Natural History Museum

A couple of weeks ago, we went to the natural science museum here. Pretty cool, I must say. There is a lot of fossil findings here in New Mexico and the longest dinosaur ever found was discovered here, thank you very much! It's called a Seismosaurs ("size-ma-sorus") 110 feet long!

I Sometimes pictures of kids just don't work very well. They don't know how to smile real and they look uncomfortable so lately I've been having them "show-me-their-muscles" shots! So funny and they love to do it!

We bought some rock candy and had fun making them our new veneer teeth!
Scott's photo is the best. What a nut!

September Birthdays

With 4 birthdays in 3 weeks, we party all month. We are getting kind of sick of cake so we also have had brownies & icecream, cupcakes and fondue. Zoe isn't a September bday but thought you might want to see a photo anyhoo.

Dunanda Falls, Yellowstone Sept. 08

Hi All -

We just returned from a 3-day adventure to one of our favorite places to spend a weekend - Dunanda Falls in SW Yellowstone. Its an easy 9 mile hike across a huge meadow and beautiful small streams. The falls have several hot pools just at the base. We sat in the pools with the mist of the falls hitting our faces. Also, Eric showed us how to walk behind the water falls, an awesome experience. We watched 3 bull moose fight near our camp.

Eric says he has hiked to the falls 8 times since our first trip when he was in jr high. Come go with us sometime,

Uncle Bill

I know everyone would want to see our adorable kid! Zoe born 7/30/08

Welcome!

WELCOME everyone to our new blog! The Richins Family blog! I set this up because Uncle Bill came to visit me a couple of weeks ago and wanted to put some of his awesome photos of camping/rafting and whatnot on the wildmountain blog. I thought instead we could create a Richins blog where all of us could participate and chat and post photos of what we are up to. I love the idea of having this blog with all of you guys so I hope you get involved and post comments and photos and whatever new you want to share. I think it's a wonderful way to keep us all connected. So find some stuff to share!

It was great to have Bill visit us. This is the second time that he has stopped by while he was on a business trip here in New Mexico. He also brought me a load of photos from Grandpa's slides. They are great! and I couldn't pass up posting some of them here. Thanks Bill!
What a great picture of the..."original" Richins Clan.
I love this one of Grandma and Grandpa and the uncles...well, MY uncles.

Check the scarf out! And the lovely flowing curls...which one has more of those curls....Hmmm.
Hiking by a lake. We wear short shorts!
A big pile of Richins.

Skiing has always been a big activity with lots of us. Who the heck made that snowball!?
I love this one with Margret, Janice, and Glen. So sweet.

So there are a few photos to start us off. If you know nothing about blogs let me know and I can help. This blog, so far, is for anyone to see. If a majority of us would like it to be private, meaning every person MUST be invited to view it, we can do that. The wildmountain blog is not private and I don't think any of us mind. I don't have everyone's email address to invite you so I'll contact Bill and hopefully, get all you who want to participate. I might be messing around with the look of the blog so don't be surprised if it changes a bit.

Hope to see you soon and often!!
Kathy...Brooks (since there's two Kathys)