Two weekends ago we went camping with my family and Nicolas' family. We went to Copper Basin, it is out passed Mackay. We had fun! The first night we were there we went to "The man hole", that is what Nicolas' family has always called it, it is a spot in the creek that is up to your chest and freezing cold. Nicolas, Savanna and Eric all got in, Crazy!! The next day my family took us out hiking. We saw a moose! It was really not that close to us but it was still a moose. After getting back from the hike we went on a killer motorcycle ride. It was one of the hardest things I have done. We road up switch backs and then we had to ride back down them! and I hate going down. That night we hung out and had marshmellows and other treats roasted over the fire. The next day we all went together to see Green lake. We took trucks and motercycles most of the way and then hiked the last 400 yards. It is such a pretty lake.

To get to Green Lake we had to go Four wheeling. The picture does not show how steep it was on the side of the mountain, but it was a little scary.

Riley loves the dirt!

When we got to Green Lake Savanna got in the Lake and Riley wanted to join her, so we let him put his feet in. It was freezing!

Hiking to Green Lake.

Riley hiking all by him self!

A Moose!!

At Big lake after our killer Motorcycle ride.

When we got to our camping spot we found out the campground was closed. We even checked on the internet to see if it was open, they must have forgot to post it or something. All was good, because there was another campground just down the road.

My dad took this picture after we left, but it was so pretty I wanted to post it.

This is "The man hole." It was so Cold!

This is a picture of all of us that went capming (minus me I was the one taking the picture).

It seems like all we have done this year is fix sprinklers! At the beging of the summer Nicolas did some work on our apartment sprinklers, because we had to put some sod in. As the summer has gone on the grass was slowly dieing and we were not sure why! So Nicolas spent the three days fixing them, and the sad part is they are still not working really well. It would take more money and time then we have right now. Then our grass at our house is dead in a few spots so we worked on the sprinklers at our house Tuesday night. Thankfully I got a few good pictures of Riley.


While Nicolas was outside deciding what we would need from Home Depot, Riley sat on the floor, ate an Otter pop, and watched him though our glass door. He wanted to go outside so bad and help, but seeing as how he was stung by a wasp about half an hour earlier I made him stay inside.

We had a long fun day on the 4th. We got up a 5:30 a.m. so I could run in the 4th anual Firecracker 5K fun run. I ran the 3.2 miles in 24 minutes and about 40 seconds. Which is the best time I have ran since I was in high school, and about a minute and a half faster then the last race I ran. I was pretty happy about that. We came home from the race and lounged around the house for a while, and then we set up our little kid pool our back. Riley loves the water! He cried when it was time to come in side. Then we loaded up our bike and road them to Nicolas' Grandparents house for a BBQ. We road our bikes over because we left from there house a road our bikes to the river to watch the fireworks. We have road our bikes the last three years because when it comes time to leave it is a whole lot faster then driving. Plus it is kind of fun. Riley loved the fireworks and he even fell asleep halfway though. We were glad that he did so well. We were not sure how he would react to the load noises. We got home around 11:15 and got everything put away and finaly got to sleep at 12:00! 18 hours after we got up that mourning!



Grandpa Eric got the cool glowing sword for Riley! He had a blast!





















At the River we took a walk before the fireworks.

Nicolas and I waiting for the Fireworks. Nicolas' family is really big on the firework show and every year they get as close as posible. We were almost right under them by the road were they light them off.

Riley loved the little American flag and the only time he let it go was when grandpa bought him the glowing sword!

While at Great Grandma and Grandpa's house Riley "picked" me a flower, and brought it to me. Normally Riley will just smell the flowers but he must have really like the marigold.

Riley was actully pulling the trigger.

You can't really see but in the bottem picture Riley is holding a firecracker.

After the race they had some oranges and donuts for us to eat. Riley loves oranges but they give him bad diaper rash so I do not give them to him much. But it was just to cute the way he was eating it I could not resist.






















My dad and I after the race.















At the finish line!

We had a fun and busy week last week. First it was my birthday and my family came over for ice cream and cake. Then we went camping with my family out to Iron Bog (which is out by Arco.) Then last night we went out boating with Nicolas' family at Blacktail. The weather was also nice so we got to spend some time out side playing.



We hike to Iron Bog Lake .

Riley gets so durty when we go camping.

You could see these rocks from our camp spot, so we decided to go hike to the top of them.

It was raining when I took this picture. Friday it rained abit but Saturday was so beautiful.

We weren't quit sure if the chair was big enough for him or not:)

Iron Bog lake

Nicolas was watching Riley, and he let him play in the fire. I was not sure how I felt about that.

This cave was by our camp spot also.

Nicolas did not think he wake boarded well yesterday, but he did and got a few good jumps.

This was Riley's first time on a boat! I am not sure how he felt about it. He just sat really still in my lap most of the time.

On my birthday Riley started to climb on the furniture, and in this picture he climbed in the furniture!

Riley likes to play with Bubbles and sidewalk chalk.

I ran in the Scenic River Classic 5K race today! I got a pretty good time, I ran the 3.2 miles in just over 26 minutes! Which is what I ran in the same race two years age. I was pretty happy! I even got Forth in my age group.



My dad and me finished the race together. I came in first! Which has never happened before.

This is after the race with Nicolas' grandma and grandpa. They walked the race, and Larry even got 3rd in his age group.

Farr's Ice Cream was giving out Ice Cream and Riley liked it!

Last week we took a new family photo. I decided I wanted to save money so I asked my dad if he would help take some pictures of us and Riley. (He has a fancy pants camera and is a pretty good photographer.) Anyway last weekend the weather pretty much was horrible! We went to Freeman Park on Friday Night to play disk golf, and wait for my dad to show up, and maybe take a few pictures with our camera. We were only there for about a half hour when all of the sudden a storm rolled in. This was one of the worst storms I have ever seen in my life. (Maybe because I was out in the middle of a park with my one year old screaming because he is getting hit by hail.) We were only about a quarter of a mile away from our car and when we saw the storm coming we started to jog back to our car. About half way back to the car it started to rain, then not even ten seconds later the wind picked up, and then about ten seconds after that it began to hail!! I have never seen a storm move so fast. Once we got to the car Riley was crying and we had lost my favorite lime green disk and a pair of Nicolas' favorite sunglasses, at least we got a few good pictures of Riley. Anyway the rest of the weekend was rainy and overcast so we did not get to go back and finish getting our pictures till Monday night. Thankfully Monday night was very nice and we got a few good pictures.

My baby is a year old!! The time is going by so fast! It is amazing how much he has changed, and how much he has learned. I am so glad that Riley is a part of our lives. He bring a kind of joy to our lives that can not be expressed in words. We love him so much!



We had a birthday party for him last night with some of our family, and he loved being the center of attention! He got way to many toys!



He got a great big smile on his face when everyone sang Happy Birthday to him!


























Riley was not sure what to do with the birthday cake at first, but he figured it out! I was surprised he liked it. I used whiped topping with cool aid for the frosting and it turned out to be kind of sour tasting.

Riley has always love to play with our full sized basketball, or any ball for that matter, and Wesley has a couple of little soccer balls that are Riley size that he loves too. So Grandma and Grandpa Lyon and Uncle Wesley found him a basketball his size.



















Mom and Dad's present to Riley was a little motercycle. Cousin Trenton loves motercycles! They both went google eyes over it, and Riley was even kind enough to let Trenton play with it for awhile.

After everyone went home Riley figured out what he was suppost to do on the motercycle. He started scooting around the house, and he even started saying vrooom, vroom. (Well actully it sounds more like a growl but that is how he makes the car noise.)