Trip to Papa and Kaki's - December 2010

We took a trip to Utah the first part of December for our Christmas trip.  Nyah had a great time playing outside (she would stay outside all day every day if we let her).  Her time outside included time riding the tractor with Papa.  You can tell how much she enjoyed that. :)

Then here are pictures of the kids with Papa. We were able to spend time talking and just hanging out. You can see Ryker was still at the age where he doesn't really get what's going on with pictures.  He's still a cute baby even though he's "zoning out".



Sleeping Angels (Nov. 28 - Dec. 4, 2010)

I just love taking pictures of these sweet sleeping kids. :)  They are so precious and it reminds me how innocent they are!  I love them so much.

AK's Birthday - 2010

So my new goal is a post a week to try to catch up.  I guess we'll see how it goes.  I thought about just posting Halloween for this year and skipping everything in between but I'm going to give catching up a try for a bit.  It was kind of fun to look at these pictures.  I can't believe how much Ryker has changed in the last year.  Kind of sad.... :(

Well here are the pictures of my last birthday.  You can see Ryan made mud pie.  I can't remember the last time I requested anything else.  I try to be predictable in some areas of my life since others just aren't.  And you will have to check out what Ryan is using to light the candles - we wouldn't want to be traditional and use just matches.

Then the last picture you will see that Ryker is a huge fan of mud pie (and ice cream in general).  I guess he has some Pincock blood in him after all. :)

Love these kids and Ryan did a fantastic job on the mud pie!  It was tasty. 

Jumping to Exhaustion - October 2010

I love jumpers and Ryker definitely loved jumping in the jumper as well.  He would just jump, and jump, and jump, and jump. He jumped in circles and any way possible.  He spent many a happy hour in the jumper.  It cracked me up to see he had actually fallen asleep one day he had jumped so much.  Ryan wondered if it was abuse but I don't think so. :)  Look at this face.  It looks like he's traumatized at all.

Halloween 2010

Halloween is definitely more fun for me now that we have kids.  I'm definitely not the creative, let's design an original costume kind of person though.  I want to walk into a store, look at the options, and pick one out. :)  Creativity with this kind of thing has never been my strong suit....  Nyah chose Minnie Mouse and Ryker was a dragon.

What a sweet little girl.

Miss Gail and Nyah (her teacher when she was one).

Miss Jo, Miss Diane and Nyah (her teachers at the time)

AK, Ryker, Miss Vee and Nyah (Ryker's teacher at the time)

Nyah and Miss Alicia (another one of her teachers at the time)

Ryker and Miss Savannah (one of Ryker's teachers)

Cute boy...

Wow, we tried to take pictures for a long time.  Getting these two kids to look in the same direction and smile takes close to a miracle.

Now you can see it really is a dragon costume and not a frog

One of the many attempts...

We finally settled on this one.

I'm sure all kids do this but as soon as a holiday passes, Nyah starts asking me how much longer until it's that holiday again.  From today, 183 more days until Halloween.