Dood Job!

Not much goin' on 'round here. I just thought that I would do a little updating. Rylee is growing and changing so fast, I thought I better get some more pictures on here. Jim likes to accuse me of treating her like a doll, but what good is having all the cute clothes if she doesn't wear them. And she has to have a bow! She has these cheeks that just I just want to eat up every time
I give her a kiss. They are pretty hard to resist.
She is starting to suck on her knuckles which I think is very cute. I wonder if she will be a thumb sucker like her brother.
These next few pictures are a collection of Tanner. Every time I take a picture of Rylee, Tanner needs a picture taken as well. That's all fine and dandy except that he always stands really close to me and every time I move back, he moves forward. So I take the picture and this is what we get. Notice his thumb is always in or very near his mouth.

Who doesn't like a bath? She loves them!

Tanner is always looking for new places to crash. At least Rylee wasn't in there that time.

So Tanner is always saying things that crack us all up and I would like to share a couple of them. Yesterday my parents were over. Tanner had just woken up from a nap and my dad was giving him a hard time. Well, I guess he wasn't in the mood for that because he gave Papa KJ a stern look and said "I daddy's Tanner!"

Lately Tanner has been telling everyone "Dood job!" every time we do something right. For example he will ask me what an animal is called and when I tell him he says "That's right, dood job!" Well, my dad was giving the opening prayer in sacrament meeting and Tanner was being good and folding his arms. (Something that we are working on!) When my dad finished the prayer Tanner said, in a loud, proud voice, "AMEN! Dood job Papa!" It was so funny! Everyone around us were giggling for the next couple minutes. Oh, I love that
kid! I never have a boring day.

Tanner & Granny Gay

Tanner's Granny Gay is so nice to let him "help" her ice the cookies for Rylee's blessing. Not much of his icing ended up on the cookies, but that's a good thing because it was most likely in his mouth at some point during the activity. (For all those who ate the cookies, I'm sure you got the ones without Tanner saliva!)

When he started to flinging icing all over the kitchen, we decided he was done. Granny had almost as much on her as Tanner did. He didn't see a problem with that!


And directly into the bath he went. But he sure had fun with Granny Gay!

Rylee's Blessing

Rylee got blessed yesterday. She looked so beutiful for her special day.

I had to take a picture of her shoes!

Jimmy did such a good job with the blessing. We sure feel blessed to have this little girl in our family. We had alot of family come to support us and it was fun to have them here. Thanks to all who made the trip.

Our Christmas

Our Christmas was fun this year. Tanner was a little more aware of what was going on. My dad has a santa suit, so he dressed up on Christmas Eve and came to see Tanner. When he walked in I told Tanner to say hi to Santa. Tanner just looked at him with the biggest smile on his face and said "HI Santa!". He didn't get around to telling him what he wanted because Santa pulled out a treat and Tanner got totally distracted. We'll remember to save the treat untill last next year. Here are a couple pictures of Tanner on Christmas morning. Rylee liked santa too, you just can't tell. :)

When Tanner saw this he said "Oh, I wuv it!" It was so funny!

Tanner's Granny Jeffery made him a dinosaur blanket and he got a cars sleeping bag, so I guess he decided to put them to use. He's pretending to sleep, silly kid.

Rylee had fun too. She got some cute new bows, so that's fun for me. She doesn't look like it bothers her to bad either.

We had a fun morning. Tanner's favorite phrase everytime he opened something was "Oh my doodness!". He was so excited with everything. It was fun! Jimmy had to work later in the day so we just hung out and then hurried to have a Christmas dinner before he had to leave. Tanner was ecxited to have some of his cousins to play with. He is at an age where he kinda likes to be mean and he kept picking on his cousins. My dad was checking on him and my little neice asked him if Santa had braught Tanner any toys. When my dad said yes, she said "Why, he's naughty!". We all laughed at that. It was true, he was being naughty. Maybe next year I can hang that one over him. But all in all we had a good time with my family and it was fun to see them. We did miss being with Jim's family this year. We hope everyone's Holliday was fun and relaxing and everything that Christmas should be.

So Original

These are just some more of Tanner's random places to be. I guess when your that small, why not try to fit wherever you can.

I thought this was pretty funny. He was watching a movie in his room. When I went to check on him, there he was.

For those of you who know Tanner, you know he's not your ordinary 2 year old. His favorite movie is Jurassic Park 3 and he would watch it 20 times a day if I would let him. Well, for a little change of pace and to help save my sanity, I suggested that we watch something different. Maybe Shrek or Cars or something like that. Well, Tanner chose to watch 'The Lord of The Rings'. He has now seen all of them. Well, the other day he had a something in his hand and he was talking to it. It took me a minute to figure out what he was saying but when I did, I was laughing my butt off. He was calling it "My Precious"! And he was saying it almost like Gollum in that freaky little voice. It was so funny! That kid cracks me up!

Tanner's Favorite Places

Tanner has some pretty random places that he likes to be in. This one was his favorite! The rest are just places I found him on different days.

This is a baby bathtub. Also good for a little TV watching.

This is our Christmas tree box. He fit in it perfectly. What would I do without so much variety in my day?

Our Rylee Girl

Well, we got Rylee's two week pictures taken and thought that we would share them with you all. I thought they turned out really cute!

This is one of my favorites! Her Daddy's little girl.

We were lucky to get this shot. Tanner would not hold still! I know it's hard to believe. But it turned out good. I think I'll keep them both. :)