Okay so we have had quite the eventful few weeks. Bailee had her Birthday, and I once again learned my lesson that simplier is better with planning a party for 4 year olds. I spent Hours putting together art projects. I thought It would easily last 2 and 1/2 hours, so that is when I told the parents to come pick up their kids. (the party was at the church) . All my projects were honestly done in one hour (and that was a big stretch) so we were able to entertain them for about a half an hour more with games, and then had an hour of chaos with kids running everywhere, It was fun, but a word to the wise, if any of you plan a party for kids 4 and under only plan for 1 and 1/2 - 2 hours tops. ( I'm sure that's common sense to most but I'll never learn.)
Bailee absoultly loves her new Bike. She is a bike riding machine, she asked if she could ride to Utah to visit her uncle Dillon, I told her that might be a little to far but she assured me I could just ride along side her in the car so I wouldn't get tired.
Tyson has also had so much fun riding bikes. We drive around the parking lot of a store across the street from our house, they love it.
Poor Tyson needs a brother. You might notice in the picture above he is wearing glass slippers. He loves playing dress-ups with Bailee, last week he started crying because he wanted to be Snow White. I finally convinced him to wear his super man cape and be a super hero. I will be investing if some cowboy and Superman dress-ups A.S.A.P.
Ryan is still working as hard as ever in school. We are looking forward to are break in Utah YEA!!! not even two weeks away.
I've started a routine chart at home with Bailee, it seems to be working pretty well. She loves to look at the chart to see what we need to do next. And it seems to help with the chaos at home. That's about all the exciting news with me. We love and miss you all. We will see you soon. Love Katie Ryan, Bailee, and Tyson.

Our Exciting Week

So we've had quite the eventful week. Ryan had his first week back to school, and we all miss him at home, it was so fun having him all to ourselves for the summer.
Tyson got tubes in his ears on Friday, and he is doing really well, he was fussy for like an hour and then he was up running around the house like a maniac, so I don't think he was too affected by the whole thing.
Bailee had another bladder infection, so the Doctor said we have to watch her and we may possibly have to do some testing(that doesn't sound fun) to test her kidneys, but we'll see.
She has been so fun and so full of DRAMA. Last week she was upset with her friend Hika,(I'm not sure why) so she went and sat in her room for about 15 minutes, while Hika went and played by herself in the frount room, she then came out of her room and said "Hika I think we need to talk about this." Hika was like no I just want to play, and Bailee said "I want to talk about why I am mad at you." I'm not sure why she was mad but she finally just said can we be friends and they made up. I Just thought it was so funny that Bailee thought they needed to "talk". She's such a little teenager. I'm scared for those years.
She's been so excited about her birthday party. We're going to have an art theme, I have also been so excited, it's the perfect time to do an art theme, Walmart had a 24 pack of crayons on sale for 10 cents and there elmers glue was 9 cents. So I got 20 packs of each and it only cost me $4.00. Then there markers were only 25 cents. I was so excited. So were going to have a bunch of different stations and let the kids rotate. We'll have a playdough table, a painting table, a face making table, and a cupcake making table. I'm excited. (probably more than Bailee is.)
I think Tyson is just my sweet little boy, he loves giving hugs and telling everyone he loves them. He's so polite. He's always saying sorry to everyone, and saying thank you. It's so sweet. I bought him a little potty today, not that I am full on going to try and train him but he always tells me when he is going to go number 2, but he's afraid of the toilet, so I thought I'd let him practice sitting on the little one. I'm sure Bailee will have a few tries on it before Tyson will give it a try, she can't waite for him to use it.
Ryan and I are still running like mad. If any of you have talked to me in the past 3 days, I know I've blurted out that I ran my 20 miles for the marathon. I was so excited about it, it was a real milestone for me, I did it in 3 hours and 35 minutes, which I was happy about If I can keep that pace my marathon time will be about 4hours and 40 minutes, which is perfect, I just wanted to be under 5 hours. Ryan has already done like 3 20 milers, he should do well on the marathon, he has been training hard.
We are so excited to come to Utah and run, Ryan's visit will be short he'll come, run the race on the 7th and then fly home. I'll be there for about 2 weeks and then my parents will help me drive home (since I have no sense of direction and could never do it by myself) also I will be glad for them to see where we live.
Anyways that's our exciting lives. We love you all and hope all is well.
Love Ryan, Katie, Bailee, and Tyson

Kitchen Redo

Well here are the pictures of our redone kitchen. Nothing was actually redone, it was just painted to add a splash of color. You can see the before and after. Well not much has happened since out last post. We have been having fun swimming and being together since Ryan doesn't have to study yet and is only working at night. Bailee is turning into quite the fish. She and her friend Hika swim almost everyday and have so much fun. Hika is a real good swimmer and has made Bailee really brave. Bailee can swim across the whole pool and is quite a good swimmer. She still hasn't figured out how to come up for air but once she does that she is good to go. That is her under the water in the picture. Tyson is a little swim bug also. He loves to blow bubbles and put his face in the water. He has jumped in a couple of times but still has to work up the courage to do that. This past weekend we went to Lake Couer D'Alene with some friends in our ward who have a cabin on the lake and a couple of boats. It was a ton of fun. The kids loved swimming and Ryan and I wakeboarded. We had a blast. Bailee almost had the guts to try and ski but was just a little leary. Our friends had a little board that the kids stand on and hold onto a rope that is pulled behind the boat. There was a little two year old that skied all by herself. Maybe we can get Bailee to it next time. Well I guess that is it. See you later.

Finally another Blog

So, It has been forever since we lasted posted on our blog. It has been an eventful time. Tyson just turned 2 last week and Bailee will be 4 in September. Ryan finished his first year of law school in May and we were able to go to Utah for part of the summer and stayed with family while Ryan clerked at the firm that he has been working at for almost 3 years. He helped out in Litigation and learned a lot and had a lot of fun. He got good enough grades to keep his scholarship so that will help us to be less in debt when we finish in another two years.
We have been back in Spokane for a few days and the kids are excited to go back. When we first got here Tyson just walked around the house all night saying..."My house, my house..." He was sure exited to be home. Bailee has had a ball playing with her friends here in Spokane again and has already gone to the park, a movie, swimming and played with just about all of her toys in the space of an hour. We had been home only a few hours and it looked like we had been back for weeks because of all the toys laying around.
My new project is to repaint the kitchen and add a little color to our house. Both Ryan and I are terrible decorators but we try to make things look nice maybe I will post some before and after pictures when we are done.
Well I will try to blog more often and keep in touch with everybody. See you later.

Fun with the bullocks

We had so much fun with the Bullocks. they came to town last week and just spoiled us. It was so fun to see everyone. Bailee and Tyson had so much fun Playing with Grandma Bullock and their Uncles. I couldn't believe Tyson was so playfull with the boys he's usually such a mama's boy, but he went right to them. We gave them the tour of Ryan's school and of all the parks. It wasn't untill they came to visit that we realized we really don't know much about what to do in Spokane. Luckily Ryans mom left us with a book to read up on sights in Spokane, so if someone comes to visit we will have all kinds of fun planned "hint hint" .

Halloween Trick or Treating

Tyson and Bailee both loved trick or treating. Mostly they just loved to see the other kids' costumes. Bailee was thrilled to see other princesses, while tyson just wandered around staring at everyone.

fun in the fall

Today we went to pumpkin patch and a corn maze. it was so cute and fun these are some of Bailee and Tyson's new friends. Tyson's favorite thing was playing in the dirt.
you can see in this picture that things started out a little rocky. Bailee was a little upset. she calmed down quickly and had a blast. This girl she is hugging is Hika they are the best of buddies. they get along so well. it so fun to watch them play.
Tyson was so cute, there were big stuffed animals of lions and tigers, and Tyson would just stare at them and I could hear him wisper rarrr!!! it was so cute!!!

Bailee's Birthday

This is a little bit late but here is Bailee's party. We had so much fun. This is her new Belle dress. The castle she is in frount of is one of the first games. The "Brave Knights" had to throw magical balls into it to protect it. then they had to pop the magical bubbles. While they were protecting the castle the princesses went into the kitchen and painted their nails. then everyont decorated there crowns. We then played" poison apple"(it's suppost to be played like hot potato) it turned into eat the apple. eveyone that got the apple just started eating it an wouldn't pass it along. it was pretty funny. all my party activities were over in about 5 minutes. so then the kids played on the swing set. (I think they liked that more than anything, the other games were basically just for me.) all in all it was a good success. Bailee got more princess stuff that anyone could imagine. she now likes to put all of her jewlrey on with her crown and go lie down pretending to sleep, then she calls ryan in to kiss her awake. She has been so cute lately. yesterday she asked "mom do you think I'm wonderful?" I said yes and she said I think your wonderful too. she also has been saying at the most random times "Mike Wasouski" from monsters inc. it will just be silent and she'll just yell out Mike Wasouski. it's so funny.
Tyson really started taking off walking on Bailee's birthday, now he walks everywhere. he is also mastered the stairs. he loves to go up and down them all day. another favorite thing of his is to rub lotion in if I put some on his hand he'll rub it in his face it's so cute. he loves to wave bye bye and to give kisses. he's still a little sweetheart.

amazing fun in spokane

Spokane Fun

so here is our week summed up in a few pictures. Tyson is still only taking a few steps but he'll be moving soon. Me and two other law-student wives went to a park right by the law school and fed the ducks. Bailee loved to feed them and Tyson loved to eat the bread him self. this other picture of Bailee with green all over her face is from when we were using water colors and she kept trying to get her hair out of her eyes, she got paint everywhere. luckily it came off easily. you might notice she is always in her pajamas she is changing her clothes about 5 times a day she loves wearing her pink clothes or her pajamas. she also refuses to wear shorts, it drives me nuts she will only wear pants. at least the weather is a little bit cooler here, it's usually between 70 and 80 degrees. Then there's Tyson doing one of his favorite things he loves to play ball he just puts it in the basket over and over, He's getting so funny he's starting to get annoyed of bailee when she comes by his toys he'll try and push her away. this last picture is Bailee sneeking into my lipstick she wouldn't let me wash it off because it was so "beautiful."

Spokane

Well, here we are in Spokane. We have been here a week and finally have internet service, so I can post some pictures on our site now. Anyway, all is well here. We really like our home and our ward is great. I just went to my first day of Orientation today at school and it was cool. It sounds like it will be a lot of fun, but a TON of work. I hoping for the best though. Anyway, here are some pictures along with this post of Katie and Kim's work painting pretty much everything in sight. They did a good job. Bailee loves her new pink room that's what she says to everyone on the phone. Oh yeah, and Tyson LOVES Spaghetti.