Richardson Report

On Monday my life will change in a dramatic and drastic way. On Monday I will send my three big helpers off to school at the crack of dawn and face the rest of the day alone with two young children. I know I've done this before; this whole stay home with little kids thing. The problem is, I can't remember what it was like. Couple this with the fact that I am growing rounder, slower, and more tired by the minute these days, and I'm sure I'm going to face an extreme lowering of standards in terms of what gets accomplished each day.  It should be interesting.  I mean, who is going to clean the breakfast dishes?  Or rotate laundry when the garage feels too far away?  Or who will get toys down for the little girls or read them a story while I finish working on my Young Women lesson?  What about the grocery shopping and the doctor visits...do they have to go too, now?  I am a little nervous.  I remember in the old days I had a lot of friends with young children and we s

 Click on the photos to see them in all their full-sized glory! July: Surfing Cousins and grandparents! So we decided to take a large family picture.  I put Jackie in charge of my camera (she did a decent job).  What with kids, poopy diapers, misbehaving husbands...you know how it goes, we were standing for far too long.  I almost passed out and had to sit on the grass for a bit.  Thus, I earned myself a chair to sit in for the rest of the photos.  Uncle Nathan getting smiles for the photos Siblings and parents in their natural state August: We had such a fun time in Utah. Antelope Island (which also has bison!)  We saw the antelope, bison, and a fox while we were out there, which was pretty cool.  It is so deserty.  You forget that all the trees in Utah were PLANTED by the pioneers.  Antelope island is what I imagine the entire salt lake valley looked like when the pioneers first saw it.  Pretty barren and no s

So....I'm not going to go over our recent trip here as I'm not quite ready and the photos are still on our camera. But July. So much happened in July.  It was 31 days of crazy fun. One night, for example, we had 25 people sleeping in our house (including us).  I figured I could survive one night.  ;-)  And I did.  My kids had a blast seeing so many of their cousins all month.  They see Jason's kids about once every year or two, so this almost-daily contact was a special treat. So now we have two weeks left of summer.  Yes, we start BEFORE labor day.  Shouldn't that be against the law?  Could it qualify as child endangerment?  I mean, it's putting a serious cramp in summer vacation!! This week I'll have to work on getting the photos off our camera.  I just had to pop on.  I can't believe it's been over a month since I blogged.  Crazy. Baby update - by the way - I'm six months pregnant now.  This pregnancy is racing by.