Monday, July 7, 2008

Father's Day (better late than never)

I know I have been horrible about blogging lately, we have been really busy, so I will try to get caught up!
We had a really good fathers day! We celebrated Saturday night with my family! BBQ at Mom & Dads.
Riley, Grandma Evey, Mom, Josh & Joslyn, Dad & Gus
Kaylee Shay and Baby Gus
Joslyn & her Daddy
Joslyn & Riley enjoying their Creamies

After dinner the guys had a horse-shoe tournament. Riley & Dad
Josh & Brent (it was young guys against old guys)
Little Gus-Gus

Sunday we had a BBQ at Riley's Mom & Dad's

Chris, Payton, Laura, Greg & Papa Rich
The kids had a ball playing with Gus!

Monday, June 23, 2008

Art City Days!

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Meet our newest family member!!!

Sunday, June 8, 2008

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

I worry every time that Riley goes out of town that I'm going to be really lonely! But thanks to wonderful Friends and Family, I always have a full schedule when he is gone!

May 30th was my sis-in-law Jane's Birthday. So they had a BBQ Friday night at their house.

Jane, Bruce (her nephew) and Gracie-Girl!

After dinner we went out by their fire-pit and roasted smores!
Jane & Amy
Then Saturday my mom and I went out to Katie's parents house to help out with Kaylee's 6 birthday party! It was a fun day!
They played pin the nose on the clown! (this is our princess Jojo!)


Then they played a matching game and the "jumping beans" game. Joslyn loved watching her "sissy" play this game!



Joslyn trying so hard to get her beans in the jar! The few that did go in actually bounced off the cup she's holding in her hand!



Then the girls made little gardens! Okay so it was vanilla ice-cream with crunched up oreo's as the dirt and gummy worms! Then they had little paper flowers clued to straws to put in it! My mom made the cute "purse" cake!


Joslyn wasn't into putting the "dirt or worms" into her ice-cream. She ate it and then wanted to plant her flower in the real garden! I had a lot of fun, thanks Katie for letting us be apart of this special day!

Okay so I have to be honest! I spent most of the party holding Joslyn and Kaylee's little brother Kayden and wrestling with Jojo!

*After the party, Mom and I went back to her house. My dad and brother had gone up the our cabin for the weekend, so we decided to go to dinner and a movie! After the movie was over we did a little shopping then went back to her house for another chic-flick!

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Happy 5th Anniversary!

Riley and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary on May 31st! We spent the weekend in Midway at the Zermatt Spa and Resort. It was a very relaxing weekend! We got up there Friday night, checked into our room went and had dinner and then headed for the hot-tub!
This is a picture of Riley relaxing on our king-size bed before dinner! Saturday we got up went to the bakery there at the resort and got some breakfast. Then we went for a drive up the canyon and over to Park City!

This picture does not do the view justice! This is a picture I took looking back at Midway/Heber from up the canyon. It was such a pretty drive.

I know this picture looks kind of weird. I actually took this one for my dad! This is in one of the shops on Main in Park-city. I took this picture to show my dad this cool train that went around the ceiling of the store.

After we got done in Park City we went back to the resort and had a 90 minute couples massage in the spa. It was so nice. We then went to dinner and again went and sat in the hot-tub.

Sunday morning we slept-in, drove to Heber for lunch and then headed home!

It's crazy to think that we've been married for 5 years, together for 6. Time has sure flown by.

Riley thanks for a wonderful first 5 years. I'm looking forward to an eternity together. I love you!

Happy Birthday Mom!!!

May 28th was my mom's 46th birthday! We had a BBQ with grandma & grandpa, Brent, Brooke and the girls at my parents home. We had a yummy dinner, and then the boys took each other on in a horse-shoe tournament!
My gorgeous mom, cutting her 2 birthday cakes that grandma made for her.
Grandpa slowly eating his hamburger!
Grandma bringing over her ice-cream and hot-fudge to go with her yummy lemon cake and brownies she made!

Monday, May 26, 2008

Happy Memorial Day!!!

Friday night after work Riley and I headed off for the first camping trip of the year! We have usually gone on at least 2 or 3 by now, but for some reason we were late going this year, and we went alone! Mom, Dad, Josh and girls decided to go to the cabin instead.
From the get go I started to wonder if us going was such a great idea. While we were pulling into the gas station on our way out, some guy came flying up the side of the line of cars behind us and almost ran into the trailer, while laying on his horn. He then decided to follow us into the gas station and him and Riley got into a little yelling match. I was a nervous wreck, but luckily neither one of them got out of their vehicles and the guy drove away.
Then on our way down there our truck decided to get a little warm and we had to keep pulling off the side of the road. It never fails that the first camping trip of the year, something or everything always goes wrong.
So then when we got down the Sand Dunes and we were unloading the Motorcycle and 4-wheeler, Riley noticed that the front sprocket on his motorcycle was completely warn down, and he wouldn't be able to drive it. We then finished getting things out of the trailer and went to bed, since our trip down took us so long. It was one of the longest nights of my life, it was so cold.
Saturday morning we got up and had some breakfast, then decided to drive back to Payson to buy a new sprocket so Riley could ride his bike.
When we got back and finished getting camp set-up, Riley's mom and dad pulled in with their 4-wheelers. We were so happy to see them. The 4 of us went on a long ride up to Cherry Creek Reservoir (pictured above).
This would be a picture of our camp! We had a pretty nice little spot. You should have seen some of the "cities" of trailers down there.
This would be Papa Rich sitting by the fire waiting for dinner !

Chris and Riley cooking dinner! We had pork-chops, dutch-oven potatoes, corn, and fruit! I swear we eat so much better when we are camping then we do at home! After dinner Rich and Chris headed home. Riley and I sat around the fire for a little while then decided to go in and watch a movie. While we were watching the movie I noticed a small light outside by the fire. At first I thought I was just seeing things then it started moving. I told Riley I thought someone was out there, and the next thing we knew they hit the trailer. We turned on the outside lights and went out but couldn't see anyone. So we then went back to our movie. About 15 min later they did it again. So Riley went and sat outside to try to catch them, but they never came back. He then came in and decided we should turn the movie and generator off. He thought it was because of the generator that they were bugging us. So he took his Ipod and watched a movie on it instead, while I layed awake in bed, worried they were coming back. So another sleepless night for me!
Sunday morning we got up, had some cinnamon rolls for breakfast and headed over toward the dunes. We had a fun time and went on a 30 mile ride. This is Riley one of the times we stopped for a drink break.

When we got back to the trailer, Riley got out his Remote control truck, and played with it while i was making dinner. After dinner we were sitting out by the fire when our little friends came back. They yelled from a far "hey remember last night when I hit your trailer?" Riley's response was; "yeah." Then the kid said, "why don't you come after me and do something about it?" We didn't say or do anything after that but just went on enjoying our fire. We heard them come back again so Riley shown the flashlight in their direction and you could hear them run away, and then take off on their 4-wheeler. It then started to rain pretty good, so that was the end of our little friends.

This morning we got up and made breakfast, then went for another short little ride. When we got back to the camp, Riley decided to get his truck out again and this time made a jump for it. "Boys and their Toys!"


I let Riley play for a little while, then we cleaned up camp and headed home! It was quite the exciting weekend!

Cabin Get-Away!

The week before last Riley was out of town on an install. He left Tuesday and came back on Saturday. So Friday night, I snuck away to our cabin in Scofield with my family!

Joslyn immediately found the toy cupboard!

Then "Little Miss Princess" (who has us all wrapped around her little finger) wanted to go for a walk, so since the rest of my family was busy un-winterizing the cabin I got to go for a walk with her.

The Princess wanted Mac & Cheese and Cheetos for dinner, what the Princess wants the Princess gets.

Okay so as my dad would put it I'm a "Guppy Aunt." I found these princess cupcake holders, therefore the Princess and I needed to make cupcakes. She was such a big helper!
While Jojo and I were busy playing, her Daddy (my big-brother) was busy vacuuming! Yeah not a site you will see everyday, I had to capture it on my camera!
Mom, of course was busy making dinner for all of us!

Dad, too with a vacuum, out on the front porch!
Saturday morning before I headed home we made the icing for our cupcakes! And of course we had to eat one or two! Joslyn ate enough icing for 10 cupcakes, but only ate about 1/2 of a cupcake!

She then went over and made a slide out of this mattress! We had a water leak when they turned the water on, so we had to pull this mattress out of one of the bedrooms and Jojo loved it!
She has such an imagination, and loves to play hide & seek, and pretend to be sleeping. It was a fun night away. I love this little girl to death, if you can't tell. She has been such a blessing to our family!!!

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Adoption Profile!!!

Our Online Adoption Profile is back up and running! You can click on the link to the right to see it!