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Back to school....

Heres a little update......I started school last Thursday!!  So far it has been great and I really enjoy my classes.  My professors seem like they will be really good too.  Here's what I'm taking this fall:

Philosophy 101

Biology 101

Economics 120

Statistics

I think economics is my favorite class right now.  I have already learned so much!  So, just this semester and the spring semester, and Lord willing I will then be finished with TCC and off to somewhere else.  I'm still praying about where God would have me go after TCC.  Connor and Kara are coming back home for school this year and will take some of their classes at the Enrichment program at our church.

Girls Williamsburg day trip

On Monday, Natasha, Liz, Laura, and I headed up to Williamsburg for the day. It was so much fun and we really got to do a whole lot!! Our day started out at the huge antique mall. After that we went to the Prime Outlets. There are so many stores there!! We enjoyed our lunch at The Old Chickahominy House.....it was very tasty! The afternoon was spent walking around colonial Williamsburg and looking in all the shops. For the evening we drove to Yorktown and ate our picnic dinner on the beach alond the York River. After dinner we sat on a bench by the river and listened to some live music. It was such a great day to be with friends and have fun!

A little more Colorado....

The swimming pool


Me with the cousins
My cousins Walt and West....cuties!!
Connor showing off his horse skills
Kara and Walt on the ropes course

Walt and I on the hiking trip where we got to do some sledding on a snow patch
Kara, Aunt Lisa, and Grandma
Connor catching his french toast at the Wrangler Breakfast

Trail West lodge
Feeding the chipmunks at the ghost town
The ghost town, St. Elmo
On the off-roading jeep ride....it was SO windy!!

Our Colorado trip was a blast!!  The Lord really blessed our time there.  Some vacations you are ready to go home at the end of the week, but this one I think we would have loved to stay an entire extra week.  It was SO GREAT!!!  We stayed at a Young Life camp called Trail West.  Young Life is an organization that reaches out to high school kids who are disinterested in God and shares with them about the Gospel.  They have summer camps all over the country for the high schoolers and Trail West is the only Young Life family camp.  In CO we met up with my moms side of the family.  It was so much fun to be with all the aunts, uncles, cousins, and our grandparents.  While at Trail West we went swimming, played frisbee golf, went on an off roading jeep ride to a ghost town St. Elmo, played ping pong, pool, and fooseball (sp?? :), went white water rafting, went hiking, climbed on the ropes course, rode horses, and hung out.  There was so much to do there!!  One of the high lights was the Wrangler Breakfast.  We got on horses early in the morning, went on a little trail ride until we reached our destination.  They cooked us breakfast outside.  You even had to catch your french toast (they actually threw it to you :).  I will post some pictures of that.  These are just some of the many picture we took there.  I will work on posting some more later. 

Uncle Jeff and Dad pulling my little cousin Walt in the shovel pull race

Connor doing dizzy izzy.....it was hilarious to watch people try to run after that :)

The high school work crew at Trail West greeting us when we first got there

In the dining hall

Aunt Jen, Aunt Lisa, Aunt Charlene, and mom

Mom doing the relay race where you had to carry a bucket of water on top of your head and pour it into another bucket

Aunt Charlene in the egg race

Not a very good pic, but you can kind of see the big horn sheep

SNOWBALL FIGHT!!!

Cousins

Colorado...the first day

So we're here, finally in Colorado!  It has already been so fun to be with all our family.  Our first night here we stayed at the Hermitage Inn in Idaho Springs, CO.  It's such a cute little town that reminds me of an old mining town from a movie.  We've also already struck gold!!  Well, not real gold, but our cousin, Colton found a nice piece of fool's gold.  So later today we are going to head up to the ranch, Trail West, in Buena Vista, CO.  Outside our hotel balcony we just saw a herd of Big Horn Sheep!  I will try to post more about the adventures we have on our trip. 

Memphis trip Con't.

We had a wonderful time in Memphis visiting some of our extended family. I will share with you some of the highlights of our trip. On Friday and Saturday we visited with Daddy's side of the family. His mom, Memaw, had planned a family reunion. All her three siblings and one of Daddy's cousins came up for the reunion. Us Richards' kids got to be with some of our Great Aunts and Uncles, and our 1st, 2nd, and 3rd cousins. Memaw cooked some very tasty meals for us, both on Friday, and Saturday, complete with fresh squash from Gramps huge garden. When we ate our meals, Memaw had each of the generations sit a different tables. So all of us cousins, the 3rd generation, got to sit together. It was so fun listening to the 1st generation :) tell stories of days in the past. Some of the stories about our past extended family were hilarious!! Connor enjoyed riding four-wheelers all day on Memaw and Gramps property. It was great to be out in the quiet country.

On Saturday night all of us cousins (Cade, Cole, Connor, Kara, and I) went out to get ice cream. We had all been planning to go out together by ourselves once I got my driver's license:) Well that day had finallly come!! Anytime we do something together it always turns out to be a great adventure, and this night sure was an adventure. We first stopped at Sonic and got ice cream. Cade and Connor tried to play fetch with their tennis ball with the Sonic lady...........well, let's just say she wasn't really in the mood to play fetch:) When we were leaving Sonic, Cade, Connor, and Cole were all waving at her and wanted me to take a picture of them with the Sonic lady. I got all those silly boys into the car as fast as I could:) After Sonic, the first plan (the "normal/ordinary" plan :) was to go home, but that would definately not be very exciting. Someone thought of the idea to have a handshaking contest in the Kroger grocery store accross the street. I was hesitant, but before I could say "no" or lock the doors of the car they all hopped out the car and ran into the Kroger. Connor and Cade were on one team, and Cole and Kara on another. They got a hand shake from the meat packing man (gross!!) and almost from the not-too-nice Manager. I walked into the store after all the kids, and got them out of there before they got in too much trouble.....ha ha:) Our next stop was McDonalds...........to order a pepperoni pizza. The response to my order was, "uhhhhh, I'm sorry ma'am we don't have no pizza here.?.?." I thanked him and then drove off. We were all cracking up in the car, and saw the poor drive-thru guy just standing at the window staring at us:) Finally, we then made our trip home, complete with the all the windows down, the sunroof wide open, and "Life is a Highway" blaring out of the speakers and our mouths!! Needless to say, it was quite an exciting night with the cousins!

On Sunday we went to church with our Uncle Joel (my mom's brother) and then hung out all day by the pool at Uncle Joel's house, along with Grandma and Grandpa (Mom's parents). Connor got pretty good at his flips off the diving board and Kara perfected her cannon balls. We grilled out that day and Uncle Joel made homemade chocolate and vanilla ice cream...........yum!!

On Monday we got to go visit the Corky's BBQ plant were my Uncle Joel is the manager. We all had to where white jackets and hair nets (so cute!!:) as we got our very special personal tour by my uncle. It was very interesting to see where they cook the meat, package it, take orders, and ship it off. If anyone wants some Memphis style BBQ...........Corky's is truly the very best!!

http://www.corkysbbq.com/

After the tour of the plant we met up with Grandma and Grandpa at an authentic mexican restaurant. This was really "authentic"............none of the tex-mex stuff you get everywhere that says it's "authentic." http://www.delimexicana.com/ At the restaurant they made all their food fresh every day. We got to sample the prickly pear juice..........very different, but good!

On Tuesday we made our way back home in a 16 hour car ride to good ol' Chesapeake. It was so fun to be with all of our extended family!

Memphis trip

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