Lauren and Cameron
Noelle took us to the "farmers market"..this awesome place where they have amazing food..we had some delicious crepes from a zagat rated place..yummy!
at a really cool park...clearly not in the right attire...next time we'll take our hiking clothes because it was so beautiful!12.30.2009
Traditions!
As our first Christmas with Ryder was approaching, Andy and I were thinking a lot about traditions and what we wanted to start doing with our little family. I decided to combine two of my favorites from growing up:
1. My mom always gave us an ornament each year that had a significant meaning of that particular year (it might have been from a trip we went on or a hobby I took up etc.)
2. My Aunt always read a meaningful book on Christmas Eve...usually was a kids book but nothing traditional...they were always really creative and had a deep (yet sometimes obvious) spiritual meaning.
So, I decided that every year I want to buy our children an ornament AND a special book...both with lots of thoughtfulness put behind it. I'm going to start a memory book for each child and take a picture each Christmas of them with their ornament and book and then write in the memory book why I bought them that particular book and ornament. (Surely I can keep up with a scrap book that only requires one picture in it a year, right?!!) Although I guess when he's 16 I might be running out of ideas!
For his first Christmas, we stamped his foot and hand on an ornament to remember how tiny and precious he is! For the book, we got him "The tale of Three Trees" which is an awesome folktale about 3 trees that search for their signifance in this world...and end up finding it by allowing the Lord to use them in their own unique way to bring Him Glory (one tree becomes the boat that Jesus road in with Peter, the other becomes the manger for Jesus when he was born, and the third tree becomes the cross where Jesus died). Our prayer for Ryder is that he would become all that God wants him to be!
(P.S. I bought this awesome book by John Piper's wife, Noelle Piper, called "Treasuring God in Our Traditions"....it has some great ideas about how to create meaningful family traditions (not just for holidays but all throught he year!) with Christ as the center)
1. My mom always gave us an ornament each year that had a significant meaning of that particular year (it might have been from a trip we went on or a hobby I took up etc.)
2. My Aunt always read a meaningful book on Christmas Eve...usually was a kids book but nothing traditional...they were always really creative and had a deep (yet sometimes obvious) spiritual meaning.
So, I decided that every year I want to buy our children an ornament AND a special book...both with lots of thoughtfulness put behind it. I'm going to start a memory book for each child and take a picture each Christmas of them with their ornament and book and then write in the memory book why I bought them that particular book and ornament. (Surely I can keep up with a scrap book that only requires one picture in it a year, right?!!) Although I guess when he's 16 I might be running out of ideas!
For his first Christmas, we stamped his foot and hand on an ornament to remember how tiny and precious he is! For the book, we got him "The tale of Three Trees" which is an awesome folktale about 3 trees that search for their signifance in this world...and end up finding it by allowing the Lord to use them in their own unique way to bring Him Glory (one tree becomes the boat that Jesus road in with Peter, the other becomes the manger for Jesus when he was born, and the third tree becomes the cross where Jesus died). Our prayer for Ryder is that he would become all that God wants him to be!(P.S. I bought this awesome book by John Piper's wife, Noelle Piper, called "Treasuring God in Our Traditions"....it has some great ideas about how to create meaningful family traditions (not just for holidays but all throught he year!) with Christ as the center)
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