O Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree........

We put up or tree and decorated our house for Christmas this weekend! Everytime Rylee gets up from his nap, that's the first thing he points to as we're coming down the stairs! He "helped" by throwing the bulbs around the floor, and was cruisin' around in his santa hat! What a joy he's going to be on his very "first Christmas"

Thanksgivng 2008

Since I wasn't up on it to do a Thanksgiving Day post I will re-cap the day in a nutshell for Rylee's first Thaksgiving! It honestly was the best Thanksgiving ever(minus the fact that Jake and Emile are in California)! What more can you ask for than Family, and great food and drinks?! We had stopped over to Grandpa Webers (Ryans grandpa) so he could meet Rylee for the first time-he fell in love instantly and Rylee fell in love back (I think the orange lollipop that he had waiting for him helped a little) :) It was really bitter sweet-Ryans grandpa has cancer and though he looks really good, there is that pit in your stomach knowing that he's living with such a vicious and awful disease. When we left there, Ryan was beating himself up over the fact that he doesn't see him enough-I think that's going to change! He is a kind and loving man, who has a great passion for golf-as does Ryan-they could have talked for hours and hours! We can't wait to see him at Christmas!
We then went to my parents where Rylee had his first Thanksgiving feast-we were a lil' bummed out that he had a cold so he wasn't quite the Rylee B that we're all used to-so he just kinda hung out in his chair, lookin' a lil' lathargic and just let me put food in his mouth-next year buddy-I know you'll bring your "A-game" :)
After hanging out and watching the Detroit Lions lay an egg, we headed to Ryan's dads and hung there for awhile. By the time the day was winding down, I could tell that Rylee took in all that he could on his first Thanksgiving! We are so so blessed to have him and the rest of you in our lives! As we have said this before, we couldnt have gone through this without every single one of you that read this. In some how, some way you have all been a part of our lives-whether it's your blog that I have read in return, a prayer that you've said, or physically held our hands through this journey-we are THANKFUL for you all! God's Blessings to you and your family!

The Cutest!

I was looking at our friend Lisa's blog, who we stayed with while in Ethiopia, the most adorable picture came up, and of course Rylee was sitting here with me, and I said "Rylee, it's Zaela, say hi Z!" He started waving at the computer!!! My heart melted, there is no ifs ands or buts about it, these 2 will be married someday! :) I dont know how well you'll be able to see it in this pic, but really it was the cutest thing ever!

A boy and his jammies

There's nothing cuter than a baby in their jammies! Cuter yet when he's wrapped himself up in mommy's scarf!

Is it that time already!?

As silly as it really is, Im pretty sad to be going back to work tomorrow. Silly because I will only be working 2 days, and for the next 3 weeks it's just one day a week. However, I can't believe that when we were getting ready to leave for Ethiopia in August, November seemed SO far away, and now here it is. That just warns us how fast time flies, and how much we have to soak in each and every single day! I am SO SO SO blessed for the life that we have, and that right now I am able to be home with him as much I am! He is going to be one in a short couple of weeks already, o my goodness!!!
Let's pray that I can get through the day tomorrow without TOO many phone calls to my mom! :)

One girls work in Uganda

So, I found this blog and I am in awe of what this girl has done and is continuing to do! This girl has done more in her short 20 years then I think I will ever ever do in my lifetime....take a look at her blog, and grab a couple tissues!
http://kissesfromkatie.blogspot.com/

Change is Good!

As most all of you know, my heart isn't really into politics. I have my thoughts, I have my beliefs and that's about the extent of it all. However, it's an amazing feeling to be able to look into our child's eyes and tell him that can be ANYTHING he wants to be, yes honey-it is possible! I have a feeling CHANGE will be great! God Bless America!

What a champ! [Rylee]

RB did great yesterday! Of course when they took him away mommy cried a bit, but that's just par for the course, right?! He was a little cranky when he came out of surgery, but I think that was only because he hadn't eaten for about 15 hours....We couldnt resist the pic of him before he went in-what a stinker :) The pic of him and Ryan is him playing last night, today he's back to his normal self, crawling all over like a mad-man! Now today we get to go and enjoy this beautiful weather that we're having!

Asking for some special thoughts

RB is going tomorrow morning for his lil' minor "surgery" :( Please send some extra special thoughts our way....I might be a mess.

Bad [Mommy]!

I have officially done the first "stupid mom" thing! So, Wednesday night we go out with some friends, after a fun night we hop in the elevator of the parking garage to get to our car. We were parked on level 1 and Jen and Matt on level 2. We're heading up to our level, and the door opens, I push Rylee out of the elevator and turn around to give Jen and Matt a hug, Ryans carrying on a conversation with Matt-we're all saying bye, bla bla bla-all of a sudden................
YEP-the door closes and Rylee B is out all by himself while our elevator doors close, and we head on up to the next floor! I seriously thought I was gonna have a panic attack! Once i pushed seriously, ALL of the buttons, the doors finally open and Ryan and Matt go flying out the door and run up to steps to find Rylee just hangin' waiting for his mommy and daddy to stop being airheads! :) And of course, Rylee being Rylee was still continuing on with the game of peek-a-boo that we were doing in the elevator, he didn't even know we were gone! This kid is amazing! His personality lights up our days and his smile is ridiculously contageous! I apologized up and down to him and just held him close-what a day!