Happy Thanksgiving

I am thankful for so many things...a loving husband who makes me laugh, a happy, healthy, beautiful baby boy who always makes me smile and keeps life interesting, our new home, two loyal loving dogs who are also loving their new home and their gigantic backyard. Also thankful for the wonderful dinner we had on Thanksgiving with my family, and that Riley got to spend a little time with his great grandma and grandpa. I am also thankful that we were still able to keep the family tradition of going to see a movie after dinner (this would not have been possible if we didn't have such a good baby). He slept through most of his first movie at the theatre and only woke up for the last 10 minutes or so...

Hope each of you had an equally happy holiday!

Go Cougs!!

This weekend, the Burdo's minus little Burdo and the Landon's went to what Ryan calls the Toilet Bowl 2K8 (AKA Apple Cup). Papa Watts was extremely generous and gave us tickets and an RV for the weekend that he purchased at a charity auction. It was the first time we have been away from Riley over night which was extremely strange for me, I kept getting the feeling that we had accidently left him somewhere and I had to fight the urge not to call and check on him every couple of hours. We left him with Grandma and Grandpa Brown for the weekend and he had a great time, all smiles when we picked him up this afternoon.

It was a bitter battle for the bottom spot in the Pac 10. While our odds didn't look very good for the majority of the game, the last 20 seconds of regulation play made the game very interesting. I'm sure everyone knows that the Cougs pulled out a double overtime victory beating the worst team in the history of the Pac 10 conference.

It had been a long time since we have spent a night in Pullman so we had to make sure we squeezed in a couple of our favorite Pullman pastimes. We had beers at the Coug with a couple of my sorority sisters and grabbed fajitas and margaritas at Casa de Lopez in Moscow.

Our first RV trip was awesome but it is definitely not a hotel. Remember to bring towels, a can opener and a bottle opener because there is no front desk. It was a great weekend, but we couldn't wait to get home to see Riley and take a shower.

I was awful and only took 2 pictures the entire weekend, here we are at the Coug.

My dad purchased a couple of new toys, 2 Polaris Ranger RZR S' (aka Razors). They are basically a two person four wheeler. Ryan, my brother and dad all took them out to the dunes outside of Pasco last weekend to test them out. Apparently they will go over 50 mph on sand and get 2 or 3 feet of air no problem. I went for a little ride with Ryan when they got back and realized I do not like to be the passenger, I actually hate being the passenger. I think I will stick with a regular four wheeler where I am in complete control. We also went for a hike up one of the "mountains" in Tr-Cities. Not much of a mountain but still pretty good exercise. I know it doesn't look like Riley is enjoying it in the pictures but really he was smiling the whole time he wasn't sleeping, I just happened to take most of these pictures when he just woke up. I didn't get any pictures of them but I thought I would mention that my mom and dad were on the hike with us as well. It was nice to get out and get some fresh air and a little exercise.

He's on the move...

So for the last couple of weeks Riley has been "crawling" like crazy, it's more of an army crawl but I am still so proud! I have been trying to get it on video for a while but the kid takes after his mom and is stubborn, everytime I pull my camera out he doesn't want to crawl any more.

Welcome baby Alivia

The Ludwig family welcomed their second addition to the family last Friday, a beautiful baby girl named Alivia. Congratulations Tessa and Matt!!

Like a barrel of monkeys

Yummy!!

Anxiously awaiting his food

Mmmm...bananas

And a little prune to top it off (for his tummy ache).

Fuzzy Wuzzy Was a Bear...

...And in Riley's case has lots of hair!!

Just a little up date with what has been going on in the Burdo household:

-Still living in my parents house, the rental is STILL not ready. It's been nice to see my parents so much but we are ready for our own place and I'm sure they are ready to have their house back as well.

-Riley had his 6 month check up and is doing great. He gained several pounds since his last check up but hardly grew at all which was a little disappointing. The doctor said that genetics starts kicking in at around 6 months so hopefully he won't take after his short mother! It's not looking good so far...

Weight: 17.1 lbs (50%)

Height: 26.5 inches (50%)

-Riley started daycare yesterday (3 days a week) and did really well. I almost cried when I dropped him off and had dreams the night before that when I came and picked him up he was already talking and walking and I felt like I had missed so much.

I really like our daycare, it's in a house and is run by a husband and wife that have been doing it for a really long time. They only have 8 kids and Riley is the youngest so he gets lots of attention. When I dropped him off this morning, only the little girls were there so far and were all sitting around a table doing crafts. When I walked in they all said "hiiiii Riley" in their cute little girl voices and were so excited to see him (he is going to be ladies man).

-Grandma and Grandpa Brown have been coming into town a lot and have graciously offered to babysit Riley the last two weekends so we were able to go out with some of our friends. It was nice to get out of the house and be around other adults (our evenings out are much tamer then they used to be).