The Rigby Bunch

I know it's been A LONG time since my last post! And a lot has been going on these last few months in the Rigby home. Summer has come and gone but not without leaving us with some fun times and great memories. We kept busy with baseball, soccer and 4H fun.

Britton's 3rd year playing baseball.

Bradyn's first year playing soccer...she loved it!

Bryndi's first year doing chickens at the fair. Her chicken's name is Cheech. She got grand prize in showmanship.

Oh and we can't forget the pig wrestling at the fair!

Cousin Emilee Crapo, me, sister-in-law Whitney, and sister Jennie

made up this totally awesome team called the Piggly Wiggly Gals! We had a lot of fun and ended up taking 3rd place. Everyone needs to wrestle a pig just to say you've done it!

Brooks is growing up fast, he's a big 6 months old now. He went to the doctor on Monday. He weighs 15.5 lbs and is 26.5 inches long. He is trying real hard to crawl and sit up now. It won't be too much longer!

Love the crazy hair do!

We even had a couple birthdays to celebrate last month. Braylie's birthday was September 1st and she turned 4 years old. She had a fun birthday with lots of fun stuff to play with! Now that she's 4 she's learning to do all kinds of fun things like write her name, learning colors, shapes and numbers. She'll be ready for school in no time!

Rowdy's birthday was on September 15th and he turned 34 years old...ya old man! I think Rowdy had a good birthday. He had the opportunity to spend his birthday with the kids while I went to work.

That's the other crazy thing in the Rigby house....I am a working woman now! I work part-time at the hospital as admitting clerk. It's a great job and works out well with Rowdy's work schedule so that he can be home with the kids when I need to go into work. It sure is hard to leave my family though. One thing I've learned for certain after taking this job is that I took being a stay-at-home-mom for granted! Getting out and interacting with adults is a great thing for all of us to do but I sure miss just being home with my family at all times! It's nice when we do have time together though because we try to make the best of it. This last weekend was such a nice weekend so we decided to go to Kilgore to see all the pretty fall colors. It is so beautiful out there right now. We took a few fun pics of the family. It's impossible to get everyone to look at the camera at the same time!

When we were done taking pics Rowdy decided to bugle and cow call just to see if any elk would answer. To our surprise a bull elk bugled right back. So we all sat down and let Rowdy call in hopes that we would be able to see some elk. It wasn't long and two cows and a calf elk came up about 20 yards from where we were sitting. The elk just stood there and stared at us trying to figure us out, so the kids had plenty of time to have a close up of these elk. Unfortunately the bull that was bugling never would let us see him. But the later it got a couple more bulls started bugling. The kids loved it. We walked down off the mountain and made a fire and roasted hot dogs. The whole time we were eating our hot dogs the elk were still bugling it was a great night. The kids are excited to do that again. Hopefully next time we will get a chance to see a bull!

Here we are waiting for the elk to come up the mountain.

Here we are walking back down the mountain, elk still bugling even with the flash of the camera and kids laughing!

I think Brooks is gonna be our next elk caller...he was really good except for a couple times he added his own sound effects. But the elk didn't mind a bit! We had a great weekend!
(sorry this was such a long post)