Happy Mardi Gras!!!

I really had the intention of coming home from the Mardi Gras party we attended to post these pictures and wish everyone a Happy Mardi Gras!!! But with all great intentions, they were just intentions! So Happy Mardi Gras everyone!

Here's Rhys playing with a Saints footbal! Who Dat!

Here's Rhys and his friend Marshall playing football together! They played so well together I can't wait for their next play date!

Learning how to pass the ball--not bad form.

Rhys caught all of these by himself without having to lift his top!

All tangled up! Mom and dad sat close by to make sure nothing bad happened!

Rhys has been doing great! We have been spending plenty of time playing outside as long as the weather is nice.  Rhys has started walking! I can't believe my 10 month old has figured out how to walk and is walking everywhere! Most days when I get home from work we walk to the mailbox to pick up the mail. He loves spending time outside.  Aunt Jennifer, Katrina and Marisol spent the night with us a couple of weekends ago and Rhys loves chasing after the girls and especially loves Katrina. I think part of that is the fact that Katrina is willing to do anything Rhys wants her to do and carries him where he wants. Rhys just points and Katrina does! It is too funny. Nana Julie came and watched Rhys so we could go out for Valentines day. It was a nice date night for Jared and I something that we don't do often enough.

I was telling my mom that I am so tired lately. I mean really tired. I keep thinking Rhys sleeps good all night long, why am I so tired. But some nights it is all Jared and I can do to keep ourselves awake past nine. Someone please tell me that it gets easier! I am defintely feeling like I have reach the point where I am just not that cool anymore! Anyways--here are a couple of other pictures of Rhys. We are so blessed, he is just a happy boy all of the time. He plays so well by himself with his toys. He loves to spend time with Jared and I and he will just come into bed with us and cuddle up to take a nap. I love that cuddle time!  He doesn't fuss that much and has such an easy going personality. I am thinking he defintely got that from Jared!  Onto the pictures!

Eating some dinner

Check out the thighs on this kid. Man they look like a chicken drumstick!

Jared brought in a box from the carseat we bought and Rhys thought it was the best toy in the world.

And one last one! Check out my heartbreaker! Thanks Aunt Jennifer for the awesome outfit!

Life of Rhys

Stayin Alive

Things around here have been crazy. We started back into our routine after Christmas and things just went downhill. Rhys got sick with some sort of stomach bug. It was awful. We went out to eat with our friends the Dimmicks and Rhys was being quite fussy. When we got home he started throwing up. So we chilled all weekend. On Sunday morning Jared got it by Sunday night,  I was down for the count. It was awful.  When we finally got that cleared up, wouldn't you know that we would get sick again this time with a bad cold. So it agains starts with Rhys, who proceeds to pass it onto Jared, who then gives it to me. We are still recovering!

In between that time, Rhys has been all over the place. We have been to birthday parties! Liam Adler turned one, and we went to Saints games at Nonnie and Paw-Paw's house, which we are sooooo looking forward to the superbowl on Sunday. We have been to church meetings, and school, and the mall. Then when things were just getting a little fun, cousin Tyler had a birthday party!  I tried to put Rhys in the bouncer but he wasn't having it. Amy took him inside and I stayed outside in the bouncer with Tyler. Rhys crawled to the window and started banging on it crying when he saw me! It was so funny. Throughout all of these exciting times Rhys has picked up on quite a bit. He is standing up now, holding on to things to walk around. He is getting more confident about himself because on Friday he started bending down and getting back up without holding onto anything. Last night, he decided he was going to take a couple of steps and today it is about the same thing. So I am sure that we are going to have a walker on our hands before the little dude is 10 months old. Not bad for a kid whose mom walked at 8 months and a dad who walked at 9 months.

We went out to eat the other night and I order Rhys steamed veggies. Here he is just eating the cauliflower without letting me cut it up first. He definitely loves to eat!

Here he is standing and playing!

I don't know if I ever posted them because they were a Christmas preset for my parents. But these are some pictures that my brother took for us. Aren't they great!

I am really going to get better at this I promise. There are a lot of things that we are going to do this year...really I promise!