October has arrived and on the 7th Rob turned the big 4-0! We went to our first Ball and celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving in Saudi Arabia.

Cakes were made, laughs were had and friends got together.

ROB turns 40

Birthday boys
We decided to kill two birds with one stone and have a joint birthday party for the boys!

Birthday wishes!

Party animals!

Rob's cigar cake

Eating one of the "cigars' off his cake (chocolate covered celery...yum)

Don's scuba diving cake

Octoberfest 2011/ Rob's actual birthday

Boys enjoying a birthday cigar in the pool

Rock on! Daddy and Jordyn

Twas the night before the ball.....

Kisses for my friend, Tanya

Kelly and I and Trevor

Heather and I

The Ball!

So we all got dressed up and headed to the Yatch Club Annual Ball. We ate, drank and were very merry!

Justin and Jenn

Don and Tanya

Jay and Heather

Kelly and James

LaLani and Steven

Rob and I

Trevor and Kelly

Beautiful girls at the Ball

Kelly, Heather, and I

Me, LaLani and Heather

Jordyn

Goofing around after Thanksgiving feast...Canadian style!

I'll spare you the videos, but let's put it this way, Rob and Don's birthday was the night before and then the next day we had Thanksgiving....we inhaled a lot of helium balloons to end the night! My sides still hurt from all the laughing!

Lemonade for sale!

I was so proud of my girls....together with their friends Lyla and Riley they put up a Lemonade stand at the park. They raised 90SR and decided to donate the money to Mr. Fisher (school assistant principal) for Breast Cancer, Mr. Fisher lost his wife to Breast Cancer. I am so proud of them for making such a wonderful decision!

Lemonade for sale
(L: Jordyn, Jaymee and Lyla)

Lemonade stand
(L: Jordyn, Jaymee and Riley)

The Middle School Play - Pirates of Penzance

Pirates of Penzance

Proud parents (that is Micheal's real hair all teased up)
(L: Steven, Micheal and LaLani)
The mad conductor with his two biggest fans!



MORE CAKES

Mongolian flag cake

Sunshine cake

Minnie Mouse cake

Pirate cake

Beer cake

RCMP Beaver cake

That is all for now, stay tuned for the next blog as we are heading on a cruise to Greece, Italy and Turkey!!!!

Bye for now!

Hugs and Kisses

Love the Richards Family

Well September started off with a bang, Jaymee entered Second Grade and Jordyn started Kindergarten. We said goodbye to some great friends who headed off to Houston and we watched the principals of the school walk the plank. September has been great!

Eric and Ambrest....and Nancy!

Going out in style...dinner of steak, potatoes, shrimp, beans and salad, what more could you ask for?

The kids

The "last supper"

Texas cake

Saying goodbye to friends as they head off back to Houston!
Because everything is BIGGER in Texas!

The First Day of School!
My how time has flown, the kids are growing up so fast! They are loving school and are happy to be reunited with new and old friends
Jordyn
Second grade for Jaymee this year


My how Jaymee has grown!

Daddy and his girls

Mommy and her girls!

Big sister and Little sister

Walking to school

Walking to school with old friends and a couple of new ones

Mommy hanging out with her big kindergartener

Jordyn's new teacher Mrs. Spicer

They have fish in Jordyn's classroom, can you imagine the look on her face when she saw those?

Connecting with old friends
(L: Reina, Jaymee and Allison)

The Three Musketeers are in the same class together this year, they were very excited!

Jaymee and her buddy Reina (they have been in the same class together since kindergarten, plus they only live a block away from one another)

So Jordyn's first week was spent trying to find the gingerbread man, apparently he kept leaving messages all over the school (this was how they introduced the kindergarteners to the library, they gym, the office, the nurse's room etc... it was a great way for them to learn the school), finally they found that crazy guy, but he poisoned Mr. Fisher (principal) so they all had to chant "gingerbread man, gingerbread man" until Mr. Fisher woke up, he then found the gingerbread man and the kids helped him eat him up so he wouldn't run away again...too cute!

Jaymee's second week of school was Pirate week, throughout the summer the 2nd graders had a standing bet going with all three principals to read a book everyday in the summer, plus read 10 additional books in the second week. If the principals did not meet the challenge they were to walk the plank! What do you think happend?

The capture of Mr. Fisher...walk the plank matey!

The pirates, they are a comin'





Walk the plank! They chanted this all the way from the school and we could hear them all the way at the pool!

Arrrggg they walked the plank!

In goes Mr. Fisher!

Dr. Smith going in, he tried to get away with it by saying he read 10 e-mails, but the kids would not accept that, he had to read 10 books...just like they all did!





Mr Chavez going in!

See what happens when you don't do your homework?
(L: Dr. Smith, Mr. Fisher and Mr. Chavez)

Jaymee and Ms De La Cruz

Ms De La Cruz's second grade class

Jaymee with her teacher Ms. De La Cruz and her buddies
(L: Reina, Jaymee, Allison and Regan)

Some more cakes

Garden Bug mini cakes

Cake for a friend, couldn't buy her the real thing so I made one out of chocolate!

Texas cake

So that is all for the month of September, I start preschool on the 25th and have my own class, I am looking forward to another year at the preschool. I must admit it is nice to have the house to myself with Jordyn in school, but looking forward to seeing all those cute little faces! Hope all is well and until next time......

Love the Richards Family

XOXOXOXO