and so it begins....

a few pictures from the last few years...


Family Christmas picture 2008...

Christmas morning - 2008
Sun is up and presents are still unopened...
how could I let this happen???

2009 - Cub Scouts Blue and Gold Dinner
The boys had to make a cake and the moms couldn't help!
it was pure torture for me...



June 2009 - Camp Pendleton 10k Mud Run
Brad had fun getting down and dirty...

June 2009 - Nathan got braces!!!

2009 - San Diego Comic Con
This kid was in HEAVEN...


...so was this one...

Summer 2009 - Utah - Riley Family Reunion


Nathan's first fish!!!

Halloween 2009 - The King

I made this costume all by myself...there were a lot
of blood sweat and tears put into this costume...
my favorite part??? THE CAPE!

and the attitude.... love this kid!

Christmas 2009
same place - different year - i'm pretty sure that
Christmas 2010 will look almost identical - again the sun
is up and presents are unopened?? sheesh...

Christmas 2009 - no family photo this year...

2010 Cub Scouts - Blue and Gold Dinner
Nathan wanted to make a big donut cake - I looked online
and found a cake pan in the shape of a donut at
Williams Sonoma isn't this the most awesome idea???
It just so happened that the Simpson's were
celebrating 20 years on TV that year too....


2010 - 5th grade field trip to my families farm -
the Riley Farm in Oak Glen, CA - the kids got to
watch and participate in colonial reinactments. fun times....

TO BE CONTINUED....

i think i'll take a mulligan...

3/21/2009???  wow... i guess i've been...busy?? lazy?? boring?? maybe a little "all of the above"??...  I'm sure there have been a few things I could have blogged about between then and now.??..   Holy smokes - the last time i blogged nathan was still in the single digits!  I actually had good intentions - I wasn't going to post again until i did my "pay it forward" (see previous post) so if Ann, Alicia and Nichole are reading this then please let me know if you have not received* the extremely cute, amazingly thoughtful,100% homemade and better than you ever dreamed of gift from me.

for all who care i will be going through over two years worth of pictures and will post a few of my faves in the near future but don't hold your breath...  :)

(*estimated delivery time - give or take a decade)