3 years and 8 months

This sight is bitter sweet

Rylee seems to be old enough to pour her own
milk AND put her own strawberry flavoring
in as well...

What else does she need me for??
She seems to be growing up so fast!
She has been getting to be even more fun lately.
Such a little lady.
SO incredibly sweet.
Head over heels for her Grandpa Walker.
She is in love with the holiday season
which makes Christmas time especially fun this year!

I'm the luckiest mom in the world!

A word from the not so wise

Just because the bundle of Christmas party invites
comes in a package of 8
DOES NOT
mean you need to use all 8 of them!

I am throwing a little Holiday party this weekend for
Rylee and her friends.
These are the lovely, time consuming,
amazing smelling houses that are soon
to be taken over by 3 year olds!
~Wish me luck~

***Polar Express***

We went up to Heber last night to ride on the
POLAR EXPRESS
It was a blast!
We have been preparing for the past couple of days for this event.
We bought the book to read and borrowed the
movie from Iya(sarah) to watch!
Ry was glued to the tv.
The scary man on top of the train scared Ry but
that didn't make her not want to finish!
Jess, Dallas, Aspen, and Irelynn were our dates!

This was an event we will always remember!

Rylee and Aspen were into every single
detail of the night!

Irelynn, Jessica, and Dallas

fogging up the train window
admiring the pretty lights

Momma and Rylee

!!!!!SANTA!!!!!

This trip was exactly like the book!
We had cookies and hot chocolate,
Read the polar express book,
Rode past Santa standing at the North Pole,
Elves came with there note pad and asked
each and every child what they would like for Christmas,
Santa and Mrs. Clause came onto the train and gave
the kids a bell and a cookie recipe,
Sang Christmas carols,
and danced... well just Aspen and Rylee;)

An Elf came and shook Rylees bell.
She told Rylee that her bell came off
Rudolph's collar...
Now exciting because that happens to be Rylees
FAVORITE REINDEER!

Ry and Mrs. Clause

The conductor came and collected our tickets.
He punched a star hole through them...
(Just like in the movie)

We all had a very magical evening!
The girls were darling to watch.
Christmas and Santa are so exciting...

... and apparently very exhausting!

~MERRY CHRISTMAS~

~HO~HO~HO~

We went to the Festival of Trees tonight.
Andrew, Sarah, and Josh met us there.
Ry has been talking about getting to see Santa ALL day.
She jumped up on his lap like a pro!
(much different than past years)
Rylee told Santa that this year she would like...
A baby
A magic wand,
magic clothes...?
A doggy that doesn't really bark,
and an iron and ironing board.

I'm going to assume that the reason Rylee
was SO comfortable seeing Santa this year
is because it FINALLY clicked that this
JoLLy~ReD~SwEEt~FluFFy~MaN
brings her PRESENTS!

*My very own CHRISTMAS TREE*

Rylee came home from a long weekend away today.
I decided it would be fun to get her
a Christmas tree this year.
She is finally at the perfect age to appreciate
the decorating and admiring

Rylee was in L.O.V.E. with the idea
of getting her very own Christmas tree!

Rylee even called her Nana to tell her about
the tree. As you can tell she is a pro at talking
on the phone. No hands necessary.

Each ornament was very exciting...

... and placed in the PERFECT spot on her PERFECT tree

Hello kitty was saved for the end.

And of course a purple glitter star topped her
beautiful masterpiece;)

The star took some work...

... and a little more work...

... and some more work...
mom finally had to help a bit

~TaaDaa~

We miss Nana

We had a fantastic time visiting
NANA last week!
She had a lot of fun things planned for almost everyday
that we were in town.

We went/did...
girls lunch with 5 of moms sisters,
went to see some pretty cute Christmas trees,
(picture below)
we had a huge Thanksgiving dinner
with aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents,
murder mystery dinner,
shopping;)
sewing,
cooking,
mezula play that cousins were in...

(Aunt Karen, Mom, Cousin Amy, Me, Aunt Melissa)

We were in town for 9 days...
felt like 4 days...
and could have stayed at lease another week.

This time Rylee did better about leaving.
She only cried for 45 minutes at the airport.
Ry sure loves her Nana and has the hardest time leaving
her FULL TIME playmate.
They are best buds!
Thanks Nana for a fun trip!

Flying food

I took Rylee to
-Cloudy with a chance of meatballs-
tonight.
I saw it was playing at 7:00pm
perfect time!
We bought tickets and headed in the direction of the theater.
Why is the guy who took our tickets handing us glasses?
OOPS... this is a 3D showing.

Ry wore the glasses for a picture and about 2 minutes of the
movie.

She was hilarious to watch.
She was reaching for the images as they flew out of
the movie screen.
Finally... once a giant cheeseburger came
flying straight out at her she decided she had
enough of the glasses.

She was a fan of the movie,
not a fan of the scary glasses.

If I had to do over again
I would use my head while reading the movie times
and take the little lady to a "normal" showing;)