Happy Easter!!!!

(Better late than never.) So for Easter this year Riley and I went down to the cabin with his parents. We were hoping his brothers and their families would come too, but they all had something come up!

We went down Friday night after work. We couldn't go to bed before our annual card game! Of course Papa Rich won, and he didn't let me forget it! I tried to get him to play Monopoly with me so I could win my title back, but he told me he threw in the fire after the last time (Riley and Mel!!!) Inside "Family" Joke.

Riley's mom spoils us rotten when it comes to food at the cabin! We woke up to Cinnamon rolls and hot chocolate. Then she made us Sour dough pancakes, sausage, hashbrowns and eggs. I could help but take a picture of my Yummy plate of food! Chris makes the best Sour-dough pancakes topped off with cream and strawberries!! mmm it's making me hungry just thinking about it.
This would be my hubby enjoying his breakfast! Don't ya love his hair?

This would be our shed out back and the snow that never wanted to fall off! So Riley and Rich were out there most of Saturday morning knocking it off!

Riley was so proud when he finally broke through the other side.

When he got all of the snow off he decided it would be fun to get the sled out and sled off the roof! I tried to take a picture of it but my camera has a delay on it and I missed the whole thing. Luckily he didn't get hurt!

This would be a picture I took off the front porch of Riley down on the zip-line! There was a little bit to much snow for someone Riley's size. He kept hitting bottom! But he had fun trying!!

VOLLEYBALL CHAMPIONS!!!!!

SO FUN!!!! So this year our city league volleyball team took 1st place!!! We were so excited and had so much fun together! This was our 2nd year playing together (most of us)! Hopefully next year we can do it again!

Top Left-Right: Kris, Maxine (mom), Tara, Renae, Tiffany, Me & Kami

(surprisingly the t-shirts were really cute! I've never had a cute one from any kind of sporting event)
This is a picture of my and my mother!!!! She couldn't play this year because she had back surgery in November! So she was our "coach" and helped us out a lot by her loud voice from the bench!!!! (she was never the quite parent in the stands, or coaching, and I love her for that! She was always my coach growing up and I couldn't have done it without her) She's since then been cleared by her doctor and will hopefully be able to play with us again next year!!!

ABC's of us!!!!

I'll do my best at answering this for Riley too!

Attached or Single: Attached!

Best Friend: Riley!!! of course but if not him then my Mom, and Callie!
I would hope Riley would say me, but then it would be Dylan & Jeffery!

Cake or Pie: Either just as long as it's Chocolate!
Riley would probably say White cake w/coconut icing

Day of Choice: Saturday, because I get to spend the whole day with Riley.
I'm guessing Riley would say Saturday as well, but that's just a guess.

Essential Item: My wedding Ring! I've already lost one, I'm not letting this one out of my sight!
Riley would probably say his truck or his 4-wheeler!

Favorite Color: Purple
Riley-Red

Gummy Bears or Worms: Gummy Worms
Riley-Gummy Worms

Hometown: Springville
Riley- Mapleton

Indulgences: Baking for Riley and my family!
Riley- I hope he would say my homemade oreos & sugar cookies

January or July: July! Boating, camping, sunshine! (I also get to take the top off my jeep)
Riley- probably would be a toss up, he likes to go snowmobiling so he
might say Jan, but he also loves boating and camping so he could say July

Kids: We're ADOPTING!!!! we're hoping it won't be too much longer.

Life is incomplete without: Riley
I would hope he would say the same.

Marriage Date: May 31, 2003. Salt Lake Temple

Number of Siblings: 1 older brother
Riley- 3 older brothers

Oranges or Apples: Oranges
Riley-oranges

Phobias: "Bad guys" I hate going anywhere alone! I have serious trust issues w/people I don't know.
Riley-snakes (at least that's the one I know of)

Quote: "A mothers love comes from her Heart not from her Womb!"
Riley would probably quote a movie!!!!

Reasons to Smile: When I get to go places w/Riley and our family & friends.
Riley- hunting, camping, 4-wheeling, boating etc.

Season: FALL!!! Because it's cool but not cold and we get to go Camping & Hunting!
Riley- I'm going to guess he will say the same thing! (i could be wrong)

Tag others: Jane, Erin, Alyssa, Vanessa and anyone else who would like to!

Unknown fact about me: I can't really think of one that people don't know! If I do i will update!

Vegetarian or Meat eater: Meat!! A meal is not complete without meat!
Riley-Meat

Worst Habit: Backseat Driving! I drive Riley crazy most of the time when we are in the car.
Riley-Jumping to conclusions!

X-rays: I've had my fair share (two words-softball & cheerleading) I've never broken a bone though.
Riley-this is really sad but I honestly don't know for sure, I would guess no.

Your Favorite Food: Mexican!!! Once a week dinner at Lacasita.
Riley's would be a big thick juicy Steak!

Zodiac: Taurus
Riley-Virgo

Happy Birthday Jeff, Ryann & Jackson!!!

Yesterday was Riley's oldest brother Jeff's birthday!!! So we went to their house for dinner along with Jane's family. Today is our niece Ryann's 4th birthday, she loves having her birthday on "Green day". Above is a picture of Gracie, Jeff & Bruce and all of Jeff's *41* candles! (I love giving Riley's bro's and sis-in-laws a hard time about their age, cause they give me a hard time cause I'm so young.)
Jeff, is a die-hard Ute fan so as a joke I wrapped up a bunch of old BYU books and gave them to him as his gift. Then we later gave him his real gift, which was a gift card to Mad Dog Biking.
My mom always made us the cutest cakes growing up and she has kept all of the cake pans! So I've attempted to make a few of them myself. Ryann was having a "My Little Pony" party so I made her this cake, which she loved!
This one wasn't too bad! I baked it Saturday night at like 10:30 and then it only took me like an 1 1/2 hours to decorate!
Ryann is such a little Princess and loves dressing up! So we bought her this cute little Belle doll, a princess night-lite and a princess charm bracelet!

This Thursday will be Jane's nephew Jackson's birthday as well, so we were celebrating that too! This is a picture of him with his big sister Brynn helping him open his presents along with the help of his cousins Bruce and Gracie! (I love watching kids open their gifts cause they are so full of energy and so are all the others around them)

This would be 2 of my cute sis-in-laws, Jane & Mel! Pulling all of those candles off Jeff's cake =) I was giving Jane a hard time cause she was throwing them right into the garbage, and sad but true my family always keeps old candles to reuse them!

This is a picture of all the left-over food, and most of the people (kind of)! We always have way to much food at these get-togethers. But it's yummy food!

Happy birthday Jeff, Ryann & Jackson!

Update!!!

Ok so I've been awful about blogging lately, but for good reason I've been really busy! Promise to still update on that later, when we get all done with the house! But for now a little of what we've been up to!

Valentines Day!!! So last year on Valentines day I snuck over to Riley's work during lunch and "heart attacked" his truck. So this year I did the same thing except I did it the night before, so he would see it when he went to work in the morning! It was his turn to drive to work (he carpools w/Dylan) but for some reason (probably because he knew I would do something) they decided Dylan would drive this day!

Back Window!
We went to dinner w/Dylan & Carly to "Mimi's Cafe" and then attempted to go to a movie but that was a joke, so we ended up just coming home after dinner.

A couple weekends later Dylan brought the kids down to see if we wanted to go to lunch with them (Carly was sleeping cause she worked the night before)! Before we left for lunch we turned the kids loose in the backyard! Hand a kid a rake and he'll have fun for a little while! They loved making piles with the leaves and then jumping in them and scattering them!

I even got Riley and Dylan to do a little clean up!!Here is their Adorable 3 kids! Brennan, Grady & Ally!! (we love these little ones like they were our nieces and nephews, actually they call us Uncle Riley and Aunt Nana)

Baby Gavin Scott Moody!!!

So one of my Best Friends from High-school (actually from elementary school, we've been friends for a long time) had this precious baby boy, born on Feb 28th! It was a stressful time for them because of some complications but look at how perfect he is! To read more about this adorable baby boy click on my friends profile "Vanessa"!

Congratulations Dave, Van & Aspen!!!

I've Been Tagged

Ten years ago…

I would have been 14 years old! So that would have put me in Junior High. Sad but true my favorite hang outs were Classic Skating & Regal’s Bowling. I know I was a dork! I loved playing softball and dancing! (still do, but I don’t do the dancing thing much at all anymore.)

Five things I did today…

1. Hit snooze like 8 times and rolled out of bed about 7:50
2. Went to work at the wonderful Proby-Oby
3. Went to the bank
4. Went to our new “old” house and did some clean up for carpet to come tomorrow
5. Got dinner from Zubs pizza and now I’m updating this!!!

What would I do if I became a millionaire…

I would first of all pay off all of my debt, and help my family who need to do the same! Then I would take a nice long vacation. I would buy all the toys you can think of, like a nice toy-hauler 5th wheel trailer w/pop-outs. Some new 4-wheelers & snowmobiles. A new boat and anything else that I can use to spend time playing with my family and friends. As you can tell I’ve thought about this before, what I would if I had a lot of money!

Five Jobs I’ve had…

1. Babysitting (I did a lot of that as a teenager)
2. Utah Lake State Park Gate Girl (I took the money at the entry gate, that was a fun job and a good way to meet new friends while in high-school)
3. Dental assistant for Dr. Holmes (endodontist)
4. Aspen Home Loans
5. Currently Provo Ob-Gyn (I love my job; it’s been good and bad to help me with the whole infertility thing!)

Snacks that I enjoy…

1. Pepsi (I think I’m a little addicted)
2. Chips & Salsa
3. Cheetos
4. Junior Mints
5. Cookies

Five Places I’ve lived…

1. Springville, Utah
2. Mapleton, Utah
3. Provo, Utah
4. Springville, Utah
5. and oh yeah did I mention Springville, Utah? (I’m getting ready to move into my 11th home in my short 24 (almost 25) years. But all but one have been in my home town of Springville/Mapleton

I tag…

Jane, and any and all of my friends and family who are reading this!!!!!

Happy Days!

So I know I have been really bad about updating the blog lately! I have some things I want to put on here, I just haven't had time to download the pictures yet! But for those of you who don't know what we have been up to, we have a really good excuse for not updating! We are remodeling Riley's Grandma's house so we can move in! She's been living with her daughters for weeks at a time, and they decided the house has been empty for too long! So Riley and I have been lucky enough to get the opportunity to live there! So we have been busy tearing down wallpaper (that was a ton of fun, not!) and now we are re-texturing and getting ready to paint before our new carpet comes on the 1st! I will post pictures when I can! Hope all is well with everyone and I promise I will be better about blogging when we are moved in and settled!

Adoption Profile!

Our Adoption Profile is finally online! I added the link to the right! You can also find it by going to www.itsaboutlove.com search adoption profiles and put in our names RileyAndSavannah

We are so excited to finally get this up and running! Hopefully it won't be to much longer!

FAITH!!!!

So a couple of weeks ago we had a Stake Relief Society breakfast/meeting! I wasn't going to go, but Saturday morning rolled around and I knew I needed to go. With the hole adoption thing I have been an emotional wreck. It's quit the emotional rollercoaster. But the first speaker was a Friend of the family Marilyn Mortensen. The topic of her talk was "A House of Faith." I sometimes forget to rely on my Faith, but she gave some really good quotes that touched me, so I thought I should share them:

"Faith is the great moving power that will help us move forward in our lives..." President Hinkley.

"God is your Eternal Father, what a Marvelous birth right this is."

"Stand tall and live the gospel."

"Faith is not knowing that he can, Faith is knowing that he will."

Our guest speaker was a women named Diane Schmidt. She also gave a really good talk and had some wonderful quotes:

"We chose our most difficult challenges, because we wanted character."

"We must have TRUST in our Heavenly Father to help us get through our trials."

Our final speaker was our Stake President; President Norman. He gave one quote that hit me hard, because I believe that Heavenly Father is trying to teach me patience in waiting for that precious child to come into our family. He quoted:

"Building an Eternal Home takes a lifetime!"

I've had many trials in my life as I know all of you have had. But if we keep our faith and turn to it and our Heavenly Father we will be able to overcome these trials!

Baby Lyla Jayne!!!!

One of my really good friends from High-School had her beautiful baby girl on Jan 26th!!! This is child #2 for Erin & Corey! Lyla has an adorable older brother!
Congratulations Erin!!!!

Snow Day!!!!

A couple weekends ago, Riley and I were lucky enough to sneak away to the Cabin for a day and go Snowmobiling!!!

Look at all that snow!!!
This is Riley when we stopped for a little snack break after just getting done covering most of that pretty country behind us!
This is my self-portrait. I'm always behind the camera so I thought I would take a picture of myself!!!
While we were stopped at the Cabin we decided to try the zip-line out in the snow!!! The platform was covered in snow but it was still fun! Riley thought it would be fun to just drop off 2/3 of the way down, so he landed in the deep snow, and white-washed himself!
This is Riley trying to make a trail to the zip-line from the cabin! Don't worry Papa Rich he didn't hurt the tree too bad!!!!

Better Late than Never!!

I know it's a little late but I finally put batteries in my camera and took the time to download my pictures. These are some pictures from Christmas Morning at Riley's mom & Dads!

The guys and Chris (riley's mom) made breakfast! Riley wasn't feeling well so he sat there drinking his sprite. And the girls stood in the corner chit-chatting!!!



We were so lucky that Grandma Crandall could join us! She loved the sweat outfit Riley and I gave her!


My sis-in-law Melanie went to build-a-bear and had this bear made for my mother-in-law and on different places of it's body there is a sweet little saying from each of the grandkids!

We thank thee, O God, for a Prophet!

Our Wonderful Prophet, President Gordon B. Hinckley returned to our Father in Heaven on Sunday.

He was such an inspiration to all! He is going to be greatly missed!
He always had a smile on his face and touched the hearts of those he spoke too.
His work for our church will never be forgotten.

We love you President Hinckley and will miss you!

Check out my Slide Show!

Check out my Slide Show!

I love the holidays!! Everyone joining together for some traditional fun! I've made this slide show of some of our pictures from Christmas. Every year for Christmas eve we get matching Pajamas. This year for my Mom's family Christmas party we went on a hayride through the Spanish fork Festival of Lights, then back to our church for some warm soup and fun. Christmas means lots of togetherness and games. We're very grateful for our family and friends, and for the chance we have to be near them. (my camera is dead so I don't have any pictures from Riley's family yet, but I will add those later)

Vegas Baby!!!!

I know I'm a little late for putting my Thanksgiving pictures on here but I just got these from my sis-in-law and they were too cute, so I had to add them! We were lucky enough to get to go to Vegas with Riley's brother Greg, Laura (sis-in-law) and our nephews Payton & Jantsen for Thanksgiving. Payton was playing in a football tournament down there. We had a ton of fun hanging out with them.

This is a picture of all of us at the Coke store! My Mom is a coke-fanatic so we had to go there to buy her some things for Christmas! It's a tradition for me to get a picture taken with Coke Bear every time we are there.

This is all of the boys waiting for me to finish shopping. (They look a little bored don't they?) Yeah I took awhile, but hey I was spending Daddy's money so it's okay! =)

And this would be my handsome little NAUGHTY Nephews at the M&M store! They got in trouble so they were sent to the REJECT pile. (just kidding but we couldn't help but get their picture taken under this sign it was too cute!)

Elf Yourself...

I saw this on my cousins blog and thought it was pretty cute so I decided to make one of me and Riley. Just click on the link below and watch us get Elf'd.

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1266150661