A Merry Broyles Christmas

We had the Broyles Christmas at our house this year. It was so fun having Gram and Papa, Uncle Nic, and Uncle Doug and his family here. We ate, played games, acted silly, and opened presents.

Daddy helped you open some of your presents. You got lots of great things to play with. A lot of them make noise. Thanks everyone!

You had fun playing with Cousin Stone.



He got a play drill for Christmas. He was helping everyone fix things...including their toes.



He also got a tractor. He wasn't really sure he wanted to share with you. He decided it was okay.







When Uncle Doug and his family were leaving Cousin Hunter started playing with you and growling. You started growling very loudly back at him. You were grabbing his hair and ears. Gram was holding you and said you were shaking! You don't do this with anyone else. It was kinda funny, but we decided you shouldn't do it anymore because of how worked up you were getting.

Ryan's First Christmas

Well, Ryan. I guess you were just so excited about Christmas day that you decided to wake up at 5am. Unfortunately that's becoming a bit of a trend lately. We'll have to work on that. Daddy finally fed you around 6am and put you back to bed. You woke back up around 9am and it was time to open presents! You have been such a blessing to us this year, Ryan. Words cannot express the love we have for you and how thankful we are that God put you in our lives. We know that you are going to bless the lives of so many people. You're our little miracle, and we know God has great things planned for you! Merry Christmas, Baby.

A Merry Brookman Christmas

Ryan, your first Christmas was so much fun. You were spoiled, of course, but who can resist. You were such a good boy the whole time we were at Grandma and Pops' house.

You watched Daddy, Uncle Phil, Cousin Logan, and Great-Granddad play dominoes. They play every year with the same partners. Daddy said he usually loses to Uncle Phil and Great-Granddad.

Christmas lunch

We were hoping again that you would start crawling. But, you're perfectly content with "army crawling."

You loved all the toys your got for Christmas. Pops got you a baseball toy to play with. I think you might have been more interested in the bows and wrapping paper.

Here you are in your Christmas morning PJs.

We went to downtown Oklahoma City to the Crystal Bridge. (That's where Daddy asked Mommy to marry him.) All of the lights were so pretty. We saw lots of plants that were pretty too.

In the end, you were super duper tired. Pops gave you a bottle and you fell asleep right in his arms.

"It's my first Christmas!"

Presents for Grandparents

Ryan, you made Christmas presents for your grandparents this year. Grandma and Grandpa Broyles got aprons. Grandma Brookman got a bag, and Pops got a photo. My first idea was to use your cute little hand as the body of the giraffe, but you didn't want to open up that cute little hand of yours. So we used your foot...

...and this is what they looked like at the end of the experiment. FYI, only one foot was used to paint the bag and aprons. You must have liked the feeling of rubbing your feet together with paint all over them. You also thought the bottom of your high chair tray needed to be a different color, because it was covered too. It all came off.

For Pops (and Great-Granddad) we took a picture (at Thanksgiving) of all four generations of hands. You didn't really want to open you hand for that either. This was the best picture we got. We thought Psalm 103:17 was the perfect verse to put with it.

Everyone really liked their presents especially because they were homemade from you.

Santa Comes to Church

Blackmale

This is your new favorite thing to do while on the changing table. It was just too cute to resist. Plus I can use it for blackmale when I first meet your future wife. I love you!