I guess I shouldn't wait so long to post, cause I can not for the life of me remember anything that has happened the last few weeks. So this post may be a bit boring and a bit scattered, but here it goes. We have had a few Birthdays. Danny's brother Bryan's birthday was on January 17th. He turned 21, but he is getting ready to serve a mission for his church, so we were not able to celebrate with him. Then our Niece Lexi turned 2 on Jan. 23. Danny's Dad had a birthday on Jan 31st, And finally our sister in law Latasha turned the big 30 on Feb 3rd. I think that covers all the birthdays.

Our little girl is just getting so big. She is 51/2 months already. She is developing such a personality. She already seems to have an attitude. We have tried her on a few different baby foods, but so far she has hated everyone. She is pretty much sitting up unassisted now. She doesn't seem like she is even close to crawling. We are kind of torn with this one. We want her to start crawling, but aren't quite sure if we are ready for her to be Mobile yet. She is a very happy baby. She got her second set of shots on Jan 21st. That is just the worst feeling for me. I hate when she is in pain. She has had her first fever and ear infection this past weekend. We went to Laughlin to celebrate Latasha's bday and my Dad watched Rylee. When we were pulling back into town, Anne called and said she was running a fever. She did so for about 5 days. We thought it was teething at first, but decided to take her to the doctor, just to be safe. Come to find out she had an ear infection. They gave her some antibiotics. Which is just about impossible to give to her. She just spits it back out. We have tried all sorts of stuff, but she is stubborn. Well I will move on. If you want to know more about her, visit her blog.

We had a super bowl part this past weekend, because both our teams were in it. I am a Saints fan and Danny is a Colts fan. My Saints whipped up on Danny's Colts. He was quite the sore loser about it too. It was a good time though. We were going to get a bounce castle for the kids, but because it had been raining, the company cancelled, so I had to get some other things to keep them occupied. I got some side walk chalk that was apparently a hit, because all the kids used it. Mostly on my back wall. It is actually kinda cool, so I haven't washed it off yet. Well, I can't remember much more so I will leave you with some pictures. I guess they are mainly for you Brandi, cause I'm not sure if anybody else reads this, so here ya go.

Abbie and Paige writing on the concrete.

Some of the nice artwork done on my back wall.

Baby Lexi and Cason. So cute.

Some of are Super Bowl guests.

The rest of our super bowl guests.

The kids hanging out outside.

Trying to give Rylee her medicine.

Rylee not feeling well. This one breaks my heart.

She is much happier in this one. Her and Daddy were playing.

She is getting so big. (tear)

Her fun Bouncer.

Daddy and Rylee sporting there Colts gear.

Daddy was picking on her. She didn't seem to mind.

She is like a bird. Cover her eyes and she will sleep. J/k

Bryan's farewell, 1st Christmas, cousins from Tucson.

Well it has been over a month so lets see if I can remember everything that has happened. The first thing that we did was have a farewell for Danny's brother Bryan. He is going to be serving a mission in Argentina and will be gone for two years. We are really going to miss him. I can't believe Rylee will be two by the time he gets back. We are very proud of him. He is doing something he believes in. Here are some photos from that night.

Us with Bryan

Bryan with Rylee

Grandpa with Rylee, He is doing very well for everything he went through.

Uncle Bryan with his nieces and nephew.

Next was Rylee's first Christmas Eve and Christmas. For as long as I can remember, we have had Christmas Eve at my Grandma's. I love having that tradition. We all get together and play games and just mingle and have a great time. A few years ago we started trying to see how many people we can fit into my Grandma's downstairs bathroom. Not really sure why we started this, but it is fun. I think this was our third year doing it. So far every year we have beat our record from the year before. I think we got like 33 people in there this year. It is fun. We also play a dice game every year. Everybody pitches in and buys some cheap presents. We have a timer and two plates with 2 dice on them. You have to roll doubles and then you get to pick a present from the center. If all the presents are gone before the time runs out, you get to steal from someone. Well last year Barry decided to wrap a pair of underwear filled with holes. One of the little kids opened them last year. It was so funny. Well needless to say, he brought them again this year. Jacob got them this year and decided to model them for all of us. He gets to keep them till next year, when the next lucky person will get to unwrap them. Here are some photo's from Christmas Eve.

The family Christmas Eve.

Rylee and Cousin Braelynn.

The crowded bathroom.


Jacob and the famous underwear.

Rylee and her first cupcake.

The next day was Christmas. It started out at my Dad's really early. After that we headed to Danny's mom's. Then to my mom's. And finally we ended up at Danny's dads. It was a very long day. Rylee was pretty cranky by the time we got home. She got a ton of gifts though. She definitely made out. Here are some photo's from Christmas.

Rylee eating a candy cane.

Rylee with her presents.

Me and my baby girl.

Rylee in her cute out fit.

Rylee checking out her gift.

Well next was New Year's, I don't have any photos. We didn't even make it till midnight. We started out by going out to dinner with Amy and Albert. Then, we headed to my mom's where we played some games. It is really hard to make it till midnight. Whenever I can get some sleep I take advantage of it. Since I don't have any photo's of New Years, we will move on.

Danny's basketball has started up. They haven't started out to good. I think they have lost there first two games. He plays on Wednesday nights. I go and try to watch, but usually end up talking to his family or Brandi. He also bowls on Thursday nights. This past Thursday we went to watch him. Well, we usually watch him every Thursday and he hasn't done very well with us there, so when we went and bought Rylee new clothes we bought her an outfit that says Daddy's Lucky Charm. Well she wore it this Thursday and daddy did really good. She also decided she wanted to drink through a straw this Thursday too. I was just giving her a small amount of water with the straw and she started sucking it out, so I put the straw in the water and let her suck away. She figured it out pretty quickly. It was so funny too, because when she would suck the water up, it would startle her and she would just let the water run out of her mouth.

Friday night we met up with his family in laughlin. Danny wasn't feeling very well so we left pretty early. We weren't winning anyways. Saturday we headed to Amy's for the football games. Both our teams won. Go Saints and Colts. We didn't stay there to long either because Danny was sick. We went back there today to say goodbye to his cousins. It was good to see them. His cousin Talon has a daughter that is 3 months older then Rylee. They weren't to sure about each other. Well, here are a few more photos.

Rylee and Addison.

Rylee fell asleep in her swing.

Rylee in a walker playing with some toys.

Trying to eat Daddy's sweethearts.

Last but not least. There have been two birthdays that I missed. My Stepdad Chesters was December 21st, and our niece Tori's was January 12th. Happy belated birthday to you both. Apparently I don't have any pictures of you Chester. I will have to work on that. Sorry, I love you.

I think I need a lesson on this posting thing. Everytime I try to post with pictures it ends up taking me hours to do it. Everytime I try to add photos they go up to the top of my post and then I have to move them all down, so you experienced poster, if you have any secrets, please please fill me in. Thanks.

Our first Thanksgiving with Rylee!

Well the last few weeks haven't been to exciting. In fact I really can't recall much of what we did. That could be lack of sleep:), who knows. We did have our very first Thanksgiving with our bundle of joy. I was so excited for it too. She isn't old enough to do anything, so really not sure why I was so excited, but I was. We started out going to my Dads. We had Rylee all dressed up in a pretty dress and right before we left the house she decided to puke all over it. Apparently she didn't like it very much. She is very picky about her clothes:). Anyways, back to Thanksgiving. We spent a few hours and my Dad's, the we headed over to Danny's sister Amy's. We luckily only had two dinners to go to. We usually have 4. We enjoyed our day, but Rylee got a little overwhelmed I think. She didn't really nap and got passed around a lot. We then had another dinner Friday at my Mom's. It is always nice to have another dinner the day after. We don't have to worry about rushing everywhere. We just relaxed the rest of the weekend. Here are some photos from Thanksgiving.

Rylee with Grandpa John.

Here she is looking as cute as ever.

Thanksgiving at my mom's on Friday.

She is just being cute here.

Danny's sister also got married November 16th. It was about time:). Here are a few photos of that.

What a happy family!

Baby Lexi wouldn't leave their sides. So cute.

I will post a few more random but adorable photos.

so cute


Daddy loves to put her on his shoulders

Scrappy is so tired.

Abbie's bday party

We had Jess and Brandi over for the fights and he not only got our daughter to sleep, but our cat enjoyed him as well.

The last two weeks

Well, we have been pretty busy the last two weeks. With birthdays and working and everything else, it is hard to stay up to date on this posting thing. November 1st was my step moms birthday. I think I already posted about that, so I will move on. My dad had his surgery on November 2nd. They were making sure that his skin cancer didn't spread and that they got it all. He was pretty sore for about a week, but is doing great now. He got great news too. The cancer didn't spread anywhere and they did get it all the first time around. We are all so relieved. Danny's dad is also out of the hospital. Which is just amazing. He is still pretty weak, but doing great considering he had massive surgery on his heart. We are so lucky that both of our dads are going to be okay. Thank you to everybody that said a prayer. Last weekend was very busy. Well mainly just Sunday. It was Abbie and Alberts Birthdays. We went to Abbie's first. She was so cute. I will post pictures later. I am on the wrong computer right now. Then we went to Alberts. We hung out there for a while and then headed to Brandi and Jess's because they had Paige's party also on Sunday. Her birthday was on Nov 6th. We took her present over after the party. We didn't make it in time for the party. Needless to say, we were not home at all on Sunday. Poor Danny didn't get to watch any football. This last week has been pretty busy with work. We are using a new appt system at work and it has been quite a task learning and getting used to it. It should be nice once we are used to it, but for now it seems like it takes forever to get anything done. This past Thursday Rylee got her first set of shots. So sad. She did pretty good though. She did scream, but it didn't take long for us to comfort her. On Friday, I went to Laughlin with my Dad and Anne. I played blackjack pretty much all night. I love blackjack. Danny stayed home with Rylee. He is such a great Daddy. Finally today. We didn't do to much. We did a little bit of cleaning and then just watched football. My Saints are 9-0. Woo Hoo. First time in Franchise history. Danny's team was also undefeated, but it is not looking so great for them now. The Colts can't hang with the Patriots. Danny hates Tom Brady with a passion. Well, I will Definitely post pictures later. I figured while I had a free moment though, that I would go ahead and give an update.

Rylee is 2 months old!

Well, where to begin. It has been a long two weeks. Danny's dad had to have open heart surgery. It has been 2 1/2 weeks since the surgery. It was very scary there for a while. He didn't do to well in the beginning. His heart would go into a weird rythm and they would have to shock it back into the correct rythm. He just looked so bad laying there. He is doing much better now. The took him off the ventilator at the end of last week. He is still very week, but it is good to be able to talk to him and see him. While we were at the hospital, Rylee decided to roll over twice. She rolled from her back to her tummy two times. I couldn't believe it. She is doing so much. She has also found her feet. It is so funny. She will just sit there and stare at them. Speaking of Rylee, she is 2 months old today. She is growing so fast:(. She hasn't really been feeling well though. She is full of boogers. I feel so bad when I have to use the suction thing on her, but she can't breath if I don't. Last night was Halloween. She was a witch, but we didn't keep her costume on for very long. She just didn't seem very comfortable in it. We did however get some pictures of her in it a few days ago when we carved pumkins. I will post a few pictures on here, but if you want to see more, just go to her totsite. That website is www.totsites.com/tot/babyrylee09 . That site is just for her.

Now on to a few other things. Today is my stepmothers bday. Happy Birthday Anne. She and my dad are on their way up to Cottonwood. My dad has to have a minor surgery tomorrow at the Mayo Clinic. We love you Dad and hope for a speedy recovery. Not a whole lot has happened since the last post. Oh wait, I forgot to add something about Little Miss Rylee. On Halloween we were up in Vegas visiting Danny's dad. It was in the morning, I was all ready to go and was playing with Rylee on the bed. I was doing Superman with her, when she decided to puke all over my face. THANK GOD I had my mouth closed. You know they always say not to do that kind of stuff because the baby will puke on you, but I had never seen it happen. Until now. So needless to say I had to rewash my hair and redo my makeup. I could smell baby puke all day because of it. Anyways, now time for some pictures.

Happy Birthday Anne! We love you.

Here is my baby girl!

The cat with her paw on Rylee's butt.

My little witch.

Our sweet pumkins.

This was the same outfit my first baby pictures were taken in.