The Bests of 2012

January

My baby shower from the Church!

 We were blessed greatly!

February

Bags are packed ready to meet our baby boy!

March

Ryken Christopher Brucks was born!

March 2, 2012

 Chris and I are very blessed parents!

 First family picture of three! :)

So nice to have my Mom, Dad and sister around right after Ryken's birth!

 Chris' side of the family was able to come and meet Ryken!

April

Chris singing Psalms to Ryken!

Ryken in Daddy's shoes!

 Jed and Alma drove from AZ to meet Ryken!

Ryken is really starting to smile a lot now!

May

Ryken got to meet his new friend Josiah.

He was born May 1st.

They are 2 months apart.

 Chris and I celebrated our 1st wedding anniversary! 

 Ryken received his very first bike from an anonymous giver from our church.

 Happy Mother's Day to me! :)

June

Happy Father's Day to Chris!

Ryken got his pictures taken by Megan.

July

Canada trip!

First time for Ryken and I!

Stayed on Chris' Grandparents Lake. 

 We went to the Fargo Street Fair for Chris' birthday!

August

Jenn, Matt and Blake visited for a day since they were only a couple hours away because of their family vacation!

It was the first time we both got to meet each other's boys!

Ryken tried swings this month and continues to love them.

Ryken and I went to the park a couple of times and enjoyed the beautiful weather.

September

My mom and dad came for a visit.

Community Baptist broke ground for the new building.

We went to Maplewood State Park 3 times.

 Enjoyed time together with family and friends!

 Got to see the leaves pre-peak colors and peak colors and some slightly post-peak!

Ryken got pictures with pumpkins at a small pumpkin patch.

He got his pictures taken from Megan again!

October

My friend Mary came to visit from Michigan!

Ryken got his first 2 teeth!

 We did the Walk for Life and got to go on a free horse drawn carriage ride!

Ryken started standing up in his crib and everywhere else!

Ryken became a big cousin to Ember Renee!

November

Ryken and I wearing our support for the Frazey's adoption from Ethiopia!

 Just the 3 of us in 2012!

 We took a weekend trip to Minneapolis.

We went to the Mall of America!

 We also went to this little town outside of St. Paul called Stillwater!

 Ryken has been enjoying baths in the big tub.

Boy does he love to splash!

 Thanksgiving in Bismark!

Ryken's 1st!

December

Ryken got introduced to Christmas ligths!

 We went to Arizona for a week!

It was Ryken's first plane ride! He did great and loved looking out the window.

We got to meet Ember Renee!

 It was nice having the whole family togther!

 All 4 of us got back together and we all have babies now!

 Family pictures in Fountain Hills!

 Christmas in Bismark!

Ryken's 1st!

It was a wonderful year with

many blessings, far more than we could ever imagine. 

We are truly bless and we don't thank God enough!