Our baby is 6 months old already!

Hard to believe, but our little babe, Ryan, turned 6 months old on Christmas. Here are his official pictures. What a big boy, sitting up so well. He actually was waving 'hi' and 'bye' tonight back to Grandma Diamond. It was so cute. He is so alert and constantly watches everything around him. He especially loves to watch Natalie and Amanda playing. He is enjoying his rice cereal and bananas, so far. He is officialy 20 lbs. 8 oz. as of today. Healthy, Happy and lovin' life.

Happy New Year 2008!

Well, we are back from Los Angeles. It was a whirlwind trip, but we are so thankful we could be there for Bob's wake/funeral and especially just to be there for Jane, Rob & Lisa. We started off here at 4:30am on Wednesday, Jan. 2, dropped the girls off in St. Charles with Grandma & Grandpa Catey and had a 8'ish am flight out of O'hare. A stopover in San Francisco and landed in L.A. about 2:30ish pacific time. Rob picked us up and after a quick In 'n Out stop and Wal-Mart (for chains for the car to go up the moutains, just in case) we headed up to Big Bear. Jane had a wonderful 'Christmas dinner' ready for us upon our arrival at about 7:30pm & Sydney was SO HAPPY to see us. After dinner and a visit, headed to our hotel. Got to sleep about midnight. So it was about a 22 hour day for us.

Thursday we drove to Glendora for the wake services and funeral on Friday. It was an emotional 2 days. Scott and I were so very happy that we could be there to support Jane and Rob.

Bob was a very-well liked and loved man. We will miss him dearly. May Bob Rest in Peace.

We wrapped up our trip with a quick visit w/Holly and the kids in Woodland Hills, did some shopping at our old (new!) mall, had a Pinkberry (plain with yogurt chips & coconut!) (http://www.pinkberry.com/html/pbmain.php)

and then went to The Grove in L.A. for some more shopping and of course Littlejohn's in the Farmer's Market

http://www.littlejohnscandies.com/product/MarDel

for mine & Lisa's favorite, Marshmallows Delights!

And red-eye flights home are not recommended, especially when you have 2 little girls that are so excited to have their family home! But, we are happy to be home.

Happy and Sad Holidays

MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Hello everyone. This is my very first blog entry. I figured this would be a good way to keep in touch and keep everyone updated occasionally, since I haven't been able to work on the website (the way I want it anyway). So I will be posting things on here when I get a chance. Feel free to leave a comment and let me know what you think or just to say HI.

Christmas was great. We were able to split up Christmas Eve and Christmas day pretty well for all of the celebrations and we still had to skip a couple get-togethers. Sure wish we could do it all, but we have to think of the kids first and it's overwhelming enough as it is for them, so we kept it as simple as possible. Which was nice for Mommy and Daddy too.

The girls love all of their presents and Ryan got a few soft cars/vehicles to chew on and he LOVES those! We left cookies & milk out for Santa and he also requested a pickle when we had breakfast with him, so we left him a pickle too. And then of course we left carrots out for Rudolph and the other reindeer.

Cookies, Pickle, Milk & Carrots for Santa and the Reindeer

Ryan turned 6 months old on HIS FIRST CHRISTMAS, so we did the traditional 1/2 (half) birthday celebration that we started when Natalie was just 6 months old. And this time we celebrated with a 1/2 cake too!

Ryan's First Christmas!

Daddy, Ryan and his 1/2 birthday cake!

Christmas photo #1

Christmas photo #2

And lastly, on a very sad note, we lost someone special to us and our entire family on Christmas Eve, Bob Green (Rob's Dad). He lost his battle w/cancer at 9:48pm on Christmas Eve. Jane, Rob, Lisa and Sydney were all there with him until the very end. We will miss you Bob.

Goodbye for now.