Diva!

The other day Brooklyn got into the car without shoes without me knowing. She was forced to walk shoeless on the street for a little bit. After a while she looked up at me and said, "Mom, these rocks literally hurt my feet so bad!"

RYDER

My little Ryder is already 2 and 1/2 months old! He is growing well. He's in the 90th percentile for height (which hasn't happened with my children before), and about 80th percentile for weight. He is the happiest and sweetest little thing ever to come to this earth! He is such a good baby and he treats his mommy well! He has been consistently sleeping through the night since about 8 weeks old. He usually gives me a solid 9-10 hours at night...I know, I don't deserve it! My older kids were so attached to the binki that until they were over a year old I would have to go and pop their binki in once or twice a night. The beautiful thing with Ryder is that he will take a binki to calm him down (or hold him off until I can feed him) but he is not so attached to it that he needs it all the time! He is starting to giggle a little bit and he smiles all day long! He just kind of hangs out as long as I don't let him get too tired or too hungry. I really couldn't have asked for a happier baby!

Little All-Star

Kyle is our little athlete! He is just finishing up his baseball season and a great season it's been! He is in the "machine pitch" league and we were a little nervous to start him out in that league. Usually they start with t-ball, then coach pitch, then go to machine pitch, but we had some friends we wanted to be on a team with so we went for it. He has really done amazing!
After every hit he does a little victory dance (pictured below) at first base, then he always gives us the "thumbs up!" It is the Cutest thing ever!

He is quite the little hitter, but my favorite thing about Kyle is that even when he strikes out (which isn't often...the proud mommy had to add that in) he still has a huge smile on his face! He just lets it roll right off his back!

Here he is playing catcher, but his favorite position is third base. It is just too much fun watching him play!

Best Day Ever

On Memorial Day we borrowed our friends' bikes and trailer and took off on the funnest bike ride! We rode all around the Daybreak lake then around the temple then past Kyles kindergarten. It was a very long ride and up a huge hill, but Kyle did amazing! Brookie and Ryder did great in the trailer, and I'm just glad I didn't have to pull it up that crazy hill! We can't wait to get bikes of our own!

Camera Thief

When I uploaded my pictures I discovered that Kyle got a hold of my camera at some point. Here are three (of about 20) pictures that he took.

Introducing Ryder Roy Nye

Our little Ryder was born March 17th at 11:08 PM. I will give more details later, but needed to get pictures up immediately due to death threats. Mom and baby are both doing very well!

Kyle literally cannot get enough of his sweet baby brother!

I left him on the floor after changing his diaper and he fell asleep in this position. I thought it was so funny!

Wicked Fun Party!!

We celebrated the kids birthday this past weekend and had some serious fun! Since their birthdays are only a week apart and they have all the same friends we did a combined party at Classic Family Fun Center (known as Classic Skating when I was a child). I'm not sure if the adults or kids had more fun! Brookie requested a chocolate Tinkerbell cake and that is what she got! It took a ridiculous amount of time to make, but it was a lot fun! Obviously it was allergy-friendly for her, and it was all worth it to see the excitement in her face when she got to actually eat cake!!I tried to talk Kyle into a different cake, but he wanted Lightning McQueen again! Thank goodness my sister-in-law, Mandi, showed up to help me finish this one. My hand was cramping up!

My dad couldn't stop bragging about the "school girl" he is married to! Here she is bouncing away with the kids!

Brooklyn almost didn't even want to open her presents because she was enjoying her chocolate cake too much!

Half of our sweet party guests!

The other half! Thank you all so much for coming!

My family used to really like going to Chucky Cheeses and Jungle Jims for partys. My sister-in-law, Jesika, parted from playing for two seconds, ran over to us and dramatically declared, "Chucky Cheese is DEAD to me!" Then she ran back to playing! My dad hollered back to her, "Chucky, WHO?!" I have been laughing about that for days!

Having Fun!

Steve was declared the "Best Shot" in the blast zone!

And the perfect finish to the funnest party ever was my mom, dad and brothers won the grand prize of 100 tickets at the Deal or No Deal game! It came down to two cases. One had one ticket, the other had 100 tickets and we could have made the deal and settled with 50 tickets. We had ten seconds to decide and half the people were shouting "NO DEAL!" and the other half screaming "DEAL!!!" It was pretty dramatic! With one second left my brother pushed "No Deal" and when we realized the case had the 100 tickets you would have thought my family just won the lottery! We all went absolutely crazy!

Here is most of my family! We wished we got the picture before my sister and her family had to leave!

Thanks to everyone who came! We had a blast!!!