Our Apartment

Welcome to our new home (apartment).

We have a 2 bedroom 1 bath apartment and were so very blessed to have the majority of our furnishing generously donated to us by church members and family. We are still working on decorating as you will see by the plethora of empty white walls. Hope you enjoy this little tour.

Elmo's World

Linken's new favorite thing is Elmo. It all started one day after Toddler Storytime. We were wondering around the library picking out some books and passed the dvd section. I saw an Elmo's World dvd and thought hey let's give it a try...He LOVES Elmo and wants to watch Elmo every day. We now have Tickle Me Elmo, Elmo books, sticker books and coloring books. Our house has truly become Elmo's World.
Besides life with Elmo: Troy finished his prerequisites last week for chiropractic college and will begin at UWS in October. So until then he is working full-time and it is so nice to have him home in the evenings.Linken and I are adjusting to days without a car and we took our first trip to Walmart last week on the bus. Linken loves buses and every time we pass one he yells out "BUS!" Linken is just about 18 months and we are having so much fun with him at the age. We also found out that he will be getting a little brother to wrestle with in July! YaY another boy for us.

Joys of being an Aunty

Introducing...
Myah Marie Burciaga (my sister's second little girl)

She was born Monday, February 15 around 10:30am
and weighed in at 8lbs 7oz, and was 21.5" long.

Both mom and baby are doing well.

(Big Sister Halle taking good care of Myah by sharing her lollipop)

February Already?

Three months have past since I last posted and so much has happened in the Ryan house. (YiKes for slacking on the postings and pics of my little one) First of all, the holidays were amazing and we were blessed to have spent them with family. Troy's mom came for a week visit in December and my sister, niece and brother-in-law came for Christmas. Below are a few pics of the highlights of the holidays and Linken's first face plant into the concrete sidewalk...

Other Ryan Family Highlights:
Troy got accepted to the University of Western States (Chiropractic College)here in Portland
We moved into a new apartment
We are expecting a new little one in July
Troy's brother had a healthy beautiful baby girl
Linken is growing so fast and we love every minute with our little man

Linken's 12 Month Pics

Halloween Fun

On Friday night our church ward had a Halloween party. There was tons of games, food and we made a cake for the cake walk (see below). Linken had a great time and even better time trick-or-treating on Halloween. At first he wasn't sure about the whole going up to stranger and accepting treats but he soon caught on and would grab for the candy himself sometimes taking two handfuls and then would turn and run...haha The neighbors loved his costume and said he was the littlest trick-or-treator out. The funniest part was that he is dressed like Chewbaca but walked like an Ewok. We all had a blast!

(don't you love Troy's last minute costume)

Pumpkin Carving

Troy and I had some fun carving pumpkins for our Family Home Evening. It sure took us a while to carve our pumpkins but we enjoyed the challenge and it had been years since either of us had carved a pumpkin. So I think it's obvious who carved which one... and if my creation is making you tilt your head in wonder here is the original design.