End of the year school concert

One of my pet peeves... being the shortest in the school and being placed in the back row... 5 rows back... This is where you will find Davis in the picture with all of the kids. Each year the school does this spectacular performance with dancing, singing and instruments... but, each year Davis finds himself in the back. Anyway, it was good. We had a great time. Hopefully, next year I will get to catch a glimpse of Davis performing.

Happy Birthday, Miss Lili

Love you so much! You crack us all up with your funny little things you do.

Meili dance

This past year Meili took dance and tumbling. She is so flexible that I wish we could find a good gymnastics gym in town. Here are the pictures of her in her outfit for the dance recital. She did a great job and I was so happy to see her enjoy herself. She was all smiles. The outfits were darling and she looks so old.

Dance a thon

Reese at the annual dance a thon. Glad they all have enjoyed the dancing at school - actually quite good excercise... someday his wife will thank the school... he has great moves :)

Happy Birthday, Scott

Happy birthday to the best husband and dad ever - (sister in law too... happy b-day, Kim) love this cute picture!

A little girl time

What is wrong with this picture except for the games hanging out in the background...???
IS SHE CRAZY??? DO THEY NOT GET THAT CARPET IS EXPENSIVE??? BUSTED!!! NO PAINTING FINGERNAILS ON CARPET!!!! ahhh... that feels better. Love you girls!!!

Fun with Mia

Oh, how my girl's love playing with their cousin, Mia. I'm not sure why Lili is always undressed...??? Where was her mom???

Mckenzie's 1st driving experience/our orchard

We basically had to force Mckenzie to try out her driving skills. She was afraid she would get busted and we assured her that she was on our property and she would be fine. We planted 18 fruit trees on our 5 acres and needed her help watering them. We filled a 50 gallon drum with a spicket and had her drive a bit, park and then we'd fill up the well with water and then she'd drive a bit, etc... by the end she was begging to drive out of the subdivision. She is great! And I love her tons!

Two incredible blessings

Words can not express how blessed we are to have these two angels in our home.

Happy Easter

We did the traditional Easter Egg Hunt at Bass Lake. We had Greg and Kristi (and new little Sadie Mei Mei) with us and my parents. The kids love the buffet - it is all kids food and fun to do once a year. We had a great time. Looks like Ian enjoyed his candy :) Sunday we were treated to visit with Rylee for a couple of hours. When we hear we get to see her we drop everything we have going since it does not happen very often. We love her so much and hope she knows that. She is a great (I was going to say little but she is getting big) young lady!

Happy Birthday, Reese

Reese is such a blessing. He loves most everything and gets excited about everything as well. Opening presents is always fun with him. He was pretty dismayed that he had to go to school on his birthday. We started the day bright and early at 5am so I could get in the large orders of crepes and present opening before school. After school he had a bunch of friends over for a World War II party. Fred Meyers did a great cake since I was not creative enough to come up with something to fit in with his 'typical' :) theme. We played all sorts of games and had a fabulous time - he has the best group of friends -
We had a great day! Love you, Reesey!

The newest, newest Rich addition (isn't he cute)

Coulson Ryan Rich

Born 4-15-2009 4:37 A.M.
Ht 20 inches
Wt 7lbs 8 oz






We are so excited to have little Coulson finally here. He was born on tax day so his bday will be an easy one to remember. I think he is just darling and I love the pictures of the new parents and their little guy. Also, love his name. Coulson is named after Charles C. Rich... the C. is Coulson - our great, great... grandfather - you can see a statue of him in Paris, Idaho - he settled the Bear Lake area and also San Bernadino, CA - he was an apostle of the church. Ryan and Nate used to tease each other about who was going to name their boy Coulson. They finally decided that who ever had a boy first got the name... sad Ryan couldn't use it but so happy Nathan and Heidi did! He has the perfect name. My mom says he has Ryan's little turned down ears. I can't wait to meet Coulson! Hope they are enjoying their new life - so exciting!

Alice and Wonderland

Mckenzie and Reese's classes did Alice and Wonderland this year for the school play. Reese played the March Hare and Mckenzie was Matilda. They both did a great job and had a great time doing it.

Ground Breaking for the new school

We are getting a new school building and were all excited to go scoop a shovel of dirt out at the new school site. It will be ready for the 2010/11 school year.

Lili's citizenship trip

The kids had the day off from school so we took the kids to Boise for the night to get Lili's US citizenship. We stayed at our favorite Residence Inn, took the kids to Chuck E Cheese for dinner and the zoo in the morning. We had a great time together and are happy to present the newest citizen of the United States!

digging our basement

We dug the hole for our basement for our house. We don't know when we will begin building but wanted the hole to be dug to avoid the mysterious water line under our property. So, in one photo no hole and in the other two the hole.

The newest Rich addition (isn't she cute)

(copied and pasted from my brother Greg's blog)

We wanted to get a picture out of our new baby. This is Sadie (no middle name yet) Rich, born 3-6-9(love the birthdate). Everything went well and mom and baby are doing great. We will probably be able to go home today from the hospital. Sadie has been plagued with PAC's (prematurue beats) and is continuing to have them. So far no one is really too excited about it, including me, and she has continued to look like a normal baby that likes to shoot out a few extra beats. Enjoy, Greg

Happy Birthday Leslie!

Happy Birthday to my sweet baby sister! I prayed many years for you before you were born - I wanted a sister so bad! Thanks for always being so kind. You are an amazing person and always see the best in everyone. I hope you have a great day! Love you!