...Evanna Lee...
(chillin' in the stroller while we swim)

Avery on the jet ski with Janell (nelly) and Jaylen (jukey)

J.T. on the tube with all the kids!!!

Roosevelt this year was a blast! We had everyone together finally! We swam, ate, slept, ate, swam, ate and slept! :) Here are some pictures to remember!

Roosevelt Family Picture
Funny Family Picture

All the Richardson grandkids!
(Jacy, Tatum, Rylee holding Evanna, Conner holding Jake, J.T. and Avery!)

"Original" kids
(Jonathan, Justin, Jaylen, Jody, Janell and Jennifer)

Janell, J.T. and Evanna
(They were watching tv and really fell asleep! It was so cute.)

Alright... I know I stink at blogging!! We have been super busy... We put sod in (ya I am pretty sure Jon killed the grass we planted on purpose) But we love the sod! It's been a week and a half and it's still alive: that's good right?
If anyone has put sod down and has any info on how to take good care of it... let me know please!!
We are headed to Roosevelt Lake for a week on Monday. Our kids are so excited! We shouldn't have told them until the day before because now they ask a million times a day "mommy are we going to the lake now?"........Oh to be a kid and have the magic......... We have been packing and i just know I am bound to forget something important. ( I usually do) Oh well as long as I have all three kids I feel like I am doing well. lol
Megan and Larry came to visit this last weekend and we had a lot of fun!! It sure is nice to have good friends. They came even though Jonathan was at football camp for most the time. AND... they brought us the cutest little bunny-- that is going to make me go nuts!! (smile) Our kids love it a little too much... Poor bunny...
Any way, thanks for staying with us! It was a blast!

Jonathan's birthday is tomorrow!! We don't have any fun plans because he has to work. BUMMER!! Hopefully the train doesn't come in... Well we can hope!
We decided to leave our kids with Jon's mom so we could go for a ride... It was fun until a car didn't see us and decided to pull out! Good thing the road was big enough!! Any way, we are alive and we had fun! Linda didn't though... I guess Evanna cried the whole time!! Sorry Linda!

Here are some pictures from roosevelt!!

Grandpa and J.T. (best buds)
Avery, Grandpa and J.T. (after fishing)

Jon paintballing

Evanna sunburned

Grandma helping Avery eat spaghetti

All of us who did the "hike"

Yeah so there is totally a couple blades of grass poking through!! Yeah not enough to keep it going though...Jon is determined to get sod, and hey, immediate grass...I can totally handle that.
I love irrigation! Jon is helping his parents and my kids love playing in the water and it keeps them busy for hours!

A little bit about us

Evanna will be six months on the fifteenth and she is sitting up and doing push ups! She is trying to crawl or scoot forward but just ends up going backwards which makes her so mad! She is also so in love with her daddy! She will just stare at him until he will look at her, then she will grin so wide with her huge dimples, and if she is sitting up she will fall over from excitement. She is our joy!
Avery will be three in July and is so smart. She definitely gets her temperament from her...dad... OK, not really. She also is so funny! Lately she is totally into dress-up. My mom saved some of our old dresses when we were kids and Avery has found them and wears them all day every day! She really is saving us money on buying her clothes! :) Although people probably think we are broke because she is wearing faded old dresses! Oh well she feels beautiful! And she is obsessed with dancing. She makes anyone she loves dance with her. Jon always says "i would love to dance with the princess," then he spins and twirls her in her old faded dress! There is nothing better! She makes us all smile.
J.T. will be four in july and is wise beyond his years. He is much more organized than anyone I know. He likes things clean and neat and in place. It takes us an hour to go anywhere because we are waiting on him to clean his room or make his bed.(Hey I can't complain) :) He is also the kindest child I know. He loves Evanna more than anyone and always wants to hold her hand. (I think they were best friends before they got here) He loves anything that has to do with learning. He is very smart. He also is such a boy...and Jonathan's favorite thing... He has an obsession with hats. He couldn't make his daddy any prouder. They stick together in our house full of girls!
I am so proud of my family. There is nothing better than this... I say that a lot and I mean it! I love being a wife to my husband and a mother to our children.

These are our great kids. This was one of our Christmas pictures. I will try to put new pictures of all the kids on soon.
Our sweet J.T., our sweet Avery and our sweet Evanna