1st grade trip to the Zoo

The group before we started on our journey!

Today Hayley's 1st grade class went to the Phoenix Zoo...again no camera so I had to rely on my trusty phone for my 2 pictures :-). Oh well its the memories....and at least we have some proof to help us remember. I took Sadie and i think she loved it more than Hayley....she walked around every where and would have nothing to do with the stroller! Hayley's favorite part was the petting zoo...where they got to brush the goats...disgusting was my first thought but at 6 that sounds AWESOME right? When we got to the turtles they must have been playing leap frog because they were trying to climb on top of each other :-)....at least that is the story I am sticking to when it comes to 6-year-old's wondering what they were doing on top of each other.

Family Pictures 2009

This is pretty much what half of the pictures looked like...someone not looking or just a second to late for the perfect shot :-)

Yes...this is me

Someone on another boat took this...little awakard but we asked another boat to pull up and take our picture...oh well it turned out cute!

This chick was crazy...I am sure she was confunsed about why were not in our bathing suits and why we couldn't swim.

The cute little couple...hee hee!

Hayley Hannah

Riley Ryan

Paige Patricia

Every year we take some sort of family pictures and make a Christmas card. This year we sat around the kitchen table looking at all of our old cards and all of the cards we received from are friends and family last year trying to come up with an idea for a fun card....when Ryan said "the lake". We are lake people and we should take our picture at the lake. This revelation came about 2 p.m. and we planned on taking the picture around 4 at our friends house in their front yard. The outfits I had coordinated were not really conducive to the lake but what the heck....oh ya a couple minor problems to overcome we had not asked anyone to drive all the way to the lake on an hours notice on a Sunday afternoon and we have no camera...what are we doing? Anyway after I got everyone ready we borrowed Dusty's camera and headed to the lake on our own and this is the final product...not bad for some rookie photographers :-)

Everybody loves toothpaste

After getting out of the shower this morning I was greeted by this.......

Yep, that is my sweet little 21 month old baby girl who hijacked Riley's tube of toothpaste and squeezed the entire thing and spread it all over her body like lotion...really who doesn't need a good toothpaste body rub right ? I just had to laugh she thought it was so fun! Love you Sader B!

Stolen bike

Riley called tonight from Tanners (his best friend) hysterical....I could not even understand him he was so upset. When I finally got the story....his bike had been stolen from Tanner's garage! OMG...the bike he worked for months to buy after having another bike stolen. I could not take it he has been so responsible he will not even leave it outside while he goes in to open the garage to put it away. The next morning when Riley was saying prayers he said "let the person who has my bike ride it a little longer and then give it back"....only him....We decided to make flyer....and it paid off! Long story short...it was found at the junior high and he got it back. He was so excited....and the kid came over to give Riley a letter he had written to apologize and my sweet 10-year-old boy felt so bad for him he started to cry when he read the letter :-(. The kid was really sorry and hopefully will never it do it again but it was a great lesson on both sides and hopefully all my children realize how serious it is to steal and how many people are effected by each choice you make in life...

Pop Warner Football

At the beginning when we signed up and went to the first 4 hour practice I was trying to decide if I thought this was a cult or just something parents do to punish there kids....but now I have joined the club of ridiculously crazy people to put everything in their life on hold for 2 months of football season and I LOVE IT! I thought for sure Riley would get hit or hit someone and breakdown because he I know how sensitive my baby boy is but no such luck....he is a maniac out there! He played offense, defense and special teams doing kick off blocking and even punted a few times. This kid was made to play football he is a blocking machine. The made a play for him called special B...where they hiked it to him and he would run it. He was so excited and everyone was yelling different orders from the side lines "move up, get low, back up, etc", the ball gets hiked right to his face and he drops it....oh man I could have cried but they ran it again and he held onto and ran it through the gap. He absolutely loves it. For a few years he has always said he wanted to be a professional baseball player and now he is convinced he is going to play football for BYU that way he won't have to play on Sundays. He has loved every minute of this season....from the first month of 4 hour practices five days a week to 8 a.m. away games where he has to leave by 5:30 to get warmed up. We are proud of you Riley!