Ryan’s birthday party

We had Ryan’s birthday party at the YMCA today in their HUGE 3 story tall playscape. The kids had so much fun and Ryan got some really nice gifts!

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The boys had a HUGE playscape to play on and where did they spend most of their time? Playing with the Geotrax.

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Ryan looking through the binoculars

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Present time!

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He was so excited to get a sleeping bag!

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He saw this firetruck in TRU and was OBSESSED with it.

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The carnage.

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The first thing he wanted to play with when we got home. 

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Professional pictures

We took the boys to have their pictures done on Friday. We had such a great experience compared to what happened last year with Ryan. There was no crying and no drama- just really adorable pictures. They took 125 pictures and it was so hard to narrow down the choice to what we wanted printed.

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Ryan’s first soccer game

Today was Ryan’s first soccer game ever. His team’s name is the Tigers and they won 7-6. I was proud of Ryan for getting on the field and running around with the team but whenever the ball would come to him he would just stop and wouldn’t kick it. One time when the other team scored a goal he turned to me and said “I didn’t even get a chance mama”. It was pretty cute. Hopefully in the coming weeks he will get more comfortable and will start trying to kick the ball when it comes to him.

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Ryan and his best friend Jack.

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Drew’s first soccer game

This morning was Drew’s first soccer game this season. He did so well and he came so close to scoring a goal.

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Drew and his friends John and Ashton. They know each other from preschool and I work with their mothers.

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Kindergarten Rodeo

So today at school they had a Kindergarten rodeo which was the cutest thing I have seen!

First they did a “trail ride” through the school and all of the other grades came out of their classrooms to watch the kids ride

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Then they went outside and did a short presentation called “Im a Tex” (Drew is towards the back of the picture in the black hat)

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Here is Drew’s teacher- Ms. Blesing. I love the pink boots!

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Next up was the stick horse races

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Drew and Ms. Blesing

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My Little Cowboy

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Calf Roping

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The cow- he was a pretty mean one.

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Wheelbarrow Racing

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Oil Well Relay

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Cow Patty toss

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Bucking Broncos

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Wagon Races

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Sack Races

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Calf Scramble

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Stick horses taking a rest

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Picnic time!

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Drew’s birthday party

Today we had Drew’s birthday party at the Big Bounce in Cedar Park. His actual birthday was Feb 7th. He had a really great time and got lots of neat presents! Here are some pictures-

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The spongsbob balloon that had a hole in it. :(

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Taylor also had her party at the same time at Big Bounce too!

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Blue Teeth!

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Happy Halloween

So the kids have gotten back from Trick-or-Treating and have a loot of candy! Evan and Taylor came over and went trick-or-treating with us and they were all so cute in their costumes!

Drew

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Taylor

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Evan

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Grumpy Ryan

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Now he is happy

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Trunk-N-Treat

Here are some pictures from T-N-T this evening.

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Silly lips

Susan gave the boys a little halloween bag and in there was these suckers that had silly lips! This cracks me up!

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Crazy hair day

This past week at school the kids got to do something fun with their clothes or hair. Monday was the character book parade and Drew was scooby doo. Then he got to wear crazy hair and on Friday he wore his new SpongeBob slippers to school!

Character Book Parade

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Crazy Hair Day

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There are no words for this…

Drew was eating chicken nuggies from his toes….

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Aubree Leigh

Leigh and Steven welcomed their little girl, Aubree Leigh into the world on Friday October 29th at 3:3p pm. She was born at 35.5 weeks and was 18 inches long and weighed 5 lb 4 oz. Elicia and I went to see her today and she is just BEAUTIFUL!  

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She has got some big ole feet!

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Doesnt Leigh look so good???

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Amy’s Ice Cream

We made an impromptu trip to Amy’s Ice Cream today and it was YUMMY!

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Pumpkin Patch

We took the boys to the pumpkin patch today. Blake, Elicia, and kids met us there and we had a really good time!

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Silly Glasses

The boys got these stupid glasses from Sonic the other day and they just love them!

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More first day of Kindergarten stuff

So we picked Drew up this afternoon and he told us that he had a good day and he really liked school! He made this adorable teddy bear clip to hang his kindergarten work from for the fridge. He answered a few questions and then got tired of answering questions. Peter asked him if he liked it well enough to go back tomorrow and Drew said “We HAVE to dadda!”

We took him out to eat to celebrate his first day of kindergarten. He chose to go to Red Robin! Later when we got home, Drew and I were snuggling in my bed and I was asking him questions about how his day had gone. He told me that he saw Aunt Leecie (Elicia- she teaches 3rd grade there) in the hallway and said hi to her but he didn’t give her a hug because his line was moving in the hall and he didn’t want to get out of line! He also told me he saw Taylor on the playground (she is my niece, daughter of Elicia and she goes to the pre-k program there) and he played with her! I asked him how many boys were in his class and he said 100. Then I asked him how many girls are in his class and he said 1000. I told him that those girls were going to chase after him and try to kiss him but he can’t get any kisses from girls other than Mommy, Grammie, Bebe, Aunt Leecie, and Taylor. HA! I asked him if he went to P.E. today and he said they went to the gym and were going to play games and play with basketballs but they didn’t have time. He liked going to the cafeteria to have lunch but told me NOT to put his snack in his lunchbox- to put it in the front pocket of his backpack.

Anyways, here are a few more pictures from today

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Drew’s first day of Kindergarten

I can’t believe this day is finally here. :( We just dropped off Drew for his first day of Kindergarten! When I went in to wake him up he POPPED out of bed and looked outside and said “hey its still dark outside. Thats kinda cool!” He was so excited to go to school this morning and when we got there he wasn’t happy about me taking pictures. I took him into his classroom and he immediately went and put his backpack in his locker! Yes I did tear up a little bit but I didn’t bawl like a baby like I did for his first day of preschool. YAY me!

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2 weeks post op

Things are going well! I am now able to eat soft foods and it feels so good to be able to finally chew something! Monday I had a 1/4th of a baked potato with light margarine, light sour cream, and cheese and a few green beans. Today I had another baked potato but put broccoli and cheese on it! YUMMMM!

I went to my first support group meeting and had a really good time! They did a Zumba class but I didn’t participate since Im just 2 weeks post op. But I was looking at the instructor thinking “this white girl can’t dance- you are NOT getting me to do Zumba”. Who knows- maybe I will give it a try sometime. Right now I just need to get off my butt and start walking. When I got home I had scrambled eggs with a little bit of ham and cheese and salsa on top. It filled me up but now I’m hungry again which is normal considering I don’t have any restriction in my band. I’m in what they call “Bandster Hell”- no restriction in your band means you could theoretically eat anything you wanted. So until I get my first fill Im going to have to really watch what I eat. I believe that Im supposed to see my doctor on September 13th and that will put me 6 weeks out from surgery so hopefully she will do my first fill then.

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Denver Day 2

We decided to take the boys to the Downtown Aquarium and The Denver Children’s Museum this day. The boys both had a blast at both places!

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SpongeBob outside of the Aquarium

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Scuba Diver in one of the huge tanks cleaning it.

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MantaRay

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Ugly orange fish

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I don’t remember what this was but its wierd. It was stuck to the side of the glass.

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A bridge by the tiger exhibit. I didn’t get any pics of the tigers though- my camera was dying a painful death.

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At the Children’s Museum

They had a whole room where you could make huge bubbles

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Making a huge bubble all around them

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Bubble is all the way up- this is right before Ryan popped it

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Trains

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Playarea

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Firetruck- This was their FAVORITE part of the museum. They LOVE climbing in and pretending to be a fireman!

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Outisde of the museum on the playground

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They LOVED the big tire swing!

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On the trolley tracks by the park

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Denver trip

So, apparently “people” are waiting for me to update the blog with pictures from our trip to Denver. So here you go!

Monday we drove to Boulder to have lunch and then took a drive up in the mountains. Man, the weather was GORGEOUS and it felt good riding with our windows down. We stopped on the side of the road where some waterfalls were but unfortunately they were closed and we couldnt get back to take pictures of the waterfalls. But the boys had fun throwing rocks off the cliff into the water!

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Back in the car ready to head up higher in the mountains. Drew spent most of his time playing his DS rather than looking at the scenery.

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Peter took us to a famous train tunnel but unfortunately it was closed and no trains were going through it. But the boys had fun throwing rocks (do you see a pattern here?) and running around for a bit.

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Then on our way at we stopped and let the boys put their feet in the stream. We didnt stay long because there were HUGE mosquitos and the water was rushing a little too fast.

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Then we drove to downtown Denver just to look around.

Here is a picture of a dead “Dancey-Dance” (as Ryan called them) that was on a billboard. I just thought it was funny.

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And we went to see Invesco Field at Mile High Stadium

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We also drove up to the baseball stadium where the Rockies play but couldn’t figure out how to get to the front of the stadium and by that time we were tired and hungry so we decided to leave.

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