Riley's cake

Well, I just finished Riley's birthday cake. I am very pleased with it. There is a story behind it. Riley is in a choir at school that made a trip to NYC last school year for a contest. They were there 5 days and only one was for the contest so they had lots of sight seeing time. He and his 3 best friends went to M&M World and bought different colored M&M t-shirts and wore them home on the plane. The rest of the school year they wore them on the same days. Riley's was the orange M&M so I have made him an M&M cake. What do you think?

Riley's 18!!!

Happy Birthday Riley!!! I remember the day you were born. They wrapped you in a blanket & handed you to me. You were crying but the minute you heard my voice you stopped crying and listened to my voice. My heart was melted that very second I realized you recognized me. As long as I spoke to you you were quiet but if I stopped talking to you you would start whimpering. Wow!!! That was a mom moment!!!

Time Flies....

I'm sure I have said this before. But I cannot believe that Riley is going to be 18!!! Within the week we will have another voter in the house. I have a women's group from church that meets at my house once a month and the other day I pulled out some photos to show a couple of moms with soon to be one year olds. One was feeling badly that she couldn't get her baby to sleep at a certain time. It brought back memories of when my boys were little and we didn't have set bedtimes as I enjoyed rocking them to sleep and knew that this time would pass all to quickly. And it has. I love being a wife and mother!!! I have been blessed with the chance to stay home with my children and wouldn't want anything different. Don't get me wrong, I look forward to the day when Terry and I will get to spend more time together. But for now I thought I would share pictures of my babies when they were babies. Since I don't know how to put captions under my photos I will give them to you here. The first pic is Travis, second is Riley (the one in my previous post with the beard), third is Abbie, fourth is me rocking Travis (under my arm) and Riley to sleep, fifth is Terry with the kids, sixth is Terry and kids playing a game (Riley is upset that Abbie got on the board) & the last is after Abbie's first birthday.

Final Score

Sorry I kept you hanging. I forgot to post the final score of the "big game". We won 58 to 0.

The Big Game

Tonight is the hometown rivalry game between the 2 high schools. They play in a neutral stadium and have different lunch hours to cut down on problems between the kids. It is the one football game I will be attending this year as we are not a big football family. We prefer other sports (can you say viva la tour?) Yes, 21 days in July our tv is on every night for that days tour coverage. We actually record Cyclism Sunday on Versus. If all goes as the papers are saying we will be victorious. Go _-____'s!!!