Flight School

Off to the Rodeo....

Saturday night we loaded into the car and headed out to the rodeo. Ryan and I went to the rodeo once while visiting Kar's family and he loved it, so I was sure this would be a big hit with him. Well, this one was really just bull riding, no barrel racing or anything else, the arena was only 1/2 size. Ryan tolerated it and at times had fun, but by no means did he love it. We had a good though. It's always fun to do something different.

They did have a pretty sweet opening ceremony.

Ryan and I taking pictures of each other.

Sadly, this was the best video of the night, and probably Ry's favorite part.

When the rodeo clown threw out some smarties.

(Never seen anyone eat them so fast.)

Happy Valentines Day!!!

Ryan presented us with his sweet Valentine. I just love his handwritting!

In our first year of marriage I got 12 red roses for Valentines Day. Now, coming up on our 12th year of marriage, I got a singe red rose. Oh how the years change things, but you know what, it made me just as happy.
Thanks sweet husband! I love you!

Snow Tubing

We had a family day today. C and I both had the day off so we went snow tubing. Ry had a blast as you can see in the video we made. Actually we all had a great time. Whitetail is only about 20 minutes from our house so we didn't spend half the day in the car which is very nice. At one point it was snowing so hard that everything was white, yet when we got back home, nothing. We may go again very soon!


When asked later that night if he had fun Ry said we were tubing "
Rocket Style"!

Ry had a great Xmas. Here are a few pictures of our fun....

Before the madness

This was probably one of his favorite things

He was pretty happy about this one too.

This was the squeaky mouse he asked for, he seemed pleased with it.

After the madness!

Holiday Baking

Ry and I did some holiday baking this weekend, as in, all we did this weekend was bake!

Here is Ryan helping me put the lemon sandwich cookies together. Thanks to Karli for the recipe. They turned out perfect!

These are the chocolate peanut butter candy that mom always made. Thanks JuJu for providing mom's recipe and then the advice on shaping them! They turned out beautifully!

Here we have the Chocolate Mint Squares, which despite this picture turned out really well. and Haylee's "Easy Almond Roca", which even though it looks great in the picture did not turn out at all. I guess I didn't get it hot enough, because it didn't set up.

After the baking was finished Ryan went off to play, he came back and said "Mom, let's be Superheros" This was his "Superhero Getup" A lunch box and the straps to some exercise equipment. I'm not sure who he is supposed to be, but he was pretty serious about it.

Gingerbread House

Having just gotten back from our trip, I knew that I wanted to spend the weekend at home, leaving the house a few times as possible. Then Saturday morning Ryan woke up sick. He had a sore throat, slight fever and according to him a frog in his mouth. So, I knew we wouldn't be doing much of anything. I got a Gingerbread House kit to entertain us. Hard as it is to believe, I don't think I've ever put one together before. I certainly wasn't brave enough to try making one from scratch. I was a little worried how it was going to turn out, but it was really pretty easy and I think it turned out great. Ryan loved it and it perked him up from "the sickness" for at least a little while.

The finished project!