Ryker's Blessing

Ryker Seth Winterton was given a name and blessing by his amazing dad, Deric, on March 24th, 2013. What a sweet and precious day it was! I'm so grateful to have a husband and so many supportive priesthood holders in our family! We were literally surrounded by SO many family and friends! Ryker-you are one spoiled little boy! The blessing circle was HUGE and there wasn't enough room to fit everyone. My parents were able to travel up from Holden as well as my brother and his family. They came Saturday night. We also had a lot of Deric's family out as well.

Friday and Saturday morning I played in my *favorite* volleyball tournament of the year-it was interesting. Mostly because it was a completely thrown together team where no one had played with each other and a few girls haven't played in years and also because I'm completely out of shape and felt like I was going to die... mostly my shoulder felt like it was going to fall off and I officially felt like the hunchback. Really. But I love it! :)

Sunday we made it to church ON TIME! Yep, that's one for the record books... but even better- we were the ... wait for it... are you listening, cause this is important? We were the FIRST ones in the chapel before sacrament meeting. That has NEVER happened and probably never will again.

Ryker looked so cute in his little tux and he was almost too big for it. All 3 of my boys were blessed in this same outfit. He was great during the actual blessing and didn't even make a peep. I love feeling the spirit so strong! Then towards the end of sacrament, he was hungry so I went to feed him. Oh about 10 minutes after I changed his diaper, he pooped again.. this time... completely up his back. It was awesome. Not. So we had to change him out of his adorable tux and as I was putting his "church" clothes on him, he threw up ALL over them... so we were out another outfit. Only I go to get more clothes and realize I had emptied them out of the diaper bag earlier and hadn't replaced them. Yep. Awesome. So he hung out freestyle with only a diaper on for all of Sunday School until Deric was able to send over more clothes (he sluffed and went home to prepare food for the luncheon).

 Our one and only family picture for the day... right before we headed over for the church

 Our handsome boy! :)

Someone gave us these adorable shoes.... I LOVED them to go with his tux! :)

Showin the Holiday Pride!

My kids were sick on St Patricks Day this year (and it's was a Sunday-lame) and since Kyler had missed all the festivities at Preschool that whole week, I decided we needed to do some festive holiday activities. Ha ha which made me think about a post of someone's that I read recently about toning down on holidays, which although I agree somewhat, I don't completely. Holidays are fun. What a great way to celebrate each day throughout the year! I LOVE holidays (even the little ones) and grew up with a mom that loved them more than I do myself (we're talking monthly decorations and pillow cases people, not to mention colored pancakes for each special day) I loved it as a child. I always felt that each holiday was special and my parents were able to form some of my favorite and most memorable traditions due to holidays. So yes, I am one of "those moms" that tend to go a little overboard on holidays... hence the following pictures of how we celebrated St. Patty's this year:

We started our morning out with some green milk and rainbow waffles (just tilt your head sideways to see the "rainbow" I'm struggling with  pictures at the moment)

 This were our "green" outfits... with a funny story attached: I told Kyler on Saturday that tomorrow would be St. Patrick's and that we needed to wear green or we would get pinched. He FREAKED out and was so concerned about wearing his green that he stressed out about it clear until the next day. We even had to wear green pjs so that when it "switched" to St. P Day in the middle of the night... no one could pinch him.

We then did some fun activities although this is the only one I took pics of. But we did do some shamrock counting and stringing of shamrock necklaces (thank you preschool leftovers). We used some green and yellow glue to glue some pieces of paper onto shamrocks and then played with fizzy paint. The boys loved it and thought it was super fun! But then Kyler kept using his to be "Mr. Broccoli  Head"... what silly boys I have!

Hope you guys had a great St. Patrick's Day!! :)