Rockstar!

Our Rockstar son! 

Here is Tiffany cutting his hair. I was SO nervous about how it would turn out.

And here is the finished product! To say he loves it would be an understatement. He just stared at it in the mirror for like 5 minutes. 

This one is my favorite one. It looks really cool from the side. I was kinda scared that he doesn't have the right "image" for a Mohawk. I mean lets face it he's kinda a sissy; but it seems as if the mohawk has brought out the edgy side of our sweet Tanner. He has had a very spunky attitude all afternoon. Hopefully this won't stay because I miss my sweet Tanner. 

Hopefully mom won't have a heart attack when she reads this! It's just hair mom it'll grow back! maybe when we go back will get a mohawk again and dye the tips blue! : )

I think I may have lost my mind!

So Ryan has somehow convinced me to let him get Tanner's haircut in a Mohawk! The funny thing is when he was talking to Tanner about it and showing him pictures he was so excited! Of Course Ryleigh wants a mohawk now but I don't think they can convince me of that one!

The kind he is getting isn't the kind of mohawk you would expect. When I called to make the appt with our good friend Tiffany who does their hair she said what I want it a faux-hawk. So I googled it and here are the pictures that came back...

There were other examples to that looked just as good but the people in them didn't look as good as David Beckham! Anyway so his appt is tomorrow at 10:30 so keep your fingers crossed it turns out cute. If not we can always shave it off or just have more curly hair up top than on the sides but then he may end up looking like this...
Which would be all bad. So I guess if I don't like it we will shave his head and wear hats all summer! So hopefully it will turn out good!

Missing my kids...

Ryan and I are in Gatlinburg, TN with 20 junior high kids. Yep you read that right, 20 12-14 year olds! It really has been a lot of fun but I have to admit, I'm EXHAUSTED!! We got in Thursday night and didn't go to bed until like 2 am this morning and I was back up at 7. I'm the only girl chaperone but luckily we have a good group of girls who aren't overly dramatic and love to sing and dance! This morning we went Zorbing, well they went Zorbing and I took pictures and videotaped. I get sick on the carousel at the mall so the last think I need to do is roll down a mountain in a giant inflatable ball!

We are now back at the cabin and everyone is taking naps, playing games or in the hot tub.

I normally don't miss Ryleigh and Tanner to much when we are gone, and I thought I wouldn't for sure this time since I've been home with them all week. But this morning when I talked to Tanner my heart just broke to hear him! He is so sweet and getting so big!

He was telling me about the new baby fish in mom's pond and I said what did you name him? He responded with Fishy Fish. Ryan said why didn't you name him Nemo and he said "No Daddy he's not Finding Nemo, he's Fishy Fish." 

Thats probably not funny or cute to anyone but me but I literally want to cry when I think about how big he is getting! I guess it's because I know we probably won't have any more kids so he's my last baby. That's also the reason I haven't taken his passy or started potty training. I don't want to admit he's growing up! 

I wish I had a cute story about Ryleigh for today but she was to busy putting on lip gloss and getting ready for Bible School to talk to her parents this morning!

Well I'm going to play a game that involves knee highs, eggs on your forehead and pool noodles...this should be interesting!

And just because I hate a post without pictures here is one from their birthday party.

They really are growing up to fast!

Crawfish Boil

Here are some pictures from the crawfish boil in Louisiana we go to every year with Ryan's family. 

Dance Dance!

Monday night Aunt Lisa asked us over for dinner so we went over there to eat. Ryan had a mission trip meeting at church so he had to eat and leave. Whitney also came over to eat. She was apparently starving and based on the amount of sweat she arrived covered in, her Ac is still not working! (really she had just got back from playing basketball) Anyway, after we ate Whitney and I went to our house and Ryleigh wanted to show off her latest dance moves.

If you haven't seen them just envision someone having a seizure while smiling and laughing!

What can I say, she gets it honest.

So as they were dancing around Tanner fell down. He started screaming crying but I thought he was just upset because he fell. He didn't hit anything he just fell on the carpet. He cried for like 15 minutes straight so Whitney and I decided we should probably take him to the ER. Ryan and Aunt Lisa talked us out of taking him and said if it was still hurting him in the morning to just take him then. After and hour of crying we finally got him calmed down and asleep.

at about 1:30 in the morning I heard him screaming crying so I got up to go in Ry's room to get him and I tripped over him. He was lying in the middle of the hallway saying he couldn't walk b/c his foot hurt!

First thing Tuesday morning I called the doctor and they said to bring him in. We did and he said that he thinks he may have broken his leg and sent us to get Xrays at the hospital.

Here is Tanner on the Xray table (the pictures were taken with my phone that's why they look so bad). he did really good the whole time. We told him they just wanted to take pictures of his foot. The Xray guy said that he was the best patient of his age he has ever had. He got 3 suckers! after that we had to wait on the results so we went and ate lunch at Roly Poly. The pediatrician finally called around 12 and said that it was broken and that we have an appt with the Orthopedic doctor at 2:45.
This is Ryan trying to entertain Tanner while we waited on the doctor. By this time he was tired of waiting rooms.

So were we. Finally it was cast time. He broke his chin bone and they said he will have to wear a cast for 2 weeks. They said if an adult would of had the same break they would of had a series of cast over a 12 week period. He picked a green cast. I thought he would of chosen blue but we let him pick whichever color he wanted. When he saw the pink one he said "Ryleigh can get one to!"
Here he is showing it off. He thought it was pretty cool
Ryleigh was a little upset at first that she didn't have one but by this morning she was glad bc Tanner can't go swimming. Hopefully it will heal fast and he can get it off. He still hasn't got comfortable enough to walk on it but hopefully he will soon! He's to heavy to carry all the time!

He is getting WAY to big WAY to fast!

This picture was taken last year when we went to New Orleans Zoo...

And this one was taken this month at the exact same location!

He is getting WAY to big WAY to fast!

I told Ryan it would be cool if we got his picture taken by this same elephant every year. We go to Baker, LA every year for Ryan's families crawfish boil so we usually go to the Zoo while we are there. 

On a side note...I plan to start putting things on here again so check back soon!

Happy Birthday Jesus Party

Every year Nana has a Happy Birthday Jesus party and it has become one of my favorite things about Christmas. I love hanging out with all my cousins and just goofing off!

Getting ready to sing Happy Birthday to Jesus.

Isn't this a really good picture of Nana!

Nana reading the Christmas story.

Evan not listening to the Christmas story! You need to get on to him Nana!

Mrs. Pam was able to join us this time and we were so happy to have her!!

This dance is hilarious! You may remember me posting last year about Nana doing it. I guess she's making it an annual tradition.  This year she was able to get Whitney to join in also!

We also played Taboo after we ate. Nana was surprisingly good at it and Aunt Velvet was surprisingly bad at it! : )

Ok, I think that is the last of my Christmas post!