RILYN MOMENTS . . .

Rilyn is at that fun age where pretty much everything she does or says is just the cutest and most entertaining thing ever ... hahaaaa ... so I thought I would share a couple Rilyn moments that we have had here lately, to name a few!!!

* she goes over to the toilet and leans over it and spits .. finally dawned on us that she is pretending to puke ... hahaaa ... guess that waht happens when everyone in the family throws up for 3 days straight!!! LOL!!!

* she loves singing Taylor Swift's song "Mean" and although I cant say she knows all the words she def has the beat of the song and knows the key words.

* anytime you ask her if she pooped or has a stinky butt she responds with "no, I toot"!! hahaaaaa!!

* she uses our kitchen stools for any and everything she needs to reach and literally drags them all over the house .. I have busted her on the stool in her closet, the bathroom, the pantry, you name it!!!

* constantly sneeking marshmallows by the handful!!!

* counts to three by saying "three, five, five"!!

* blows you kisses and then gets the cutest giggle when you catch them! (Grandma taught her this)

* refuses to leave the house without a hat, if her brothers are wearing their hats!

I am still blown away by the amount of personality in one little girl but I have to say I absolutely love her stubborn, independent personality!!

A TOOTH FAIRY PILLOW . . .

I have been wanting to get Trey a tooth fairy pillow for a while, knowing that the time for him to start losing teeth is here (in fact I am a little surprised it hasn't happened already), but during my online shopping, every pillow that I found just wasn't what I was looking for!! I wanted something that would first of all somewhat match his room and second of all be somewhat masculine and not so childish. A couple weeks ago the creative bug that I had been waiting and waiting for finally bit me and I had an idea!! After who knows how long of procrastinating, I finally sat down and made Trey a tooth fairy pillow myself ... the letter to the tooth fairy is actually written in Trey's very own handwriting which is my favorite part and the tooth is the pocket!! The letter goes like this (in case you cant read it):

Dear Tooth Fairy

In this pocket I will lay the little tooth I lost tobay (today, hahaa). Please tonight as I sleep leave me a coin my tooth you may keep.
Love
Trey



The back of the pillow is checker flag fabric to match his riding/monster truck room!!!

PARKER ... ADULTS ONLY!!

Last weekend Clay & I were invited to an adults only trip to Parker to spend the weekend on the river with 4 other couples and all I can say is oh my goodness did we have fun ... great friends, drinks, dancing, boating all equal heaven for a weekend!! I LOVE THE RIVER!! It was so nice for Clay and I to spend the weekend together with no kiddos and I didn't think this was possible but I fell even more in love with my hubby .. its so crazy to me how it just gets better and better as time goes on!! We had such a great time and got to meet some new people ... thank you so much Jesse & Jamie for the invite and we cant wait for next year!! BIG HUMUNGOUS THANK YOU to Aunt Lacey & Cody for keepin' and lovin' on our kids all weekend, you guys are awesome and the kids had a blast ... pretty awesome to be able to go have a good time and know that our baby's are in such good hands!!

All the ladies: Me, Jennie, Jamie, Teresa & Stacey

What beats breakfast on the river!!!

Me, Stacey & Jaime

The guys: Jesse, Sean, Clayton, Darrin & Mark

AMAZING AMAZING WEEKEND!!!

DADDY'S DAY

For Father's Day we spent the weekend at The Pointe Tapatio .. the perfect way to celebrate Father's Day without Clay having to work his butt off loading a trailer or getting the boat ready, etc... me and the kids can throw him in the truck and he can have a full weekend of fun with no work!! Even though our weekend didn't go exactly as planned we still managed to get in some quality daddy time and relaxation by the pool (well as much relaxation as you can get with 1,4 and 6 year old little kiddos)!!! So we got to the resort Friday afternoon and got in a few hours by the pool before heading back up to the room to get ready for dinner!! I thought it would be fun to put on a little something nicer than the norm and take daddy out for a nice dinner of his choice ... which turned out to be Aunt Chilada's since it was pretty close to the hotel. Up to this point everything was going great and the weekend was off to a wonderful start ... until about 20 minutes into dinner when Rhett started complaining that he had a really bad headache! So Clay went out to the truck to get him some Motrin from the diaper bag and in the 5 minutes he was gone Rhett just completely cut loose and tossed um all over himself and the table (I know probably a little too much info) .. so the waitress brought us a bunch of towels, we got our food boxed to go and were out the door. Once back at the room we got Rhett all situated in bed, ate our dinner (although at this point nobody really had much of an appetite) and called it a night. Then at about midnight Clay & I woke up to Rilyn throwing up ... and now we were thinking oh no!!

Saturday morning, Rhett woke up feeling great and ready to rock and roll but Rilyn was a little bit off ... so I stayed in the room with her while the boys headed down to the pool!! Rilyn took a super early nap and when she woke up she seemed to be back to her normal self so we got our suits on, made some lunch and about that time the boys came back up to the room for lunch. We ate lunch and then headed back down to the pool!!

Bradley and his family as well as Brandon and his family joined us by the pool on Sat and Bradley & Lorie got a room for the night as well, so that was fun .. the kids got to hang with their cousins and we ordered in pizza for dinner (sounds crazy but ordering in pizza is huge for my kids because we have no pizza delivery in New River so they think its just the coolest thing)!!

Rilyn ended up taking another nap ... this time pool side ... literally on the edge of the pool by where we were all hanging out so we covered her up with damp towels and she slept for quite a while!!

Clayton playing with all the kids in the pool ... just a big ol kid himself!!

Our Family!!

The Ingram Fam: Brandon, Dana, Brayden & Jade

The Ingram Family: Bradley, Lorie, Corey, Aly & Cort

Saturday night everything went wrong, again ... hahaaaa ... Clay & Trey were literally alternating turns throwing up the entire night and then I felt it coming on Sunday morning so I packed up the room as quick as I could and we headed home for literally a good 2 days of sickness and recovery!! I am very very happy to say that we are all finally feeling on top of our game again and up off the couch moving around!!!

HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY DADDY'S DAY TO OUR DADDY, THE BESTEST DADDY IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD ... WE ALL LOVE YOU SO SO MUCH!!

ISR . . . WEEK TWO

Week 2 of swimming lessons was just as rough as week 1 if not worse for Rilyn. She went from swimming to learning the back float which she is not much at all a fan of!! She went from screaming "noooooo noooooo" to " I want out" hahaaaaa!! It was funny because her teacher thought she was screaming "oouuhh" so she said to me "I promise I'm not hurting her" ... hahaaaa ... I told her oh no she is yelling I want out!!! Aside from all the screaming, Rilyn is doing an awesome job and picking it all up rather quickly!! By the end of week 2 she can swim to the bar and get herself into the back float without any help!!

Here she is in the beginning of the week learning the concept of the back float!!

Swimming to the bar!!

The back float with no assistance!!! Cant you just see how much she loves it!!

On this particular day I had to bribe her with the fact that daddy was going to come watch, otherwise it would have been a knock out drag out wrestling match to even get her swim suit on and get her in the truck!! Every time I told her it was time to go get ready for swim she would simply say "no" and book it the oppositte direction until finally I told her daddy was coming to watch and couldn't wait to see how good she could swim ... after that I still got some serious hesitation but was finally able to get her dressed and in the truck!!!

YUMA and the RIVER . . .

Last weekend we made a trip down to Yuma to stay with the Haines Family and spend a day at the river, my most favorite vacation place EVER, in fact Clay & I hope to one day have some kind of place on the river. Luckily we were able to get out of town at a pretty decent time on Friday so when we arrived in Yuma we had time to stop by the Brandenberger's house and see my Aunt Donna & Uncle Steve and to our surprise, Jake even got home before we left so we got to visit with him as well! They fed us sonoran tacos and beer and we had a really really great visit!! Aunt Donna busted out Jared, Jake & Jason's huge box of lego's from when they were kids and Trey & Rhett were in hog heaven!! Rilyn had so much fun throwing the ball for the dog ... huge surprise because she normally doesn't particularly like dog's!!

Donna, Me & Jamie!! This was an extra special trip for me because the 3 of us have been friends since kindergarten and have always kept in really good touch but this was the very 1st time we have all 3 gotten together with all of our kids!! Pretty cool stuff!!

Rhett & Taylor were total buds the entire weekend ... I'm thinkin Taylor might have a little bit of an eye for Rhett!! Haahaaa!!

Clayton helping Trey reel in his carp!! The boys each caught two fish, all of them pretty good size!! I have a feeling that mom is in for a lot of fishing in the future as the boys have caught the fishing bug as bad as daddy!! The good news is that they are at a point where they can cast & reel all by themselves!! In fact they both reeled in a bass all on their own last weekend!!

Trey's carp!!

Rhett's catfish!!

The whole clan: (mine) Rilyn, Rhett, Trey (Donna's) Teagan, Koen (Jamie's) Jack, Taylor

Jesse (our captain) took us into this little cove thru the tully's and everyone got out and hiked up to this old Miner's house, where someone used to live and mine!! Rilyn was sleepin on the boat so I didn't go but the boys loved it and I sent daddy with the camera!! From the pic's it looked pretty interesting! When they got back Trey told me "momma they even cooked with a stick and I bet there's no way they could have had pizza"!!!

Once we were back at the dock's Jamie gave all the kids some left over bread & chips and they got to feed the ducks ... Rilyn absolutely loved it ... she was so excited I thought she was going to go right over the edge of the boat!!

Rhett, Taylor & Koen after bath time ... 2 monsters and a lion!!!

There are tons and tons more pictures I could share of our weekend, we had such a great time!! Thank you Haines Family for letting us crash your pad and for taking us to the river ... we will be back sooner than later!!!

A JUNE BUG BIRTHDAY . . .

Last Saturday for Cody's birthday we went fishing on the back side of Lake Pleasant and then headed over to Lay & Cody's house to bbq and jam out to some live music!! All the kids and Daddy were very excited to go fishing and this was Rilyn's very 1st time fishing so on the way out there we stopped by WalMart where she picked out her very own Dora fishing pole and Trey, Rhett & Charlotte each got to pick out a new lure for their poles!! Then it was time for the infamous hike out to the water, my least favorite part!!

Clay & I, Cody & Lay, Brad & Noel ...

Rilyn & Aunt Lacey chillin in the water!!

Trey fishin!!

Rhett Fishin!!

Rilyn did so awesome for her first time and picked up the whole concept very quickly, in fact after a few cast's with Aunt Lacey's help, she began refusing any help and kept pushing Aunt Lacey's hands off the pole so she could do it all herself!!!

Fishing with daddy!!

Fishin with Aunt Lacey!!

Sooooo on to this picture ... hahahaaaaa ... did I mention the hike earlier ... ok well it sucks ... and then when you blow out a flip flop ... it REALLY SUCKS!!! So on our way back as I was crossing the water I completely blew out a flip flop that was in no way fixable (not even for my husband who can almost always come up with some way to fix everything) this left me with a long walk thru rocky terrain with one shoe ... after about 100 feet or so I knew I had to come up with something because my tender foot wasn't gonna make it all the way back on one shoe!! Then it occured to me that Rilyn's flip flops were in the 50 pound bag (hahaa) that Clay was carrying ... so I got her flip flop out, forced it onto my foot and hobbled my way back!! Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever thought that a. Rilyn's flip flop would even go on my foot and b. that it would save the day!!!

After our adventurous fishing trip we got to enjoy some live music, dancing, good food & tons of fun at Aunt Lacey's house!! Happy Birthday Cody, ya ol' June Bug!!!