Visit to the North

This past week the girls and I have been in Northern Kentucky/Southern Ohio visiting friends and family. We had a wonderful time, but are glad to be home. Unfortunately Chris couldn't come with us as he couldn't take off that many days from work, but the girls are making up for lost time right now as I type this. They have talked non-stop to Daddy ever since he walked in the door today from work. They just can't get enough of him.

We didn't do anything real adventurous while we were gone other than going to the Cincinnati Zoo. Chris and I have fond childhood memories of the Zoo, so I was excited to get them there. We had a good time and my parents and I met my aunt, Sylvia, and cousin, Teresa, there. Unfortunately, the girls got tired a little sooner than we had hoped, but it was a good day none-the-less. Below is a picture of the girls in front of the elephant "house". They REALLY enjoyed the elephants, the Cat House (where the called ALL the cats "Baby Jaguar" from Dora/Diego), the lions, the bats and the giraffe.

Who Dey!

Yes - the beloved Cincinnati Bengals beat the Tennessee Titans today and we were at the game. In fact, it was a bit of a family affair. Papaw & Mamaw Riggs (Gary & Shirley) and Uncle Travis (Chris' brother) & his girlfriend Jamie were there too. Unfortunately (for them - ha ha) we didn't sit together - Chris and I were able to sit in his company's private box - yoo hoo! We were livin' large! Anyway, our friends watched the girls for us and when we got back we all ate Famous Dave's BBQ with the entire crew. Here are a few pictures....

Papaw Riggs with Ashlyn

Mamaw Riggs with Anna

The weather was FANTASTIC for the game - couldn't have asked for anything better. Now if those Bengals can just beat Pittsburgh! And Chris and I play each other in Fantasy Football so it could be an ugly weekend in the Riggs' household...

Our little bakers

This past weekend (after the pumpkin farm) we were going to have a few friends over to watch the Ohio State game. We were just going to have snack food and I had a brownie mix in the pantry, so decided to add that to our nutritious list of yummies. The girls have recently shown quite a bit of interest in helping mommy cook so I thought this might be the perfect time to get them more involved.

Well, as you can tell from the photo on the left, the girls LOVED helping mommy and were big fans of the brownie mix. It was quite comical. Anna (on the right) actually looks drunk from all the chocolate. They actually did pretty well and weren't too messy (of course, their daddy would say they were WAY messier than he would have liked - he's a bit of a neat freak). So we all had a good time and the brownies turned out great. They were even able to taste their creation. They got a big kick out of that.

Watch out Emeril! Here come the Riggs girls!

In Search of the Great Pumpkin

Yesterday (Saturday) we went to Gentry's Pumpkin Farm in Franklin, TN with our friends Amy & Nathan Abbott. This is our second visit to Gentry's as we went last year and had a great time. We went through a corn maze, fed goats (yes, our children who are afraid of a fly and dogs the size of rats were willing to feed goats), saw rabbits, chickens and turkeys, swung on a tire swing (pictured), slid down three different slides (multiple times) and tried to pick out a pumpkin. I write "tried" because they wanted to play with the little pumpkins, but kept wanting to put them back in the crates with the other pumpkins. They had no interest in bringing any of them home with us - hysterical. In all, it was a great day and they fell asleep about 5 minutes after we got back in the van.

Next weekend we get to go to a different pumpkin farm closer to our house. This one is for our POTATO group (Parents of Twins and Triplets Organization) so we will be sure to cause a raucous there.

Football Mania

Football is a word used daily at the Riggs household. This isn't really a shocker as I grew up with a football coach as a Dad and Chris has been a tried and true Bengals fan (Who Dey!) forever. So it is safe to assume that the entire Riggs family enjoys watching (and playing) football. Little did we know how much our girls would love the sport. They don't just like watching it - they want to play football - LOTS. In fact, we have just recently taught them how to recover a fumble - "Jump on it". It is a riot and quite the party trick. Anyway, this last Sunday the girls got into our Titans jerseys and put them on. Chris already had his new Bengals jersey on so we thought this would be a perfect photo moment. They are making their scary faces (like you couldn't tell).



Ashlyn is in the red Titans jersey and Anna is in the blue. What I find amusing is the fact that Anna still has her "Jesus loves me" stickers from church that morning on her hands while making that scary face....."Jesus loves me, but we're gonna kick your team's tail!"