Trunk or Treat!

 Last night we went to our church's Harvest Party and we had a blast! Ryder LOVES to go on the "jumpy jumpy" (bounce houses) and passing out candy. We volunteered with our Sunday school class to pass out candy in 20 minute increments. Ryder just sat there and passed out a few peices and then ate almost his whole bucket of candy while Eric and I were passing the rest out. It was a lot of fun!!

BY THE WAY! **Don't forget to SPONSOR me in the Walk for a Cure Melanoma!! Its a couple of weeks away and my goal was to raise $100** (You can do so, by clicking on the link below.. ITS TAX DEDUCTIBLE TOO)

http://www.aimatmelanoma.org/aim-for-action/1158/1159/charlotte-2011/2200.html

Sponsor ALISHA HARRIS in AIM for a CURE Melanoma Walks

I have decided to walk for the AIM at Melanoma in Charlotte NC on Nov. 19th. If you would like to donate and sponsor me, please click the link below! Thank you! (Also if anyone wants to walk with me let me know!)

Sponsor ALISHA HARRIS in AIM for a CURE Melanoma Walks

While the girls are away the boys will play...

After lunch on Sunday Nana and I went on a hunt for decals to put on Ryder's train table that my grandpa built for him for Christmas.. WELL while we were busy out shopping the boys were busy playing. HOWEVER when we got back Nana decided to have a little fun of her own. Ryder couldn't believe that Nana could ride the tractor too!

Christopher's 1st Birthday Party

  

Saturday my nephew turned 1 and we headed out to a fun birthday party! The theme was trucks and it was so cute! Ryder had so much fun on the trampoline but he made me a nervous wreck! Thankfully we only had an incident when he ran into a girl and they both got goose eggs but other than that he stayed on it somehow! Christopher was SO cute with his birthday cake and opening presents! We had a blast! :)

See the monkey above? This was the funniest thing, I was looking for Ryder a few minutes later and he had taken that ghost out of the monkeys arm and started putting that fake moss in the monkeys arms that is inside that pot, for the monkey to "eat" I was SO embarassed he had picked all that moss and it was ALL over the floor! He said Mommy monkey eatin!

I think we might need to buy a trampoline.. BUT with a big NET around it!

Trunk Or Treat

 Friday night Ryder and I went with Amanda and Paul, and Grandma and Grandpa to trunk or treat at the YMCA. I was a little nervous on how Ryder was going to act around other kids dressed up since he is SO scared of wenches..but he did pretty good and only freaked out a few times.. the kids had alot of fun and the adults did too! While we were waiting for Eric to get off work to meet us for dinner we played at the YMCA's indoor playground its HUGE and the kids LOVED it! Thanks to Grandma Heather for always having her camera handy we got some SUPER cute pictures! :)

Kids Say the Darnest Things..

So Ryder has been saying some funny things and I just want to record them on my blog so I can look back and laugh...

*Eric walked into the kitchen the other night and Ryder said, "Daddy whatcha doin?" Eric just busted out laughing

*Ryder told me yesterday that he was hungry and needed some dinner and I said what kind of dinner and he said a cookie dinner :)

*Everytime we go to the store this is what I hear, "Mommy NO wench, I no like wench, Mommy wench sleepin? Mommy NO wench, Mommy wench night night" A million miles a minute and he doesn't stop until were pulling out of the parking lot (wench is witch)

*From the moment he wakes up until the moment he goes to sleep he'll say, "Mommy I go Nana and Pa's and ride tractor?" and I'll say, " Maybe next weekend" and he'll say "Ok Mommy"
*Yesterday I had my blog up putting pictures on and the "just stay little" song was playing in the background nad he started singing EVERY word! I could not stop laughing.. I guess he hears it alot
*He always says "mommy HOLD YOU! Daddy HOLD YOU" meaning for us to hold him

*Whenever we watch football or go to a game he gets down in a crouching position and says 1, 2, 1, 2 3! GO GO GO and takes off running and then falls to the ground like he's tackling and says OH GOSH!

*Yesterday we were playing outside and he got in his little jeep, and starting driving off and turned to me and said, " Bye MOmmy! I go Nana and Pa's and ride tractor! Bye Mommy" I had to break the news to him that it was going to take him a LONG time to get to Nana and Pa's in that little car.. maybe someday!

4 year Anniversary

Eric surprised me and got off work early, AND had my mom pick up Ryder so we could have a date night! We had soo much fun! We went to the fair and ate, played games, and walked around talking about CRAZY people we saw! We won almost every game that we played so we came home with 4 huge stuffed animals. I told Eric next year were playing games last because my arms were so tired carrying those things around all night.  Thanks Momma Honey and Pops for keeping Ryder! He had a blast!

Sunday FUNday

After church on Sunday, Ryder and I (Eric was WRAPPED up in football all day) had a fun afternoon! We made and decorated home made sugar cookies...I wasn't sure how many it would make, but it came out to be over 50!! Needless to say we went to a few houses delivering cookies ha!

I also found on a website how to make "home made lava lamps" It was SOO easy and fun! Ryder LOVED it!

This is all you need:

1 water bottle

vegetable oil

alka seltzer

water

food coloring

You fill the water bottle a little over half full of vegetable oil, and then the rest with water (leaving about an inch of air at the top) Then you drop 10 drops of food coloring into the water and break 1 alka seltzer into 4 pieces. Then drop 1 piece and watch the magic happen! You can keep adding pieces but have to wait until the bubbles stop. (Also this solution lasts over a week)

Summer's Wedding

 One of my best friends from middle/high school got married on Saturday! I was a little nervous about taking Ryder by myself to his first wedding ceremony but I was just hoping for the best...well luckily I got to sit in the backrow next to a pile of rocks! :) He just played in the dirt the whole time! It was SOO much fun to see all my old friends and Summer looked so pretty! We stayed a little over 2 hours and just enough time to say hey to the bride and groom before we had to leave (their pictures took FOREVER!) but it was so nice to catch up with old friends.. at one point one of my friends mom's came over and said, "Alisha here you are surrounded by a group of guys all holding beers and your holding a sippy cup" I said yep! That pretty much sums up my life right now! ha! I only got a few pictures because I was chasing my crazy 2 year old around in heels, BUT I'm pretty sure he was everyone's entertainment for the night! :)

SC State Museum

Last year SC got added to a website called Groupon.. you basically get e-mailed everyday of "deals" that are in your area. Well one of the very first ones was a family membership to the SC State Museum for $20. I immediately got it and then thought, I'm sure there isn't anything for Ryder to do, so we never went. Well yesterday it was raining and Eric and Ryder BOTH needed to get out of the house so I told them to go try it.... Well let me just say, ( I can't remember if I have blogged about this yet or not) Ryder is TERRIFIED of ghosts, witches, skeletons ALL of the Halloween decorations that are at Lowes, Walmart, EVERYWHERE... whenever I go grocery shopping either he stays at home with Eric or the ENTIRE time he's latched on to me cutting off my circulation screaming NO WENCH MOMMA NO WENCH (witch)....well Eric said as soon as they started to go in the ENTIRE place was decorated for Halloween..he said there were witches and ghosts hanging from the ceiling and they were everywhere.. I couldn't help but just bust out laughing.. he said he wasn't that bad but he definitely had a few freak out moments... It sounded like they had alot of fun and I begged him to take a few pictures so this is all I got ...

They also brought this picture below home.. He said there was a machine that you could pay to get your picture printed out.. I think its pretty cute! :)

Even though there were witches, ghosts, and goblins I think they had good bonding time!