Isn't this the cutest picture ever?!

Man! So much has happened, I'm just too lazy to write about it!

Rylea is now walking! She started walking at the beginning of April (10 months old) and now that we're in the 11th month she is walking everywhere! She doesn't crawl AT ALL anymore! It's so cute to watch her walking around the house, and she's so small it makes it even cuter to see. :) I have a video but I don't know where it is on the computer so here's one of her on Easter in her pretty little dress.

Well I know this is a very small post, but I know it will never get posted if I wait to write more later....so there ya go. :)

Just wanted to post a couple updates....First up: Ryleas first Christmas!

All of our stockings...obviously



It definitely didn't take as long to open them as it did to wrap em'!



Rylea, loving her new toys and the MILLION books Santa brought!
This little girl is going to have her own library soon!

Showing off her new outfit with a 'Too cool for this' attitude

Christmas was a lot of fun, we were all very spoiled! Aaron gave me P90X, which was at the top of my list (I'm not as blessed as his family is with the skinny gene, and the baby weight doesn't just 'fall off'...in fact it's clinging on for dear life!) along with a new ring and matching pendant, and what girl doesn't want new clothes? So I got some of those too.  Aaron got a lot of clothes because he is SO easy and fun to dress! There were a few more things I wanted to get him but I had already spent too much so they will have to wait for his birthday. :) Rylea loves all the new toys she got and is currently putting them to good use! Rylea also got a little confused and gave both of us the movie Inception, silly little Cheek-in!

The aftermath!

Soon after Christmas Rylea learned how to crawl, no more army crawl for this girl! It's so cute to see her cruising around the house doing whatever she wants. Tonight she was in the living room and saw me in the kitchen and started coming towards me so I thought she would be at my feet in a few seconds begging to be picked up, but no, she went right past me, through the kitchen, through the hallway and into her room to pull herself up to her activity table and just play by herself....maybe you had to see it but I thought it was dang cute!


Showing off her crawling skills in her jail-berg outfit

A has been working a crap-load, and making some good money, but we both miss Pop being at home more often. Rylea misses him a lot, she gets SO excited to see him when he comes through the door and he gets just as excited as she does. It's kind of bittersweet though, he's always sad when he gets home after her bedtime and then has to leave soon after she gets up in the morning. We definitely appreciate him working so hard for us, but we miss him at the same time.

Well that's it! Hope everyone is enjoying 2011!  ....maybe some of you should update your blogs too...I'm just sayin is all....

Well a few things have happened since my last post...

Halloween! Rylea was a chicken because that is the most used nickname for her. (There are many!) She had some pretty skinny legs when she was a newborn so I started calling her Chicken and it stuck.

At her Gymboree class with a couple of the other kids

Rylea finally has her own room! Yay! We moved into a house in Sandy in the beginning of November and we love it! We have way more space than we did before, so much space that we don't have enough furniture for all the extra rooms! :) So we're working on that one still. AND Rylea is sleeping through the night now! Consistantly that is, she would do it a couple times and then stop but now it's every night....it's awesome! I'll post pics of her room when I'm done decorating it :)

The boys using their muscles to move all our crap



Aaron finally getting to put Ryleas crib together

Thanksgiving:  Not much to say about that except we finally went shooting and ate a ton of food

Back at the house for dinner: she LOVES that monkey, she got so pissed when Amy tried to take it away


I'm so excited for Ryleas first Christmas! We got her more stuff than we said we were going to, but it was so much fun! I know she will lose interest after she rips the first present open and realizes that eating the paper is way more fun than new clothes but whatever, I'm excited! I'll post some pictures of Christmas morning in a few days.

Rylea is also doing the 'Army crawl' now, and she is a fast little bugger! She is getting so big it makes me sad sometimes but I'm so excited for all the things to come too. I always try to tell myself to make sure I just enjoy her in the moment and try not to think about how fast she's going to grow up.

She is sitting up now, such good posture!

My birthday was almost two weeks ago so Aaron got us a room up at Brighton so we could snowboard all day and hang out all night. It was fun but neither of us have been snowboarding in a couple years...I was VERY rusty and eventually realized why people wear helmets! I hit my head pretty hard on the ice...twice! so I had a good headache going when Aaron whized past me, fell and slide into a tree! He only hit his leg but he hit it hard! It's kind of funny now that we aren't in as much pain. :)

This is before the pain

It got worse the next day but I don't have a pic
We definitely got in the hot tub afterwards!

 Anyway, even though we were both hurting like two old ladies we still had fun hanging out just the two of us like we did before we got pregnant; it was nice to irreponsible for a little bit.

Now we are back to reality and mostly healed and I'll try to get my butt in gear and post pictures of Christmas in the next week.

Rice cereal! YUMMM!?!?

Rylea had her first taste of rice cereal! I don't think she liked it all that much but you be the judge. (Watch the whole video, the end is the funniest part)

I don't blame her for dry heaving! We both tasted it and it was TERRIBLE! It wasn't really the taste that was bad, it was the texture that got us. If you ever get the chance....don't try it :)

So much new stuff!

Well, I don't even know where to start!
How about with the start of September when we left Rylea overnight for the first time?!
We had decided to go to Wendover with some friends for the night, so we left her with Aarons family, and we were only gone for 14 hours but it felt like a lot longer! It wouldn't have been so hard but this was how we were going to get Rylea to take a bottle, (because none of our other attempts had really worked) so I'm just thinking the whole time that she is still going to refuse it and cry the whole time and I would come home to a very sad and starving baby....that thought made me fight back tears the entire time we were gone. BUT she took it for them, and without a protest! They said she was the BEST baby ever! They even took her to church with them and didn't have any problems! I wish I would have known she would be so easy for them and I could have relaxed and enjoyed myself a little more! Oh well.

We also went to the state fair in September, it was pretty fun, but Aaron and I both agreed it will be more fun when Rylea can do some of the stuff, like go down the big yellow slide :) Then maybe the small fortune we paid to get in and eat a corn dog will be more worth it!

          The following week we headed up to Snowbird for the day for Oktoberfest. There wasn't a whole lot to do but we took a picnic up and ate on the grass and walked around for a bit and afterwards we drove through the canyon some more to look at the changing colors but Rylea was ready to get home so we cut it a little short. It was pretty anyway and we managed to get a few pictures.

(Yes Rylea is wearing the same outfit she was wearing at the fair but I wanted her to get some wear out of it before it was too small)

And last...this last Tuesday Aaron had the day off and we thought it would be fun to go hang out in Park City for a while so we headed up in time to have lunch on Main Street and we had planned on walking around for a while but eventually it started raining pretty hard so we got in the car and drove over to the outlet mall to shop for a bit. I wanted Aaron to get some new clothes but I was the only that was finding anything I liked. I resisted most of the stuff I wanted but I did get a new swimsuit and dress at Tommy Bahama, and Aaron and I agreed that we WILL be going on vacation soon so I can wear this new suit! We're thinking Jamaica....?  So now I have to work on losing the last of the baby weight and start looking for some good deals on a trip! I'm so excited, but I wish we could afford to take a babysitter with us so we could take Rylea and also have alone time while there too.  Well here are some pictures from P.C.

OH and here's a picture of the new shirt Grandma Suz brought back for Rylea from Boston, it's only a little big, and another one from Grandma Suz visiting our Gymboree class today. Rylea really likes her class but I think I like getting to talk to other new moms and having a reason to get out of the house even more!