Josephs 9th Birthday

 For Josephs birthday my family came up to his baseball game and then back to the house for pizza, playing, presents, and cake.

 Joseph designed and made his cake this year too.  He wanted it to be a chocolate overload that looked like an overflowing rootbeer barrel. :)  It was cute/cool.

Since Joseph's birthday is Cinco de Mayo, it often gets some "spanish flare".  This year the ward had a Cinco de Mayo dinner and we got to make the piniata.  This is what it looked like all done.

Calebs 5th birthday

Caleb designed and decorated his own cake this year.  He was so proud :)  He also got so many cool toys that Joseph was "jealous".

Easter 2012

 Erica Dawn and Matthew came over to help us die eggs this year!

 Neighborhood easter egg hunt!

The Richins Easter egg hunt

toothless Hannah...

Hannah was so excited to loose teeth and to get money from the tooth fairy, that she wiggled out 6 teeth in about 3 weeks time!  She is having a really hard time eating... :)

Grandma and Jacobs birthday party

This year Jacob was so cute!  He totally understood that this day was for him, and kept singing "happy day to me" all day.  We also went to Chuckecheese for this day.  He used every one of his tokens to ride the horse (his favorite thing right now) It was so exciting that he crashed on the way home... but he was up and at it again for cake and presents!  He was so excited to have new toys!

Jacob LOVES playdough!!!

Jacob Loves to play with playdough!  He sat there for almost two hours getting new colors, shaping them, stacking the containers, and cutting shapes.  He is so fun to watch.

Last free zoo day

The kids and I love going to the free zoo days in the winter.  It doesn't matter how many times we have been, they always want to pose with the bronze animals.  Caleb of course refused to pose with the tiger so he got his own picture. :)

Josephs Magic trick for scouts....

He did the incredible growing wand, and it was so fun to watch.  He put so much time into making his wand just right, practicing, and did a great job doing it at pack meeting!

valentines day party

 Summer and Zoe eating their cookies

 Joseph and Dallin after making their boxes

 Caleb LOVES sugar....

 Sarah and Hannah decorating

 Jacob eating his cookie.... :)

My beautiful flowers from Valentines day!

We got together with the Smyths and the Tippetts for a Valentines party.  The kids decorated boxes, passed out Valentines, and decorated cookies.  They had lots of fun!