Chloe and 2 Richardson boys

Rita and Tom stayed a couple of days with us and Bryan, Ivan and Chloe decided to watch movies and play Beatles Rock Band.

Big News

We moved into a home in North Orem in October. It is really nice, we are still renting, but the nice thing is Melissa's dad is our landlord.

Here is the kitchen where the pictures of Chloe cooking were taken and on an earlier post is the backyard where Melissa and Chloe are making snow angels.

Oh, Melissa and I are expecting our second child. Melissa is just finishing her first trimester.

Don't tell Chloe that its cold and snowing.

Two angelic snow angels.

How would it be to be this small and ride a snow shovel in the backyard.

Snow on the slide who cares?

Chloe doesn't care!

Cookies anyone?

Chloe loves to help her mom make cookies

We have done a few things since the last posting like Sledding,

and the Jordan World Circus,

and amongst all that fun we even had

 time for Chloe to get her first hair cut.

Thanksgiving Point

We enjoyed a wonderful night with my aunt and cousins.  We went up to Thanksgiving Point where we saw some reindeer and enjoyed some cider and cookies.  We then took a wagon ride and saw the lights they have set up there with Christmas music playing.  It was really fun and the kids loved it.  We miss Rita and Ivana living close by, and are always happy to see them and spend time together.  

Thanksgiving

Well, as you can imagine this was a little bit harder of a day for my family.  Not only was it Thanksgiving, but it was also my mom's birthday.  We decided to go to the cemetery and wish my mom a Happy Birthday.  We brought her some flowers and balloons.  Each of us wrote a little card that we tied to balloons and then we sent them up to her while singing Happy Birthday.  We miss her so much, but we know she is still here with us and that we will be able to be together again.  We then enjoyed a wonderful meal with family and friends.  I was so happy to have so much family around.  I truly feel so blessed to have such wonderful family and friends, and even more so to have such an amazing husband who is such a strong support to me.  I can not even begin to express how thankful I am to have Chloe here with us.  I am so grateful to my Heavenly Father for letting her stay here on earth with us.  She is just so happy all the time, and keeps me smiling and laughing each and every day.  

WE LOVE YOU MOM!!!!!

What was he thinking!!

So my handsome husband came home from work like this.  He walked in with a beanie on so I just saw the ugly cowboy style mustache, which I immediately told him to shave.  After having said that I asked what he did with his head.  Nephi said why do you think I did something to my head too.  I told him I know him to well.  So he took the beanie off to show off his new style.  Is it not the worst?  He kept it this way for a couple days too.  One of his teachers told him she couldn't concentrate on what she was teaching because she would look at him and just start laughing every time.  I do have to say Nephi keeps me laughing and I love his randomness!  I love you Babe!!

Projects

Here are a few projects I've done in the last little bit.

Sorry I thought I rotated this.  I made this blanket for Chloe to take to disneyland along with her costume I mentioned in an earlier post.  Nephi has nick named Chloe Tinker so that is the reason for the Tinkerbell stuff.

I stained this shelf and Nephi added the pole to hang the blanket.  The picture is a 4 generation picture for Chloe.  I have a similar picture when I was her age.  The blanket was made by my wonderful Tia Neith (Chloe's middle name).  She is so talented and I love her so much.

This is a toy chest we got for Chloe and I stained it.  I love it because when she is older I can put a pillow seat on top for seating as well as I can store shoes or something.

FYI

I have more posts if you click on older posts or on the left under November.  I'm playing catch up with my blog and I guess I did to many post for one page.

Trick or Treat

Chloe was such a cute Tinker Bell.  They didn't have any costumes small enough for her so I had to make one, but I think it came out really cute.  We had fun taking her trick or treating.  She of course loved the candy.

Halloween Time

We had a great night of carving pumpkins and making carmel apples.  I wasn't sure how Chloe would like doing this but she loved it and dove right in.

More Disney

We wanted to get a little Mickey Mouse doll for Chloe and she found the one she had to have.  She snuggled it like this the rest of the night.  I went to ask Nephi which one we should get and when I pulled this one from her to show him she started to cry and pushed the other one I had in my hand away and reached for this one again.  She was so cute with the doll and better yet she picked the cheaper one.  The cashier even scanned the doll while she was still holding it.


All the grandkids.

Disneyland

We are back!  We had a good time at Disneyland and Chloe did so great.  It was fun to go on all the rides and see everything.  I was 4 or 5 last time I went so this was like my 1st time all over again.

This was Chloe's first plane ride and she did perfect.  She had an ear infection so I was worried that she would have a hard time on the plane, but she loved it.  Especially the window.

This was one of my favorite rides.

This was during one of the rides.  I thought she was so cute sitting like this watching everything.

Oink Oink

Need I say more?  Chloe was eating when all of a sudden she started doing this.  It totally reminded us of the little boy on a Christmas Story, because she would just laugh and laugh every time she did this.  She keeps us laughing and that is one thing I love about her!

Little Helper

Chloe is so cute and fun.  I love watching her learn and do new things.  Chloe loves to help mommy with chores.

Dig, Dig, Dig

For mother's group we went to a museum to learn about things that have been left underground for years.  It was really fun and they were great with the kids.  After a story and seeing some artifacts the kids were able to do there own digging for treasures.  There were shells, arrowheads, pottery, and beads.  Chloe found a couple arrowheads and had a necklace made with them.  It was something so different and fun.

Frustrated

So I've had this annoying pain in my left arm/shoulder for the past 6 months and I finally went to the doctor.  As of right now they think I have Tendinitis and Muscle Spasms.  I had to take medication (which most people know I hate) and do physical therapy.  They wanted me to wear this sling as much as possible.  Well, lets just say that didn't happen to often.  It's amazing how hard it is to get things done when you can't use one of your arms.  I'm just frustrated because I'm still able to function and do everything as normal, I just have this annoying pain that is always in the background.  Hopefully it gets better.