Thursday, August 25, 2011

As Promised...

Here are some pictures from Ryker's birthday party.  These were pictures my mom took for me, and there must have been a smudge on the lens.  Some of the pictures have a slight haze in the middle... Just ignore that! 

Here's a couple of pictures of the table.  There were Cannonballs (melon balls), Arrrgachoke and Spinach dip, Pirate's Booty Popcorn, and Pirate Ship Planks (graham crackers dipped in chocolate and peanut butter).  And a special shout out to my Grandma Drue for making the table cloth.
The pirate ship was inflated until my dad and Tres got it out in the heat and it popped!!  So sad.  The rest of the balloons survived!!

He didn't understand the candle, but he was interested in it.  The Dickerson girls were so sweet.  They waited so patiently while Ryker opened up other gifts even though they brought their's over to him.  They had colored on sheets of paper "pirate maps" and put thme with his gift!  SO CUTE!!!  I wish I had taken a picture of that!


 This is the Brownie my mom and I made to celebrate Tres' birthday on Sunday.  His actual birthday isn't until the end of the month but since family was here we went ahead and celebrated it.
 My mom made him a big basket of OU stuff!!  He LOVED it.  Everything was red.  Our whole lunch consisted of red things.
 Micaiah gave him a Thor tshirt.  He always tells Tres he has to be Thor when they play.
 Thank you Toy Story 3 for teaching Micaiah how to use a screw driver to undo Buzz's back...  He was constantly saying he needed a screw driver to fix Buzz.
 One of our gifts to Ryker was a water table that looks like a Pirate ship!  We set it up in the back yard for the kids to play with during the party too.
 M was my big helper while I was making the cake.

It was such a fun weekend!!  Thank you to everyone who helped make it so much fun! 
I'm not sure what happened to the first few pictures, but I can't seem to fix them without redoing the entire post... Oh well!  Enjoy!!

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Birthday Video

Here's is the video I made for Ryker's 1st Birthday.  Enjoy!!


Mandi Lou

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Home Again!

Well we are back!!!  Ryker and I had so much fun spending a couple of weeks back home.  He loved getting to play with his cousins and hang out with his Lolly and Pop.  He even got to meet his Great Grandparents (my mom's parents) for the first time!  So much fun!!  As much fun as we had and as hard as it was to leave everyone again we are ready to be back home and get back into our routine. This past week we had Ryker's first birthday and a party on Saturday to celebrate!!  Unfortunately my camera is dead and I can not find my charger.  I only have a few pictures I took with my phone.  As soon as I get the pictures my mom took I'll post those.  So here are just a few until then.
Here's his pirate ship cake.
 Even Dooley, my sister-in-law's dog, came dressed for the party.
 This was a firend of my mom's creation.  Such a cute addition to the party.  My mom did a great job of putting the whole tree together.
 My mom found this pirate monkey on clearence at Hobby Lobby.  I painted him and hot glued him to a bowl I found for a dollar.  This was the Pirate Treasure that the kids who came to the party got to take home in a little loot bag!
We had such a great time and were so blessed by everyone who joined us in celebrating!

Mandi Lou