Thomas found some new girlfriends

Thomas found some new lady friends in Maryland.

The Ryan family traveled back east to Maryland to visit Liz's family and friends for christmas. So far the weather has been perfect and we're enjoying all the family help with Thomas.

We plan on coming home December 29th. You can see more pictures of Thomas and friends here.

Thomas and his first X-mas

Here's a picture of Thomas at 4 1/2 months old with Santa Claus.

Liz and I took Thomas to Scottsdale Fashion square mall for his first Christmas pictures and we look forward to many more in the future.

We'll all be going to Liz's home town for Christmas in Maryland so Merry Christmas to everyone that we won't see and Happy new year!


More picture available here

A vacation in Maui

It's been too long since I've posted on this blog. Sorry, but I have a 3 month old now.

Anyways, Thomas is now 3 1/2 months old and we brought him with us to a wedding vacation in Maui, Hawaii. The wedding was for my good friends Stephen and Jen Kuenzli. The wedding was absolutely beautiful and they definitely didn't go wrong with having it in Maui.

Thomas was on his best behavior and did excellent the whole time. I swear he either turned into a different child or just loved Maui as much as we did...

Here's some pictures from our vacation.

Thomas at 6 weeks old

Well, I'm running a little behind on this whole picture thing, but here's some updated pictures of Thomas at 6 weeks old.

We've been busy entertaining and showing off our new son to all our friends a family. It's been a wild ride and we're having a blast so far.

See all the pictures here.

Thomas & his first 2 weeks

Here are some more pictures of the first 2 weeks with Thomas.

Thomas Michael Ryan

Well, Thomas has arrived. He was born July 17th, 2007 at 4:42 PM. He weighed 6 lbs 12 ounces & was 19 1/2 inches long.

Liz is recovering and doing well. It was a long day and she did a great job. She made it all the way to 8cm totally natural, but had to give in for the epidural after she was already 8cm dilated. Once the epidural was given Liz only had contractions for a few more hours and then had to push for only 30 minutes. She was such a strong pusher that he came right out. Liz had some slight tearing so she had to be stitched afterwards but is doing great now.



We are at home now so if anyone feels like they would like to stop by the house to say hi and see the new addition to the family then just give us a call.

Thanks everyone for all your support! It's great having such awesome friends and family.

You can view the photo album here

I think I'm going to start using picasa from Google from now on.

A Wedding & A Pregnant Wife

So we just got back from a wedding in Maryland for Liz's sister Jen and her new husband Matt. We had a great time visiting with family, eating crab cakes, and flying on a packed plane full of kids and a pregnant wife!

No, really the flight wasn't that bad. Liz did really good and we were able to watch movies on the plane which helped make the ride much quicker. The wedding was pretty fun too. The church where the ceremony took place was amazing, the limo bus full of beer, and the reception was full of good speeches and good times.

Liz had to speak at her sisters wedding. I know she was nervous, but did a great job in front of 160 people.

Anyways, I'm excited to have all this new family in my life and I'm looking forward to Matt kicking my ass over and over again on the golf course!

Thomas Countdown

53 days left until Thomas is here.

Well Liz & I have almost everything ready for Mr. T to arrive.

We've been busy putting his room together, shopping, and working to pay all these billz!

One of our biggest challenges so far is going to be flying to Maryland in June with a 35 week pregnant wife. Liz gets to be in her sisters wedding back in Baltimore.

The Classics

I think I just found one of the coolest Java Applets ever. You can play Nintendo in your browser.

Check this link out to play Super Mario Brothers all day long at work!

Thomas' Baby Shower

One of Liz's friends is throwing her a baby shower on April 28th up in Anthem, north of our house.

So, for those of you asking the question, "Are you registered anywhere for the baby shower?".

Answer: Yes, we're registered at a couple places. Go here if you want to see our wish list.

So far Liz has completed 24 weeks of pregnancy so we have 16 weeks left. The babies due date is July 22nd!

Wedding Reception (Maryland)

Well, we had our second of two receptions in Maryland on March 10th. We had a great time and the weather was perfect pretty much the entire time we were there. Growing up in Arizona, I really love seeing all of the trees and wild life (Deer, squirrels, etc..) back east. I know Arizona has that to, but I'd have to drive 3-4 hours to see it... I can't just look outside my backyard.

March 10th was suppose to be the date of our wedding ceremony in Mexico on the beach, but our little boy Thomas decided to interrupt the shin dig!


Anyways, we had a great time and love going to back to Maryland as often as possible. Thanks so much to my new loving family Tom, Anne, Matt, & Jen for all the help you gave us!

AZ Reception

We had our first of two receptions so far. Thank you everyone for coming and making it a fun night. We're so lucky to have so many loving friends and family.

We have 1 more reception on March 10th in Maryland for Liz's family and friends.

Here are the pictures I have so far from the AZ Reception

It's a Boy!

My son at 12 weeks:
Can you see the little penis? You can't see his legs because they are zoomed in a few layers past the legs.

I can hear the jokes about the size of his penis coming in already... But if you look at it in proportion to the rest of his body you'll notice that he's rather large. :)

Anyways, I'm totally stoked about having a boy. I would have been happy with a girl too, but I'm excited to have a little soccer player that I can coach now.

My son would like to have some little friends to play with so which one of my friends will be next?

New Pictures Posted!

Go here to see some new pictures posted by Adrian:

Amsterdam

Europe

France

Germany

Ron's Birthday

And some more pictures from Jackie and Kenny's wedding