Ryan is my first, born to me on May 7, 1982. It was very hot that day unseasonable for May!!! Friends and family have always called him RJ as his middle name is Joseph and we know so many Ryan's already it was easier for him to identify that he was the one that was being spoken too!

RJ grew up around a world of adults as his dad and I didn't have very many friends that had children. One of his first friends was Kristie (insert picture) as she was our neighbor and his dad's good friend's first child. Even though she is a few years younger than Ryan he thought it was great to have a friend to play with, but he didn't like the part that he had to wait until she got a bit older! I stayed home with RJ for a few months when he was a baby,but then went back to work.

He stayed home with my Grandmother (his great-grandmother) for a while but then started Pre-School at Playland Nursery School. Because of the time he spent with his great-grandmother and the time she took to teach him things like colors and numbers he excelled in Nursery school and they immediately bumped him up to a Pre Kindergarten class with Miss Linda where he stayed until he graduated (insert picture). After RJ graduated we moved that summer to the neighborhood that RJ lives in now. He attended Sequoia Elementary School where he graduated this year and will move on to Junior High School with his best friend Koji (insert picture)

RJ's dad loves to play softball and that is how I met Judy who eventually had Meghan who is one of RJ's best friends. Megs (as I often call her) is a year younger than RJ but they are the best of friends (insert picture)

Ryan has many interests,he loves WWF wrestling and watches it every Sunday,Monday and Thursday nights and whenever he can talk his dad or his uncle into ordering the pay per views!! He loves to practice wrestling moves on Mike or his dad or even me, but he likes especially to practice those moves on his sister and that makes her scream like crazy!!  He gets in trouble of course, but I think he secretly enjoys hearing her scream!!!!! He also loves to play the Pokemon card game and video games. He received a GameBoy for Christmas and now his face seems to permanetly stick to that.He has also taken interest in a new game from Decipher called Young Jedi, which my boyfriend Mike introduced to him and his friend Koji. I think one of RJ's favorite things to do is to torment his sister Jenna! He likes to hear how loud he can make her scream, for which he gets in trouble and well since she knows that sometimes she screams and blames him!