My dream house!

So on the way home from dropping the boys off at school we drove through the neighboorhood to see my uncles old house and I found my next dream house that I want to build! Isn't it gorgeous???!!!

1st Day of School!

It is so hard to believe that I have two kids in school! One in Kindergarden and one in first grade! It is so crazy how fast time is just a flying! The boys did really good getting up early and getting ready for school (i am sure that will all wear off soon,lol). It was definatley a mad house at the school this morning, but understandable being the first day of school. Caden is going to all day kindergarden and was such a big boy this morning (the only tears were mommies on the way out to the car, poor me...lol). I just have a hard time imagining my little boy walking with his little lunch bag going to the cafeteria without me (i know I definatley need to cut the umbilical cord, lol). I know he will do fine, I just have those mommy worries! Sooo... here are some pics that we took this morning before school! I am so bummed, we were in such a hurry this morning that I forgot to get a picture with the boys :( I am already loving the uniforms....it is so nice not having to pick out clothes for them, simple and easy!

Sedona.....

So, you know your sons are "All Boy" when they would rather go fishing than go to Legoland or to the beach! We had a fun little trip planned to California to take the boys to Legoland, San Diego Zoo, and the beach this summer. They both came to us and said, "We would really like to go fishing in the mountains rather than Legoland." My husband and I were both like, " What! Are you guys sure?" (lol) I was more shocked than my husband I guess and asked them for days repeatedly, "Are you sure you guys would rather go fishing than to Legoland?" I was really looking forward to the beach mostly, but I guess the lake will do. lol. So, Sedona it was. We really did have a good time!

Fishing....

Oak Creek Canyon---Kids are ready to go fishing!


The Boys Waiting Patiently!


Still waiting patiently! lol.




After about three hours of not catching anything...we decided to headup to the Trout Farm where we could do some REAL fishing.lol


Caden's First Fish!


Jakes First Fish!


Michael and I trying to figure out how to get the hook out that the fish swallowed!



Happy Fisherman!


The next day we went to Out of Africa Wildlife Zoo. It was AWESOME! We got so close to the animals and the kids REALLY liked it alot. I would definatley recommend this place!


Jake got to hold and touch a 10 ft snake..Caden would not go near it (cant say that I blame him, they creep me out!)



The boys both got to feed the tigers and the giraffes!





We went on a safari ride....


Ostrich Eggs! They are HUGE!!!


Sooo..Big...Adysen loved the safari ride!







Tiger Splash was awesome!









The remainder of the time we just did some Chillaxin at the pool!

Projects around the Ryan Household!

We decided to frame the mirrors in our master bathroom. We were able to get my side done this weekend, but we are still working on michaels side. I love the way it turned out!



Then I got a wild hair to paint my powder room a burnt orange color. I actually like the way that it turned out though. It looks way orange in this picture and I could not get a picture of the whole room because our powder room was too tiny to take a picture of the whole area, but I am exited about it! Sp here is a rough ideal of how it turned out......


More Projects to come!

Just hanging out.....

We have just been hanging out this week. Took the kids to the pool on monday. My face got FRIED! Tuesday the boys had bowling and went and got hair cuts. Today we are just hanging out at home doing some cleaning and laundry. What's everyone doing for the 4th of July??????

So impressed with myself.....

Yes, I made this bow! I am so proud of myself especially since I am the most uncrafty person on this planet! LOL. I thought it turned out cute for my first bow! I even made the headband to attach it to!

New postings from the last few weeks........

I just had to share this...

I put Adysen in the shopping cart for the first time a couple weeks ago and she was so exited!! People probably thought I was nuts for taking pictures of my baby in the middle of the grocery store, but it really was the cutest thing! She thought she was "Miss Thing" in the grocery cart for sure.

The Circus!!!

This was such an AWESOME show!! We had such a great time and really did enjoy it! I do have to say that my husband is such a trooper!! I bought these tickets like three months ago before we knew that he was going to have surgery. His surgery ended up being the day before the circus. I really thought that i would be taking all three kids to US Airways by myself that night for circus. To my surprise my husband insisted on going! He knew the boys had been looking forward to it for a very long time and did not want to miss out. So on crutches and 1 day post surgery my husband traveled with us to the circus, through the large crowds of people, on his crutches! The worst part is I parked on the complete opposite side of where are seats were, so we had to walk completely around to the other side. I kept saying, "I am so sorry honey, should I ask for a wheelchair". He never once complained though! I really did feel bad for him! All in all once got seated and the stress level was back down, we had a great time!!!! And then came the long walk back to parking lot.... just kidding. He did great. I just felt really bad!

My Pictures did not come out too good, so I only took a couple. I think it might have been because of all the other flashes in the stadium.

Playing Nurse........

This has been a fun and challenging week for me. Michael had sx on his hip this week. He has been in pain for about two years now. For those of you that don't know, Michael is a Military Policeman and served in Iraq for 14 months in 2006. He sustained some back and hip injuries while over there. After a long fight with the VA Hospital trying to get him better, we decided to seek outside help through a local orthopedic doctor through our own insurance. The outside orthopedic doctor found that michael had a tear in his hip and some bursitis and advised that he have surgery. He said that to have bursitis in his hip as young as he is was very rare. We went ahead and got a second opinion through another local doctor. He too said the same thing. We decided to go ahead and do the surgery, which was done this past week. Michael already feels ten times better and he is only 4 days post surgery! He is not able to walk on it for several days, which makes me now a mother of 4! lol. I get to mow the lawn today, which i am so exited about (not really) and have had to take on a really big load, but it is so worth it to see that my husband is already feeling so much better and not in the pain he was in!



This is what he has got to do for the last week! He is actually bored out of his mind! He has been playing alot of wii sitting down and watching alot of movies.



This should leave a nice scar!

Jake is moving on up from an otter to a turtle!

Jake just finished his first session of swim lessons and gets to advance to a turtle! He is very exited about his accomplishment! Good Job Jake!

The Strikers!

The boys have been having a blast bowling this summer!! I had to find some kind of indoor sport for them to do because it is just too dang hot to take Adysen outside for very long, so the boys chose bowling! They are on a 3 boy team with our little neighboor next door, Porter, and all three of them have just been having a blast! Once a week just does not come soon enough for them!