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Well, three years ago today, I was fortunate enough to start my life with my beautiful bride.  There’s not a whole lot I can say about Tara that I haven’t already said; she’s considerate, caring, loving, a great mother and wife, but best of all, she chose me!

~Tara,

I am truly blessed to have you as my wife, best friend, and mother to our two wonderful boys!  Thank you for all that you do and all that you put up with from your three boys . . . we really don’t mean to cause you a lot of grief, but somehow we manage to do so.  I love you and I am looking forward to all the memories that we get to share together!

And since I don’t like to post without a picture, here is a picture from our honeymoon in Maui:

I hope that you are all having a great start to the new year.  Since one of the things I’m trying to do in 2009 is blog more pictures for family and friends to see, I thought I’d start today.

Last week we got a chance to spend time with my family in Colorado; here are some shots of time in Denver:

Here’s Grandma holding her grand-baby . . .

And here’s Uncle Tanner taking an afternoon nap with Ronan . . .

And for the first time, Witten got to go out and enjoy a little play time in the snow . . .

Two of Witten’s favorite things combined into one . . . Sponge-Bob and brushing his teeth . . .

And I couldn’t help but post these pictures of Witten struting around in Aunt Jaden and Aunt Siale’s hat . . .

I guess he was mad that I was taking his picture . . . I’d probably be mad too . . .

Aunt Siale was so sweet with Ronan . . . she probably held him for over an hour while he was asleep . . . she just kept walking around the house . . .

And one last picture of our little guy . . .

Wow! I can’t believe that 2008 is already over.  It has been a great year, filled with tons of memories and it just makes me that much more thankful.  Thankful for all of my wonderful family and friends, plus all of my awesome clients that have put their trust in me over the last year to document their love, families, sporting events, and so much more.

I’m especially grateful for my wonderful wife who has been so supportive throughout all of my shoots, projects, and everything in between.  She’s a huge reason why our family is as happy as we are and as close.  Tara, I love you for all that you do, day in and day out to support and care for me, Witten, and Ronan . . . you’re an awesome mother, friend, and wife.

I hope that you all have a very safe and Happy New Year!  Tomorrow I’ll play a little catch up and post some photo shoots that haven’t been blogged.

Here’s a photo from our week in Colorado this last week . . . Witten was trying so hard to comfort Ronan, but little brother wasn’t feeling the love . . .

Last weekend we took the boys out to the pumpkin patch to pick out a few pumpkins.  When we got there the wind made it a little cooler than we expected, but Witten had a good time; at least for most of the time we were there.

As he’s saying in the picture below . . . “COLD!” . . .

He was much more interested in the tracker toys than the pumpkins, ponies, or the hay ride . . . that’s a boy for you . . .

And here’s the beautiful Mrs. Cryer trying to keep Ronan shielded from the wind with that awesome OSU sling . . .

Witten saw one of the big inflatables and got all excited . . . he’s just a little short and young though for this one . . .

We had to get some pictures of Witten up on the hay bales which starte out good . . .

And then he reached his breaking point . . . he wasn’t very happy with Daddy for taking his picture and not getting him down

And he’s still angry . . .

It’s probably because we went to the pumpkin patch late in the season and he couldn’t find a pumpkin he liked . . .

Have a safe and Happy Halloween!!!

Since I didn’t do a very good job of posting pictures for our family and friends here when Witten was smaller, I’m going to make sure that you all get to see our new little guy, Ronan, a lot more.

That doesn’t mean I’m leaving out big brother though; he’ll still be in a ton of pictures as well.

Anyways, here’s a few of Ronan from this last week . . . I can’t believe he’s already a month old!