The Richardson Happenings

Tatem's Surgery

2010-11-20T08:37:00.000-08:00

On thrus Tatem had his tonsils and adnoid removed. They said that its a good thing they came out. He really needed it. The road to recovery so far has been alittle rough for the guy. He cant really sleep, and all he will eat is applesauce. Which is fine. Likes to lay in my lap or snuggle with Dustin. Bree stayed at Grama Shellies so she could play and have some fun! Just counting down the days till my little man is himself again.

2010-11-14T14:17:00.000-08:00

Happy Halloween!! I know its late, but here is a cute picture taken of all of us. We happen to stop at Hy-Vee to see grama debbie and pick up a few things and they shot this picture for us. Wish the kids were smiling but its a great photo none the less. Braelyn was a cowgirl and Tatem was a train conductor. They loved going up to the house and saying trick or treat. They wanted to keep going daddy and mommy had to put a stop to it as it was getting to late. :)

WOW!

2010-11-11T12:55:00.000-08:00

Its almost been a whole year since i wrote here. Sorry everyone!

To catch you up to speed here... Braelyn turned 3 in june. :) Cameo and Chris got hitch in June also! I started doing cakes outta the house. Have done quite a few and really enjoying it. Ashten and her gang came to visit in August- the kids loooved it. The kids and I caught hand, foot, and mouth. Yucky thing to have. Tatem turned 2 in September. The terrible twos are a killer right now. The kids loved the pumpkin patch, and the pumpkins. Halloween was a blast. The kids were great going up to the door and shouting. :) Bree was a cowgirl and Tate was a train conductor. Now we are just slowing down since the weather is getting a bit colder.

Trying to potty train Tatem. Hes doing good. Just have to remind myself to take him. He is going in the 18th of this month to get his tonsils and anoids removed. Hope this helps him sleep better. Mommy and daddy are awfully tired. More daddy than mommy as I am sleeping through it alot. LOL Poor daddy. I will upload more pictures and update this alittle better tomorrow durning nap time. :)
God Bless!

Potty Training!

2009-11-18T13:05:00.000-08:00

As many of you know we have been trying to potty train Bree. We have had our ups and downs, but I think we have finally gotten it! She has been going stong now for over a month!! Its been great! She is starting to tell us when she has to go then to keep prompting her. Where did my little baby go? Its so said, but so cute to see her get happy about wearing tinkerbell!!
Now I am hoping that Tate is easy like bree has been! But I am not holding my breath! LOL

My new Tattoo!!

2009-11-15T09:07:00.000-08:00

So last Tuesday, Dustin went and got his braces off. And we decided that we wanted to get tattoos. I got the footprints on my left wrist, with the color and year they were born. Dustin got their names writen on his upper arm with his old tattoo. I love my tattoo and it turned out great!

Dustin is looking into another tattoo and I wouldnt mind another!

Las Vegas!!!

2009-10-30T14:52:00.000-07:00

So Dustin and I went to Las Vegas at the begining of Oct! It was great. My mom got married, family came up from Cali, my grama came out with some of her lady friends, and we had

no kids for a week! That city is def not a place where I would like to live, just visit. We did alot while out there. And Dustin even went to the Phantom of the Opera with me. So not his thing, but I totally loved it! Here are some pictures of us at my mothers wedding. Alissa is all dolled up and looks great! She was so happy! I am glad that she got to go with us!

Tatems Party!

2009-09-21T12:51:00.000-07:00

Here is my little man digging into his birthday cake! He totally took on the the ducks head off and ate it! It was so cute. I took the others off so he could have alittle fun with the cake!

**I tried my hand at making the cake and the ducks on the top. With the help of grama lisa. We didnt do to bad!

He got alot of great toys and the weather was wonderful to play outside! He had a blast and was pooped by the end of the day! Slept like a baby!

Tatem's Birthday Party!

2009-09-21T06:13:00.001-07:00

We celebrated Tate's birthday on saturday with the family. He had alot of people come and got so many new toys that he just loves!

Tate's yummy cupcakes that I made with help from Lisa! I am so happy how they turned out. Totally cute!!

This is Tate's smash cake! I made all on my own. Lisa helped me with the ducks on top. They are made out of fondant. Tate ate one of the heads of the ducks and then just went for the cake!

Wow.. Updates

2009-09-21T05:39:00.000-07:00

Its has been awhile since I have blogged.. sorry guys! The potty training has gotten better! She is dry most of the day! Woohoo. It will come with time and I am just going with it. She is enjoying her new daycare where they are many little girls her age to play with. She loves her Macy!
Tatem is one now! He is walking all over! We had his party Saturday. I am uploading pictures to my computer right now. So I will add them alittle later. He has gotten very vocal and is now saying daisy.
We also took the kids to the spencer fair. Bree loved it, she loved all the rides and had a great time. She won some toys while there.
Dustin and I are working alot right now. We are getting excited about going to Vegas in 2 1/2 weeks and I think Debbie is getting alittle worried about have 2 little ones running around her house. :0)
I will upload some pictures later and try and be better at the blogging!

Tatem's first hair cut!!

2009-09-06T11:54:00.000-07:00

My little mans first haircut! His hair was getting pretty long. He did great! Just sat there on daddy's lap! Such a little man!

Refusing!!

2009-09-02T08:46:00.000-07:00

So the potty training isnt going well at all. She is refusing big time. Even when I put her on the potty she is sit there and scream. Tell me I dont want it, I dont wanna potty mommy. She wont tell me when she has to potty. But yet she wants tinkerbell panties, so I am trying to brib her a bit, but thats not even working! She wants nothing to do with it when mommy wants her to go, but when bree says she has to go, then we better go. I know she is only 26 months, and its still kinda early, but I thought she was ready. I might have been wrong! : ( Maybe we will try again next month.

Potty Training Day 1

2009-08-31T06:00:00.000-07:00

So we are going to potty train bree again! LOL She has her moments where she is really good and loves it, other times she just hates it. I went out and got her cute tinkerbell undies, which she was soo excited to wear this morning along with the plastic covers to go over the undies in case of an accident. She does really well through out the day. Alot of cuing but its worth it. The times we have to work on is afternap time, before bed, and in the morning when she wakes up. She sometimes doesnt want to go when she is playing hard, but we are going to do it. Please pray for me. :)

Random Pictures of my little man

2009-08-25T17:33:00.001-07:00

Here are some randoms of my little man! He is getting so big I just cant believe it! Almost one! Tate and Papa playing around. Tate loves papa darrell!

Hanging at Grandma Lisa & Papa Jack's, crusing with the tractor. He would just go everywhere with it! Now if he would walk on his own!

Getting his sun tan on! He is a white boy!! Having a nice little lazy afternoon at the pond!

Uncle Jeff and Tate! Its so hard to get Jeff in pictures with his niece and nephew. But they love him!

Here is my little hoodlem! He is sporting papa's company hat! Gotta help papa out!

Marcus Fair!

2009-08-25T16:27:00.000-07:00

We took bree to the Marcus Fair this year. As she is not tall enough to ride all the rides,she jumped right in on everything! She even did some rides that Dustin and I thought she would scream once it started to go, but she was a champ and didnt want to leave! She also won a shark blow up and a hat! I can not wait to take her again next year and maybe Tatem will be up for it! Dustin and Bree went on the dizzy dragon! I thought she would just die on this ride, but she did it. Dustin said that she didn't want him to spin it fast but she just sat back and enjoyed it!

The bouce house was a HIT! I so need to invest in one for her and Tatem. I almost had to go in and get her, she didnt want to leave!

She thought that the Pooh Playhouse was just to fun! She went through it twice! She had some troubles, but she made it through and just loved going down the slide!

Going up the stairs into the ball pit! I thought she would never make it out over to the other side, but with alittle help from daddy and mommy she got it! She was such a big girl!

She loved drive her own car! Although I think she realized that she wasnt really driving and then stopped holding on to the wheel. Next time we will try the motorcycle!

All in all she had an awsome time! She got to see some family from outta state. She enjoyed playing with all her cousins as they enjoyed playing with her and Tate! We hope to see them soon!

Chuck E Chesse!

2009-08-25T15:40:00.000-07:00

So on the way home from visiting grandma and papa we stopped to visit Auntie Trish! The zoo was the plan, but it rained so chuck E cheese it was. The kids had a blast, Bree was alittle nervous but caught on pretty fast! They also enjoyed seeing Auntie Trish! Althought, poor Trish kept being called Ashley. Can't help you look alike.

Visitng Grandma Lisa & Papa Jack!

2009-08-25T15:23:00.001-07:00

August 8th, we ventured over to Washington, IA to visit Grandma Lisa & Papa Jack! the kids just loved it. My dad's work had a family picnic for the company. Bree loved the bounce house!! She didnt want to get out. She also got her first tattoo! She thought it was soo cool to be like her mommy and daddy. Tatem enjoyed them as well, mostly the dogs loved him. He likes to feed him his apple jacks. As they sit there and wait for some to fall or for his arm to go over the chair and drop them! Braelyn loved getting up on Papa's bike! She just climbed right up there and thought she was so cute! Papa named this bike after her! You think that she might be a biker girl? To bad papa took off the side car or she could have had a ride.

We all took a dip in their pond. Bree was ok alittle scared, but she got to enjoy it. Tatem wasn't so sure about it. So mama and Tate hung out on a blanket, got alittle sun, and watched everyone else play in the water. It was nice to just lay back and relax!

Keeping it updated!

2009-08-24T12:13:00.000-07:00

Ok, So the other family site that I had has decided to go out! Lovely! I loved that site. So easy to use and the family could check in on it to see new pictures of the kids and new things that we are up to, but all good things come to an end!
So I am hoping that I can keep this one updated for everyone! I will post pictures on my blog from time to time so you can look at them! I even made my page look cute! Only took me an hour to figure it all out! LOL
So heres to trying to keep it up to date for everyone! BTW my little man will be one in 3 weeks! I cant believe it.. Makes me alittle sad! He also took 4 steps on friday by himself. He tried it twice and hasnt done it since, I call him my part-time walker. :)

Their new pictures!

2009-08-17T07:44:00.000-07:00

And these pictures were for daddy and Auntie Ashley. She got them these outfits. Both Daddy and Ashley are big Dallas fans! Couldn't pass this up! Although you can tell that they were about ready to be done with the pictures at this point but they did come out cute!

2009-08-17T07:13:00.000-07:00

These are my beautiful kids. I know that Braelyn is already 2, but I wanted to have a session with both of them instead of going twice. I can't believe how big they are and how time surely flys! But they are the light of my life!

2009-08-17T06:57:00.000-07:00

So yesterday I took the kids to Sears to get their pictures taken. Its been Sept since they got them done. I have been slacking alittle. They did so great! I got the cutest pictures. My favorite of the kids is this one. Usually Tate screams when Bree puts her arms around him. But he was just loving all the attention and getting his pictures.
During the photos. I noticed how much they DO look alike. And alot like me! I cant believe it, poor Dustin.