It's here...

And IT is a HE!  We're so excited to welcome this little boy to our family.  Evva wasn't to happy about it at first, but now she's pretty excited to have a new baby in our family.

Cael Robert Riley

May 14 2012...7lbs 7oz...19.5" long

Three

This little lady is three years old today!  We are so glad she is part of our little family!  She is the light of our life and keeps us on our toes and laughing all the time! She loves "twirl it's" {dresses} and princesses!  She is a master puzzle 'putter-together-er'. She still loves to sing and she has a tender heart.  She's very friendly and loves to go to the park. 

Happy Birthday Munchkin! We love you!

Easter

We had a good one. Complete with all the egg hunt festivities. Evva loved the egg coloring this year and made some pretty good eggs! She's growing so fast and I'm loving the stage she is in. She says "Mommy, you are my best friend". It melts my heart every time! And Daddy is her "buddy". Which he hopes lasts forever.

She's really excited for her new baby sibling! Again, we didn't find out, but we'll know in about 4 weeks. She's determined that it's a girl and she wants to name it Rosie the puppy. We're prepping her that that is not going to happen, so hopefully she's not to devastated. So here I am in all my glory at 34 weeks!

Merry Christmas!

While visiting Fantasy at the Bay, we stopped in to see Santa. This little chica wants a ballerina dress! And she's been very good this year! She sat right up on his lap looked him in the eye, and told him what she wanted. She was on a mission!

Anyone game?

Hello to all my friends. We are still alive and well. We are now in our house and finding out that homeownership is not as fun as it's made out to be, at least not all the time. We are changing a lot and slowly making it ours. But I guess the good think about owning your home is that you can change stuff. Kind of a double edged sword. We've redone the bathroom, and are currently waiting for furniture to place in our family room. We've been watching TV with the Lazy-boy, and a sleeping bag on the floor. I think college dorms have it better than us down there.

Pictures to come, I promise.

That aside, I miss being in SLC for many reasons, but this one found me today. So...is anyone game? Want to go? They have THE BEST and cutest modern stuff! Seriously, I was quite unimpressed with all Peach Days had to offer. The Bijou market is where it is at. I promise you'll come back with lots of fun stuff! Anyone, Anyone? I'm thinking about going Friday.

Click the flyer to see the vendors, and then call, text, fb, or leave a comment and tell me when you want to/can go, because you will!

I know, I know...

I'm fully aware that my lack of blogging is horrible, however, I'm pleased to report we have found a house, close on the 26th and are excited beyond belief!

We did family pics the other night and this was my absolute favorite! I love these two more than I can put into words. They melt my heart every time!

And...

We're here, just barley. We kind of don't have internet, and we kind of are loving the country life. Seriously, 9:00pm 4-wheeler rides up to the canal and back with the wind in our hair. We're not sure if we want to leave. Seriously. Anyways, here's a picture to tide you all over. We are still house hunting. We honestly just don't know where we want to live. We're just taking in this slow country life as much as we can. Sleeping with the windows open, playing with cousins until the sun goes down, hanging out on the porch chatting the evening away and making daily trips to the slushy stand.

Moving

And we're off. Where, we don't know exactly. Rob got a job at Bonneville HS, so we will be moving to the Ogden area eventually. For now, we will be renting from Rob's parents until we can find a place of permanent residence! We're buying a house! Finally! Needless to say Evva will be spending some time like this in the car.

How we make it in Ikea

Lots of snacks...

Enjoying the sun

We just got back from an awesome walk! The sun was out, the breeze was lightly blowing and Evva was rocking her Dora shades! Happy weekend everyone!

Birthday Weekend

Evva was officially 2 last weekend. Friday we had a great day. Waffles with strawberries, strawberry syrup and whip cream for breakfast. A little shopping. And friends over for dinner, cake and ice cream. It was wild night. After they left we skyped the grandparents and Evva ate more cake. {you get to do whatever you want on your birthday right?}

{I'm aware this is a horrible picture, but it was the only self portrait of us that worked}

With all the fun we had Friday night, we didn't get her big present in until Saturday morning.

She's so official and now gets to cook with mommy. I have a little sidekick. She is so in love with it!

Sunday we got to get out and enjoy the sunshine a bit with our friends the McDonalds. We love them so much! Ask Evva about anything from dreams to what she learned about in church and she'll say "carter n' mia". We love them!

Business Update

I'm well aware that this goes against everything everyone has said, but...

We're done potty training for a while.

And Evva and I are back on speaking terms.

Enough said.

Happy Easter

I'm a little late. Whatever. We had a great Easter weekend. Rob had spring break and we were able to go home from Thursday to Sunday. It was bliss. We had a great night at the temple with my family, great {early} birthday party for Evva, ate lots of food, had lots of laughs, a trip to Smith & Edwards {that makes me sound like a hick, but it was great, minus I didn't find what I was looking for...they're supposed to have everything right?} lots of time with cousins and a good Sabbath day to remind us of Christ and what He did for us.

Evva about had a heart attack when the pinata broke open. She kept yelling "Broken, Broken!" She was pretty sad until I took her over to see what was inside. Then she was kind of happy.

*Note to Rob: Don't let our kids name the pinata.*

Business

Yesterday we picked up a book about going to the potty. On Evva's level. She was so enthralled by it. Seriously, we read it for like 20 minutes as she flipped back and forth through the pages taking each one in. So today, she decided it was time to do her business in the potty. I was astonished and caught a little off guard. She doesn't turn 2 until Friday!? I guess I'm getting thrown into it.

A quick trip to Target brought:

New potty

New big girl unders

Jelly Bellies {for success}

We'll pretty much not be leaving our house for the next week or two.

Let the training begin!