Wow! It's been a month already?

I have been so busy this last month mainly trying to get ready for this baby to come. I painted the baby's room or I guess I could call him by his name which is going to be Mason Wade. So now i am trying to get it all decorated by the time he comes. And I didn't think that that was enough for me to do so I painted the girls room too. It looks so cute. When I get it ALL done I will post pictures. I still have to build Brooklyn a bed too, so that we can have the crib for Mason. And I have to do all of this before the baby comes because I know I wont have time to do it after and I know Jaren won't make time to do it. So here is a baby update. Ya nothing very exciting. This week and last week I was dialated to a 2. The head is still up there a little bit and cervix is still pretty thick. I asked him today what he is thinking about when we can have this baby. And he says that he doesn't want to start me any earlier than a week so if I haven't gone by the 30th he will probably start me, ok he will start me. We all know even the Doc that this baby is big and I dont want to wait just for him to tell me that the baby is too big to come down and we are going to have to do a C-section. He said that maybe because there is too much fluid in there, that that is what is keeping him from coming down, he's just floating around. So I don't know. I guess just wait another week and see.

So besides all that and helping Jaren do whatever he needs help with. I am just trying to patiently wait for our new baby boy. Boy am I excited to finally have a boy. TOO MUCH drama in my house right now.

Gracey's Birthday, 1st day of Kindergarten

Swimming, Swimming and Showering

Where do big babies come from?

I went to the hospital on Monday to have another ultrasound because when I went before the baby had a small cyst growing on the brain. They said that it is very common and that it usually goes away, but my doctor wanted me to go in and make sure that it did. Well the cyst went away, but we found out that this young man of ours is going to be a BIGGG BABY. The guy that did the ultrasound measured everything again to make sure everything else was OK, and as he started measuring he asked do big heads run in your family, cuz this baby has a big head. Then he kept measuring and the whole baby was big(hopefully we don't have a child with a head bigger than his body). After all the measurments were taken and calculated the Estimated Due Date measured the baby to be born Sept 7, a whole month before my due date. Some how it measures the babies weight in grams and he figured that the baby already weighs 5.4 pounds. No wonder I am so big if I waited till the due date the baby would weigh 15 pounds if he gained a pound a week from now until my due date, which that won't happen but holy crap I hope the doctor takes me at least 2 weeks early. I thought that this might happen, each baby weighs a pound more than the one before. Gracey weighed 7lbs 12oz, Brooklyn weighed 8lbs 11oz, so we might have a 10 pound baby, and both the girls were a week early. So where do big babies come from???????

Rigby Family Reunion

The family reunion this year consisted of 11 kids, 8 better halves married to 8 of those kids, 24 grandkids with 2 more on the way and 1 Grandpa and 1 Grandma
with a grand total of 45 people for 1 WHOLE FAMILY.
Holy Cow! I never really sat down to think of how many there really are, and we were missing Landon and his wife Stacie, which were just sealed in the Navoou Temple. Congradulations you two,wish you could have been here. And of course we were missing Layne that died. So really there should be 48. Have you ever met a bigger family? And we aren't all done having kids yet. By the time we are all done there might be 100 of us, who knows.
So on Saturday Richard, the oldest, had a baptism for his son Hayden in Newton. Then after the baptism we all went to Mink Creek to Callie's In-laws and went repelling. I guess I shouldn't say all of us, because there was a lot that didn't go some went rafting down the Bear River. Me I just sat and held down the ground and observed my husband repelling off a 130 ft cliff. I would've taken a picture but the batteries for my camera were at home charging. Good place for them, right? I tried taking one with my phone but you can't see anything but the mountain and thats not what I was taking a picture of. So no pictures of that adventure.
Sunday, 1st ward was bombarded with Rigby's. We had 2 baby blessings and a homecoming. Good thing they decided to do them on the same day and at the same church, that made it lots easier. Then we went back to Jaren's parents and ate some yummy dutch oven dinner.

Here is a picture of some of the kids having a good time on the tramp

Stopping long enough for a picture. Left to right:Seth, Kimble, Drevin, Gracey, Kailee, and Jace

The 4-wheeler always a big hit for the kids.

Everybody just relaxing and enjoying themselves

Brooklyn's first flying lessons. I think this is a tradition for the Rigby's. They are always doing this with the little kids. I have never seen anybody else do this as much as these guys.

These are all the kids notice the pictures of the ones that weren't there.They always do that if someone is not there. If I don't say so myself I think that my husband is the cutest of them all. Don't you agree, unless you are a member of the family, then I am sure you don't agree.

All of the Grandkids. Notice the 3 little ones in the back. They all wanted their daddy so we had them go stand behind and hold them up so they wouldn't cry.

Here's the WHOLE FAM DAMILY.

Boy it is a pain getting everybody to stand still long enough for a picture, let alone smiling at the same time. But with that big of a family you get what you get and you don't complain.

Holy Cow! Where has the time gone???

Holey Cow time is flying by so fast. We have been so busy. I don't recall what happened to the middle of June, must have been boring because I don't remember what we did. Oh I do remember now, I was doing vinyl like crazy. Sometime in June we went to the lake. No pictures because I wasn't thinking and it's just the lake, just another day for us. But any way at the lake I forgot how old I was and got a massive sunburn, I thought I needed a real good tan, but ended up being a real bad sunburn that peeled and didn't really leave a tan at all, still just as white. NOT WORTH IT!!
So we were at the lake on Saturday and then the next Tuesday I went to Girls Camp, with a really bad sunburn and because I got sunburned so bad my legs and ankles swelled up like a balloon. And they did not go down for a week. Up at girls camp one night I looked at my legs and it really looked liked I weighed 300 pounds, my legs and ankles were so swollen. So being 6 and half months pregnant with a really bad sunburn and swollen legs, girls camp was well lets say it was girls camp. I really enjoyed the theme up at girls camp. It was I love to see the Temple. I t really got to the girls and also the leaders. It made me so happy that I got married to the right man in the right place.My life has been so blessed because of that decision. The spirit was really strong. So that made it all worth it. (And that it was a day shorter I don't think I could have made it another day)
When I got home, the next day was the Logan fireworks so we decided to take the girls there after picking them up from my moms. And thanks again mom for watching my kids while I was a t camp. So Jaren and I went down there got there about 8:30 or so, my mom actually met us there with the girls and watched the fireworks too. But I couldn't say that we watched the fireworks because after they started Jaren and I were worried about the traffic after it was over. Because last year my mom said it took her over an hour to get from the stadium to her house in providence. So we left about 15 min after the fireworks started, the girls were not very happy. We kept trying to tell them that we would see some more the next day in Montpelier, which aren't nearly as good, but that they wouldn't go without seeing any at all. So as we drove away they watched them out the window, and they eventually got over it. So when we went to the fireworks in Montpelier the next night Brooklyn fell asleep the first 5 min and then Gracey wasn't much further behind. So Jaren and I stayed and watched the next 15 min and then went home because they were over,not because we were being boring parents again. Gotta love the Montpelier Fireworks.

These are pictures pictures of us at the Logan fireworks with all the other 10,000 people in Logan.

Happy Anniversary to Us!

I think it is so funny to see our engagement pictures, to see how much we have changed. I always tease Jaren about how young he looks. In this picture he looks like he is 12, don't you agree. I look pretty funny myself. I make him grow facial hair so he doesn't look like he is 12. Jk I don't MAKE him he is willing and now he says he looks better with it and I definately agree. It was our 6th Anniversary on the 6th. We didn't do anything exciting. We went to Layton to meet a guy to buy a glorified Cherry picker and then stopped in Ogden to buy more tools. Then in the afternoon we went to a family reunion for my mom's Grandma's family. It was alright, probably not my favorite thing to do on my anniversary, but if we had something planned we would not have been there. We just can't plan anything, maybe that is why we never do anything because we can never decide on anything. After the reunion we were going to leave the girls with my mom and go to Logan and go to a movie and eat or something, but we had a late lunch so we wern't hungary and we didn't get to Logan until 7:45 and all the movies had already started so we went miniature golfing. Oh and I forgot to mention the kids came with. When I told Gracey that we were going to go a movie she wanted to go so we let them, why not. But I felt bad because we didn't make it to the movie. But she said she had fun golfing.

This was the only picture I took of the family reunion. It was so cute Trista was pulling everybody around and boy did she look tired but she just kept doing it. I would've gave up after one trip around.






The girls were so funny, we tried showing them how to hold the golf club but they kept changing their hands to I guess something more comfortable for them. But whatever it was, it worked for them.


Gracey got pretty good at hitting the ball even if she was holding it funny. One time she hit it so hard that it went into the green of the people in front of us. It was pretty funny.( Sorry about the blurry pictures all I had was my phone, but thank goodness for those phones that go everywhere with you)





Nice Pregnant belly. This will probably be the only picture taken of me while I am pregnant. Since for 1 I have to ask to have my picture taken and 2 I don't like my picture taken much while I am pregnant. But on the other hand I don't think I have too many pictures of me pregnant with Brooklyn so I guess it's good to have a few.

Brooklyn was being so funny. At first she would try to start at the first and hit it but then it wouldn't go very far. So she took the ball and would put it right in front of the hole and then hit it in with one hand. And then after she got tired of that so she would just put the ball in her pocket and walk around on the bricks on the outside of the green(like in the above picture I got the pictures backwards).
I am glad we got to do something on our anniversary, even if we just got to go miniature golfing and that's all. We had a fun time as a family.

Oh my Gosh...It's a BOY!!!

In this top picture he was sucking his thumb, hopefully by the time he is ready to come out he will have gotten rid of that bad habit. But I thought it was really cute.

I am still in shock from this morning. I still can't believe it's a boy. I don't know what I am going to do. All I know is girl. I can't tell if I am excited or nervous. We are going to have to start all over. When we were pregnant all we got were girl things because we knew it was a girl both times. But I guess it will be fun because Brooklyn has had to wear all of Gracey's hand-me-downs, with a few new things here and there, so I will get to go shopping for baby things again. I guess it will feel like my first time pregnant again. The baby is measuring big so it put my due date Sept, 25, but my babies are big. I just hope they don't keep getting bigger because so far it has worked out that Brooklyn was 1 pound more than Gracey and if it continues this will be a 10 pound baby. Hopefully he will be like his father and be little. Jaren doesn't know how to act either. He was planning for a girl and kindof was hoping for another girl, so he doesn't know what to think either. He definately wasn't as excited as I thought he would be. But we are both very happy.

Joseyology

Let others know a little more about yourself, re-post this as your namefollowed by "ology".

***********FOODOLOGY***************
What is your salad dressing of choice?*Ranch
What is your favorite sit-down restaurant?*Maddox
What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick of?Right now? probably fruit but I have really been craving hawaiian haystacks lately
What are your pizza toppings of choice?*Canadian bacon and pineapple
What do you like to put on your toast? usually just butter but sometimes my grandma's awesome raspberry jam

***********TECHNOLOGY***************
How many televisions are in your house?Two
What color is your cell phone? maroon

***************BIOLOGY******************
Are you right-handed or left-handed?*right
Have you ever had anything removed from your body? does a kid count, but other than that just wisdom teeth
What was the last heavy item you lifted? A bag of steer manure
Have you ever been knocked unconscious? No

************BULLCRAPOLOGY**************
If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die?*Heck no, I'd probably die a day early for stressing about it and also trying to right every wrong that I ever made
If you could change your name, what would you change it to? A long time ago, I would've wanted to change it because it was so rare, but now I don't think I would.
Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000? HECK NO!! I can barely stand medium salsa.

************DUMBOLOGY******************
How many pairs of flip flops do you own?* 2
Last time you had a run-in with the cops? I think the last time was when I was living in Tremonton and I was on my way to go get my temple recommend and I was late like always and I was speeding and got pulled over and I told the cop where I was going because he asked and then he was telling me how proud he was that I was getting married in the temple and then he let me off the hook and away I went. Jaren always says that I show the cops my cleavage because I have never gotten a ticket before (knock on wood)
Last person you talked to? Jaren
Last person you hugged? My kids

**************FAVORITOLOGY****************
Season?*Fall, it's the best time of the year
Holiday?*Christmas
Day of the week? probably Sunday because Jaren is with us all day long, I just love him.
Month?*September-October

***********CURRENTOLOGY*****************
Missing someone? nope
Mood? Right this moment, I am nervous about tonight we have a camp fundraiser and I am hoping people will come.
What are you listening to? nothing
Watching? nothing
Worrying about? The same as my mood

***************RANDOMOLOGY*****************
First place you went this morning? To the bathroom, oh does that count?
What's the last movie you saw?new or old? we watch the same movies over and over at our house. so the last movie was 50 First Dates
Do you smile often? Yes
Sleeping Alone Tonight? Nope, and I am so glad I don't have to do that anymore

***************OTHER-OLOGY*****************
Do you always answer your phone? Cell phone yes, house phone no. Dumb people that try to seel stuff.
Its four in the morning and you get a text message, who is it? Probably Jackie.
If you could change your eye color what would it be? I never really thought about it.
What flavor do you add to your drink at Sonic?*I don't got to Sonic.
Do you own a digital camera?*yes
Do you have a pet fish?*No
Favorite Christmas song(s)? Christmas shoes, I think that is what it's called? I am not for sure
What's on your wish list for your birthday? Already passed
Can you do push ups?A nope, haven't tried and I don't think I will
Can you do a chin up? same as above
Does the future make you more nervous or excited? Nervous
Do you have any saved texts? Nope
Ever been in a car wreck?*Yes, sleeping while driving is not a good idea.
Do you have an accent?*NO
What is the last song to make you cry? I Believe in Christ, I don't remember if it was last week or two weeks ago, but it seems that I have been crying in church a lot lately.
Plans tonight? Fundraiser dinner
Have you ever felt like you hit rock bottom? Not really, I think it always could be worse
Name 3 things you bought yesterday.I bought? nothing
Have you ever been given roses?*Yes!
Current worry?*Why do they keep asking this question?
Current hate right now?* Don't have one
Met someone who changed your life?* Jaren, of course
How will you bring in the New Year?*Too far away
What song represents you?* Looking for somethng more by Sara Evans( I think that is what it is called)
Name three people who might complete this?*? Whoever hasn't done it and wants to
Would you go back in time if you were given the chance?* I think so, we have learned our lesson so I would like to go back and change it now.
Do you have any tattoos/piercings?*Just my ears and I never wear earring so they might be grown in by now
Will you be in a relationship 4 months from now?*Of course! Eternity too!!
Would you be a pirate?*no
What songs do you sing in the shower?*None
Ever had someone sing to you? I don't think anyone has sang to me, I think they were just singing. Jaren does it all the time
When did you last cry?I don't remember the exact time, but I know it's all the time
Are you afraid of being alone?Relationship alone, yes. Being alone at night, not any more.
Do you like to cuddle?* Yes
Have you held hands with anyone today? Yep
Who was the last person you took a picture of? Brooklyn
What kind of music did you listen to in elementary school?* I can't remember
Do you believe in staying close with your ex?*A, no I don't hate them, but I don't talk to them either.
Do you like pulpy orange juice? Heck NO!! I don't like to strain my drink through my teeth. I usually have to buy Jaren pulp and me no pulp.
What is something your friends make fun of you for? I don't have any friends. JK My friends are pretty nice they don't make fun of me, unless they are too nice and they don't tell me .

Gracey and the Hulahoop

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Gracey got this hulahoop for Easter and it only took her a few times doing it and she figured it out on her own. Jaren and I couldn't even do it to show her how. And now she has mastered the art.