Halloween 2009

Would everyone like to see some Halloween pictures??

Yeah, me to!

Tammy has gotten this new high dollar fancy Nikon camera and so Halloween I gave her my memory card to take pictures with that way she could just give it back to me and I could put them on my computer. Well I guess she was side tracked half the night because she only took 2 pictures and they were of them coming down a slide so you can't even see them!

So we are having a Halloween picture do over tomorrow night! In other words mom is taking them to the fall festival at Nana's church and I'll be sure to tell her to take lots of pictures and I'll just pass them off as the "original Halloween night" pics! I know, I'm so clever!

In other news I'm running my first race tomorrow! It's the 5k Senior Bowl run. So wish me luck! I know I'll be able to finish but I really want to finish and have a good time. So we'll see how it goes.

Ryleigh and Tanner are spending the night with Lindsey and Brandon tonight. I think this is the first time Lindsey has kept them both and the first time for sure overnight. Please pray for her! I'm sure they'll be fine and if not it'll make Lindsey want to wait a long time for kids!

Sorry to ruin your chances for grand kids anytime soon Aunt Lisa!

Tanner Man

Guess who is getting potty trained...slowly but surely Tanner is coming around to using the potty. He's done it a few times off and on for the past few months but never consistently. Mom had him this past Friday night and put him in big boy underwear and he has been wearing them ever since. Even when we went trick or treating he had them on. I'm so proud of him. Hopefully he'll be 100% potty trained soon!

Tanner goes to Nana's every Monday so she can keep him and spend time with him. He really does like going but every single Monday he cries and cries when I drop him off. Nana thinks that it's because he doesn't want to go but I think it's just because I get him straight out of the bed and put him in the car. So he's just grumpy and not awake yet. Nana told him last week if he came in and didn't cry she would take him to lunch and buy him a football. This morning he said "I'm going to try real hard to not cry!" And I'm happy to report he didn't cry! I haven't talked to them today so I don't know how lunch went but I hope they had a good day.

I'll post our Halloween pictures tomorrow. Hope everyone had a good weekend!

I know this is so mean!

I have never laughed so hard as I did when we went to the fair this past Monday night. Tanner got on this ride that we knew he wouldn't like but he wanted to ride it because Ryleigh was. Here he is before it started and the next photo is the one while the ride is going. 

Priceless!

I know everyone is going to say that I am so mean for laughing and taking the picture but once he was up there there wasn't anything I could do to help him so I had to laugh! In the picture Ryleigh looks a little scared but it was just because Tanner was crying so it made her scared. Otherwise she really liked the ride. It was a ride where it took you up then dropped you and then took you up and dropped you. In my defense it was he kid version of the ride, it's not like we put him on the grown up one. Other than that one ride we all had a great time at the fair. Mom and Larry met us there and Dawn went with us also. We rode a lot of rides, went to the rodeo and spent way to much money on fair food. $8 for a corn dog!?!? That's insane!!!

Here are some more pictures from the fair. 

It's Halloween and we are taking the kids out in the two tackiest costumes I've ever seen! Tinkerbell and Transformers, I don't like them having opinions! I wanted them to have cute costumes. But let this blog serve as a reminder when they get older that they are the ones who wanted to dress up as ugly cartoon characters not me! I would much rather them be Raggedy Ann and Andy. Oh well!

My Guys

I mean seriously have you ever seen two cuter boys in your life?? Look at those bright blue eyes! 

When we first found out we were pregnant with Ryleigh I desperately wanted a girl. I really don't know why. But even though I was excited about being pregnant, part of me knew I would be secretly heartbroken if it wasn't a girl. Well when we found out we were pregnant with Tanner I didn't care either way. Part of me wanted a boy so we would have one of each and the other part wanted another girl so the would grow up close and I could reuse all my stuff from Ryleigh. 

Well it was a boy and Ryan was so excited! It's funny the saying "God never gives you more than you can handle." I believe that because if I would have had 2 Ryleigh's I would be headed to an early grave! 

I love both of my children equally, but there is something about his laugh and those bright blue eyes that melt my heart. When I have a bad day at work all I can think about is coming home and tickling Tanner so he will burst with laughter! I can't believe how big he is getting and the older he gets the more I love him. He's tenderhearted but tuff. He's sensitive and sweet. He loves animals but hates bugs. He loves football and movies but hates sitting still. He all boy and melts my heart every time I look at him. 

I love you Tanner Man!!

Walk for a Cure

This past Saturday our church participated in the Walk for a Cure downtown. It's a 5 mile walk for Breast Cancer and was a lot of fun! We had 85 people on our team. After the walk we all went to the Spot of Tea and they had a room reserved for us. Mrs. Rhonda had some special gifts for people who were survivors and people who had lost their mother/grandmother to cancer. 

An action shot of us walking. It was cold!

I brought this hat of Ryleigh's so Madison could wear it since Tina hasn't gotten her one yet. Well it was to big for Maddie but fit Lindsay just right!
Lindsay's mom Mrs. Pam and her aunt Mrs. Benita. Both are breast cancer survivors. 

A 5 mile walk might not seem like a long way but my legs hurt when we were done! Makes me wonder if I'll be ready for the 10k Senior Bowl on November 7th...I guess we'll see!

Stop looking at me!

It has started. Sibling fighting. This is the conversation Ryleigh and Tanner had the other morning in my bathroom while I was getting ready for work.

Tanner- "Ryleigh, stop looking at me"

Ryleigh- "I'm not touching you just looking, I can look at whatever I want Tanner."

T-"Mom Ryleigh is looking at me!"

Me- "Tanner it's not a big deal just ignore her."

T- "I can't, she's aggravating me."

R- starts dying laughing at how upset Tanner is getting.

T- "Stop Ryleigh, I'm serious. I'm going to punch you in the face if you don't stop looking at me."

R- still staring and still laughing

Me- "Tanner it's really not a big deal just go in another room if you don't want her to look at you."

T- "Ryleigh, I'm the boss of me and I say who can look at me and I say you can't" Then he literally punched her in the face.

Seriously, she was just looking at you. Maybe he's not going to be a sissy after all!

The Park and Running

This past Sunday after church we met mom, Larry, Gloria and the girls at Cottage Hill park so they could all play. Mom made a lunch and brought it. Of course she tries to out do my picnic lunch I packed for Ryleigh's field trip! The kids had a lot of fun and we ended up staying for 2 hours.

A Bee was flying around the and Ryleigh did not like that! This is the face she made!
Eating lunch
Look how tall he's getting. People are asking us more and more if they are twins!
Check out her boots..I love them! They came from Wal Mart for like $7.

We had a lot of fun just hanging out and talking hopefully we can do it again soon.

We have a busy weekend coming up! Friday night we have 5th Quarter...The last one, YAY! Saturday we have the National Breast Cancer Walk downtown. It's a 5 mile walk and our church has a group of like 75 ladies walking in it. After the walk we rented out The Spot of Tea to have brunch. Then we are headed to the pumpkin patch to try to get some cute pictures of Ryleigh and Tanner with Tammy's AWESOME new Nikon camera. Then we are headed to Seward Farms (again) with the Jr. High group from church. Sunday we have church then a shrimp boil at some friends of ours for their birthday! Man I'm going to be exhausted on Monday!! I'm also excited b/c the fair starts this weekend. I'm sure we won't make it there this weekend but maybe one day next week.

And in completely unrelated news...my friends Tina, Lindsay and I have been running. No one thought I would stick with it but I'm actually doing pretty good. We are hoping to be able to run the Senior Bowl 10K (6.2) miles on November 7th. That will be the farthest we've ran yet. We try to go 3 days a week. On Tuesdays we meet at Mellow Mushroom and do a 5K through midtown which is so much fun. There are like 100 people who meet to do it. Some run some walk some have strollers and some have dogs. The first time we ran it it took us 46 min...then the next time we were down to 43...and this past week we ran it in 34!! I was so excited! We are hoping to eventually get down to under 30 but we aren't quite there yet. Maybe one day soon!