Richardson Report

 School has started!  Brynne and I snuck away for a quick BYU/OSU women's soccer game.  BYU rocked it. My friend Julia's niece played and scored.  fun! Two days later Brynne got her wisdom teeth extracted.  Not so fun.  Her darling friends brought ice cream! Logan and Faith are buddies and it is so sweet! On Friday we went to the Grants Pass football game.  Josh and I both lucked out with friends who invited us and one child to join them. Here are Ella and Kenna - and my friend Heidi photobombing them.  ;-) And Megan and Natalie And I went with Amy Faith's imagination has taken off.  She plays pretend All. Day.  Long. She especially loves to play with the baby toys in my closet. Natalie lost a tooth.  This is what she sent the tooth fairy.  I drew an amazing fairy picture back. We left for Hawaii.  You know it's going to be a great tr...

Where is the time going?  I want all my kids to stop growing.  I definitely want summer back.  I need more weekends in my life and fewer meetings.  Time is too short with my family these days. August flew by.  It was amazing.  Amazingly busy.  Without further ado - here is some of our fun....  Natalie had private swimming lessons with this darling guy from church.  It was a really good experience for her and she learned a lot in two short weeks! Richardson cousins came for a long visit and my kids were very happy.  I'm keeping this photo of Sam for his wedding.  I'm sure he'll want to see it then. Faith doesn't often play with kids her age - this was a banner month of her! Pear picking started.  Logan and I had a mother/son date at the pear farm.  He's so cute! Amazing sunset one night... Faith became obsessed with card games.  This one she made up using face c...

July has been a tad bit crazy.  But oh-so-fun. First, I never introduced you all to Jaime from Spain.  He left yesterday.  He was awesome.  I don't know if we just got lucky or what, but his personality fit our family's personality so well.  With Jaime we had lots of teasing, lots of card games, and lots of rounds of golf.  It was pretty fun.  We will miss that kid.  Some of my favorite memories of him:  when I was dropping him off for a camping trip that he wasn't sure he wanted to go on I said, "well, at least it's a beautiful river to look at" and he looked at me with this incredulous face and said, "I'm fifteen!  I don't care how pretty a river is!" Or the time I found out he wasn't buckled up and slammed my brakes so I could scold him (we were just pulling into our neighborhood).  Couldn't have made a better object lesson if I had tried.  He flew into the seat in front of him and his face squished up hard against the h...