ok sooo im terrible at keeping up...

 But I do have a list of things that have happened so I'm gonna finish out November on this post and the next one will have December :)
  Ryker had his first real bath on November 8th, he loved it he just hung out in it didn't cry at all. It was fun to get him all clean and see him experience water, will provide pics soon
Later that same night we went over to my Grandma and Grandpa Steadmans so he could meet his Great Grandparents. My Grandma has been sick for a while and bed ridden but bringing Ryker over it really seemed to boost her spirits we got a four generation picture with her which was neat and then a picture of my Grandpa holding him and then just the boys James, Grandpa and Ryker. My Grandma even held him, which I'm sure was somewhat of a feat since he's so heavy ;). My Aunt Jolene her husband Ted and her youngest Jamie then came over. Ryker was crying something fierce and my Aunt Jolene asked if jamie wanted to hold him, she seemed nervous but said yes I sat behind her to give her some support lol and he immediately stopped crying lol. I told her she was hired and if she'd like she could come and stay at our house :). A couple of minutes I heard her whisper to her mom "can you take him? My arms hurt" LOL thats my chunky boy!!!!
On November 19th my mom and I participated in an activity that seems to be a tradition now and kicks off the holiday season. It's my works annual craft fair. It was fun I didn't sell a thing (which unfortunately is the case every year why do I keep doing it? Because I get some real quality time with my mom- no siblings to share her with and just good times :)) my craft is glass etching, and this year I did a new thing I decorated baby wipe boxes they turned out pretty cute if I do say so myself ;). On this day Ryker also took his first bottle!!! It went well which I was glad I'd been pumping for days I was pretty worried he wouldn't take it but never fear my boy is part Garrett and Foster two families notorious for liking their food lol. He took the bottle like a champ.
 I had my six week appt on the same day and everything went well, the best part was I found out at my last appt which was the friday before I had ryker I weighed a whopping 227 and at my six week appt I was at 190!!! The nurse seemed really suprised at how much weight I'd lost til she found out how much my baby was when he arrived, she then said "ah that makes sense" lol.
 This next paragraph is typed with a heavy heart and tear filled eyes. My Grandma Steadman passed away on 11/24
:(
 I'm soooooo grateful we went over with ryker when we did, I know that he's like the 49th great grandchild but every grandchild and great child was/is special to both my grandparents. It meant a lot to us that we got those pictures and I was able to see my Grandma relatively soon before she passed away. I'm also grateful that I was able to get closer to her, a couple of months before our wedding she was bed ridden and they had her at her house, my work worked with me and I was over at their house every morning it was a crazy time but so worth it I got to really get to know both of my Grandparents in a way I never had Grandpa would always make me breakfast and I would always have to get my Grandma to eat lol. My Grandma and I would watch the price is right together and guess (confession: the other day I saw that the price is right was on t.v. on my guide and I burst out in tears), she also taught me how to crochet, I didn't think I would be able to get it but she told me that once I did it would be easy. She was right. But so far I've only been able to make one thing and it was on accident lol. It's underwear ha ha. When she first taught me how she said to just do rows and practice that. Well the rows slowly started getting wider and wider when I finally took a really good look at it it was thin and then went wide, all I could think was that it looked like undies lol so I attached a chain on each side and called it a day. The next time I went over to my Grandparents house I said Grandma I made something wanna see? She said yes I then pulled them out and her eyes got wide and all she said was OH MY then she grinned lol.
 The service for her was beautiful. The saddest part was watching my grandpa say goodbye :( before they closed the casket he leaned over and kissed her and then kissed her again and again. They were married over 60 years. I want that I want to be still in love with James in 60 yrs and when I go leave a fantastic legacy. My mom got to speak and it was amazing she did a great job IDK how she was able to do it, but she did a great job.
 Thanksgiving was fun we had the week earlier done thanksgiving with my mom so we only had two dinners on turkey day. My dad and tracy came up for  the holiday and we had a big turkey day mral with all of my dads siblings and their kids. The night before we went to harry potter it was the first night out w/o ryker it was nice but I totally fell up the stairs pretty embarrassing right in front of all in the audience lol the funniest part was that I tripped up the stairs and tried to catch myself well I stumbled and eventually fell right as the lights went out for the movie to start :(.
 Thanksgiving was good food and fun we had a dart gun fight. And then we staked out our shopping root for the morning. Yes my sisters and I do black friday. It worked out nicely this year because our vacuum had broken the day before and black friday you can get a really good deal on vacuums.
Black friday I just got a vacuum and some tupperware lol it wasn't a very good year we were done by 8 and we went to breakfast even.
Well this commences November I'm sure I forgot something and I will put up pictures that pertain to this soon :)