Happy New Year!!

We had ourselves quite the exciting night.  Rock raced cars all night...

 and looked darn excited about it, too!

 After begging and begging for a smile he finally gave us a cute one.

 The aunts made crepes which meant that Ryker got to eat those along with his milkshakes, spoons of frosting and fruit snacks.

 He was going to do whatever it took to stay up until midnight, and sugar was a big part of his plan.

 At midnight everyone was stoked to go outside and watch fireworks.  Just look at that unbridled joy on Ryker's face.

 Rock really was happy all night, but whenever i took a picture he gave me a face like this:

 His Aunt Whitni tried really hard to get a good smile out of him...

 But he just refused to show of his pearly whites.

 He just wasn't going to budge.

 Even when Uncle Nick banged the New Year's pots and pans together Rock was hard to please.

 He finally gave us some sort of smile when Nick banged the BIG pots and pans together.  The big bright green and red pans.

 But then he was back to this:

 It wasn't until Uncle Nick banged the really BIG pots and pans that Rock finally could help himself.  He let out a big yell and smiled really, really big.

 BIG SMILE!!

 Now that's the excited boy that we see when there isn't a camera around.

Speaking of excited, Rock is never excited to let somebody leave the house without him.  He tries to stall by asking to tell you something.  Then, just like his sweet Great-Grandma Helen, he rambles on and on while you try to get out the door.  Usually it sounds like this:

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!