Our school's colonial dance last night...

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)

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...

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

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NFG, EISLEY and Mute Math!!

Monday night i went to the New Found Glory show because, Sherri from Eisley is married to Chad in NFG , so i knew she would be there! Sure enough the minute my dad and i walked into the Norva Garron, Weston and Stacy from eisley walked by and stood in the back to watch the show, i was like score! I stood by them the whole show! haha i talked to them, then their dad came up to me and remembered me from e mails and whatnot. Then NFG started and they were really good very entertaining! Here is a funny story Boyd (eisley's dad) told me...

Monday a group of 3 NFG fans (girls) approached IAN, the bass player inquiring about Eisley: "hey... I was just curious - is that band "Eisley" going to be on stage tonight with y'all because... if they are, i want a refund... I didn't drive all the way from Louisiana to hear them... that band is freaking creepy. " She said much more but i won't elaborate. The most salient comment was when she referred to Sherri as an "inbred". Ian promptly said, "back-Off... you're RUDE". But that wasn't enough. She couldn't leave it alone. Later, in the mall, she recognized Michael Bethencourt and approached him; asked the same question... and reinforced how creepy Eisley was and how she hated their voices and harmonies and just creeped her out... Michael said, "I dunno if Sherri is singing or not but you should really be nice... you're talking about my good friends here". She left, came back... tried to say she didn't mean to dis' his friends, but just hated the band... etc... she kept digging in deeper; "I just can't stand that creepy band". Michael was like... "look, I don't care what you think about the band, but you need to back off... they're really nice people. She finally admitted to him: " well, once I talked to Chauntelle... and she was actually really nice"... to which Michael replied... "oh, wait... but you said they were all so creepy...". She kept reiterating the same point over and over again. He finally just said, "look... I just don't care what you think".

Later, the news of this spread to Chad and NFG, Eisley, Mute Math and beyond. Everyone was laughing in amazement. She called them "INBREDS?!! O my gosh! So, Chad was like - "If I see her tonight, I'm going to kick her out of our show..." He didn't, of course, but in the middle of NFG's show - guess who popped out on stage to sing with Jordan on, "It Ain't Me"? You got it - that creepy Eisley girl. It was no surprise to me that Chad introduced his wife by saying, "Before the show, one of our fans said she wanted her money back if the creepy eisley girl was going to sing... and called her an "inbred". So... if you're out there, you can go get your money back and leave....". (massive clapter outbreak preceded)

Sherri was pretty crazy on stage right?

btw - the cover song was actually quite awesome and Sherri's performance was dazzling.

So.... fast forward. After the show, i was hanging out talking to boyd - when Sherri walked up. We were talking about nothing much when Sherri's eye caught the mean girl (herself) with her sister and friend started walking toward us. Sherri honestly wanted to scamper creepily off, but it was too late. She even tried to hide behind me and her dad. The pack of NFG femme's made a b-line right to her. AhhHHAAHH!!

Sherri is in the yellow, the mean girl is in the green and chad is the guy standing next to Sherri...i don't know who this other guy is...random! haha

The girl who had said the super rude things was coming to confront. Intense. I backed off... but heard her words: "I just wanted you to know that I apologize... i didn't mean those things... i mean, i was just joking.... I say things sometimes and later think... why did I say that..." .

Gracious Sherri consoled her - repeating, "it's ok... it's ok... I told Chad not to say anything from stage... we all just thought it was funny." The kept trying to apologize...saying, "i just feel so bad... I didn't really mean it... i mean, i just... i don't know what i was thinking..." Sherri kept saying "it's ok... it's ok..." The girl was shaking and in tears.

Then Chad walked up and she said her whole speech over again...." I didn't mean it.... I just say dumb things sometimes... I apologize..." etc. Chad said (smiling), "hey... it's ok, but... honestly, it's not like you can just say I didn't mean it. I mean, you have to realize when you say things... you're talking about a real person. I'm a real person with real feelings... and you're talking about my wife - who's a real person... with feelings. You can't just go around saying whatever you want - then later come back and say, "oh, i didn't mean it... It's ok and all... ". But the girl just kept saying the same things over and over again... "I apologize"...wiping away tears. Chad and Sherri were both saying, it's ok...it's ok... we forgive you..." (hugs).

anyhow i thought it was SO FUNNY! and having Sherri tell you the story is way better! haha here is the picture chad took of us before the mean girl walked up! haha

Then i went home, went to bed ...ect then the next day was EISLEY'S show! yeah!! Sherri thought i was pretty nifty!

here are some pictures!

Sherri

Stacy

Sherri

The whole band
Weston on drums

Chauntelle

Sherri said she would take another picture with me! (chad took it again)
(take a vote which one do y'all like better)

My friend Chris with the band

My friend Stephanie with the band...Look at Weston he is such a dork!

Here are some videos you don't have to watch them...only if you've never heard of eisley and want to know what they're all about! ENJOY!














PS If you have never heard of Mute Math, they are awesome! i highly suggest you listen to some of their stuff...here are a few pictures but not many because i camera died... bek took these videos...

Jacob's wedding part one....(and now part 2)

Our pumpkins/mums... this one was my favorite!

We had 11... My mom did such a great job, they were for the rehearsal dinner tables.

Alana at the rehearsal...such a cutie

The tables
Hmmm? what could bek be thinking?

Joanna's hair, we all got our hair done on Saturday morning.
I couldn't find a bunch of pictures of the ceremony but i found them so... here they are my part 2 of this post....

D.J. Tanner aka Rebekah Rickards

The reception

The toast My Dad and Jody did a great job!

Hammie!

Matthew my cousin

Myla she was so tired and freezing!

I caught the bouquet and Alana was so sad that i gave it to her so then look at her face! haha

Leaving....

Me and Jacob! I look like I'm about to go crazy!

haha i hate this picture but it's the only picture i have of both of us!

saying goodbye

Myla was SO sad "her Jo" was leaving

Leaving in style!

After the Wedding my cousins and i came home and had a blast! we did go to bed until 3 am i fell asleep on our hard wood floors in our living room and she fell asleep in our bug blue chair! SO funny!
Then today we woke up around ten and went to eat lunch at Chile's and then My cousin Natalie, Reed and I went to the mall, just when i thought this day couldn't get any better..........i look across the room in the mall and i see Garron and Weston from EISLEY!!! my favorite band (who will be playing on the 23) was at the mall the same time as us! I was so excited, because I'm so shy and backwards i wouldn't go talk to them i made Reed! haha thank God for brothers! So i never talked to them... but Reed did he said they were nice! haha i'm crazy
so all this to say i had a wonderful weekend...and if y'all think about it pray for Jacob and Joanna that they would have a safe and wonderful week in Jamaica...

thanks everyone!

I believe this speaks for itself......