Pretty, Pretty Ballerina

Brie started dance a couple weeks ago and L-O-V-E-S it!! I love that she loves it! She looks so stinkin' cute in her dance outfits I can hardly stand it!! Everyday she asks if it is dancing day! Too bad it is only one day a week. She is learning ballet, tap and tumbling!

First Grade

I seriously cannot believe that my little man is already in first grade! He is so big and grown up! He missed the first week of school due to Hawaii, we did his school work on vacation! We had been preparing Riley by talking a lot about how early he had to wake up and how long he would be at school...8 am to 3:20 pm. All he heard was 3 recesses!!! Sunday night Ty gave him a haircut and then a wonderful Father's Blessing! I am so very grateful to have the Priesthood in my home! Riley woke up Monday morning without a fight and we commenced getting ready. We had breakfast together (he and I were the only ones awake) and we chatted. He hugged me three different times and told me how much he was going to miss me! He kept saying, "Mom, I am going to be gone ALL day...that is so long mom...it is going to be dark when I get home!" The kid is so funny!

Looking handsome as ever!
Goofy smile...you may not be able to tell, but he is more like size of a 9 or 10 year old! Kid is tall, he wears size 10 jeans and 4.5 Y shoes. Size 6 will be MEN'S shoes....crazy!!!

His super cool How to Train Your Dragon backpack. He really loves that movie!

So, I walked him to his class to make sure he got there and got settled. When I picked him up, he gave me a hug and proudly reported "no time outs" to me! (He is a bit of a talker...wonder where he gets that from!!!) He proceeded to tell me that tomorrow I do not need to walk him to his class, he is too big for that! He also mentioned not wanting me to come to school for lunch saying, "mom, that's okay, I am a big boy and I have lots of friends!" He is breaking my heart!!! When did my baby boy become so independent and grown up?

Motherhood milestone for me: I MISS HIM WHEN HE IS AT SCHOOL! It is a long day, but he has all day Friday to drive me crazy!!

Glad he is loving school and all seems to be going well so far!

Hawaiian Fun

Jackman Maui trip 2010

We had a great time in Maui with some of our Jackman family. Tyson was only in pain for the first 2 days of vacation, due to his kidney stone surgery. After that he was good! We flew over on a Friday and it was a long day of travel with lots of kids! We all stopped at Da Kitchen for supper! YUMMY! We love that place. When we got to our rooms, we CRASHED!!! Saturday was unpacking and organizing then to the pool. Sunday we went to church with Maga, Papa, Amber, Steph, Jasper and Ansley. Then the we went on a drive, road to Hana. (Not Maga and Papa). It was beautiful, only a little barf! Then we stopped at the seven pools of O'Hea and swam in waterfall pools...cool stuff. LONG day, we got back after 8pm! The rest of the week we swam in the pool, shopped and ate yummy food! Riley and Brie LOVED being with their cousins and they all played wonderfully together! Dad, Ty and Rick golfed one day...the WHOLE day! Crazy guys played two rounds! They had a blast! We had a girls lunch at Mama's Fish House...so amazingly delicious and I got to chill with my mom-bonus!!! All in all, we had a great time!

Thanks Maga and Papa!!!!

Kiddos after a long day of travel, being good while the men got the luggage
One of the falls on the road to Hana

Family Picture

Ber, Jasper, Ansley and Steph

When driving in the rain forest, watch for falling fruit!!

The Pools of O'Hea. They were a little chilly, but still cool. Ty, Ry, Steph and Jasper ventured to some of the other pools. B and I stayed at this one. Ber fed the baby!

The rocks hurt her feet, so she chilled with me on a bigger rock

Riley lovin' it!

Pretty

Pool time with Papa

Way back from the water slide?

Goings On

Since we have been home from Carpinteria we have been busy!! (And I have been TIRED)!! I didn't think that 30 was old until I got pregnant...this one has been tough.

So...we have been working on the house. Our bedroom has new windows, all the wall paper is gone and has new nice texture on the walls. Tyson painted the room brown and aqua...looks super nice!! He also trimmed out the windows too! Just need to rip up the carpet because all three bedrooms are getting new carpet August 31!!! YAY!! Then we can all have our rooms back! Ty ripped the carpet up in the front room to find that our hardwood floors look pretty darn good! We bought hard woods for the hallway and the floor will get laid and then all the floors refinished probably early September!! Ty also ripped down the paneling on the wall in the front room!! Soon the upstairs will be done, aside from the bathroom. I decided that I wanted all of the easier stuff done first, then he can put all of his focus on the bathroom!!

The kids completed another round of swimming lessons...they had fun. Riley did really well and almost has his back stroke down!! Aubry, well she was the only one in her class and I think she had her teacher wrapped around her finger. It was just glorified water play time for her...fine with me, she was happy!

I am still VERY tired!

This past Saturday Ty had a kidney stone start to pass...fun!!!! It hit him at night, so he was able to do some work on the house first. Long story short, the stone wasn't passing on it's own, so Monday he had surgery to get it removed. He is still pretty uncomfortable, but is back at work. We leave tomorrow for Hawaii, so hopefully he will be out of pain for vacation!!

Will post lots of fun stuff from Maui when we get back! Hope you all have a great last few weeks of summer and good first weeks of school!!! :)

Carpinteria 2010

Another week at the beach has come and gone. I am STILL doing laundry!!! Big news this year, Tyson won the Cluff brother golf tournament!!!! I will post a picture of him with him trophy...yes they have trophies, a winner one and a loser one! We have had the loser one a few times!!! That was Saturday and then my mom watched the kids for us Saturday night and we went to PF Chang's- YUMMY!!!

Then Sunday was the day of Carp set up. The kids got sick in the car (a first) must have been the traffic on the 101!! Kids are not used to that kind of driving! We got our tent all set up and then the chasing of Aubry began. That girl is a little wanderer!!!! The week was a little chilly...75 is NOT beach weather!!! The kids still loved it, I was cold though! Here are the pictures!

Ry and B in their 60th year Carpinteria shirts
Ry lost his FIRST tooth at the beach!! It had been "wiggly" for a while...Uncle David loosened it up quite a bit and Riley finally let Ty yank it!! The Tooth Fairy even came to Carp and left Ry a bounty for his tooth! He was pretty excited!!

The boys (Cade, Christian and Ry in the back) getting ready for the 4 man race - winter Olympics 2010.

Adam, David, Eileen and Tyson...possibly talking a little smack!?!?!?

Even though David went down HARD...they managed to place in the race!

I have NO words

She LOVES the beach! She had sand everywhere!!

Ty and Ry getting ready to catch some waves! Riley did awesome!! He caught a lot of waves and had so much fun!! He scared me a few times when he tried to go out with the bigger boys! I felt a lot better when Ty was out there with him!

B and Cams running with the tide

Done for the day...he slept like a baby every night!

Gold medal number 1

They managed a bronze!!!

Running the torch

Gold medal number 2...he is quite the seed spitter!!!!

Aubry and the potty

I just had to write this before I forgot. Aubry is pretty much daytime potty trained. She waited until like the week of her 3rd birthday...turd!!! I was in the kitchen doing dishes and cleaning up...she comes running saying that she needs to pee. So she sits on her potty (which I desperately want to get rid of-after Carp) and takes care of business.
Then I hear, "m-ooooo-m, come here."
I reply, "What b?"
B: "Come help me mom!!!"
Me: "Did you poop?"
B: "Nope, just pee."
Me: "Okay, just wipe then."
B: "I can't, I am just too busy." still sitting on the pot mind you
Me: "No B, I am busy, you just need to wipe yourself."
B: "I really am just too busy mom." Please try to imagine full 3-year-old attitude!
Me: "Brie, just wipe and go play. I need to clean the kitchen."
B: "Fine!!"
So she wipes and goes about her business. I just thought it was hilarious that she thought she was too busy to wipe herself as she sat on the pot!! She is full of it!!!!

"Homework" and Christmas Outfits

I am a crazy mom and really don't want Ry to start 1st having forgotten anything from Kindergarten. So, we spend about 30 minutes a day doing what the kids call "homework". I found some workbooks for Ry on Scholastic.com and figured that B would be left out, so she has some tracing and counting books. Ry so far can do all of the work on his own and B is getting really good at tracing and pretty much knows her abc's. She LOVES to do work...Riley is a little reluctant at times, though he does a really good job. He has GREAT printing!!! I loved school and really want my kids to love it too and know how important it is to do well! Here's to hoping!!

I FINALLY put the kids in their Christmas outfits yesterday!!! I know it is the middle of the summer, really don't care! I am not so crazy as to dress them just for a quick picture...so they were all Christmas-ed out for church in JULY!!!

They wouldn't let go of each other for separate pictures, so I cropped! Imagine this dress with white tights and black, Paten leather, knee-high boots (and B a little shorter!!) and that was her in the winter!! SO CUTE!!!! I am sure her hair was done too...we were in a hurry!

My Mr. Man...since Christmas he has grown out of his shoes and pants!!! He also had a tie on, but it was all twisted and Ty was already at church! You get the picture! He may be wearing this outfit this Christmas...should fit him still...I hope!!!

Well now I have to get to work! Laundry, sorting, packing and organizing. Need to make sure all lanterns have batteries, all sleeping bags are clean and accounted for....oil changed in the van and van nice and CLEAN! Yes, I am the crazy lady to cleans the car before a road trip. I can't stand being in a dirty car for that long!!! Carpinteria here we come...Ty and the kids are super excited...I am a little tired thinking about all of the work. But I do love hanging with the family and the kids have a TON of fun! This is the 60th year! What kind of wife would I be if I didn't support such a family tradition???? It is just a lot of work for a vacation, that's all!

One more of my super cute kiddos!! Can't wait to see what Hayden is going to look like!!!

Family Weekend

Well our fun filled trip all started with Tyson working half day on Thursday, July 1st. I rushed to have us all ready to leave for Logan by 12:30 pm...the kids even made it to swimming lessons. That is pretty good for me!!

We were only a little bit late to my doctor's appointment in Logan. We had our 3-D ultrasound and the baby is looking perfect!! We found out that we are having a BOY!!! So our little Hayden Ryker Cluff (not sure on the spelling quite yet) will be here on or before November 30th!! That was exciting news, Riley is THRILLED!!

From Logan we were off to Salt Lake City to fly to Cali! My brother Randy picked us up and we surprised my mom...she had no idea we were coming! We had a great weekend with the family! Rick baptized Drake on Saturday and his birthday party followed. Then on Sunday Justin blessed his little Ansley Marie! It was great to be with everyone and have the whole family together!!

We also played a little. The kids swam and swam. We saw the last air bender...which was AWESOME!! We ate at most the places that we miss the most: Red Robin, Rubio's Baja Grill, In 'n' Out, Lascari's, Senor Peppers....and of course mom's awesome cooking!!! I even got to see the new Twilight movie while I was there! Ty was able to squeeze in a round of golf with my dad too! I had fun hangin' with my sisters-in-law and my brothers!!! Love you all so much and can't wait for the next visit!!!!

Swimming Fun

I love to swim...swimming with two kids in the pool, not so much! Oh so lucky for me the pool here in town will swim with my kids for me!! YAY. This week and last week the kids have been going to swimming lessons from 11 am to 12 noon. Perfect time for us considering Brie has been waking up at 10:30am lately! Aubry is in level 1 and just starting out and really enjoys it! Riley is in level 3 and he loves too! Thank you to the Le Grande Aqua Plunge...can't wait until session 4 in August...something to do between Carp and Maui.

All ready to go
Riley mastering his back float
Riley swam over to Aubry's station for some hugs and loves

Brie really fights this...she is starting to do better.

practicing his rainbow arms while waiting his turn with teacher

Do you think she thinks she is a model?

Birthday Girl "3"

My baby girl is officially NO LONGER a baby!!! :( Sad day for mommy! She is potty trained and off of the bink and bottle...yes I totally babied her! So for her third birthday I asked her what she wanted to do...and she wanted to go paint nails. She is such a girlie little girl!! No complaints here, she sat in my lap while I had a nice spa pedicure and she had her nails and toes painted super cute!! She did pretty good until the lady tried to paint flowers on all 10 of her fingers...that took a while!! It was nice though! I still owe her a trip to the cupcake shop, because according to her cupcakes are her favorite!

Aubry Lynn - 3 yrs old - weight: 30 lbs. - height:

Nicknames: B, B-lynn, stinky-lynn, Brie, Brie-ner

Nicknames she gave herself: Princess Aubry, Princess B

Pretty toes

She always wants to wear church dresses...like every day, so I decided that she could for her birthday day!! She was so excited!

Her new thing for pictures...she smiles a little and looks away all shy!

Her pile of presents
Maga and Papa gave her a tricycle...which she LOVES!!!

again, looking away from the camera for her picture!

Riley helped me wrap, then helped her un-wrap!

Princess Aubry