Richins

Ah life. It's fun.  I haven't figured out a good way to blog consistently yet. The blogger app I had on my phone, I deleted because I kept having trouble with it. So I thought delete it and reload it and see if that works. ...no. It's gone like doesn't exist anymore I guess.  Whenever I sit down to the computer the kids think it's time to climb on my lap and be all over me. I can only handle that for a little bit and then it drives me bonkers and I leave the computer because it's pointless to be there. I listened to a podcast about being overwhelmed and it said to divide your task up in to 15 minutes and just focus on a task for that long and see how much you can accomplish in just that much time.  I am testing it out with blogging.  Here is an update on each of us.  Bethany- turned one in October. Walks all over the place, LOVES to climb on things and in  and just anything to be up. She babbles and has definite opinions. She's still nursing in th...

Since both Heather and Paige quickly made comments wondering about the "four things" and I have neglected to write about them previously. I thought I would explain them. Our four things is what we came up with for our family economy or system. We came up with it a year or more ago. I had been reading articles from Richard and Linda Eyre in the newspaper about their family economy and how they structured stuff to get their kids to help around the house and teach them responsibility and what not. We had also gone to this frugal living workshop. One of the classes we want to was about a system a couple created and was just starting to market called work stars or rock stars or something. We tried both of these systems out but were not consistent with them and they got complicated and just didn't work for us. So we came up with our own thing. We aren't perfect at it. It gives us a baseline and something to work towards. The four things are the four things/areas that we ...

I updated my phone and the blogger app doesn't like it much. Since that has been my primary way of posting I am experiencing some technical difficulties.  I have a couple more things to try before I am going to have to just just down in front of the computer and type posts like normal.  This would be a little easier want to go back too if I knew I wasn't going to end up with two or three children on my lap while I try to type. So that explains the lack of posts. We just passed our busy birthday season. In September and October each, we have two birthdays with in a week of each other. It's fun and I promise birthday posts are coming. Fall break just got over. We got a lot of work done in the yard! It was amazing. We still have a lot to r claim but it is coming. We are working on doing better at our four things each day. I think the littles and I struggle the most but we are working on it. We helped throw a baby shower for my sister on Saturday! We are so excited to have...

This picture below seems rather fitting of the past couple of weeks. We are trying to navigate our way through our fall line up. It seems a bit tricky.  Good things to remember through it all are helpful neighbors  that will listen to my reading kindergartener and try to help him to do/like homework.  Children being helpful...some more than others.  Fun pictures by Lucy. Writing your name on your arms just incase you forget it. (It is probably backwards but she has it down!) A lovely fall FHE picnic at the park. This little one navigated the patio tile steps with out injury or my suppervision. So happy that ended well and then she was off to explore more. Selfies to keep sassy demanding three year olds happy. A climbing everywhere baby which means she is healthy and well. If it is elevated from the floor she will try her darnedest to climb it.  Also Beth is walking. A couple days after turning 11months she got it. She had been able to do two or three steps for p...

Early Saturday morning I took Glen and Larry to the airport to catch their flight to Phoenix.  Glen went to an away game for BYU a few years ago and had thought it would be something his dad would like. They made it happen this year for the season opener against Arizona State.  They headed to Paige and John's to help pack the trucks after getting their rental car.  I think it would be cool to visit Glen's Nielson cousins at their houses since they have all been nice and visited us. It hasn't worked out so well thus far. At least Glen got to visit Paige and John at their house in Arizona even if I didn't.  Larry and Glen had a great time. They ate great food at Biscuits and Don Ponchos. The game was fun and BYU won!  Larry came home and started looking at the schedule for next year, he loved it so much.  Meanwhile back at the ranch, the kids and I were taking care of the Cranes and holding the fort down. My parents were out of town again, so bathing Roberta ...

I don't have too many pictures on my phone from the week. Partly because my phone memory is almost full so I have to be sneaky about how I take pictures.  There were good things that happened both pictured and not.  Some non pictured things that are good are-  There is finally another co- treasurer for PTA and we are finally on the bank account and getting trained a bit!  I got my visiting teaching done in August with a partner or at least her help. This hasn't happened in awhile but my goal is to keep it up.  Here are the pictured ones I got to go with some of the miamaids to Sister Maxey's house to do service for our YW activity. We helped clean her house and visited with her. She played the organ for us! Then gave us money and told us to get ice cream cones and bring her back one too. So we did.  We hired my brother to do some concrete for us. We are extending the south west pad by a few feet and then taking it down the length of the carport and garage a...

This past week was full of first for the school year. RHS had their first day with students Monday. I made Glen let me take a picture since I probably slept through his real first day back in July. Oops. He had a few memorable first day things happen, like the Internet going out five minutes before classes started. Luckily it came back with in 5 minutes. Also the bells were off all day. He figured that out after school though.  Just little things he is over that could have been different.  Lilly had a half day of 7th grade orientation Monday too. She headed off to that her friend Lina. I got to pick them up and was happy that Lilly liked all her teachers. Her friend got in the car and said she already hated two of her teachers. Lucky for her they are half year classes.  Tuesday was the first full day for the middle schoolers with all the students. I didn't get another picture of Lilly. It seems weird to me that she is done being at the same school as her siblings. Such is...

Regularly at our dinner table the conversations revolve around the regular what has happened in our day conversations, knock knock jokes and would you rather questions.   Recently Daryl has started asking "who would win" questions. They are as predictable as his almost six year old head can be.  The best ones so far have gone as follows- Daryl- What would win a watermelon or ...an eyeball?  Glen- Win at what? Daryl- A fight, of course?  Daryl- What would win the millennial falcon or a huge cucumber with eyes and invisible hands?  Daryl- Would you rather have Harry Potter's broom or his disability cloak?  Daryl- What would win a disability cloak or a running clock?  He paused for a minute or so and answered his own question saying, "I don't know but I think the running clock because it's so fast." He meant invisibility cloak  in both cases but Glen has ban us from teaching him the correct word because of the comedic value! 

When I pulled pictures for this week, last week I didn't think anything too significant had happened. Now that this week is a week farther in our past I know it was a nice calm before the storm aka school life hit. It was mostly my phone being used to take selfies The baby being kissed by sisters who tried out grandma's lipstick or colored chapstick.  Evening fun, I guess. I don't know who took this.  Daryl wanted to know how yeast worked so we finally made bread to show him. It was a bit of a test in patience.  Morning snuggles and laughs with my ten month old baby.  A trip to the middle school to get my 7th grader acquainted with her new stomping grounds. And to figure out her locker. Lucy was with us and was not entertained by the middle school so she was mostly a pesty little sister. I was a war, or at least it felt that way, with Beth over sleeping at night. I think I took the picture as proof that she did sleep and I like holding sleeping babies and I love her ...