Catching Up

A few days before Christmas, Ryan got to celebrate his friend Landon's 2nd birthday with him. Landon had a barn themed party and pony rides! Ryan wanted absolutely nothing to do with them though...until the ponies were leaving-then he wanted to get on. So, he got to sit on a pony but didn't ride it. Which is funny considering he rode ponies at Gavins birthday last year and liked it alot. Either way, he had a great time at Landon's party!
Happy Birthday Landon!

All the kids were given hats at the party that Ryan refused to wear...until we got in the car, then he thought it was the greatest thing ever :)

On Christmas Eve, Gavin came over to help Ryan make his cookies for Santa. They had fun stirring and sampling. Mommy accidentally overcooked them a bit, but Daddy said Santa didn't mind at all :)




On Christmas morning Ryan woke up a bit grumpy (mostly because he stayed up late with Gavin!) but once he saw the bike he'd been asking Santa for he seemed to cheer up a bit. I think that when we were telling him to ask Santa for the toy he wanted that he thought he'd just be getting 1 toy, so everytime he got another and another he kept getting more excited. Oh, and he had to stop in between presents to play with his new tool bench and take a spin on his new Diego bike.





After plenty of playing with his new toys (and sharing with daddy!) we all got dressed and headed over to Gavins house for more presents and dinner. The boys got about 5000 presents each...and took forever to open them :) I don't know why I didn't take very many pictures, I think I was excited about opening my own gifts! But, here's the boys opening a couple gifts.

And finally....we drove all the way to Stone Mountain on Saturday night (which is about a 90 minute drive for us) when we got there Ryan was tired & grumpy and I was feeling sick...so we walked around and checked out some lights and then watched the parade just to drive 90 minutes back. Perhaps next year will be more successful. The lights were beautiful though and Ryan got a kick out of the parade.