Going Private

Hey everyone! I have decided to take my blog private so if you would like to continue reading our blog then just leave your email in the comments and I will delete it as soon as I see it. I will plan on switching it over at the end of the month so let me know! Thanks!

Official Announcement

Well I suppose that it is time to let everyone know that Tyler, Carson, and I are expecting baby number 2! I am about 15 weeks along (on Thursday), and we are all super excited. What has not been so fun is the being sick every day but I am hoping that that will go away soon. We will take whatever we get. Though Tyler would love to have all boys, I do want to have a girl at some point, though it would probably be easier to have another boy right now seeing as we only have the one bedroom and there really isn't enough room to do boy and girl decorations in Carson's room. Oh well, we will figure out what to do either way. So anyway now everyone should know and I think we will find out what we're having in 5 weeks (though if they do an ultrasound when I go in next week we may be able to find out then...). Well we will keep you updated!!

My Super Eventful Morning

So this morning was very eventful at the Richins house. Tyler left for guard early this morning and I was super excited to go to my mom's house to get some pictures of Carson (I am redoing my livingroom, but more on that later...). I got all ready and went to put Carson in the tub so that he would be nice and fresh for his pics. Well for the first time ever, he pooped in the tub. It wasn't too bad and I just got some TP, scooped it out and threw it in the toilet. Well when I turned back around to grab my babe out of the tub, it was filled... FILLED!! with poop. EEWWWWW!!! So I hurry and whip him out and start draining the tub out so I can clorox it and I get some paper towels to start scooping the shiz up. I throw it all in the toilet and go to flush and it clogs my toilet and floods my bathroom! WE DON'T OWN A PLUNGER!!! So I mop up what I can, clean the freak out of my tub, and give Carson another quick bath. Since we live in Shelley there are no stores open on Sundays except for Kings, so I pack Carson up and we hurry over to buy a plunger. Well the only plunger that they have in the entire store is a sink plunger that is, say, 9 inches long, but seeing as it was my only option, I buy it and head home. It took me a while with the stupid little plunger, but I was finally able to fix my toilet and my bathroom is now back in clean working order. It was an adventure, and Carson is as happy as ever. I just want to say that I hope every single person reading this had a better morning than I did :oD!

Sorry for the long post!!

He just looks so old in this picture :(

So my baby turned a year old on Thursday! It was really exciting but it was also kinda sad. I can't believe he is a year old already. I can't believe how fast it went by. It was an eventful day. We were planning to have a party with both mine and Tyler's family, but I got a call that morning that my mom was in the hospital. She had a super bad case of vertigo and ended up being admitted stayed there overnight. Carson and I spent a few hours up at the hospital while my mom was doped up on whatever it was that they gave her and he was sooo good. So instead of having a big party, we went over to Tyler's parents house and just had a little one with their family. Allyson was so awesome and she made Carson a cake for me cuz I ended up being a little more busy that day then I had planned.So then on Sunday we did a party at my parents house with my side of the family. I don't have pictures from that yet but as soon as I do I will post them.

On Friday I took Carson in and had his one year check up. He is 29 inches tall and 21 lbs. He is in the 20th percentile on his height, the 40th percentile on his weight, and the 60th percentile on his head. haha. I guess that we don't have any choice except for him to take after the Richins. :D. Oh well. He is still just so stinking cute, I just love this kid. He is getting so big. He says mama and dada and he will say "Hey!!" to you when you walk into a room. He loves doing what an indian does (you know, the old "patting your mouth while saying ahhhh" trick). But he still won't walk. He can, he has great balance and if you can by some miracle get him to stand, he squats and lowers himself slowly to the ground, but he is such a scaredy cat! Oh well, he will figure it out eventually. Anywho, I hope all is well with all. Again, sorry for such a long post. Merry Christmas!!!

Black Friday

I'm not sure exactly what it is that draws me to Wal-mart at 4:30 in the morning the day after Thanksgiving, but whatever it is it's working. Not only that but it has worked every Black Friday for the last 6 or so years. Now you may think that I am insane for doing this, and I would have to agree with you, but still I go back. I was completely finished with my Christmas shopping by 8:00 am. It was awesome. When we got to Walmart they had the doors open and we thought, oh sweet, we can just get our shiz and leave. But no. No one is allowed to touch their item until 5:00 sharp, so instead everyone just hovers next to the item they want and wait until someone comes over the intercom to let us know we can start grabbing. It. Was. Awesome. :D. I got everything I went for and it was a blast. For anyone who has never ventured out to experience this, I recommend that you try it at least once. So now it is on to decorating my house! I hope you all had a fantastic Thanksgiving and good luck with Christmas!! Happy Holidays!!!

Some Happy Halloween Pics

Sorry this is pretty late. Things have been kinda crazy around the Richins household! Anyway, on Halloween my sisters Jo and Ruth and then two of my friends Heather and Lindsay and I went out to lunch at Applebees to get the day started. (Technically Ruth didn't make it to lunch and met us there at the end...). Then Ruth and I went over to Trick-or-Treat street in Idaho Falls. I'm not too sure how I feel about it and don't know if I will go back next year. It took us a little over an hour and a half to get through and they mostly got taffy and tootsie rolls. Oh well. So Carson went as a lion, Taylie-Ruth's little lamb, went as a 50's girl and Keilah-Jo's baby, went as a nun. Jo and I colaberated on her costume and I think it turned out great.

Here's Ruth being a champ. She is going in to have her baby on the 18th of this month and made it through this entire thing!

My little Carson

Tay

And K in her awesome nun costume

And two incredibly worn out babies at the end of a looooong day :D

100 Things

Try this one out. It was pretty fun!

1. My nickname is Sbomb.
2. I don't know what an Sbomb is.
3. I think that everything Carson does is the cutest/funniest/bestest thing any baby could ever do.
4. I lost most of my hair when I got diabetes.
5. I grew most of it back.
6. Carson likes to pull out that same hair that I grew back.
7. I once scared Tyler in the middle of the night to get rid of his hiccups (and it worked!).
8. I did the same thing to Carson when he was a few months old and he cried (and it also worked...)
9. I once drove a purple van we called Farfignugen and the steering wheel was falling off.
10. The radio would also turn off if I took a sharp turn.
11. I hated that van.
12. I like to highlight hair.
13. But only if I am in the mood for it.
14. I love mac & cheese.
15. My baby pictures look just like Carson.
16. Carson looks just like Tyler now.
17. Therefore when I was a baby I looked like Tyler does now.
18. I eat like crap.
19. I love to sew.
20. I love to scrapbook.
21. I love to cook.
22. I never thought that those would be things that I would love.
23. Tyler first got in touch with me while he was in Iraq.
24. I fell for him before I ever met him in person.
25. The first time I talked to him on the phone (while he was in Iraq) I had just been to the dentist and had a numb face.
26. He said something and made me laugh.
27. Hard.
28. There was a mirror near and my face looked so stupid from the numbness that it made me laugh even harder.
29. This made my face look even more stupid.
30. It is one of my best memories.
31. I got cataracts in both eyes when I was 21.
32. They were getting so bad so quickly the doctors told me that I wouldn't be able to see Carson when he was born.
33. I was!
34. I like to make Carson have a faux hawk.
35. I am very close to my family.
36. I shared a room with my one year older sister until she went away to college.
37. I wouldn't have it any other way.
38. I used to have a barbie named Candace that I called Butch because she had flat feet.
39. We used to stick light brights in Ken's head.
40. My sister and I once cut the hands and feet off of all of my little sisters' barbies and let my older brother take the blame for it.
41. I like to tease Tyler that I married him for his insurance.
42. Instead of getting my own drink, I like to just get one for Tyler and share it with him.
43. He hates sharing a drink with me and wishes I would just get my own.
44. I love stupid humor.
45. I love my inlaws and consider myself very lucky for this.
46. I broke my left arm at the end of 5th grade by falling off of some monkey bars.
47. I broke my right arm at the end of 6th grade by falling off of a horse.
48. I am deathly afraid of heights.
49. I am the tallest girl in my family.
50. I don't wear high heels cuz I don't want to be taller than Tyler.
51. I hate baths.
52. Don't worry, I love showers.
53. I hate cleaning my house, but I love to have a clean house.
54. I lost touch with most of my friends after high school.
55. I regained touch with them all about a year ago.
56. I still consider them my best friends.
57. I am a shopaholic.
58. I don't seem to have the ability to go into Old Navy without buying something for Carson.
59. I have awesome brothers and sisters.
60. I have equally awesome parents.
61. Once after an old friend of mine's family moved, myself and another friend snuck into their house to see if they left anything cool.
62. I love to dance!
63. I like to think that I am always right.
64. I want to learn how to quilt.
65. I love being a stay at home mom.
66. I want my kids to be close in age so that they can be friends.
67. Whenever I order a salad I ask for it with no tomatos, onions, or cucumbers because you never know what people put on their salads.
68. Burger King double cheesburgers are my very favorite cheeseburgers ever.
69. When I was pregnant I constantly got cravings for Jack in the Box tacos.
70. Sometimes I am just in the mood to listen to Backstreet Boys.
71. Tyler is my very best friend.
72. So is Carson.
73. I love my dogs.
74. I love blogging, but I always forget to do it.
75. But I never forget to check and see if other people are staying updated.
76. I have probably 25 wonder tees.
77. They are all in different colors.
78. I have "my shows" recording on my dvr almost every day of the week.
79. Sometimes I like to just sit home and watch movies on the lifetime channel.
80. I think that the only reason that someone should run is if something is chasing them.
81. That said, I have tried to start running to get rid of this excess baby weight.
82. That said, I am fully prepared to put it right back on.
83. I like to buy the cutest reading glasses that I can find so I don't feel old when I have to wear them.
84. I love love love my new sewing machine.
85. I have a very dirty couch that desperately needs cleaned.
86. I like to take surveys on the internet.
87. I love hot water cake more than any other cake in the world.
88. I put butter on top of my hot water cake.
89. Tyler thinks this is disgusting.
90. I still married him ;D.
91. I am deathly afraid of moths.
92. I have been since one night when I was watching unsolved mysteries and found a moth stuck in my hair.
93. I new that Lindsay and I would be friends forever when I found out that she got in a wreck because there was a moth in her car.
94. I like to go through the clearance section every time I go to Walmart... just in case.
95. I go to Walmart all the time.
96. I loved decorating Carson's room.
97. I cry every time I have to pack up clothes that don't fit him anymore.
98. When I was pregnant I cried because I spilled barbeque sauce on my couch.
99. I am a serial procrastinator.
100. I vowed to never ever play the piano in relief society (or anywhere else for that matter) ever again!