Concerts, Football, Wrestling and the Beach....

We went to the beach 2 weeks ago, it was super rough!

Harper loves the beach this year!

Best photo ever! Adam Photo Bomb Richards!

Baylee thinks she's a supermodel 

true story: I have gorgeous kids

We had the state wrestling tournament this past weekend in Lakeland. This was a birds nest outside the room.

Cooper getting ready to wrestle

Cooper getting ready to model

This guy here got stuck on the elevator in the Hyatt with two hysterical women! At least Hyatt comped our stay!

gun show

looks like he's smelling his pits....

Carissa's almost getting too big for this pose

Harper getting ready to do a belly flop

Cooper got to meet these two 2012 Gold Medal Olympians 

He came in 3rd in one style and 2nd in another

the boys having fun in the pool

Baylee and Carissa

Tristan and Cooper 

For Mother's Day lunch we got to finally eat at Manny's! I've heard so many good things about this place. It really was awesome!

Harper's taking swim lessons and LOVES it!

She likes to float the most!

Getting ready to go to Baylee's Spring Violin Concert

Baylee looking too grown up in Aunt Heather's hat, sunglasses and truck!

Levi in his mom's hat and sunglasses!

Harper and Champ getting ready to go to sleep

awww......

having fun at Grandpa's. Harper wanted to show everyone how she can jump off of the diving board thinks to swim lessons.

Cooper being Cooper

Baylee spent the night at her friend Savannah's last night, Savannah texted me the is picture! We also got rid of Cooper last night, he stayed at Ryan's!

Grandma, Grandpa, and Baylee at the concert

It was also Carissa's chorus concert

I think these pictures came out great

Not too bad for an iphone camera

Loving Our Busy Life!

Another quick update on the Richards family! A few Sunday's ago Adam surprised us with passed to SeaWorld/Aquatica/Busch Gardens. So we headed out to SeaWorld for the day, it was lots of fun! Harper couldn't remember going before so she really enjoyed it! She was also tall enough to go on Journey to Atlantis, she was scared at first but really liked it. We also got to see a few really neat shows.  Since then we've been to Aquatica and are planning a trip to Busch Gardens one weekend soon.

Baylee has been loving flag football! She's on the honor roll but still looking forward to school being out soon. She made it through the FCATS so school is pretty much park days and field trips  until June 6.

Cooper has had some wrestling tournaments and has states coming up next weekend. So I'll be spending Mother's Day weekend in Lakeland again. He's also loving flag football and like his big sister he's looking forward to school being over. Right now he's working a big project about elephants, he has to write a report, do a diorama, and a presentation. He's also still on the honor roll and it looks like he will finish 2nd grade up with straight A's!

Harper had Kindergarden round up this past week. She's super excited to go kindergarden next year! She thinks pre-k is boring and is sad that she doesn't have any homework! She also has a mother's day program for me this week that we both can't wait to go to.

I'm really looking forward to summer but when we started talking about all the trips, camps and things to do, summer doesn't seem nearly long enough.....a lot of fun things to pack into a short amount of time!

 Harper and a Manatee, her class room at school and called Ms Marreo's Manatee's

Clyde and Seymor show

In line for Journey to Atlantis

A day at SeaWorld makes Cooper tired

Champ covered himself up with dad's blanket

Megatron Wrestling at the convention center

Cooper getting ready to wrestle

Playing Bingo at work for Relay for Life

Harper LOVES Bingo!

except when she doesn't win

she won $4!

 
playing bingo makes her tired!

Baylee won $10!

Dinner at Joe's

Baylee was hungry!

 

First Quarter Of 2013 Is Over....

Time to re-evaluate the 2013 goals! The most important one: spending QUALITY time with the kids is still going GREAT! I'm glad to see the first quarter of 2013 gone! It's always the busiest time at work and the coldest time down here. I'm so sick of the cold....and by cold I mean highs in the 70's!

Harper: Still loving pre K. Still being a social butterfly. She's added an extra night of practice onto her schedule for the gymnastics team. Still too cute and too smart!

Cooper: Still Mr Athletic! He's wrestling and playing flag football. Today was his first game and he did awesome. He also got straight A's AGAIN this 9 weeks! I'm so proud of him, all A's so far this year! He's spending the night tonight with Georgie for Georgie's birthday. I asked him what kind of gift card Georgie wanted....he said "Hooter's"......Ms Kim said "No".

Baylee: Well it looks like Cooper's not the only child of mine good at football! Baylee is playing flag football too and doing extremely well! She sure is making dad (and me of course) super proud! She's still doing great at school, would have made the honor roll but missed it because of math. She's till playing violin, running track and is a student ambassador.

After we left Cooper with the Duncan's tonight we went over to Titusville for dinner and ate at Dixie Crossroads. That was lots of fun! The girls loved feeding the fish and turtles. Then we drove to the beach and were able to look out at the assembly building at Cape Canaveral.

Busy week coming up! It's okay though because the end of the school year is in sight!

We went to Canoe Creek for dinner Monday night, they had the best balloon artist ever! Look at the bubbles on Cooper's octopus hat!

The only reason to go to Canoe Creek: the Cajun Chicken Pasta! I literally CRAVE this stuff! It's so creamy, so spicy and the bread is so garlic-y and grilled.

Harper got the Little Mermaid. She even used balloons to make a bikini top for her!

Goofing around at Baylee and Cooper's flag football practice.

Baylee's game....I'll get better pictures next week.

 The assembly building at Cape Canaveral (close up)

It's that white speck there.

Sometimes it's just funny being Peanut!

Peanut and dad being silly

Me on Friday after a long work week looking puffy and tired.