Happy Mother's Day!!

Ryan had just woken up and looks a little confused about the impromptu photo shoot :)

Smiles after the photo shoot

On our Walk

Happy Mother's day to all of you women out there who have a positive influence on these precious children, regardless of whether they are your own.  I am grateful for all of the wonderful examples of strong, capable, loving, nurturing and impressive women in my life.  Most importantly I am grateful for my wonderful mother who has always been such a great example to me.  I hope someday to be a mother to Ryan like she is to me.

Today was our first Mother's day with sweet baby Ryan.  I am so grateful that he has come into our family.  He is such a sweet little spirit and brings such joy into our home.  We had a great day with our little family.  We went to church this morning and then Spencer watched Ryan so I could take a nice long afternoon nap.  We followed that up with a beautiful walk down the coast and then had a great dinner made by Spencer.  For Mother's day Spencer gave me a day of diaper changes (per my request), a clean kitchen and a wonderful dinner.  Ryan "gave" me some beautiful tulips, sour gummy worms (my favorite candy) and two Disney movies!  It was a great Mother's day and my greatest gift was getting to spend it with my husband who I adore and my sweet baby Ryan who is such a sweet bundle of joy.  Thanks to my boys for making this a wonderful Mother's day!  I love you!

First Day At Church

I forgot to post this a couple of weeks ago.  Ryan went to church for the first time at 7 weeks old.  We kept him home for a while because there was some sickness circling around the children and we wanted to make sure Ryan didn't get exposed to this when he was so young.  He was a trooper and has lasted the full 3 hours each of the past 3 weeks we have been.  He has made lots of friends and is very social.  I love dressing him up for church because it is the one time each week when I put shoes on him.  I am a total sucker for little baby shoes and Ryan has some SUPER cute ones that I just love!