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Evangeline 3 1/2 months old!

2009-09-11T17:08:00.000-07:00

My favorite niece Evangeline.

North Carolina trip...

2009-08-05T12:07:00.001-07:00

This was Evangeline's 1st trip to NC... we went two weeks ago with david to visit our great grandma Hammie... then we went again aug 3-4.

Here are some pics!

This was her 1st time meeting (great) uncle Jim.

1st time meeting auntie Natalie.

Me and Natalie

Hammie... is HILARIOUS!

Hammie and Geanie

Our car was PACKED out!!! we were so crammed!

This lil girl was such a great traveler!! she wanted to hold my hand as she slept! so cute!

Funny Face.

2009-08-01T21:58:00.001-07:00

Evangeline. She's adorable. She's continues to make us laugh more and more everyday!

i think we'll keep her!

4th of July

2009-07-06T14:47:00.001-07:00

This was Evangeline's first 4th of july!
we took her to see the fireworks!! and she slept right through them... what a great baby!

NO doubt!!

2009-06-24T18:58:00.001-07:00

hey all you bloggy bloggers out in that crazy bloggin world!!! how ya'll been??
so i have a question....... whose been missin my excessive amounts of CONCERT photos??? haha i'm sure you have!
well my bloggin friends, today MUST be your VERY lucky day! i got some rad photos... well the photos aren't that rockin but the people in them are the most rockin out there. must i say much more?!? well... if you're a slow one, the most rockin people out there is.... (drum role please?) NO DOUBT!! and a close 2nd would be PARAMORE!! and yes i have excessive amounts of pictures of both!
ok so June 10th Bek and I went to see the concert of our lives! for real. i'm not lying. it was BY FAR the best concert i've been to. never a dull moment!
here are some pics!! they let me use my D60 for paramore but when NO DOUBT came out they would only let me use my point and shoot. WAH WAH.

So that was paramore... they were really great!! the crowd was really working with them, and they were playing off of the crowd so that was super cool.

Here are a couple of videos.... sorry i didn't turn the camera off when we started jumping!! haha but they're still pretty fun to watch!!
ok so maybe or maybe not you can see this lady is a cowboy hat and dancing CRAZY... let me tell you she's probably 65 and he 80 year old mother was there and going up and down the ramp in a wheelchair with a broken foot and two beers in her hands... HILARIOUS!!!

A sad weekend.

2009-06-17T18:13:00.000-07:00

This past weekend was one of the saddest weekends for me yet... We had to put on family dog down. His name was Abe and he was 13 1/2 years old... our family has had many lab before but none like him. He was by far the best dog we've had! He was the sweetest dog, so loyal to his best friend Jacob, and ALWAYS wanting a treat! We didn't have a lot of warning... he got sick about two weeks ago, he was having a hard time walking and we could tell he was in a lot of pain. So my brother Jacob took him to the vet and he said that it wasn't anything serious that it was just arthritis in his back hips. so he put him on some meds and by the next day Abe was acting much better! about a week later (last wed) the meds were out... and we could tell a huge difference in abe... he wasn't eating well and he wasn't walking well. Jacob took him back to the vet, he gave him a shot to help with the pain, and took some X-rays... to see what the problem was. At that point the doc said it could be one of two things... a) bone cancer, if it's that there is not much we could do and he would have to be put down shortly. or B) infection from the arthritis, if that it's very treatable and he was very healthy and would most likely live another five years... while we were wanting for the test results Abe was only getting worse and it was the most awful thing watching him in so much pain! We got the results back and it wasn't cancer... that was very great news we though we would have five years left with him... but that night (thurs night) he wasn't doing well at all... so friday morning Jacob and my dad took him to the emergency vet to hook him up to an IV to pump the infection out. well... i'm not sure what went down there, but it wasn't good. They called us at 6:30 sat morning telling us we would need to put him down. It was so hard telling him bye. I think my whole family has had several good cries since that morning... It is the weirdest thing coming into our house and not hearing his deep bark and him running up to greet us.. we will miss him terribly.

so this blog was for Abe. Just to let you faithful bloggers know what an amazing dog he was.

on of my best memories of Abe is when i was about 10 or 11... i had the cutest lil hamster named snowball. And one day snowball got out of his cage, i was devastated searching everywhere for poor lil snowball... i had probably been looking for over half the day untill finally Abe comes up to me with snowball in his mouth!! he dropped snowball RIGHT AT MY FEET!! he had realized that i was looking for him... he found him and brought him to me ALIVE!!! what a great dog!!

Miss cutie!

2009-06-16T14:03:00.000-07:00

She makes the most hilarious faces!!

i can't believe she'll be 4 weeks tomorrow! She's been such a joy in our lives!
I'm completely in love!! (shocker huh??)

~Evangeline~

2009-05-28T08:23:00.000-07:00

I haven't made a post yet on my blog!! so here she is the most beautiful baby ever!

Baby Showering!

2009-05-04T15:14:00.000-07:00

Here are a bunch of random shots of the "family" baby shower!! it was a blast!
a ton of people showed up (i think 50) it was so crowded and HOT! (note in all the pictures everyone is so sweaty!!) gross.
there are some pictures of the baby's nursery... i'm sure my sis will post some more on her blog once it's completely done!!
baby girl Rockey has about 2 1/2 weeks left!! can you tell i'm excited?!?!

enjoy!

My aunt Rhonda... this is the face she makes while talking... no posed. promise.

da mama and da darlin'

this is my gift to jessica... it's a drawing for the nursery my friend Sherri did! she's amazing.

day 4... disney world!

2009-04-23T09:36:00.000-07:00

Monday: April 20,2009

On monday Chels and i decided to go to Animal Kingdom! It was SO much fun!!
Here is a tree in the middle of the park that had some pretty sweet hand carved animals on it...
here are some pics.

Chels and I were trying to talk bird to get him to look... it worked!!

Then we went to Asia!

ok so in Asia there was this sweet ride inside this mountain! it was like run away from the Yetti. it was SWEET!!
here are some pics.

Here are some sweet Asian photos:

Here are some crazy animals

Some Moneys, a Comodo (sp) dragon, and a rino and horse mixed... i forget the name though.

TIGERS are my favorite! therefore all the pics ;)

more animals ;)

Bamboo for Garrett!

Cute Monkey!

LOVE this pic!!

then we had lunch in Africa!!

this guys were AMAZING!! they played, they sang, and danced! it was so much fun to watch!!!

Then we went on a Safari!! this was by far the coolest thing!
it was like a 15-20 min ride! They made this huge area look like africa and had african animals just running around... not in cages! we were on a big jeep thing and drove right past them!! they were SO close!
here are some pics!

some crocs

Giraffes!!
you always need a good butt shot! haha

I don't know what this is....

I LOVE THIS PICTURE!!!

obviously this was posed!

Elephants!!!!!

coolest tree every... the guy said it was 250 million years old. haha

Cheetah!!

Rhino crossing our path!

Nemo!

Outter!

Guess who??

THE END!
thanks for reading!

Day 3 in the sunshine state!

2009-04-21T21:16:00.000-07:00

Sunday... April 19th, 2009

Sunday was another beach day! this time we went a little more south to the "shark beach" it was a gorgeous beach!! but actually when we were there a surfer got a few toes bitten off by a shark! while we were there! ahhh

here are some pictures!!

Once we got home from the beach... my grandpa made us such a great dinner! he cooked ribs on the grill... after we ate dinner we thought it would be fun to go fishing (he lives on a lake) then he took us out on his boat!
here are some shots... oh and let me mention, chelsea and i had a fishing competition, basically who can catch the most fish. which was funny being we won't touch them! so every time we caught one i would start screaming "GRANDPA GET OUT HERE!!!"
all of his neighbors were crackin up at us! oh ps chels won the fishing competition... the final score was 5-3
here are some pics.

FLO RIDA....day 2

2009-04-21T21:09:00.000-07:00

Saturday... April 18th, 2009

Saturday was BEACH DAY we decided to go to Daytona Beach (SP)!! my Grandpa made me drive to the beach with him and his wife Terry in the backseat...(he was testing my driving skills) My Grandpa lives about an hour and a half from the beach... so it was a pretty long drive.
we arrived at the beach around lunch time... at their beach you can drive on it, so we took my grandpa's car right onto the beach and just chilled, it was a lot of fun!!
here are some pictures of the cute lil stores around the beach!

Saturday: April 18, 2009

Flo Rida... day 1

2009-04-21T20:57:00.000-07:00

Friday: April 17, 2009

Chelsea and i Woke up bright and early so we could arrive at the airport for FLORIDA!!
This was Chels' 2nd time flying.... she was quite the trooper, but she did keep the air sick bag in hang, just in case ;)
(notice: chelsea and i are totally wearing the exact same sweater just in different colors!! not planned)

doesn't she look worried?!?!

here are some sweet air shots chels took

chels was very concerned that the wings were shaking!

Chelsea was VERY excited to have landed! haha

more post to come!

My Fabulous Prego Sister!!

2009-03-23T17:29:00.000-07:00

she's gonna shoot me for posting this one... but it just makes me laugh SO hard!!
ps... she looks way bigger in this pic then she really is... i promise! ;)

here are a few pictures of my very pregnant sis! :) just kidding sis!!
well the count down is ON!! two months this wednesday!!!! i can't wait!!

will get some better ones up later... it was WAY to cold outside!!

Guys basketball pictures!! massive amount of pictures

2009-02-26T11:12:00.000-08:00

first off... sorry these are so out of order... im not sure how to get them in order...
but here's a hand full of the good ones... hope you guys like them! These guys played such good games! it was hard to capture it! but i hope you all enjoy these!

Senior Bench...

All i have to say for this one is... BAHAHAHAH

This picture... Oh my!! it cracked me up so much! it is one of my favorites!!

catch up post!

2009-01-25T21:25:00.001-08:00

ok so it's late and i can't sleep... so what better to do then to blog! hahaha
i have this random collection of photos so i thought i would share some of the most recent ones!
i hope and pray everyone out there in the blogging world is doing well!
Thanks for coming to my blog and checkin things out!

Photo Booth... RANDOM photos of my family
ps you gotta love Reed! haha

Friends!!

This is what Chels will do to me when she sees this blog!

ok so a few weeks ago the sky looked CRAZY!!
here are some photos

Ayden James!!!

Downtown with Nat-O-Lay

2009-01-13T10:35:00.000-08:00

My awesome cousin Natalie came to see me in Wilmington last weekend! We thought it would be fun to go downtown and see some of the sets where they film the show one tree hill... so we went out on a hunt looking so the "right bridge" or a house... which was tricky because all the roads around here are one way!
then we took a tour of the "screen gems studio" it was so much fun!
here are some of our pictures from our wonderfoe day!

More of Ayden aka scuba!

2009-01-08T19:03:00.001-08:00

Hey everyone!
This is Ayden! My lil scuba ;)
he's so adorable and very very sweet! He loves for you to sing to him and he will even try to sing along! it's so cute.
today i was watching tv with him in the livingroom and he started chewing on a wire... i said no no Ayden and he looked right at me and said no no! i was so proud! first words!! "no no" haha
anyways... i'm having a great time in Wilmington! it's so pretty here! I'm hoping to make it downtown and to the beach before i leave!
i hope all of you virginians are doing well!

day one with Ayden

2009-01-04T12:04:00.000-08:00

We (me and my grandma) got here about 3:30 yesterday... it only took us about 4 hours to get here!

so My aunt and uncle are off to the hospital so my aunt is having surgery in the morning...

so right now it's just me and this adorable baby!!

so if you guys remember it would be awesome if you could pray for my aunt to do well in surgery tomorrow.

!ereh eb ot derob eb tsum uoy

2009-01-01T09:03:00.001-08:00

Here are just a bunch of random pictures... a mix of basketball games to the rockin' new year's eve party at the hewitt's home.

This cracked me up

2008-12-10T13:06:00.001-08:00

hey everyone just wanted to share this with you!
it's so cute

Cut OFF!!

2008-12-04T17:53:00.001-08:00

BEFORE

AFTER

Yes my hair is gone!
It's a bitter sweet day

here you go cagle girls... now it's YOUR turn laura!!!

The Rickards' Thanksgiving!

2008-11-28T11:07:00.000-08:00

Well... let me start at last week....
My aunt and cousin came in town to visit! We spent alot of time with Hammie this trip...
here are some pictures!

Me and the best cousin ever!!!!

Our Thanksgiving!!

It was Bek's turn to dress the turkey... we should have known!

We had a blast playing wii after all the food!!!
Reed and David are the champs at tennis!!!

Then we crashed!

My fabulous Sister!!

2008-11-26T15:58:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone check out my sister's blog!!! she has a video of her last performance... it's pretty much hilarious!

http://www.h0llabek.blogspot.com/

Adorable Kids

2008-11-25T07:59:00.000-08:00

The other day i babysat for the Perrons who have adorable kids! We had a lot of fun taking pictures on my laptop! here are some of them... enjoy!

(this one scared Reid... he said "lets not do that scary one again, ok?")

I've been tagged!

2008-11-24T06:32:00.000-08:00

i've never been tagged before. Thanks Mindy!

This is a Picture Tag and here's what the rules are:
Go to your Pictures file
Go to the 5th folder
Open the 5th picture and post it
Tag 5 people when you're done.

i was nervous that is was going to be a horrible picture of me but luckily it's a horrible picture of Bek!

I'm really not sure why she was dressed up like this.... ummm maybe bek will explain herself!

i tag... Chels/Jap, J'nelle, Robyn, Jessica, and stephanie

Beka!

2008-11-18T08:37:00.000-08:00

Prayer Request

2008-11-06T18:39:00.000-08:00

Hello to all you bloggers out there. I hope you guys are having a fabulous week!
I have a favor to ask of you. When ya'll think of it please keep my great-grandma Hammie in your prayers. She has been in the hospital for most of this week... i think (tues-fri.) and just really not doing well. She is forgetting a lot of things, she is very weak and also dehydrated. She fell (i think Monday) and is covered in bruises and in a lot of pain. Hopefully she'll be able to come home tomorrow (Friday) and recover! Thanks you guys for praying, it means a lot to me and also my family.

classic "what the heck is she doing" face... probably talking about bek

Her best friend maggie!

Relient K Concert ;)

2008-10-25T18:30:00.000-07:00

A group of people went to the Relient k concert thursday night. Their were three opening bands... House of Heros, This Providence, and Ludo... I had a great time! The Band Ludo was CRAZY!! At one point they were trying to get the crowd to raise their hands and clap... but our group (front center) wasn't into their music so we didn't do it... Then the main singer proceeded to tell our group that if we didn't raise our hands he was going to find us in the parking lot and kill us!! wow! then he was like ok i won't kill you but i'll be your myspace friend if you raise your hands!! and we never did! haha hilarious!

ok so you got to check out this band Ludo! They were so creepy!!

"If i had my license i'd by a cake"

2008-10-22T16:58:00.000-07:00

Well... here are the pictures from our wonderful trip with Nat O Lay... Chelsea and J'nelle came by to hang out for a bit! I had a great time! We carved a pumpkin and named him Jack. Check em out ;)

Nat- Thanks so much for coming!! I love you and can't wait for another trip!

Robyn and Mr Cutie!! (aka Justus)

2008-10-21T19:48:00.001-07:00

here are just a few pictures from this weekend... My friend Robyn and her adorable baby boy Justus came to visit!! we had a blast! i got a taste of what it was like to care for a 7 month old 24/7 lets just say i was SO tired! haha
but def. the best weekend ever! also my cousin Nat came to visit! i'll get some pictures up soon from that trip but for the time being here are some of mr cutie!!

Saying goodbye is never fun...

Robyn wanted to make it clear that she is not naked in this picture! she is just wrapped up in the blanket because she's cold... haha this picture crasks me up!!

Robyn thank you so much for coming! and also giving in to my begging to bring Justus! Your the best and hopefully i'll see you again Soon!!!
love you girl

Happy 92nd Birthday Hammie!

2008-09-23T21:37:00.001-07:00

Today was my Great Grandma's 92nd birthday! we had a fun time just talking and eating some of her favorite foods!
I love Hammie, and i love talking to her and listening on her views on life. Today she was just telling me how easy my life is compared to her life at my age. Her mom died when she was 12 i believe and her father re-married and had 2 other kids and she was just telling me all of these different stories of how hard she had to work outside all day. and how she never liked her sister's boyfriends so she would chase them off with lizards, she laid nails in the driveway so it would pop his tires and all kinds of crazy things!
anyways here are some pictures... It creeped her out that i had a computer on my lap and that it could take pictures! haha she kept saying, hey how did that get on there? and Look! it's me and you! or what's wrong with my eyes in that picture? haha it was hillarious!!

ps aunt Kim and Natalie... Ya'll should have been here!! i miss you guys like crazy! GET HERE SOON!

blah blah blah

2008-09-08T13:02:00.001-07:00

I went to a conccert, friday august 29, with my dad and a couple of friends. I had a really great time and i was pleased with how the pictures came out so i thought i would share them! OH and i gotta say that some credit to the photos go to my friend Lauren... we took turn taking the pictures!

Seesters {a photo blog}

2008-08-28T08:17:00.001-07:00

I love my sisters, but sometimes it's hard for me to believe we're related! haha we are so different! no only by looks, but by personalities, and even hobbies. Even the stores we like to shop in are different! anyways, even though we are so different when we get together we usually seem to do something fun :) I have so many great memories with them and my brothers. We made some memories about two weeks ago when my parents, Jessica, David, Bek, and me went to Gloster VA for a day at our friend's farm! It's a beautiful place! so we brought our cameras and had a photo shoot. here are some of the highlights!

hope you enjoyed the large amount of photos...
ps i'm not going to post another blog untill i have a least 10 comments! SO... go comment! haha

Campmeeting 2008

2008-08-02T17:22:00.000-07:00

Just about every year I go to Perry, GA for my grandparent's church retreat. It's when all of their churches gather together for an entire week to have church four times aday. It's insane! Prayer meeting at 7, morning church at 10:30, young folks at 3:00, and evening church at 7:30! and after church myself and a bunch of my cousins and friends would get dinner then hang untill 3,4 sometimes 5am and have to be at church at 7am! I hardly made it to that service! heehee!
All this to say is that it was a blast while it lasted! I'm sad it's over and have to return to life, but it just makes it more special when i get to go back!

i was excited to see this cutie again! My cousin Adyen... hasn't he gotten big?

Mommom and Poppop with their greatgrandson

Myself and Ayden

My first cousin Anthony and Myself

Riding around on golfcarts... look how tired we all look! these are some pretty amazing people... Allie and Anna...

Terrible picture but we thought it captured all of us great! haha
My good friends Brad and Katy

a group of us watching kick-ball... 4 am in front of the church

priceless

wal-mart was having a sale on ducktape... so we went kinda crazy with ducktape... umm like this picture, ducktaping airmattresses to doors, tapeing golfcarts to poles... it was great

we love each other

FRIENDS!!

Coolest bithday gift!

2008-07-09T12:28:00.001-07:00

Well my birthday was a few weeks ago... June 23 to be exact. And on my birthday i was opening present and i got some great stuff... like a fish in a tea cup (his name is earl grey, and yes his is still alive) and some rain boots, some earrings, and a trip to the movies with my sis Jessica. all in all it was a great day. one person didn't give me a gift.... REBEKAH! haha she told me she was broke and couldn't get me anything. So i was like whatever and went on. A few days later Rebekah comes in with a big fed ex envelope... she handed it to me and said happy birthday! i looked to see who the envelope was from and it said Tyler Texas... I have a friend who lives there... Her name is Sherri and she is extremely talented in many areas but one in particular is drawing... So Bek emailed her a few days before my birthday and asked her if she wanted to draw me something... Sherri was excited and want to do it! so everyone this is it!!! I absolutely LOVE it and wanted to share it with all of you! Just check out the detail... it's amazing!
So thank you Sherri for doing an amazing job and Thank you bek for knowing exactly what i wanted! heehee!!

if you want to see any more of her work check out her Flicker site... just click on flicker!

Auntie Rea!

2008-07-08T15:32:00.001-07:00

I'm not sure what Beka is thinking when she says she'll be the greatest aunt ever... ummm she may think that if she wants but she is clearly mistaken! I'M going to be the greatest auntie ever! haha but i'm sure you all already knew that :)

just kidding Bek you're going to be awesome and way fun!! (just not as much as me!!)

More Picutes from Texas

2008-06-27T08:31:00.000-07:00

Here are some more pictures i've found from my trip. These are from Texas... Robyn has a pool right down the street from her house so we were able to go there a few times! Here are some pictures from that! and one day we went to the park and i have a few shots from that!

Callie and Jessica

Jessica

Joshua and Justus...aka Mr. adorable!

Jessica... I know i have a ton of pictures of her but it's only because the other kids were busy running everywhere playing!

Adin

Joshua

Isaac

Silas

Jessica

Brothers

Joshua

So cute

Cutest baby EVER!!

Our Trip to The Museum!

2008-06-20T11:15:00.001-07:00

On our last day of our trip in Texas we went to the Museum of Nature and Science... We had a great time and i believe that all the kids loved it! Here are some pictures of our time there...

Silas and Adin

Adin

Silas

Silas and Isaac

Isaac

Chloe in the sand pit... looking for fosils

Jessica

They had this awesome bubble room... the kids highly enjoyed it!

Miss Callie!

Joshua! He's a cool kid ;)

Chloe looking at a huge spider!

Jessica and Callie... they either got along really well or they were fighting! They were never at a happy medium!

Adin by the life size farm house! Isn't he adorable?

Chloe being cute :)

Texas Trip

2008-06-19T11:24:00.000-07:00

hey ya'll!
The Callaways and i drove out to Celina Texas to see our good friend Robyn! We had a blast and it was so much fun to get to know her better!
We mainly just hung out by the pool and on our last day we went to a museum in Dallas. here are a few pictures from our trip i have a ton and will try to upload more when i can! Hope you guys are doing well! And thank you Robyn and the Stewart for having us into you beautiful home i had a great time :)

Driving to Celina was not very interesting the coolest thing we saw was this... and that's about all we saw besides a few cows here and there!

Cutie Jessica riding in the car!

Chloe! In the car on our way to Texas!

we stopped at a park for lunch here are some pictures of the kids...

Chloe

Isaac

Silas

more to come...

Adios Virginia!

2008-06-02T19:59:00.001-07:00

Tomorrow morning i'm leaving for Denver for two weeks! In those two weeks the callaways and I are going to be driving down to Dallas! I'm so excited but also nervous at the same time... I've never been gone from my WHOLE family for this long and i've never have flown by myself! So if you think about it i could use a prayer or two! Thanks and i hope everyone in the blogging world is doing AMAZING!
Love ya'll!
Reaghan

Another one of those concerts!

2008-05-25T08:40:00.001-07:00

Jessica and i went to a concert last night! It was three bands first was this one guy who calls himself "five times August" he played by himself and he was really good! The second was a band from Alabama called "sweet wild orange" or sweaty oranges as Jessica would call them! They were really good, they were different but good! Then it was Augustana!! Jessica and I love them we go to their show together whenever they come here, it's like our tradition or something! Well the show was at the Norva and one thing about the norva there are no seats in less you are in VIP... So Jessica has a hard time going there just cause she can't stand for five hours straight! So she talked to one of the Norva guys and got us into the handicap section which is directly over the stage! It was amazing and we were the only ones up there!

"five times august"

"sweaty oranges"

"Augustana"

You know the say "a picture is worth 1,000 words?" well it's true! Jessica had a bengay patch on her neck and she asked the guy from Five Times August to sign it! haha

This is a pretty terrible picture (as you can see) but i thought it was cool! This is Dan from Augustana

Just a side note... Look at the bench beside him... Yes it's a water bottle and a mug with hot tea! All these guys were so sick and sipping on their tea! The main guy Dan would stop in the middle of one of his song and start coughing so bad! It was pretty sad cause he was embarrass you could tell, but the crowd was really nice about it!

Junior Senior luncheon

2008-05-20T09:27:00.001-07:00

Last Week we had the Junior Senior Banquet/luncheon whatever you want to call it... It was held at this nice place at Regent... I don't remember the name, but It was really good food and we had a lot of fun! Here are some pictures. Enjoy!

I was totally falling but i still like the picture!

This is probably my favorite! check out Aaron's face! I don't know what he's doing!

Afterwards Cassidy and I had some fun with my camera on the way home!

For You Mom...

2008-05-11T14:18:00.000-07:00

Mom,
Look what you've created...It's pretty ridiculous that you had the guts to have all of us! But you have handled us like a champ!
Thank you for having all of us. I'm happy to have such an amazing Mom
that has loved and encouraged me.
I hope I can be as good a Mom as you someday!
I love you very much!

Love,
Reaghan

Miracle 1

Miracle 2

Miracle 3

Miracle 4

Miracle 5

The Anthony's visit...

2008-05-04T17:40:00.000-07:00

Yesterday i watched the Anthonys and had a blast! the boys played outside for a while than came inside for wii! Quinn made us all laugh with her dance moves and pretty much just her cuteness!
enjoy the pictures!!

Quinn Gabrielle... what a cutie!

This is John Colman... He's awesome!

This is Will and he LOVED playing wii and he was WAY better than me at it!

Quinn thought it was hillarious to eat Will's pizza!

Ayden James... My newest cousin

2008-04-27T16:37:00.000-07:00

Last weekend i was able to meet my newest cousin Ayden and spend the night with him! He is absolutely adorable! I was very excited i was able to spend some time with him and of corse his mom... My cousin Lindsey and My aunt and uncle! We had a blast!

Raleigh Trip!

2008-04-21T07:53:00.000-07:00

Hello people! I want to share with you all what my sis bek and i did yesterday (sunday)... We decided to go to Raleigh to visit our cousin Natalie and also go to an eisley concert! We were both pumped and so ready to take a break from out crazy lifes! Well i don't know if some of you guys know or not, but i've become pretty close friends with Chauntelle and Sherri (from eisley) we have each others numbers and text and often email, So this is the main reason we went, to see them! They put us on the guess list so we didn't have to pay (which was supper sweet) and then hung out on their bus for awhile before the show. (their are pictures below, i didn't take the bus ones, boyd did... but yea you'll get the picture!) Anyways we spent the night at NC State with Natalie and left Early this morning) Have a great week everyone!

Washington DC field trip....

2008-04-12T09:42:00.001-07:00

Our school went to Washington DC for the whole day yesterday. We had a blast! We had to arrive at the school at 5:30 so we could leave by 6:00 am. Our school rented two charter buses one for the younger grades and one for the upper grades. We had so much fun on the bus we played with my camera and took some pretty funny pictures. Heres one of Laura Cagle and I

First thing we did was go to the National Archives! It was really fun i got to see The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Articles of confederation and The Bill of Rights Oh and we saw the Magna Carta (which is in Latin)
Here are some pictures

The Declaration of Independence!

We had to quickly rush outta the National Archives and Choke down our lunch and run to the Holocaust Museum Because our tickets were for 12:30.
We weren't allowed to take pictures in the Museum... I didn't know that untill i took a few so here they are, just don't copy and past them or sell them or something! thanks! haha

This is a train they would put close to 400 jews in it to bring them to the camps.

These two people are holocaust survivors! it was such a treat to talk to them and here their stories. The man showed us his tattoo (they tatooed numbers on their arms) He was shot in the head also. He left the camp when he was 17 and only wieghed 75 lbs! I loved talking to them!

After that we went to Mount Vernon, this was my favorit! It was beautiful! here are some pictures, Note: Laura Cagle took most of these pictures, then my camera died... once i get some pictures from other people i'll post more!

this is it for now! have a great day EVERYONE!

catching up on field trips and such

2008-04-05T11:59:00.000-07:00

Hey Everyone! here are some pictures from our field trip to go "whale Watching" well really it was a freezing three hour cold boat ride... yeah, anyhow it was terrible we only whent a mile and a half out and saw a dolphin. But yeah we ended up staying inside and takeing pictures of each other... here they are! hope you get a laugh or two out of them... this is from Feb. i think, it was a while ago. Most of the boys fell asleep!

This is Laura Cagle and I...

hey everyone

2008-03-26T16:25:00.000-07:00

hey Reed and i are hanging out over at jessica's house and thought we would share this with ya'll!
have a great day!

SPRING BREAK

2008-03-21T11:17:00.000-07:00

hey everyone sorry it's been forever since i've posted... But now it's spring break so i feel as if i can finally breath! Life has been good lately we've been really busy with school. Reed was just in a new show "Thoroughly Modern Millie" he had the lead Jimmy. Bek and jessica help with the whole show, it turned out really great! Sorry no pictures yet but i'm working on it!
and i'm never sure what i should post on, so tell me what you guys want to hear about!

02-11-08 ( + 1 video)

2008-02-11T13:41:00.000-08:00

Today was a pretty fun day. Some of the "older" kids at our school went to hear Mike Huckabee... It was really fun, we got to stand in a mob of people for a few hours and best of all got to skip 1/2 a day of school! woohoo!

So yeah i thought i would share that with you all... (if anyone reads my blog anymore) i know i know i stink at keeping this up to date. but what can i say? i'm busy! i go to school full time and babysit as much as i can.

well i hope ya'll are all hanging in there! I'm just counting down the days untill spring break!

Peace

http://hamptonroads.com/2008/02/huckabee-vows-fight-mccain-eyes-knockout?page=1

check this out you can see me and a bunch of my friends in the crowd... look for my friend Cassidy wearing a hat she made with one of the posters! plus you can see lee he is wearing a bright green jacket, my head is right behind his! haha

peace out ya'll tell me what you think!

January 2008!!

2008-01-05T19:02:00.000-08:00

First off, I'm sorry for not posting lately my family and i have been to busy doing better things! haha just kidding...

This week we (Jessica, David, Reed, and myself) made a ginger bread house... well we decorated it after my mom made it, and David mostly decorated it, he just bossed everyone around and told us how to do it, the funny part is we listened!
Thursday was my grandma's birthday so we went over to her house and got to eat donuts and have some coffee, it was fun being able to spend time with her and Hammie (my great-grandma) plus they were excited to show us there Christmas tree. (she always has really big pretty ones)

anyways i just wanted to update y'all on what's been going on lately... I'll try to post more often.

until then
peace!

Reed and i were getting bored at David bossing us around so we did our own thing!

Reed's garden (he is very proud of this!)

David working hard! (this is Jessica's side)

David did the front he didn't trust anyone else! (haha)

Jacob was mad he wasn't able to help us!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Grandma!! (she is now 113! she doesn't look a day older than 60)

Her christmas tree!

HAMMIE!!!

Really Horrible pictures! (watch the video)

2007-12-14T10:08:00.000-08:00

Last night we went to see the lights down on the ocean front! We had a blast... Our cousin Natalie was in town this week, she left today, so for her last night we decided to see the lights!
Well i don't know how much we really looked at the lights.... We were being way to crazy!! Their was 8 of us shoved in my mom's van! Jacob Joanna and i were in the back (thats way there are more pictures of us) it was hysterical!! (Jacob, Joanna,Jessica,Beka,Natalie,Reed,Mom, and Myself) David couldn't make it...
Anyhow, we played this game where you call out a saying...example would be "you just bit into an apple and found 1/2 a worm" and then you take a picture of their reaction! it was SO funny... then we all sang the 12 days of Christmas,(see the video below) but beware it could kill your ears! so here are some pretty horrible pictures but i had to post them because they're so funny!

Santa Fishing for a whale...

Gravedigger! (this is for the delps)

I think this had something to do with salting a slug!

I love this one! HAHAHAHA

they just stepped on a slug!

They were having way to much fun with my camera!

Jacob's FACE!!!

Ummmm who knows!

They opened a new sweater on Christmas day!

Reed and Rebekah being themselves!

Sorry this is so dark but just listening to it is so funny! Mom-A partridge in a pear tree. Jessica-Two turtle doves, Reed-Three French hens, Beka-Four calling birds, Jacob-Five golden rings, Natalie-Six geese a-laying, Joanna-Seven swans a-swimming, Me- Eight maids a-milking, Mom-Nine ladies dancing, Jessica-Ten lords a-leaping, ??-Eleven pipers piping, everyone-Twelve drummers drumming....

MY family is so talented aren't they? (haha)

um CRAZY REED

2007-12-04T14:54:00.000-08:00

Reed has been trying his hardest to get all of Jacob's stuff out of his room so he can move in... it's not working very well... anyhow he was in the going through his stuff and found this! He came in my room i couldn't help but take pictures! haha

hope everyone is having a great week!

Our school's colonial dance last night...

2007-11-30T12:57:00.000-08:00

The entire night was a blast! We started the night out with some dancing (we've been going to practices so we would know how to dance colonial stile) then we had dinner and more dancing! it was so much fun! here are some pictures!

Here is a pic of Miss Kaitlyn Dalmas

Aron and Laura lead the whole night! they did a great job! (check out Aaron's hair!! so funny)

Connor and Kyle just had to get in the picture!

Jessica and me

The entire group!

Thanksgiving (1 edit)

2007-11-21T18:53:00.001-08:00

For my composition class, we had to write a creative paper on any subject. I did mine on the Rickards thanksgiving... Here it is enjoy! There are a few typos...sorry

"My Family’s Preparations for Thanksgiving"

Nine a.m., a day before Thanksgiving and the Rickards house is the definition of chaos. My mom is running around, similarly to how one would run after being cooped up in a cage for twenty years. The dogs are barking, my brother is sitting on the couch trying to act like he didn’t hear my mom ask him to unload the dishwasher for the hundredth time, and my sister, oblivious of it all, she is outside in her drum room banging away like there’s no tomorrow. As for me, I’m in the kitchen with my mother trying to get the mashed potatoes, pea salad and whatever other meal we’ll be serving for our annual thanksgiving feast!
It’s two p.m. that means we only have ten more hours until Thanksgiving Day! Just to catch you up, the past five hours we have managed to get four casseroles in the oven, and we got my brother off the couch and he has gotten half of the dishes unloaded! About this time, our Grandmother and our great-Grandmother came walking in the door, little did they know our dog’s slipped past them and are bolting down the street. My Grandmother, a little stressed to say the least, is already in the kitchen starting on the potato salad, little did she know I had already made the potato salad, but when she's stressed she kind of blocks everything around her out. So I guess we’ll be having two potato salads this year.
It’s six p.m. everyone is still going strong Rebekah is now upstairs in her room vacuuming, Jacob and my dad are in the living room falling asleep, and Reed just realized the dogs are missing! Everyone FREEZE where are the dogs? When’s the last time you saw them? At this moment everyone is in a panic… so Reed and I hop on our bikes and my grandma and my mom get in their car and start driving around looking for them…a half hour later we find them and bring them home, only to find that the turkey which was in the oven has burned! The turkey my mom has been working on for the past 48 hours has been ruined because of our stupidity of letting the dogs out! That has put my mom in a bad mood (rightfully so) and we all know when mom’s in a bad mood everyone is!
It’s nine o’clock and everyone is being short with each other, but we can’t give up yet because we have 50 + people coming over for thanksgiving tomorrow and we still have five more desserts to make!
It’s lunch time on Thanksgiving Day; we have all already watched the parade and have gotten in the thankful mood! The gussets are arriving. We have the usual grandparents and cousins, but this year we have a special guest one who has never celebrated thanksgiving before! Its Cathy Hugo’s mom who lives in South Africa, she is here to visit. She and Cathy wanted to spend thanksgiving with us.
My sisters(Jessica and Beka) had the most brilliant idea of making hats which would say, Plymouth Rock (and it would be a brown hat with a huge rock on it), then one would say Ham (and it would be a pink pig), one would say Indian, another would say the Mayflower, and so forth. It was hilarious we made everyone wear their hats during the whole meal! Cathy's mom thought we were serious! After the meal everyone goes their separate ways thinking about how crazy the past few days were! I bet you could ask (almost) anyone one of us and none would take one moment back!
I absolutely LOVE the holidays! Thanksgiving, Christmas and New years you name it, I love the whole aspect of holidays, even with my chaotic family!
The End

What hard workers peeling the potatoes for us....

Then they dumped them on the floor.... hahahahah

Then everyone fell asleep... it's funny we were all looking for Jessia, David and Bek and we found them all asleep in my parents bed! haha

You know it's winter when...

2007-11-20T13:28:00.000-08:00

the huge blip goes up next door to your house! it's SO ugly!!

Movie Scenester

2007-11-18T15:27:00.000-08:00

Hey Guys, Just trying to spread the word!
http://www.MovieScenester.com/

It's kind of like a Myspace for movie lovers! It's just a fun site for people who get tired of reading review from people who are paid to write them when really they don't know any better than any of us because they're just a humans like us...So come join the fun if it sounds like your thing! Love always,
Reaghan