Homecoming : )

Jeff and Cody
Blaire and Shayna

Cody and Shayna

Fun night..but they only wish school dances were more like church dances.

The PUPS

Oh Tahoe is so cute..She is getting very old now almost 14..its crazy. She has been a major part of our lives and i cant imagine coming home and not having her there wagging her tail wanting to go outside. Over the past year she has been struggling with her diabetes that has created her to go blind. Its been harder and harder for her to get up. Just the other day mom had to help her out. It was so sad to see her in pain. We will miss her when its her time but will always love her and have her in our hearts!

Zions Trek

Shayna's Family..The Kuohas
Shayna and best Friend HalleySaturday Night

Shayna with her familyThe Day of the Mormon Battalion ..just the girls pushing the hand carts

Cody in the Hat

Cody

Learning how to load a gun

Saturday night at the Dance : )

The last weekend Cody, Shayna, and Kevin had an oppurtunity to participate with our stake in Zions Trek. They went for a weekend and hiked all around pushing and pulling handcarts in miserable hot days and unbearable freezing cold nights..It was hard but they all enjoyed it. The first day Friday they met at the stake center and they were off...they hiked 5 miles that day with the families they were put into..that night they had a fireside with a very cool speaker, who talked about achieving goals and never giving up even when the times are hard. The second day, Saturday they woke up early in the morning to hike 5 more miles. That day was also the Mormon Batallion and the girls had to go up huge steep hills pushing the handcarts all by themselves. Throughout Saturday we would miss trails, go the wrong way, or go to far and would have to turn around..Along the way there were reinactments to bring the spirit. Saturday night they played pioneer games and had a dance. On Sunday, the last day they had sacrament meeting with no shade..but you could defintly feel the spirit.it was a beautiful meeting. The youth of the stake had a chance to make a pledge to be virtuous and unfurled a banner on a peak. It was such a neat experience. Overall they were so grateful to go on the trek and to learn more about the pioneers and their struggles. Even though they only experienced a little fraction of what the pioneers went through they were able to better understand the pioneers hardships. It was very fun and shayna was even bummed that she wouldnt be able to attend the next one.. Cody was glad he went to two..and Kevin was glad to be there with his kids.

Prom 2009

Like Mother Like Son : ) Shayna and Cody

The Crew..

They are so Cute

Bree and Cody

It was so cute Cody couldnt get it on so Bree had to help haha : )

Picture Perfect

Saturday it was Cody's Junior prom. He had asked one of his closets friend Bree Devey..They had a great time and came home with smiles on their faces

Smiles : )

Shayna got her braces off after not having them on for awhile. Not even a year..its crazy how fast it went by. She defintly has a Ridley smile..: )

Working on Talents

Shayna got a beautiful piano for her birthday. She is so grateful to her grandma poulton her got this for her.. She has been dreaming for one forever. Now her and mom are working on devolping their musical talent to play the piano : ) We are enjoying it very much and are having a blast with it. We have had many great times together and we love playing the piano together!

Ry Ry

HAPPY 27th BIRTHDAY..cant even believe that we have a 27 year old. it seems like yesterday they put him in our arms for the first time or we watched him take his first step between us. Now he is a wonderful man, full of compassion and love. We are so excited to have him coming home for a few months to help Kevin in the office with tax season. It will be fun to have three kids together again. Cody and Shayna are looking forward to having one more person to help with the chores haha : ) We cant wait!

The Last Two..

WOW..it is so hard to believe that Cody and Shayna are the only ones home..the house has defintly been soo quite...They are growing up so quickly. Just the other day Kevin and I were commenting that in three very short years we are going to be empty nesters. Unbelievable how time flies by so fast.

Everyone is gone : (

The last time we had the entire family together......

Well Ryan left late tuesday night to go back to utah to go back to work...and paul and ashley decided to leave a little earlier so they left wednesday very early and they took mom with them. Mom went to go see aunt Tammy and Grandma for a few days...so its just Dad Cody and Shayna home. Its VERY quiet we miss everyone and cant wait till the next time we see them all again

New Year Goal

HAPPY NEW YEAR : )

2009 is almost here...can you believe it... It seems like the years have just past by so fast. We had a family night this past monday and we all set goals. I hope that we all can strive to achieve them and help one another reach their goals. We set two physical goals and two spritual goals.

1) read the Book of Mormon 5 mins a day

2) Speak kindly to others.

Family Christmas Letter

It has been a fulfilling year at the Ridley home with a few challenges here and there but who doesn’t have those in this day and age. We have been whittled down to just two, Cody and Shayna, in our home this past year, thus it is very quiet, almost defining it’s so quiet. Kevin is still working hard, actually harder these days with so many changes in the economy, His clients are needing to see him before tax season so he has been missed a lot around the house. He is still working with scouting at church but they have added the young single adults ages 18-30 to his responsibilities in the Stake.We have had Lynn, his Mom here with us for the last month recovering from her 3rd knee surgery this past year. I am still loving working at Cole Canyon Elementary in the resource dept. helping students that have learning disabilities. I am serving with the cub scouts as the committee chairman and love all the ladies I am working with. Once again we took our family vacation to the river-Lake Mohave for one last shebang before Skyler left on his mission. He took all his best buddies with us and it was a memorable trip.
Ryan is finishing up his schooling at Utah Valley University in Orem, and lives there full time. He has decided to take a break from Utah this Spring and Summer to go out selling with Paul and Ashley. We are all excited for his new adventure and I’m sure it will help to come back and wrap up those last few semesters of school. He still loves the sports and plays on several teams. He enjoys the winter in Utah with snowboarding and coming home to wakeboard.
Ashley’s sweet family is currently with us for the holidays and we are in 7th Heaven! Paul still is working for Northstar Alarm in Orem and will be going somewhere new this Spring to be a manager for them again. Ashley graduated from BYU last April. She is the best mom with Brooklynn. Isn’t it so wonderful when you see your children do better than you did? Little Miss Brooklynn is adorable!! She will be turning 1 in January and I can’t believe that a year is already passed. They grow even quicker when they are your grandchildren.
Skyler attended BYU last year and was kept very busy up there with BYU football. Before leaving on his mission, he was extended an invitation from Coach Mendenhall, to return to the team after his mission. He is currently serving in Manchester, England where his father served many years ago….
Cody is a Junior and has had quite the year! First he broke his collar bone last Christmas playing FB with his brothers, Then the first day of Spring football he broke it again. About 3 games into this year’s season he broke his fibula. Then the last game of the season he took a very hard hit which ended up giving him 2 lacerations to his spleen, a fractured rib, and severe contusions to his left kidney and lung. He was in the hospital for 6 days and home 2 weeks on bed rest to give it all time to heal. We are grateful for his drive and also for his strength, especially when it comes to the gospel.
Shayna fills our home with music, dance and smiles. She is a freshman, on the JV dance team and in the choir at school. We are grateful for her light she brings to all through her infectious smile. She is my helper and her daddy's little girl. Both she and Cody love attending seminary even in the wee hours of the morning.
As we come to a close of this year and look back we feel so very blessed by our Father in Heaven. We are grateful for our Savior Jesus Christ. We feel so much joy that we have one of our children serving a mission in His kingdom helping to share His “good news”. We have been so blessed to have a family we love and adore. We are grateful for good friends , both far and near. May you all have a wonderful Christmas and a joyous New Year.
Love The Ridley’s.

Suprise Suprise ...

The Bakers came down to suprise Grammy for the weekend and it was really nice to see them and very fun. Grammy loved seeing them and so did we. We played games and watched movies. It was very fun to have them here during the holiday season : )

Santa Clause Came....

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL....

This year has been a great year ! Even though it felt like christmas just snuck up on us it was an amazing christmas. We had all the family home and we got to talk to skyler. Sklyer had a english accent and he is doing great. We all enjoyed to talk to him even tough it was for a very short time. It was fun having Paul, Ashley and Brooklynn here. It was "baby" Brooklynns for christmas and it was so much fun watching her open her gifts. she did get a little overwhelmed so we had to take it slow. It has also been fun having Ryan home. With everyone home it has been not as quite but we Love it and will miss them when they are gone. We all loved our gifts and are excited to use them.

We all went to see a movie on christmas day. We saw The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, it was a great but very long movie..So the Ridleys had a great Christmas and we hope that all you guys did too : )

WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!