Our Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving started off EARLY!! We all woke up early to go watch Dale play football with his family! He had a lot of fun! And he is still feeling it! ha ha

Than later on in the afternoon we went to my sisters house to have Thanksgiving lunch with all my family! Its always fun to have the whole family in one spot! Than a couple hours later we went to Dales aunt and uncles house to have Thanksgiving dinner with his family. After we had Dinner and visited for a while we decided to go across the street from his aunt and uncles to a little park they have in their neighborhood. Dales Dad came with us to play and Riley had a blast going down the slides and having "Papa" there to play with her!

She loved going down the slides and after a couple tries she got brave enough to go down without Dale giving her a nudge off!

Hope everyone had a great thanksgiving and that you are all ready for CHRISTMAS! YAY!

Scattergories Tag!

SCATTERGORIES...it's harder than it looks! Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following. They have to be real places, names, things. Nothing made up! You CAN'T use your name for the boy/girl name question.

What is your name? Cajsa

Boy name- Calvin

Girl name- Candace

Occupation- Carpenter

Color- Coral (That counts Right???)

Something you wear- Coat (Not in the lovely sate of Arizona!! Ugh)

Beverage- Coca Cola

Food- Crepe

Something found in a bathroom- Conditioner

A place- Cape Cod

A reason for being late- Caught in traffic (can you think of anything else??)

Something you shout- CRAP!!!!!

I tag Emily, Ashley and Rebecca!

"The Bug"

Not Much is going on at the Whipple house lately but I needed something for this blog!!!!! So I thought I would just tell everyone a little more about Riley's life! I was lying in bed this morning listening to Riley Bug wake up and hearing the cute things she says to herself when she thinks no one can hear her. She talks about her Daddy whom she loves very very much she pretends she is Dora and Piggy is Boots. When she is finally ready to get out of Bed she pretends her Daddy is Charlie and she is Lola saying, "I am ready Chawlie" (she even puts in the British accent) And says it over and over until I can force my feet to touch the floor and get her out of bed! Since Her Daddy worked early today so he could get home early for the family festivities happening tonight I got to be the one to give her the very first hug of the morning! I love that hug, she squeezes so tight and tells you she loves you and gives you a kiss, and Dale is always the one to receive it! It makes it a little easier to get up when I know I am gonna get that hug! But before I get the hug she asks me " I go see daddy??" I reply "Sorry Hunny Daddy is at work" She says back "Go see 'em!... What gonna wear?" She loves Dale so much! The first person she really wants to see in the morning is Him and anything less is a disappointment. Some might think this is sad but I LOVE it! I love that Dale is such a good Daddy to her that she loves him that much!!!! I really am so lucky! But that's another post........ Every day when she gets out of bed she wants to go somewhere, and she loves to pick out her shirt for it. When we get her dressed she says "It's a wonderful dream!" and turns around in circles and then Grabs my hands and gets me to turn her around in circles and sing "Once Upon a Dream" from Sleeping Beauty, to her! She is quite the dreamer! And now when she wants to get really active she will introduce herself as Dora and then says "Hi Eg-Ga-Go" (diego) and we go on an animal saving adventure! Normally to save one her various Stuffed animals! Piggy has been the star a few times! we set up an obstacle course and sings all the songs! She LOVES it! And then I am tired! ha ha The other Day I was on the phone with a primary leader from our new ward and she needed some info. on Riley (her birthday and such) when she says to me "Ok so she will be three in June and will be a Sunbeam in a year!" She said it very excited...... It felt like a death sentence to me!!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME MY BABY IS NOT GONNA BE A SUNBEAM....... SHE CANT POSSIBLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UGH! I told Dale what that crazy lady said to me on the phone and Dale had the same reaction!! No our "Bug" CAN NOT be getting THAT big!!!!!!!! I would love to just be ignorant to those things thank you! I don't need to be told these things! Let me deal with them as they come. Don't spring these things on me before they need to be sprung!!! Dale and I agreed that she is perfect just the way she is, and she is not going to get older anymore.... Hope that works! ha ha Its hard for us to face reality! But that's about all that's going on in our world! Hope everyone has a GREAT Thanksgiving!

Continued:
Dale had something to say about this in the comments but I know not everyone reads them so I thought he should have a part in the post! So this is from Dale

Although some of that may be true, Riley does the same thing to me when I get her out of bed. The first thing she says is "Shh, mommy's seeping, le's go get her." If I don't let her go get mommy she'll cry the whole time until mommy finally comes out of the room.
-Dale

Time is Running Out Bukowski!!!!!!!! ha ha

I found this on Rachaels Blog. I thought it looked like fun and Dale thought it was funny so we put both of our answers on here. Dales answers are the second ones! ! Here it goes...

1. Put your iPod or other music player on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!

IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
Dont Panic/ Freedom

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Let it slide/ The Fox

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Straight-jacket Feeling/ Straw Dog

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Rythms/ The Sun and the Moon

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Meant to live/ Give it up

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
This is Forgery/ Sea Of Love

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT OFTEN?
You & Me/ Welcome to the Black Parade

WHAT IS 2+2?
A Murder Of One/ Call It In the Air

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Fever/ You're Not Welcome Here

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
La La Lie/ Get the Party Started

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Flat On the Floor/ My Prerogative

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Just Want You to Know/ Hook

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
I Won't Make You/ Dope Nose

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Tell-Tale Heart/ Window Shopper

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Spotlight/ No Air

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Lonestar/ She Paints Me Blue

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Long Day/ I'm A Slave 4 You

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
A Spoonful of Sugar/ Ladrao de Gravata (translation: Thief in A Tie)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Toss the Feathers/ Robot Factory

WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
My sacrifice/ Sleazy Wednesday

HOW WILL YOU DIE?
I Want To Live/ Dressed to Kill

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
Troublemaker/ Let 'er Rip

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
My Rollercoaster/ Say it Aint So

WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
One Time/ Janies Got A Gun

WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
When I'm With You/ One of These Things First

WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
Sirens/ Punk Rock Princess

DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
My Best Friend/ I Hate Everything About You

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Merry Ol' Land of Oz/ The Astronaut

WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
Peace of Me/ American Idiot

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
Time is Running Out/ Bukowski

Dale and I thought this was Fun! You should do it to just for fun! Or if you need something to post. ha ha

You're Good at this Game...........

Mr. Whipple! I cant count the amount of times I say this to Dale! He is such a good Daddy and Husband! "You're good at this game Mr. Whipple" is the round about way I thank him for doing things here and there around the house. Mostly they are said in surprise... Not in the way that I'm surprised that he did what he did, but in the way that I was going to do them and he "Beat me to the punch!!" I didn't realize until yesterday how much I really say that and I got to thinking about how much I might take this amazing man for granted! I really don't think I give him the credit he deserves! I really could come up with a million examples of when I said this, but I will spare you the bragging! I am so lucky to have "snagged" the man I did! That's all I have to say about that! Love ya Dale!!!

Fun new pics!!!!!!

This morning we went with Aunt Jamie To go get some fun family pictures! She wanted to have someone that she could test her skills on and we were willing models! We had a lot of fun out there! It was the least frustrating Picture experience we have had with Riley and we got A TON of AMAZING pictures!!!!! This is just a preview of a couple she sent me with some new fun stuff she figured out how to do!!! Dale and I LOVE LOVE LOVE THEM!!!!!!!!!!!! We are so excited about the rest! THANKS JAMIE!! (Look at Jamies blog for a few more cute ones! not to mention the best one EVER!!! {the one with the pink bike} )

tptoy rigantain

Well I have decided that since Riley was asking me to change her diaper when she got sick of it being wet and when she was poopy we would TRY introducing her to potty training again! Well I am proud to announce that this time its for real! She went potty on the potty once yesterday but it was a busy day out of the house all afternoon and we weren't really able to do more. BUT..... Today she has gone FOUR TIMES on the potty!!!! She gets REALLY excited for herself when she goes and she even went once on the potty without me telling her to sit on the potty and wait!!! We are sooo excited for her and the progress she has made in just 2 days and we are excited for Riley to be diaper free! I know I still have a lot more work to do but its an amazing start!!!!!!! YAY!!

Update: By the time we put Riley to bed she went in her potty 10 TIMES JuSt ToDaY!!! We are off to ; ilke I said, an amazing start!

Meet the Flinstones!!!

We're a modern stone aged family!!! We had a very fun night tonight! Riley loved playing with all her cousins, and going trick-or-treating around her G-ma and G-pa's Neighborhood! She did really well going up and saying "trick-or-treat" and it was so fun to hear her cute little voice say it over and over again. And also being the polite girl that she is saying a cute thank you after every piece of candy was placed in her bucket. Of course there were times when Riley wouldn't give the person who was passing out candy the chance to serve it themselves and she would grab it right out of the bucket in hand fulls! ha ha She knew what she wanted! But we had a very fun night. All of us dressed up tonight just for fun and we loved doing it! Riley and I also got some fun pictures taken from Aunt Jamie!! Thanks again I am so excited to see them! But here Is the night in rewind! (because that's how the pictures upload maybe one day I will learn to upload them backward so they come up in order! ha ha

This was my last act of digging for nummies of the night! ha ha She was so tired! A lot of excitement for one night! (and with no nap!)

Here we are for your visual benefits....................................... THE FLINSTONES!!!

" Yabba Dabba DOOOOOO"

Hope everyone had a fun Halloween!

The Pig that goes moo!

(That's for you Ash) Well I just wanted everyone to know... That for all of you who know the famous Piggy that Riley Bug has decided as of this morning, that he is officially a cow!!!! And yes I know that he is Very dirty! He WILL get a bath soon!Maybe I will post an after pic. so you all can see just how loved this little Pig (cow) is!

What I love about Saturdays.....

1st family hand prints!

A day we have with Daddy all to ourselves.

Daddy and I having fun with Mommy's homemade puff paint!

Check out my artwork! Aren't I one talented little girl?!

I am the best at my sassy looks!

My fun Orange fingers!

The cool potato stamps that my Mommy made!

The fun colors that got all over the kitchen Courtesy Of me "The Bug" Then Its time for my nap! Don't you just love Saturdays????

Woe is me!

We bought this vacuum about 2 years ago..... It worked wonders on normal carpet! We loved it and were very happy with our purchase! Then we moved into an apartment with the worst bur bur (????) carpet A.K.A carpet from hell....excuse my french) One run on that carpet and the vacuum dies a temporary death. (or so we thought) Dale and I think that once we move to a place with "real" carpet it will work wonders again. We thought wrong! Apparently that dumb carpet ruined our lovely vacuum for good! UGH!!!!!! With Christmas season coming up and trying to make sure we can afford all gifts for everyone on our list a vacuum was the last thing we wanted to buy. I feel like this might be my fault though. I was secretly wishing it would die sometime (not quite this soon...after we were re-cooperated from Christmas maybe?) because I have a want for a Dyson (thanks Ash!) But die this soon... NOT in the plans! So now have to save my pennies and borrow vacuums (ASH??) until I can get the vacuum of my dreams! Cheesy? YES! Well I guess this is what I get for "secretly" wishing it would die! K-K-K-K-K- KARMA!!!!!!!! WOE IS ME!!!! HA HA HA

It works...

Like a charm! Thanks for the advice! ha ha THE END

(FOR NOW)

I DONT HAVE A CLUE WHAT TO DO!!!!!!!

Well, we figured out why Riley had such an easy time getting out of her bed and we fixed it so we are gonna wait a while before we are gonna switch her to a "big girl" bed! But now we have a new problem and I am stumped!!!!! She has figured out how to take her diaper off really well. Like, she will take it off by the tabs, one at a time!! She is so excited for herself when she does it so its hard not to be excited with her. So I thought that maybe it was time to TRY the potty training step again! Well sometimes she seems like it is fun for her to sit down and other times I feel like I am forcing her! I DO NOT want to push her into this it will just make it worse.....BUT she will not leave her diaper on for 2 seconds and no matter how hard I have tried for the past 3 days she will not sit on the potty when she needs to. Then I am left with pee spot after pee spot to clean up! But it just doesn't seem to phase her! I learned a little trick when I was putting her to bed and naps that I thought would work for more than 2 days! She has a problem taking off pants or shorts with a tight elastic waist band on it. She just couldn't figure out how to get it passed her big bum but that problem proved easy as of today at the end of nap time! PEE EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!! Ugh I am so frustrated because it feels to me like she is just not quite ready for the potty training but she will not leave her diaper on for 2 seconds!!!!!!!!!! HELP!

4th folder 4th Picture

K I just found this on my sister The Diaper Divas Blog she found it on her friends blog as a kind of tag! So I figured that I would do it cuz it sounded like a fun thing to do! I looked in the 4th folder of our computer picture files and picked out the 4th photo and decided to post it! Then you give a kind of back story to it! Its not normally something I would post about but I guess I am not sure why! ha ha We were getting ready for church one day (well Riley and Dale were ready they were waiting on me of course) and Dale called me in to witness this! Now, Riley loves to be tickled lightly ALL THE TIME but I guess I never thought of ticking the face with a tie! ha ha she was almost falling asleep! She loved it! And when Dale stopped she picked up his tie and picked up his hand and forced him to do it again! So cute! Its funny what you will find when you are not thinking about ti! So I am not gonna tag any specific people but it would be fun to see other peoples random pictures!

Moo Moo Palooza!

My sister the "Diaper Diva" ( I don't know how to link) called me up a couple days ago and asked if i wanted to join her and my other sister " Sister K" to the Moo Moo Palooza this morning! So Riley and I went and tagged along. Riley was so excited to see the animals, especially the cows! It was at this farm out on Hawes Road, (did I spell that right?) that, for a day or two, lets people in free and sets up so that that kids can pet and feed the animals. Riley had a blast! She loved hanging out with her cousins and being able to run and be free for a little while! (which she totally took advantage of ha ha) I had to chase her down quite a few times and almost lost he once but she had fun and that's what it was all about! I even got interviewed by some guy from channel 12 news asking about how i felt about this being a fun thing I could do with the kids for free and be able to get together as a group and have fun! He asked about how LARGE my group was and why I was there! It was interesting to say the least. Of course the guy had no idea that I am a nervous talker and that I am not very well spoken! Poor guy..... I bet he cant use any of the interview! Just a waste of film! ha ha But other than that we had a lot of fun! Oh... it was a tad too hot but of course the kids could care less about that! Now, I didn't get very many pictures of "The Bug" (she didn't want to cooperate with me) but he Diaper Diva was always ready with her camera and got some really cute shots so check hers out to see when she will post them so you can see the rest of the bunch! But here are the ones I did get! Riley loved to pet the Bunnies there!
The turkey kept staring at her and she kept calling it a chicken! ha ha
She really wanted to go get the horse to pay attention to her! But it never did!
My little wannabe model! Look at those eyes! Sorry hunny you will never be tall enough! ha ha
The kids loved this calf! A little bit after this malling the lady that worked there told us this calf was born YESTERDAY!! So new and so fun!!!