Welcome to Hogwarts!

Well, its taken a few weeks longer than I had planned but it's finally finished. John keeps asking if I'm going to kick Johnny out and start sleeping in there myself (he thinks I'm slightly obsessed) but it was all worth it because Johnny loves it. He and Sarah get dressed up in their Hogwarts robes and go to "school" in his room. Johnny has started carrying his pet Hedgwig around the house and Sarah slept with Krookshanks last night. I should thank John for helping me paint the room and my friend Jana for helping me with the lettering so that I could make the Hogwarts Express sign that Johnny was hoping for.

Take me out to the ball game...

Every morning Johnny asks what day it is so that he knows whether or not John will be staying home from work. Needless to say, Saturdays are his favorite day of the week. Johnny's playing little league again this year so he an John have been practicing in the yard. John's great about going to Johnny's practices and games. This year he's one of the assistant coach's. I love to see how much fun my boys have together. Sarah seems to have a great time as well.

Draperies, Draperies, everywhere!

Most people want to clean there house in the spring, apparently, I just want to decorate it. I love the neutral colors that we have on our walls, and carpet, and tile, but its just been a little to much of the same so I finally found the some drapes that would and a little more color and decided to hang them up. Here are a few pics.

Sarah's Room

The last few weeks John and I have been working on the kids rooms. Johnny's room is "Harry Potter" themed while Sarah's is, of course, all about princesses and pink. Even though we started Johnny's 1st, there are a few more things on order for his room that haven't come yet so I'll post his pics when they do. We finished Sarah's on Saturday so here in is in all its princess glory.

Sarah's Birthday

For Sarah's 3rd Birthday we had a PRINCESS PARTY! We invited four of her friends (Taya, Ainsley, Ava, and Addison) and had a wonderful time. We dressed up in princess dresses, played "pin the slipper on Cinderella", decorated tiaras and had a princess cake. It was great. My mom was down for the week and was a great help.

We also got to have a little party with Daddy and Grandpa John the night before so here are a few pics of both parties.

I've also attached a video of Sarah blowing out her candles. And, yes, we still at the cake after.

Christmas 2009

Here's a few pics of our Christmas this year. We didn't get to go and do some of our favorite Christmas Traditions like sledding and seeing the lights at Temple Square because we were all sick with a bad cough. Johnny even ended up in an urgent care clinic on the Sunday after Christmas because he was having trouble breathing:(

Even after all that, it was good to see family and be part of all the festivities. Johnny was relieved that Santa knew how to find us at Grandma's House and Sarah was happy about all the presents.

Hogle Zoo

Hi Everyone...all I can really say is that it's been a long winter for us over here at the Richardson house. Now that we're approaching spring, I'm finally getting back into the swing of things and have decided to upate my blog with the highlights of the last few months.

The 1st of these was a great trip to Hogle Zoo for Johnny, Sarah and Me at the end of November. We went with my sister, Tracie, and her two youngest, Jacob and Katie. The weather was cold but I have to say that the animals were more active than I've ever seen them. There were also lots of babies on display so it was a great trip. And, Thanks to Tracie's hot chocolate we survived the weather without too much trouble.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

WE had a great Halloween this year! We had so much fun decorating our new house. Johnny LOVED the graveyard out front and asked to go out there 20 times a day. Sarah, was very excited to be Cinderella and Johnny was a great Harry Potter (even though his hair looks more like Draco's). Sarah and I got to go help with Johnny's Halloween Party. Between that, my Halloween Piano Recital, A party at our friend the Jensen's House, going to see Daddy at work and the Ward Trunk or Treat, we spent most of the week in our Costumes. Here are some more pictures of our week.

Zion's National Park - 2009

The kids and I were able to Go to Zion's with my family the 1st weekend in October. Sadly, John had to stay home and work. We missed him but we had a great time camping with the rest of the Evans Family. Johnny and Sarah sure do love their cousins. Unfortunately, I forgot the camera on the Emerald pools hike where we came across a tarantula but here are a some pics of our great trip.

Johnny 1st day of school

Johnny started Kindergarten this fall. He Loves everything about it. He was even excited on the 1st day of school. When he lined up to go in he was telling the other kids that they might feel shy today but that they would learn to like school soon. His teacher, Mrs. Carvalho, is great with him we've been to several of their fieldtrips and I have to say that she's so patient with all of the kids, I'm not sure how she does it. The 1st pics are of his 1st day but there are couple more that I just liked from hanging out this summer and fall.