Garrett

I just wanted to do a quick little post about Garrett. Lately he has been saying some funny things to me that I wanted to remember.

The other day I was trying to take something away from him - I don't remember what it was, but he said in a tough sounding voice, "I am stronger than you!".

Last week he lost or took off his glasses in our green belt. I couldn't find them until the next day. I told him that we needed to go look for his glasses. He told me "no", and then I said, "Don't you want to find your glasses?". His response was "No, I hate them.".

On Monday I was taking him outside to show him something. He went to go get his shoes, and I told him that he didn't need his shoes on. He said, "Oh, no shoes, just our feet!"

Riley turns 8!!

At the end of March, Riley turned 8 years old. I can't believe my kids are growing up so fast!! He got to have a party with friends. We went to the park and the kids had an Easter Egg hunt, and played a little golf (it was a little hard to hit the ball with long grass), and some baseball. They ate pizza and had cupcakes. Riley seemed to have a great time. I forgot to bring my camera so I didn't have it until the end when Stefan brought it to me.




We had to light the cupcake in the box because the wind was so strong and kept blowing the candles out. I was just hoping that the flames weren't going to catch the whole box on fire.

The boys all seemed to have a good time!




The next day, on his birthday, we had to run some errands. We wanted to get Riley a Cub Scout shirt for his birthday so we had to go up to north Mesa to the Scout Shop to get what he needed. We tried to make it seem like this was a fun trip for him, even though we realized that why we were way up in that part of Mesa that there were several stores that we needed to go to. Luckily there was the Bass Pro Shop right there so Stefan took the kids in there so they could see the fish and other neat things in there. Riley also got to practice shooting a gun - a fake one at their shooting range. He thought that was a lot of fun. Then we went to Chik-fil-a for lunch. We chose a place to eat that had a play area for the kids so Riley would think this trip was all for him. :)
That evening we had foil dinners and roasted marshmallows. I put 8 candles in a marshmallow for him to blow out.






We are so grateful to have Riley in our family. He brings a lot of joy to us, and I love his smile and laugh. He is a good worker too!

*I wanted to post a baby picture on here, but I don't have one on my computer since I didn't have a digital camera when he was a baby, and we don't have a scanner.

A Trip to the Tucson Zoo

Over Spring Break I took the kids down to the Tucson Zoo. I personally like the Tucson Zoo way better than the Phoenix Zoo. You can get so much closer to the animals, you don't have so much walking to do, it is way cheaper, and they have a polar bear too. My sisters-in-law came too with their kids. We had a good time, even though it was pretty crowded, and a little on the warm side.











I know it's hard to see what this is a picture, but this is a little monkey. This monkey was so cute, but for some reason it seemed like it did not want it's picture taken. I was trying to make noises to get the monkey to look at me, but it would not look. One time I had my camera aimed and ready to snap the picture, and the monkey looked really quick, and it seemed like when he saw the camera he quickly turned away. I don't know if the monkey was that smart, but it sure seemed like it. I thought it was funny!





The whole crew!


Garrett being silly - I don't remember what why he was doing that.

WAY BEHIND!!

Ok, for those of you who haven't noticed, I am way behind on my blogging. It would take me forever to catch up (or at least a few weeks), but I really want to blog about some things that have happened just recently. So, I am going to skip ahead and blog the things that have recently happened. Then, hopefully I will get back to things that happened a while back ago. These are the things I hope to blog about in the near future.
- A day trip to Sedona
- A fun family dinner
- Halloween
- Carson's 5th Birthday
- Christmas

There may be a few more things that I forgot about. Hopefully in the next couple of days you will see new postings of the the recent happenings in our lives.