Kemptons

Monday, January 07, 2008

Riggs Christmas Party

Grandpa and Grandma Riggs

All the cousins including 2nd cousins

grandkids helping great grandma with her Christmas story

Rocky and Stacey Riggs

JD and Briana

So my grandpa and grandma Riggs are the best grandparents ever. They still manage to have all of their family get together for a Christmas party even though the family has grown and continues to grow. It is a lot of fun getting together with everyone. My grandma always goes above and beyond for Christmas. I tell ya my grandma is a grandma everyone wishes they had...

Seeing Santa

Flagstaff puts on this whole big Santa celebration where Santa comes into town on a train and they have a parade. Santa ends up at the square in down town Flagstaff where kids go to meet him and they serve free hot chocolate with cookies and other goodies. The only catch is that it is outside in the freezing cold and you wait FOREVER in the line. But I would have to say that is was a lot more festive than seeing Santa at the mall...

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

A quick trip to the ER

So although it doesn't look traumatic, IT WAS... We put the kids to bed for the night and about 10 minutes later we hear a thud and a scream that you knew something is wrong. I run into the girls bedroom and there is Kayla completely covered in blood. No exaggeration... I freak out and hand her to Steven who in return freaks out himself. I have never seen so much blood in my life. Her eyes were filled with blood, it was all over her face and into her ears. It was seriously a dramatic sight. After a few minutes we got her face somewhat cleaned off so we could see where she was bleeding. During this time Mikelle and Katon are crying and were so scared that something serious had happened to Kayla. She had a really deep gash right in between her eyes and we thought it would be best to take her to the ER to see if she needed stitches and to make sure she didn't fracture her nose anywhere. We called our neighbor and headed to the ER. I changed my clothes before we went because my shirt had blood all over it but Steven didn't so when we went to the ER we got a ton of stares. Picture a dad with his hand covered in blood with blood on various parts of his clothes and then a little girl whose jammies are covered with blood and blood all in her hair. It was quite the scene. Mikelle was so dramatized with seeing Kayla bleeding so much that when we got home she wouldn't look at Kayla or go near her. So for such a dramatic experience for the whole family we came home with little pieces of tape to heal the wound and a dent in our check book. What are you gonna do...

And it stops

How can you not love this... even those who hate the snow

My kids love the snow. Although the girls last about an hour or so out there before they get too cold, Katon can stay out there all day long. He loves to explore and see what he can find buried under the snow.

The after math of our 4 days of snow. I know most of you think that I am crazy but I love it when it snows. Monday and Tuesday were snow days so the kids had school off. We had fun staying home and playing games, making crafts, and drinking hot cocoa. I loved it. It feels so much like Christmas here. The thing that is so great about Flagstaff and probably why I love the snow so much is because it doesn't stay for like 4 months straight. It will snow long enough for us to enjoy it and then it melts away and comes back again another time. Crazy or not I love it... and for all you that only like to visit the snow, come and VISIT...

Saturday, December 08, 2007

The First SNOW of Winter

It started snowing this morning and it hasn't stopped. I can't tell you enough how much I love to open my blinds and watch it snow. It doesn't get old to me. As I am posting this I am right next to my living room window and I am watching the snow fall. It is actually coming down pretty hard right now. I love it.

Sunday, November 25, 2007

Happy Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving with my side of the family this year. We of course had deliciously yummy food and had great company. The kids love playing with their cousins. I love Thanksgiving just for the fact that you can't help but reflect on all of your blessings. I know that I am so blessed in my life. Just for the fact that every day I get to wake up and enjoy my family and everyone else in my life. I am grateful for the blessing of a brand new day. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving...

Gathered around the table making our shopping lists for the day after Thanksgiving...

Lexi, Mikelle, and Casey

I was almost reluctant to post this picture since the game was such a let down. But regardless the men had a fun time...

I love my hubby...

Hanging out with the Heymans

On Wednesday night we went to dinner and goofy golfing (or put put for Jenny) with Chris and Jenny Heyman. We had such a blast. We loved seeing you guys.

On one of the holes our golfing balls ended up in a straight line. I thought it was pretty crazy.

Leave it to me to loose a ball in the water. Steven and Chris are trying to spot it in the little pond all though it is really dark.

Chris: I think I spot it...

Yeah, I think it is right there...

Is this it...

Jack pot, with a few extra just in case...

Girls Weekend making Gingerbread Houses

The weekend before Thanksgiving my mom, sisters Kristy and Jodi, my sis-in-law Amber (Braiden too) and my grandma Sue came and stayed over the weekend to make our annual gingerbread houses. It was such a fun weekend. My husband is the best because he let me basically kick him out of his own home so that I could have a weekend to myself with the girls. What a guy... They came on Thursday night so on Friday we went Shopping and went to lunch. On Saturday we made our houses literally all day. We stayed up every night playing games an laughing. We had some hysterical moments that we will never forget (we have them on video) but for the sake of our dignity we will pass on showing them. I absolutely love this tradition of making gingerbread houses that we have. This is our 8th year making them and I look forward to it all year long. It is so fun to get together and be silly girls. Even my 70 year old grandma can still be silly. Trust me... Thank you my family for such a great weekend and all the husbands that helped with children to make it possible. Can't wait till next year. Grandma be practicing for your next performance...

Gifts, gifts and more gifts. I felt like it was Christmas. We all got presents. Of course with the gingerbread theme...

I had to add in a picture of the cute little guy that came and had his first sleep over with girls.

Mom's gingerbread house

Kristy's gingerbread house

My gingerbread house

Amber's gingerbread house

Jodi's gingerbread house

Grandma's gingerbread house

Saturday, November 03, 2007

HALLOWEEN!!!

Our Football Player and Princesses... I didn't think Halloween could be busy but WOW... I felt like I was running a million miles an hour from Monday to Wednesday. We had parties and trunk or treat, the list goes on. When all is said and done though is was a really fun filled Halloween.