Life with the Richardsons: Catch Up

Wow its May already? Where has the time gone?! I'm trying to think about whats happened since my last post hmmm...

My birthday was a couple of weeks ago on Sunday the 26th where I turned 34 years old. I know a lof of you are thinking, "34 years old?! Wow you look so good for your age!" Well thanks everyone, you're too kind. Anyways, we went out to dinner with the kids at TGI Fridays the night before. I had never been there before, the food was good, it was a lot of fun. Later we ate my birthday cake which was cheesecake, yum! Thats about all we did, nothing fancy, I got some birthday money that I spent on myself. We didn't take any pics of my birthday celebration but oh well, there wasn't much to take pics of anyways.

Jake got his hours cut at work to part time so for the past couple of weeks he's been looking for another job or another part time job. It was kinda scary at first, worring about money, making sure we have enough food etc. and if we can continue to live in our house. But I know Heavenly Father is watching over us and is mindful of our needs. Just the other day Jake told me that a couple of people quit. So they've been able to let Jake work 40 hours again. Its not official but its something until Jake can find a better more stable job. I just hope and pray everything works out for us because my biggest concern is being able to stay here in this house because we love it here SO MUCH that we don't want to move anywhere else. The girls have great friends and we love the people in our ward and our neighbors. I know whatever happens, we will just have to have faith that things will be ok.

On April 30th I went with Kayla on a field trip with her 3rd grade class to the AZ Mining and Mineral Museum. She had fun learning about all the different kinds of rocks and minerals. They taught the kids about the rocks and minerals that are used to make different kinds of products like Lava soap, pencils, soda cans and I bet you didn't know this but your toothpaste and possibly your makeup has rocks in it. Well at least the good expensive kind of makeup otherwise your makeup might have fish parts in it. I have the cheap makeup so I'm putting fish guts on my face! Ewwww! I forgot my camera so I found some pictures off the internet.

This is a really cool looking rock. There were a lot of these around the museum.

This is in front of the museum. These are the tires that go on the mining trucks! Yikes!

I took Samantha's preschool group on a little field trip to the Riparian Preserve last week. Its a habitat for birds, fish and other animals. There's lots of trails to hike and ponds where you can feed the ducks. Theres a little play area and a place to dig up dinosaur bones. My kids love it there and the preschool girls had so much fun.