I LOVE MY JOB!!!!

On Thursday's I have a Storytime at the Manhattan Coffee house on the square!! I have a great group of kids that come to read books and sing songs with me!! Today we had our Halloween party and all of the kids came in their costumes!!! We read Halloween books and sang a few songs and then had cupcakes and goodies!!!!! The kid's had a great time!!

I feel so blessed to have my job. When I moved back to Snyder a little over a year ago I didn't know what I was going to do, but as always God had a great plan in store for me. He blessed me with a GREAT job!! I get to use my creativity and craft for the kids which is one of my favorite things to do!! I also get to be out in the public and have made some really great relationships with Mom's and their children!! God put everything in place for me and I am so very thankful for it!!

Here are a few pics from our party!!!

Here are the goodies my Mom helped me make for the kiddos

I made these little Frankenstiens out of Mason jars with little bolts glued on them!

Aren't they cute!!!! I filled them with candy and other little goodies for

each of the kids to take home!!!!

Rylen came to her first storytime today in her costume!!

she was a tired lion!! It was nap time!!

Here are all of the kids that came today!!! We had a great time!!!!!

This is Miss Charlie!!!! She comes to all my stories time!!

I just love her to pieces!!!

Here is Mega!! She is another one of my storytime girls!!!

She wasn't in the mood for pictures but I snuck one anyways!!!!!

We all had a great time!!!!!

To busy to be sick!!

I haven't posted in a few days because the YUCKY stomach bug hit our house!! Rylen and I both woke up sick monday morning and we are just now starting to feel like ourselves again! It is NO fun when Momma and Baby are sick at the same time!

This week is Halloween week!! Halloween week means busy busy week at work! I've got parties, parades, and trick or treating going on all at the same time!! Lots of running around and getting things together but also lots of fun!! This year will be Rylen's first halloween and we have a few fun things planned!! I will post more about that later!!

This past weekend we stayed home and just hung out!! Some family came down from Lubbock so we ate at mom and dad's as usuall!! If you know the Harper clan you know that we can make a feast annytime we get together!!

Rylen loves being outside and it was perfect weather for it!! I love fall!! Everything about it especailly the clothes!!!!!

Rylen loves her Tia Yvette!! "she feeds me all the yogurt bites I want"!!!

Rylen helped her Great Granny pick out a few holiday cookie and pie recipes to try for Thanksgiving!

Sunday we just relaxed for a while! Did some house cleaning and then I cooked supper and had all of the Wadleighs over to eat!! It was nice to get together with them! They have been working so hard on London Bleu I figured Karen needed a break from cooking!

Rylen helped me cook supper for everyone!!! She is such a big helper!

This time of the year is so hard to decide what you should wear! Its cold in the mornings and by the afternoons it is fairly warm. I haven't packed up all of Rylen's shorts and things just yet because I felt like she could get a few more wears out of them.... But she is growing and things are either getting to short or to tight!! Sunday morning while we were eating breakfast I caught a glimpse of Rylen's feet.......I was mortified...... Had I NOT been paying attention to how I dressed my child???? Or maybe she had a growth spurt over night???? Oh well at least they were jammers and we weren't in a public place!!!!!

Here is what I saw.....

3 Little piggies peaking out at me!!!!!!!!!

Needless to say this weekend we will be going threw her clothes and pulling out all the things that are to little!!!!!

Momma don't ya know I'm a growin girl!!!!!!

Be Blessed!!!!!

10 Months!!

Rylen Lee turned 10 months old yesterday!!!! Wow time has flown by!!

Here is what she has been up to!

About 3 Weeks ago she started crawling!!

It took her a while to stop getting high centered on her belly,

but once she got the hang of it she took off!!

Here are a few movie clips for ya!

She is everywhere! In the morning while i'm getting dressed and fixing breakfast she follows me around!!

She is clapping her hands which is the cutest thing ever!!

She jabbers all day long! I always wonder what is going threw her head!

She is a very VERY vocal girl! I can only imagine when she starts actually talking!

We aren't going to be able to get her to stop!!

She is a great eater and blueberry yogurt bites are her favorite!

She likes prunes as well which is a good thing since

we have so much trouble with going #2!

During supper time she tries to sneak Booker (the dog) a few bites!

this is her feeding him crackers! I thought I would snap

a pic before I told them to stop!!

She loves bathtime!

She plays and plays!!!

She is a great sleeper and sleeps from 8pm - 8am which is great for Momma!

We have a CD that plays lullabies with her name in them, her Aunt Sheila got it for her.

We listen to it every night before bedtime and she loves it!

She will just lay in my lap and listen!

The past few weeks she has really gotten into entertaining herself!

She has a few stuffed dolls that she holds conversations with and it is so cute!

She loves our cell phones and the remote and pretty much does a full body dive for them anytime she can see them!

I can't beleive how fast she is growing!!

We will be having her 1st birthday party on Dec. 18th!!

I'll be sending invites out next month!!

Here goes nothin!!

Hi Friends!!

Well I have decided to enter into the world of blogging!! I figured since I have so much family scattered all over this beautiful country that loves to see pictures of Rylen I needed something better than facebook. Yes I said it "better than facebook" there is just so much you can do on that stinkin thing!! I haven't yet figured out all the things I can do on this but give me time and I will.

So let me update you on what has been going on in our world the past year or so!!!!

December 21 2009 @ 7 pm our lives were changed forever!! Rylen Lee made her debut!! 6LBS 14ounces and a wopping 17inches long!!

We have had so so so much fun with her. When I feel like life couldn't possibly get any worse I take a look at that little girl and she makes it all better.

I have had so much support from my family. Being a single mother comes with all sorts of up and downs and I couldn't have done without every single one of them including Sister, Aunts, Uncles, cousins and Grandparents.

Rylen and I are blessed to have Cooper my boyfriend in our lives!! He is truly a great guy and Rylen can't get enough of him!! I'm pretty fond of the guy myself!! He comes from a great family and they all treat Rylen and I like part of the family. He is a gift from God!!

I am the Children's librarian at the County Library and love love love my job!! Rylen will be 10 months old tomorrow, and Cooper is busy with the Welding business, Garage door business, and helping his parents with London Bleu (I will blog about it later on).

We lead very busy lives but I wouldn't have it any other way!!! God has blessed me in so many ways!!

Well there it is! My first blog!! Please, please excuse the misspelled words and punctuation errors!! I hope you all enjoy and will stay tuned for more!!!