Paying Up

Caught Riley going out the door to deliver a 12 pack of Pepsi's to the neighbor girl. Apparently Riley lost in a fierce game of horse, and owed her. Yeah, she's 9. Pretty sad Ry, pretty sad.

Tatums bright Idea

Today Tatum came up with a pretty great concept...or business rather (quite the entrepreneur I must say). I think it all is stemming from whenever we are out in public, and Tatum sees a dog, walking with its owner. My little animal fanatic will always ask (and I have tried to divert her MANY a time from it, especially when the dog is all snagled toothed and one-snap-away-from-killing-a-child-looking) but she will always ask her very specific line of questions as she passes by (very slowly) : 

"Is your dog friendly?"...then whatever the answer, she will follow with "Is he used to little kids?"  Many times, to her dismay (and the owner is either telling her the truth or also trying to divert) the owner will say, "Oh, no, he is not really used to kids." At that point Tatum without a doubt walks sadly away, knowing that the option to pet the animal is no longer possible. Yesterday, a similiar story occured.

 So today she came up with the "used-to-ing  Center". This is a place, as Tatum clearly explained it to me, that Dogs go, and learn how to get used to little kids. She said that all dogs should go there. In her mind this is the answer that would make the world all make sense. Brilliant.

Gardening

She loves it...

Giants

We are never going back to bleacher seats again after this night! Riley somehow scored the luxury seats of the San Francisco Giants Owner (a member at Cypress of course), so we headed up to San Fran to watch the Giants battle the Dodgers on Tuesday night. There's just nothin like a good ol' baseball game in my opinion. Popcorn, hot dogs, The National Anthem, 7th inning stretch, and of course singing "take me out to The Ball game" at the top of our lungs. Great times.

Happy Birthday Riley!!

Happy Birthday to the best husband and dad on the block. You make life so much happier for all us us, and a lot more interesting!
Hope you feel loved on your day (because you are).

Whoops

Somebody found moms lipstick. They think they are soooo funny...

Yard Work Part 2

Rileys Parents came up this past week to help (okay more like DO) more work in the yard! The guys started on the deck, and Sandi and I completed the veggie garden! Of course it was a wopping 96 degrees as the guys were sweating buckets and Sandi and I were knee deep in compost, but it was fun. The kids had fun too getting in the action, and of course took more than a few slip and slide breaks!