Game on!

Today was opening day for softball.

The girls looked adorable.
Their banner was sooo cute!

Most of the girls on Jordyn's team have played before.
Basically she's the newbie on the team.
It's their first game and our team is batting first.
So guess who's the first batter? Geez, no time
to figure things out eh? Not only that, when we
go outfield, the coach puts her at first base!
She did fine. It's just her neurotic mother who
got all nervous!

Here's her proud Daddy watching her first at bat!

She was quite focused. Too bad the coach pitched
the ball too high so she did have to use the tee.

She played first base, right field, and catcher.
It was so hot that day, poor thing was sweating wearing
all this gear!

Well she had fun and that's all that matters.

Our Singing Scottie

Jordyn's school was celebrating Founder's Day for PTA.
All the first graders sang Disney songs. I thought it was adorable.
They practiced everyday for at least a month.
Jordyn was singing these songs all around the house.
Her favorites were "We're all in this together"
from High School Musical and "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"
from Mary Poppins.
Ya I still can't say it! I had to look up the spelling too!

Also, she got selected to say a special part on the microphone.
To our surprise, she wasn't nervous at all.
At that age, I would of been heading for the hills.
It was so nice to see her confidence.

She was real happy through the whole performance.

And real into it...can't you tell??

Look at those sassy boots. I love it!

Another proud moment for us.
You were our star tonight Jordyn!!!

IT'S-A-R-O-B-O-T PARTY

Ryan's Birthday seemed to go on forever!!!

Well he's been talking about it for months, yes...I said months.
So finally he tells me he wants his decorations to be robots.

Sounds easy. Not! Thank goodness for the internet.
Oh and all he wanted was a jumper.

Can you believe I found a robot jumper too?

It's so hard to take pictures of the kids in the jumper.
This was one of the better ones.

I really love this picture. We're missing Kevin,
but these are Ryan's really good friends

It was so cute to watch Ryan's friends enjoy his presents
as much as he did. Most of the time they had to
explain to him what they were. Yeah for boy toys!!!
Although he knew exactly what this present was...
Mario Cart from Memaw and Grandpa!!

Someone was happy!!

Cake Time!

By the end of the day, we were all exhausted.
I was real happy how the party turned out.
Ryan had a blast!!

Ryan's now "Officially" 5

Ryan was actually born at 8:41 p.m. My family had a time pool going.
I think my dad won. When Ryan was born, everyone said, "Ya ya but
what was the official time?" We're not a competitive family right?

So tonight at 8:41, I grabbed Ryan to take his "Official 5 year old picture"

I just love Ryan's hugs!!

My baby is getting big!!

It's your birthday...let's go to Disneyland

Ryan was so excited that it was HIS birthday and that

HE gets to pick the rides we go on.
At this point, Ryan's interest in rides is much different than Jordyn's.
But to our surprise, he wanted to go on Soaring over California.


Jordyn and I had been on it before so she was excited
but I was a little nervous for him.
Shoot I get a little freaked out on that ride.
I love it but I feel funny inside sometimes.
Anyway, the big thing is that he's tall enough so he wanted to go flying.

While we were in line, he couldn't stop talking about the planes
and jumping up and down with excitement.
It was real cute. Of course we were in line for an hour!!!

He had so many questions about the planes.
Too bad Daddy wasn't there to answer them all! :)

Well, he loved it and wanted to go on it again.
I said maybe next time, I wasn't about to sit in line for another hour!!
Oh and he also wants to go to San Francisco to see the real Golden Gate Bridge!

Happy 5th Birthday Big Guy Ry...WOW!

Happy Birthday Ryan!!! Today is going to be jammed
packed with activities and surprises.
First of all, Daddy took the day off work to help get the house
in order for tomorrow's party. Then Mommy will be bringing
cupcakes to the class for everyone.

Looks like the cupcakes turned into a big hit

Then came the big surprise...
On Fridays, Ryan's school has a mystery reader.
All the kids hide their eyes while the mystery reader comes in,
sits down and gets ready to read the kids a story.
No one knows who it is until
they open their eyes.
Let's see who the mystery reader is today...

It's Big Sister Jordyn!!!
I was planning on doing it, but I decided to ask
Jordyn that morning if she'd do it
and she gladly accepted the challenge.
What a win-win situation.

And boy was she a hit with all the kids. We were so proud of her.
She wasn't shy at all. She read slowly and clearly with lots of emotion.
She loved acting like a teacher, showing all the pages as she read.

The kids loved her...especially someone special in the audience.
I think he was quite proud of his sister too.

I think Jordyn made her brother very happy on his Birthday!!!

Sledding the day away

To my surprise, on Sunday morning I wake up to the kids in
snow clothes with Daddy packed and ready to go sledding.
I thought ugh, I don't want to go...

"where's my coffee?"
Once I got my wits about me I changed my tune.

I called up some supporting troops (the Wille's) and got myself in gear.

How could I not right?

Here's my first ride with Jordyn. I don't know how I stayed on the sled

It was a rough landing but it was funny. I landed on top of her.


When I went with Ryan, we went even faster with more snow in the face

Now when the two little ones went together, they were flying


And of course they loved it.

Here's some more cute pics...




We had a blast. Sometimes you just have to get up and just do it.
That's how memories are made!!!!

Valentine's Dinner for Four!

I think we got Valentine's Day plans down now.

On the 13th, Mommy and Daddy go out alone to celebrate together
(oh and to avoid the madness of people at Restaurant's)
and on the 14th we celebrate our love as a family.
This year, these two decided they'd make dinner.
Of course it's something they like AND know how to make.

Some of the cheese actually got on the pizza!

How cute is that?
Our "love" pizza!

Our dinner was a perfect end to our day.

Struck by the Love Bug!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Valentine's Day!

This year the boys sure were "charming"
to us girls!

Yup, Mommy got the pretty Tiffany blue bag.

I've never had one before

Wow, my bracelet was so beautiful. Someone
else was getting a bracelet too!

We were feeling quite special. Jordyn and I love being twins

Thank you Daddy for always making your girls feel so special!
We love you!!!