Ryver's 2nd Birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! June 25th Ryver turned two years old. I am having a hard time believing he's growing up. The morning of his birthday I went into his room and watched him sleep. Right then and there I swear he grew an inch overnight. He was so grown up looking and BIG! So the day came and went and Ryver never knew. We referred to it as his b-day but he didn't care! We celebrated 2 days later on Saturday. Grandpa and Grandma Yost came up and Dawn, Jer, and the girls came over. Ryver's cake was a race car track cake (if you were all wondering, I know it doesn't quite look like it in the picture)! He loved seeing some of his favorite cars on the cake. He actually loved the candles the best! We weren't sure if he'd get the concept of blowing them out but he did. Grandpa lit them again and he was blowing them out and got a little too close to the flame and burned himself. But that didn't even phase him. When he opened his presents words and pictures can't explain how fun and excited he got over his new hummer, trailer, and 4-wheeler! I wish I'd had a video camera. He got a new pair of goggles, too! When we sang Happy Birthday he got so excited and started clapping his hands and yelling. We are very thankful to have this little guy in our life's. He comes with lots of hugs, kisses, dirty hands and face, giggles, a love for his thumb, a few NO'S and GO AWAYS, but we do love everything about him. Can't wait to see what the next year brings! Happy Birthday Ryver!
Payge, Portia, Baylee, Maggy, and the Birthday Boy RYVER!



This is the 2nd go around of blowing the candles out when he got too close to the flames!

Goofy Boy!

Ryver is quite the goofy funny boy. He is so content to play with silly little things. He loved these goggles of Portia's! He kept asking anybody and everybody to put them on him. He's our fun, easy going (most of the time) little tike!

Rough and Tough!

Scott and the kids have a game they do quite often. When I was younger my dad and sisters and I called it rough and tough. So basically it's wresteling and a free for all. I can say I can tell the difference between girls and boys. Ryver can take a little bit more of the rough part than Portia. She's quite the trooper though and gets Scott down for her 10 second count!


-Scott getting a whooping from Ryver and Portia starting her 10 second count


-Scott calls this the back breaker-

City camping!!!

Yes I have to admit we went city camping this past weekend. We were going to my cousin's wedding at Red Fish Lake on Saturday, so Friday night we stayed in Arco at the KOA. At first we had a tent site all reserved and the longer the day went on the cloudier and cloudier it go. So with having to get ready for a wedding Saturday morning and not wanting to show up looking like a wet dog, we upgraded to one of their cabins. It was so nice! It had electricity, a mirror, heater and beds! I love camping but with kids I'm a fair weather camper!
Portia and Ryver had so much fun just playing on the bunk beds! We all had fun snacking on oreos and fruit snacks while listening to the rain. I was very thankful to have swallowed my pride and stayed in a cabin!
Ryver and Portia loving the top bunk beds!

Scott cooking our hamburgers!

Anything for ICECREAM!!!

So in the almost five years that I have been with Scott, I've yet to see him eat a hotdog! Yes I know, can you believe it? I love, love, love hotdogs! Scott tries to gross me out by telling me what's in them, but I don't really care! They are yummy! My sister, Dawn, told him she'd give him a gallon of ice cream if he ate one. Scott will of course do anything for icecream. I got a picture of the glorious moment! Yea Scott, you did it!!!

How old are you Scott?

Swimming in Lava!

My sister Misty from Oregon came down for the week so we all got together and went swimming in Lava Hot Springs. It brought back sooo many memories. As a kid we actually had a season pass as a family and went 2-3 days a week at least. They have new and improved slides that were way fun. We even got Grandma (my Mom) to go down them! The cousins had lots of fun playing together and we all got a little too much sun. It always takes one bad sunburn for me to remind me about sunscreen. When will I learn!
Ryver was a total fish. He loved the little kid slide and was so mad when he couldn't go with Logan on the big over the road slides! Portia is our other fish! She just loves playing with her cousins and is getting better at swimming. She loved the slides but wasn't quite brave enough to go down the "really scary" slides yet. She told me the next time we go to Lava she will go down them.









That was my Mom going down the slide! Yes she even got her hair wet! Way to go Grandma!

Happy Birthday Porita!

Happy Birthday! We got Portia the day before her birthday for the summer. She turned 7 years old on the 7th of June. She has grown up so much this year and is still the perfect little girl! She is the best big sister Ryver could ask for. The day of her b-day party. Grandma Kathy, Grandpa Scott, Grandma Sherry, Grandma Gordon, Aunt Dawn, Uncle Jeremy, and Baylee, Payge, Maggy, and Taby came over. It was a rainy cold day. The fun activities for outside didn't get to happen. It was suppose to be a tie-dye birthday party, none of which happened. That whole day I was so sick and her b-day cake didn't even get finished. But Portia being the relaxed, carefree girl, she didn't even notice. She had lots of gifts given to her, from a dog named Toffee to her own camera, and even an apple from Payge that Ryver ate later! We are so thankful we have Portia in our family even if it's only every now and again! Thanks everyone for coming and helping me out that day! Family is the only way to go!