Cherise's Creative Energy: January 2013

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Many Firsts and Cute Photos

So A&M had a rockstar season this year as most of you know. First year in the SEC, Heisman trophy winner, Cotton Bowl champions, and lots of fun! The night of the Cotton Bowl, we spent quietly at home, but it was so nice relaxing with my lil Aggie family....I may have had a little bit of fun dressing us up :)

Our little Aggie...class of 2035 :) Too bad that lil football player isn't #2!

Ummm...thinking we're an Aggie family!

I didn't dress him I promise! He wore that shirt to work and I didn't even know it. Perfect!

Sweet pics that I love...many firsts have come and I know many more are to come....

Rhyder's 1st month birthday!

Love this sweet, innocent face

Rhyder's first girlfriend, Rilyn....I mean friend that's a girl!! :-) My best friend, Brittany, had a little girl 7 weeks after Rhyder was born. Destiny?? Congrats Brit! We love y'all! (Rhyder and Rilyn Ratliff...has a nice ring, don't ya think?) :)

A project I did so I'd never forget his precious little baby parts

First go at the Bumbo..."he looks like he's driving a rocket ship" -My Mom
hahaha! Love it!

First trip to church!

First big boy bath!

Rhyder's first walk

Love this kid!

Rhyder's 1st (and only) 2 month birthday :) Oh my goodness he is so cute!!! (from a bias mommy)

Same time, just got some clothes on him this time

First time in overalls

He loves his blinky singing bear on his playmat!

Monday, January 7, 2013

Christmas!

This past month has been a month of a lot of firsts for us...first time to have a one month old, first time to take a baby hunting, first time to have Christmas with a child! What fun it has been...and exhausting of course! Derrick got off work on the Thursday before Christmas and we headed to Boyd Friday morning. We got to meet new cousins, had Christmas at Nanny's which included a 30 people Chinese Christmas and Left, Right, Center game, and had a wonderful pseudo Christmas morning with a pile of blessings given to us and to Rhyder. We are so blessed by the Ratliffs and very grateful for their love and involvement in our lives. Christmas Eve morning I woke up at 6am in a lot of pain - I've been fighting some infections and it hit again that morning. I was crying for 2 hours and felt terrible. I left the Ratliffs weak and terrible looking which I felt really badly about. We avoided going to urgent care hoping I'd get better on my own. By that night, I had a fever, but thank God it went away and I didn't have to go to the ER on Christmas. Either way, it made for a not as good as I would have liked Christmas Eve...however, seeing the Kaspars at Daddy Don's is always fun and I troopered through it because it only happens once a year!

Rhyder slept like a champ Christmas Eve night and I woke up feeling much better (I had only had 7 hours of sleep in the previous 48 hours). We were at my parents house and had a very yummy brunch and then opened presents! We are so blessed as well by my family - gosh we're a blessed bunch! We received so many wonderful things and we are so thankful and love our families so much.

We made the decision to attempt to take Rhyder to a movie :) So to Les Miserables we went - and he did awesome the whole 3 hours! We stayed in Shiner Christmas night so we had more time with my family and then headed home on the 26th.