We new for sometime that Ryan would need to have his tonsils out. SO they scheduled him about 3 weeks before Christmas. Ryan was pretty excited about getting his tonsils out. He remembered when his cousin C.J got his out, he got lots of presents. SO Ryan started a list. Crazy kid. But he was spoiled and got lots of fun stuff to help him feel better. One of the things Ryan wanted for Christmas was a new Santa hat. He loves hats! I decided that Santa shouldn't bring it. I wanted to get it for him as a gift for having his tonsils out. That way he could wear it through December. The surgery went great. Recovery was a whole different story. He started bleeding pretty bad a couple of times. We ended up at the doctors 3 different times. They almost took him in to have surgery to fix the problem. But it starts the recovery time over. Luckily we were able to get things under control without having to go back in for surgery. We had a rough time and we were so happy when he was all healed and himself again!

Ryan has always loved dressing up. He has about every super hero costume there is. He came upstairs wearing this one day. I have no idea what he is suppose to be. But the kid sure is cute and he makes me laugh!

My sister in law Tiffany had her baby! They have three beautiful little girls and now they have a handsome little boy! We are so happy for them. We love the little guy so much already! My kids were so excited when they finally got to meet him.

Living down on the island we get lots of cute deer in our yard. While I was cleaning up the house today I looked out our window and saw a mommy deer with her babies hanging out. So cute!

Ryan had a class party and I was able to attend some of it. They did a cute parade where they went to all the first grade classes and sang Halloween songs while they had there costumes on. Ryan new the songs really well. So did my beautiful niece Lyndsey. They did awesome! I helped in Nicole's class party. They did different activities at tables. It was so cute and everyone had a blast. Halloween Night was crazy! McKayla had a ton of homework. So she worked on it while we drove around to all the family we visit on Halloween! We always have to start early and we get home late! But we always have a lot of fun. Daddy was able to meet up with us during the night. So that made it even better!

My girls were in the homecoming parade again. McKayla was excited because she got to walk the parade and hand out flyers this time. Nicole and Brylee were on the float. We also got to see my nieces Kaylee, Alli and Lyndsey in the parade. They all did a great job!

Ryan was so happy that he passed his last rank test. He was grinning from ear to ear when we walked into karate and found out his belt was in and they would be awarding him with it. It was so cool to see him walk out that night with his first solid yellow belt! Great job buddy! We love you!