By T-Rah
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Well, Riley did my 2
nd 5k with me. :) He was a good sport. I found out late last night that my town was doing a walk/run for breast cancer. We showed up late and had to hurry and pay and get outside to start the run...before I got to the designated area, I heard someone over the sound system count down and say "go!". Crap.
All the runners were ahead of the walkers so I had to try to weave my way through TONS of people before I could try running. :) My time wasn't great but it was really fun!
The best was seeing all the people and how excited they were to be their. My top 2 have to be 1) the old ladies with pink bras over their shirts...put on backwards with glitter writing on the cups that said "bosom buddies." I saw that one at the beginning of the race . After I loaded Riley and me in the car, I was pulling out and noticed and older couple with raglan T-shirts with a picture of 2
nd base...and the quote said "SAVING SECOND BASE!" It took me a sec to realize they were talking about boobs...and I started laughing hysterically. What the?!
By T-Rah
Okay...I've been meaning to post for like a month! But so many "what the?!?'s" have happened that I've been waiting to put a slide show up to make things easier...but I'm never in the mood to figuring out how to do it (i'm sure it's easy...but I haven't found the time to prove to myself that it is easy...so back off. :)... hence, the long delay of no-posting on the "what the" blog. :)
ANYWAY: We moved into our new house in I.F. on Halloween, so I didn't get to take my little Riley Mac around this year...which I was quite bummed about. So I'm posting these pictures of when I had him try on his costume. He kept going around saying "huh huh" like a gorilla...it was so cute. --And the other day I put on my furry black boots (since it's frickin' freezing in Idaho!) and Riley came up to me and said "huh huh!!" That made me smile the whole time I was wearing my "gorilla shoes." lol
By T-Rah
Look at me...I have officially become my Mother's daughter. This is my Right of Passage: I bought fake fruit!
My Mom has fake fruit always! No, it's not plastered everywhere in her house. She is so amazing with cute decorations for all the seasons and holidays and fake fruit happens to be some of them. I don't think I will ever forget her cute fake cherries she would put in a bowl on the kitchen counter. They were so bright and yummy looking (even though I don't like cherries). But, I think the main reason I won't forget them is for the several people who actually thought they were real and tried to eat them. Seriously, I'm talkin' "stuck-one-in-their-mouth-and-had-to-spit-it-out" tried to eat them. ESPECIALLY my Grandpa A. He is so adorable. But it seemed like every time he came over he would reach down and pop one in his mouth. It happened to often that after awhile he would come over and reach for one...hesitate...then put his hand on his belly and just stare at the cherries wishing them to be real! Such a mean trick, Mom! haha
Anyway, I was hoping my Mom's gift for decorating would just be in my genes...but it turns out it's an acquired talent...what the!?!?!? I. Am. Clueless. So...for the fall I figured a good place to start was by getting fake fruit. I'm not going to lie and say I'm not totally proud of myself for how cute my table looks every time I walk by it. I know it is something so simple and easy...but like I said I'm clueless so this is TRUELY a big step for me....a step into my true Womanhood. HAHAHA!!!
By T-Rah
Okay, so it's not my first flower ever...but it's my first flower from Riley.
Guy set Riley up with a daycare just down the street from us. Basically, Riley goes there for a couple hours in the morning so I can go workout or run errands or whatever. Just a little "me" time. I was feeling kind of guilty for "making" him go there so I was a little stressed out the first day Guy took him there. Guy picked him up while I was on my way back from the gym and when I walked in the door, I heard Guy say "give it to mom..." I looked at Riley and he had both his hands full of crackers (he's seriously in this "give it all to me...I can carry it all" stage). But in one of his cracker hands was this flower...with full concentration and a sweet little smirk on his face he handed me the flower. Guy and Riley walked back from the daycare and Riley picked the flower. I thought he was so smart for being able to do give it to me...and so sweet, especially after I "dropped him" at a daycare that I almost broke down and bawled right then and there. I'm a mess, I know...but I just thought it was precious. :) :) Thanks to both my boys for being so sweet! I love you guys!
By T-Rah
While I was at Shelese's, my parents and sister Moh, my niece Jessi and our friend Sally got to go to the SYTYCD concert! We are all major freaks of the show and it is so amazing to watch how talented the dancers are in ALL styles of dance (okay, my Dad isn't a freak about it...but he is a good sport). I was still so amazed even though I've watched them repeatedly on my DVR. :) It was really fun watching it with my family; laughing and
making wide-eye expressions. It was so fun to look over at my Mom and see her get jazzed about crazy boy Mark's Bohemian Raphsody dance...and Gev's breaking of all things. Just to see her look over and smile and clap extra hard got me even more excited about being there with her. And to look over at my Dad after Joshua and Chelsea danced their Argentine Tango and he'd have his signature smirk and twinkle in his eye that seems to say "gee" and "cool" and "wow" and "i'm tickled pink" and "how can he do that with no ballroom training" all at the same time. I love that smirk: especially when it reminds me of times in my childhood when he gave that look to me or any of my siblings. It always made me feel like I conquered the impossible! :) And sitting in the middle of Moh and Shelese was a joy as always: to be able to look to either side of me and laugh and say "holy crap!" and dance along, and roll our eyes and the annoyingly desparate girls behind us that would yell "will! have my babies." And to see my little niece Jessi look at them and glare (she's only 6...but she already has the Archibald female trait of having ZERO tolerance for stupid, immature girls...I'm so proud! :).
And a BIG thanks to Erik for watching Riley the Monster so I could go while Guy was out of town! You are crazy...but very sweet to do that for me.
And I HAVE to mention the Guitar Hero hours with Erik and Shelese. I left my Xbox with them ON THE CONDITION that Erik would practice so he could give me some good competition. :) :) He and Shelese were fun to watch because Erik would be all into with playing...and Shelese would be all into dancing and singing!! I'm going to have to learn how to put videos on this so you can see her freak-side. It was awesome. She'd dance and sing through the whole song and when it was over she'd notice that Erik beat her and she'd say "I suck again!" But when the next song would start she just start booty shakin and singing along! Awesome.....
I had so much fun with Sha-Ducky and her fam. Thanks for putting up with us for 5 days!!! And thanks Mom, Dad, and Moh for playing with us too!
Note to Self: dance concert + annoying girls = headache + urge to take anger management. next time, bring earplugs.
By T-Rah
For Labor Day weekend Guy and I went with Juan and Valerie to Vegas. It was so nice to get away. We flew in their daughter to watch Riley some of the time so we could get a break too. :) It was fun! We did most of the kid stuff: Circus Circus (Riley loved the adventuredome), the Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay, the Lions at MGM, the Tournament of Kings at Excalibur, and swimming of course. We had a good time! Friday night we went to Bill Engvall's stand up show...he is so bloody hilarious. We all had stomach aches from laughing so hard!
Riley's favorite BY FAR was the escalators. He could not get enough of those things! If we were ever waiting for someone we'd let him loop up and down. He thought that was so cool!
Our last night there, however, Guy started barfing...followed by Riley later in the night. Poor kids. The day after we got back I got sick too. So it's a little hard to remember how much fun we had when we are all still recovering from being sick! :)
BUT, I did get a cute outfit from BeBe and a knock-off Chanel bag! So I don't have too much to complain about! haha!
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making wide-eye expressions. It was so fun to look over at my Mom and see her get jazzed about crazy boy Mark's Bohemian Raphsody dance...and Gev's breaking of all things. Just to see her look over and smile and clap extra hard got me even more excited about being there with her. And to look over at my Dad after Joshua and Chelsea danced their Argentine Tango and he'd have his signature smirk and twinkle in his eye that seems to say "gee" and "cool" and "wow" and "i'm tickled pink" and "how can he do that with no ballroom training" all at the same time. I love that smirk: especially when it reminds me of times in my childhood when he gave that look to me or any of my siblings. It always made me feel like I conquered the impossible! :) And sitting in the middle of Moh and Shelese was a joy as always: to be able to look to either side of me and laugh and say "holy crap!" and dance along, and roll our eyes and the annoyingly desparate girls behind us that would yell "will! have my babies." And to see my little niece Jessi look at them and glare (she's only 6...but she already has the Archibald female trait of having ZERO tolerance for stupid, immature girls...I'm so proud! :).
I'm a freak about a lot of things...let's just get that out right now...if you need proof, ask Guy. ;) I get addicted to a lot of stuff. My summer "heroine" addictions have been narrowed to two...which is ahead of the curve for me: "So you think you can Dance," and the Twilight Saga. One of the plethora of reasons I'm addicted to the two is because all 3 of my sisters AND my mother are into them as well. Even when we're not together we have to call each other to discuss, argue, and salivate. :) I just finished "Breaking Dawn" and I'm still geeking out about it. I figured a good way to unwind from that "fix" was catch up on SYTYCD. So watching the season finale AND finishing my book on the same day...not the best idea. Now I'm not sure where or when I'll get my next fix!! 
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