Growing babies and haircuts

Shortly after Ryker turned 1, My very good friend Ashley came over and gave Ryker his first "big boy" haircut. He looked sooo handsome.

Here she is cutting his hair. He got special treatment and had a stylist come to his home and give him a cut while watching Baby Einstein.

Here is Gabby and Ryker...growing like weeds

Sporting the "serious" faces

Loving Fall

After our trip to Night Eyes. We saw a park and a TON of leaves. We absolutley HAD to go play and explore.

Cheesing it up as usual

This is the...hmm what can I get into? face

Beautiful Iowa leaves

Rolling and laughing...what a wonderful fall day

Throwing leaves with mom

Halloween 2009

This year was very fun for Halloween. We went with Brandon, Megan, and Gabby to Night Eyes at the zoo in Des Moines. We had bunches of fun and got several pictures. Here are a few from the evening.

Ryker was a rockin Guitar

Ryker with precious cousin Gabby as a cute cat


Ryker and mom...we love our Halloween


We are pretty cool


Happy Halloween from The Spihlmanns!!

It's been a while

We have not been able to catch everyone up on things in a very long time. Our computer crashed a few months ago leaving us no way to update our friends and family.

One of the first big things that has happened is that our little Ryker turned 1! We had a great big party with family and friends at Brandon and Megans house on October 10Th. (his actual birthday is oct 13th) Ryker had LOTS of fun with everyone who came to celebrate the big daywith him.

The catipillar cake for the guests

Some of the food

Getting ready to eat some cake

The plate Grandma Williams made for Ryker to eat his cake on every year

Rykers very own special cake

The aftermath of the cake experience, he did well.

We cant believe our little baby is 1 already. They really do grow up SO fast.

October 11th, 2009

While some family was in town, we decided to go to the pumpkin patch where we went the day before Ryker was born. We picked out our pumpkins from the patch, and even though it was cold, we had a great time.

Ryker checking out the animals

Fun at Howell tree farm

He loved riding around in the wheel barrow

Grandma Williams and Grandma Spihlmann

Ryker also got a new "big boy" car seat for his birthday. He loves it!

Pink bows and Guitar babies

Miss Gabby Jay is 5 months old now and so stinkin cute. I love getting pictures of her smiling. Here are some pictures of her growing and cheesin it up for the camera. So precious.

Ryker got his halloween costume the other day. We tried it on him to make sure it fit and he let me take pictures. So, we have halloween pictures a little early. This year, he is a guitar.

Here he is growling for the camera, so funny.

My little guitar and I.

He got a new toy a few weeks ago. He is learning how to get on it on his own. I cant believe how big he is. 10 days from now...he will be 1!

Grandma Spihlmann comes to visit

Over the Labor day weekend, Grandma Spihlmann came to visit. We went to the park, went to dinner, and enjoyed our time together. When we went to the park we had a little Ryker 10 month photo shoot. Here are some of the pics.

Mandy and Ryker

Daddy and Ryker

Brian, Grandma Spihlmann and Ryker

Ryker LOVES to swing!

Our most recent family picture.

We had a great time with Grandma Spihlmann.

As a joke the other day we put Ryker and Gabby in Iowa state gear(we are not Iowa State fans) My mom bought them little outfits because my parents, are fans. I promised I would put them in the outfits once, for pictures, and they could not leave the house. Here are some pictures of that photo shoot. It was pretty funny. Gabby was VERY cute in her outfit(even though daddy really really hates Iowa State) It was all in good fun. Plus made Grandma and Grandpa Williams happy.

On September 12th the big annual Iowa vs. Iowa State game.

Here we are in our Iowa gear

Ryker and Greyson...maybe one day they will play for Iowa??

These are some friends

Brianna and her son Greyson,Leah and the over due Aiden, Ryker and I

Of course the Hawks won!! Who else?

Iowa State Fair and then some...

Everyone who's anyone knows the Iowa State Fair is in August every year here in Iowa. Ryker of course went last year in a cozy spot in moms belly. This year however, he had a better view.

We spent about 10 hours total that day cruising the fair. We had a wonderful time, Ryker did amazing as well. I had been back to walking for a couple weeks so this was a big test for my leg. I did pretty well, very sore after and swollen...but overall..made it. My mom was in town for a few weeks during this time. She joined us that afternoon also.

Ryker turned 10 months old on Aug 13th. I cannot believe how close he is to the big 1! He is really growing too fast. He is walking around everything and starting to stand all on his own, He LOVES to climb the stairs.

He also now has 4 teeth. Such a BIG boy!

As you know I started watching Gabby a few weeks ago. I am so lucky to be able to see Ryker and Gabby grow up together. Its wonderful . Today she was playing with uncle Brian and laughing up a storm. Too cute!