Just hanging out and waiting for spring!

Here are a few pictures of special moments in March

Tyrell (Alex's best friend) leaves for the MTC March 25th)

This Month of March I want to wish J.J. and Sam Happy Anniversary

A Happy 47th Birthday to my Hubby Jay!

Happy Birthday to my Daddy! We miss you very much!

Cute little Rocky

Alex and Hillary on their way to prom.

Cute as a bug John Rockford Riehle

It seems to me that spring will never arrive. I look out the window and it is currently snowing UGH! On Saturday my mother in law came over and we went to see the play Joseph and the Technicolor Dream Coat. It was pretty good and it was nice to get out of the house. Alex stopped by to see us and show us his tux. He and Hillary went to her JR prom.

I also got a letter from the mission President today and it gave information on when he will be home & it sent Peter's flight schedule. Elder Riehle will be home June 4th. ( you can't tell that I'm excited can you?) If anybody would like to come with us to welcome him home, just let me know. I know he would love to see everyone.

I also went to the Draper temple Dedicatory. Very nice and we went to the open house which was beautiful. You can see some of the picture on lds.org.

I have also been working hard on family history. It is great fun to find your ancestors and to find your story. You can look up what i have found on Acestry.com under john and Monica Riehle family.

Riehle News

I just wanted to let everybody know what life is like here with us "Riehle People"
I am still having all the fun I can stand. We just had a Stake Temple day and it inspired me to get some names for myself to take. So I have been working at my family history and I was able to get Grandma Carrillo's Grandparents Juliana & Pablo Salazar names ready for the temple. I have also been making hats with the ladies at school. I am making them with a loom.
Jay has been working steady his company has had to take different loads but he is still working as usual. His birthday is coming up and we plan on going to the Draper temple open house and his favorite place to eat famous Dave's.
J.J., Sam and Rocky are doing just fine. J.J. has applied for as many jobs as he can. Rocky is crawling and Sam is staying busy with her part time job and keeping J.J. happy. They will be celebrating their first anniversary on March 8Th.
Andy is still going to USU and he is busy with his church calling as a 2ND councilor in the Elders quorum. He is very helpful around the house and he plans on helping his grandma Riehle with her cabinets during spring break.
Peter is tracting most of the time but he tries to teach as much as possible. He is coming home very soon. He thinks he will be home June 3rd. I am very excited!
Alex is still working at Wendy's he will become a manager in the next month or so. He just left for a trip with his friend Tyrell. They went to California to visit his family before he goes on a mission to Texas.
Lacey is doing fine. She just had an orchestra concert and continues to play the piano. But her favorite music isn't classical. She loves to listen to her teen music and watch American Idol. She just got through with church basketball. Every time the ball came to her she would scream and back away or give the ball away. We should have captured it for U Tube.
So that is a little glimple of my so called Riehle Life.

Rocky's Ouchies

Last week Rocky was visiting his other Grandmas house and while there he got some ouchies. The chips fell on the floor and he headed straight for them as well as the dogs and then he got in the middle of a dog fight. To my releif he is fine. They are putting anti scar neosporin on his sores. It is funny J.J. never got in a dog fight he was always hanging around the dog food bowl.

Let the chips fall were they may but not on little Rocky!

Happy Birthday Andy!

Today my son Andy is turning 24. I have to admit that I enjoy my children more now as adults, but at the same time it makes me feel old. Here are some fun things and pictures about ANDY

He doesn't like to be called Andrew

He likes Nurvana

He loves to watch sports mostly baseball and college football

He loves any kind of food especially hot spicy foods

He dislikes tater tots and oranges

He is currently attending USU in Logan majoring in writing

He has worked for a few cabinet making companies before attending school

He is the Second assistant in the Elders Quorum in his single ward

He loves science fiction movies and books, he loves to read and write

He plays the Bass violin

He served an LDS mission in Connecticut 2004

He is very smart and helpful. We love him and he is a great guy to have in our family. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANDREW JAMES RIEHLE

Do you have a sweet tooth?

If you have a sweet tooth you will enjoy these recipe's that I got from the cooks at school.
APPLE DUMPLINGS
4 granny smith apples-slice each in quarters and peel
2 cans crescent rolls (Pillsbury works best)
roll up each piece of apple in crescent roll. put in 9x13 pan
melt 2 cubes of butter/margarine
add 1 1/2 cups of sugar to butter and 1 tsp. vanilla
stir slightly and pour over apples. Sprinkle with cinnamon
pour 1 can of mt dew,sprite, ginger ale, etc. over apples
bake 350 degrees for 40 minutes
serve with warm ice cream or whip cream.
YUMMO!
EARTH QUAKE CAKE
spray 9x13 pan with Pam.
Sprinkle 1 c. coconut and 1 c. chopped nuts in bottom of pan.
mix together a German Chocolate Cake Mix as directed and pour over nuts and coconut. Melt together 1 cup butter/margarine and 1 - 8 oz pkg. cream cheese. Mix well and add 2 2/3 cup powdered sugar. drizzle over cake batter.
Bake 45-50 minuets at 350 degrees.
No frosting needed it is yummy

Goals

Every year I try to set some goals for myself. But this year I am having a hard time finding worthwhile goals to set. I guess that is why I have started so late. But here are a few goals I want to work on. I want to read more often, I want to dejunk my house and keep it that way, keep out of debt(which was one of my goals from last year, by the way I met that goal I have no credit card debt. Yeah!) and manage my time and money better. I would like to spend more time with my adult children, and strengthen my marriage. I mostly want to take care of myself this year by eating right,exercising and taking time to do things that are enjoyable to me. I hope to full fill these goals but if not I will become a better person just for trying don't you think?

fun and not so fun

I haven't kept up with blogging as much as I would like to. So now I have a lot of stuff to blog about.
I have been busy doing many things some of them fun and some not so fun.
Some fun things that I have been up to are girls day out. My sisters took me and my mom out for our birthdays. We went to the Garden Restaurant on the top of the Joseph Smith memorial building. The view was spectacular. They also took us to see the play Home School Musical. I liked it very much. It was my first time at the Desert Star. I liked how they made fun of Napoleon Dynamite and the High School Musical movie. Thank You to my wonderful sisters. You are some of my best friends.
I have a new calling at church I have been called to be the Secretary for the Relief Society. I feel really good about it. I feel that this is where my Heavenly Father needs me. I think that my callings in church have helped me grow as a person. For example I use to be so shy that I would not even go to my mail box across the street for fear that someone would see me or I would have to talk to them. Now I can give a talk or lesson in front of many and it isn't that hard. I can also go up to people I don't know and talk to them. I think that the Lord has blessed me so much. I have more self esteem.
Now for some not so fun news I went to the dentist because one of my fillings fell out and I thought my crown was bad. It turned out that my crown was fine I had a bad cavity right next to it. So last week I went to get them filled and the top tooth was fine. But the bottom tooth was very difficult to numb. I had 4 shots and I was only partially numb so instead of poking me again in the same place, he gave me a shot right in the tooth that was bad. Boy was it painful. But it worked and I was able to get the cavity filled. The dentist felt so bad for having me in the chair for 2 hours and so many shots that he gave me a gift certificate to a Mexican restaurant. So me and Jay went out to eat and the dentist paid the bill.
More not so fun news is that J.J. was laid off from his job as a maintenance mechanic. But he is looking into doing some temporary work. Hopefully it wont be to long before he is back to work.
Getting back to some fun news.
It has also been fun getting back to work and getting back to a routine of things. I have been doing just one thing since I started at the beginning of the year I was in charge of the fruit and dishes. But now my manager is having me do what the other ladies do. It shows that she has confidence in me and she thinks I am doing a great job!
I also want to wish my daughter in law Samantha a happy birthday! Happy Birthday to my wonderful Mom, Felicia and Savannah my nieces Charlie, Matthew my brother in laws.