Birthday party pics

I love throwing Riley birthday parties already. I love celebrating my baby boy. Here are a few of the highlights.
Here is his new bike from Grammy. He has gotten really good at riding it.
Here is a side picture of his "Mack Cake".
Some of the guests.
Mack with his head injury. I didn't get a picture of him until after Riley had a "taste".

Silliness with Aunt Mimi

I was getting ready and this is what I came out to...

(these are those tabs you put on papers to mark a page.)

We had the opportunity to go to NYC a few weeks ago with my sister and her family. I have been to New York a ton of times but it was totally different with kids. Riley loved it and had a great time.

Pictures:
Above is Ruby's first taxi ride, Riley seeing FAO for the first time (out of all the things in that store, all he wanted was a new york taxi with doors that opened), Riley looking at the "choo choo"(he loved the subway), Riley at the aquarium (what a face!!), and Riley with a New York pizza. He finished the whole thing all by himself.

It was fun seeing the city through his eyes. We had a great time.

Adorable!!!

My friend Megan found this necklace on Etsy and I thought it was so cute. Inside the locket is the inscription from the locket that Bella got for Reneesme. Adorable. What do you guys think? I want it but I have to talk to Chris into it.

My Angel Turns 3!!

I can't believe my baby turned 3 today. All day I have been thinking about the day he was born and the last 3 years. Being a first time mom I am sure I have made a lot of mistakes but Riley is so patient and wonderful. I know he knows we love him and we love him so much. I love being Riley's mom. He makes me laugh and cry. He makes me so proud and so frustrated. Being a mom is such a roller coaster of emotions, but I wouldn't trade being Riley's mom for anything in the whole world. I want to keep him little forever, but am so anxious for the next many years to see what kind of man he will become. I am so thankful for Riley and can't believe it has been 3 years.

Thanks for the tag Ang!!!!

8 Things I am looking forward to:

Not feeling sick a lot of the time
Going swimming in warm water
Disney with my family
Feeling the baby move
My sunburn to go away
Riley being out of diapers
Visiting Nate and Linz

8 Things I Did Yesterday

Go to Church
Ate my first Jamaican food
Played games
Ate Blueberry pie
Helped in Nursery (UGH!! That is a hard calling)
Clipped Riley's nails (sad that I am happy about that)
Missed scrapbooking
Um... nothing else that is of any significance. :)

8 Things I wish I could do

Give myself a massage
Cut my own hair
Go on vacation
Organize my house and keep it that way
Speak more languages
Be Tan
Know what the future holds for us
Not be mean

8 Shows I Enjoy

Survivor
Amazing Race
Burn Notice
High School Reunion
Biggest Loser
Celebrity Apprentice
Monk
Project Runway (even though I never get to see it)

8 Friends I am Tagging

Mary
Melanie
Naomi
Christina
Lindsay
Michelle
Erin
Nate

Head Injury and a scrapped knee

This weekend was my niece's first birthday party. We were all outside because the weather was nice. We started off with playing Duck Duck Goose but realized it was lame with 2 three year olds and only two adults. We decided tag would be fun so we picked who was it and began.

By my sister's new place there is a little grassy area with quite a few trees scattered around. I got tagged and proceeded to chase Riley and Chris. Chris, being the competitive guy he is, took off like a shot with Riley in tow. I diverted my attention to an easier target when I turn around as Chris is yelling "head injury!!" and he is dripping blood all over his face. No one knew how bad it was so we brought him inside and started mopping up the mess. Before we left Riley kept saying "Dada got blood" to anyone who would listen and kept saying it for the next few days. My mom, Chris, Riley and I left then so we could get home to get some medical advice.

Chris not being insured presented a problem. Thankfully our old bishop works at the hospital and is a great doctor. We called him as soon as we got in the car and much to our dismay he was out of town doing a youth conference or something like that. So we called the next best guy we knew. Another guy from church (thank goodness for the church!!!) who is a resident at the hospital. He told us we could stop by and he would take a look. He and his friend (who was also a doctor) thought he could use a stitch or two but because we weren't insured it would probably be fine.
Chris is healing just fine and now Ruby will have a funny story to tell about her first birthday. I just hope Matt got some good pics for the scrapbook.

As for the scrapped knee... today it was actually warm enough to wear shorts so Riley was sporting his new shorts we just got from Old Navy. We were playing outside and he was running, fell and scraped his knee. I think it was one of the first times he has bled from a cut so he was pretty upset. I brought him inside and brought him to Chris so I could get something to clean the cut and the first thing Chris says to comfort him was: "Look! Riley got blood too, just like Dada!". It didn't comfort like Chris thought it might, but it was still pretty funny.

I hope Riley gets tougher because I am SURE this will not be the last time we see his blood because of a fall or accident. :)