WII GOT ONE!!!!!!!!!

First of all, I want to say Merry Christmas to everyone. Hope you got everything you wanted! Haha, no seriously. Anyways, we had opened almost all of our presents, and then we finally (after much begging and pleading) got ot open the very heavy present from my Nanny and Papa (my dad's parents). We opened the biggest one first (there were 3 tied together), and inside, there was a Wii!!!!!!!!! We couldn't believe it! Anyways, right now, everyone's taking turns playing different games (we have like 3 or 4) and it's REALLY fun. Meryy Christmas!!!!!

The Riley Report

This is the first ever Riley Report. This was ALL Summer's idea... not mine... but whatever.



This week's Report:

Christmas Facts

• Saint Nicholas' birthday is December 6
• 7% of mall Santa applicants had criminal backgrounds
• The approximate amount of money made taking pics with Santa in the mall in the US is $2,255,750,000
• Santa visits 842,000,000 houses on Christmas
• How fast must he travel to visit all those homes? 4,796,250 Mph
• 4% of Americans believe Santa, in the off-season, drives a sports car
• drives an SUV:25%
• 27% of pet owners have their dog or cat pose and photographed with Santa Claus
• 28% of Americans re-gift
• Which type of Christmas tree is displayed more during the holiday season, artificial or real? Artificial trees are the most popular with 40,694,463 on display in comparison to real trees at 34,335,809
• 180 Barbie dolls are sold every minute around the world
• 4 MILLION TONS of trash are generated annually from the gift wrap and shopping bags
• It is estimated that 400,00 people become sick each year from tainted Christmas leftovers.
• During the Christmas buying season, Visa cards alone are used an average of 5,340 times every minute in the United States.
• December is the most popular month for nose jobs.
• 1 in 3 men wait until Christmas eve to finish their shopping.
• We eat 10 million turkeys over the Christmas period.
• The average American takes six months to pay off the holiday credit card bills.
• Christmas trees have been sold commercially in the United States since about 1850.
• Until fairly recently, all Christmas trees came from the forest.
• In the United States, there are more than 21, 000 Christmas tree growers.
• In the United States, there are more than 12,000 cut-your-own farms.
• The first decorated Christmas tree was in Riga, Latvia in 1510.
• Growing Christmas trees provides a habitat for wildlife.
• Christmas trees take an average of 7-10 years to mature.
• Christmas trees remove dust and pollen from the air.
• Christmas trees are grown in all 50 states including Hawaii and Alaska.
• 100,000 people are employed in the Christmas tree industry.
• 98 percent of all Christmas trees are grown on farms.
• 73 million new Christmas trees will be planted this year.

Thanks to:

The Christmas List; A Holly, Jolly Treasury of Seasonal Stats

http://trintje.blogspot.com/2007/12/9-random-facts-about-christmas.html

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/trees/treefacts.html

Public Service Announcement (kinda)

Ok I decided that I should make this announcement because it just might possibly save you time and money!!!

This camera is sold at a decent price (this was my b-day present camera) but it isn't really worth it (in my opinion). It drains the batteries in less than a half hour, and in general, it's just a bad camera. We took it back earlier this week.

This is my new camera.

I got it today, and so far, it works great. It's smaller too, and it comes with a rechargable battery. I'll make a follow-up post on it in a few days.

Happy Holidays!

Riley

Thank You Tessie!!!!!

Tessa,

Thank you sooo much 4 the presents on my birthday!!!!! ILYSM!

Riley

For those of you who don't know what Tessa got me, here are some pictures.

Come on, who doesn't love Disney?!?!?!?!?

Pretty pink roses!!!!!!

Anyways from my family, I got a digital camera (now you'll be seeing LOTS of my pictures) camera case, and Rubio's and Golden Spoon gift cards! Thank you everyone!!!

Christmas Time...

A Very Very Merry Bray Christmas

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas tree, how lovely are your branches! I mean, come on, how can you not be in love with a tree that was decorated by 4 kids that were NOT being supervised by an adult. Ok, I was there, but my job was just not to let the little people hang heavy, or glass, or important ornaments.

Ok, so most people put a star or an angel on top of their tree. No, not the Bray family. WE prefer the moose/reindeer (it's your choice, I can't really tell the difference!) wind vane. Yes it is gorgeous!!!

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care...These should be full on Christmas Morning.....

But the most important part of Christmas is...

the love we share. Merry Christmas to all the friends and family!

Love,

Riley

I'm Very Smartical!!!!!

Yes, I'm not always blond (wet, wacky, Wednesday!) THIS IS PROOF! read my blog and you will get more and more smartical!!!!! (heheheh)

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Poll Results......

Sorry it took so long to post these results. I was waiting to learn how to post pictures so i could post a picture of the winner. And now to the results. With no votes.... Seaweed!!!!! With 1 vote... Edna!!!!!!! Also with 1 vote... Penny!!!!! And also with one vote.... Tracey!!!







And the winner................. ZAC EFRON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How did i know he was going to win?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

ILY Tessie!!!!

Betcha didn't know i was so dang cute, eh?

This is my crazy little cousin C.J.! He is soo funny!!!!!

My mommy!!!!!ILYSM MOMMY!!!!!!!!!

Oh yeah... I know what you're thinking... SHE IS SOO DANG COOL!!!! LOL just kidding. my mom told me too look over there and she surprised me with TAKING A PICTURE!!!!! Ya thats in Mammoth so I probably didn't look as good as normal ( :-P)

Anyways that's some picures I was just testing to see how it worked anyways comment on my page. TTYL!!!!!