Saturday, December 6, 2008


HOT DOGS!






Meet Amanda and Sam...or is it Sam and Amanda...or is it the Richards?............... Ahhh I'm not ABC's!





These two carnivores are madly in love and boy does it show?



They have been married now for 5 months. Everyone remember? August 1st right? Polka Dots? It was a smash. So what have these two love birds been up to?









Well, Sam is working on fulfilling his dream of playing for the Utah Jazz. Amanda has been very supportive of this. She even agreed to work overtime nannying her nieces and nephews. Some people have been saying that she floats down from the sky with her umbrella. She is an excellent wife as well. She cooks and cleans and slaves away to keep Sam alive.



They are both studying hard in school even as we speak. Luckily they have lots of ways to burn off some of some steam, like going to the Utah games. Yes Josh, the University of Utah...the team that beat BYU....bad. Thanks, Sam and Amanda for staying true to your Utah roots that your beloved parents instilled in you.








Sam however has been working hard to save our economy. He has been nominated for a position in President-elect Obama's economic revitalization committee. He has been asked to serve as Lead Teller at Wells Fargo Bank to help stabilize our economy. He has two jobs. He delivers packages of bacon to Kim who is lost up in the woods. (Amanda rides in the carriage though, she is scared of wolves). Second, He works day and night handing out stimulus packages to loyal customers who go through his drive-through. The only sad part is then they pull forward from the window sucking on that yummy sucker he has just given them and....oh no!!!!! ram the back of his car .


The last piece of news is that Sam and Amanda are...





excited for Christmas. They will be giving out signed autographed posters of Sam's accident.





Yes, don't you want to know what happened. Well, it is a great story. See, Sam loves Doritos. It is his life-blood, especially with Pace Salsa. Now, one day, he and amanda were at the grocery store. Sam wanted Doritos, Amanda wanted Skittles- her daily sustinence. The got into a little tiff, and well, as they were "hotly" debating which product to buy, all of a sudden, a cat jumped out from the shelf of chips and landed on Amanda's back. Sam new he had to do something. He had promised to love and protect her all the days of his life and so he sacrificed his addiction to save her and grabbed the cat. It freaked. Then Kim ran out from the shelf of chips. She had been hidding eating doritos in the shelf and tried to get the cat off Sam, but it was too late. Kim knew she should never have taken Tiger to the store with her. Tiger was still hungry and knowing that Tiger loves Doritos too, was upset at Amanda for wanting Skittles. So Tiger attacked. Sam's face has been healing, slowly. It will be back to normal some day. They finally decided to get both the Doritos and the Skittles.



Thank goodness they have each other. We are so grateful to have them. We love you both and I would now like to do a post on the 10 things I love most about each of them, but that would be too cheesey and annoying so I won't. Merry Christmas Richardseses.


Monday, December 1, 2008

Thanksgiving 2008

We are sooo Thankful for our family.
We can't wait to have Wendy, Will and Annie come.
Eric and Lindsay cooked a beautiful, delicious Thanksgiving Dinner for us.






























Great Cookie was the Queen






Tuesday, November 25, 2008

I've Had My Turkey Dinner

We have sooooo much to be thankful for.
Mom was thankful to be with family. We missed Eric, Lindsay, Abby, and Sarah, Wendy, Will and Annie.



Kim sang, "Come Thou Fount" with Anna on the piano, Dad on the Alto Recorder and Mom on the flute.
Amanda read a darling story about how nice it is just to be together. Sam dug around and found his Juice Harp.


Will presented two clever poems via web cam.

Grandpa lead the men in singing, "God Be With You 'Til We Meet Again"





Dave and Anna sang a beautiful, "Abide With Me"














The Forsyth presented a play about how being a selfish turkey can get you into a fix.








Turkey Preston

The Garage


It was tricky to get the garage to come down in our yard and not the Thornton's. Of course Dad found a way to use his winch to save the falling garage.
Dad rented a jack hammer and spent a Saturday breaking up the cement


Eric Olson (Bridgett Tidwell's husband) came to help take away the cement pad from the old garage. He brought some fun toys. Dad asked if he could play too! Eric stayed from 8 in the morning until 7 pm. They dug the ditch for the footings with this fun machine.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Happy Birthday Willard David Richards


Happy Birthday Will, You are 26 and onward! We are so happy you have this wonderful family, going to school where you want to go and studying harder than you ever have and still smiling. Steadfast determination. We love you and miss you so much. We hope you have a great year!
Love you,
Mom and Dad R

Happy Birthday Willard David Richards





Happy Birthday to Willard. He's 26 and onward. Will you are amazing. Steadfast determination. We are so happy you are where you want to be, studying where you want to study and have a wonderful family with you. We hope you have a great year.


Love you,


Mom and Dad

Sunday, November 2, 2008

This Was Our Halloween


We had just gotten back from Amanda's Parent's house and saw all of her little nieces costumes and decided to go home and when we got there, all we heard was "THRILLER!" and all other kinds of crazy music till about.....3 am. We're not complaining at all.....kind of. But it was a fun day.

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Spooky Halloween Night


Sam and Amanda and Grandma and Grandpa were supportive. It's important too!

Annie the cute Kangaroo


Wendy and Will






Tinkerbell



Sarah Lady Cute Bug




Eric and Girls
Lindsay and Girls












Darling girls






Tinkerbell Ella









The Peter Pan Gang










Crocodile Alligator Roar








Smee, Captain, Hook, and Peter Pan











School Girls




































Kit (from Napolean Dynamite) and Buela

Friday, October 31, 2008

Kimberly Jane Richards

Kim is one of my best friends! We have been spending a lot of time together lately. We talk boy talk (Paul is really fun, creative, and as she would say,"hot"), share clothes (Who is lucky enough to have hand-me-downs from their little sis?), and hang out together. She went to church with me and helped me with my kids this past weekend. It is interesting because Kim and I are the only kids who are around Mom and Dad's regularly. It has been really fun to get to know her better and to laugh and tease each other.

She had her knee scoped out again last week and it seems to have really helped. After a little bruising from the procedure she is feeling tons better. She has awesome range of motion and can straighten her knee to a 1 (that is really good). She gets to even start lifting weights to get back her muscular soccer legs.
Halloween Masquerade Dance is tonight and she and Paul (and their group) are dressing in prep school uniforms. I will post pics when we get some.

Kim, I (and my family) love you!
Amy

Eric and Lindsay, you get to do a post on Sam and Amanda for November!