Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

Seems like this is the only post I can get done these days...I've got lots of things going on just not the time to blog.

Wordless Wednesday

Gunner's Birthday Party...finally he is 5!
Been claiming 5 since he was 2!
(this pic is a few months old)


Rylee is having fun with her dress up stuff she got for Christmas from MeeMaw!

Short Order Cook and The Menu

***woohoo...for once I uploaded my pictures in the order I wanted them!***

With the blizzard of 2011 we are hunkered down in the house waiting for the thaw. Yesterday I decided to try to have some fun with lunch. Afterall, we have to eat so why not make if fun. I made a menu for the kids and let them choose what they had for lunch. I was the "cook" or "worker" and the kids were my customers. Gunner was into it! At one point he came to me and asked if there was a bathroom in this place. I told him "yes, just past the stairs to your right." After I made my lunch (yes the 3rd lunch of the day) I sat down at the table and Gunner told me I was a worker and was not suppose to eat with them!

Gunner was not so thrilled when he could not order his dinner and was forced to eat what I made for me and Ed. But this morning I added breakfast to the menu so all is well again. Ed asked if this was my idea...not sure. It seems like maybe someone else told me about doing this but I cannot recall who. So if it was your idea let me know...I'm happy to give credit where credit it due!


Rylee checking out the menu...so many choices!



Gunner is making suggestions to Rylee.


Rylee is making her own choices!


The Menu!


Gunner busted out the piggy bank to pay for the meal!


Gunner's dessert...square crackers and round crackers.
And just so no one thinks I brain wash my kids into eating crackers instead of cookies...the "round" crackers have cinnamon and sugar on them and the square crackers...well they turn into sugar once they are consumed!


Rylee is having dessert envy...she picked go-gurt but wants what Gunner has!
Another example of giving a 2 year old too many choices going bad!


Drama!


Now she is all smiles...after finishing her go-gurt she ordered circle and square crackers!

Wordless Wednesday

Yes that's my Rylee Bug in a blue wig!

Rylee's 2!

Rylee Kathryn is 2! And a beautiful, bubbley, girly girly beyound belief. She loves her Momma, Daddy and Nunner. Every morning she wakes up wanting to see Daddy and Gunner. She goes to a Mommy and me dance class, BSF, preschool and of course our church. She loves her family and she loves to see her friends. We celebrated with a few of her friends by having a Tutu and bow party. The girls came in their favorite tutu and bow. We danced a little, opened gifts and ate cup cakes with hot pink frosting.

Rylee got a new shirt with a 2 and her name on it and a giant bow to match. She looked a.dor.a.ble!

Cup cakes to match her shirt and bow!

Party favors for her friends...each guest got a tutu and bow (yes, made by me).

Opening her gifts.

Tea anyone?

Rylee and a buddy dancing.

Love her sweet face!

Yummy cup cakes! Yep...love that sweet face too!

You guessed it...Wordless Wednesday!

OK...maybe just maybe I will make an actual entry in the days to come...as for now I'm "wordless"! (These are from our recent trip to see my sister.)

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

Mommy & Me Dance Class w/ Tippi Toes

Mommy and Rylee have been going to a Mommy & Me dance class for 5 weeks and having a great time. Yes, Rylee is too young and really doesn't get what its all about. I am very willing to admit that but I love doing girly things with her (especially since we do so many boy things with Gunner). It is actually great therapy for her arm, it gets her to stretch that left arm and put it in positions (beach ball, sunshine, airplane) you don't always do which is building her range and strength.

She is being a little fish who at the moment is sleeping on a rock but when she wakes up...she will take a shower and brush her teeth and remember each time that she's a fish...fish don't take showers so "let's go swimming, let's go swimming". For the record, Rylee is generally a snoring fish! They are dancing to the Laurie Berkner song Goldfish if your dying to hear the song and have it stuck in your head for days go ahead and click [Goldfish] and you too can be a little fish.

Rylee is really just there for "sticker time" which is at the end of the class and she is required to do a plie before Miss Brittnay will give her a sticker. It is so stinking cute.

So if you momma's are looking for something fun to do with your girls I would highly recommend Miss Brittnay Friske of Tippi Toes. She is great with the girls. I don't know her fall schedule but I know she will have something going!

Playing Cowboys {and cowgirl}

Oh if I could attach sound to these pictures! (I know I know...VIDEO but I don't have a video camera that I really like and I can't keep one more piece of technology sitting around at hands reach)

Gunner has been into playing cowboys since we saw Toy Story 3 this weekend. It's a hoot to hear what he comes up with! Force fields, bad guys, lost horses with their sticky shoes on...it's awesome! Ed built a 'fort' for them to 'devise a plan' on how to get the bad guys and to rescue the horses that had found themselves on the ceiling...those darn sticky shoes!

Rylee will not be left out. She is all girl 100% of the time...even when she's shooting the bad guys! (and she's a great shot!)

Too busy to blog

I think I am in good company when I say I have been too busy to blog. It's true...summer has arrived and blogging is at the very bottom of the list of fun things to do!

So, maybe someday I will go back to my evaluation of what I learned at the Beth Moore simulcast...maybe not...

In the mean time, we have had a busy summer so far with swim lessons, VBS, Big Splash, swimming, and much much more that has not been near as exciting like going to the dentist, laundry, cleaning the house, etc, etc, etc.

Some pics of our new toy, Gunner at swim lessons, and Miss Rylee's piggies!

Miss Denise is helping Gunner do a kneeling dive off the diving board! He was awesome!

ps...Rylee is taking a Mommy and Me dance class this summer. Hope to be able to take pictures of that one night. She is the cutest little thing ever!