Saturday, December 31, 2011

Christmastime










Thank you Heather Keil! www.heatherkeilphotography.com

Gobble Gobble

We celebrated Thanksgiving and everything we're grateful for in Las Vegas this year at Shane's sister's house.We had the best time and loved being surrounded by people we love!

Jana had this really cute idea of letting everyone sign this table cloth, the kids loved it.
Host
Hostess
Some of the grub


We spent a few days with the Wents/Bulkleys playing games, watching movies, going bowling, lots of laughing, talking, black Friday shopping, going down to the strip and enjoying each other's company!

Tylie might just bowl professionally someday.

Grandma Bulkley <3
Ty enjoying her ice cream
Worlds largest Chocolate fountain
Peace
Love these girlies

Our fam bam.
She loves her daddy
Cousins
All the kiddos
It was so much fun! I feel like I didn't see Ty much that weekend because she is obsessed with her cousins and they all played their little hearts out!
Thanks Jana and Joe for such a fun weekend!

Turning 28 was great.

This year I turned 28 in Arkansas. We took a girls trip + Ryder to go visit my sweet grandparents. We had such a fun time just catching up and hanging out. This was the first time they met Ryder as well, so that was fun. We were so excited to see my grandma doing unexpectedly well, she is a trooper and has had a rough year under going cancer and chemo. So happy to say that she came back from her doctor's appointment last month with a clean bill of health! Yeah!

Shane dropped us off at the airport, I think he was sad to see us go but excited for a guys weekend full of ESPN, golf and who knows what else :)
Ryder's first time on an airplane
Ty was occupied the entire time playing games and watching movies
My sweet grandma and grandpa

My mom with her parents and her uncle
We flew home on my birthday and Shane, my dad and Jeff picked us up at the airport. By this time we were pushing 10:00 p.m. but still grabbed a bite to eat. When we got home the boys surprised me with cake and presents. I was so surprised when I opened one of Shane's presents and it was my entire blog from 2008-2011 printed and made into a hard cover book. I love it and it makes me want to be SO much better of a blogger come 2012...like in 3 hours.

The following weekend we celebrated with our little immediate fam. by going to the Grove and grabbing some dinner.

It was a week of CAKE! I feel like I got a cake every place I went. No Joke! I'd be ok if I never ate cake again :) but it was good while it lasted.







Valerie and Brandi Hicks came to my work to visit and drop these babies off! They were delish and they are welcome to drop by anytime... like in the near future! ;)

Halloween


It's New Years Eve and I have a ridiculously miserable cold. I've been in bed all day, but just got a genius idea to catch up on my ever so lacking blog before 2012. So here's my attempt...

Halloween was so fun this year. This is the first year Tylie really REALLY had an opinion on what she was going to be, and there was no changing her mind! Here's how it all played out...

We got BOOED on one Sunday night in October! If you could see the look on Ty's face when she opened the door, you would have thought she won one million dollars...and that's why I LOVE kids so much! It's the little things!
Thank you to our ghost friends, you made our week! Of course we returned the favor by BOOING 3 other friends, which Ty equally enjoyed!
Have to have new spooky Jams in October...our favorite part was turning off all of the lights and watching them glow.
And Tylie was, drum roll please...Rapunzel!!! I know, how original. I'm pretty sure she was one out of 800 million Rapunzels this year! I thought she made a beautiful Rapunzel if I don't say so myself.

And the little one was a puppy dog to go right along with his big blue puppy dog eyes!
So, I saw a Rapunzel pumpkin carve out and I had to try it...3 hours later this little girl was ecstatic about it!

Don't mean to toot my horn but I was pretty ecstatic about it as well.
Looks so cool all lit up!
This little pup hated his hat but posed for a few pics. Smile too? That would be WAY too much to ask for!


Happy First Halloween to our little Ryder Spider!