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Jeff & Heidi stopped by on their way home from their cruise, and Camden helped me crush the candy canes for peppermint snowballs. Also, it was 77•F yesterday, so we spent an hour down at the beach!

Australia

We had an awesome time in Australia! Thank you sooooo much mom and dad for coming out and watching the kids! This is just a "sampling" of some pics. you can see more and read about the trip (and get info on all these pics) on my blog: jaruu.blogspot.comyes, it was just as ghetto as the one we grew up with in South Sound Mall :) And they had them everywhere!

Twilight

The Friday before we left for Australia mom flew into Utah and so she got to hang out with me and my friends and go see Twilight with us. The movie started at 10 pm, but of course we made an evening out of it!

Dinner at my favorite restaurant, ZuppasThen off to a friends house for a Twilight party! We played a trivia game, at way too many Twilight themed desserts, and most of us had matching hair accessories :) Just in case you are wondering about my sanity right about now I would just like you to know that I did really enjoy the books and the movie was fabulous, but me and my friends are not crazy fans (ok...well some of my friends may be!) but it's just fun to act like a teenager every once in a while, right? It was so fun to have mom around to hang out with for an evening!

H1N1 Clinic

We went and got our vaccinations at a drive-through-clinic in Calabasas the week before Thanksgiving....we waited in line for 4 hours!! Camden has barely even flinched when getting shots, but as you can see, he was not thrilled about this thing going up his nose!

Baby News

We had our 20 week ultrasound this morning. Everything looks great...Jared even asked the ultrasound tech to check for 6 fingers :) It looks like this one will just have 5, but you never know!

I feel great still and we're super excited to be having...

a baby GIRL!

Richards Halloween

Our ward Trunk-or-Treat on Tuesday. Also the first snow in the valley. It was REALLY cold and windy. Mia was Sleeping Beauty this year
Gavin was a dragon Happy Halloween!

the Wild, Wild, West!

We went with the "Cowboys and Indians" theme this year. I got Scott to put the hat on for the picture, but I could never get Camden to put on his feather headband! And his war paint was smeared off in about 10 minutes. haha. Oh well! We had a really fun time!

Halloween 2009

Do I at least get a shiny new quarter for getting my pics on here second???? Payton was the Grim Reaper (2nd year in a row....his choice....easy for me!), Spencer was a Ninja, Olivia was Snow White, and Zach was Spiderman.

In the picture below, Zach was trying his best to do his web slinging hands. This was Livi's scared/mad face due to the ninja and his swords

Once we got Zach to leave his mask on for pictures, he didn't take it off the whole entire night.

Happy Halloween everyone!!!!

We decided since Dennis was gone hunting we would take a trip down to Hogle Zoo. We called Jamie and met her, Mia and Gavin at the Zoo. The Sicklers hadn't been in about 4 years and we had a great time. The weather was absolutely perfect. It was a bit crowded (mainly,the parking was terrible) but once inside it wasn't too bad. Payton took it upon himself to take all of the pictures (except for the one's he's in, obviously). So here, courtesy of Payton, are some pictures from the zoo:

Livis is not a poser at all when the camera is out, can you tell???

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!

We hope your birthday is worth jumping for joy...

and you have a day full of excitement!

And since dad always gets fireworks on his birthday, here are some for you!

And just because this is one of my all-time favorites....

(Jill, you can thank me for cropping you out...not your best picture :) )

We love you mom and miss you! Hope your day is fantastic!

Love,

The Richards :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JENNIFER!

May all your wishes come true...

Love You!