BYE BYE SIPPY!

Mr. Sippy Cup, beloved friend and companion, Passed away January 1, 2008, due to one little independent two year old. Always with us where ever we go. He will be sadly missed by all who knows what happens without him. You came into our lives when Parker was just six months old, and have left us oh to early. We never thought that our little boy would no longer need you so soon. So today we commemorate you life sort lived with us all. So in the drawer you go until the day that Ryder grows to love you just as much as we all have. Survived by his many brothers and sisters, that join him in the drawer for the time being. It is with great joy and great sadness that I must say I don't think that you will be coming out anytime soon. You will be missed.

EASTER SUNDAY

Here are my thoughts about Easter Sunday;

If your ward starts at 9am you don't have to go...just kidding!

But really it is hard with kids to get up do Easter gifts, eat Easter breakfast, get bathed, take away Easter candy, dress in new Easter clothes, and go to church!

We did make it one time, only because I made french toast the night before and put it in the fridge.

Parker's Easter

Ryder's Easter, he also got a Jumperoo we opened early.

My gifts

Family Gifts

To Cute

These are Parker's old Easter clothes that he wore when he was 8 months old, they fit Ryder really good.

Even though neither of use were ready for the picture this one was better then the ones that we were ready for.

Parker was so done by this point

We decided to let Ryder sleep through taking these pictures.

SUGAR COOKIE TUTORIAL

I found an old sugar cookie recipe and let me tell you these are the best sugar cookie in the world! They are soft days after you make them.

* 1 cup butter

* 1 1/3 cup white sugar

* 3 eggs

* 3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract (real vanilla is best)

* 3 1/3 cup flour

* 1 1/4 teaspoon baking powder

* 3/4 teaspoon salt

Cream butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs and vanilla. stir in flour, baking powder, and salt. Cover and chill for at least one hour, over night is best.

If you are not rolling out the cookies to cut them, don't chill just roll in to 1 inch balls and bake(you will need to watch the time on the not chilled cookies, I have not determined how long when the are not flat)

Pre-heat oven 400 degrees

Roll dough on flour surface 1/4-1/2 inch thick

cut with cookie cutter of your choice

6-8 min

when edges are turning brown they are done

Remember with all cookies do not take them off the pan once out of the oven they continue to cook for about 3-5 min, so they might seem really soft at first.

Place on cooling rack

once cool, decorate. Makes 30

This dough is sticky so make sure you have your flour handy when rolling, I also use some confectioner(powered Sugar) with the flour.

Skylar loves these as is, but next time I am going to add a little more vanilla and another cup of sugar to experiment.

This is what happens when you leave them on the table for the frosting to harden!

SUPER BUSY

More Easter eggs with aunt Abby

I figured since Parker was sick the first time around and I had an extra egg kit it would be fun to do it again.

We made an egg family

Parker loves to read to Ryder before nap time

Mom cut Parker hair

This is not an easy task to do by yourself or even with someone else, it took about an hour, and I was still doing touch ups days later.

I love this Pic

So this outfit, fit Ryder just days before. It is 6-12 months so I got out all the 12-18 months and tried some of them on him, they fit perfect..as in not for much longer!

SPRING TIME!!

Parker and Holly Dipping Easter eggs

Poor Parker was sick, but he still managed to color some

How cute!

WARM SPRING DAY!

And why shouldn't the lawn that still has snow on it be mowed?

Way tooo Coool

More fun in the "sun"

One cute boy!

SO MUCH HAPPENING

RYDER IN REWIND

One Month Old


Two Months Old

Three Months Old

Four Months Old

Five Months Old

You are a chunk! From the stats that we have gotten back from all the Dr.'s appointments and well-checks Ryder has been taller and thinner then Parker every time, but not by much.

So I received a letter in the mail yesterday from the speech therapist telling me if Parker was approved or not. Right as I was reading the letter she called me so we went through it together. He did not qualify in every way. However she thought that he could really benefit from it so she convinced the bored member to let him try it out. WAHOO! I was so happy. The speech lady comes twice a month for an hour until he is three. Then once he is three he will actually go to the elementary school twice a week until he either starts kindergarten, or no longer need therapy.

I think this will be so good for Parker, he will learn not just about speech but about the way school works altogether before he is just thrown into kindergarten. I'm sure pre-school will help as well. Parker also goes once a week to USU behavior management, I really hope that we can find ways to help him and ways to help us without medication. Skylar's fifteen year old brother has been on meds for the same reason since first grade. Sometimes you can really tell when he has taken or not taken the meds. I definitely plan to stick it out without the drugs.

I am struggling with Ryder! He is such a good baby I am truly blessed, however he can't even make it two hours without a bottle! I Make him go three and he is not a happy guy about it. He has been eating rice cereal and bananas for a little bit and he drinks five ounces in his bottle. It was six but he was spitting it up. He does not sleep through the night! He is just like Parker was, he loves his food(Skylar was this way as a baby).

we have been going to Tooele on the weekends to help my parents get their "apartment" done. It's nice, they pay for gas and hotel, and most of the time food unless we insist we pay.

Autum is so ready to have this baby, she is due sometime in April but like me has never carried full term. I am so excited that she is having a boy so he and Ryder can be close.

I have resumed my old hobby of genealogy. My paternal grandma was a genealogy junky and she has hundreds of hand written books that my uncle has kept since her death in 1998. I want them so bad, even if he would just let me borrow them and make copies that would be so awesome. I really want to get the temple work done for the people in my family that need it. But without all the correct info I can't submit the names. The Internet is no help everyone has submitted names to the website with all different dates for births and deaths and so on. My grandmother was very meticulous about her work and I know that those books are what I need. The only problem is my uncle will not let anyone see the books! So they sit at his house collecting dust.

He will not lay down in his swing anymore!

I went to check on Parker in the middle of the night and found this.

Ryder loves to take a bath in this, especially with Parker.

He always eats his toes.

Parker helping mom to the dishes.

SPRING FEVER!

Dinner time

Ryder After he was fed his first banana by dad, mom mashed it for him, it was just two Tbls but he loved it

Ryder loves his jumparoo Easter toy!

New hair

I got highlights and four inches cut off!

We ordered his jumparoo about a month before Easter because they were back ordered, it ended up coming in less then a week. Skylar wanted yo wait till Easter to open it but why waist a whole month of all the fun. So while he was at work I put it together. Ryder loves it! Parker thinks it's fun too, he just wishes I would let him get in it.

Parker's Easter present was ordered at the same time but has not arrived, or even been shipped for that matter. I really hope that it gets here on time.