let's start from the begining.

here's some pictures to recap the past 6 months....

this is only to month 1 or 1 1/2 lol

sooooo theres lots more to come :)

first few photos of you plus
one of the last photos of you in my belly.
my BIG belly that is.



first days home.



first easter.

hanging out at grandpas.

your first "swim".

mother's day at the old world german resurant.

before you were a chunky monkey.

before we were mommy && daddy...

let me tell you the story of how we met.

i was in eighth grade &&

i had a friend, kerianne, who had a crush on this

cute older boy.

so we went to the park

to hangout with him.

honestly it was love at first sight.

daddy was sitting on a bench

with his cool guy glasses.

we attempted tennis...

wow tennis is definiatly not my thing.

i would hit the ball way far &&

he would go run after it...every time.

our first photo together.

the day we took that photo daddy tried to kiss me

but i wouldnt let him.

he still tells me that i should have so that

way i would have been his first kiss.

but if i had who knows where we would be today.

after "going out" twice, which really should just be

called talking on the phone/internet,

we finally got together in 2007.

march 24 2007 to be exact.

sound familiar??

yes thats your birthday, yes i didnt realize it till

2 months after you were born.

we were just too young the first few times

&& had no idea what we wanted.

funny thing is the years in between we always

had a thing for each other.

i subconsiously always found him in the quad,

or on the field.

&& daddy always told his friends how

much he wished he i would be his girlfriend.



us being silly {07}

  here's some of our pictures from dances

homecoming 07



sadies 08

prom 08

Dear Rylie,

this is for you my chunky monkey,

to someday look back on && read all about

our adventures in being your mommy

&& daddy :)

i want us to be able to tell you a story

&& have the pictures right here to show you.

i want you to see all your silly faces, all your firsts,

&& all your chunk.

which by the way makes you that much cuter.

your 6 months && 4 days old today.

so this is a little late to start but ill go way

back to the begining so that way you wont miss a thing.

actually i'll go back before that so you can see a little

bit about us before you were even a

twinkle in our eyes.

besides pictures && stories

i might add in some advice here && there

or things i think will be of use to you

someday.

although i wish i could just learn everything the

hard way && somehow you'll skip

all of that, but i know it doesnt work

that way. you have to learn for yourself.

at least this way you can see that mommy's arent

always perfect like we wish we could

be. but i promise i sure will try my hardest

to be the the best mommy i can be.

&& just know you are my whole world.

i love you forever sweet pea.

infinty.