Andrea's New Office

Andrea is transferring to to her bank branch in the Payson Walmart on the 1st to be the assistant manager and as Riley and I were doing a little shopping I noticed this nice decoration on her soon-to-be desk. I couldn't resist taking a picture. I think Annie is going to love her new office, especially if this is how they start things off! Shhh... We won't tell her about it though. It will be a nice surprise for her first day.

The Cuteness that is Riley

I just thought I would post some pictures of how adorable my little son is. (Also don't judge my parenting skills on how loose the seatbelt is, I did tighten it before we started driving. He is very much into a "I can do it myself" stage and this includes putting his seatbelt on.)

WARNING:

Love for this little guy is contagious. If you aren't careful it will infest you like a disease. A wonderful, wonderful disease and it will become all you think about when you are around him. How you just want to pick him up and hug and kiss the life out of him. This would be bad. Very very bad. But hugs and kisses are okay. As long as they are not the life-threatening kind. I just thought I would pass this warning on. You know, because I care.

Movie in the Park

Ok, so this post is a little belated. This actually occurred on the 5th of September, but sometimes I am a little slow in getting pictures out of my camera and onto my computer. And then it becomes a whole separate time line for me to get them actually into a blog post. Anyway, Santaquin City put on a movie 'in the park' which is actually the large grassy area behind the old school. Which I guess is actually a park. I just tend to think of a park as an area separate from any other function. But I am off the subject. Here is a picture of the screen on the side of the building....

Here Dad is standing in front of the space we claimed as our own. It pays to get there early. You get your choice of spots. There were actually quite a few people who showed up the later it got.

And while the people running the show were waiting for it to get dark enough to actually see the movie, they had a bouncy slide set up for the kids. Here are a few pictures of Riley sliding down.
I know they are a little blurry but I was taking them with my phone and it doesn't do so well with the action shots.

Andrea and Casey brought Zach and Austin but they showed up a little later and I was kind of out of camera taking mode by then. Anyway, after we had our fun with the bouncy slide we snuggled up to watch the movie. The adults took the chairs and the kids piled on the blankets. Here is a picture of Grandpa and Riley testing out the comfort of the ground. Doesn't Grandpa look like he is enjoying himself?

Once it was dark enough they played 'Meet the Robinsons.' Here is a really bad shot of what the screen looked like in the dark. Hey, I don't claim to be a professional photographer.
Anyway, that is all. Hope you enjoyed the pics.

Riley Working at the Post Office

We were out of stamps so we decided to take some lunch out to Grandpa at the post office. Of course, Riley thinks that he works at the post office with Grandpa so the first thing he said when we pulled up was to ask if he was going to work. Grandpa got him all set up with an official post office sticker. I didn't get to have one because I work for the police, not the post office. After he was "official" wouldn't you know it but Grandpa put him to work. It sure is a hard life being the grandson of a Post Master. (Actually, Grandpa had Riley laughing so hard he spit out water onto the floor, so we had him clean it up. I just couldn't resist a picture of my baby working at his "first job.")

Riley and Olivia

We had the pleasure recently of getting to hang out with Olivia for a couple of days. Riley sure loves to be with his cousin. Here are some pictures of what they did. Olivia came with us to story time. Riley was of course, very protective of his sweet little cousin.
Here is Sherry, the story time teacher. She is great, Riley loves listening to her read stories.
And is anyone surprised that when she needed people to volunteer to help hold pictures as part of a song that Riley was the first one up there?
After the stories and songs, the kids get to sit down and color some crafts. Here are Riley and Liv working on their fish tanks.
And here is the finished product, along with the scooby doo books they picked out to take back to our house and read.
And what fun would it be if we didn't go to the park? Here are Riley and Olivia looking out of a hole in the plastic tunnel that connects the different ends of the playground together.
Here the kids are, climbing up onto the playground.
Whee! They love to hold onto the bar and swing a few times before they slide down.
And here is the tire swing.
It's hard to get the kids to smile into the sun to get a good picture.
But I think their favorite part was when they discovered that the water fountain sprays straight up into the air.
It's a water fight!

Riley's Bike

Riley has been spending a lot of time on his bike this year so I thought I would post some of the more recent pictures. This first picture is an addition of Riley's license plate that Momma Lynn and Grandpa Brad got him when they went to South Dakota. Here he is riding his bike for the first time with the new license plate.
We had a few days with some really heavy rain lately. After one such rainstorm, we decided to go on a walk down to my parents house. Well of course there was not a puddle that we passed without Riley wanting to drive his bike through it. He had some pretty interesting ideas as to what was on the bottom of the puddle. Something about a ladder down to a place where there were skeletons that were alive and zombies that were dead and scooby doo investigating.
We took a walk down through the orchards on Sunday. When we passed some large sunflower bushes, we decided to stop and decorate Riley's bike with them. Here is Grandpa Brad threading the flowers through the handle bars.
And here is Grandpa Brad and Momma Lynn posing with our little flower child.
Here is a picture from the front. Riley made it maybe a mile before he decided that he was done with having flowers on his bike and pulled them all off.

A Pineapple Tree

Momma Lynn and Riley posing in front of what Riley calls a pineapple
tree (instead of a pine tree)