Hello Summer!!!

I have always said that Santa Monica was never warm enough.
I should have remembered what they say....Be careful what you wish for!!!

PS. This was not right when I got in the car. This was 45 minutes into the drive, as I was coming home from Santa Monica, driving down into the Santa Clarita Valley!

Tessa - Newborn pictures

I'm too lazy to upload these pictures again, so go and check out Tessa's blog to see her newborn photos (well, my favorites...which I had a lot of!)

click on this link:

tbrichards.blogspot.com

Hey Fods, you think your April 30th was bad.....this was our May 6!!!

Pictures with Grandma

Love these pictures

While in Hawaii

While on a walk near the beach this is what we saw. Looks like Jordan's fan club had already been here.

One of the sets for the TV show "Lost"

Filming of "Lost" down the beach. This was as close as we could get.

While we still live here...

Scott and I have started talking about moving north, and that means away from the beach. I am already missing it. So I decided to take the kiddos down and attempt to get some pictures of them together. Of course we mostly got singles, and most of Camden's are "action" shots, but just the same, I love a lot of them! Here's just a few--we took 185. Thank goodness for digital...

Mia & Gavin - January 2010

The Car Wash

I thought that since Camden is such a daredevil and loves noise so much that he would really enjoy going through the car wash...I was wrong.

He was in a near panic at this point, yelling, "No, no, no!"

Visiting Teaching

OK, have you gals heard of this blog? And if so, why haven't you shared it with me before?? Some really cute, and really easy things to do!
http://visitingteachingblog.blogspot.com
There are some really crafty people out there, but I am just not one of them!! But I do copy ideas like the best of them. I just made the purse for my peeps for February's visit. And chocolate coins are everywhere right now b/c of Chinese New Year and Valentine's Day.
Enjoy!

Richards Christmas Eve

For Christmas Eve we had Jared's parents, his brother Dan (& wife Melissa & 4 kids), his younger brother Micah, and Melissa's younger brother Brett over for fondue. Of course it was super yummy. 8 adults and 6 kids made for a fun night. Mia totally LOVED the fondue this year, especially poking the meat with her fork and cooking it :)

Gavin & his cousin Summer enjoyed "sampling" the desserts later onChristmas jammiesAnd we actually got a decent family picture before the night was over!