Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Pictures I Love

So these are just some random pictures that I love that I have been wanting to post...

I just love how happy he looks.

I love my family.

All bundled up.

Eating with Dad at Red Robin.

The raccoon in his natural habitat.






I just can't get enough of those eyes.

I want the camera!

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Christmas 2011

We had so much fun this Christmas! We went to Utah where the entire Griffitts family was together for the first time in years! It was the first time we had been able to see Tyler since he was home from his mission and we all stayed at Brad's sister's house in Logan, Utah. Thanks for letting us stay with you Tawni and Ryan! They were troopers letting 15 people stay at their house especially since Tawni had just had her baby. Little Oakley was so cute :)So yeah it was definitely a quick and busy trip, but it was tons of fun. And all the kids did really well together. We also were able to go to my sister Amy's wedding while we were in Utah. It was beautiful and we are so happy that Amy found such a sweet guy.

Before we left for Utah we also had our own little family Christmas since we could not fly out all of Aiden's presents to Utah. So the first pictures are of our little Christmas in Kentucky...

Going to a Christmas party...Aiden's newest favorite thing is climbing on me anytime I am not standing :)

Christmas party with all of our great friends in Kentucky!

After the Christmas party we came home and opened ornaments.


Christmas morning!




Aiden's Cars tent. He loves it! When he gets mad at us he goes and hides in it.






Real Christmas morning! Aiden has his little train that he asked Santa for this year.

McQueen slippers make him extra fast!

All the kids with Gigi and Poppi

Christmas pajamas!



Going to church on Christmas day. Thanks for the cute shirt and tie Meagan!

3 pretty cute guys... :)

 Getting ready for the run. Ryan organized a family run for the day after Christmas.

 All the guys went shooting.

Taking pictures of taking pictures haha. 

 Waiting for the bride and groom.

And here they are!...
 Good lookin couple :)


 Happy with Grandma. What a pretty Grandma :)


 Ryder got cold pretty fast and was ready to be done with pictures...


Saturday, December 10, 2011

Thanksgiving and 4 Months

We had a nice relaxing Thanksgiving at my mom's house in Georgia. It was a small crowd. It was just our family, my mom, and my little brother. Aiden loved spending time with Grandma and loved getting to play with new toys and play outside in the warm weather down South.

Playing in the kitchen while Grandma cooks.

Finger painting with pudding

 The feast! So delicious!

Poor Ryder all he can chew on are his beads.

The post-feast stupor...



Ryder also turned 4 months on over Thanksgiving on November 25th! He is getting so big. Starting about a week before Thanksgiving he could roll both ways front to back and back to front. He is a very wiggly and mobile little guy. He is also very vocal and loves to babble and laugh. Oh and his favorite thing in the whole world is getting his diaper changed/being naked. At his doctor's appointment he weighed 14 pounds and was 25 1/2 inches long. He LOVES to watch and interact with Aiden. Of course Aiden doesn't really know how to respond to this attention from his little brother. But Aiden is so sweet to his little brother. Anytime he cries he comes up to him and says "It's ok baby Ryder, it's ok." And he likes trying to give him toys now that Ryder can grab things. And just yesterday Ryder started sleeping in his crib in Aiden's room. So they are now sleeping in the same room together....we will see how it goes, but so far so good! He did amazing the first night and did not wake up until 5 in the morning. It was the most sleep I had gotten in I am not sure how long.


Friday, November 11, 2011

Autumn in Kentucky

I had been dying to go hiking before it got too cold, but Brad had been so busy with the last few weeks of one of his classes that we just hadn't had time. But finally last weekend was the perfect weather and Brad finally had a weekend at home so we decided to go hiking at natural bridge in Slade, Kentucky. It is a hike up to a bridge made out of natural stone. It was a beautiful hike and was difficult enough to get some decent exercise, but still not too hard with kids. Aiden had a few break downs on the way up over goldfish snacks, but was happy the rest of the time. We missed the the full color of the trees  because lots of the leaves had already fallen off, but it was still really beautiful.





 I am king of the tree stump!



 Yeah the sun was directly in our eyes...



We didn't have any pictures of the bridge from a distance, but here is a picture I found on the internet so you can see what we were standing on top of.






 Daddy's are the best :) Especially when they pretend to be a race car with you the entire way back down.