Christmas 2008

Santa has come and now is gone. I wished for a chinook on Christmas afternoon, but I didn't get what I wanted! It was nice to have snow for Christmas, but it's over now, so the snow can leave!

Christmas at the Richardson house was nice and modest. The girls both got new PJ's and some clothes. Madisen got the Rip Stick that she asked for and also an On the Go Crayola Glow Station. Riley got the talking baby doll she requested and some new Barbies.

All in all, everything was great!

Madisen w/Rip Stick

Riley w/baby

Madisen w/Glow Station

Riley w/Barbie Car

Cookie Decorating Pictures

Ryan
Madisen

Cookie Decorating Pictures

Nora

Audrey

Audrey

Riley

Riley and Audrey

Cookie Decorating

We had a great time with the girls on Christmas Eve. This marked our 3rd year inviting the "girl cousins" over to decorate Christmas cookies. We had a total of 10 girls over this year: Ali, Cassidee, Haley, Kennady, Megan, Ryan, Nora, Audrey, Madisen and Riley. I believe that everyone had a good time. I seem to have been less needed than in years past. The most amusing part of the gathering was Ali's phone which never stopped vibrating, she's one popular girl! Sorry Megan, somehow I didn't get a picture of you =(

Ali

Cassidee

Haley

Kennady

A big THANK YOU to Alicia for helping me make 12+ dozen butter cookies for this event.

Snow

Yesterday we woke up to our first snow of the season. The girls were very excited to put on their gear and get out in it.








Riley got too cold after about 10 minutes, but Madisen stayed out for a while. They both enjoyed throwing snowballs at Matt while he shoveled the patio.

Madisen went back out in it later with her cousin Cassidee.(They're both a little crazy in my opinion, they were out there for almost 2 hours last night!)

School has been delayed for the elementary school kids, and both preschool and kindergarten have been canceled because of the temperature (12 degrees, -15 if you factor in the wind chill) and the accumulation of about 2 more inches of snow last night as we slept. Needless to say, my house will be full of energetic kids all day, begging to get out in the snow.

Quilts

I've recently finished my 3rd quilt, which I'm actually giving away today. I thought I'd post pictures of it.

I haven't posted pictures of my 2nd quilt, which I made for Baby Robinson (Aaron and Megan's baby). They haven't received the quilt yet. I'll post pictures of it soon.

I'm giving this quilt to one of my daycare families who is expecting a baby girl in January.

I'm in the middle of my 4th quilt, sooner or later I'll probably lose count, which I'm making for my best friend Lori.

Family Photos

As most of you now know, we recently took some family photos.

I just thought I'd post a few here for all to see.

Riley and Madisen

Family

Family

Girls attacking Matt

Silly Picture

Turkey Trot

I'm sorry that I haven't posted for a while.

We had a great Thanksgiving. We started out our day by participating in the 5th Annual Thanksgiving Day Turkey Trot. We only did the 1 mile but we all had fun.



The next "run" we participate in, we will not bring a stroller. Riley never got out of the stroller.


After the run, we came home, relaxed, cooked some food and met up with the Morgan clan for dinner. Everyone seemed to have a good time, and we had great food.