moving into OUR house tomorrow!!!

say what?? ya. i'm a little excited if you can't tell!

BiRtHdAy BoY!!!

ryan turned 1.

loved his cake and his party.

loves his grandma..more than mom.

loves anything w/lights or opens and closes.

loves to be outside..spring come fast!



a little catch up...

 Ryan was completely okay with Santa..surprisingly..

This is Christmas Sunday morning..not the best but had to document it!

Well..as always I'm playing catch up. Christmas was wonderful especially with Ryan..not that he understands anything and not that we got him much of anything but it was still special having our "first" stay at our place christmas.  LOVED having Christmas on Sunday this year. If I could I would have it like this every year.  Update: Nick started a Masters program (3 years ugh..) the first of January, still working at the hospital and sadly it's winter so no golf for him. I am teaching piano and staying home with Ryan.  We love being so close to family as we get to see them often. Still miss Logan a bit but this will be our home for awhile. More updates on the little guy since his big birthday is here in a few days.

the feast.

 Ryan on Thanksgiving.

Grandma and Ryan..the two redheads..(there. I said it, I have a redhead.)



Well Thanksgiving was wonderful involving ALL my siblings, a turkey trot, turkey bowl, yummy food, and my first time black friday shopping! Just have to say there are some crazies out there!!! The two pics above are the only pictures I took the whole weekend..sad I know!! But this boy is pretty cute in his turkey onesie!! I am such a dork I know!! On a side note..Do I look super young? I was asked if I was 18 and then asked for my ID just to make sure at Walmart just to buy some shoe glue.. and then a friend of my dad's said I am WAY too young to have a baby..what the heck!? My mom had 4 kids by the time she was my age!! 

Family Pictures!

Yay for pictures..We had a fabulous photographer take Ryan's newborn pics and we decided we better do it again but with all three of us!! We had a great time and we like too many of them to post but I will post a few of our favorites! And due to blogger being stubborn..i'm not able to post more than these two..i've tried for a couple of days now..so if you so much desire to see the rest of them..go here!!!

A little overdue...

Wow the time has kept ticking while staying busy all the while of neglecting my poor little blog..I have toyed with the idea of throwing in the towel on the whole blog thing. I'm not the greatest blogger there is and lets face it..I now have something or someone much cuter needing my attention but for now I will try my best to squeeze a blog post here and there of the things we've been up to. We did just return from a fabulous trip to California to see my sister and her family. They live in the most beautiful, resort town I have ever been to..ha!! That might be a little of an exaggeration but we had a lot of fun visiting, going to the beach, going on coasters until some of us threw up at six flags. For now..two pics is all I'm putting up..One is Ryan at the beach loving on the sand..and the other at the Utah State football game rocking a sweet fur hat from Aunt Lu. We're hoping to take some family photos soon but haven't yet so you just get Ryan which is fine by me.

MIA

Well we are finally moved in and our place is definitely not a house of order!! One day we might get internet until then I doubt I will be doing much blogging. Our little man currently has an ear infection and I currently have a nasty cold so hopefully we will all be feeling better soon. Did I mention our little man turns 7 months old tomorrow??

Mommas..help?!

Calling for the ALL knowing and experienced moms...need some of your ideas/help since I'm a first timer at this stuff..okay so I have started Ryan on solids but I have no clue on when to start new foods, how many times I should feed him..veggies vs fruits? rice cereal vs oatmeal..? the only thing the Dr. told me was to feed him a bottle first and then feed him the baby food..well most of the time he is full after the bottle..I can always read more things on the Internet but I'd prefer personal experience..anyway just curious what you all have done..I like to be a scheduled/routine kind of person and I know that babies don't allow that a lot of the time but I feel like I have no structure to my days especially in the feeding department so..a little help? Any success on making your own baby food? Also..when do babies/kids start getting on a 2 naps a day schedule??

P.S. Ryan has TWO teeth now!!and few pics to show how big he's getting!


Not the greatest pic but you can kinda see them there on the bottom..


Ryan's 1st Fishing Trip..


Ryan and Nick on one of the famous Steadman's slides..(not my 1st choice of hats but his little face got burnt while fishing..)


Ryan after the slide..pretty happy!

Moving..

Nick got a job..and We moved!! I wish I would have taken some pictures of us actually moving to show you all how much junk we have but sadly I didnt even know where the camera was packed. We are so blessed to have good friends and family to help us with the move too. I have to admit we were both pretty sad to move from Logan..We LOVE logan..and plan to return..later in life. But things are going pretty good..Nick is liking his new job and I am not sure if I am liking all this time I have on my hands these days!! But I have stayed relatively busy so far so thats good I guess. We can't actually move into our place until the second week in August so we've just been at my parents house for now..which they have been so kind to let us stay here. I do plan on teaching piano once we get moved into our place so hopefully I can get some students lined up.Also..Ryan is doing great..got his first tooth this last week..can I just say..slobber face..I guess it comes with the territory of getting teeth! Anyhow..we're glad to be here and we are definitely adjusting to having to travel 20 minutes+ to get to anything but it sure is nice to be closer to family.

Applications...Applications...Applications

WOW..can I just say job applications are way too time consuming! The rough count for how many jobs we've applied to so far is 117!seriously right? And I'm sure you want to know how many we've heard back from..2 That is a whopping percentage of 1.7% We're hoping that percentage will go up..like it could really go down much more!? And whoever said going into a nursing career would give you an automatic job..yeah right! EVERYONE just wants RN experience and well being recently graduated Nick has none :( BUT..he did pass the NCLEX boards with flying colors this last week!So proud of him..haven't got the hard copy license yet but it should be coming soon. Sure could use a job right about now though!! That's all that is new with us...application after application.
Please bless Nick finds a job soon.