The Life of Riley

We have so much to be thankful for this year. As we look back and reflect we are overwhelmed at how blessed we are. We have a God who loves us and takes care of us in all aspects of our lives. We have our health, we have jobs, we have careers, we have wonderful family and friends, we live in the greatest country, we have our freedom and, of course, we have the gift of marriage! It's been so fun to celebrate as husband and wife, we still look at each other sometimes and say, "wait, are we seriously married?!" Its such a wonderful thing to live and share so much of your life with you best friend, lover and partner (in and out of crime (; ). Our thanksgiving was wonderful! We both had thursday and friday off, so it was practically a vacation! We spent Thanksgiving with our great friends, The Hathaways, at their beautiful new home in Dove Canyon. It has been a tradition for the Armstrongs and Hathways to spend Thanksgiving together for a while so it was fun to have one...

Hopefully some of you have recieved your thank you cards from the wedding and are now logginig on to check out our site for the first time. First let us say we are so sorry it took us this long to get them out to all of you, but we are so thankful for all of it and we think of you all often as we use our gifts. So, recent events in our life... work is going great! Rachel loves being a nurse and learns a little bit more about surgical nursing each day. She is looking forward to her vacation day on wednesday for Veterans as well as 2 days at thanksgiving. It's nice to not have to go to work but still get paid! Chad is working hard at his job and is doing great! We are looking forward to the upcoming holidays and decorating together for the first time as husband and wife. We have lots of wedding festivities for our friends over the next couple of months that should keep us busy all the way up to Christmas which we will spend in OC with our families. Then we will head out to Havasu for...