Rossi Family

Labor Day Weekend 09

noreply@blogger.com (Teri Rossi) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:14:00 +0000

Kyle and Chris had a go-kart race. Michayla was at her moms, and Tyler was with Marc. So Kyle told me that it was a boys only race and Riley Jo and I were to stay home! I laughed and asked what Riley Jo and I should do, he told me we could go shopping, watch movies, and play Wii fit. Ok. Couple things wrong with that, Riley Jo doesn't like to watch TV (movies are included) and we hadn't played the Wii fit in months! I don't even know how he came up with that one. He is one funny kid! So Riley Jo and I did stay home and have a Girls weekend. Friday night we went to dinner and shopping downtown Walnut Creek, Saturday we hung out during the day and that night we snuck up to see the boys race because it was a night race. Kyle was not happy we came. I was hurt! We didn't stay the night since Riley Jo and I went to church the next morning. However we did go up to the race track to have dinner with Chris and Kyle. Kyle was ok with that. It was fun to hang out with my little lady for a weekend just the 2 of us!

School Starts-August 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Teri Rossi) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:54:00 +0000

Michayla and Tyler started the 8th grade this year. I am sad this is their last year in Middle School because that means High School next year! I can't be old enough to have kids in High School can I? I guess that is what happens when you start young. Kyle started 2nd grade and I am loving his teacher. Riley Jo is in the 4 year old Preschool class this year. Still going 2 days a week.

August 21, 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Teri Rossi) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:46:00 +0000

For my birthday this year I Hosted a Murder Mystery Party. My friends all came over in character and we had a blast! In the game it was my bachelorette party at a Day Spa. So I decorated the playroom as a reception room to a Spa. It was a chocolate theme, so I had chocolate scented candles and water fountains to help set the mood! We started with dinner and went on with the show. I may be throwing myself a birthday party every year.

Santa Cruz

noreply@blogger.com (Teri Rossi) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:42:00 +0000

We went to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk for our normal family day! My dad's cousin plays on the beach as part of the Friday night summer band series. This year it was us, Sheri, Brittani, Abby, and Kim, Conner, and Natalie. We spent the day riding the rides and the night watching the Band! Tyler even went on Double Shot this year! I was shocked to hear about that! The kids love to ride the Bumper Cars of the future and the Ghost House. The Ghost House reminds me of Buzz Lightyear at Disneyland, only it is Ghosts you are shooting instead of Zurg! That is probably why they all like it!

Boat

noreply@blogger.com (Teri Rossi) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:36:00 +0000

Summer of 2009 we went on the boat a TON! Which is happiness for ME! My favorite place to be is on the back of the boat. That is my stress relief. This summer we found a place on the Delta that was great. I am a lake snob so I was really not happy about looking for a spot on the Delta. The problem with the lakes is there are 2 that are close enough for a day trip. But, they are both an hour and a half away. So we would leave early in the morning then not get back till really late. We would want to spend as much time on the lake in order to make the trip worth it. Chris always came home exhausted, even though he only drives the boat. But being out in the sun I guess. So we tried Hogback one day and it was Great! I wakeboarded for the first time on glass and it was wonderful! We went back to the Delta several times after that. It was under an hour to get there so we were still able to spend lots of time on the water! Can't wait till this summer. We didn't try the Delta until August, so summer of 2010 should be even MORE skiing!

Fairytale Town and Sacramento Zoo

noreply@blogger.com (Teri Rossi) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:31:00 +0000

I took the kids to Sacramento for the day and we went to the Sacramento Zoo and then to Fairytale town. It was perfect weather too, it wasn't very hot. We watched an animal show at the zoo and the kids were able to learn a little bit about some of the animals. After the zoo we went over to Fairytale town. There seemed to be a slide at every exhibit, so of course the kids loved that. We even walked the crooked mile! It was fun.

July 18, 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Teri Rossi) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:23:00 +0000

Chris and I went with 2 friends to the Kenny Chesney Concert! It was a Pacbell Park (San Francisco Giants stadium)! We had awesome seats too. We could have thrown a rock at them if we wanted. Not that we would. Kenny Chesney came in on a swing over our heads! Of course he doesn't tour alone, we saw Lady Antebellum. They were awesome! I am now a big fan! LOVE Charles! Then it was Miranda Lambert, yeah still not a fan! Sugarland was supposed to come on right before Kenny but Jennifer's voice was gone.....again! I say again because we were supposed to see Sugarland a year ago (opening for Kenny then too!) and she was sick then too! So we were pretty disappointed to miss them. But Kenny was AWESOME! He came out with so much enthusiasm and stayed that high the entire time! Chris enjoyed the concert just as much as I did.

July 15, 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Teri Rossi) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:16:00 +0000

Yes I am aware it is January now. I really hope that this year I will be able to keep up to date with my blog! But for now, I am still catching up. July 15th Kyle turned 8 years old. In our church you get Baptized when you are 8. But since my mom was still on her mission in Utah we waited for her to come home and he was Baptized in September. (That will be a later post!) Tyler was still in Pennsylvania and Michayla was at Girl's Camp so it was Kyle, Riley Jo and me for the day! We were going to go to Marine World to celebrate his birthday but Kyle was sick. So we hung out at home for the day instead! We had Kyle's birthday party with his friends at
Chuck E Cheese's. A new one had just opened up in Concord so it was Perfect! The kids had a blast playing the games and Chuck E came out and gave Kyle a medal and a crown. Kyle thought that was awesome! We did end up going to Marine World a week later for Kyle's birthday!

July 9-11 Chris' Birthday Trip

noreply@blogger.com (Teri Rossi) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:35:00 +0000

For Chris' birthday I surprised him with the one thing he always asks for. A weekend getaway for just the two of us! He was so excited. Sheri has Fridays off so we made it an extra long weekend. We left Thursday evening and had dinner in San Francisco. We wanted to go to THe Cheesecake Factory but the wait was way too long. So we walked down to the mall ate and then walked through the mall. Was this my birthday or Chris'? We stayed at a hotel in San Francisco and went to Napa on Friday for a Mud Bath and Massage! Chris chose the Mud Bath. It didn't really sound good to me, it's mud! I hate to be dirty, but it was very relaxing. Since our spa time was in the afternoon we decided to do some sight seeing before. We went and saw the Geyser and went to a Castle that was a winery. We also walked around downtown. It was nice just to walk and enjoy each other's company without the kids needing something. On Saturday we did some shopping and then went to get the kids! It was a very fun weekend!

Riley Jo Graduates

noreply@blogger.com (Teri Rossi) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:42:00 +0000

My little girl graduated from the 3 year old Pre-School class! She sang some songs, did the Chicken Dance, and then there was a dance party afterward! It was a very fun day! Next school year, she will be in the 4 year old class. My how fast the years go by!

Girls Trip to Tahoe

noreply@blogger.com (Teri Rossi) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:16:00 +0000

In May we took a Girl's Weekend trip to Tahoe! We had a blast! The weekend went by very fast though. We drove up Thursday afternoon, April J., Hayley, and Valorie left in the morning, so by the time we got there they had dinner ready for us! Valorie had come from Idaho for our weekend and we hadn't seen her in about a year and a half so we spent some time catching up. We decided it would be fun for everyone to be interviewed Oprah style! So April P. took on the roll as Oprah and we interviewed a couple people each night. Anyone could ask questions though, it was a fun way to get some unanswered questions about people. We laughed, we cried, and laughed some more. We all had a great time and can't wait for the next trip. One night we had a SPA night and we all put masks on. We felt very rejuvenated afterward! We also watched some movies, worked on a puzzle or two, took day trips around Tahoe, and went hiking. I absolutely love my girl time just being me, so I can come back and be a good mom instead of stressed out all the time!

Here we all are. This was on one of our trips shopping. Starting at the front: Tara, Brittany, Valorie, Teri, Jen, April P., Hayley, and April J.

We posed by the lake at sunset!

Young Women Mystery Trip

noreply@blogger.com (Teri Rossi) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:13:00 +0000

So last year the young women in our ward had the privilege of going to Utah on an amazing adventure! SO this year we were planning our trip we asked the girls what they wanted to do and they said they wanted it to be a mystery. So the leaders started brainstorming! We had great ideas and all we needed was a place to stay to figure out the final details. Then we had a place in Napa and the plans were finalized.

We started our trip in San Francisco where we walked on the Golden Gate Bridge.

From there we went to Point Bonita Lighthouse. We walked through a tunnel that was picked with an ice pick! It was extremely dark inside. Then we had to go across a bridge to get to the lighthouse. Only 2 could go across at a time. Then we ate lunch, and then headed to the ropes course. That was an amazing experience. We worked on team building exercises and then went on the high ropes.

We had to climb a 40 ft. pole to go on the zip line. That climb scared me to death! I was shaking so hard. But jumping off the top proved to be harder than the climb! Then we climbed a 30 ft. pole and walked across a log. Some of the girls went on a tight rope type wire. Then the last thing was called the pamper pole. You had to climb up a pole I think 25 ft. Then stand up on top of the pole and balance there without holding onto anything. Then you had to jump out and grab on to the trapeze. I wasn't going to attempt this obstacle but I fell into peer pressure! I was glad I did. It was scary, but fun! I wouldn't have done it if it wasn't for the girls pushing me! We ended that day by going to the house we were staying at and swimming. Then on Saturday we met up with our Stake and cheered at the Special Olympics held at UC Davis. We showed up and it was 100 degrees out there. No one was cheering and our group got up and started cheering, even doing some High School cheers and the athletes totally appreciated it! We had some of the athletes come over to have their pictures taken with the youth and thank them for cheering! It was an awesome experience! Then the girls got to ride the Amtrak home! They all had a fun time!

I was at this point on the pole for a long time trying to figure out how to get on top of the pole without falling.

Finally made it to the top! Now all I have to do is jump! What? Yeah and try to grab onto the Trapeeze before you fall! Ok! Got it!

June Vacation to Carson City

noreply@blogger.com (Teri Rossi) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:54:00 +0000

We started out Summer out with a vacation to Carson City. We have a time share their so it was fun to stay the week there and swim in the natural hot spring water. We did take some day trips along the way! Chris stayed and worked the week and came up on Friday-Sunday. Michayla's cousins were in town and it was her grandparents Wedding anniversary so she stayed behind and came up with Chris on Friday. Summer is our busiest time for the business and we usually don't get to go away. This is the first time we have ever done a vacation during the summer and it was great! The kids and I drove up on Sunday and got all settled in. We even unpacked all our bags and put our clothes in the dressers. The kids liked that since we usually live out of our bags. Monday we hung out at the resort all day and swam.

Tuesday we went to Reno for the day and Riley Jo went on her first Go-Kart ride. She loved it! We played a round of mini golf and then I took the kids to Circus Circus to play the games. We all had a blast! Riley Jo was so cute, in order to his the golf ball, she would put the ball down close to the hole, then sit down to hit it! She got a hole in 1 every time! Tyler got a hole in 1 on one of the holes and so did I!

The rest of the week we did some mini tourist trips and swam.

There was a playground at the resort for the kids to play on, pool table, air hockey, and foosball. We spent a lot of time in the pool and spas too! It was relaxing and fun just to get away with the kids!

Blog Summer Vacation!!

noreply@blogger.com (Teri Rossi) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:49:00 +0000

You know it's been a long time since you signed on to your blog when you have to type out the entire web address! WOW! 3 1/2 months, did not think it had been that long. I thought I had done some updates during the summer. We have had such a busy summer and have had a lot going on. School starts next week and I am pretty sure the kids are ready to have a schedule again, or maybe it is just me! I know they are all excited to see their friends, not so sure about the classes and the homework though. Oh well, and so the fun begins. Michayla and Tyler in 8th grade this year. I know they are excited about that! Kyle in second grade and Riley Jo in Pre-School again!

Wedding Dresses

noreply@blogger.com (Teri Rossi) — Wed, 13 May 2009 04:57:00 +0000

Tonight at Young Womens we made Modest Wedding Dresses out of toilet paper! We gave them the guidelines that the dress had to go to their ankles, needed sleeves, and it couldn't be too low in the front or the back. Then they were able to design the dress for their friends. Morgan and Carissa were paired up, Alaina, Christina, and Emily were paired up. The girls had so much fun as did Laura and I! The girl's did an awesome job creating dresses. We were getting a little pressed for time so everyone helped dress Alaina and Christina! Then we did some posing for fun! Everyone had trouble at the beginning getting the dress to stay on! But the results were awesome!

Easter

noreply@blogger.com (Teri Rossi) — Wed, 13 May 2009 04:41:00 +0000

Our Easter started off with a celebration at Riley Jo's school. They sang a couple bunny songs

Went to the dance room to dance! They did the Hokey Pokey!

Of course there was an Easter Egg Hunt!

Then we decorated eggs at our house and had and egg hunt on Easter morning. (Disclosure: Kyle desperately needed a haircut, but refused to get one. He has gotten one now. And Michayla wanted a cheesey picture!)

Disneyland

noreply@blogger.com (Teri Rossi) — Wed, 13 May 2009 04:23:00 +0000

We took the kids to Disneyland. Rather, I took the kids to Disneyland! Chris, Bobbie (Chris' mom), the kids, and I all drove to Disneyland on Saturday. We left at 6:00 am and thought the kids may sleep a couple hours of that. Nope! They all stayed awake the entire drive. Including Riley Jo. They all stayed pretty entertained by movies and music, except Riley Jo. We had to stop a couple extra times because she needed the "potty." Yeah right! But we stopped anyway. After the 3rd stop in an hour. I finally told Chris that he needed to stop listening to music and making the kids use the headphones for the movie. So that Riley Jo could at least listen to the movie, she doesn't like T.V., or movies and won't leave the headphones on. At least with the sound coming out of the speakers she will at least pretend to watch it. We finally make it to the hotel. Bobbie and I take the kids swimming while Chris rests! On Sunday, Chris and I had to attend a presentation on a time share for Shell Vacation Club, then we were given 2 tickets to Disneyland. By attending that presentation, they also paid for our hotel room. Bonus!!! Then after the meeting, Chris flew home and Bobbie and I took the kids to Disneyland for the next 3 days. That's right, Chris drove us all the way to Disneyland just to attend the presentation so we could take our kids to Disneyland! He won Father of the Year for that trip!!!

We usually have breakfast with Minnie Mouse and friends, but this year we decided to have lunch with the Princesses. Riley Jo was in Heaven! We were able to see Ariel, Cinderella, Belle, Aurora, and Jasmine. Tyler even volunteered to be in all the pictures! It was a great lunch. Cinderella and Belle were Riley Jo's favorites!

Kyle's baseball game

noreply@blogger.com (Teri Rossi) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:55:00 +0000

Last night at Kyle's game he played 2nd base. The 1st kid hit the ball up between 3rd base and shortstop and Kyle ran to try and get the ball. It was great. We told him to watch the ball and he tried to go for it. With a little more instruction he played his position well. He stopped all the balls that went past him it was amazing! One even bouced right in front of him and then he caught it. The look on his face was priceless, he put his glove out to catch it but I think he thought it was going to bounce over him. It was a high bounce. He even threw it perfect to 1st base for an out. Then the 2nd inning he played catcher and was able to make 2 outs at home. He had a great game and was very excited by it!

Busy but Fun Weekend!!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Teri Rossi) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:38:00 +0000

This weekend was extremely busy but we had a ton of fun! Friday night Tyler was able to go to the Giants and A's Bay Bridge Series at AT&T park in San Francisco with his friends Chase, Sam Albertson and Chase's dad Mo. They had seats 3 rows up from behind the Giants dugout. They were so excited! Tyler was able to catch a fly ball and get his ticket signed by the A's catcher Suzuki (I don't know how to spell this, sorry A's fans)! I was surprised I didn't get a phone call, he was so excited he ran up to me Saturday morning all excited. While Tyler was at the game, Chris had to work late Friday so I let Kyle have his friend over and Riley Jo, Kyle, Joey, and I made our own mini pizza's for dinner. We did this for Valentines Day and it was such a kick for the kids that we decided to do it again! Then my brother and Jeannine came over to play Partini again. My brother and Chris had 2 games left to win of our 20 game challenge so they thought they could finish it. Well, we played 6 games and the boys only won 1. Chris was definitely off his game!
Saturday Kyle had a baseball game and Chris had to work. After the baseball game, Tyler went back over to Chase's house and I put Kyle and Riley Jo down for a nap! I had a couple hours to myself which was very nice. Then Saturday evening Chris and Tyler went to the Priesthood session of conference (Tyler's first one!) and the moms and kids had a potluck in the park. It was a beautiful evening at the park and didn't even start to get cold until we started to pack up at 7:15. Then my brother and Jeannine came back over to try and finish up our Partini challenge. The guys won their last game in 1 game. Then we had dessert and played a game called Pop 5. It's a cranium game and lots of fun! We played until 1:15 a.m. WOW!
Sunday was conference day and Sheri, Brittani, and Abby came over to watch it with us. Then they hung out for the rest of the afternoon and left about 5:00 pm. We just couldn't get enough playing time in I guess because Steve and Jeannine came back again to play more Pop 5. Good thing they provided the dessert to help keep us awake! We are still tired but had fun so it was worth it.

Official Teenager!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Teri Rossi) — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:55:00 +0000

Michayla turned 13 on Monday so we have a teenager in our house! Luckily she isn't the one with the attitude. Yet. She is sweet in nature and the fact that she spends 1 week at a time at each house hopefully we won't see much attitude. To celebrate her birthday our family went to dinner at Chevy's and rollerskating. Kyle lasted all of 5 minutes before he called it quits. He couldn't get the concept of moving one foot at a time. I told him to walk, you don't move both feet at the same time to walk right? But with the wheels on the shoes he thought he had to move both at the same time. Chris and I both tried to teach him but neither of us could. Riley Jo had decided she wasn't even going to try so she and Kyle both pretended to play video games for the 2 hours. Chris and I switched off to stay off with the little ones. I don't know how long it has been since I actually roller skated, luckily you can rent roller blades too. I ask the kids if they want roller blades or roller skates they both said roller skates so Chris said "Let's just all get roller skates." I had to admit that I don't remember how to roller skate. He proceeded to make fun of me in front of the entire line how I don't know how to roller skate. I know Chris was doing that? Ha Ha. Anyways, the kids had a fun time and now want to go back at least once a month. I had great fun and it's good exercise. My legs were sore the next day. Maybe I shouldn't be admitting that, that just shows how out of shape I am and need to exercise my muscles more. Next time we go we will leave the little ones behind.

New Beginnings

noreply@blogger.com (Teri Rossi) — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:36:00 +0000

We had an Emma's Awards Show for our Young Women's New Beginnings this year. We all had to come dressed in fancy dresses and the dads wore suits. We stayed late the night before decorating the room. We put white lights around the room and hung up plastic sheets of paper to make it look like they were drapes all around the room. It looked wonderful! We came early to set up the tables and put on the centerpieces. We gave awards for each of the 8 values of the Young Women Recognition Award.

Laura and I were in charge of introducing the new Beehives. We made personalized Magazine Covers for them that showed their interests and talents.

Here are the new beehives with their magazines.

The current Beehives made a video to accept their award of our trip to Utah last year. I filmed it and edited it for that evening.

Curlers

noreply@blogger.com (Teri Rossi) — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:31:00 +0000

Riley Jo let me put curlers in her hair so her hair would be curly. She sat still for the 30 minutes it took to put them in, but when it was time to lay down and go to sleep she had me take them out! They are sponge curlers what's the deal? Oh well, maybe someday she'll sleep with them in and we'll see what she looks like with curly hair! She looked so cute with them in though.

Riley Jo

noreply@blogger.com (Teri Rossi) — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:27:00 +0000

Riley Jo was star of the week for her school. We had to put together a poster of all her favorites. This is her poster of all her favorite things. Of course, MOM is her #1 favorite!

The pictures are Cinderella, Belle, Family, School, Trampoline (favorite toy), her thumb (and bellybutton), Disneyland, and swimming.

Valentines Day

noreply@blogger.com (Teri Rossi) — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:20:00 +0000

We celebrated Valentines Day with the Jacobs family. We had a Wii game night, we made homemade personal pizzas for dinner, and dipped yummy fruit and dessert in chocolate fondue. The kids all had fun making their own pizzas and dipping into the chocolate. The kids also had fun hanging out with each other and we introduced Jeremy to Rock Band. It was a fun time! Riley Jo even got out her guitar and jammed along.

Painting and Redecorating Projects

noreply@blogger.com (Teri Rossi) — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:30:00 +0000

We painted the boys room and bought them a new bed. We didn't realize how dark the blue was until we started painting. Now the room needs a floor lamp. Oh well, I love the bedroom with the new bed. The boys are able to keep it clean too.

So we gave Riley Jo the boys old bed which works great in her room. We are storing the bottom bunk and were able to put her toys under her bed so she is able to keep her room clean now too. We love it.

After having our bathroom "ready to paint" for the last 2 years, we finally had Journey come over to paint it. The fixtures were off our walls for the entire 2 years so it was great to finally have them up again! The pictures don't give it much justice, the walls are a medium beige and the towels are light blue and dark brown. We are loving having our bathroom functional again!