Rygmyr Rigmarole

part 1 of 12

2012-01-24T12:21:00.004-05:00

I saw this on a blog (I don't know who's blog it was, I just found it and can't find it again to put a link in, sorry), so I decided we would do it. The wife gave this as a gift to her husband for Christmas. A gift of dates, 12 of them. There is an envelope for each month with a predetermined, prepaid date in it (gift cards or money etc.). We did it a little different, and collaborated together to come up with the date ideas.
For our first date, we were supposed to go ice skating at Centennial Olympic park and then to dinner at the Vortex. The weather made us change our plans slightly. Instead of ice skating, we went indoor mini golfing at Monster Mini Golf. It was fun (more for me than for David).
After golfing we did a favor for a friend, and took pictures of a surprise scavenger hunt at the mall for her sister-in-law, then we went downtown for dinner. We ate at the Vortex in Midtown. It was delicious. I got the Cardiac Arrest, aptly named.
It was a great night. Thank you grandma & grandpa Rygmyr for watching the boys. I can't wait until our date next month.

AJ is 4 months old already

2012-01-16T13:15:00.004-05:00

Anderson turned 4 months old on Saturday. We took him to the doctor for his well check, here are his stats: height 26 inches (86%), weight 16 lbs 3 oz (67%) and head 16 inches (21%). They said everything looked great.
Here are a few pictures of AJ from the last couple of days.

Nathan used to make this same face, a big smile with his bottom lip tucked under. It is interesting to see the ways they are similar and different. Also like his big brother, Anderson likes to jump in his jumper too.

For the most part, Nathan is a good big brother. The other day AJ was sitting on the couch by Nathan and he flopped to the side. Nathan said "mom a little bit of help here, we have a problem". It was sweet that he wanted to help his brother.The best picture last. Look at that sweet, loving smile. It is so adorable, just like Anderson!

Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam!

2012-01-16T00:45:00.003-05:00

Nathan graduated from nursery this year and is now a Sunbeam! Today he got his CTR ring and he was very proud of it. It was really cute. His teachers said that he kept walking in circles saying "I am a robot. I am a robot". What a silly boy.

Our Christmas vacation

2012-01-10T18:56:00.000-05:00

We flew from Atlanta to Jackson Hole on Dec 27th. Both boys did great on the airplane, Nathan watched shows on the Kindle, and AJ slept for most of the flight. Our non-stop flight had to make a stop in Salt Lake because there was freezing rain at the Jackson airport so no planes could take off or land. After our slight delay (1 1/2 hour) we landed in Jackson Hole where Aunt Heather picked us up. When we got there the snow was slushy and melting, little did we know that that was the most snow we would see on our trip. Nathan and David were able to build a little snowman at Heather's house, but mommy didn't get a picture of it and the next day it was mostly melted.

We went out on a animal seeking adventure. Nathan was on buffalo lookout, daddy was on moose lookout and mommy and Heather were on elk and deer lookout. We saw elk at the refuge, and up past Moose, WY. we saw a herd of buffalo.
Nathan was so excited to see them. Nate wanted to get out and see the buffalo, but when he asked us if they had eyes to see us he got a little nervous..
We went into town to go see Lynn at the candy store (Yippy-I-O Candy Co.) and mommy got a new pair of snow boots. Nathan thought the arches were pretty cool, he wanted to try to climb them.

Nathan played with some of cousin Braedon's toy horses while we were at their house and he loved it (we don't have any for him to play with at home, I never knew he liked horses that much), so uncle Scott let us go look at some of his horses (and mules). The mules were HUGE!After all the fun we had in Wyoming it was time to go to grandpa and grandmas house in Idaho. We got to see big grandma and big grandpa Ross (great grandparents).Here is big grandma meeting Anderson
We played out in the yard, and in the tree house grandpa made. There was no snow, but we decided to put AJ in his snowsuit to see how cute he was- super cute.We went up to big grandpa and grandmas house. Grandpa held AJ for quite a while, holding him and talking to him, Anderson loved it.Nathan had a lot of fun stacking the cups (yogurt cups they save for grand kids to play with). He stacked them taller than he was. In true Nathan fashion, he enjoyed knocking them over more than he enjoyed stacking them.Nathan being a good big brother to AJ AJ in one of his winter hats Nathan wearing one of AJ's 3-6 month shirts that grandpa dressed him in. Nathan really liked the shirt and didn't want to take it off.
After almost a week in Idaho we rented a car and drove down to California to see Sherri and Dan. It was a really long drive (14 1/2 hours) but we made it in one day. The kids again were great traveling.On Saturday we went to the Cerrito's library. Inside they have a little aquarium, T-Rex bones, and a green screen tv for the kids to play with. Nathan and Keane had a lot of fun seeing themselves on the tv. Just outside the library was a fountain, when Nathan saw it he said, "look, geyser's". We didn't know Nate even knew what a geyser was. Keane wanted to play in them. Sherri kept telling him that if he didn't move he was going to get wet. He hovered over one until it shot right up his shirt and nose. It was very funny. Keane took it like a champ though. After that we headed over to Heritage Park, a Paul Revere themed park. Nate, Keane and Beckett had a lot of fun climbing and sliding. They even had this little pirate ship for the kids to play on. One of mommy's old roommates Gina Hafen met us at the library and came to the park with us, we even got to see her Sunday at church.

Saturday night for dinner we went to 4 different places to eat. We had to make sure we both got everything we wanted! David had to have his In-N-Out and I had to get my Jamba Juice.
On Sunday night we decided that Anderson needed a haircut, and who better to give him his first haircut, than the person who cut mommy's hair the most, Sherri! SHerri did a great job and evened out his hair. AJ was pretty good, as good as a 3 month old can be for a haircut I guess. Here he is sporting his new look.

We had such a fun trip, we only wish it lasted longer. We had so much to do and not enough time. Thank you to everyone for letting us stay with you, we love you all!

Christmas

2011-12-26T15:24:00.001-05:00

Merry Christmas! We had a great Christmas, (or three). We had Christmas with Audrey's family at the beginning of December when grandpa and grandma Anderson and Aunt Llew were in town. We had Bonnie and her kids came over too. It was a full house, but we had a lot of fun.
Then we had our own family Christmas on Christmas morning before we went to church. After church we went over to grandpa and grandma Rygmyr's house for another Christmas (unfortunately we didn't get any pictures of Christmas at g & g Rygmyrs house, even though Aunt Kristen came home and got to meet AJ for the first time.)
Nathan would say after he opened every present "It's just what I always wanted!" It was super cute.
And yes, I did finish AJ's stocking.

We went to Bass Pro Shops and they had a very nice Christmas set-up. The boys had their pictures taken with Santa, then Nathan got to play with their Christmas train.
After playing with their train, any time Nathan was asked what he wanted for Christmas, he would say "a Christmas train and a tunnel".

AJ's first Christmas!

Nathan was so surprised to see that Jeep. He looked at it a few times before he asked if it was for him. It was really cute. We have some video of him attempting to drive it, hopefully I can get it uploaded soon. It is worth a laugh.

Nate got some Lego's in his stocking, and he thought they were awesome. Mom didn't think they were that great. When Nathan opened the package little Lego parts flew all over the place. I'm still not sure we found them all.
Our Christmas cracker crowns.

AJ getting some good grandpa snuggles while grandpa plays with his new Kindle Fire.

Opening Christmas crackers.

Jake flying his RC helicopter that Aunt Heather gave him. He was pretty good at it, and the helicopter was sturdy, it took a couple crashes and kept on going.

David helping grandpa set up his new Kindle. You can see David's present on the back of the couch, a WiFi thermostat (so now we can adjust the temperature of our house when we are laying in bed, we are that lazy).
Nathan got a grabby hand from Aunt Llew, and he was using it to open presents.
We decorated gingerbread houses.

AJ really liked to listen to the "Twas the Night Before Christmas" bear.

Nathan got to put the star on the tree. He was very proud of himself for doing it.

Our finished Christmas tree.
4th CST Christmas party. Santa brought Nathan a Batman helicopter, he thought it was super great.Sorry these pictures are so random, since there were a lot of them I just left them in the order they uploaded instead of tying to move them all around.

Silly boy

2011-12-21T16:54:00.003-05:00

I just told Nathan to go sit back at his table and eat.
Nathan told me "Oh mommy, your too serious".

Happy birthday Andrew

2011-12-13T10:11:00.002-05:00

Happy 4th birthday Andrew! We love you so much, and look forward to seeing you again. We miss you.

Anderson's blessing

2011-12-09T10:06:00.002-05:00

On Sunday December 4th, we had the opportunity to bless our little Anderson James. Grandpa & grandma Anderson, aunt Llew, aunt Caitlin and grandpa & grandma Rygmyr were all able to be there, along with AJ's cousins Kyler and Zoey. Daddy gave him a very sweet blessing. AJ wore the same outfit that Nathan did when he was blessed (it was a little to big on Nathan and it fit pretty well on Anderson).

Tyler Buttle, Aaron Jenkins, Greg Bishop, Stephen Futral, Bishop Bowen, grandpa Anderson and daddy were all in the circle.

World of Coke

2011-11-27T18:30:00.005-05:00

On Saturday we went to World of Coke with grandpa & grandma Anderson, Jacob, Kyler and Zoey. I have taken Nathan for the last three years and got his picture with the polar bear. This year was the first time for AJ (obviously) and his cousins. They all had a great time, but I think their favorite part was tasting all of the Coke products from around the world.

Nathan is 3!

2011-11-25T23:34:00.004-05:00

Nathan is now 3!
For his birthday he wanted to go bowling and have a Transformers birthday party. We had a lot of fun bowling with everyone, before going back to our house for pizza and an ice cream cake, oh, and presents.

Nathan's cake.

Blowing out the candles.

The monkey mirror cousin Jake made for him.

Nathan had a great day. He had been looking forward to it for quite a while. We had to make a countdown chain, so he could keep track of the days.
A few of Nathans favorite things:
color- green
number-3
letter- N
place to go- train museum
super hero- Batman
toy- space ship (birthday present from Aunt Kristen)
stuffed animal- bear
song- Old McDonald
church song- Nephi's Courage
sport- baseball
T.V. show- Little Einsteins
best friend- Kendalynn Buttle

Happy birthday Nathan! Mommy and Daddy love you so much. Having you in our family the last three years has been a lot of fun. You have such a sweet spirit. You are very friendly and will play with anybody. You are quick to forgive, but not always quick to apologize- although you are getting better. You are very independent. You love your family, especially your little brother Anderson. You are so sweet to him. You like to help mommy, and play with daddy.
You make us super happy Nathan, we love you so much!

At Nathans doctor appointment he weighed 28.4 Lbs (15%) and is 36 inches tall (47%).

Thanksgiving

2011-11-25T20:32:00.006-05:00

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a great Thanksgiving with most of our family gathered together. My sister from Alabama and her family came over, and my mom and dad flew in from Idaho. David's grandma flew in from Florida and his other set of grandparents drove over from Alabama. We were only missing David's sister Kristen who lives in Korea right now, my oldest sister Heather and her son who live in Wyoming and my sister in Iowa.

This was the grateful turkey we made for Family Home Evening I(I got the idea from my friend Katie). I don't know if you can read all of the feathers, but Nate's said- turkey, markers and grandpa's & grandma's. Hopefully next year he will be able to come up with other things he is grateful for.

Here are Zoey and Nathan decorating the turkey cookies. As you can see from the picture below, the did a fantastic job.
David and Anderson, I think there are some resemblances there.

I tried to get a picture of Nathan and AJ in there matching outfits, but neither of them wanted to cooperate, Nate's shirt came off after this picture so he could go play.

Look at those eyes.

Grandpa and Anderson-grandma passed AJ to grandpa when he was hungry, so this is the best picture I got of them.

Great grandma Roberts with AJ

Cooking the turkey. It was deep fried and delicious! We had a great time, and lots of food and fun (and got home just in time to go out Black Friday shopping).

One thing I forgot to write, we all had cups with our names on them, and Nathan went to my mom's cup and said "M A R L A, that spells grandma". It was very matter-of-factly and also very cute.

2 months old

2011-11-14T21:48:00.003-05:00

AJ turned two months old today! We took him to his doctor to see how he is growing. And boy is he growing! He weighed in at 13lbs 10oz (85%), he is 23 3/4 inches long (24%) and his head is 15 1/4 inches (45%). His doctor said everything looked good. He is starting to talk to us more and to smile at us.
Here are a few pictures of AJ from the last few days. The one with the tie and Nathan in the blue sweater are the boys ready for church. My friend Carley made the cute onesie for AJ, and I love it. I am going to have to make him some more, since he is growing so fast.

Look alike?

2011-11-04T18:21:00.011-04:00

I found this picture earlier this week of Nathan, that was taken when Nate was 4(ish) weeks old. So I thought I would post one of Anderson. AJ is 7 weeks in this picture, but I think that you can definitely see some family resemblances, AJ just has way more hair.

WOW!

2011-11-04T16:56:00.003-04:00

6 years! Wow, it doesn't even seem like it has been 6 years since we got married. It has been the best 6 years of my life, being married to my best friend. I look forward to spending the rest of eternity with him too!
I love you David! You make me super happy!

Our trip to Florida

2011-11-02T17:05:00.004-04:00

We drove down to Florida the 18th of October, to see Daddy and Gran. We took our new van so that David could see it. We stayed with him for the weekend, and took Nathan bowling for his very first time. He had a lot of fun. The first time he rolled the ball it went right into the gutter and slowly rolled down. It was rolling so slow that about 3/4 of the way, the ball stopped and we had to get someone to come get it for us.

Nathan was very interested in the ball return. He thought it was magic. He would roll the ball down, then it appeared back on the rack. He kept saying "abra ca dabra".

Nathan had the lightest ball they had, 6 pounds. It was still pretty heavy for him but he didn't want any help.

AJ had a good time just sitting there watching everything.

On Sunday we drove down to Punta Gorda to see Gran (David's Grandma), she just got back to Florida (she spends Summers in Calgary, Canada and winters in Florida).
We went to a old train depot that had some train stuff for Nathan to look at. It was an antique shop too, so we didn't spend much time in there.
Gran's birthday was on the 25th, so we were there to celebrate with her. The above picture was the only picture taken from her birthday party. We invited some of her friends over for a pizza party. Nathan was excited because Gran let him blow out the candle on her cake.
The weather was so nice that Nate decided he wanted to play in the pool- except mommy forgot to pack any swimming stuff.
Gran and her great grandkids
On our way back we stopped and saw daddy again for a night. We played at the park and the lake beach there at Camp Blanding. Nathan was having a lot of fun, until he fell in the water. It was funny, but he didn't think so.
Hooray! Daddy comes home on Saturday!

trunk or treat

2011-10-28T23:08:00.005-04:00

Our ward trunk or treat was tonight. It started raining just as it was time to start the chili dinner, so we moved in to the gym. When it was time to go car to car, they decided to move it outside since it had stopped raining. One of our friends held Anderson and handed out our candy so I could take Nate around. He had a lot of fun saying "trick or treat" to every car. He had to keep checking his pumpkin to make sure they were putting candy in it. It started raining again, just as we were finishing up. Batman had a lot of fun!
Nathan decided what we were all going to be this year. He had it all planned out. He said, "I am going to be Batman because I'm the strongest. Daddy is going to be a witch and mommy gets to be the princess. I am going to put the witch in jail and rescue the princess". I asked him what AJ was going to be and he told me that "AJ gets to be a witch too". Since he had obviously thought about it, I decided that we would dress up like he wanted us too. Nate has a really good imagination, it is really cute some of the things he comes up with.
Anderson-the witch

Batman- the strongest

Nate was so cute when I put on the princess crown. He held my face between his two hands and told me that I looked "so beautiful".After the trunk or treat, Nathan was excited to eat his candy, and AJ wanted to eat too. All in all it was a pretty fun night. I just wish that daddy could have been here to enjoy it with us (only 8 more days)!
Happy Halloween!

Swagger wagon

2011-10-28T15:25:00.002-04:00

Since my family is coming out in November (for AJ's blessing) we decided we had to buy a new car. Not because our other car is to small and won't fit everybody and we would have to take both of our vehicles everywhere we went, but because my family is so snooty that they can't be seen in the same car twice (because of that, I fully expect them to help with the payments).
We bought a minivan! I have to say, it is pretty awesome. I like it a whole lot, and that makes me a nerd, I know. But as far as minivans go, this one is really sweet. It has everything we wanted in a new car, and stuff we didn't know we wanted but are glad we have now (seat warmers & lazy susan for movies and toys, back-up camera, oh and heated mirrors). I drove down to Florida in it last week, to show David and it was great! Nathan watched movies and Anderson slept.

So, make fun of me all you want to, but until you've had a ride in my swagger wagon you won't understand (unless you already drive a van- in that case, you know what I'm talkin about!).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql-N3F1FhW4 (This one is a Toyota,mine is a Honda, but you get the idea).

Happy birthday to AJ

2011-10-14T16:13:00.003-04:00

Anderson is one month old today! I can not believe how quickly it has gone by. He is getting so big, today we went to the doctor (the train doctor as Nathan calls it-because they have trains in the waiting room) and AJ weighed in at a whooping 10lbs 12oz (76%). He is growing tall too, 22 1/2 inches now (83%), it looks like he will be tall like grandpa Anderson. His head is now 14 1/2in (22%)- I don't think that Nathans head has ever been in the 20th percentile (maybe it is now, I just don't know).
Anderson continues to be a happy baby- when he is awake (obviously when he is sleeping too but he spends the majority of his time asleep). It's a rough life, but apparently that is when he does his growing. AJ loves to take a bath, he just lays there quietly and watches. Nathan used to cry at the top of his baby lungs, maybe AJ will like to swim more than Nate. And his hair! It isn't falling out yet, and I hope it says that way. It is so cute, but it is getting long. He might need his first haircut before he turns 3 months.
Nathan is doing very well with his little brother. He likes to bring him blankets and his pacifier, he is a good helper. When AJ is awake Nathan says "aww, he's looking at me" or "aww, he likes me". It is pretty sweet.
We love having baby AJ in our family! Happy one month!

Pumpkin Patch

2011-10-09T09:50:00.002-04:00

Last night we took our annual trip to the Kennesaw Mountain Shrine Club Pumpkin Patch. We go there every year for our pumpkins and our Christmas tree.
This year we had to get four pumpkins, one for each of us. Nathan had a lot of fun picking out the best pumpkins. He also tried to show us how he is "the strongest" by picking up all of the pumpkins that were bigger than him.
But then we found one that was "just my size" for Nathan, and a little baby one for Anderson.
David loves going to the Shriner's for their boiled peanuts. They make some Cajun ones that David really loves.
Thank you Shriner's!

3 Weeks old now

2011-10-06T09:48:00.005-04:00

Here are some pictures of Anderson, he is now 3 weeks old. He still loves to sleep the day and night away, but we are starting to see his eyes more often (I think they are going to be blue!).

Cute boys!

2011-10-04T10:09:00.002-04:00

AJ never looks happy when he first wakes up.

"Oh my!"
Nate being sweet to his brother.
Happy asleep

Take me out to the ball game!

2011-09-27T10:29:00.003-04:00

Since some of us have resigned ourselves to the fact that the Braves probably wont make it to the post season this year, we decided we had to go to at least one more baseball game this year (unfortunately the Braves lost to the Phillies 4-2). Nathan loves baseball games, he usually sits through most of the game, but likes to take walks around the ballpark too.

This was A.J.'s very first baseball game, and he slept through the whole thing! Next year I think he will enjoy it more.

Talk like a pirate day!

2011-09-19T18:36:00.002-04:00

Today is National Talk Like a Pirate day. In lieu of that, I thought I would post this video of Nathan talking like a pirate.
In his pirate voice he is saying "What do you do with a scurvy pirate? Make them walk the plank!".
P.S. I don't know why the video is sideways-again. Sorry.

Bright eyes

2011-09-18T16:36:00.003-04:00

It has been so hard for us to get a picture of A.J. with his eyes open for two reasons. One- he sleeps all the time, and two- he has eye fat that makes it hard for him to open them too wide! Anyway, David was able to get a few the other day. They look like they are going to be blue, like mommy and Nathan.And here are a couple of pictures of my boys! They are all so cute!

A.J. at the hospital

2011-09-17T12:22:00.004-04:00

Here are some more pictures of Anderson at the hospital.
His tiny toes!
Look at all that hair!
Here is Nathan giving his baby brother his present, a stuffed elephant. Nathan had to wear a bracelet that said "big brother", he thought that was pretty cool.
Nathan was so tiny in newborn size clothes, looks like A.J. will probably only get to wear them for a few weeks.

Nathan wanted to see baby A.J.'s toes, he got so excited about them.

Nathan playing with the computer that his brother gave him. He was excited to get a present from his baby brother.

BABY AJ

2011-09-14T22:41:00.003-04:00

Hello everyone, this is David making my first post as Audrey is very tired and not in the mood for posting pictures.

This morning, I got up, went to work, did PT and was about to start getting ready for the day when I got the text from Audrey that the baby was probably going to come today. After a little while, we were all ready and took Nate to go stay at Katie's house We finally go situated in our room at 1:00 pm, and Audrey got comfortable. Little Anderson James finally came at 7:39 pm, and he weighed 8 pounds 7 ounces. Here are some pictures of right after he was born, and some with his family.

Let's go fly a kite!

2011-09-10T10:47:00.003-04:00

Nathan got a kite from Monkey Joe's (an indoor jump place), his first kite ever. He was so excited to use it. When daddy came home he put it together and showed Nathan how to use it.

This is Nathan saying "Oh man! No wind." He was having such a fun time trying to fly the kite, but there was no wind so we had to stop. It made Nathan very sad, but we told him we would try to fly it again when there is wind.

When Nathan got the kite he kept saying "My very first kite", it was pretty cute.

A.J.'s baby shower

2011-09-01T17:02:00.003-04:00

David's unit (4th CST) FRG had a baby shower for Anderson. It was very nice of them to do that for us, since we are having another boy. Since A.J.'s room is robot themed the shower was robot themed too. It was so cute, they had robots all over the place- little wind up robots and robot ducks on the diaper cake, robot named food and robots hanging all over.

The hostess- Wendy Strickland, she did such a great job!Anderson got lots of clothes and tons of diapers. It was a really fun day, and I am glad that my sister Bonnie, my sister in law Caitlin and my mother in law were all able to be there too.

Happy birthday best friend!

2011-08-26T17:52:00.002-04:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHERRI!

I MISS YOU FRIEND!

Daddy time!

2011-08-21T19:26:00.005-04:00

Daddy took a week of vacation this last week so we could do some work around the house that has been neglected. Nathan has loved every minute of it. He has wanted to do everything that daddy does.
Here are some pictures of them playing in the rain last night. It was in the 80's and pouring, so as soon as I stepped outside to get pictures my camera lens fogged up-that's why some of the pictures are a little bit blurry. They were only out there for a minute or two but they got soaked.

Last Saturday (Aug 13th) Nathan had his first sleep over at Grandma and Grandpa Rygmyr's house. They said he did a fantastic job. They went to a petting zoo where Nathan got to feed the animals. He would give one a cracker and say "you're welcome" to whatever animal it was. They went to the store to let Nate pick out a toy, the toy he picked out was a bowling set. He loves it, he has played with it every day.

As I said earlier, Nathan has wanted to help David with every project this week. Nathan needed his own size hammer ho help bend the nails. First he hit the boards, then he moved on to other things in the yard, like the tree stump we are trying to kill.

He tried the daddy size hammer for a bit, but decided it was too heavy.
Nate even wanted to go with daddy when he took the missionaries out. Nathan was crying and would say "I be a missionary too". It was really cute. And when daddy went to his golf lesson he told Nathan he would take him golfing when he is a big boy. Nathan came crying to me saying "I be a big boy now"?
Also this week, we have worked on potty training. Nathan has done a great job, only a few accidents. We told him at the beginning of the week if he did a good job we would buy him some pet fish. He got to go to the pet store on Saturday and pick out his new pet fish. Nathan decided he needed 5 fish, so we gave him his money and let him pick his 5 fish out. Now, Duck, Spot, Red, Poke and Corey Feldman are living in his room and Nathan loves it!

Super Nathan!

2011-08-14T10:17:00.004-04:00

Nathan is all about daddy being a soldier right now. When Nathan wakes up in the morning and comes down to my room he asks "where's daddy"? I tell him he is at work, then Nathan says "daddy a soldier" sometimes in a questioning manner and sometimes as a statement. When daddy come home from work in his uniform Nathan gives him a hug and says "daddy, you a soldier" more like he is telling David as if David didn't know. It is really cute. He was very excited the other day to wear daddy's soldier hat.

I don't know how to turn the video, sorry. The other day Nathan wanted to wear his Superman shirt (even though it is long sleeved and 96* outside) He wore it every where we went that day. Here is a video of him singing into his mic (a garden hose nozzle) "I've been working on the Railroad".

Only 8 more weeks to go!

2011-08-01T13:41:00.001-04:00

32 weeks with A.J.

A opossum update

2011-07-27T17:03:00.003-04:00

Monday we opened up the chicken wire we had put up and put down some baby powder (to check for tracks). We also put the trap at the end of the porch with some cat food in it (and kept Boris inside). That night we heard him trying to get out and then, jackpot he got out, and caught in the trap.
On Tuesday after David got off work, he and Nathan took O'Perry out and released him back into the woods, to find his mommy and daddy. We sealed back up the chicken wire and now hope to live opossum free.
As a side note, David thinks that when we moved the arcade machine upstairs, it made it way harder for the opossums to get down.

Can I help you daddy?

2011-07-25T11:19:00.006-04:00

Saturday morning started off with a trip to our favorite hardware store-Lowes. We did the "Build and Grow" class and made a pair of binoculars, so we can find pirates. Nathan got another patch to sew on his apron.

While we were there we picked up a few items for our afternoon project- ridding our house of opossums! We are pretty sure that they (all 3 of them) have been getting in under our porch and walking between the main floor and the ceiling of the basement to the unfinished portion of the basement, where they have been feasting on our food storage before coming upstairs to live with us.

Nathan kept asking "Daddy, can I help?" It was really cute. We tore up some of the porch boards and found a big gap in the cement. We put some chicken wire up in there and then cemented it in place. We thought we were in the clear, no problems all day Saturday or Sunday-until we got in bed. That's when we heard the clawing and scratching. David went out and pulled up one of the porch boards (that luckily we haven't screwed back in yet). We thought maybe there was a opossum trying to get in. Nope! There was one trying to get out! We trapped it in there.
We tried baiting our trap last night with some good cat food, to lure it in there. But the dumb thing didn't come down. So now what? We don't know. When David gets home from work today we will try and get it out so it doesn't die down there and stink up our house for months.
Wish us luck!

Nathan & Jake

2011-07-14T16:32:00.004-04:00

Jake has been here this week taking a Lego Robotics summer camp at Kennesaw State University. Since they don't actually get to keep the robot they build, I thought I would take a few pictures so you all could see how cool it is.
Here is a close up picture of Robo, Jake's fighting robot.

Today Nathan had some arts and crafts time. He painted such a beautiful masterpiece, in the art world it is retailing for over 500K, but to us it is priceless.

Cheese!

4th of July

2011-07-06T10:08:00.002-04:00

I don't have very many pictures of this years 4th of July, I forgot my camera at home. On Sunday after church we went over to Grandpa and Grandma Rygmyr's house. That night we went to watch the fireworks in Snellville. They put on a pretty good show. Nathan loved it, he was so excited to watch them. He kept saying all the colors as they would burst. For a while he would say "ouch, the fireworks hit my head". Then he kept asking to hold them, he was pretty cute.

David and his dad ran the Peachtree Road Race on the morning of the 4th. It is a huge 10K (6.2 miles) in downtown Atlanta. They did a great job and finished 39,000th, practically first place (there were 57000 in the race). After that we had a cookout and played in the backyard. After all that we headed back o our house hoping to light off some fireworks there, but it started raining.

It was a really fun 4th of July weekend!

Train museum

2011-07-06T10:03:00.003-04:00

While Aunt Heather was here, we took her to the train museum, so she could see all the cool trains they have there.
Nathan had a lot of fun showing her around.

And then playing trains with her after the tour.

Mini golfing

2011-06-28T17:08:00.004-04:00

While Heather, Bonnie and the kids were here, we went swimming, to a movie and mini golfing. We had lots of fun. It was pretty hot outside for golf, we all sweat a good bit. The above picture is Nathan's "I did it" pose. He had such a fun time playing golf for real.
Aunt Bonnie
Cousins Jake and Kyler
Jake, Kyler and Zoey
Nathan
Jake
Kyler
Zoey

We had lots of fun this last week. Too bad everyone had to go back home today.

Walking in the rain

2011-06-17T17:33:00.003-04:00

So lately when David has been out of town, Nathan and I will go for an afternoon walk. We usually have a popscicle and collect rocks and sticks and anything else Nathan wants to put in his bucket. Today when it was time for our walk it was raining. Nathan wasn't going to let that stop us. He put on his rain boots and we grabbed his umbrella and headed out. Nathan had a lot of fun carrying his umbrella and collecting wet rocks to bring home for his bucket.

Nate swimming

2011-06-08T18:02:00.004-04:00

Nathan loves to swim with his floaties. He does so well, and will swim all over the "big pool" (into the deep end). He will jump in to David or I (no one else), and does alright when he gets dunked now.

Nathan has been doing swim lessons for the last week to get more comfortable in the water. He has done really well. He didn't start out doing so well, but we figured out the problem (sorry Miss Jaclyn). He didn't like to swim with his teacher. He would say to me on the way to the pool, "no Miss Jaclyn. Only mommy", so mommy had to do swim lessons with Nate.

Also, Nathan is getting pretty tan (since we go to the pool for 4 hours a day). He has golden skin that tans, unlike his mom, who is a little on the red side.

For David

2011-05-24T16:37:00.005-04:00

Here are the pictures from my ultrasound on Monday, too bad you couldn't be there. Little A.J. was wiggling around the whole time. See, he has a cute little nose like Nathan did (does). His arm is up by his face, so they are not super good views, but this is what we got. (22 weeks)

Nate's last soccer practice

2011-05-14T11:39:00.003-04:00

Nathan had his last soccer practice this morning. He had a lot of fun just kicking the ball back and forth to mommy. He didn't really want to play with all of the other kids, but it is just as well, he is kind of sick right now. At the end of practice all of the kids got a medal. Nathan showed me and said "check it out!" It was really cute, he was very excited about it.
Thanks Kennesaw Futbol Club

The Farmer in the Dell

2011-05-12T13:09:00.000-04:00

Here is a video of Nathan singing "The Farmer in the Dell". I think you'll enjoy it, I sure did.
(I don't know why the video is sideways, I also don't know how to rotate it).

Hero Party

2011-05-05T09:28:00.003-04:00

Yesterday we had a hero party for daddy when he got home from work. He saved the day by ridding our house of the opossom. We had streamers and balloons and some of daddy's favorite treats. We had a hero dinner with hero juice too. We love our hero!
(hero party comes from Winnie the Pooh - they have a hero party "because of something someone did")

Unwanted house guest

2011-05-03T19:32:00.003-04:00

Tonight we had a very UNWANTED house guest. Boris brought home a "friend" for us to meet. When I met oPerry the opossom, I started freaking out. It was looking at me with his beady little eyes, and headed right for me. I jumped up on our bed and watched him run by into our bathroom. David came and tried to close me in the room with him, so he didn't get out. I screamed even louder -the thing was so creepy. It had sharp looking teeth and a tail just as long (if not longer) than it's body. Nathan wanted to see the "little bear", but I kept him away. After David came to the rescue and had oPerry trapped inside the bowl, Nathan wanted to see it. David showed it to him and he decided he wanted to keep him. We told him that he had to go back outside so he could find his mommy and daddy who were looking for him. That made Nathan very sad, when David took oPerry outside Nathan cried. He kept saying "me hold it", "me have it". There is no way we were going to have that thing as a pet. All I kept thinking about was the movie Ricky Ticky Tavi.

Yuck!

Atlanta temple open house

2011-04-20T10:19:00.002-04:00

Last night we had the opportunity to go to the Atlanta temple's open house. It was so neat to be able to take Nathan inside. He kept saying "it's so beautiful", and it is. It is so different now, they moved all the rooms around. The grounds outside are different too, there are lots of places to take pictures, and lots of flower beds. It looks so good. We are excited for the cultural celebration on the 30th and the dedication on May 01 that President Monson will be here for. And then of course we will be able to go to the temple again.

Zoo with cousins

2011-04-13T13:29:00.004-04:00

Aunt Bonnie, Jake, Kyler and Zoey came over yesterday. They are on Spring Break this week, and wanted to go to Zoo Atlanta with us. It was a really fun day. Most of the animals were out and about.
This is the baby giraffe that was born last year, Zuri. I got a new camera lens for Christmas, and this was really my fist opportunity to use it. I love it!
Zoey on the giraffe statue.
This is the best picture of all the kids together. They weren't all wanting to cooperate, Nathan and Kyler.
The rhino (also with my new lens).
Monkey
Do you see the baby gorilla on it's mommy's back. It was so cute. Bonnie got a great picture of the baby with it's face on the glass.

Zebra
Nathan, Kyler and Zoey thought it was so much fun to jump on this metal hatch. It was so loud, and they loved it.
The red panda
The tiger!
Elephant
Playing on the gorilla statues. We had a really fun day. All the kids but Kyler fell asleep on the way back home, I think they had a great time.

Kennesaw Easter egg hunt

2011-04-10T09:22:00.004-04:00

Yesterday we went to the City of Kennesaw's annual Easter egg hunt. It was great. This year they did it differently, and held it at the baseball fields. That was such a great idea. They had a field for each age group, so the older kids didn't run into the little kids area and steal all the candy.
Nathan was a little nervous when it first started, so daddy gave him his hat, and that made him feel better about it.

Nathan got so excited and every time he picked up and an egg, he would announce to us the color of it then put it in his basket.
He got to see the giraffe from his doctors office, and the Easter bunny.
His favorite find- a bug in a box. He thinks it is pretty cool.

And the winner is....

2011-04-09T09:49:00.002-04:00

A BOY!

Out of the 18 votes that were cast yesterday, 7 people voted girl, and 11 people voted for a boy!
If it matters, David and I both thought it was going to be a girl, but we thought that with Nathan too so our track record isn't good.
We do not have a boy name picked out as of now, we don't seem to see eye to eye on any yet.
Thanks for your votes!

cast your votes

2011-04-08T12:31:00.002-04:00

We had a doctors appointment today, and the super nice ultra sound tech showed us the gender of our new baby. Nathan guessed it right, can you?

Nathan's first soccer practice

2011-03-26T11:45:00.003-04:00

Nathan had his very first soccer practice today. It went ok. It was more structured than Nathan was ready for. They wanted him to weave through the poles with his ball. Really all Nathan wanted to do was just kick the ball, or pick it up and throw it. When they played "red light, green light" Nate understood that, and did a great job. He did get an awesome soccer ball and a t-shirt with a train on it, he was excited about that.

What's that?

2011-03-25T10:44:00.002-04:00

Nathan has something to tell you-

Nathan is going to be a big brother! We are having another baby in September- the 23rd actually! Nathan is not very excited about it right now. He keeps saying "go away baby" and "baby is mad". We try to ask him why the baby is mad, but then he just tells the baby to go away again.

Disney World! (days 1 & 2)

2011-03-23T14:00:00.000-04:00

We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
Walt Disney

Thursday night after David got off work we drove down to Valdosta, GA. and stayed the night there. Friday morning we woke up and drove the rest of the way to Disney World. After getting a little lost trying to find our hotel, we decided to get lunch. We ate at the T-Rex restaurant in Downtown Disney. At first Nathan was a little scared of the big dino's, but he really started enjoying it when we told him that the dinosaur was roaring because he was sleepy and he wanted a nap.
After a short nap, we went to Magic Kingdom.
We got to watch the "Electric Parade". Nathan's favorite one was the Captain Hook one.

Saturday morning we had breakfast at our hotel. It was a character breakfast. Nathan got to meet Goofy and Pluto.

They even played dinosaurs with him.

After breakfast we went to Downtown Disney again. Nathan got to ride the choo choo train. He sang "all aboard the choo choo train. All aboard. All aboard" every time the train went around.

Admiring the elephant and giraffe at the Rain Forest Cafe.

After another short nap we headed off to Hollywood Studio's, which I think was my favorite day of the trip. Our first stop was at the Disney Junior theater where we got to see all of Nathans favorite tv show charcters. Here is Handy Manny.
Little Einsteins.
And his new favorite, Jake and the Neverland Pirates.
And of course, Mickey Mouse Clubshouse.
Seeing Handy Manny
Meeting Lotso-hug-a-bear (who didn't actually smell like strawberries like he was supposed to).
Best of all Mickey Mouse. He just hugged and hugged him. Since it was the Fantasia Mickey, Nathan called him "Mickey good witch".

He has never seen the Incredible's, so he didn't know who they were. But he did get excited when we told him they were super heros. He had to show off his "big muscles" to them.
Leo from Little Einsteins

Eating his first Mickey Mouse ice cream. hen grandpa gave it to him he said very excitedly "for me?!".
After the longest wait in line we finally got to meet Buzz Lightyear and Woody! Nathan was so excited to meet them.

He saw this Buzz on the floor and dropped down and laid on it and was saying "it's Buzz Lightyear. To infinity and beyond". And Buzz and Woody just stood there puzzled that he would want to see the Buzz on the floor instead of the real one. It was really funny.

Then Nathan got to meet Sully and Mike Wazowski from Monsters Inc.

Sully got down to be closer to Nathans level, so Nathan sat down too.
Then they started playing together. Sully was tickling Nathan, and Nathan was loving every second of it.
They were jumping together and having fun. When it was time to leave, Sully stopped David and Sully put his hand over his heart. It was so sweet.

Nathan got to see Lightning McQueen and Tow Mater.

It was the best day a little boy could have!

Disney World days 3 & 4

2011-03-22T17:19:00.003-04:00

On Sunday we went to watch the Braves play the Astros at the ESPN center. We sat on the grass along the third base line.
It was a really great view!
Nathan playing with his new friends, some kids from a little league team that were watching the game too. They were really nice to him and played with him, even though he was a lot younger.
After the game all the kids could run the bases. Nathan loved it!
He took his baseball with him and as soon as he could, he threw it onto the field. He did this a few times before the lady realized that to get him to run, she had to bribe him with his baseball.
Just checking out a Major League field.
Running for his ball.
Home plate!
The guy at home plate told him to jump on the base, when he did, his shorts fell down to his ankles. The guy came up to us after he finished running and gave Nathan a Mickey Mouse button. He said Nathan made him "laugh his pants off".

Nathan with his button.
In front of the 2010 All-Star game statue
After the game we went to Magic Kingdom again. By the end of the day Nathan was so tired he fell asleep in his stroller.
Monday before heading home we went to Animal Kingdom. Nathan got to meet Winnie the Pooh, Eyore, and he got to bounce with Tigger.

In front of the huge dinosaur bones at Animal Kingdom.
Playing on one of the playgrounds. Nathan just loved this one slide. he would slide down and run right back up to do it again, over and over!

Asking Jimminy Cricket "Where Mickey Mouse"?

Hawey game

2011-03-16T16:15:00.002-04:00

A few weekends ago grandpa and grandma Rygmyr took us to hockey game. We went and saw the Gwinnett Gladiators play the Trenton Devils. The gladiators won 3-0, it was a great game and Nathan really enjoyed his first hockey game.

The high flying Circus!

2011-02-21T17:24:00.005-05:00

Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey presents- Barnum's Fundudrum!
We took Nathan to see the Circus today! It was spectacular. There were elephants (6), tigers (10), motorcycles in a steel ball (7), high flying trapeze and lots of other fun stuff to watch. Nathan really enjoyed it until intermission when he started to get tired. Shortly after the second act began, Nathan fell asleep for the rest of the show. He was awake for all the important parts though. He woke up when it was over so happy and excited about seeing the circus. It was a really fun day!

Valentines Day

2011-02-14T16:07:00.004-05:00

Happy Valentines Day!
Today was such a beautiful day, we went outside and played in our yard. Nathan got a shark bubble blower that he thinks is super awesome, he played with for quite a while before moving on to climb the tree and find rocks in the yard. What a great day it has been so far.

Nathan's castle

2011-02-14T16:01:00.003-05:00

David and Nathan made a castle a couple of weekends ago. The other day Nathan decided he wanted to decorate his castle some, so we got out the paints and Nate did his thing. He did a good job, and was relatively clean at the end of it (he wouldn't put the paint shirt I gave him on, so he had to paint naked).

Maybe we will add more paint another day.

Trip to Florida

2011-01-24T19:53:00.004-05:00

We went down to Punta Gorda, Florida last weekend for Grandpa Gene's memorial service. We were able to spend lots of time with family. Nathan and mommy got to meet Aunt Carolyn (Gran's daughter) and Uncle Kevin (Aunt Tacy's husband). The weather was in the 70's the whole time- which is nice because when we left Georgia there was still snow on the ground.

Daddy, Nathan and Gran
Daddy, Nathan and Aunt Carolyn
A family picture (missing a few people though).
Aunt Carolyn and Aunt Tacy
Nathan
The Shriner's
Uncle Kevin

Nathan playing with the Christmas present Aunt Tacy and Uncle Kevin gave him. It was a Dinosaur Train (from the PBS show). Nathan loved it. He played with it all weekend, and even slept with it in his bed.
We had a great time and we were glad that we were able to see Gran again so soon.

Another snow day

2011-01-11T19:46:00.004-05:00

On Monday, our new Governor was inaugurated. His first official order of business was to declare all government offices closed on Tuesday, so David had another day off. Since the roads were still icy we didn't go anywhere. We watched movies, played trains, went for a walk, shoveled and of course we played in the snow. We built a "daddy snowman" and a "baby snowman". We attempted to sled down our neighbors driveway on storage bin lids.
I am not sure why Nathan is crying here. He had a lot of fun outside.
Clapping for the sledding.
Nathan was the first to go down (not the best idea, but it turned out ok). He had a lot of fun sledding, but he only went once. He said weehaw! while he was going, it was funny.

Aunt Caitlin was second. It didn't work for adults as well as it did for Nathan, but we made it work.

After sledding, we had a little snowball fight and then built the snowmen. It was a really fun snow day, but hopefully we will be able to get out of the house today. We haven't left since we got home from church on Sunday.

2011-01-10T11:52:00.003-05:00

6 inches! To some of you, that may not be a whole lot, but for us here in Georgia, it is a whole lot!
Nathan loves it! Within a half hour we went out 3 different times. He kept saying "it's Christmas Day". I think that since last time it snowed it was on Christmas, unfortunately there are no presents to open today.

The snow pants we got him for last year still fit him, and he is wearing his rain boots as snow boots.

Caitlin threw a snowball at me, so I threw one back. I just have better aim. Let that be a lesson to you- don't get in a snowball fight with an experienced snow ball fighter.
This is the ice that is on all our cars. I don't think we are going to go out today, except maybe to build a snowman!

White Christmas

2011-01-06T10:42:00.006-05:00

We had a great Christmas this year. It started on Christmas Eve morning, we had our family Christmas. Nathan was so excited to FINALLY open the presents. First we opened our stockings. Nathans had books, a Santa pez, and some Toy Story stuff. David and I didn't really have anything in ours but some candy.

Nathan was excited about the new books, he loves to read- like his dad.
I made him open his clothes first, not very exciting.
Then he got to open his toys. He got Buddy, Don and Velma the dinosaurs from one of his favorite shows "Dinosaur Train" (it combines two of his three favorite things, he third being baseball).
After opening them, he didn't care about opening anymore presents, so David and I helped him with the rest. He also got a dinosaur flashlight (Rex-from Toy Story)and some movies (Monsters Inc., Toy Story 1 and Mary Poppins).

After that excitement Nathan was tired. Playing with new toys will do that to a kid. After our Family Christmas we drove over to grandpa and grandma Rygmyrs house. We went with them to their Christmas Eve service and then home for pizza. After dinner we exchanged presents for the names we drew. Caitlin had my name and she hooked me up! I got some new makeup, a sweater and an awesome new blender ( we have gone 5 years without one, so I asked for one this year). Sherry had David and he got Golf lessons, he is so excited about them!
In the morning we opened our stockings and gifts from Santa. We always get scratch off tickets in our stocking- a couple of us won- a free ticket, me included.
Pa got a rifle from Lance for Christmas, and in the morning Santa brought him a scope for it. He was really happy about it. He said it was "the gun he never got as a child".
David putting the scope on for Pa.

Santa brought Nathan a tricycle. He wanted to ride it even before Daddy had it all put together. He can't quite peddle, but he is slowly getting the hang of it. Maybe by summer he will have it down and can ride around the cul de sac.
It Snowed! It really was a white Christmas. David looked it up, and it hasn't snowed on Christmas day in Georgia since 1881, 130 years ago! Nathan loved the snow. He and grandpa tried to catch snowflakes on their tongues.

Nathan didn't care how cold it was outside, he just wanted to play.
Nathan proved it is never to cold to play golf, and baseball.
It really was a great Christmas. The excitement in Nathans eyes every morning as I would bring him downstairs and he would see the Christmas tree all light up. Every morning he would tell the Christmas tree "Hi Christmas tree", and wave hello to it. We taught him to say "Ho ho ho. Merry Christmas". Every time he saw lights on someones house he would say "Hi Christmas". And he asked us at least 100 times to "sing Christmas", which meant for us to sing "We Wish you a Merry Christmas" and he also wanted us to sing "Frosty". David and I don't remember the way the song goes, but we know the words, so each time we sang it, it was a different version.
We took our tree down the other day while Nathan was napping, so he wouldn't get to sad. He came down and asked "where go Christmas tree?"
I can't wait for next Christmas!

Vacation!

2010-12-26T10:28:00.006-05:00

When David graduated back in August we booked a graduation cruise for his present. We left on Dec 12, and took a luxury bus down to Miami. We left Miami at 4 p.m. on Monday. (They almost didn't let David on the ship since he was sick, but the on board nurse said he was okay to go). Our first stop was in Nassau, Bahamas, then Half moon Cay and then Turks & Caicos before heading back to Miami. We had such a great time- cruising is a great way to vacation! View from the boat when we arrived in Nassau Bahamas.

Our boat, the "Carnival Destiny".

It was chilly in the Bahamas, but I did manage to get my feet wet. I found some conch shells under a pier and decided to jump down and get one. When I got down there, I saw lots of big shells. This is a picture of me explaining that to David. After I got back up there was a guy selling shells and he told me he would sell me a nice one for 5$- I told him no thanks.

View of Nassau from the ship.

Playing some mini golf on deck 12, with great views.
Sunset in Nassau.
I love the ocean, and the ocean in the Caribbean is my favorite so far. So many beautiful shades of blue, it was incredible.
The view of Half Moon Cay (key) from the ship.
Mini golfing (again).
Arriving in the Turks and Caicos- the best weather of the whole cruise.
Audrey getting ready to go SCUBA diving in Grand Turk (without David, he had a cough so he couldn't go). It was a lot of fun and the water was fantastic!
On the ship ready to go home. Thank you grandpa and grandma Anderson for staying with Nathan! We really appreciate it, and we love you and miss you.

Family pictures

2010-12-19T21:13:00.011-05:00

While the whole family was in town we had some family pictures taken. They turned out pretty good (as good as they can with 13 uncooperative people).

Sisters
Heather and Braedon (who is now as tall as my dad).

Russ, Bonnie, Jake (11) Kyler (6) and Zoey (4)
With dad
With mom
Heather with her Niece and Nephews

Cute.

2010-12-19T20:50:00.004-05:00

We went to go visit Andrew on Sunday before we left. Nathan really likes to feed the ducks and chase the geese. It was snowing while we were there, so we weren't able to stay for very long.
Andrew would have been 3 this year. We are so grateful for the gospel of Jesus Christ in our lives. Grateful that our family was sealed together for eternity in the temple. Grateful to know that we will see him again.
We love you Andrew, happy birthday!

World of Coke

2010-12-19T20:32:00.003-05:00

We have been so busy lately, it is time for an update. After all of my family went home (except my mom and dad) we went to World of Coke for our annual trip to see the "big bear". Nathan loves the Coke polar bear. As soon as Nathan saw him he got very excited, and said "I coming bear" as he walked down the stairs. Nathan doesn't really care about the rest of World of Coke, but it is fun to go through and taste the sodas from around the world. Unfortunately, they didn't have the big Christmas tree outside (they moved it to Grant Park this year), so no pictures there this time.

Nathan's birthday (and Thanksgiving)

2010-11-29T19:34:00.013-05:00

Happy Thanksgiving! We had a great day. All of my family came to visit, and all of David's family was in town. We had Thanksgiving dinner at grandpa and grandma Rygmyr's house, there were 19 of us. There was lots of food and fun.
We played "red light, green light" while we waited for the turkey to fry (it was really yummy, and so was the ham that David smoked).

The weather was so nice that some of us ate outside, it was in the 70's!

After dinner, we had Nathan's birthday party. Nathan got lots of gifts from all his family. He got a baseball tee, a new bat and ball, a sleeping bag, some puzzles, some blocks, a new shirt, some movies, and a super cool train table.

Nathan did not want to stop playing with the train table. In fact he cried when I took him inside to have birthday cake. He stopped crying long enough to blow out the candles and then he headed right back outside without having any of his cake.

Happy birthday Nathan. Mom and dad love you so much. It is hard for me to believe that you have been a part of our family for two years now, it doesn't see like that long ago you were a little baby.

Some of the things Nathan likes are: books, trains, dinosaurs, balloons, playing outside and his shows (Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Little Einsteins and Backyardigans).
He has so much to say, he is a little parrot- he will repeat anything and everything.
He knows his colors, some shapes, and can count to 13 (except he always skips 4). He is a really easy little guy, full of energy and love.
At Nathans 2 year appointment he weighed in at 24lbs (8%), he is 34 1/4 inches (56%) tall and his head is 18 1/4 in circumference (5%).

Playing in the leaves

2010-11-22T12:28:00.004-05:00

Grandpa and grandma Anderson, aunt Heather & cousin Braedon all got here on Sunday. (Aunt Llew got in on Friday). This morning we went out and played in the leaves. All my family will be here for Thanksgiving!

Golfing

2010-11-22T12:19:00.003-05:00

Nathan got a set of golf clubs from one of the guys David works with (thank you Captain Hammonds). He loves to play with them in the garage on daddy's practice tee. He is getting better, but not the next Tiger Woods just yet.

Aquarium

2010-11-22T11:58:00.005-05:00

Nathan and I (Audrey) went to the Georgia Aquarium on my birthday. We had a lot of fun looking at all the fishes and turtles and whales and sharks!

Beluga whale

Penguins

Whale shark

Happy Halloween

2010-11-12T14:59:00.006-05:00

Here is Nathan in his Halloween costume. He was Sumoman, as Nate says it. He loved it, after we showed him a Superman cartoon. The costume is vintage. David wore this same costume to trick or treat in when he was about Nathans age.

Here is David in the same Superman costume over 20 years ago. We will save it for Nathans son to wear in another 20 years.

So I know this post is a little late, and now out of order, but, better late than never.

happy birthday to me

2010-11-10T10:53:00.002-05:00

Thanks Kellie and Lisa!

Pumpkin patch

2010-11-01T21:45:00.002-04:00

We have a family tradition every fall. We always buy our pumpkins (and Christmas trees) from the Shriners. We like the idea that our money is going to a good cause, the Shriners Hospital for Children. And David thinks they have the best Cajun boiled peanuts-something only a true Southerner could appreciate. Nathan liked it because he got to run around and hit things with a stick and throw rocks. He wasn't too interested in the pumpkins though.
Now David has to wait until after Thanksgiving to get more boiled peanuts.

California

2010-10-21T14:15:00.007-04:00

The best part first! We went out to California to see my best friend Sherri and her family. She just had baby Beckett at the beginning of September, so Nathan and I thought we would go help her. It was such a great trip. I think Nathan's favorite part was meeting Mickey Mouse ( you can tell by the smile on my face that I really enjoyed it too).
Nathan got to give Mickey a "high five" and he leaned in to give Mickey a kiss, but Mickey leaned in too, and it scared Nathan.
Mickey, Keane, Dan Sherri and Beckett. Keane loves "dog dog" (it's what he calls Mickey Mouse, because of the "hot dog" song on Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
Halloween Mickey
Riding the Heimlich ride.
Riding the ants ride in California Adventure.
In the tea cups
Riding "it's a small world". We rode the "Pirates of the Caribbean" and it scared Nathan, he rode the ride with his hand over his eyes and burro-ed into my chest. Eventually he fell asleep like that. When we rode "Small World" he thought it was going to be the same, so he rode half the ride with his hands over his eyes.
Dinner with Gina at Ruby's. I love Ruby's almost as much as In-N-Out, better shakes at Ruby's though.
Playing in the yard

At the beach...

Nathan didn't like the ocean...
But he loved playing in the sand.

We had such a fun trip. Keane and Nathan had a lot of fun playing together (not in the mornings though). They did as good as two toddlers can be expected to be. I wish David could have gone with us, but that will just give us an excuse to go back again soon.

Our new house

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The painting is done! I love my new house! I'll post pictures of the porch when we get it done.

Florida

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We went down to see David's grandparents the last weekend in September. We had a lot of fun, and Nathan got to see his great grandpa that he hasn't seen since he was 6 months old. We went to lunch at Gene and Helen's country club.

Nathan enjoyed playing by the pool and playing on the practice green.
Nathan after a lot of running and playing outside.

We went to a Tampa Bay Ray's game. Nathan got the all-star treatment, they gave him a "first Ray's game" button, and a super hero cape. Grandpa bought Nathan ice cream in a helmet cup.
The Ray's play in a dome, so it was nice and air conditioned, and we didn't get wet when it rained.

Grandpa Gene & Gran Helen

4 generations of Rygmyr's

New bike

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Nathan loves his new bike! Noah, one of Nathans best friends, gave us his old bike. It is "awesome" as Nathan says. It is still a little to big for Nathan, he can't quite reach the peddles, but he enjoys playing on it anyway. Nathan thinks that Noah is the best. A while ago Noah gave Nathan a puzzle clock, and every time Nate plays with it he says "here go Noah" or "thank you Noah". Noah has also give Nathan lots of other cool toys and books. Noah always reads Nathan at least one of the books when he gives them to him. It is really cute to watch them play together, Nathan thinks Noah is great!

sweet hat

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Here is a picture of Nathan in his awesome new boots. Sure they are rain boots, but he hasn't actually wore them out in the rain yet. He mostly like walking around the house in them, like they are his new slippers.

Here is Nathan in his sweet new hat that Aunt Llew sent him. Nathan really likes to watch sports, his favorite is baseball and his second favorite is football. But he has started to like golf recently too.