Crosby Fam

This past weekend Richie and I got a chance to attend my family reunion, which hasn't happened since we've been married, so it was really great to be able to go. We spent a couple days at my sister-in-law's cabin on Cedar Mountain, and then Richie and I stayed a couple more days in St. George. It was SO much fun to be with my family. Everyone was there this year except my sister Jenn who is currently working on her masters. (Missed you Jenn!) We loved seeing everyone and introducing Miles to so many, but as always, it was too short. I guess we'll just have to visit again soon!
Paris at the splash park

Tucker taking care of Miles

Ben, excuse me, Dr. Crosby, was a good jump-roper, but can't compare to Ilah, Zadi and Izzy breaking records left and right for how many doctors it took to cure cinderella after she kissed a snake, and Becca and Taysom doing teddy bear TOGETHER!

Erma and Zadi after smores

George and Henry at the splash park playing in the red dirt

Miles and Richie taking a Sunday nap. Neither of them do well with late nights, and there were a lot of those! :)

Miles meeting his great grandma Crosby

The Mr.and Mrs.

ALL of the grandkids! From youngest to oldest. Miles, Erma, Theo, Tess, Paris, Liesl, George,Izzy, Henry, Ilah, Zadi, Tucker, Taysom.

Mom and Miles hangin out.

Cute Boys, Rice Krispie Sushi and Swing

Just some cute pictures of my boys


Sorry, problems uploading.

This is our date night activity. We invited Mike and Megan over and we ate sweet and sour chicken, stir fry, made sushi out of rice krispies, sweedish fish, gummi worms and fruit roll ups. We even made a few nigiri. So fun! I was surprised at how widespread this idea is! If you just type it into google, you get lots of ideas! Then we were going to watch "The Last Samuri" to fit in with our Asian theme, but clean flicks was all out of it, so we rented "Slumdog Millionaire" instead and called it "Srumdog Mirrionaire" so that it still counted as Asian. Now, now...don't get offended. We really liked the movie and it didn't even have any Asians in it! :)



The other night, our dance hall and a local "jazz club", I guess, combined our forces and had an awesome night at the woodside! A 9 piece jazz band and a packed dance hall. It doesn't get much better. They encouraged everyone to dress up, so Richie wore his Zoot suit and I wore one of his sailor outfits. We took Miles over to the Christensen's house and we had a great night dancing!



Can you tell what famous picture we are trying to re-create? I don't blame you if you can't tell, we did a terrible job. I couldn't stop laughing.

The Many Staches of Richie

I don't particularly like facial hair on guys, so I don't encourage Richie to grow any. But when we were engaged and he was in Rexburg and I was in St. George he worked from 730am to 11pm every day and didn't really care about shaving. So when he would come down to visit, lo and behold, I was engaged to a hairy man. This particular time was the day before our wedding pictures and he had a little fun shaving.
A full beard, cleaned up, the INTIMIDATOR, the thoughtful stache, and
my favorite kind of stache

Not creative enough to think of a good title

This weekend we celebrated Richie's birthday and the 4th of July with his family. It was such a good time. On Thursday they got here in the evening and Richie chose this chicken/crab dutch oven dinner for his mom to make. Delicious. And I owed him a pie, so I made him a blackberry pie. You probably can't see it in this picture, but it looks amazing if I do say so myself. Then we opened presents and he got some much needed necessities...I guess that's why they're called necessities...such as white shirts, jeans, and tennis shoes. So I got to give him the very coveted bike trailer/jogging stroller!! The boys put it together (Thank you very much) and Miles really seems to like it. We've already taken a couple of excursions on it!


That night we headed out to Eagle Park and Campground where we had probably the best campsite and no one else was there miraculously enough. Richie's family stayed in one tent and we Richie, Miles and I stayed in our little two man tent. Miles actually did really well and LOVED being outside all the time. We played horseshoes, went on a walk and then packed our lunches to go to Mesa Falls: a favorite of ours. We stopped to feed the fish, always classic, parked to see the lower falls, and then "hiked" in to see the upper falls. By that time, Miles' schedule was a mess and we were afraid he was sunburned and thirsty so we went home. (The advantage of camping 10 minutes away from home) We thought we'd just rest and then go back out to camp, but it started raining and we didn't want to chance it, so the Garners camped in our front room on Friday! What good sports.



On Saturday morning the boys went to Idaho Falls to play frisbee golf and me and mom Garner and Miles stayed home to scrapbook all of Richie's pictures (Something that he loathed growing up, so now I get to do it :) I really don't mind, I kind of like it actually) We then had a yummy 4th of July meal with spare ribs, corn on the cob, pasta salad, watermelon, and a flag cake! :) They had to head home, so afterwards, Richie and I used our bike trailer and went to visit the Christensens, came home and got in our pj's, watched the fireworks over at American (while listening to "Coming to America" by Neil Diamond) and then went to the drive in movies and saw/slept through Ice Age 3. To top the fabulous weekend off, on Sunday the Christensen's invited us over for Dinner and to roast mallows in their backyard!


Thank you everyone for such a memorable weekend!

Reminds me of Richie

Since I'll post more about Richie's birthday and his family visiting later, I thought I'd start something I've wanted to for a time as well as honor Richie on his 24th birthday. Youtube has these "mormon messages" available to put on blogs to aid in sharing the gospel. I checked them out today and found this one. I have heard this talk before and when I heard it, I immediately thought, "that is something Richie would do."

5 months!

Today is actually Richie's Birthday! But I'll post more on that later. This past week Miles hit 5 months! Holy cow this is going fast! His latest tricks are rolling from back to front, almost sitting up by himself, and sleeping through the night mostly. As of right now, he's been sleeping for almost 10 hours!! Incredible I know. We think he may have developed an allergy to the formula we give him occasionally because the last 2 times we have given it to him, even the slightest amount makes him throw up. Has that happened to anyone else? What did you do? We think we'll try soy formula next time. Anyway, here's an awesome picture of Miles and his dad over at the Christensens. We went over there the other night because they were helping us fix the truck and they also fed us dinner! Such good friends. Richie and I have really seen blessings come lately because of paying our tithing. The truck now runs great and we had plenty of food to make it to the end of the month. We're excited to see Richie's family this weekend!