Riley may not "get" jokes yet...

Joke: why does a shark only like salt-water?
Rileys answer: because he doesn't like un-salty water.
Real answer: because pepper water makes him sneeze.

2nd Joke: why was the frog so happy?
Rileys answer: because he's great!
Real answer: because he ate everything that bugged him.

A JOKE FOR TODAY

Did you hear that Farah Fawsett died and when she arrived in heaven God told her she could have one wish granted as she enter the pearly gates. She said "I wish for all the little children to be protected" so God killed Michael Jackson.....................................

HAPPY BIRTHDAY REED 2009

Here are some random pictures that we took during our family birthday party for Reed. We did the usual outdoor barbeque with chicken, corn on the cob, fresh fruit salad and rolls. When the sun started sinking in the west we came indoors to avoid the mesquitoes and the dreaded "West Nile Virus". We played games, had cake and ice cream and just talked and laughed. What a great family we have.

Blowing out the Candels

It's hard to believe that these two beauties were both once "Miss Santaquin"

I was so insulted today when I went swimming with Riley and only had to pay $2.00 because I am now over 55 and Riley had to pay $4.00. I guess I have officially arrived at Old Geezerhood.

Here Riley and Mom are reading the story about how Zero Friends came to be. By the way Adam, thanks for my T-shirt. I love it.

We have lots of Scared Friends at our house! Here are a few of them.

Bella was in the middle of all the frakus never missing a chance for a free meal.

She loves Riley........or is it the food stuck to his face?

Mom thinks it's funny to put a towel over Bella head and watch her go nuts.

Happy Birthday Reed.

Riley-ism

We were driving down main st. coming back from the pool today when we
passed two missionaries getting into a car on the side of the road. I
said "look Riley, Missionaries!" Riley scrambles to push himself as
far out of the car window as his car seat will allow and yells "Teach
and preach the gospel!" to them as we drive past. Then he has Grandpa,
Reed and himself sing "I hope they call me on a mission."

I love my kid.

Super cool!

Dad modeling his Father's Day present.

A wild storm

Rileys tball game got rained out at literally the last minute
yesterday when a wild storm blew through Santaquin. It knocked down
power lines and we lost power for about an hour and a half. It also
split this tree in half. I don't know if it was hit by lightning or
what but it is split right down the middle.

Water Baby

My little guy loves the water!

From todays paper

The head of Florida's dept of corrections admitted in may that at
least 43 children (including a 5-yr old) who observed their parents'
prison jobs as part of "take your child to work day" in April, were
playfully zapped by 50,000 volt stun guns. DOC secretary walt mcneil
said the demonstrations (in three of the states 55 prisons) even
included one wardens kid, but that only 14 were individually shot
(with the rest part of hand-holding circles feeling a passing
current.) twenty-one employees were disciplined.

I know that I am extremely morbid because I find this article
hilarious. Especially given the recent events down south.

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Riley-ism

I made chicken for dinner tonight. Nothing fancy but Riley cheered
when we told him. Then when I put the plate in front of him he goes
"Great Ceaser's Ghost!" I about died laughing.

Sacrament Meeting Busy Work

As anyone with a little kid knows, Sacrament meeting is always a challenge in keeping your kid entertained and reverent at the same time. I have a giant bag that practically throws my shoulder out each Sunday filled with stuff to keep Riley entertained. The stuff inside ranges from Highlights picture searches, quiet books that mom and Jan have made for me, crayons and paper, scripture story books, just to name a few. It is really quite massive because there is really no telling what will hold Riley's interest once we get to church. This Sunday I was lucky enough not to have to fully empty my bag of tricks. The pad of paper and crayons were what he wanted. First he drew me a picture of the Elephant from the zoo that he saw yesterday for Liv's birthday. It has chains on its legs and there is a rainbow over head.
Then I distracted him for a while with his math questions. I couldn't find his page from yesterday in my bag so I took a picture of a previous Sunday's page so that you could see what I mean.

After he was done with that I wrote him some questions and let him write his answers. He was so stinkin' cute. He would turn away from me so I couldn't see his answers and only show me after he had them all written. He has been a little obsessed with the Holy Ghost lately because that is what they have been talking about in his Sunday School class and maybe we need to work a little harder with him on distinguishing the idea that he and Heavenly Father are separate people but I thought it was too cute not to share. Oh, and the second answer is in the clouds. (C-L-O-D-S) He is all about spelling phonetically which doesn't always work out well but he's 5 I guess I can cut him a little slack. :)

Early Father's Day Present

Momma Lynn got Grandpa a new self propelled lawn mower for his father's day present. Apparently, now that Grandpa is getting "old" he needs a little power in his tools. He went this past Saturday and picked it up a little early. (I swear, its almost as bad as Riley with a new toy.)


And speaking of Riley... now that the mower practically pushes itself Riley got to help Grandpa mow the lawn.
Gee. Lucky Grandpa.

If you catch a corner of my car window at the bottom of these pictures, that's because Mom and I sat in my car to watch. It has been pouring rain solid for what seems like the past two weeks straight so its a little on the chilly side, comparatively. Did I mention that the grass was still wet from the rain shower that had just ended like an hour before? But Grandpa couldn't wait. And really with all this rain it could very well have been another week until the lawn gets dry enough to actually mow, so I guess you can't blame him for not wanting to wait a week to try out his new present.

Grandpa sure enjoyed himself. And here is a picture of Riley's favorite part. The box. He would climb in, close the lid then pretend he was a zombie and rise from the grave. Weirdo. But I love him.

A new visitor...

One of the things that I like most about summer is the chance to spend so much of it outside. There are so many things to do. Like these pictures below. Here is Momma Lynn rocking Riley and Grandpa on the hammock.

And here is Grandpa carrying Riley around... Not the most conventional mode of travel but Riley was giggling up a storm.

Whoops!
Another thing about this time of year that I love is how everything is so green and lovely. Dad has added a few new additions to the flower beds in his back yard.

Last year it was fairies... This year its toadstools.

And of course the toads to go on them...

Or are they frogs? But really who can tell the difference?

Aren't they cute? This one has a little solar panel and has a light that turns on when it gets dark.

Riley loves them too.

And they must work because lo and behold, they brought out a real frog to come and play.

Riley was ecstatic!

Riley's idea of how to play with the poor frog is to let it hop away and then run and pick it back up.

By the end poor froggie was exhausted.

But Riley knew just what to do.. He put him in Grandpa's little toad house.
And maybe shut the door so he couldn't get out.

Here are some final pictures of the frog enjoying his new abode!