the Kids

Riley will change his clothes four times a day or not have any clothes on at all. I was glad to get him to wear his undies. He worked hard making his pile of plastic bags and was excited to show daddy.

Master plumber

If I didn't post something about Criag's latest achievement, (sorry Barry) what kind of wife would I be? He redid the plumbing on New Year's Eve. He used Pex pipe and shark bite fittings. Done with in about a day. I just glad there was no flooding followed by a lot of cursing.

EJ Walks

Thats right ladies and gentlemen Eliza is officially a biped. She has been for a couple of weeks now. She tried to walk on Nov 13 and mastered it by Nov 21.

what have we been up to

Riley discovered the photo booth on the computer. He will spend hours play with the pictures. He sets up the shot, take the picture and if it is not to his liking he will do it again. He will spend hours taking pics with the old ditigal camera that we gave him also. Its fun to see some of the pics he takes.

Craig and I finally received church callings. Craig is the Young Men's Adviser and I am the 1st counselor in the Primary. Craig has a good bunch of boys to work with. Boys will be boys but they are very polite respectful and willing to help with anything. To beat it all I think they all want to be at church.

I have never worked in the Primary but am excited to do so. The kids don't know what to think of me, however. The Primary Pres. is sweet and soft spoken so when I use my stern Mommy voice the kids look at me with surprise. Like I told Criag, I say please only once. I am so glad I became a mom before I was called to work in the Primary. After Riley and Eliza the primary children don't scare me anymore. Don't get me wrong, the kids are great, just a little rowdy. I am going to try to work on my Mommy voice an make it sound not so mean.

And about the house. Hopefully we will sign the papers on Friday. Debt here we come.

WVa

Went to West Virginia for my Great Grandma's funeral. The only grandparent I had the pleasure to know. I have come to the conclusion that funerals are long and I don' want one. A grave side service is enough for me. Of course by that time I'll be dead and really won't care. Funerals are for the living anyways. I got to see my family. I hand't seen them in 2yrs. It was so nice to be around them again. Nana would have liked that. I miss them already.

Cousins: Wesley, Hailey, Jacklyn, Riley, Abby, Isabella and Eliza

The Fam: Julian, Nikki, Amber, Nina, John, Della, and John

My not so little, little Brother Julian. (13yrs.)

Trouble comes in threes.

(they are all close in age with Riley being the oldest)