THANKSGIVING!!!!

To start off, I am so thankful for my family. This includes my husband, Craig and my 6 wonderful children, my parents, sisters and their families. I am also grateful for my mother and father-in-law my sisters in law and brother in law and their families.

We enjoyed Thanksgiving this year at my sister Christine's house. She owns a 3 story house with 8 bedrooms and 5 baths...so there was plenty of room. I brought my famous home baked pumpkin pie and we all sat under the crystal chandelier laughing and chatting about days long ago. (tissue anyone?)

Well, it went something like that.... :) We did all meet at Christine's beautiful new house. We had a lot of fun. My parents have 19 grandchildren now! So we had a lot of cute little ones running around and older ones watching them! WOOHOO! :) It was GREAT! I love family get togethers!

Whitney's Glasses!

Whitney wears glasses now! She has to wear them all the time.....so she picked out her favorite colors. Her favorites are a pair of hot pink ones. (Which broke the first day she used them!)

Everyone is doing great.....here are a few more pictures.....:)

Halloween!!! We love it! We found out that Logan does not like Halloween because it is too scary! He didn't like going to the stores because of the Halloween decorations. Whitney loved it because, after all, she gets to be a princess. Andrew and Brendan dressed up as their favorite characters from books for school. Andrew was Klause from "A Series of Unfortunate Events." Brendan was...but who else? Spiderman. :) Logan wanted to be Batman and Caeden discovered that dressing up is not fun, so he went as himself. (He was ALMOST a dinosaur.) Sydney was a banana. She looked so cute..and sweet. I could eat her up! We had lots of fun!!!! (Oh...Craig and I went as a 50's couple.) We'll post more pics later. :)

Proposition 8

Family and Friends....

The time is coming when we will have to vote on some important issues for our state and country. One of the issues is Proposition 8. This proposition is extremely important for all of us. If you do not know much about it...please go to www.protectmarriage.com to learn more about it. We will be voting to keep traditional marriage..marriage between a man and woman. This is not a proposition that will take away any rights from anybody who is gay. They will be able to keep the rights that they already have. However, if marriage is redefined to include same sex couples, it could mean losing our rights as parents and our religious freedom. By law, we will have to accept the changes that will occur because of it. Already in Massachusettes, they have the same-sex law and it is causing grevious consequences. A parent was arrested when he went to the school to simply ask that he be informed beforehand that his KINDERGARTENER was going to be taught and receive a book containing same sex marriage. That's all he wanted.

A catholic adoption agency had to close because the state was after them for not placing children in same-sex marriage homes.

With our strong belief that marriage is ordained of God and that it is to only be as He had instucted..(between a man and woman) Churches such as ours will appear to be "discriminitive" and will likely be punished.

I am not a very political person...(although I should be!) But this will affect what I value most in my life. My family and my religion. As a mother, I want to teach my children what is true and right. I do not want those rights taken away. I do not want the government teaching my children what they think is okay. PLEASE! PLEASE! VOTE YES ON PROPOSTION 8!

PICTURES!!!!

Syney - 1 month old! Isn't she so pretty?




Daddy reading a story . I love this picture. Brendan and Sydney!

Okay...so I think we are finally getting into a routine, now! I have some "new" pictures to show everyone....(I say "new" because Sydney is changing every day it seems.) :)





Andrew, Brendan and Whitney are doing great in school...they are getting excited to dress up at school. (For Halloween they get to come to school dressed as their favorite book character. Whitney will be...who else..but Snow White! (I know everyone is shocked at that). Andrew wants to go
as Calvin. (from Calvin and Hobbes.) Brendan isn't so sure yet...after all, these things take a lot of thought. :)





Logan and Caeden are doing good....they are adjusting still to..no, not the baby....to eachother! They are so completely opposite in personalities they have a hard time getting along. We did see a good time today at Walmart...They had fun hiding from eachother in the fabric, and then running away from eachother, trying to tag eachother. (Thank you Walmart people for allowing a game of tag in your sewing section.)





Sydney is getting so big! She is already outgrowing her 0-3 month clothes. She is 6 weeks old and likes to smile and coo. She loves watching everyone, but cries when any of the children cry. So sad! She is a beautiful little girl and we are having a lot of fun with her!





Well, that is our latest family update....Hope everyone is doing great!

Finally a sister!!!!!

Daddy holding his new little girl.

Sydney Emma Rigby

SHE'S HERE!!!!

August 26th at 10:50 we had our little girl! She decided to come three days early before the scheduled induction! She weighed in at 8 lbs and 1/2 ounce. She's 20" long and she has a lot of brown hair with blonde "highlights". We named her Sydney Emma...Sydney being a name that I have liked for a very long time and Emma, after Joseph Smith's wife. (A lady who is an amazing example to me.) The doctor and nurses said that she looked really healthy and good...rosy colored skin and chubby. :) We absolutely adore her!! She is so pretty and has such a cute little cry. She loves to eat and be cuddled.

We feel so happy and blessed to have her in our family. She is wonderful! The other children love her so much, too. Caeden constantly gives her kisses and they all want to hold her all the time! There is absolutley nothing in the world that tops the happiness of bringing a new little baby into your family. We are so happy.

And so, Christine, here are some pictures that I have beeen promising...now you can stop bugging me about it. :) :)