Be mine Valentine!

I can't believe it's already going to be Thursday! Wow! Well this past week Chuck and I celebrated our 4 year anniversary, valentines day and Beau's 3 months! For our anniversary, we enjoyed a big breakfast in the morning-I woke up to pancakes! For dinner we ate at the Ground Round, one of our fav's in the area. The little guy even joined us that evening and was so good! For valentine's day we stay in but had an awesome dinner...for those of you that don't know, chuck is a wonderful cook! He cooked lobster and steak that night- it was delicious!

Beau is growing like a little weed- I can't believe he's already 3 months! He's starting to react to different things now! He loves to be sung to and loves it when you kiss his feet. As you can tell by the picture, he's losing some of his hair too! (looking more and more like his daddy! :)) We're headed to the cities this weekend Beau and I- he needs to see his gramma and grampa.

Have a great rest of the week!

I've got feet too!! Wow!

This weekend Beau found his feet! It was the funniest thing! It's so fun to watch him just look at them in amazement, like "wow, not only do i have fingers, I have feet too!" We had fun this weekend scrapping at the house while daddy was out fishing. He pretty much kept himself occupied with his little wiggle gym next to me while I scrapped, although he seems to be more interested in his hands and feet. He also got a kick out me singing "I like my chicken fried, cold beer on a Friday night..." I forget who sings it, but every time I sang it he just loved it and couldn't quite smiling! At least he can appreciate my fabulous singing! LOL!

He came down with a cold on Thursday night but is feeling much better now.

I am really looking forward to this week because I'm off on Friday! Yeah! Chuck and I are going to celebrate our 4 year anniversary too! I can't believe it's already been 4 years! Where does the time go? Beau is going to be 3 months too!

Have a great week!

Friends and Birthdays

We had another fun and exciting weekend! Chuck was able to get out and do some snowmobiling on Friday night with some friends. I left work early so he could leave right away- I think he was anxious to get out! Saturday we went to louie and sonja's to celebrate louie and brian's birthdays. Louie turned 68 (he's chuck's uncle) and brian turned 50 (Chuck's cousin). The food of course was great like usual and the company was fun. Beau was able to see his cousins and his auntie Carol. Today Beau and I went over to Joni's to scrap for the day. Joni finished up an album she made for her brother and his wife of their wedding and I was able to get 5 pages done. By the time we were getting ready to go, Beau finally noticed his girlfriend and we were able to snap some cute pictures of them together.

Hopefully the nice weather keeps up! It's giving me spring fever!!

We also had some very exciting news today...the old ugly bronco has left the field! My prayers have been answered!! A guy came and bought it today! Yahoo!

Have a good night~until next time...

All Smiles!

Wow, it's been a couple of weeks since our last update! Things in the Richardson household are going swell. Beau had his two month check up and shots two weeks ago. He's growing like a little weed! He now weighs almost 11 lbs! He did very well with the shots and is a healthy little baby!

Terra and I took Beau to his first scrapbooking trip last weekend. It's a good thing terra drove because the car was packed! You would have never guessed we were only staying one night! Beau was very good and I was actually able to get 4 pages done! Yahoo! While we were away, Chuck was able to go ice fishing, which he informed me he was happy to have a weekend of no responsibilities! Chuck and Beau have been hanging out everyday and have been busy keeping things good on the home front. Chuck makes it very easy for me to come home, relax and hang out with my boys after work- I'm very thankful for him and his help!

Last night Chuck and I went moonlight bowling for my company Christmas party. We had a lot of fun and bowled pretty well considering neither one of us had bowled in quite a long time! I think probably since we were on league in the cities! Chuck's sister Carol and her two girls, Amanda and Lizzie watched Beau while we were out. He was a good little baby :) (I only called once to check on him even though it was hard being a way! But he was in good hands!) It was good for Chuck and I to get out together!

Well, Chuck is just itching to play a game of monopoly- I guess I'd better get my butt upstairs so I can win! LOL!

Have a good week!

Fiesta, Food, Family, Fun AND FINGERS!!

Well, I survived my first week back at work, BARELY!! It was a rough week, but we all managed. Beau was fussy for Chuck the first couple of days, which was to be expected since we are all on a new schedule now and mommy isn't home. When I wasn't calling home, Daddy and Beau called me. By the it was Friday, I was looking forward to the weekend and to spending time with the boys. Chuck and Beau had a lot of fun at daddy daycare this week- Chuck even introduced Beau to HomeDepot :)

Saturday morning Beau discovered his hands!! This was quite an experience for the little guy- he had to check them out completely! The look on his face was priceless! He just amazes us every day!

We were able to spend Saturday with my mom's side of the family. We had our Brandt Family Christmas party at my aunt Patti's house. It was a Mexican theme with a ton of tacos! For the gift exchange everyone was suppose to bring a white elephant gift or a gift $5 or less- these were quite interesting! Gifts ranged from Jamie's middle school shoes from her closet to stipper Dorthy. It was so funny! And of course we had to recognize the 50 year olds of the group that recently received their AARP cards in the mail and would soon be celebrating the big day! There were 4 of them! My aunties Jill and Bobbie were in on it with the help from my cousin Jamie. As my aunt Bobbie put it, they weren't roasting them, it was just a slight toasting! LOL! There were actually 6 of them celebrating the big day because they didn't let my parents slip through the cracks- although their birthdays were a couple of years ago (and they were the hippies of the group), the Kenny Chesney music was cranked up and they received new Mexican hats from the group. For those of you that don't know my parents, they have been to Mexico MANY times and this is their favorite vacation spot- so the gift was very appropriate!

Today will be a lazy day at our house and I'm really looking forward to a day of relaxation! I hope you all have a great week!

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Beau's First Christmas!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! As you can imagine, we had the best Christmas yet! God Blessed us with a beautiful little boy this year! The best Christmas gift of all!

We got all of our Christmas shopping done last week and went out for dinner. Beau was a good baby for Gramma Richardson while she was babysitting. We didn't make it to a movie- I couldn't stand to be away that long!!

We enjoyed Christmas Eve with the Richardson side. We did our annual fonduing at Chuck's mom's house and opened gifts there. After that we headed over to Carol's house and opened more gifts and ate some more. Beau was spoiled with lots of love and gifts from everyone! The festivities stared around 3 and ended at 10!! By the end of the night we were all tired, but had a great time with everyone!

On Christmas day my parents come to our house and so we ate some more and opened gifts...beginning to see a pattern! :) (Love this time of year!) Mom and I enjoyed a scapping extravaganza on Friday while Dad and Chucker did their own thing. I think we scrapped for about 10 hours! I couldn't believe it! I got a lot done in Beau's book and mom got a jump start on some Beau pages for her book. Dad and Chucker ran into Rapids to pick up my Christmas gift from Chuck...an 8ft table for my scrapping room! I never would have guessed that Chuck would have gotten that for me- I guess he knows me all too well! I've wanted a table for so long! They brought it home and set it up and it wasn't too much longer that I was down there setting up shop :)

Sunday was a lazy day for me...Chuck went fishing with our brother in law Dan. He said the fish are really biting right now so they caught their limit and a nice size northern. I think he plans on getting a lot of fishing time in this week since he'll have his hands full for quite a while...

Only one more week and I'm off to work again. These last 6 weeks have flown by so fast...too fast! It's been the best time of my life and it's going to be very hard for me to go back. I woke up bright and early today so that I can get myself back into the swing of things of getting up early. Right now my schedule now consists of getting up, sitting on the couch with beau, watching TV, scrapping, eating, poking chuck (hehe) etc.

Have a great week everyone and Happy New Year!