Rylee's First Snow...

I was so excited when Brad told me to look outside Wednesday morning and saw that it was snowing! It wasn't much, but a little snow is better than no snow at all, right?! Anyway, I was even more excited that Rylee woke up before I had to leave for work and was able to take her outside to experience her first snow together, I only wish Brad was still home :( Luckily Mom was already over and took a couple of pictures to capture the moment. Hopefully we will get a lot more snow next time.

Mom took this picture of Rylee at her house playing with a dog that sings (barks) "Jingle Bells." The ears and tail have bells on them and they move up and down, she loves it!

Rylee enjoying a little snow with me

I took this before getting her out of the car at Mom and Dad's, she looked so cute all snuggled up. Poor baby has strep :( she is so tough though and you wouldn't even really know (except when it's time to go to bed at night)! She is already feeling much better :)


Daddy and Rylee watching the news Friday morning, she will watch anything!

We finally got our Santa picture back from being framed. Rylee loved playing with the paper it was wrapped in while we were hanging it. Why do babies have more fun with things that aren't toys?!

Where's Rylee?

There she is! I think this picture is hilarious, I called her name and this is what I got!

Our finished mantel, love it!

Here is a video of Rylee from the other night. She has officially started crawling! We are so proud, but nervous about all the things she will be getting into!

Our Week of Fun

I had such a fantastic week spending time with my sweet baby girl and hubby, it's going to be so hard to go back to work tomorrow!!! The countdown has already started, just three more weeks until my next long break!

Here is our week in pictures.

Rylee had her first taste of fun Gerber toaster sticks this week, still not sure if she likes them or not. I'll let you be the judge....

Of course our week included shopping, her is our little cutie before heading to the mall.


Love this face!

Such a happy baby!

She is so close to crawling, she sort of does an army crawl right now. She is everywhere, and she gets to where she wants to go fast! We just put all the plug covers on all the outlets she can get to. She went to reach for one in the office yesterday and we figured it was time. She loves making her way to the entertainment center and playing with the handles on the drawers!


This picture is from Thanksgiving, she looked so cute in her kitty cat outfit and boots!


Finally, an updated picture of our little family. We are getting family pictures done in a couple of weeks, can't wait!

Rylee with her Grammy!

Rylee and her Uncle J, she loves hats!

This is after we ate, can you tell? Ali, J and Rachel taking a Thanksgiving snooze!

There is nothing more special than being greeted with this sweet little face every morning!

This was Rylee watching Brad put up the Christmas tree, she was so amazed. There is nothing like the fresh smell of a real Christmas tree!

Friday we went and picked up Aunt Mary Jo and went to see Grandma in Little Elm. We had such a nice visit, we are so happy she moved here (and so close to our house)!

We had to wait to decorate the tree because we had to wait for it to fall some. Saturday morning Brad and I decorated the tree. Rylee loved making her way to all the boxes and bags of tree decorations.


Every night, Brad walks around the house with Rylee and she helps him close all the blinds, she loves it! And then in the morning she helps open them too, it's so sweet watching them together!

Look what Rylee found....

Sneak Peek....

My amazing sister took pictures of Rylee at her house Tuesday for our Christmas cards. She took over 100 pictures, we narrowed it down to about 20 and then Brad and I picked our favorites for our card, which was really hard I might say. She has already started making our card and they are so freaking cute I couldn't wait to share! Once I get my flash drive back from her I will have to post the rest of the pictures ;)

Santa's Little Helper

Couldn't get a smile, but still so cute! Unfortunately you only get one pose. There was another one where she was looking at him and it was pretty cute, but I wanted the one of her sweet little face! She loved his beard too, good thing it was real ;)

It's Starting to Look A lot Like Christmas.....

Let me start off by saying how great it was to sleep in till 7:30 this morning! Rylee is still sleeping too and it's 7:57, which is why I am able to post right now. I am so happy to finally be on Thanksgiving break, I've been counting down since the first day of school!

We had a busy weekend going to our friend's baby shower Saturday night and then putting up Christmas lights yesterday and then to Chris and Chrissy's to get Christmas pictures of all the girls together for my parent's Christmas cards. Thank goodness Chrissy has an awesome camera and she is so talented b/c it was not easy trying to get 3 small girls all looking and smiling at the camera at the same time! She took over 100 pictures and I can't wait to see them, they wouldn't download right while we were there, of course ;)

Chrissy is taking pictures of Rylee for our Christmas card on Tuesday and I can't wait, hopefully she will cooperate! I have two outfits for her and a lot of fun accessories for the picture too! Hopefully she will do great b/c we are also going to try and take pictures of her in several tutus and large tea cups, girls are so fun!

Brad is meeting us at the mall today after work so we can get pictures of Rylee with Santa! We figure it won't be as crazy if we go during the week and before Thanksgiving, I hope! I will post pictures later ;)

Here are pictures from last week with Grammy and this weekend. If I don't post again before Thanksgiving, I hope everyone has an awesome Turkey Day!!!

Rylee loves sleeping on her belly now, it's hard to see, but her butt is up in the air. It was so cute!! (she loves pink dog now too and loves sleeping with him)

Grammy took this picture if Ry in the walker she got her, she is so sweet! She can only move backwards in it, but my mom says that's normal ;)

Such a happy baby! Rylee says she likes hanging out with Grammy because she gets to stay in her p.j.'s all morning

Here she is on all fours. I have a video of her I need to post too. She is so close to crawling, she gets up on all 4's and rocks back and fourth and then lunges forward. Poor baby is trying so hard!

This was at our friends house (Ryan and Amber) for Aaron and Amber's baby shower. Baby Mason will be here in January and we can't wait! We had such a great time spending time with friends we don't get to see often! Rylee was so good and everyone loved her (how could you not)!

Even their dog Harley was trying to get some love!

Rylee with her Uncle Josh. She loves him and he is so sweet with her, he's going to be such a good daddy! His little boy, Tucker, will be here in March, can't wait!

Ryan and Amber already had their tree up too, a pink one! Rylee loved it! I don't think Ryan got a say in how the tree was decorated, heee...hee...heee

We are getting our tree Friday and can't wait! It's going to be fun watching Rylee roll to it over and over and having to move her back, or maybe crawling. (Uh oh!) We put our tree in the living room, which is where Rylee plays.

Daddy and Rylee playing video games Sunday morning

Rylee helping Daddy with the Christmas lights

" Enough pictures already! "

Found a leaf

Poor Ruger wanted to come out, but the grass was wet :( We did let him come out once the sun came and it was dry

lover her!

Here is the finished product. The picture just doesn't do it justice though, I promise it looks a lot better in person. After last year and Rylee on the way Brad decided it was the last year to put lights on the roof, unless we pay someone else to do it. After having Rylee we just think differently about things and realized it was not worth taking the chance of something happening if you don't have to!

I Just Couldn't Help Myself...

I know it is not even Thanksgiving yet, but couldn't wait any longer to get into the Christmas spirit! Just bought these adorable Christmas stockings, love them!