Happy 7th Birthday Riley!

Seven years ago, we became parents! It was the day after Mother's Day and Sheree awoke at 4am with major pain! She waited until the contractions were 5 minutes apart, and at 7 am we left for American Fork Hospital. Riley was born at 11:30am. He was a super good baby but hardly slept! He has always been really tall for his age and has played better with older kids. He is super smart, loves to read and play videogames and put together his Star Wars legos. He is a joy to have in our family!

It was fun to go back and look at all his baby pictures cause there is definitely a resemblance between Riley and Brock!

Happy Mothers Day Sheree

Everyday should be mothers day, at least at our house. Ryan has briefly hijacked the blog in order to let Sheree and everyone else know just how grateful I am for Sheree. She is the one who keeps us all together, keeps us moving down the right road, though try as I might to take a detour. Sometimes it is hard on both of us when all 3 of the boys want her at once and you know that 2 are going to end up unhappy, but it is a testament to her. Riley, Tyler and Brock just adore her and want to tell her everything and be where she is. She can keep them calm and defuse situations easier and better than i could ever dream of. i think that she just lets me do stuff so that I will feel needed when in actuality I probably make thing more difficult that it needs to be. She just seems to know what we all need and when we need it. She sacrifices so much of her time to let the boys or me do our thing. She is the constant good thing in my and the boys' lives. It has been fun this year to get the cards that the boys have made for her. This isn't much but there is not enough time to list every way that she makes our lives better. Sheree, I love you and your kids love you. We couldn't ask for anyone better. Thank you for all you do everyday. Happy Mothers Day Sheree! Love, Ryan, Riley, Tyler and Brock

Happy Mother's Day!

For the most part, I enjoy being a mom. If I could change anything, it would be to stay home with my kids. However, its not even a possibility so I need to get over it and quit feeling guilty. One day soon, I believe we can make it happen. When I was expecting Riley I said that I would stay home if he was a girl...well 3 boys later I am still working, so unless I get a girl...! The one good thing about working, is that my boys made the cutest gifts at their daycare centers and school. Since they brought them home for me yesterday, I just thought that I would post them...they all made me cry! What wonderful boys I have!

Brock is such a sweet little baby! These handprints are so precious! His favorite thing to do with them is to eat them and he has been chewing on them so much that his hands are starting to get raw, so we have started giving him a binky. He is grabbing at everything he can and continues to grow way too fast! The saying on the picture says: "Sometimes you get discouraged because I am so small, and always leave my handprints on the furniture and walls. But everyday I'm growing big, and soon I'll be so tall, then all my little handprints will be hard to recall. So here are special handprints just so you can say...this is how my handprint looked when I placed them here today."

Tyler is way too wild! He is definitely all boy and there is nothing that scares him or stops him! He wants to be just like Riley and his favorite activity is sneaking in Riley's room to play with all the cool big boy toys! He is very lovable too. He has his 3rd ear infection since the first week of April as well as a fever virus...had a temp of 103 last night! Hopefully it goes away quick!

Riley is getting super big...can't believe he will be 7 on Wednesday! He is doing so well academically and socially...look at how well he is doing writing! He wrote this note at school and brought me home a flower. He is done with 1st grade on May 28. He is becoming such a great big brother and setting a really good example for Tyler and is so patient with him. His favorite activity is still to play video games and he loves to play with his friend Robbie too!