With Love on Valentine's Day!

We wish you a very happy Valentine's Day!! Much love... Ryan, Dylan, Wilson, and Peyton

7 years ago today...

...our Ryan was born!! 7 years later, we couldn't be more proud of the little boy that he has become. Ryan is unbelievably caring (a necessary skill when you have 3 little brothers), amazingly kind, and so very loving! We are so blessed to have such a wonderful little man growing up right before our eyes.

Happy birthday, Ryan!! We love you so much and look forward to each day that we get the chance to love you MORE!! All our love- daddy, mommy, and the boys.

Happiest Birthday, big brother!!

SUPER weekend!

Ryan did an awesome job at baseball tryouts this week. We were so proud!! This is going to be a fun season!


The weather this weekend was wonderful!! We played outside for hours and LOVED it... we can't wait for spring and summertime!!

We are big Peyton Manning fans, but were happy to see the Saints win tonight! We supported both teams and enjoyed the evening together! Wishing you all a SUPER week!!

The LAST First Year!

It's so fun to be ONE!!

Peyton celebrated his first birthday on Saturday, January 30! It was fast and fun year... and even though it was the 4th (and final) first year that we have experienced as a family, it was amazing!

One year ago, we had a tiny baby... today we have a one year old Bell Boy who can walk, run (or move really fast on his feet), climb, talk (1st sentence was "more snack"), play (picks up a gun and says "pow, pow"... rolls a car or truck and says "mmmmmmm"... picks up a phone and says "bye"), laugh (brothers are the best laugh inducers), and love (gives the best hugs and kisses, but his cheek squeezes are very painful)! It has been a joy to watch him grow this year and we are looking forward to the next!! Love you bunches baby brother... Ryan, Dylan, and Wilson

Bring on the cake!!

Batting Cage and Birthday Parties!

[Ryan and Dylan are agreeing to disagree on tonight's big game between Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings and Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints]

The month of January has FLOWN by! We have settled back in to our routine during the week and we have enjoyed fun weekends :) LOTS of birthday parties for 7 year olds over the last couple of weeks... Ryan has been to a bouncing party, a dodge ball party, a Chuck E. Cheese party, a basketball party, a party at the movie theater, and 2 sleepovers!! The celebrating won't stop there... our favorite 6 year old will be turning 7 very soon!! BUT, before Ryan turns 7 on February 10, our little bitty Peyton Bell will turn ONE on January 30!

Here is a picture of our baby brother with crazy morning hair!
Hey Ryan! If you hold daddy down, I will tickle him!!


This is also the time of the year to wish our Granna (Jan23), Paw Paw (Jan25), and Nana (Feb3) a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! We love you all bunches!

Another new and exciting development in our back yard is our batting cage! Daddy, Paw Paw, and our hard-worker Wilson have built the batting cage and it is ready to go. We have taken a few rounds of batting practice and are looking forward to years and years in that cage :) Here are some pictures of post hole digging at its best!

Have a great week! Our next post will be of our baby brother's 1st birthday!!

Back to it!

The new year brings new adventures! We enjoyed a relaxing weekend after New Year's Day (so relaxing that Mommy didn't even take our Christmas tree down)!! We warmed up by the fire and made smores, played around the house, and enjoyed our last two days of freedom before BACK TO SCHOOL...

It was hard to get moving on Monday morning, but we did it and we had a good week (nothing too exciting to report)! This weekend was another good one, it started with my friend's 7th birthday party on Friday night and ended with another friend's 7th birthday party on Sunday evening! Tomorrow, the 1st grade classes at Langham are taking a field trip to Lutcher Theater in Orange to watch Frog & Toad... I think it will be a fun way to start a new week! Hope you all have a great one -Ryan

Happy 2010!

We rang in the new year with good friends and family - we wish you all a Happy 2010!

Peyton and Kiley (the precious little 'girl next door'!!)

Good Night 2009... Good Morning 2010!