Riley, the composer

Riley says he just made up this song. Pretty fancy, my little piano player.

The Mail Truck

Here is Riley and Grandpa all ready to go to the Eureka Celebration where they drive the mail truck in the parade and throw out candy as they go. I don't know if Riley looks more forward to riding in the mail truck or throwing out the candy but which ever it is it FUN!

ORCHARD DAYS 2011

Well it's that time of year again. Our annual Santaquin Orchard days, which use to be Cherry days, which use to be Santaquin City Celebration. We started out the week by doing the ATV Poker run. Ned and I took Riley and Ukeo (Bryenns little boy) and went on an ATV ride making stops along the way to draw a poker card and compete in different events. At the end of the ride the one with the best poker hand and best score for the events wins a prize. Riley won a flashlight & pocket knife.

Our next big event was the 5K run/walk. Ned and I won 1st and 2ND place for our age category which sounds really impressive until you find out we were the only two in our age category. At least we are still getting out there trying.

After the 5k it was off to the Parade. Andrea and Heather did a lot of hooping and hollering every time a float came by so they always threw a ton of candy at us. Riley made out like a bandit.

Here we are having lunch in the park

After lunch we went to the "Red Barn" to compete in the western region championship PIT SPIT. We didn't win anything but had fun and then of course we had to have ice cream after it was over.

Mom's Quilt won an award at the Quilt show that was held in the Senior Citizen center.

Then it was off the the Chieftian Museun at the old school. We told Riley that Aunt Rachel went to school here and this was exactly what it looked like when she was going to school here. He was very impressed.

Riley's weird little toe trick

Who knew that Riley had freakish control of his little pinky toe?!? Here is video proof.

Huge Rainstorm

We had this huge rainstorm roll through town and this is what part of the road looked like as I was driving to work. Hope we don't flood.

Riley-ism the text version

I got this message the other night at work...

Riley-ism

Tonight over dinner I wanted to tell Reed something about Riley but I didn't want Riley to understand me so I spoke in pig Latin. Riley, who has had a fascination with other languages lately said: Mom! What language was that? Like Japanese or Chinese or what?
Me: well... It's a form of Latin.
Reed: (snorts)
Riley: (in all seriousness) Mom. The devil speaks Latin.
Me: what the huh?

Later... He was relaying a story about if the three bears broke into our house and they weren't nice like in the story he would use his superior Kung-Fu skills to get them out of our house.
Riley: but I wouldn't want to kill them because then I'd go to jubi.
Me: where?
Riley: jubi.
Me: (thinking I'm hearing a b instead of a v) where?
Riley: Jubi. It's a prison for kids.
Me: how's it spelled?
Riley: j-u-a-b
Me: (trying to keep in the laughter) well... Juab is sort of LIKE a prison.
Riley: there might be an E at the end.

Where does he come up with this stuff?