Rylan's Birthday Party #1

 Pops and Memaw came to visit this weekend and to see Rylan for his first birthday. The boy is going to have several parties. Next weekend my family is coming to celebrate Rylan and Madilyn's birthdays.

Cameron really wanted Rylan to dive into the cake and he was pleased. I think we have a boy with a major sweet tooth. He comes by is honestly from both of us.

 Rylan was thinking, Dad are you sure this is ok?

 He was really enjoying it at this point.

 Smearing it all over his belly

 We went straight to the bath.

After the bath Rylan opened presents and cousin Rhett helped.

 Uncle Cameron had to open all the child proof boxes.

Rylan's first haircut

Rylan went with me to see Tammy today and get our hair trimmed. You can't really tell from these pictures but he needed a haircut. Now he is ready to have all the family visit over the next couple of weeks and take pictures at the end of the month.  

Rylan did really good. He got upset at first but did well during the hair cut. He did enjoy flirting with all the girls at Tammy's. 

P.S. the new counter tops will be installed next week!!! I will try my best to keep up with birthday and renovation pictures.

Kitchen Upgrade

We have decided after 4 1/2 years to finally put in new counter tops in the kitchen. That is what took up most of our January weekends. I think we went to every store in Lubbock 3-4 times to look at all the choices. We will have new granite counter tops soon.

Here are the before pictures (wow what a clean kitchen!). This was before they came out to measure so we had to take everything off the counters.  I will post pictures of the progress. Jordon is going to do the prep work and the back splash after the granite is installed.I cannot wait for it to be finished!!

Christmas

We traveled to see both sides of the family during Christmas so we were not home much. It has been a whirlwind since we got home too. It seems like I have not sat down on the computer at home for months. Needless to say, I have a lot of pictures to download. We don't have many from Dudley Christmas because everyone shared the stomach bug so no one was up for much activities.

New post and pictures coming soon!

I know it has been a while so look for Christmas pictures and more this week sometime. I have been trying to carve out some time to download pictures and post but it just never fits in our schedule.

Christmas Sneak Peek

I tortured Rylan (probably Jordon more than anyone else) by making him put on a Santa suit and take pictures in front of the Christmas tree. It was fun for a while. These are the ones I have had time to clean up (a professional photographer I am not). I took a bunch more. Yes I have some printed out to give to y'all at Christmas. I will also let you look at all of them and pick some that you want printed and in what size.

 



 This is probably the best picture and I just snapped it before we got started.