Harmony, Pennsylvania

I had been looking for these pictures for so long, of coarse, they were still on one of my cards and had not been dowloaded. It is crazy how fast time flies and how much can change in less than a year! We all went to Harmony, PA to see the Susquehanna River (Aaronic Priesthood Restoration Site and where Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery were baptized) after Ty's graduation in May of 2007. Riley actually looks like an almost three year old and I was still preggers with Aubry!!! I do miss the beauty and church history sites of PA and NY!!!

Ry and Papa walking down the path to the river
Me and mom!!!
He is sooooo cute! I cannot get over how much he has grown up!!!
Our little family at the river!
He loves, loves, loves to throw things, especially rocks. He did not want to leave!!!

I will take some pictures of Riley and Aubry and post them next so we can see how much he has changed! It is just crazy!

Catch Up!

Okay, to catch up on things. The scrapbook retreat that I went on with my sis-in-law (Missa) and her friends was GREAT! It was just so fun to be me for a day or two. We went to lunch, we scrapped, we went to the SEI outlet - it was great! Thank you to Missa for calling me about it.

Life is starting to wind down. We went to Cali and had a great time with Maga, Papa, Uncle Matt, Uncle Jay and Auntie Ber, Uncle Randy, Auntie Katie, Madi and Laney!!! The weather was beautiful (the second half of the time at least) it was torutre to return to 30 degree weather after being in 75 degree weather. Riley is also much happier when he is able to spend time outside! We officially have some major SRPING FEVER in this house.

We are looking into Pre-School for Riley. We need structure and I need something to force me to once again establish a routine in our home. I was great with our routine before I got pregnant with Brie, she is now almost 9 months old, yes I am lagging!!!!

Oh, and on a last big note, we have a new cousin on the Jackman side (#9)!!! Justin and Amber's son finally made is grand entrance into this world on March 7!!!! Her labor seemed long (longer than both of mine) but everyone came through healthy and strong! Jasper William Jackman 6 lbs. 7 oz. and 19 1/4" (TINY Little Guy). We are dying to see him!! I will post pics as soon as I get some sent to me.

Happy News

First of all, I want to say CONGRATULATIONS to Matthew and his beautiful fiance Raechel. We love you guys and are very happy for you!!!

Our family has grown by........4 paws. Yes, we have a new puppy. In these pictures he is 12 weeks old. We went to Malad to visit our friends Rick and Amber Driessen and they had 3 adorable black lab/bealge mix puppies. His name is Zeus Turbo Cluff. Turbo is because he is part beagle and we had a beagle named Turbo Scooter Jackman growing up. He is a very happy and well behaved, fun puppy! Riley LOVES him and he is great with Riley. We took him to get shots today and Zeus just sat on the seat with his head in Riley's lap as Ry was petting his head and telling him, "You are my friend Seus (Ry can't quite say Zeus), I love you so much Seus, oh mom, he loves me so much!" You get the picture. They are buddies!! We cannot wait until the Spring to play outside without jackets and glubs (Riley's words once again).

Ry and his new friend. I am pretty sure that Brie is still his best friend, though! (That is until she starts to crawl and steal his toys, then I am sure Zeus will be his best friend).
Big puppy paw!!
Isn't he just the CUTEST!!!!

More Christmas Pictures

The Saturday after Christmas we went to Temple Square (yes, all 29 of us-Ty's side is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

huge and it keeps growing)!!! But hey, he is the baby of 7 kids. We had a great time at his Uncle Grant's house. We got to see the train and village that Tyson's Grandpa started and Grant has continued with. Riley did NOT want to leave (sorry no pics, we were just focused on helping Ry NOT touch anything). The lights were amazing at temple square and Heather of Heather Cluff Photography grabbed my camera and started shooting away - lucky me! Then we stopped by Rick and Missa's house to see everyone. Randy, Katie, Madi, Laney, Jay, Ber, and Matt were up there to visit! I was super excited to see them all and be with all of my brothers at once, it had been quite a while since we had all been together. Good times.

I gues Ty is too cool to smile!
He finally cracked!
Ty and his mama
Bundled up Bire
The Jackman side of the family!! The boys played ONE game of Halo after this picture and then we had to get home.

Christmas 2007

We had a good Christmas this year. It was Ty's year and all of his brothers (excpet for Brian) were up at Marsha's house. Ty enjoyed hanging with his brothers. He was especially excited that Dave and Eileen bought their kids a Wii, he played it more than they did (maybe a slight exaggeration). Riley had lots of fun opeing his gifts and helping Aubry, it will be a sad day in Riley Land when Brie is old enough to do the fun stuff for herself!!! I started Ty a "Flight Lesson Fund" and got him some small stuff, Ty got me a Nintendo DS with the Brain Age game (LOVE IT) and Riley got a camera (I will be posting some of his pics soon, he is quite the budding photographer) an RC truck and a Smart Cycle game system (Educational might I add). Good times with family. The only part I did not like was waking up at 6am to be at Marsha's by 7 for Christmas morning - we had to wake up Riley (he still likes to sleep in, even when presets are involved).

Our tree, sorry not the best picture. Just think lots of snowmen ornaments.
Frosting cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve. Christian was eating the frosting (which Marsha and I made and it was SUPER YUMMY!!) Riley just wanted sprinkles!!!
Riley opening his stocking. Lots of fun little things, including a CTR ring, which we cannot find already! It looked really cute on him too!
Me and my little Brie, Brie.
Me and my super warm quilt. I am a quilt collector!! I Love, Love, Love them! Marsha made me and Brie quilts for Christmas this year! I had to wait patiently for her to get home from her mission to make me a quilt. I now have a quilit from my mom and mom-in-law!

Thanksgiving 2007

Okay, Thanksgiving with the Cluffs was crazy HUGE this year. We had our Thanksgiving at a Stake Center because there were like 90 people there. (About the amount of the annual Carpinteria family reunion). Tyson had tons of fun catching up with aunts, uncles, cousins, etc, etc, etc. I chased Riley around because I didn't trust him to stay in the building, as many kids were going across the street to play at a park in the COLD!!! (He was recovering from streap throat and I wanted him to stay warm). The food was good and the activities were many. We had a slide show, three pinatas (youngsters, teenagers, oldtimers) and Santa even came to visit us, how lucky are we!!!

These are the Great Grandchildren of the Collings sisters Beth (front left and Tyson's Grandma) and Rissa (front right, she is holding Brie).
The "Married-Ins" with Coulson, Grandma Beth and Aunt Rissa. (I was still blonde here!!! :( I miss the blonde !!)
Riley actually enjoyed Santa for the very first time!! He usually screams and cries!!!
Brie was rather interested in Santa.
Riley's pinata loot. For some reason he did not want to hit the pinata. Strange considering how much he loves swinging bats at things!!!! He enjoyed the spoils!!!

Random Stuff

I was looking through my pictures in my computer files and organizing (Getting ready for the scrapbook retreat with Missa in March CANNOT WAIT). These are just random pictures that I wanted to post.

Riley saw Drake "helping" Matt shave his head, so He wanted to "help" daddy cut his hair!!!
Aubry's baby blues looking at me while she chills in her carseat.
Riley getting ready to lauch his rocket (daddy bought it, boys and their toys)
My silly, smiley girl.
She is always sucking on her bottom lip!!! Don't you want to pinch

those chubby, rosey cheeks!?!?!?

My true color

What's Your True Color?

My Result: Black

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What are you?
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Long time No blog!!

Okay, I know that I am a horrible blogger now that I live in Utah! I am sorry to all who have been looking and seeing nothing!!!! I will try to be better and post at least once a week, I cannot promise more than that!!!

I will post Thanksgiving and Christmas very soon and then on with 2008! I hope that you all are enjoying 2008!
Lot of love, the Cluffs

Sacred Grove and Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls

Me and Brie at the falls

Our family at the falls

Lots of mist!! These pictures do not do the falls justice, simply amazing!!!!

Well Niagara Falls is just an hour and 20 minutes north west of Palmyra New York, so of coarse we had to go one more time. Clay had never seen the falls either so he was super excited! Riley thought that the waterfalls were cool, but more than anything he just wanted to RUN around. Car trips and 3 year olds, not always the best combo!!

Our family at the Sacred Grove
Riley, "Look what I can do" Simply gorgeous on a cold fall day
Path from the grove to the large family home


Our last hurrah in Northeast Pennsylvania. Clay (our nephew on Tyson's side) flew out to help us pack up and drive to Utah. We had been working very hard and knew that this would be our last chance to visit the church historical sites. So after our moving sale on Saturday October 27th we drove up to Palmyra New York and stayed at the Nauvoo Inn. It is a cute and quaint place in gorgeous Palmyra. We love that place! We got up in the morning and went to the Sacred Grove and walked through, Riley ran of coarse!! Clay took the tour of all of the homes on the Smith Farm while I fed Brie and Riley played outside with an umbrella (who needs toys!!)

We had a nice weekend, it was very quick though! Tyson had to be back to work on Monday, so we drove home late Sunday night!!