Richardson party 🎉

 We had a party at Jon’s parents yesterday. We all dressed up.  We had dinner, games, dessert and loads of fun!! It was a fun night with everyone. I can’t remember the last time I had my hair in two braids… I looked like I was 10. 🤣 We had “kid rock” or 70s smoker😂, a farmer, a “hot ghost” (that had to borrow my intimates🤣), a soccer player, Mike Alstott, a zombie, a boxer and a flying squirrel… we are a weird bunch, but we love each other..💕 Also, I don’t love that I am one of the short ones in the pictures now…🤨

Halloween 🎃

We had our annual party at my moms. We had dinner, donuts, piñata, and costume contest. The littles wanted to be a football player and cheerleader. My little cheerleader loved that I was a cheerleader with her. I still had my old cheer sweater from high school…We had a fun night!! Jon came as soon as football practice was over. He was at meetings all day, so it was nice to see him before he left for work tonight…🥺

My older kids had friends and practices… so we partied without them. 🎉 

 

Sad night for my soccer girls!

Avery and Evannas number one fans!!

              My sweet girls after their loss…🥺😢😭

My Avery and my Evanna had a tough loss tonight in the playoffs. We ended the half with 2 goals (1 called back) and Showlow 0!! We played AMAZINGLY!! In the last 10 minutes of the second half, Showlow scored twice winning the game and bringing our season to an end for this year. 

Both girls will be back next year, but it was a tough loss. It was so cold 🥶. My toes are still frozen as I write this. Avery headed the ball several times during this game…it must have felt like an ice block hitting her head. Poor girl. She played amazing, they both played well all season! I am their number ☝️ fan!!! On to high school basketball! Bring the heat girls!! My little beasts!

Jonathan

 I have to brag on my husband. He is the head coach for our high school football team this year. It has been a challenge and also an honor for him. Coaching takes a lot of time away from our family, but I can honestly say I have loved him coaching this year!! I feel like I get to help and be apart of it and I enjoy watching Jon coach and get fired up. Especially when I get to see him coach J.T..

Jon is so loving and kind. He is the most honest person I have ever met. Anyone that knows him would say he is honest and a straight up good guy. He has always been a physical guy. He is strong and hardworking. He is tough as nails and yet can be so gentle and caring when he needs to be. He can be infuriating with his teasing (I secretly love it 🥰). He is funny, thoughtful, selfless, handsome as hell and he’s mine! He chose me - and I chose him. And we choose each other every day. I thank God everyday for a man that loves me like he does. 

I just needed to say how my heart feels… Or else it would have exploded.💗 I am proud to call him my husband. And I can’t imagine life without him. How would I sleep if I couldn’t lay on his chest and hear his heart beating? How could I smile if he wasn’t there to drive me crazy with his teasing and inappropriate things he says to embarrass me in front of people? How could I love if my heart was gone? My heart would truly be gone if he wasn’t here. He has my whole heart for my whole life and forever and then some! How could I not? He not only loves me at my best, but he loves me at my weakest and at my worst…he’s pretty much the best. Even if he hates taking pictures and sometimes looks mean at me when I sneak a picture in.😂

Hey babe, I like your soul!! (If you haven’t listened to soul by Lee Brice, do it. It’s a song that Jon plays for me.❤️. So it’s now added to our playlist of “our songs”)

Corn maze with the littles🌽

 Jonathan and I took our 2 littles to the corn maze and pumpkin patch and then out to get pizza. 🍕 🌽 

We had fun with just them. (The oldest 4 were too cool and had other things to do besides hang out with their parents and little sister and brother😜)

It’s been a tradition to go to Willis Farm every fall. This was the first year that we all didn’t go together..😢 I love and also hate my children growing up..

I didn’t take very many pictures and I am sad that I didn’t. But also, I was too busy enjoying time with my little loves.🧡💛🤎

I’m a bad sport…

 Hi, I am Rachel and I am too competitive. I don’t like to lose, I love a good game of competition and I may, or may not, say things that I may, or may not, regret,  if one of our teams loses…

I want to say that I am a mild-tempered woman. Buuuuut…I also am not a liar.😂

The whole “redheads are fiery and mean” saying….is, hmm…probably a little true.😂 but, I would change the saying to “redheads are fiery and passionate!” Because I am just a passionate person in all that I do. I love deeply and believe strongly in things that are important to me. God and my family are 2 of the most important things to me…Fun fact, redheads are different than normal people they tell me…you can look up facts about redheads online. (Hopefully it makes you like us more-not less!❤️)

Soooooo, when my family is involved in certain activities, I am passionate because of love! Ok, I have to remind myself I am not a liar. What I said is partially true, but I really, REALLY hate losing… We lost an important game last Friday. 

I love that Jonathan coaches our son in football. I am so proud of both of them. I just needed to admit that I have a problem and may have said some things I shouldn’t have, aaaaaannnnnnndddd, I am not sorry about it!🤣😂

One of these pictures of me is right after the game we lost. I’ll let you guess which one it is. 😂🤣🤬 

My handsome husband in the shorts.. I love the coach!! And my handsome son as a captain..#4 is my favorite!!

Proud Mama!

 I am so proud of my 3 children that I am homeschooling this year. They (including myself) have worked extremely hard! It has been…mostly good…😂 teaching them. 

They have rewards for being well behaved and working hard. They have earned their 25 hard working/no complaining reward of going to lunch and getting ice cream 🍦. I sure am proud of them and am proud of myself for not getting Grey hair while teaching all three.😂(Avery is also with us because we love her too💕)

This Mom job is pretty good if I don’t say so myself. I am very blessed and love each and everyone of my children.❤️❤️

It definitely was the perfect day to have lunch and walk home in the sunshine! Since being home, it has been rainy and a little dreary. The cold days were making me miss that Israeli and Egyptian sun ☀️.  So I was grateful to wake up with the happy sunshine and it felt wonderful on my skin!! I love to see the trees turn yellow. It is a beautiful time of year.

I was glad to see my flowers survived in my front yard while I was gone. They are barely hanging on as the nights are getting cold. The last of their life is showing… until next year. They are starting to die and it makes me a little sad. I will miss the beautiful colors throughout the winter. ❄️ But today, I will just enjoy the beauty of my family and my life.🌸☀️💕