Look What Santa sent Ryder...

Santa's Message

Ryder"ISMS"

Ryder has been saying and doing the funniest things.. half the time its when he's been bad and Eric and I just have to hold back our laughter which is rather hard at times!

*Ryder has been playing "Knock Knock, I say who's there? and he says POPS!" then he goes Knock Knock, and I say, who's there? and he says POPS!" then he goes Knock Knock, and I say, who's there? and he says POPS!"  (get the picture?!? its an all day every day kind of getting old thing!)

*Anytime he does something bad and I am not right there, I will hear him (wherever he is in the house) OH GOSH WYDER!!! BIG SPANKIN!! its such a funny moment but yet a full of anxiety moment at what in the world did he do this time..

*He's starting to act like the phone is a camera to whoever is on the other side, anytime he talks to someone on the phone he'll turn it around to whatever he is talking about and say "look" like that person can see it

*He has been doing his "happy feet" dance like CRAZY! I'll have to post a video of it soon, but if this child doesn't grow up to be a break dancer I will be VERY surprised!
*He always says, Mommy, where's daddy? He at work? He goin potty? Mommy WHERE'S DADDY!

*He likes to squeeze himself in between the coffee table and the couch and put his legs up on the table, and his arms on the couch so he's kind of just hanging in the middle.. its soo funny.. and half the time he ends up getting stuck and yelling MOMMY WYDER STUCK!

*His favorite movies right now are: "Acoon"(Ice Age, he thinks the squirrel is a Racoon), Buzz Whiteyear (Toy Story Buzz Lightyear), Nemo, and George (Curious George)

*He LOVES To count, most of the time he starts at 3 and can count to 18 and backwards from 10

And as I am typing this he is peeing all over the floor.. Oh the joys of having a 2 year old.. that's enough for today I believe..Oh dear Jesus give me patience today!

Christmas Makeover... HOPEFULLY!

I had a hard time deciding what I want for Christmas this year, like I've said in the past, if there is something out there that I really want I get it. I never wait until Christmas to ask for a long list of things, I guess I am just a little impatient and like to get things as I want them. Well... that was until I got an idea... I decided for Christmas this year I want to revamp our living room and kitchen. Eric and I went to lowes last night to price things we will need and it looks like with both of us Eric doing all the work we will be able to save alot of money and get it done!! I am beyond excited! We are going to start by painting.. ALOT the ceiling, and all the walls from the hallway to the living room to the kitchen will be one color, then we are doing a little building project (my grandpa is going to help me but he doesn't know that yet) and some crown molding to top it off. (AND of course a shopping trip to get accesories! :) ) Here are some of our ideas...

I LOVE these blues.. I want it to be a subtle color, but definetly show up!

I found this sofa table on Pinterest and she had everything laid out which boards to buy, and a tutorial on how to make it! Eric and I went to Lowe's to price it and its only going to cost $60!!

I just absolutely am having an episode over this picture frame! If my grandpa can make this for me I will be the happiest girl in the world!! This would look FAB over my new sofa table above! (dont you agree?)

We are going to make 2 of these for the living room and the same lady who had the tutorial on the sofa table, had one on these.. they are going to cost around $30 a piece.. (still WAY cheaper than buying!)

So I have some convincing to do on this fireplace with Eric, BUT it only cost them $82 to re-do there fireplace! They had an all brick one just like mine, and it looks gorgious! I would LOVE LOVE LOVE! (they also had an EASY tutorial on how to do this)

IF my grandpa can't make that to die for picture frame, I am leaning towards doing a pretty collage above the sofa table.. I LOVE these ideas!!

LOVE this rug...

as you see I have alot of planning going on... and alot of things to be done! I have 2 weeks off to get everything finished and I am going to be working like a mad women but I think it will pay off! Actually I KNOW it will pay off! :)

Ho-Ho and his elves...

Last night I went to Cracker Barrell with my mom and Meme. While we were waiting for our food my mom looked over and saw that there was a man who looked like Santa Clause. He wasn't dressed like Santa but he had a big white beard and a big ole' belly. Well my mom told Ryder that Ho-Ho was there and you would have thought he was going to be killed. He was TERRIFIED! The man kept waving at Ryder and other kids were even going up to man and he was talking to them and giving them candy and a little card. WELL, we tried and tried to get him to go see Santa and get him some candy, but he just wasn't having it.. So eventually when Santa was leaving he came over to the table to see Ryder and he was yelling NO! NO! NO! and Santa said I have some candy for you and Ryder was dead silent. He took the candy, and then Santa said, Can I have a high five? And Ryder stuck out his finger and touched him and then snatched it back! It was hilarious everyone eating around us died laughing. It was quite the experience for us all!

On another note...I was running really late this morning for church because I was suppose to bring our Sunday school class breakfast, and Eric was on call so I wasn't able to do anything with Pie this morning. BUT as soon as we came home, Ryder went looking for him and found this....

He had gotten into Ryder's "Prize Box"(when he goes Poop on the potty) and ate a peice of CANDY!

Ryder said, "Mommy Pie make a BIG Mess and he needs a WIPE!" I said YES HE DOES! :)

Ryder must have been a GOOD boy...

Ryder must have made some good choices yesterday because when we woke up this morning Pie (our elf) was IN Ryder's stocking!! AND guess what Santa gave Pie to give Ryder.....!!

 
CANDY!! This little boy is SOO excited!! He gave Pie a kiss and said "ANK YOU!" This is so much fun! I am glad I did it this year, because I was contemplating waiting, because I didn't know if he was too young.

Elf On The Shelf

So Santa sent us a little surprise yesterday.. Meet "Pie" our elf that came to keep an eye on Ryder for Santa.... (Ryder named him by the way, I have NO idea why he wanted to name him Pie but he did so it is, what it is)

Everyday the elf can do something naughty or nice.. this morning when Ryder woke up, he went looking for Pie and this is what he found, ...

He said, "OH MY GOSH! Pie was WERY BAD!.. MOMMA PIE MAKE BIG MESS!" He was VERY concerned! It was so fun to see his reaction and I think he is going to really get into this tradition.. on Christmas eve Pie will fly back to the North Pole and let Santa know if Ryder has been naughty or nice... Maybe this will even help him to behave! (probably not, but wishful thinking right? :)  )

Riley's Birthday Bash!

Saturday we had Riley's birthday party and it was so much fun! I had bought her birthday outfit and she looked SOO cute, although it only lasted about 10 minutes on her! Ha! But I'm sure she will get future use out of the shirt, and HOPEFULLY the tutu :)

While Riley was eating HER cake, we started passing out the big cake... it only took a few minutes for me to notice that Nana's lips were turning black. I told Jessi and I thought we were going to pee in our pants, no one had caught on yet, so I told Nana to smile.. SEE BELOW :)

Then Meme:

By this time everyone was dying laughing, but poor Pa still had no idea why I was telling him to smile! :)

We ended up leaving from Jessi's house and got in right after midnight. It was a good choice because there was hardly any traffic and Ryder slept the whole way! It was SUCH a fun trip!!

Thanksgiving TN Day 4:

 

Saturday we headed over to Jessi's house to help her set up for Riley's birthday party and we had planned on getting some pictures of the kids. I never realized how hard it would be to get 2 kids to smile for the camera and cooperate! ha! It sure was a task! But the pictures turned out so cute even if there not all smiling perfectly at the camera!