Aunt Amy, JT and Gramma Margie

We recently had a visit from my very best friend, Amy, along with her 4 month old son, JT and Amy's mom, Margie. What a great blessing it was to have them here! Riley and JT got along great. She tried to use him as a standing post and he didn't care for it to much, but really, other than that, they had fun.
I suppose mostly Amy and I had fun. We went to Simply Dinners the first day she was here to make all our dinners for the week. We went to Gadabout one day and got spectacular massages. We spent a day in Bisbee. And we shopped for Riley's baptism dress. Most of all, we just hung out and had a FABULOUS time! I miss that girl so much and now I've totally fallen for her little boy. He's a doll! We had his and Riley's pictures made together too, but we're still waiting on the CD of those from the photographer. (I'll post those as soon as I get them.)
The pictures I'm posting now are from Amy. Ty took our camera to work and has been forgetting to bring it home so that I can pull the pics off it. He assures me it's not lost. (Cross your fingers!) So, as soon as I get that, I'll add the pictures I took while they were here (including the ones of Amy and I in the mine, next to the cave miners toilet...) and pictures from Riley's baptism.

Big words

Sorry for the delay in posting, but we've been kind of busy around here lately. OG moved out, Amy, Margie and JT came to visit and our air conditioner, as of yesterday, is not working. On an up note, OG bought us a new computer. I haven't figured all the bells and whistles out quite yet, so I don't have any recent pics loaded on it. Plus, I'm fairly certain my brain is a puddle of goo due to the extreme heat in our house. Which leads me to my next random thought... I am quite certain it must be the heat, because I consider myself relatively intelligent. I have a college degree, I hold down a job where I train others, I'm taking new classes. So, why is it that when I looked on an old friend's blog, I needed a dictionary for practically every other word? Is he really that verbose? Or, am I just that hot and tired? (Please note the use of the word "verbose" as it makes me feel better to use such a fancy word in light of my current situation of feeling rather stupid.) This friend and I knew each other throughout jr high, high school and college and I don't remember having that much trouble understanding him. Maybe it's due to his most recent reading of Tolstoy and my most reading of Sheep in a Jeep. Anyway, I'll write more when I have pics of Amy and JT's visit and when it's cool in here again.

Big Girl!

Riley has been very busy lately crawling around and pulling her self up on anything and everything she can use! She's a little wobbly, but she's "cruising" furniture too. It's crazy how fast she's growing. She's also whispering a lot. I'm not sure what she's saying, but it's like she's practicing talking. It's very cute.
I bought a fence type thing today for our living room so that I can keep her in one space. It's like "baby jail." She's wasn't very impressed with it at first, but then OG and I got in with her and she started to think maybe it was okay. Then OG and I stayed in, and put Riley outside of the fence and she thought that was very funny.
Enjoy the pics!