Monday Thoughts....

So, here I am Monday morning, blogging. I should be cleaning or working but I'm not.
James will be home in less than 72 hours and the house is still standing although there is a short list of things we need him to fix like my car, Austin's bike chain etc.... I'm not sure he's going to want to come home if we have a "to do" list for him each time. I didn't have to do any major repairs (except Jan and I rigged my car to make it home from the gym. I guess I rubbed the bottom of my car one too many times on the parking curbs and the underneath part of my car fell down and started rubbing on the pavement. We just shoved it back up there. So far it's holding but I'm sure my repair job will not be up to Jame's standards.) I also managed to not completely kill the back lawn or the vegetable garden while he was away. I'm hoping on this two week home he gets the sprinklers fixed in the back. I'm such a whiner, boo-hoo, poor me, I have to use a rain bird on the back lawn.
You'll notice this blog is picture less. This has everything to do with Kambree, my digital camera and a jar of pickles. "Mom, can I please use the digital camera for our dance company picnic?" "Don't get it wet!" (Water games were involved at this picnic) "I won't." Well when your 15, and you ride home on your bike with the pickles and the camera in the same grocery sack you just don't think that is a problem but if the lid isn't on too tight, it is a HUGE problem!The camera won't turn on anymore! I was very proud, as much as I wanted to scream, I didn't. I just didn't say anything. It's only material things right? Maybe we have an extended warranty? Uh, wrong. Maybe I'll add "buy a new digital camera" to Jame's list of things to do when he comes home.
Work is picking up. I actually got a listing and wrote an offer all on the same day. Wow!
We start blocking at rehearsal's tonight and my commercial (where I fall off the curb) shoots tomorrow night. I'm thinking that you will not even know it's me as the only instructions were to wear heels and dress pants. No concern as to what to wear up top, hair or makeup. Makes me think this is a leg/foot shoot. Perhaps I should be grateful as this could be very embarrassing. Maybe I should get a pedicure?
We'll enough of my rambling....Happy Monday!

Ta Da! The inside is finished! (Well, almost!)

We still have minor touch ups to do, a few lights to install in the entry way and all the exterior work (deck, siding, sprinklers) to do but it's up and working and I LOVE IT!

My Mom's Birthday!

Although my Mom may not appreciate this post, I'm going to post it anyway. My mom turned 60! She looks pretty great for being 6 decades old!

We had a surprise open house for her on the 4th (her birthday isn't actually until the 5th) and my cousin Paul put together a fabulous video of her life in pictures and we just invited friends and family to drop in and have cake and wish her Happy Birthday.

Then on her actual birthday, my siblings and I planned a very special night out for her an my Dad. Jeff arranged for a limo to pick them up and Troy & Arron paid for dinner @ Ruby Tuesdays and Kam & I paid for theater tickets to Hale Center's production of "Curious Savage". They're at the show right now! I hope she's having a great time. Here are some bad pictures (I only had my cell phone) of the limo and my mom!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM. I LOVE YOU!

Youth Conference!

Guyz and Dollz Dance Recital

All three of my girls perform with a musical/theater group called Guyz and Dollz. Here is video of Ry dancing with her group. Kambree & Devree had a duet that was fabulous all though I don't know if my recording does is justice. But for what it's worth, here are some video clips!

This is the last year they will all be in the same group as Kambree just made Dance Company at Murray High and will be dancing with them next fall. It's been so fun to have all three of them perform together. Even if all I do on Thursday's is drive them back and forth to the dance studio! Kambree and I were also cast in Murray Community's production of "Footloose" scheduled for the end of July. I'm playing Ethel McCormick (Ren/Kevin Bacon's mother) Kambree is a teenager. I think it will be fun and since James is going to be gone for two weeks at a time it will be a good diversion of my time while he's away! There's nothing more fun than putting on a show and to do it with my daughter is just fabulous!

Speaking of performing. You'll never believe it. I have been cast in a commercial. Get this....I have to fall off a curb. And someones paying me to do it! When I went to the audition, I was asked to pretend to fall off a curb. I did and the director & staff just burst out laughing and asked if I could do it again. Sure. I did it again and again they all laughed. I wish I could say that I thought they were laughing with me but I felt like they were laughing at me. One guy asked me if I had training in falling. What? Anyway, I didn't hear anything so I figured it had been a long day of auditioning and I was their comic relief. But low and behold, they loved me and I got the part. Don't know much more than that. It's scheduled to shot the end of June. Hopefully it won't be cancelled like my last part!

And even more hopefully, I don't look like a big buffoon on TV!

Devree Promoted from 6th grade!

We're heading to junior high! And Devree is ready. She told me today she plans on having the cutest and cleanest locker in the 7th grade. A little about my Dev....

She is a fabulous student. Each week in 6th grade she had spelling, vocabulary and "parent" homework where I or James (mostly I) as well as Devree had to interpret the quote of the week. It was due each Friday. MONDAY night we had to get it ALL done. One week I didn't get my quote done until Thursday night and the next Monday I got a lecture on how nervous that made Devree and that I should take a minute and get it done immediately! This is her approach to life. She doesn't put anything off, often times jumping into things before anyone is ready or able to supervise or assist.

She's going through a difficult phase of helping when no help is needed. Like storing the ice cream cake in the fridge-not the freezer, turning on the dishwasher while James has the drain disconnected, things like that.Her intentions are good but.... we're just hoping that this is a phase and will soon pass.

She always smells good & has perfect hair and recently she has lost 11 pounds! We're on a weight loss challenge her at the Richhart house. (We'll some of us!) and Devree has taken it to heart! This is hard (as anyone who has or needs to lose weight can attest) and Devree loves to bake cookies and she's fabulous at it. Also, her teachers in school and church seem to reward their students will full size candy bars and soft drinks. So she has to have extreme will power.

I am so very proud of her and look how cute she is:

You can all thank my cousin Michelle for this TAG so here goes....
1. What is his name? James or when he's acting old man like I call him Raymond which is his middle name as well as my grandpa's name!
2. Who eats more? He eats more volume, I eat more variety & often
3. Who said I love you first? I think he did?
4. Who is taller? He is unless I'm wearing heels!
5. Who is smarter? I'm smarter at common sense/trivia, he's way smarter at math/science and how cars run!
6. Who is more sensitive? It's a toss up, he tears up at chick flicks and horse movies, I cry when I'm mad and for no reason at all!
7. Who does the laundry? I DO!
8. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? Me!
9. Who pays the bills? Me! Once I left if up to James and he missed the house payment!
10. Who cooks more? ME!
11. What meals do you cook together? BBQ. I send him out with the meat, prepare everything else, set the table and then we wait.......
12. Who is more stubborn? Oh....probably...me?
13. Who is first to admit they are wrong? James. I'm wrong but I average about twice a year!
14. Who is more clean? Hum...he's clean but I do the cleaning!
15. Who has more siblings? James by far, he has 7!
16. Who wears the pants in the relationship? He always wears pants; I wear pants a lot (jeans, Capri's, etc.) except on Sunday. (That was my cousins answer and I thought it was just too funny not to copy!)
17. What do you like to do together? Eat & sleep!
18. Who eats more sweets? Oh for sure....ME!
19. Guilty pleasures? Mine or James? Mine is chocolate and racy books. James I cannot print on this family friendly blog.
20. How did you meet? We met at a singles ward. I was sitting on my boyfriends lap in the lobby.
21. Who kissed who first? James kissed me first...on the cheek!
22. Who proposed? He did.
23. His best feature? His big guns, handsome face and two different colored eyes.
24. What is his greatest quality? There are so many so I'll name a few: His faith, his zest for life, that he's a great dad, the fact that he loves me....
I'm tagging Amy, Sara, Kim & Kristy!

Just blogging....

So, James is going to take a job that will require him to be gone for two weeks and then home for two weeks. What the heck? I'm suppose to be without him completely and then with him completely? How will I adjust?
We should know for sure next week, the awesome thing is it pays so well that for the first time in our marriage, I won't HAVE to work. I know I will work (cause I love what I do) but the idea of not working is something that I just can't wrap my mind around. For the past 5 years, I have been the major bread winner. With the real estate market taking a nose dive these past few months, it's a good thing we're shifting gears. The first thing I did when he announced that he's a pretty sure thing for this job is I went and auditioned for Footloose with Kambree. We both got call backs and we're just waiting to see what parts we get. Last year was so great doing Peter Pan together and it makes me so happy that Kam doesn't mind me being in these shows with her. It makes me sad to think we probably only have two more summers before she heads off to college. I can't think of a better way to spend our summer than at rehearsals and performing. And can I just say, the boys at call backs were so dang cute! I think she's going to have a blast!
Speaking of Kambree, she has huge news.....SHE MADE MURRAY HIGH DANCE COMPANY! And she is so excited. She worked so hard. I've never been so nervous for an audition for anyone (besides myself) in my life. Who knew being a mom would bring that rush and butterfly in the tummy feeling when it's not even your audition! I am so proud of her. Her best friend, Sami convinced her to tryout. It's so important to have good friends.
Austin is now taller than me! In December he was 5 foot 6 now he's over 5 foot 8. He's going to have a tough time adjusting to James being gone. They're always wrestling and goofing around and honestly, he's just to big for me to wrestle with. He wins!
Devree took charge of Mothers Day this year and ordered me an apple peeler that the children have wanted forever. She even sent me on a scavenger hunt through the house. It was so fun. My favorite clue was the one that went something like this "Midnight eats and then in an hour go the place where she pushes with power!" Which is the utility room where the kitty litter box is kept. Ha! Ha!
Rylee brought me breakfast in bed. Rice Chex's and milk. Yum! She also made the most hilarious book where she finished the end of cliche's. My favorite ones; "When you lie down with dogs....they might lick you up the nose!" And "People that live in glass houses... must live in a snow globe!" She also went to the David Archletta party @ Murray High with Kam and Dev and she cried four times. Tears of joy @ seeing David. What a funny girl!
Well, I'm blogging from James laptop as my computer got some terrible virus complete with bugs infesting my screen. (Yuck! I'm still itchy, even though I know they're just computer animated bugs....it freaked me out!) So my computer is a the computer doctors.
And I don't have any pictures to post although my kitchen is looking beautiful. I love it! It is so nice to have running water. You just don't know what you take for granite until you don't have it anymore. When my computer is well again I'll post kitchen pictures.

Marathon Saturday!

Some women run marathons with their running shoes on. I run them in my car!

This was our Saturday:

9:30-11:00 Rylee @ rehearsal for dance recital with Murray Community

10:00 Kambree @ work

10:30 Rylee @ Midvale for Cinco De Mayo Parade (luckily I was sitting at rehearsal and it got out early and we rushed over to the parade start.)

11:00 Luncheon @ my cute cousins house on the parade route! (Thanks Jen & Paul)

12:15 Rylee performing @ Cinco De Mayo Days

1:00-2:00 Run to Home Depot to buy ceiling fans for the 4th time!

2:00-4:00 Rylee @ birthday party

4:00-5:00 Dinner and hair and makeup for Ry

5:00 Rylee @ Dress Rehearsal

6:00 Kambree Home from work

7:00 Dance Recital
We missed a soccer game, my temple group and a primary party on top of this! Normally we don't have both dance groups scheduled on top of each other, I guess we just got lucky!

Unfortunately, I didn't burn a lot of calories running this marathon. Just a tank of gas!

Ry in the parade

Dancing on Stage

Singing her solo!

Isn't she cute?

In her dance outfit!

With Rachel & Ashtyn

This cute boy brings Ry flowers to every recital. His name is Sam and they are just good friends.

Rylee is in purple third from the right!

James's Tag.....

James here. I don't know how I managed to get here, but here we go.

4 Jobs I've Had:
Waiter, Plumber, Car and Furniture Sales, Medical Managed Care Account Exec.

4 Movies I own or would like to see over and over.
In this order: A Time to Kill (R) but you really learn to love all people regardless of race, especially our African brothers; Sea Biscuit, there is just something about the spirit of certain race horses; Toy Story, I just love the part when Sid gets his; and lastly the Apple Dumpling Gang.

4 favorite foods:
Lobster, Lemon Bars, Chile Relleno, Lime Sherbet with Sprite

4 Places I have lived
Maryland, Utah, Heaven, and Hell for just a few brief moments here and there.

4 People who email me regularly
Wendy, Ken Garff Volvo Dealership, Amazon and a guy at work whom I just found out was gay.

4 Places I'd rather be
Asleep in a closet in the afternoon hours, under water holding my breath for as long as I can, getting a massage from a woman, and with my wife, most the time not in this order.

4 Things to look forward to this year
Putting on my last piece of siding, putting on my last piece of trim, installing my last ceiling fan, and installing my last outlet receptacle.

4 People I Tag: Sorry I only know a few people besides the ones who have already been tagged: Jerry Lewis, Gene Simmons, Don Knotts, Tina Turner. I am hoping this will all end here!