Home Teaching Twins

They ended up as twins going home teaching tonight! I hadn't washed whites yet because I knew I didn't need to before Sunday....ooops, forgot about their home teaching appointments! Ryan wore one of Ty's shirts and than a sweater over it because it was too big. I thought they looked adorable but I can't use that word in reference to them!!!

The Sniper Wins Costume Contest!

Ryan won the costume contest at the base Halloween Party tonight for his age category!!! He won a cool prize too! This was one of my favorite games to play when I was a kid! Ryan loves this costume he borrowed from Ty!

Tired Sniper

While waiting for the judges to announce the winners of the costume contest Ryan was getting tired...

 

He would periodically look up at me and sometimes

even take a candy or a piece of bubble gum!

You can't see his eyes in this picture but I could.....

Ryan's Root Beer Party Keg

Anyone who KNOWS Ryan knows that he LOVES root beer! Root beer and cheeseburgers are his two favorite foods. Soooo, when Uncle Rick said he had a Keg of Root Beer that needed to be finished before we left Ryan's eyes got SUPER big and he had a grin to match those eyes! He and Ed got busy getting it opened up and everyone had fun drinking root beer! Of course Ryan had the first glass to give us his review and he said it was awesome!  And for some reason while Ed and Ryan were getting the can ready to open Ed picks up the keg and shakes it. I asked, "Ed, why are you shaking a giant can of soda?" He looked at me with that grin he has and said, "I don't know....I don't know why I do lots of things...." We all started laughing. Ryan did LOTS of tapping on the top of the giant can of root beer!!!!! Ed took the keg and held it over his sisters head and pretended to open it. Brothers and sisters never stop tormenting each other!!!! But the root beer was REALLY good!!!! I think there might be a keg of root beer under the Christmas tree!!!   

Ryan Driving

Front Porch Lovins'

Tank was insistent on wanting to give Ryan lovins today on the front porch!!! It was sooo cute! Tank has been extra affectionate these days! I hope he isn't trying to tell us goodbye!!! He will be 11 this month....i've had Tank almost as long as i have had Ryan!!!

Ryan Shares A Coke With Ryan

Had to buy the Ryan coke! He loves root beer but he thought this was fun!

Aqua Spin With Ryan

Ryan came to Aqua Spin with me today. he likes this class. he came with me all the time last summer! Bronwyns daughter, Elizabeth, came with her today, so we dubbed it 'Bring Your Youngest To Spin Class' day. We had a fun work out!

It's A Hypothesis....

Ryan and i went out for a frozen yogurt. While he was eating i noticed the shirt he was wearing was getting small on him. It is one of his favorite shirts and i remembered when it was actually too big on him! Now i could see the bones of his shoulders at the seams, the seams that no longer were lower than his shoulders!!
I said, "Ryan you have been growing! That shirt is getting too small on you. What have you been doing to grow?!!!
Ryan continued shoveling in his frozen yogurt and just kind of looked over at me. In between bites he nonchalantly said this...."If you scream at grass it will grow. Vicki is always yelling at me, so I'm growing.....(long pause) It's a hypothesis Mom. And he just continued eating his frozen yogurt while i almost choked on mine cracking up! He is sooo funny! I love these times just chit chatting with him.  

Hot Day Cool Night Treat

Ryan was my buddy all afternoon today. On our way home tonight we stopped at Peach Tree and got ourselves some yummy frozen yogurt. It was a hot day today!

My yummy creation!

He's such a cute kid!!! Just love him! He always has the funniest things to say! Ryan has this crazy mind that just takes things in and than sends them back out in just the funniest of ways.

After School Reading

This is what i do just about every day after i get home from work. The boys know they have free time when they get off the bus until i get home from work and than it is home work time. I usually take a picture to send to The dude in Cammies of after school fun....he gets LOTS of pictures throughout the day....every day.....this was my selfie, not really a selfie because i like PEOPLE in my selfies because i am not really a 'selfie' person, so this is my shared selfie with Ryan who is ALWAYS elusive to a camera and chose to hide behind his book. But this is what we do first everyday when i get home from work, get his after school reading done :) Than we move on to whatever the boys might have in the way of homework, but ryan ALWAYS has 30 minutes of reading. Right now we are reading the sequel to a Boy No More. He will next be doing a big project for the Literacy Fair to go along with this book. 

Really REALLY Gross Wart Story!

Before you even start this, just knwo that it is really, really gross!!!! OK, you obviously don't mind gross....Ryan's foot had been hurting....on the ball of his foot by his middle toes. I thought he was getting a callouse....It was hurting worse and effecting the way he walked so we went and saw our family doctor. It was a wart. She got the freezer gun and froze it. She froze it REALLY good! he watched it change colors and get black as it was dying. Apparently a hair got stuck in the dying, shriveling, shrinking wart. He pulled on the hair, and like WOW! The wart came off! He was like SOOOOOOO beyond happy, like to the moon and back with glitter happy that he came running to find me and show me his gross wart attached to the hair! Of course i had to take a picture and share this moment with Dad! He was there when we were at the Doctor getting it frozen, so it was ONLY fair that he see it officially dead and burried in the trash can!   Ryan has a hole in his foot but he says his foot feels soooo much better and he is sooooo VERY happy to have the horrible yucky disgusting wart gone from his body!!! I'm happy it is gone too!

Friendly Saturday Morning Wake Up

One of the BEST ways to wake up! Unless you are Ryan....he HATES to wake up! But they did get a grin out of him!

Grocery Shopping With All 3 Boys

This is what happens when i go grocery shopping with the boys.....i just wanted to go thru the express line at the Commissary......i still went thru the express line.....they played crash em up with their cart, or as The dude in Cammies calls it, the 'buggy'.

Bella's Dr. Who Ears

Ryan LOVES Dr. Who. Bella LOVES Ryan and cuddling up with him while he is watching Dr. Who. It is hilarious to watch her ears as she listens as he is watching. Depending on who is talking and the music depends on what is going on with her ears....sometimes one is up one is down, one is back, one is side ways, sometimes  one or both are VERY pointy....she listens very intently!!! I think she is a Dr. Who fan also, but definitely a Ryan fan!!! Just love both these critters!!! 

Panda Express Dinner

The boys wanted Panda Express for dinner tonight before we went to the movies and saw 3 Days To Kill. Soooo, fine by me! Both boys wanted a bowl all to themselves so I I just got a side of noodles since I wasn't starving. Ty didn't want me to take a picture of him, so that was the best I could get to send to The Dude in Cammies.   

Ever Elusive Ryan....

I have probably taken atleast a million or so pictures of Ryan's hand and atleast double or triple that in blurry pictures and times that by a hundred of pictures that he got completely out of just before my camera went 'click'! Today at Old Navy while Ty was in the dressing room I was almost successful in getting him without him noticing, almost....it is always fun to try.....

Tank the Teaser!

Tank loves to torment one of our neighbors little dogs. He will go over to their front door and just roll back and forth on their walk way like he is saying "Ha ha! Look at me out here!!! This is FREEDOM!!! Look at you stuck INSIDE!!! Etc". Well today when we were driving home Tank was over there teasing their little dog and they were laughing and I stopped the car and was talking to them. One of their boys brought me Tank and now the joke was on him because now HE was IN the car!!! His LEAST favorite place to be!!!!

Rambo Ryan

Backing out of the church parking lot today I hear this from the back seat......"Call me Rambo Ryan!" Yep, I had to stop and take a quick picture! Love my Rambo Ryan!!!!

Cleaning Out Kitchen Cabinets

I was cleaning out the kitchen cupboard and found a tooth, a Ryan tooth! It made me laugh remembering when Jasper knocked his tooth out on Valentines Day a few years ago.  That guy seems to get his teeth knocked out before they ever get to just get loose and be wiggled out!