Christmas 2010

Merry Christmas to all our wonderful friends and family! While Krista and I have received some really awful news in the past few days, we have thoroughly enjoyed spending quality time with Ryne and family. Below is a video montage of the last several days and some great pictures. Enjoy!

Santa @ the Children's Museum!


Ryne and Gma P made an awesome gingerbread train!


Ryne @ Gpa & Gma's church service, listening to the kid's message


Christmas Eve with dad!


Train table!


Buzz & Woody Christmas morning! Thanks Santa!

Tools from Gpa and Gma P! AWESOME!

Ryne's preschool Christmas program

Ryne has been in a 2-year old preschool class at our church this year. He absolutely loves it and we have seen some amazing growth in him this year just by attending a few hours a week. Today the preschool put on their Christmas program. This meant that Ryne and his class got to sing a song in front of all the parents. Here is that performance. We were so proud of him today. The stellar camera work was done by Krista today in case anyone was wondering! ;)

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Picture catch-up

As promised, here are some pictures from this summer and fall to catch-up. If you haven't seen the post below, there is more text and videos. You can click on the slideshow if you want to see the pictures in larger quality.

We're back...at least for now

Has it really been since June since we last posted? Yikes. We've been a bit busy, but no excuse for ceasing to share with all of you. Since June, we were living with Kyle's parents while our new home was being finished. Ryne started PreSchool two days a week at our church. We closed on our house in early September and it is hard to believe that it's been 2 months in our new house. It feels like home although we still have a lot of boxes in corners and decorating we'd like to get to. We're pacing ourselves.

Kyle has been traveling quite a bit lately. Since our last post he has been to San Diego, San Francisco, Dallas, Palo Alto and will be in Orlando and San Jose shortly. His job is quite busy and challenging but he is very much enjoying it. Krista is still loving being a stay at home mom and every day with Ryne is fun and challenging.

Ryne has become our little man. He is so grown up. His vocabulary is fantastic and he is 100% boy. Running everywhere and trying to throw everything. Dad is so proud! Here are some videos from the last few months. We'll get a post with fun pictures soon.

Ryne loved jumping into the lake this summer


Ryne performing some clumsy rolling in Clara's hospital room.


Ryne running through a maze over and over at a pumpkin patch


Ryne in a bounce house at Oktoberfest


Ryne loves playgrounds and it quite coordinated at the slide dismount


Everyday is a new adventure for Ryne

Ryne has fun with cousins

Ryne's cousins Titus and Addison are home from Germany for the summer. He has had a blast with them and here are a few videos so far this week:

Ryne and Titus took turns playing Tee Ball. Ryne is getting pretty good at this.



Uncle Ken and Aunt Linda brought the 3 kids some really fun light toys. They had a blast playing with them in the dark basement.



As much fun as it is to color on the easel, it's even more fun to play in the "box".

Fantastic Weekend

It's been quite an amazing weekend on several fronts. The weekend started Friday night when Kyle's cousin Jim came down from Chicago and the two of us went to the Pearl Jam show at Verizon. We both agreed that it was not the best Pearl Jam show we've seen, but it was very good nonetheless. It was very stormy and windy just prior to the show starting and we were afraid it might get cancelled. But the rain held off and the show was great.

Saturday was Ryne's 2nd Birthday party. Everyday leading up to his party was 75 degrees or warmer, but Saturday morning brought 50 degree temperatures and high winds. We cancelled our park reservation and held it at Kyle's parents house instead. Our house had a showing that afternoon and therefore we couldn't host it at our house. Here is a link to several pictures from his birthday, or you can see a few below. Check out the awesome cake Aunt Emily made! I've also put together a few video clips of Ryne and his tee ball set. He loves it! Thanks Dee and Greg! If you watch the video closely, he leaves all of you a present at the end!

Speaking of the house showing, we received an offer on the house in the afternoon and by Saturday night, counter offers having gone back and forth, we settled on a sale! So that is a big relief and we are really excited to have it sold. Since the tax credit ended on April 30, our realtor told us the market has gone dead silent, so we are really pumped this worked out. If all continues to go well, we'll be moved out of our house by June 18 and need to live at my parents for a couple of months while our new house is being finished. All in all, the house was only on the market for 3 weeks.

This weekend also brought some great Purdue Basketball news as both E'twaun Moore and JaJuan Johnson decided to NOT enter the NBA draft. This means Purdue (barring injury) will be a fantastic team next year and should compete to be an elite team all season. All those groans you hear are coming from IU fans around the state. Sorry guys.

Finally, we're enjoying a great Mother's Day and Ryne's Birthday today. Ryne bought mommy a little figurine that she will be able to display for many years. Happy Mother's Day Krista!





Aunt Emily made an AWESOME Handy Manny cake for Ryne! Thanks Em!




Always the daredevil!

HOMERUN!

Updates

It's been a while since we've last posted. Things have been really busy. A couple of weeks ago we decided to build a new house. Our current house is now on the market and our new one should be done by late September. We're still living in the same general area just a little bit further east than we are right now. We are very excited. While our house will look different from a brick and color perspective, here is an artist rendition of what the outside will look like.


Ryne is full of fun. He will turn 2 next weekend and we have a fun birthday party at the park planned for him and his little friends. We're hoping for great weather. He is 100% boy. He has learned that he enjoys jumping off of everything and throwing everything he can find. The below video montage shows him throwing a ball and some of his magnetic letters. Enjoy!

Easter

We had a blast last weekend for Easter. On Saturday we took Ryne to our church for an Easter Egg hunt. He had a lot of fun. Then on Sunday we had another hunt at Grandpa and Grandmas. Below is a video from Sunday.

Mom's 60th Birthday!

My mom had her 60th birthday this past week. I was lucky to get to spend most of the day with her. My mom and I took Ryne to Monkey Joe's in the morning. He had a great time playing with Grandma and Mommy, going down the slides, and bouncing! After we played the 3 of us went out to lunch. While we were at lunch, Ryne somehow texted a picture of himself to my mom's friend...4 times! His first picture text! Haha! Here are some pictures from our day:

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Ryne giving a birthday card to Grandma.

That night my mom, dad, Kyle, and I went out to dinner to celebrate my mom's B-day. I gave my mom a scrapbook filled with pictures and letters from her family members and closest friends. Thanks to all of you who contributed to this special book! It was a great day and I feel so blessed to have such a great mom. Happy Birthday Mom!

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Mom's Scrapbook

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Ryne counts to 10

Ryne has been counting to 10 since about Christmas...we decided we better get it on video. He's obviously quite distracted in this video, but that is classic Ryne!

Ryne's First Sledding!

After the snow on Friday, we were able to take Ryne outside at Gma and Gpa H's and sled down the hill in the front yard. Ryne was his usual daredevil self and loved it thoroughly. Lots of squealing and laughing. After we came to a stop at the bottom, it was mere seconds before he started yelling "Again, Again!". Here is a video of a few of the runs and some of our favorite pictures. Thanks to Gpa for snapping the great moments!

Mom really sprayed snow in his face!

Germany Trip Highlights

We realize its been quite a while since we've posted an update. It seems just like yesterday that we were getting back from Germany. Hard to imagine its been 3 weeks. I put together a slideshow of pictures and video clips from our trip. It's mostly silent except for the audio that comes through during the few clips. We had a blast visiting Greg, Danielle, Titus, and Addison and Ryne really enjoyed hanging out with his cousins for an extended period. He also did great in the traveling. We hope you enjoy the video.