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!

Halloween

Could that bow be any bigger?

In typical Halloween fashion Ryan, Sadie and I hit the party rotation and parade at the school. Riley was a football player, Paige a diva (totally based on her personality of course), Hayley was a ladybug and Sadie was a dancer....They were all so stinking cute especially Sadie who wore a hand-me-down costume from Hayley's 3-year-old dancing career that was short lived :-). On Halloween we hit a few houses on our street and then went to a couple parties in the neighborhood and even a few haunted houses. Sadie was all about the "nandy" as she called. We were trying to get her to stay thanks each time and by the end of the night she would say but not until was to the end of the driveway...I think she was waiting to try it first! No pictures of Riley as he is way to cool to hand with his family at this age. He hung out for the mandatory hour we requested and then he was off with his buddies to hit pretty much every house in the one square mile :-)....Ryan picked him and a few buddies up later and took them to a haunted house which the girls said was so scary!. All in all it was a fun night

Disney land and cruise adventure..

Was it worth it...took a while but so cute!

Face painting

So pretty...

Aquarium

the only family pic we got all trip

Atlantis water park

Registering to get on the ship

We took this of ourselves...so

Waiting for the shuttle in Orland to start our journey

Magic Kindom...little foggy this morning but sure were excited!

Waiting for the shuttle

What a trooper for the mustard drill

Hotel lobby

Cool girl on the airplane

Character breakfast

DISNEY OR BUST.....

So for the past year and a half we have been planning this amazing Disney land and sea vacation thanks to Papa Bob and Grandma Suzanne. It was literally a trip of a life time. We flew out on Thursday morning to Orlando. None of the kids had every been on an airplane so I don't think they even slept the night before they were so excited. Backpacks full of activities, snacks and DS we were off to the airport. We arrived at the hotel and spent the next three days park hopping to Magic Kingdom and Epcot Center. There was so much to do we could have just stayed there a week. We shopped, rode rides, hung out at the pool, character breakfasts, arcade, room service. One night we went into downtown Disney and ate at Rainforest Cafe. There is this fun pin trading thing that all the employees of Disney do....they have necklaces with tons of different pins and they trade with all the kids...so the kids would stop them and trade the different pins...kind of fun...all the employees were willing to trade anything with the kids, it was great! On Sunday we got on the Disney Wonder....WOW! Anything and everything you could possible think of was there. The Oceaners lab was this amazing kids club where they did activities, played games, traveled around the ship, went to the moves, ate lunch, etc. Our kids never wanted to get checked out it was great! Our first stop was to Nassau...we did the Atlantis excursion which was so fun. We toured the hotel, hung out at the pool, ate lunch...went on the coolest lazy river every I think it took 25 minutes to go around once with rapids it was awesome! We went through the shark tank and the aquarium and did some shopping in down town before we got back on the ship. The next day we went to Cast Away Cay...the Disney Island. This place was so beautiful...the morning we got there they had a 5K run around the island and it was so beautiful. We hung out on the white sand beach with our rafts and snorkel gear, ate lunch, rented bikes and toured around, the girls got there hair braided, and in the afternoon we had the most amazing sting ray experience. We learned all about sting ray's, fed them (Paige was a little freaked out but warmed up) and then we got to swim around with them for a while. It was really awesome....The last day was a day at sea and we watched a movie, hung out by the pool...actually Ryan and I just hung out because the kids wanted to be in the lab all day :-)...All in all it was a trip of a lifetime....Thanks Dad!

School pictures 2009/2010

Love school picture time of year....find an outfit...get all spiffed up....hurry and get to school and then what in the world happens......by the time they take the pictures there hair is messed up, lunch on the shirt and sweaty from recess. All in all they turned out great ........ and I can't believe how much they grow from year to year.

Where have I been?

I know...I know...updating has been on my to-do-list for two months now and the only reason I am making the time to do it now is because it is that time of year again...the time of year when I print my blog into a scrapbook for the year. Plus my other excuse is my camera broke and I have not gotten a new one yet so I am relying on pics from friends and family and my camera on my phone. Anyway stay tuned for two months worth of updates hope to be finished by today :-)

Are they related?

Not sure why I took these pictures but WOW are these two related...Riley tried on Ryan's sunglasses and all I could see was Ryan....the bond genes sure are strong!

Broken Clavicle...

The next day she was looking a bit sad :-(

Well the clavicle seems to be the broke bone of choice in our family....The girls were playing with Sadie on the trampoline today and she tripped over a ball and fell on her shoulder. Cried for a bit but didn't think much of it (really at this age she gets hurt 5+ times a day). The next morning she woke up and Ryan told me she was calling me from the baby monitor, I went in there and she was on her belly looking like she was still asleep...I hurried and closed the door and told Ryan that she was still asleep...convinced he heard her in the monitor we both went back in there....she was awake and could not push her body up off her stomach to get up....how sad, I felt like the worst mom in the world...it was horrible, I felt so bad for her. Took her to the doctor, got an x-ray and the rest is history...broken clavicle...3 weeks in a baby dinosaur sling. She was so great about the sling although it had to be pinned to her shirt everyday for her to keep it on. It never slowed her down, she managed to learn how to get on top of the kitchen table, on top of my desk and fell off the ladder of the tramp trying to get up. This has not slowed down that girl one bit....gotta love it!