Wichita Winners!

Eleanor 2nd grade



Sam 4th grade


Peter kindergarten


Penny preschool


Look at this cool thing Jeff made! Look close and you can see what he used to make it.

The Sunflower Sweeties!

We love visiting in Andover!

Here is an email I received from Heidi before our arrival:
"The girls are so excited. I am too. They were planning to have a party tonight at 10:30 to celebrate 24 hours until your arrival. I told them that was fine if they were still awake. Elizabeth has been counting the hours till you'll be here for about a week. Before that it was days. It's good math practice for her. They have been working hard on decorations for your bedroom, especially Courtney. You may need to take them down so you can sleep. They asked to stay home from school tomorrow to work on them. Which is a big deal since Elizabeth is trying to have perfect attendance."
Courtney even missed her after school snack to finish the decorations!
The girls can have visitors for lunch in the cafeteria, so we bought Wendy's and ate it with them at the special Visitor's table at Sunflower Elementary school.
Elizabeth 3rd grade



Sarah Kindergarten


Camille. Preschool


Courtney 5th grade


Our bedroom decorations





They made the spiders!

Twins Update!

30 Weeks and trying to keep these little turkeys incubated until at least Thanksgiving!

Ricks Chicks Rule!

We had such a fun weekend in Utah with so many of the Ricks Chicks!

Katie did a great job of organizing everything including these cute notebooks:

The Ricks Chicks have an origin and here it is!

We all sang together at a church Quartet Festival and referred to ourselves as the Ricks Chicks.  

That was our first and last performance on the Quartet circuit!

But we have have been busy in other ways--including producing posterity of whom we are extremely proud!

We had fun getting to know each other better, sharing tips and recipes and just talking:

Kathy headed up a wonderful tribute to the Head Chick: Here's my Mom when she was 17!

It was a little bit of heaven!

Big Sister!

Here is a picture of Aubrey and Bethany:

When I first saw Aubrey when she was about 2 pounds, I never imagined the day would come when I would say: She looks BIG!

Twins Update!

This sweet family will be adding two more members before the end of the year!

MaryAnn is 28 weeks pregnant with a little boy who weighs 2 pounds 13 oz and a little girl who weighs 2 pounds 10 oz according to the latest ultrasound on Wednesday.

Stay tuned!   (Or should I say "two-ned!)

Are You Ready?

There are many things that one can do to get ready for General Conference!

But along with the most important one of spiritual preparation,
we are getting ready with our 15 snacks!  

This was an idea we tried last April (here) and we have been excited about doing it again in October.  We have had fun these last couple of days planning out which snacks to repeat and which to replace.  

The best part of the fun is wondering in what order you will get to have the snacks.
Tomorrow I will randomly staple a photo to a snack and we'll see what happens over the weekend!


Prepare Your Family for General Conference

  http://www.lds.org/general-conference/prepare-for?lang=eng

25 of Your Amazing Conference Traditions

http://www.theredheadedhostess.com/teach/general-conference-teach/monday-question-what-do-you-do-for-general-conference/