10 Months Old

Ryder is 10 months old today. I can't believe it! It seems like just yesterday that he was a little tiny baby. Now he's crawling, and he's fast. He gets into everything. He can pull himself up to standing. He still only has 2 teeth, we are patiently waiting on the rest :) He is ready for size 18-24 months clothes, we are waiting for cooler weather, most of his clothes this size are winter clothes.

I have been planning his 1st birthday for a couple of months now. I am excited to throw my first party!

Don't mind the messy face, he just got done with his din-din.

Ryder and his Cuz'

Thursday afternoon was spent with family. Ryder and I went and spent some time with my sister and her family.....Ryder wanted to see his cousin Jesse. Ryder is checking out little Jesse

Grandma with the BOYS !

The weather was so nice we decided to go to the park for an evening stroll......

Michelle and baby Jesse

Grandma and Ryder

Me and Ryder

Jesse smiling and enjoying the fresh air and blue sky :)

Us girls with our boys

A nice man offered to take this pic of all of us

Happy FALL !

Today is officially the first day of FALL ! I am so happy for cooler weather to be here so we can go and do fun things outdoors. I am even more excited to spend the holidays with Ryder !

I remember HALLOWEEN last year. I had about a month to go till my due date. I was HUGE ! As Jason and I handed out candy I was thinking that we would have a baby this time next year, he would almost be 1 and what would I dress him up as for Halloween. I am still looking for the perfect costume, we have it narrowed down, but haven't decided quite yet.

I remember THANKSGIVING last year, my due date was on the 26th, so I decided that for the holiday I was going to sit my big belly at home. It was only a couple days from my due date, I was even more HUGE, and feeling miserable. I wanted to meet my lil guy so bad. I had the idea that if I went and had Thanksgiving dinner and stuffed myself that I would to into labor on a full belly and I didn't want that to happen ! That plan didn't work out well, I finally gave in and went to my Moms and ate, and I didn't go into labor.

I remember also being kinda happy that I would be on maternity leave for the holidays. I thought it would be like a long vacation. I had this idea in my head that I would decorate, bake, take my new baby out to do all kinds of christmas shopping.....Well, by Christmas I felt kinda like a Zombie. I didn't know how tiring and how hard of a job being a mommy would be. I learned my lesson.

Here's to a FABULOUS holiday season this year. I know it will be AMAZING !

9 Month Session

These are some of the photos from Ryder's 9 month session...

Camping Trip

We had a nice family camping trip up at Bear Canyon Lake, it was just the 3 of us and sooooo relaxing ( except for the fact that Ryder's sleeping habits got worse each night, but that's another story).....The weather was perfect, about 75 degrees, we wore our jackets most of the day, especially in the shade from all the trees, it made it feel alot cooler. We went on a couple nice Rhino rides, hiked down to the lake, sat around the camp fire, and played outside with Ryder in the fresh mountain air.

camp Gibbs :)

Cutest Lil' Boy!

He's thinking : DIRT, STICKS, PINE CONES, ROCKS ..... So much for me to get into and put in my mouth.....I caught him with a little dirt on his lip and saw his mouth smacking and he had put a little chunk of wood in his mouth .... Needless to say we had eagle eyes on him after that and no more playing on the ground without a blanket underneath him.

MMMmmmmmm ... Breakfast tastes soooo much better when camping !

Getting ready for our hike down to the lake.

So relaxing in the fresh air, perfect for a little snooze.

He can't wait till he's BIG enough to take it for a drive.

Stayin' in the shade with Daddy's hat.

Mommy and Ryder.

Hiking back up from the lake.

Daddy and his main man

Gibbs Family !

Starting yesterday Jason and I finally have some time off work together. We had a busy day. First we went and had Ryder's 9 month photo session. I am always so excited to see how all the pics come out! We should have them by Tuesday.

Dunes season is approaching so we took J's quad in for some maintenance. We are planning on going to the dunes at least 5 times this year!

While we waited on the quad we went and walked around the mall and checked out some of the baby costumes trying to decide what we will dress little man as for his 1st Halloween!

We had lunch at Sweet Tomatoes. Any time we go out to eat we must give Ryder some of our drink from the straw. He loves doing this and wants nothing to do with his sippy cup.

He holds his head back and opens his mouth, he looks like a little bird asking mommy for food! The worst part is that he cries most of the meal if we don't keep giving him some. I get lemonade and I always think it will be too sour for him but he loves it!