A view from a child.

Addey got a camera for her birthday and has taken 180 pictures in the 4 hours I have let her play with it. That is not the pictures I deleted that she took while I was trying to get ready for church. (I was in the tub)

There is a LCD screen in her camera but we decided we would download them on the computer so she could see them. It was interesting to see from her view!!! Here are some of Addeys pictures she took with her camera!

The first picture she took was of Reece and then she said" hmm that is cute!"Dad getting ready for church

Oh I guess Reece has got one step closer to getting ready for church. Maybe we will have a lesson on what we can take pictures of.

Dad got to try out the camera and got a picture of the big birthday girl.

And a few pictures of the quests at her birthday dinner!!

I know why we have Birthday celebrations. It was great to have the family and a few friends over and it reminded me of how much I appreciate my family. I have loved every minute of the 3 years Addey has been in our family and she sure has brought a lot of fun and laughter into our home!!

Addeys BIG Birthday party!!!

Well the party is over !! We have been planning it for weeks... and waiting, and waiting, and waiting. It was a lot of fun to have Addey's friends and cousins come celebrate with us for her 3rd birthday!!

We read the "The princess and the pea" to find out how to tell a real princess !! Then we played a game to find out if the GIRLS were REAL princess's. You know only a real princess is sensitive enough to feel a pea through a pillow, They ALL got their crowns and the princess party began. Then we played KISS THE FROG Had a pinata, in the house Made princess wands,opened presents, and had ice cream and cake!!!
It was fun, but we only have to do birthday party's every year or so right? Well we will of coarse be having our family birthday party tomorrow, as if Addey has not been spoiled enough with the gifts she got today. You can never have enough birthday parties, especially with your family!!! oh, and I can not forget Addey's best friend Reece. What a cutie!!

How our story began...

I have to explain one of my answers to my tag question about my first thought when I saw Wacey. You have to understand I had seen Wacey many many times before we actually MEET.

My grandpa Fitzgerald had sheep and I would always see these boys coming to show how TUFF they were by "docking the sheep" (or pulling the sheep balls out with there teeth). I had grown up around that and thought that NO ONE was Tuffer than my grandpa, my uncle Ben or my dad. So that did not really do it for me, until this one particular boy caught my eye!!! I never new exactly who he was but I did remember him.

The next encounter with Wacey was when my best friend, Christy would not shut up about 'quarter boy". She went to get a drink from the drink machine and was a quarter short when "quarter boy" kindly gives her a quarter and she instantly fell in love. OR something because that is all I heard Quarter boy this, quarter boy that...Well one day as we are walking out of the bathroom I said "ok who is this quarter boy?" As I ran right into him!!! That was the boy, the boy that could be one of the Tuffest guys I knew (after my grandpa, uncle Ben, and my dad) . I could not believe it, but he was my best friends "quarter boy."

So I knew who this boy was now and had finally got a name but never had the chance to really talk to him. I mean really what was I suppose to say, " I like the technique you use on pulling those sheep's balls out, it really caught my eye. To bad my best friend likes you."

UNTIL the day... It was state basketball and we were dancing at one of the games. I saw Wacey and Kirk sitting there and that is all I could think, "He is nice why is he hanging out with Kirk Gines". Not that I do not like Kirk, But that is what I thought. (I actually thought that we might be related because he was hanging out with kirk). And that is actually where our story begins. We started a conversation about the dance we had just done and he said he wanted to come watch me again. I told him we would be dancing again the next day and he said he would defiantly be there. The next day he was not there, but I do not think he missed another one of my dances after that!!!!

He now has many labels, Tuff still being one of them, But one of my favorite is his softer side!! I love how is with our girls. And so you see we were meant to be together running into each other and finally Kirk Gines was the one who actually got us together after all that.

I have to add a cute story to my Little visual aid I did for Addey upcoming 3rd Birthday. Over the Labor day weekend we had a few birthdays in the Richards family. We all got together after all the festivities for dinner, cake and ice cream, and happy birthday wishes. We were singing Happy birthday, and Addey always being the center of attention, got up in the middle of the song and said " Evwybody stop- My birfday is coming- can you hear it??" SOO cute to hear her be so excited for her birthday and actually realize what is going on!! I am going to say it again, I can not believe she is getting so big. So here it is almost here... Can you hear it??

Tagged!!!

1-Jobs I've had- Drug store (server), Texaco (cashier), PMG marketing (yea I was one of those anoying soliciters calling to get surveys) MTC- Missionary Training Center (service cordinator), Dr. Greg Taylor's office (Receptionist), Aspen Womens Center (Medical Assistant), Wasatch Medical Clinic ( MA, x-ray tech, Bone density admin., MOTHER!!!


2-Places to go for a weekend getaway-JUST A WEEKEND, as you will soon find out in one of the following questions, I need to go on a REAL vacation. I do like to go to St. George for the weekend when it starts to get cold here. I am going to go visit Missy in Wyoming one of these weekends!!

3-Movies I could watch over and over- I am with you Billie Jo One of my favorites is Cutting Edge, Dirty Dancing!!, how to loose a guy in 10 days, Money pit.

4-Guilty pleasures- Scrapbooking and buying scrapbooking supplies, Shopping, taking a nice nap!!

5-Places I've lived- Here we go... Woodland, Orem, Woodland, Orem, Woodland.

6-1st thing I thought when I saw Wacey the first time- He is so nice, Why is he hanging out with Kirk Gines?


7-Places I've been on vacation- And this is why I need longer than a weekend...Vegas, California, Wyoming, and that is about it.

8-Favorite Foods- PASTA

9-If in a jam with Wacey, what I do to get out of it- Silent treatment...Making up is the fun part!!

10-Best first kiss landmarks- Wacey was DEFINATLY my first kiss, and we were at Brit's house! It was our first date and I was not going to let him get a way with Hugging my mom when he meet her and not giving me anything.


11-Places I'd rather be right now- Well I could think of many places and they are all warm!!

12-Who sent this to me- Billie Jo

I tag or re-tag Giselle (I know Kati tagged you) and Kristen (Now I will know if you look at my blog, I check yours everyday!)

Time fly's when you are having fun!!

I know everyone has been waiting for me to finally get my computer back so I can get some pictures up on my blog. Well I got my computer back and Wacey had put ALL my stuff from probably every computer I ever had on my new computer!! I thought I would never see some of my stuff again, but he had saved it all for me. It just took a while to get all together. So This is one of the pictures I found!! The day We brought Reece home from the hospital. I remember thinking Addey is still a baby and I am bringing a baby home". Addey would say "baby Reece " and I knew Addey would grow up pretty fast with a baby in the house. She did, she thought she was the mother and wanted to always hold "baby Reece". And now they are both growing up so fast. Reece is not really even my baby anymore. I still call her my baby Reece, but she wants to do everything her big sister is doing. I am kinda sad they are getting so big, but I have had so much fun with them!! Time fly's when you are having FUN!!!