want soft skin..?

try cucumbers!

big truck day!

oh my goodness! we had so much fun this morning at the conestoga rec center for their annual big truck day! it is a free event, though we would have deffinatley paid to get in. Riley loves big trucks so he was thrilled! while we were waiting in
line to get in, we got to see the life flight helicopter circle us and then land. when we got to the registration tent riley was given a contruction hat which he loved! (because it was like daddys at work) we got to see and climb on ambulances, a helicopter, swat cars, tractors, construction trucks, firetrucks, a recycling truck, tri met bus, franz break truck that gave us a small loaf of bread, big semi trucks, odot with graders and plow, pge with bucket trucks, coca cola truck with big screen for playing guitar hero, 2 excursion limos, 2 monster trucks, and an old 1918 fire truck. all were open for climbing and horn honking (except for the old fire truck) . and there was lots of horn honking going on. lots of vendors for eating, a big pile of sand to play in. I think half of it came home with us! this is deffinatley something we will be doing again!

6 years!

As of yesterday, dave and I have been married for 6 years! the time has flown by! I am a very lucky girl to have such a wonderful husband. happy anniversary dave! I love you!

kiss kiss!

today when we went to visit dave at work, we were getting ready to leave and I picked riley up and dave asked him for a kiss, so riley leaned over and gave daddy a kiss. then he said kiss so dave leaned over to him to give him another kiss and he pushed mine and dave's faces together and said kiss. he wanted us to kiss!

whoa!

ok, so I didnt realize how long it has been since I had added to my blog! So I thought maybe I should catch everyone up on what's been going on here lately! I wish I had something exciting to report..but I dont. We have been doing a lot of berry picking. Mostly "blues" as riley calls them, because theya re his favorite. I did pick some marionberries and boysenberries and made some jam. I cannot wait for apple season to make homemade applesauce to can! We have been trying to put some money aside so we can redo our deck and just overall trying to enojoy the beautiful summer weather! Awhile back dave and I picked up some $4.00 potty chairs at ikea for riley to play with. he started putting his doggies on it and carrying it around the house this last week he decided he wanted to sit on it, so I have been letting him..and he has even peed a few times! then we flush it away as he says bye bye pee pee. I am by no means trying to potty train, but if he wants to sit on his potty then great! He also has lots of new words..my favorite are when he says bless you after you sneeze and brings you a tissue, and the other night he said Love you. it was soo great! I have pictures, but I need to find my camera so I will have to post them later. I will try to not wait so long between posts!

when daddy's away...

riley and I will play! This morning dave go left for seattle with some buddies to attend the mariner/red sox game. we were both supposed to go...the reason for going was because my team was playing...but at the last minute I decided to not go..long story for another day...but none the less, I decided that riley and I were going to have a great day anyway! We started off the morning with a quick trip to ikea...and then after an early nap in the car...we had lunch and then headed outside for some water play! he was more interested in splashing in the water than getting in it.and VERY excited that he had Elbow (elmo) on his swim diaper! after playing in the water for a bit ..we ventured up to dairy queen ( I hate having one so close to my house..because I have a weakness for soft serve!) and got ice cream cones. he ahs had ice cream before..but never on a cone. he loved it and ended up a sticky mess! we watched elmo in grouchland twice...which is a treat in its self..I try not to have the tv on during the day/week because I will watch it! poor little man was so tired he crashed an hour early tonight!

redman WInery

Today we ventured out to newberg to go to a wine tasting out in newberg that we were invited to by mike, a man that david works with. His brother and sister in law own it and they were doing a wine tasting of some new wines they opened today. it was beautiful out there! but very warm. Riley had a great time entertaining everyone and being the center of attention as always. I would still like to know where he gets that from...its not from me! we would have loved to have stayed longer than we did but riley was getting very warm and he wouldnt stop moving! I cant blame him though..he had lots of room to run!