Pan Seared Salmon with baby vegetables, creamy dill sauce, and parmasean potato croquettes

 

The Tribe

 

 

Into Action

It's been a while

We have been so busy with birthdays and now we have graduations. But I promise just give me about a week and we will be rockin and rollin again. I have to get Mark to post some videos, well actually he needs to put them together first. I promise not too much longer. Love ya all.

I hate building swing sets

I am starting to think it would be worth the money to pay people to put these large swing sets together for you. OH MY GOSH!!! It is really not fun, we are going to finish it on Sunday, I will take a picture and post it for all to see how backbreaking it was. Hope everyone is doing well :)

Backyard Cleanup

Well this afternoon is going to be lots of fun. We have to finish cleaning everything up and dragging more branches from the cut down apple tree out to the front for pick up on Tuesday. Next weekend we are pouring concrete for the playground and building the set on next Sunday. Oh I feel some backache coming on soon. Oh Mark wants me to video him chainsawing the rest of the tree, must be a man thing. So we will be sure to post that on here for his ego. Hope all is well, and yes Brad your comment to Mark's post was right he needs to be in bed!!!!

This is Punk!

"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying AMEN to what the world tells you, you ought to prefer. Is to have kept your soul alive!"(Robert Louis Stevenson)

Backyard Sunday

Here's another fun video from the Ricker house, this one also features footage of the crazy Ricker pets. Hope you all enjoy!

Anyone can post now

To the rest of the family who are not already blog members and don't want to deal with setting up an account, anyone can post a comment to something Mark or I post. This will keep things fun for everyone. Today we laid out some newspaper to start killing the grass where the playground will be. Autumn is getting really excited about her party and the playground. Her and Davey helped wet the newspaper so it would stay put. We will need donations of newspaper from all of you who can keep collecting it (especially you Dad because I know you get it everyday, and I think you do to Mom). We are working on some more videos, but Mark is extremely busy with work right now. Hey Mist I hope you sent those clothes out, I know how much of a procrastinator you are, but hey so am I. Well have a great day everyone. Love you all.

Cleaning out Closets

Man you just never realize how much clothing accumulates until you start sorting it out by sizes. I am trying to get organized for a yard sale and oh boy is it a task. Especially with Autumn having 4 years worth of clothes. I haven't even began to think about the toys, and not to mention the thousands of things I have out in my garage. But this will bring in a lot of money for our vacation to Florida in June. That's going to be a blast. Lets see did anything interesting happen lately. Oh last night I actually edged the entire backyard, for those of you who don't know me that is not something I have ever done before. We are getting ready to set up a playground in the backyard for Autumn's 4th birthday, it's going to be lots of fun haha! Oh well hope everyone out there is doing well, and I'll be posting again soon. Bye! :)

Mark's Poem

Here is a wonderful contribution from my amazing husband Mark. Hope you all enjoy.

Daddy's Corner

Welcome to our families blog page! My wife's inspiration to start this blog has seeped through my cold hard exterior and struck a nerve that has both excitied and intrigued me to become a contributor to this site. I figure since I am contributing regardless I might as well make some comments for no other reason than to keep these women honest and to keep our women from ganging up on us. Remember to never take anything to seriously and hopefully at the end of a stressful day we can look back, laugh and learn from this wonderful experience that is our life as parents. Thank you all!

The Adventure

Here is our lovely adventure to a place called Playworld, similar to Chuck E. Cheese. The video is meant to inspire youth and all of it's potential. And to reinspire us as adults to recapture our carefree spirit and youthfulness. Hope you all enjoy.

Ricker Christmas

Here is some footage from Christmas 2006, thought everyone might enjoy. Still learning how all this works so please bare with me for a bit. Thanks.

Welcome

Today I became inspired by my sister-in-laws blog to start one of my own. I stay at home with my 2 kids Autumn (almost 4) and Davey (1 1/2 yrs.old). See how cute they are in the pictures. :) There is always something fun going on in our house so I thought this would be a place to share the crazy stories. Hope everyone enjoys all of the postings that will follow. Thanks for reading my blog.