Jackson with his Dad

Judd is so good when it comes to helping others. He always notices when people need help. I on the other hand am so obsorbed in my own affairs that I didn't notice our neighbor's car up on jacks for 2 days. So naturally, (It's a Riley thing) Judd goes over and asks if he can help or if they need any tools....
Well Jackson thought it looked like A LOT of fun to work with tools and tried to help them fix this car...they were changing the ball bearing, or something.

Jackson even had his own tool set that he got from Grandma and Grandpa Riley!

We made him feel helpful by showing him that he could hammer on the huge bolts! HAHA! It was SO cute to watch Dad and son together. I wish you all could have been there. Pretty soon we'll have TWO boys to help dad.

Okay, THESE pictures are the best! This is out at Grandpa's farm in Rexburg. Jackson got to ride in the tractor with his Grandpa! The best part is that we put these sun glasses on him and he left them on for hours. He must have forgotten they were on. But he looks like a total stud!

HAHAHA!! I love this picture

FUn PicTuREs oF JaCKsoN

I love it when He kisses his Panda Bear!

He never paid much attention to this panda until we read a book about panda bears and I showed him that he had a panda like the one in the book!

These next pictures were to show off his golden locks! We love his curls.

IM PREGNANT

Alot of you already know I am pregnant! But I was keeping it a secret from my family until we knew what we were having, (A BOY by the way!!) I got to tell my parents and brothers and sisters just this last weekend at dinner. Chuck A Rama! It was GOOD. Anyway it was a huge shocker! they were so surprised! it was fun, and it was Judd's idea to wait so long, it was SO HARD for me, I don't think I will EVER do it again!

My due date is Nov. 22 right before Thanksgiving and Jackson and this new baby boy will be only 22 months apart! alittle close for comfort...but I am so excited that I am having another boy. They are going to be BEST friends! HA! another good thing is that they are both winter baby's so most of the things I have will work great for this new little one.

But that doesn't mean we don't want anything new! hint hint. This is the 6th boy on Judd's side of the family (no girls yet) and this is the 30th grandchild on my Dad's side of the family AND he is the 9th boy out of my dad's grandchildren (yup that means 21 granddaughters) ALSO, my step sister, Katie is having a baby in January and my brother Daniel is having a baby in February! so my dad will have 32 all together! So Baby Boy Riley will instantly have cousins!

And for my mom, Baby boy riley will be the 24th grandchild for her!

So fun! we are happy and doing well.

Anniversary!

Yeah so our anniversary was May 6th, 2006 but we just barely celebrated our 3 Years last night! Why? um been really busy, Short on cash, I was in Arizona the actual day of the 6th, And Judd is not one for dressing up and going out...Unless it's for church, so it took me week after week of nagging! He's so romantic isn't he?
Our only good picture

Because Judd is messing around

and here he is fake-smiling. ignore the hair on his face, I try to. We had Grandma and Grandpa watch Jackson while Judd and I went to Dinner at our favorite Rexburg Resturant, The Pinapple Grill. We LOVE the terriaki chicken! I splerged and got a Pina Colada! I LOVE Those drinks! They also have really good sushi, which we both love to eat, but we didn't get any this time.

HAir CuT!!

Okay, a few people have asked me to put pictures of my new hair cut on here, so here are two. I cut my long hair in April at my mom's house in Arizona. We cut off almost 12 inches!! Then a few weeks after I got back to Rexburg I got it cut really cute by a girl in my ward, Alisha Balukoff.

Okay, I know this is a weird picture, but Judd was NOT cooperating!! So this was the least silly of the ones I had to choose from!

The end

The Carousel

The quality is really bad, I forgot to put my camera on a higher megapixel setting when we taped it!

Rexburg

This was Thursday, it was a really fun day! Jackson and I went to the Rexburg Library for story time and he LOVED it. We used to go a lot when we lived in Utah but we haven't gone for a few months. He loved the story teller, he loved the kids, he loved the books! much diff. from when he was just a few months younger! ANYHOO, while we were there they gave us Carousel passes to ride for free! Rexburg has this amazing carousel, it's totally antique! and it's all covered. So we went and picked up Daddy and we took turns riding the carousel with Jackson. HE LOVED IT!! He did not want to get off that horse! We tried to remind him that he has one at home (a rocking horse) But after the carousel we went to the splash park which is right outside the carousel!! He loved that too! He LOVES the water! He is very brave, and not afraid at all to loose sight of his mom and dad so we have to watch him really close!
Jackson on his own little horse

Jackson on a Big horse

Mommy and Jackson

Daddy and Jackson, He is waving to me! It was so cute! He would hold on to his bar and ride his horsey, then when he saw me he would start waving like mad until he couldn't see me anymore! It will be on the video if I can figgure out how to post it.

One of the things I LOVE about rexburg is that it is SO family friendly. It is such a safe town, and almost everyone is pregnant or has a baby or two. The community has so many free events, like the splash park, FREE! everyday all day long! They have FREE lunch in the park every weekday at noon! for all children ages 1-10. One day a week they have music in the park at like 6:30pm people perform, usually from BYU-I, its awsome!!

I also have to say the student wards (church) here are SO amazing, everyone is ready to serve and help. You can Always feel the spirit, even with a boy who is wiggling out of control all three meetings! NOW that is a powerful spirit to get through to you when you have such a huge distraction! I love my ward and the sisters in it. We are all at the same stage in life and have so many of the same challenges with life. We have a social group three times a week for moms to let their kids play together and we get to chat! So fun, and the kids LOVE IT!! at least Jackson does. I love relief society (Judd takes Jackson to priesthood) so it's just a great break for me to relax.

There are very many perks of living in Rexburg...but they all go away in the winter!! HA HA

Car Shows

This was a car show we went to in Twin Falls a week ago. It was cool because it had Mater, from cars the Disney movie. They had a cars theme! I just put a few shots of the cars in here, It got us excited for the Logan, Utah Cruise-In on the 4th of July.

The Logan one is WAY awsome, they close the whole main street down at 6:30 pm and let all the cars drag main for over and hour. Of course ALL the people in the town come watch, it's like a fashion runway for cars! It's really fun this will be our FOURTH year together there, Judd said he thinks it's a tradition now... Before the cars drag main they always give away an old rebuilt car. This year was a 49 ford coop. I really thought this year I had the lucky ticket...but I didn't, and neither did Judd. But every year it's SO exciting when they start to read the number on the ticket stub!

Anyway I have a slide show of all the cars we took pictures of on the side bar, scroll down. These are only a tenth of the cars that were there. I took all the pics, I like the pretty cars with the pretty paint! so that's why all the bright ones are on there!