The Rowdy Riley's

So many things to be thankful for this time of year!  We went to Snowbird for Thanksgiving it was absolutely stunning up there!  Jay went skiing with my aunt Chris and I took the older kids swimming in a heated outdoor pool right next to the ski resort!  I was glowing white, even Hayden who keeps a tan for awhile was pretty honky!  We also did something new we went to a restaurant for Thanksgiving dinner it was fabulous to play all day and still enjoy a great meal!  I did miss not having leftovers the next day but I have a turkey in my freezer I'll cook up one day this week and remedy that!  We went up there for my birthday just Jay and Martha and I took this picture then there was enough snow to ski on by Thanksgiving.  Chris and Scott bought a condo up there they are so generous to have us up we really enjoy getting away from it all!

Miles is at that hilarious age of 4!  Yesterday my friend called to borrow a teaspoon of cloves.  I hung up the phone and told the kids to straighten the front room because Julie was coming over.  They all pitched in and were making progress when Miles looked out the window and saw that she was here but on the grass talking to Jay not at the door yet.  He ran to the door and ripped it open and yelled "you can't come in yet we aren't done cleaning!" He's been a big help with Jay in the yard getting the garden and the flower garden put away for the winter.  He told Jay he wanted an ipad and an iphone for Christmas and then as an after thought he declared that he would also like a toilet in his room.  I told him that the only way he'd get a toilet in his room is in jail and that wasn't a good goal as for the ipad and iphone...dream on!  Lastly he's obsessed with mustaches Jay told him to eat healthy so he could grow a mustache.  He said "if we eat healthy than girls and boys will grow mustaches?" Jay replied that girls don't grow mustaches just boys.  Miles came back with "some girls do dad I've seen them!" uhh well what do you say?

I love fall and I love my maple tree outside and I try to get pictures of the kids in the leaves every year this year I still need to drag Hayden out there but here are the girls.

I hated that halloween costume of Meg because she is such a beautiful young woman and she was hiding behind that ugly duck dynasty beard her and Chelsea wanted to go together so here is one picture of them and then I'm posting the beautiful pictures of the girls the day before in the leaves!

I'm teaching the adult gospel doctrine class on sunday and it's on family history and temple work.  I think most people are doing it and have a testimony of it or hear the topic and immediately tune out! I found 9 ways to make family history more exciting and one of them was to blog.  I came back to my blog that I left 2 years ago!  All of my family history is still here I have much to add like the fact that I've miscarried and had another baby girl Martha Ann who will be 6 months old tomorrow.  I just spent the last half hour reading through posts from 2008 and so very grateful that I recorded the happenings of my little family I have been keeping a journal since 2012 so I didn't miss as much as it looks like but I've decided that I need to keep posting to this little blog so that one day I can send a link to the kids and they can go back through and read about their happenings complete with

pictures!  Grateful that I was was dedicated to blogging for a bit so I have at least something to look back at rather than nothing at all.  Martha was a little lion for halloween it was clearly a boy lion so I stuck a flower on her head;)  not that it mattered it was cold when we when out so she was bundled up tight!

I have to post Mason's gift to me because it's so cute what my five year old came up with. His pre-school teacher asked him the following questions about me and this is how he replied: How old is your mom? 25; How tall? 6 feet tall; Weight? 5 pounds (yes I'm very tall and willowy) Dress size? 5; How many brothers and sisters? 5; Where was she born? Hospital (duh) Favorite food? Salad; Favorite TV show? Basketball; Favorite thing to do? Dishes (well I do them a lot it must be my favorite thing to do?; Best friend? The one who's really close to us; and last of all list a talent...cleaning up Mason's lego's and doing laundry. There you have it a little post all about me!!!

When you start blogging again you have to remind yourself that everyone thinks that your last post is where you're at in life (Kristy time to update your blog fyi) Anyhow this week I miscarried I know that this can be really hard on some people. Thankfully through a priesthood blessing I feel very at peace! I actually feel better physically than I have in weeks. Bed rest is quite a challenge I don't envy the women who have to endure that to get their families here! Doing well and very happy to be back taking care of my family there are a lot of things that other people can do and did for us but nothing beats my homemade pizza very excited for dinner tonight!;)