The Thing That Ate Kids For Arguing

Our dear Eric made this video for Hayden for his birthday and it has some huge stars in it like:

Indee, Gavin, Hayden, Eric, and Momma Rigby herself! Enjoy!

Families are Forever

When I was working my screen saver popped up with the pictures I have saved on my work computer and these were the first three. They made me smile and remember what an awesome family I have. One night Adam and Cara were up visiting and they stayed at our place. We decided to watch Hairspray and Adam LOVED it. He's pretending to sleep here but he was singing and dancing through the entire show. We are probably going to get it for him for his birthday... don't tell.

This is one of my favorite wedding pictures. I've got my BFF JJ, little Indee, and crazy homeless Brandon.

The next picture will always make me laugh. This was right after Derek's mission. He was "hanging out " with this girl who was kind of weird. Caleb and I switched her name and my name in his phone so when I texted him it would come up as a text from her. (Caleb learned this sneaky trick from Justin Trujillo when he did it to Caleb and told him I was pregnant :) ) Anyway, while we were watching a movie at our place we text Derek and said something like "I love you and I know you are supposed to be my Eternal companion" from her. He read the text and just sat there with a blank look on his face but didn't say anything to us. He said he had to go and we texted him from Caleb's phone after he left and told us it was just a joke... needless to say he didn't think it was as funny as we did :)

Then I went through my pictures and selected some of my family pictures that I especially love and here they are. Brandon and Marci came and helped us decorate for Weber State's Homecoming at the Dee Event Center.

I don't know why but Eric always has crazy expressions in all of the pictures I take. He's normally a decent looking kid even though you'd never know from the pictures. ;)

I just assumed this next picture was payback for making the guys wear pink ties for our wedding.Gabby looks either 1) drunk or 2) belonging to the "special needs class" I can assure you that he's neither.

So many brother-in-laws! I wouldn't have it any other way. :)

Brooke was cranky at our family Thanksgiving Party so Caleb and I took advantage of her orneriness and teased her. (Actually I think Caleb was taking her from me because I was bugging her)

It's okay though because I'm still her favorite aunt. I like to call it "tough love" it makes her stronger.

Here is baby Ashton doing his Bill Cosby impression.

Kimmie and I used to go dancing every weekend. My dad has this picture up in his office at work and tells us how irresponsible we are for turning around to take a picture while driving 80 mph down the freeway.

My mom and dad are such a good looking couple. On Sundays my dad waits until my mom is dressed to pick out a tie for him to match her. How cute huh? I hope Caleb and I grow up to be just like them. (except the whole rotten children part)

Condo for Sale!

We are so excited to place our cozy condo for sale. We used our friend Marie Parks to help us list it. We have had so many good memories in this little place but we are excited to move on to bigger and better things. :) I thought I would do a special tribute to our beautiful Meadow Ghetto.













Almost all of our decorations either were given to us or picked out by Cara our interior designer sister-in-law. Actually, come to think about it, nearly 85% of the stuff in there was specifically from her.

Jeff and Carrie Maas gave us the tile above the fire place that says something about being married to your best friend.

This is the wall that I painted all by myself while Caleb was studying for finals.

My best friend Jennifer Jarrett has her own couch here at our place. (though she doesn't use it nearly enough)

Cathy, Cara, Kristin, and Hannah Cahoon gave us the sign above the sink that says "Bed and Bath You Make Both"

This is the sink that Caleb does the dishes in :)

We copied Adam & Cara and saved all pictures sent from our family and friends and decorated our fridge with them. I realize now maybe we should have taken them down for these pictures... oh well, it's homey.

That beautiful clock is sooooo annoying! It's up for grabs for the first bidder. Let me warn you first that is sounds like a ticking time bomb. We have tried everything to make it quieter. It is so LOUD!!! Sure it's cute, but every time I look at it the time is wrong because Caleb keeps taking the batteries out because it's too loud so we're going to have to part with it.

We took the closet doors off because we were having issues when we both were trying to get ready in the morning. We will probably put them back up tonight.

This is our cozy little office. Sometimes I call it our den. Just because I always wanted a den. I'm not sure what a den is, but this will work for now.

We got a cute shower curtain at our reception but I didn't realize that you were supposed to put plastic behind the cloth so quickly we realized we needed to go buy a new one. Simple task right? Apparently not. This is the nice world map shower curtain that Caleb picked out.

Also, I remember when Brandon used to find random countries and it was our job to locate them. I'm going to miss that. :)

The sides of the mirror comes up so you can see the back of your hair, but sometimes when Caleb and I are brushing our teeth at night we pull them both out and try to find which one the other is looking in. Hey, it's a small place, what else would we do for entertainment?

i am

i am: just Becky
i think: about the future
i am happy: that Caleb graduated and now has time to be with me!
i have: a cosy home with an awesome husband
i miss: the warm weather
i fear: Caleb being deployed
i feel: grateful for our Christmas bonus
i smell: Caleb's cologne
i usually: have a tidy house
i search: in my purse for my keys everyday
i wonder: who wrote the book of love?
i regret: getting a tattoo
i love: hanging out with my family and friends
i care: about what people think
i tell: funny jokes
i worry: too much! Ask anyone
i am not: messy
i remember: last week when I got home, Caleb had opened one of his Christmas presents (an X-box game) and was playing it
i believe: in God the Eternal Father and in his Son Jesus Christ and in the Holy Ghost
i sing: in the shower
i don’t always: think before I speak
i don’t like: when people say "Your time will come"
i write: secret love notes and hide them in Caleb’s pockets
i win: every game we play after family dinner
i lose: rarely (because I'm a sore loser)
i dance: like a white girl
i wish: we could travel more
i never: sleep in
i listen: to Caleb sleep
i don't understand: why people forget how to drive in the snow
i can usually be found: goofing off
i am scared: of jellyfish
i need: to go shopping for Christmas presents
i forget: to call people back
i tag: my family, Jen, Rachelle, Michelle, and Erin

Weekend Update

This weekend was so much fun! First, when I got off work at 5:00 my best friend Jen was in town for work so she hung out at Newgate until I got off so we could see each other. Jen lives in Hyde Park so I don't get to see here that often. Anyway, Caleb and I had a party to go to but we decided not to go because I just wanted to spend more time with Jen. I tried to talk her into spending the night because Caleb had drill this weekend but she couldn't. :(


I decided to take Caleb to Red Robin to celebrate his graduation. Way to go Caleb!!! With his graduation he was promoted at work to "Staff Accountant" I'm so proud of him.


When we were at Red Robin after we had sat down we held hands. Nothing serious we just both put our hands on the table and reached across. Two seconds after we were seated the waiter came and asked us if we wanted appetizers. It was so awkward. It was like we were in junior high and we had just gotten caught doing something bad by Mr. Daniels. (Rachelle you know what I'm talking about :) ) The rest of dinner was great after that.




Saturday I babysat Scott and Romney's beautiful baby girl Jocelyn while they went to the temple. She was such an angel! When we have kids I want to have perfect little children like her. :)


Saturday night we had a family Christmas party.... boring.... as Marci would say. After the party we went to the Howard's to play games, and eat Kristin's delicious birthday cake (even though Marci ate ALL of the corners, not even the birthday girl got a corner piece)





We played this game Boggle, and it was pretty fun. We let the Kristin win because it was her birthday. :) (Except Matt, he challenged her word "exo" and even got the junior high dictionary to prove her wrong, but she ended up getting the point in the end)
Caleb and Brandon played a pretty intense game of ping-pong while we played Boggle. (I asked Caleb how I should word this and he said "say we had a good time, we missed each other") So poetic.

Sunday after family dinner we played Scattergories. I LOVE Scattergories! Derek kept cheating and looking at my answers but I still killed everyone! Some of the best answers of the night were:

What is something you kept hidden..... (L)
Momma Rigby: Lingerie
Caleb: "You have lingerie? Sick"

Reasons for being late..... (M)

Me: Menstrual

Feliz: Making Out

I got a dirty look for putting menstrual but Momma Rigby laughed at Feliz's making out... not fair!

Things you're afraid of....... (A)

Caleb: Alpine Slide (then he did a crazy swoosh sound, silly boy)

Musical Instruments...... (M)

Caleb: Miano (he said he could only think of normal instruments with an M in front of it)

Things at the park...... (M)

Me: Muggers

There were some other really funny answer but I can't remember them right now.

**Warning May Not Be Suitable for Children =) **

This Saturday Caleb was Santa for our ward Christmas party. He did such a good job. We took advice from Justin and Michelle's Halloween costumes and put flour in his eyebrows to make them look gray. :) Brooke would not go near Caleb when he was dressed up. I bummed that the picture I have is blurry but she was crying when I put her on his lap. When we were going through the pictures she said "this is Brooke wearing a dress and that is Caleb wearing a Santa costume" so I guess she figured it out.

After the party Brooke was playing in the Santa custome. We got a toy gun that made a bang when you pulled the trigger as a "white elephant" gift from my office party Friday night. Where we saw, Marie, Lance, Michelle and Justin there for Jessica's birthday party. Anyway, Brooke was running around shooting Caleb and I, then Caleb got the gun and was tickling her with it and she said "Bury me with my money." I'm sure that's something Caleb taught her :)

She is inside Santa's sack in this picture.

Hollie and Kim went and got their Christmas shopping done while we had the baby so this is her taking up our whole bed during her nap. Her pony tails were all over the place when she woke up but she looked cute while sleeping. When she woke up from her nap she came in the living room and said to Caleb "You have football too? My dad always watches football when I take my nap."

Caleb loves our little chunky nephew Ashton. He tells him how he's going to teach him how to play every sport. With 3 nieces we were needing a little boy. We can't wait to meet Aynna's little boy too! We are so grateful for our families and that we are all such good friends.

Complete Randomness

Caleb and I had to babysit Brooke while Hollie was at a meeting. Justin and Michelle were babysitting little Carson while Lance and Marie were in Moab so they invited us to come play with them. We took them to Arctic Circle and had so much fun. I took these pictures from Michelle's blog. Thanks Michelle!

Brooke finally went down the big slide and even Colby would go down feet first on his tummy. :)Here is Brooke peaking out at us from the tunnel.



Here's my newest nephew Ashton. He is 3 months old, I know it seems like he's older but he was just a really really big baby. He was 10 lbs! Luckily he was C-section :)

I needed this ice cream to make pies for Thanksgiving and I walked in to find Caleb eating it... and not only that but he was eating straight from the container! Little weasel.

Caleb and I had our dads over for the BYU v. Utah game. Caleb is a BYU fan and I am a Ute fan (probably just because Caleb is a Cougar fan). Anyway, we had a good time. I told our dads that they can be bff's now. Neither one of them understood, but their friendship is just budding. :)My friend Krista told me we couldn't be friends anymore if I wasn't a BYU fan so I quickly jumped ships.

This picture makes me laugh every time I see it. Brooke sure did have fun with her watercolor paint. She is ready for a night out on the town here, with her painted on outfit.

When I went over to my mom's for lunch Brooke was playing with the dress up clothes so I took some pictures.

She looks like McCauley Culkin in Home Alone. :)

Cute Hair Styles

I love this blog so much. I spend most of my time looking at the different hair styles. I just can't wait until any of my niece's have hair long enough to actually do something with :)

http://shedoeshair.blogspot.com/

I've borrowed some of the pictures from the site to show you some of my favorites. She does step by step pictures of how to accomplish these hair styles. So cute!

My mom always did our hair really cute when we were kids but nothing like this. Sometimes she would do our ponytails so tight kids would question our sudden change in ethnicity. :)

Will you give this to my Daddy?

Last month 2 out of the 30 guys in Caleb’s unit were deployed. So when I got this email it really got to me. So I wanted to share it with everyone.

Will you give this to my Daddy?

Last week I was in Atlanta , Georgia attending a conference. While I was in the airport, returning home, I heard several people behind me beginning to clap and cheer. I immediately turned around and witnessed one of the greatest acts of patriotism I have ever seen.

Moving through the terminal was a group of soldiers in their camos. As they began heading to their gate, everyone (well almost everyone) was abruptly to their feet with their hands waving and cheering.

When I saw the soldiers, probably 30-40 of them, being applauded and cheered for, it hit me. I'm not alone. I'm not the only red-blooded American who still loves this country and supports our troops and their families.

Of course I immediately stopped and began clapping for these young unsung heroes who are putting their lives on the line everyday for us so we can go to school, work and home without fear or reprisal.

Just when I thought I could not be more proud of my country or of our service men and women, a young girl, not more than 6 or 7 years old, ran up to one of the male soldiers. He kneeled down and said 'hi.'

The little girl then asked him if he would give something to her daddy for her.

The young soldier, who didn't look any older than maybe 22 himself, said he would try and what did she want to give to her Daddy. Then suddenly the little girl grabbed the neck of this soldier, gave him the biggest hug she could muster and then kissed him on the cheek.

The mother of the little girl, who said her daughter's name was Courtney, told the young soldier that her husband was a Marine and had been in Iraq for 11 months now. As the mom was explaining how much her daughter Courtney missed her father, the young soldier began to tear up.

When this temporarily single mom was done explaining her situation, all of the soldiers huddled together for a brief second. Then one of the other servicemen pulled out a military-looking walkie-talkie. They started playing with the device and talking back and forth on it.

After about 10-15 seconds of this, the young soldier walked back over to Courtney, bent down and said this to her, 'I spoke to your daddy and he told me to give this to you.' He then hugged this little girl that he had just met and gave her a kiss on the cheek. He finished by saying 'your daddy told me to tell you that he loves you more than anything and he is coming home very soon.'

The mom at this point was crying almost uncontrollably and as the young soldier stood to his feet, he saluted Courtney and her mom. I was standing no more than 6 feet away from this entire event.

As the soldiers began to leave, heading towards their gate, people resumed their applause. As I stood there applauding and looked around, there were very few dry eyes, including my own. That young soldier in one last act of selflessness, turned around and blew a kiss to Courtney with a tear rolling down his cheek.

We need to remember everyday all of our soldiers and their families and thank God for them and their sacrifices. At the end of the day, it's good to be an American.