Life in California

Hello Friends and family! things have been pretty crazy, but I will try my best to play catch up with LOTS of pictures!

June:
Before we headed to california, we took a road trip to Nauvoo Illionois for my Brothers wedding, (welcome to the family Mary:) The kids and I then spent some time in New Mexico while Alex started work and got things ready for us to come out

July: We aremostly settled in, we are loving the space and backyard we have. We have also done lots of exploring. We've gone to san francisco and oakland

4th of July

Petting zoo at the library. Bentley loved the fuzzy bunnies

At the Oakland Temple

Happy Birthday to me!

We've had lots of adventures in August as well. We've been to a few different splash pads, the beach in San Francisco, and parks galore

We were able to make a trip to southern California to see my sister while she was at a work conference and Alex's sister! Lots of fun with family:)

Alex's mom came to visit, we did lots of fun things with grandma! We went to the japanese tea gardens, the fortune cookie factory, the oakland temple, we went on hike, went to a bouncy house park and spent lots of our time playing with trains and hot wheels!

Beautiful vase and flowers from the farmers market

I'll try to do better at keeping the blog up to date. We are excited to be here and to find lots of new things to do and make some new friends!

Love the Richards family
Alex, Lezlie, Bentley and Hadley

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