Welcome!

It's been over a year since we received this domain name as a baby shower gift from our closest friends, Matt and Jen, and finally we have created this website! When I say "we", I really mean "Jen". See, Jase and I are sort of html-challenged. We had an idea of how we wanted it to look, and the sort of functions we wanted for it, but we didn't know how to do it. Well, now Jen is about to have a baby, so she made a website for her family, and when I saw how great it turned out, I said, "I want one of those!" So voila! She helped me whip this one up based on all she learned creating her own. As Dionne Warwick et al. said, "That's what friends are for."

We have finally completed our move to Carlsbad, California. When I say completed, I don't mean that everything is unpacked and put away or anything like that. I mean, we are here, and our stuff is finally here, after the moving company decided not to ship 3 of our 4 crates of furniture. After many irritated phone calls and a $600 reimbursement for our inconvenience, we have everything. Now all we have to do is unpack. I just wish I could fly out my mom (Mom), my mom-in-law (Andie), and my sister (Anne) to do it all for me - they are master unpackers. The gene was not passed down to me.

So instead of packing, I'm procrastinating by writing this post. Here I will post the hilarious hijinxs of the Ritchie family. Tonight's consisted of Jason and I trying to put together Charlie's crib without killing each other!!! Believe me, it was a close call, but we managed to avoid bodily harm when we decided maybe this was not a task we should do together. Jase ended up doing it himself and our lives are still intact! Hooray!

So Charlie is sleeping peacefully, as is Boo, who, since Charlie started walking, only sleeps soundly when a) he's alone in the house or b) the child is sleeping. All other times, he's running away from the manic, squealing with joy child. Jase is working on his eighth Sudoku puzzle of the day (intervention, please) and I'm thinking of unpacking a box. HAHAHAHA! Okay, really I'm thinking I'll load more photos so I can procrastinate some more. Check out our Photo Gallery if you're wasting time, too!

Welcome to Mo' Ritchie!