Rylee's a BIG SISTER!!!

Rylee's baby brother has finally come into your life to join the family on March 19, 2011. She does already LOVE him soo much!!! Rylee even does the little help that she can to lend a helping hand to Mommy and Daddy!

BRADEN MADDOX KARDOES

9 lbs., 21 inches

5:41 p.m. 3-19-2011

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!

I went to see my Valentine on Valentine's Day and give her her valentine and found out that she didn't go to school 'cause she was home sick. Maybe her special valentine could help her feel better when she can eat 'em. The idea for her valentine came from a blog that I saw it on, not an idea of my own. There were tons of cute ideas out there but as I went to get a yummy candy for my girl I came upon some watermellon sour patch kids. Those went perfectly with the valentine idea I saw. I wrote on a piece of paper "YOU'RE one in a "MELON" Love Auntie Ray Ray" and taped it to the carton of candy. I thought the idea was a cute one and was lucky enough to pass by the candy to use with it. I think she liked 'em and hopefully feels better soon.

When I went to give Rylee her Valentine I just knew she had to make her parents a cute one. I had some extra giggly eyes that I used while babysitting for a friend and so I drew an owl and Rylee colored it and wrote her name on the valentine for her parents. She luckily wasn't deathly ill and was able to color her valentine the best that she could. I think her valentine turned out to be cute for mom and dad.

Christmas...

Rylee got a special letter from Santa. He knew her age, name, and what she wanted for Christmas. Santa told her that she of course needed to be a good girl etc., and she even talked right back to him when he asked her questions. SOOO cute and she loved it!!!

Rylee was such a good girl ALL YEAR ROUND that Santa and her Auntie Ray Ray and her grandparents too, treated her for her year long good behavior. She stricted it rich and will enjoy her new toys, etc. all year round!!!

I will have to treat my up coming neices & nephews to this much too in the future...HEHE!!!

Rylee gave us her first puppet show with the puppets and tent I got her.

She did good with it and had fun.
We just have to wait for the snow so Rylee can go on a super fun ride with her
snowmobile sled her Auntie Ray Ray got her.

GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE...

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

Rylee had a good Thanksgiving this year. Her cousins are usually with us for Thanksgiving but not this year, she was the only kid around and she still had a good time.

During the weeks before Thanksgiving, me and Rylee made some fun Thanksgiving crafts together.

Necklace full of leaves to decorate fall with...

We colored her turkey together...

You can tell where the Ray Ray/non Rylee markings are...

Rylee's Indian tiara. We wrote together all the things

she is THANKFUL for. She is THANKFUL

for "my Ama, my Ray Ray, my Papa,

my Mommy, my Daddy"...

Her Pilgrim hat that she colored all over...

her turkeys...

Her TEE-PEE place card...

All the TEE-PEE place cards that she colored all over

of where we all sat at the Thanksgiving dinner table-

Rylee, Ama, Papa, Ray Ray, Daddy, Mommy...

EEEK...HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Rylee's costume was a cute little bumble bee. She painted pumpkins this year and designed them any way she wanted. Rylee's school had a costume parade so everyone could see all the costumes in the class. She had fun with that. My neighborhood had a Halloween themed party that was the "HAUNTED DEPOT". It's the building where the parties are held, by the pool. I decided to bring her since it was for all the kids in my neighborhood. She played some games, painted a pumpkin, and colored a picture. I think Rylee had some fun there. To top off all the fun, she ended the Halloween celebration with trick-er-treating of course.

All the family pumpkins...

Rylee's costume parade at school, along with her friend Ayla.

Pumpkin painting with whatever design you'd like!!!

Rylee knows you need to wash the paint off the brush.

What a good mannered painter to keep it clean

for the other painters!!!

What are these creepy things...

a whole assortment of creepy feeling & visual objects like

a hand and a bowl full of water with eye balls...

Ring Around the pole game...

Bean Bag game...Rylee's last thing at the Depot: coloring a WITCH'S BREW!!!

Disney girl...

Rylee is quite the character!!! She got a packet of Disney tattoos and of course wanted some on. I decided to take a picture of them and she's the one that came up with the expressions for the photo! This girl cracks me up and gives me quite the laugh all the time!!!

Princess of Fall

Rylee is officially the Fall Princess!!! I went to the craft stores and found some blank hats that you can decorate them any way you want to. They didn't have a white crown so I figured a pink one is just as good. What we did was I would put a dab of glue on the hats and Rylee put her leaves there. She actually had fun and likes her new fall hats.