My Snuggle Bunny

Just wanted to post a cute picture of my sweetpea!

I love how her eyes twinkle!

Fuscias and So Much More...

I love Fuscia Saturdays! Freddy's was having a big fuscia sale where you buy the plants of your choice and they pot them in their special soil for free... So, naturally... I bought a ton of fuscias, geraniums, and petunias!!! My mom and Vicki met at my house at 8:30am this morning and we were off to the Fred Meyer Fuscia Frenzie! We arrived and the fun began. We split up and started filling our cart with a ton of flowers and then realized taht the line for planting was clear out the door (and that was after it wrapped around the inside a few times). I decided to hold our place in line while my mom and mother in law fought for the flowers. 45 minutes later we had ourselves some beautifully planted fuscia planters. Then we realized that were was a lot more than fuuscias for sale... So we went in for round 2 and bought a ton of geraniums, petunias, and an assortment of basket fillers. I can't wait for the freezing to be over so that I can take these pretty planters and put them on display in our yard. We talked and we will definitely be attending Fuscia Saturday next year... we've even plotted some new plans!
Thanks for a fun morning!

Here we are almost to the front of the line.

My Mom and Vicki standing in Ash's truck filled with flowers
Vicki with more flowers in the bed of the truck!
Vicki's car!
My Mom's car
My driveway filled with assorted flowers!
Stay tuned for pictures of Caitlyn helping plant these pretty plants!

Happy Birthday, Mandy!!!

My brother's girlfiend, Mandy!!!

Hope you have a special Day

Easter Day

Besides the stormy weather...Easter was a beautiful day. It started by us waking up and giving Caitlyn her 1st ever easter basket, which included...a stuffed teddy bear, pears and prunes!!! Ashley and I exchanged Easter gifts and then got ready for church. Church service went well . My mom played in the bell choir and they sounded beautiful. After church, everyone gathered at my house for Easter dinner. My family and Ashley's family all came for a total of 19 people!!! The food and the company was great. Thank you to everyone who brought Caitlyn some Easter gifts!!! Here are just a few pictures of Caitlyn on her 1st Easter. Enjoy!!!

Aren't they precious in their robes?!?!?

(yes... ash is wearing my pretty lavender robe :)

Caitlyn exploring her 1st basket of goodies.
The tatsie la la, Caitlyn.
She received this headband from Ash's Aunt Tami and Uncle Larry.
Her getting into her toy basket. Saturday night, Ashley, Caitlyn, and I decorated eggs.

This is the egg Caitlyn decorated all by herself.

(it fell on the ground and cracked)

Happy St. Patty's Day!!!

Happy Birthday, Mom!!!

My mom was born in '54... and this year she turned 54. She said it was her golden-golden birthday! We celebrated by getting some soup at Infinite soups and then walking down to Corina Bakery and ate some birthday cake. We then went home and watched a movie until the other girls got home and then we went out to dinner. Hana and ksavera arranged an ice bucket in the mini van with sparkling cider and we sipped on that until we arrived at the Red Lobster. We all had delicious food and a great birthday celebration! Happy birthday mom, and I hope that you had an amazing day... you definitely deserve it.

Also thanks so much for your help with Caitlyn lately.

I am feeling more rested already!

Trip to PA

I've been contemplating the best way to recap our wonderful and eventful vacation... and my friend, Tiffany's blog, inspired me to do a recap in the form of a list...Top 20 Reasons I loved My Trip to PA...

by Caitlyn

1. I got to meet my Pra Babcia (Great Grandma) and Pra DziaDzia (Great Grandpa) for the 1st time.

2. I also met all my Pra Cocias (Great Aunts) Pra Cocia Char, Pra Cocia Pola, Pra Cocia Sonya, Pra Cocia Mich, & my favorite Pra Cocia Roz and all my mom's cousins.

3. I got to spend extra time with MY Babcia and DziaDzia (I even slept with my mom in her bed with her and Babcia).

4. I got to see a snow storm.

5. Getting to stay with my Pra Cocia Char and Uncle Paul.

6. I was able to help celebrate my Pra DziaDzia's 80th Birthday!

7. All of my new toys... thanks to everyone!!!

8. I ate many great dinners and visited with family every single night.

9. I got to eat (through my mom's milk) a ton of polish food including duck soup, poor boys, grilled cheese with onions, pigs feet, perogies, and home made lemon cello.

10. Enjoyed dessert with every meal including breakfast... I'm pretty sure my mom ate a whole rhubarb pie while we were there.

11. Enjoyed a drive on the orange, red and purple belts and got to see where my DziaDzia grew up.

12. My mom learned to crochet and began making me my first hand made blanket.

13. Looking through a ton of albums even one from when my mom was first born and Pra Babcia went to visit her in Alaska.

14. My mom was the tatsie lala, Karoake Queen of Lower Burrell!

15. Going to see the property Pra Cocia Char and Uncle Paul are starting to build their new home on.

16. Flying on an airplane... psyche... I really only enjoyed the flight over there ;)

17. Seeing Heinz football field.

18. Spending 10 whole days...precious time... with extended family.

19. Sharing over a thousand hugs and kisses.

20. Coming home to my daddy... the #1 Man in my life!!!

4 Generations of Rychlinski's/Riggs'

Happy 80th Birthday DziaDzia!!! We're so happy to have been in Pennsylvania to celebrated with you!!!

Thanks mom and dad for a wonderful trip and for all of your help with Caitlyn!

We're Back!!!

Well, I thought I had it in me to post my favorite pics of our Pennsylvania trip... but then realized that I took well over 200 pictures. I will find time after work tomorrow to pick my favorites and then blog about our good time. It's good to be back! Stay Tuned!

My buddy, Luke, from work let me borrow his camera for our trip and he taught me a few things about photography...

so I think I have some great pictures!!!