Chihuly Glass Exhibit

We had the opportunity to go to the Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix to see the Chihuly Glass Exhibit a couple days ago. It was totally cool! It is amazing that they move these glass sculptures all around the world, and we got to see them. They are stunning, and we recommend it to anyone who is going to be in the area between now and April!

Happy Birthday Harley!

Happy 19th birthday Harley!!!! We are so lucky to have a cool girl like harley in our family. She is very artistic and talented and most importantly funny as can be! She is such a sweet girl who loves her family very much....WE LOVE YOU HARLEY!!!!!!

Mesa Temple Lights

Geddes has been begging us for weeks to go see the lights at the Mesa Temple. So we bundled up and headed out to brave the 53 degree weather. Once there, we got to be herded through the very crowded pathways, and hear the beautiful music from the Christmas Program. Geddes had a lot of fun, and can't wait to go again next year.

A Year Gone By

So it has been almost a year since our last post, so SORRY! In the past year, a lot has happened. As you already knew, Harley got accepted into BYU-Idaho and she has two semesters under her belt now. She started in June and got home about 2 weeks ago. She absolutely loved it up there, and made lots of new friends. She especially loved being close to the Ricks side of the family for a bit, and hanging out with her cousin Rachel all the time. She's off track for the winter, so she won't have to go back until April, and she is pretty glad to be in Arizona for the coldest months of the year. She is also hoping to do a study abroad somewhere, or maybe even a volunteer program in India, Africa, or China.
Baxter has a part time job at the local driving range that he loves because he gets to golf for free whenever he wants. He has really honed his carving skills and loves making things for his siblings and parents.

Geddes is halfway through 2nd grade and he is doing great! He has really missed Harley for these past 6 months and he is thrilled to have her home for awhile.

Addison is just a few months from graduation, and she is working at In N Out Burger. She is enjoying it and is making lots O' money, which she is saving for whatever she is doing after graduation.

Well, that's the jist of the year! Hopefully we will be better at posting now that Harley is home.

Harley just got accepted into BYU-Idaho and will be attending in the fall! We are all soup-urr excited for her and know she will have a blast!

We finally did it!

So this is us being new to the whole blogging thing. Harley, our resident computer whiz, took time out of her precious schedule to give the Ricks-Austin Family a place on the internet world wide web. We're still figuring some things out, but once we get everything settled, we'll probably still be shaky on getting posts up and whatnot.