Ryder's Christmas in LR

Saturday was Ryder went to one of his Great Aunt's house in LR to celebrate Christmas with Mimi & Hannah!  He always has such a good times with them & I was so glad to see that someone tagged some pictures from the event on Facebook, so I could see them!

{Ryder with his Granny Jean!}

{Ryder with Hannah & Mimi!}

I am so thankful that Ryder has such a good relationship with his Mimi & PawPaw & that they live close enough for him to see them often!  He tells me he is a "country boy" because that's what he is when he goes & stays out at their house!  :P  He will be just enough of a city boy & country boy when he grows up & I love it!  =)

We've turned a new leaf!

With Ryder being sick, he has acted pretty good for "being sick"...but heaven forbid you tell the kid that "he's sick!" because he will say, "I'M NOOOOT SIICCCKK!"  It's kinda funny actually.  & he says that I'm not sick either & is always asking me if I "feel better?"  Too precious!

Even though he has played well, he still hasn't been his complete self...UNTIL LAST NIGHT!


Amy watched him yesterday while I had to keep him home from school--so I could go & take my final.  SOO thankful for her!  =)  Afterwards we went to Chick to eat lunch & my child squeezed a ketchup packet SO hard that it exploded all over him.  This was after I had wiped it off of his face & hair!  :O  I seriously just stood there & said "Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh!"  Seriously...never a dull moment around here!  ;)


He went over to my parents for alittle bit last night while I studied...& when I went back over there to get him, he was seriously a NEW KID!  You could tell he felt good & "wasn't sick" & was finally getting back to the same ole crazy Ryder we'd missed the last few days!  That sure will make a Mama happy!  =)

I found him like this last night when we were about to go to bed...I just couldn't help but laugh!





Isn't that just precious?  I love him so much!  He is the sweetest little boy & loves his Mama so much!  He makes me so happy & I seriously can't imagine my life without him!


Sleeping hard after a long day...I love that little face!



One last thing...how CUUUTE is this hat?!?  I'm seriously thinking about getting one with Ryder's name on it!  It would be great for the coming months, especially if it SNOWS!  =)

Baby boys sick...

Well...I told you I wouldn't be around much!  & I haven't been!  :(  Since Thursday night, little man has ran a fever at about 6 pm...random I know!  He has had the whole runny nose, cold, cough & gunked up eye thing as well so I just figured it was something going along with that.


It finally got to the point Monday morning where I knew something else must be going on...& we should probably head in to see what was up.  We went in to see Ms. Karen that morning & boy am I glad we did.

Did I mention I woke up with my horrible sore throat as well...MONDAY JUST WASN'T MY DAY FOR SURE!-(not to mention it was my ONLY day this week without a final!)


Sure enough...the ear infection he had two weeks ago never completely went away.  So it was time to get out the big boy antibiotics & KILL off that infection!  My mom said amoxicillin never killed my ear infections either...so hopefully these new meds will do the trick!


It seems like all day Monday was spent at the Dr., at the pharmacy, at Walgreens getting over the counter drugs, or driving to & from!  Oh...& not to mention, my mom was home from school as well from being SICK!  Ahh...sick of all this SICKNESS!

This did make our sickly weekend a little bit better!  ;)


& I finally got Punkin' his own chapstick (& grabbed a few more for his stocking) the other day!  Green Apple...who knew?!  It smells fab & is super soft, I think I'm gonna have to get myself some soon so I'll quit stealing his!  =)

Everybody...wash your hands, try & stay stress free & stay away from the sicklies!  :P

Catch all...catch up!

Well...Squeak the elf has made himself at home the passed few days!  On Friday we went to see Santa & he left a note to Ryder telling him to tell Santa hello & to behave for mommy!  & I am happy to report that Ryder was so good all the way to LR & back!  AND...he stayed dry ALL day! We had to stop once on the way there, once at the restaurant & then once again on the way home!  But, I was so proud of him for telling me, & it seemed like no big deal!  =)



This is a picture of a picture of him with Santa.  His hands are up because I had mine up trying to get him to smile & it was the only one with him smiling...so I went with it!  =)

He seriously walked straight up there to him, gave him a high five & knuckles.  Told him his name, how old he was & what he wanted for Christmas..."a skateboard & a helmet" (don't ask me where he got that from, because it is ALL HIM!!) He straight up leaned back in his lap & relaxed & just hung out with him while I paid & got the pictures printed....it was pretty funny, but I was so glad everything went well & we got it out of the way!



We didn't do ANYTHING on Saturday.  We both practically stayed in our PJs & got stuff done around the house, which feels really good today because my house is semi-clean, laundry is done & I just feel refreshed!  We did get out to go to Sonic to get Pop Pops a strawberry-limeade because he was out bagging up all the leaves in the front yard poor guy.  Yes, we were both still in our PJs at this point & neighbors were walking & looking at us funny, but I didn't even care!  ;)  Ryder in his Elmo PJs, Toy Story cowboy boots & my pink sequin Santa hat!


I got my Marley Lilly monogram scarf in last week & wore it to church on Sunday.  It's color is "papaya" & I love it & think it's a real unique color.  There are many other colors I loved as well, but this is what I settled with!  I won a $20 gift card just for tweeted about Marley Lilly one night, so I got this scarf for 6 dollars (& that was just shipping!)


Every Southern girl needs a monogram scarf or two!  ;)  I will be going back for more...check out her site for ALL things personalized & monogrammed!


Mr. Squeak got a hold of a marker & did a lil artwork on Ryder's school picture!  Ryder was NOT too pleased with his artwork & threw a little fit when he saw it!  I quickly told him Squeak was just messing around, but that he better be good so that Squeak won't do it again!  :P


Today he brought along with him from the North Pole some Peppermint flavored marshmellows!  YUMM!!


I had taken the recycling out this morning in the rain & had taken my rain boots off in the laundry room, & found this lil guy trying to walk around in them!  TOO funny if you ask me!


Before I had class, me & lil man had a few errands to run this morning & I thought he just looked awfully funny in his stunna shades & with the sucker in his mouth!  He is at such a fun age, I can't even express how much fun we have together!  We seriously are the best of friends!  =)



& of course Mama had to try out the peppermint flavored marshmellows in her hot chocolate today!  =)

MIA for the next two weeks... :/

As many exciting things that are going to be happening in the next two weeks, ALOT of my time will be (should be) consisting of studying.  :/ So...I can't promise there will be any blog posts.  It will sadden me more than it will you I'M SURE.  But I will miss blogging.  It's my outlet.

Just FYI so no one starts to worry!  ;)  Maybe I'll have some good stuff to post once I come back...if I survive! :O