Christmas and Such..

So today I think I trying to find any valid excuse to continue to post pone cleaning my all ways dirty floors...So I'm finally blogging about Christmas and our latest happenings! We had a great Christmas this year, my sister Summer and her two boys Caden 12 and Tristan 5 came to visit for a little over a week! It was great, I really only get to see them about 3 or 4 times a year. She stayed her with us for a few days then we headed to St. George to have Christmas on Christmas Eve with my mom. It took us way too long to get down south with the weather and at one point we had all the kids screaming and my sister looks to me and says "If you want to have 3 kids go right ahead"...We were laughing so hard! Ya this whole kid thing is not easy in fact I'm a little nervous about adding another to the mix although I know, I know it will be FINE! But I just can't help but question my maternal skills and wonder how good I'll be...You know I only get one shot to raise these babies.....that's alot of pressure? Oh, and we found out we are having another BOY! I am happy and my check book is ReAllY HaPpY! So Anyway, we had a ton of parties ( thanks Summers amazing cooking skills) and get togethers with both Aaron's and my families and Riley got totally spoiled( as usual) in fact his birthday is on the 22nd and I can't think of anything that he is possibly in need of! My house is being overrun by ToYs! Oh and the pictures of Aaron cooking.....Well he got a deep Fryer for Christmas and has been using it obsessively since...my favorite was the donuts...so yummy!

A little weary of Santa...

So we took Riley to see Santa at our ward party...As you can see in the pictures he was slightly apprehensive to sit on Santa's lap..these are the best shots we got what with all the "movement" he was making=)

The funny things you say...

So Riley is totally into Handy Manny these days....He evens trys to sing the song! In the song he says Vamanos ( in Spanish...) so we were trying to teach him to say it...Aaron broke it down into 2 words vama and nos. So Riley repeats after Aaron and says vama and then nos, naturally we were cheering and saying good job Riley....then he turns to Aaron and says daddy nose! The whole time he thought we were saying Mama nose.....so funny, we were cracking up, I had to write it down before I forgot!

While I was out ...

While down south we took a trip to Vegas for our 8 YEAR Anniversary and caught the fountain show at the Balgio just in time.... Went to dinner at the Cheesecake Factory and took a little trip down memory lane visiting our old neighborhoods and houses while we had lived there for 5 years. Aaron had not even been back since we had moved here to Lehi so it was a fun look back...happy to be where we are now...

And dropped Hunter off at In and Out.....(to go with Krissy to Disneyland...lucky kid)

Ry-Guy had the CHEESE down for picture taking....I swear he wanted me to take a hundred pictures while he said "CHEEEEESE"

I love this "CHEEEESE" picture with Nathan, Hunter and Ry-Guy

And While I was out my sweet, lovely, hubby finished the Christmas lights...surprisingly no injuries to report this year...

Feeling Good!!

So I'm feeling better than i have the last few weeks...maybe all I needed was a few good days in the sun in Mesquite! We had a great Thanksgiving weekend, I stayed with my mom on Wednesday night and kept her up until 1am! The two of us could really talk for hours about nothing really but I love our precious time together in between her working schedule...My mom and I have a really close relationship and I'm sure like most mother and daughters it is at times a love/hate relationship at times but she really is my parental rock and I know I can tell her anything with very little judgement and she will ALL WAYS give me her honest view point, I love her! Then Riley, Hunter and I headed to Mesquite and we had the usual group of Woods, Lee and Jones family...great food, good times, and as all ways a bit of drama...a tradition family Thanksgiving! It was a bit rainy on Thursday but I still let him play outside and get totally muddy...then the rest of the days were Great!!! So warm and sunny and I once again realized why people put up with those ridiculously hot months of Summer! Aaron came down on Friday...He rode is bike all the way from Salt Lake, but he said it was fine beside his sore bum! Then we rode 4 Wheelers and motorcylces, watched the motorcycle races, I took Arron to Twilght-which he liked- and we just hung out! I love it there and I love Arron's family,I am so blessed to have such a great extended family, so cute to see Riley with Grandma and Grandpa Woods.....So Picture are to come later!

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Okay not sure if its the weather ( which really isn't that bad yet) or the fact that I'm a little over 3 months preg and my belly is all ready sticking TOO far out, the nausea, heartburn, or complete apathy and exhaustion but I'm just not feeling my happy little self. I hate complaints in fact I really try to avoid being too big of a complainer ( on my good days..) but I'm just feeling a little down and tired lately. My personality makes it a little hard for me because I all ways want to be "accomplishing" something but even the things that I "should" be doing I have no desire to do. What is up? Then my little Riley is totally looking at me like okay mom what are we doing today? and I'm thinking Mommy just wants to take a nap! Hopefully, I start to feel a little "normal" again as I get further along...Anyway, I want my blog to serve as form of journalism for our family so I want to write a little more about life in general.....So here its is "life" right now.
On a different note...I saw "Twilight" with my cute friends the other night and I am going to give it 4 out of 5 stars....I liked it and I was pleasantly surprised! Worth seeing for sure!
On Wends night Riley and I are heading to St. George for Thanksgiving with Aaron family, my mom is working, but Aaron has to stay home until Friday because he is on call for work..how sad is that, he wants me to go but he will be here in Lehi...He has plenty of options, our friends are very kind so he'll be okay, but it will be our first big holiday apart...Sad uh?

Halloween

So we went again to Miles's house (Aarons brother) for Halloween....He goes all out and Aaron loves it! He dressed up again in his famous black costume and scared people as they came to the door!

Riley and Emma aka...monkey and Tinkerbell

Batman, Gabriella, Monkey, Pirate, and Ninja

We also headed over to our Cousin Amy's house for a Halloween party ...she is in the prosess of remodeling so she was able to spraypaint all the walls the black light spray paint! It was so fun thanks Am!