Overloaded with Emails?

So this blog has morphed a little this year. It's become a place for me and Danny to journal/ record our family adventures. It's my goal to have a post for ever day this year. Now ideally that should happen every day not big chunks at a time. That hasn't happened and I'm not going to pretend that it ever will :)

That means if you're on our email list you are getting bombarded with updates. I know I'm sorry. So here's your options, chose whichever works best for you they're all easy for us:
1. Keep getting every update in an email (nothing will change) Think of it as 365 love notes from us :)
2. Get 1 single email each time we update with a link to the blog so that you can go there to read up on all the posts.
3. No emails you can just go visit www.richoccasions.blogspot.com whenever you miss us or want to see what were up to.

WILLIAM ISAAC RICH!

Me and Will went to the grocery store today to get all those things we've been running out of. Well after we made it through our whole shopping trip I stopped off at the health section to pick up some vitamins. I was trying to sort out the aisle and a half of vitamins when I heard *crack*

Will must have gotten bored waiting because when I looked over her had turned around in his seat, and grabbed the eggs. The eggs that I thought we're safely in the back of the cart! He grabbed the edge of the carton so when he pulled up the lid popped open and all the eggs fell out. When I looked there we're only 3 or 4 out of 18 left. The rest were all over my cart. It was like Easter trying to find all the eggs amongst my other groceries. Like the bad kind of easter where you still have to spaces in the carton left and you were confident they were all full before hand. I didn't know what to do so I just put all the eggs back into the container and bought them anyways. Thankfully, the cashier didn't check them so I didn't have to explain why all of my coupons were wet. (I felt bad about that one, there was nothing I could do but yup I pretty much used coupons that were covered in egg whites)
Now my groceries are covered in egg and just in case you are visiting our grocery store today I have no idea where the puddle of egg whites came from in the vitamin aisle. :)

Ugly Shoes!

A few weeks ago Danny and I bought the ugliest shoes I've ever seen, well maybe not the ugliest but close. (for the record Danny does not think they are ugly) Anyways, on top of that they are also the most expensive shoes I've ever bought. So that said, why did we buy them?

It's a new trend in running shoes, minimalistic shoes or barefoot running. The idea is that you run very differently without shoes than with them. When you run without shoes you hit the ground with your mid-foot instead of your heel. When you strike with your mid-foot you are able to take advantage of the body's natural shock absorbers your forefoot and calf instead of just your knees and ankles. Running without shoes also strengthens all the tendons and muscles in your foot. The problem though is that when you run barefoot you're likely to step on things aka glass, sharp rocks, ect. These shoes are supposed to enable you to run as if you were barefoot but while still protecting your feet.

There's a steep adjustment but we'll let ya know how we like them.

Yard Work Part 1: Fence Posts

 This Saturday we started our spring overhaul of our yard. First project is to build a gate wide enough for the boat to fit through so that we can store it on the side of the house... instead of the driveway.

It was a pain and required a LOT of phone calls but we finally managed to get everyone out to mark out lines (well except water). It turned out to be a really good thing because for some reason our gas line runs right under the corner of our fence to our neighbors. We had to shift our posts a little bit because we were only a foot away from this line. As much fun as it would have been to see what happens when you hit a gas line with a post hole digger we thought we'd pass.

Next weekend: actually building the gate & weed round-up 1

All boy needs new white socks

This is why I do laundry ever single day.

Welcome to Earth Caleb Joseph Haynie!

This morning my sister sent me a text asking how big Will was. I was trying to figure out if she meant now or when he has born, but since she's pregnant I assumed she meant then. So I responded and she replied that Caleb was bigger. I thought she had gone to the doctor or had an ultrasound and was thinking "mmm those can be wrong we're not going to give up our record yet" so I replied I think you have to wait till he's born for that. Well then she said his is didn't you get my message?  WHAT!?!! Apparently, he was born 6:59am weighing 9lbs 7oz and 21inches long. I was like the last to find out because we had to block our picture messages due to Danny's pocket dialing habit. Anyways, apparently little Caleb knew this because if you look at his left hand in the picture his trying to tell his Mom and Dad to call his Aunt Jenni. Basically, because she is amazing and he wanted her to know he was here. :) So this is for you baby Caleb (well and for Tiff so that she doesn't have to look it up in case she wanted it in your baby book)

On the day you we're born:
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 (2/22 btw)

• Everyone was worried and trying to help an earthquake in New Zealand
• Gadhafi vowed to die a martyr
• Pirates killed 4 yachters

On this day in history:

1819	Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
1865	Tennessee adopted a new constitution abolishing slavery.
1879	Frank Winfield Woolworth opened a five-cent store in Utica, N.Y.
1924	Calvin Coolidge delivered the first presidential radio broadcast from the White House.
1932	Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., was born in Boston, the youngest child of Joseph P. and Rose Kennedy.
1959	The inaugural Daytona 500 race was held in Daytona Beach, Fla.
1980	The U.S. hockey team beat the Soviets 4-3 In a stunning upset at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y.
1994	The Justice Department charged 31-year CIA veteran Aldrich Ames and his wife, Rosario, with selling national security secrets to the Soviet Union.
2001	A U.N. war crimes tribunal convicted three Bosnian Serbs on charges of rape and torture in the first case of wartime sexual enslavement to go before an international court.
2002	San Diego police arrested David Westerfield in the disappearance of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam. (Westerfield was later convicted of kidnapping and murder and sentenced to death.)
2006	Insurgents destroyed the golden dome of one of Iraq's holiest Shiite shrines, the Askariya mosque in Samarra, setting off a spasm of sectarian violence.

People Who also have your birthday

• George Washington 1732
• Ted Kennedy 1932
• Sparky Anderson 1934
• Julius Erving 1950
• David Axelrod  1953
• Steve Irwin 1962
• Drew Barrymore 1975
• Your great-uncle Rodney

Well kiddo were glad your here, now take it easy on your mom ok?

Monday, February 21, 2011

Don't you just hate it when bark sticks to your tush?