Christmas 2009

1) Tio Pancho helping Ry opening gifts 2) Excited about her DVD

We had a blast this Christmas! This year Ryenn was interesting in all parts of this holiday. She wanted to help decorate the tree, wrap presents, then bake cookies. It was so much fun! She was even excited about opening the gifts. Each year I have had to open every gift for her. It always seemed rather silly.....I would wrap something for her, but to have to open it again. Waisting valuable time, and wrapping paper.

1) Ryenn not wanting to share her gifts 2) Ryenn opening her doll house from Grandma Ida

We spent a pretty quiet morning with the Nunley family. Quite a few of the bunch were spending holidays out of town. While it is fun to be with everyone, I think we had a nice intimate Christmas. All of the conversations were held to a normal volume. We didn't have to scream over each other to be heard!

1) Opening more presents 2) Tyvien would rather eat her fingers 3) Ryenn and her "Cow Baby"

Then after lunch we came home to open gifts with my family. We had the added bonus of celebrating my mother's birthday. I made her a pineapple upside down cake. It was delicious!!

1) Why do the kids always play in the boxes? 2) Ryenn, John and I 3) Gaspar, Mom, Me, and Pancho

Halloween Pictues

I was putting this off because my favorite pictues of Ryenn helping with the Jack-O-Lanterns are still MIA. I was hoping that John still had them on his work laptop, but I keep forgeting to ask him about it. So here are the ones that I have.

New Braunfuls Pictures/Austin City Limits

Here are some of the pictures from our trip to Texas to visit Bob and Mariah. I know it isn't all of them, but I don't know what happened to the rest.


1) Ry is checking out the rain....she is an Arizona girl and doesn't know what it is 2) "I wonder if it tastes good?"

1) Mom made her stop playing with the rain 2) She traded me in for them cause I was so mean

She likes her dad because he lets her run in the rain

1) She looks like she really knows what she is doing 2) She will be a gamer like daddy

1) Enjoying her first bus ride 2) The Nunleys at Austin City Limits

Trying to decide what to do about the puddles

Still not sure

Taking a break in the giant sand pit

1) Smiling goofy at mom 2) We are beat

Eating some of Bob and Mariah's watermelon

1) Hijacked the watermelon 2) Mmmm, dirt flavored

1) She discovered that the puddles were awesome 2) Almost the end of the festival...she was done

X-Mas Photos

Cyrus being handsome

Yesterday we took Ryenn to Andrea Stanley Photography for her holiday photos. We took her two years ago, and she did fantastic. She was such a ham! (you know posing, smiling, dancing) So I figured this time around would be a breeze. For the holiday photo one of the parents dressed up like Santa, and the child was set up to like she was hugging the big belly. We elected John and got to work. (although my belly may have been more impressive than his stuffed one)

1) Ry ready to play volleyball (don't underestimate her she has a sharpie and a potatoe chip) 2) Ry getting smothered

Ryenn was being very friendly to the photographer in the receiving area. Discussing mundane topics repeatedly like: this is my mom, this is my dad, my mom has shoes, look I can jump......okay....right. Then when we moved to the set she freaked out. She kept running away from John as if she had never seen him before. It was terrible. I believe she was overwhelmed by the people in the room. (the photographer and two assistants) Oh well. We get to see the proofs on Tuesday via the Internet, and Andrea Stanley was sure that we may have gotten at least two good shots of her.

Balloon bath

I am tired of not having pictures on my posts so I am going to put some on here from my mom's camera...Enjoy!

Ry wearing high heels and knee highs. Ready for the runway!

Oh Yeah!

I was looking at my blog and it doesn't mention John and I bought a house. It belonged to his brother Ron and wife Brigette. I love it. The only problem is that Ryenn hasn't quite gotten used to this being her home. She is constantly looking for her cousins. It is really cute.

I figure once we paint her room and make it more like hers rather than Kaylee's, she will really enjoy it. We are going to do a ladybug theme. I am super excited. I will be taking pictures of the place to show you what it looks like. I want to wait until John has put up our Christmas lights.....and I will have to find my USB cable......ah yes...then you will be disgusted with the amount of pictures in my post.

Awesome Christmas already!!!!

Ok. So a while back ago our computer finally decided that it had had enough. Of course it was pretty old. We bought it used, and we were pretty hard on her. So my wonderful nerd of a husband decided that it was his opportunity to go into the phone booth and change into "Super Nerd!!" (this is where you imagine a flying man with his glasses, polo shirt, along with pocket protector and pens, but the calculator is optional) He got us a new Dell computer with Windows 7. He was way geeked out. I am just happy that I finally have access to the Internet again.

We also went out on Black Friday and bought a brand new t.v. Our old t.v. was an awesome wedding present from the crew of Water St. It was almost five years old, and it started showing signs of dying. I love our new t.v!! Who wouldn't if Peyton Manning and Justin Timberlake told you to buy it. It is a shiny 46 inch Sony Bravia. It is pretty sad that we mostly use it to watch Spongebob and The Little Mermaid, but when Ryenn gives up the remote we can use it for our viewing pleasure.

Our Christmas tree is up, and I have become the Warden of Christmas ornaments. My daughter was doing a very good job of leaving the balls in place. Once Cyrus came over it was a totally different story. He had all the balls that he could reach on the floor behind the tree in about four seconds. I was putting clothes into the dryer and when I came out I noticed that my tree looked very bald! Oh well. It was semi-easily fixed. If you haven't yet seen me put up a tree you are unaware how stressful it is. I have to place the ornaments in just the right spot. I don't think Mariah will ever come over to my place again if she knows it is tree time!!!

I was hoping to put some pictures up, but our USB cable for the camera has mysteriously disappeared again. I think I may need to buy a new one so that I always have the chance of one being around.