Playing Hooky

Today the dad unit & B skipped out on school for some mischief. After dad unit had a morning phone call we headed to the golf course where we played for over an hour or two. It was a gorgeous day. We even spotted planes & a train. Mom unit came to the course to have lunch with us. We played some more then went hone for a nap. After resting up we re-arranged our train table then headed out to feed the ducks. We had a good time feeding the ducks. Then we went home to make dinner for mom unit. Good day to skip school.

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Adventures in Parenting : Why I Know he’s My Son

Adventures in Parenting : How I know this is My Son from Gavin Richardson on Vimeo.

Birthday Boy Photo Shoot

BrooksErinDailyIkonour little boy Brooks, turns 1 month old today. how does the Richardson family celebrate? a photo shoot of course.

Anna is a good friend of ours and offered to take photos for us after my nikon was stolen last spring. we were stoked to have her take photos, she’s a whole lot better than me as a photographer.

Brooks was quite the awake child (though this photo doesn’t show that part) for his b’day photo shoot. this made it tough to get some of those ‘serene’ pics you usually see, but i suppose we already have some of those sleeping peaceful baby pics. Brooks was quite the trooper in modeling for about 2 hours with some sporadic breaks.

you can check out Anna’s blog posting with some of our photos from the photo shoot. when she’s had time to go through more of the photos we will link to those so people can order prints if they like (and i know you all want your Brooks professional print).

if you are looking for a photographer, i would highly recommend Anna.

views from a Family Night!


Richardson Family Unit
from Gavin Richardson on Vimeo.

We, my brother & I, have had this little tradition going on for a number of years that we call “Family Night.” It used to be us going out to eat with Davey (our then roommate) to watch a wrestling pay-per-view or football game. Well, Family Night continues, but not always for a wrestling match. But as you can see from this little video capture, who needs the wrestling to have a good time.

Adventures in Late Night Parenting

So me & the boy are up late.. How does one get a preemie newborn to sleep when they are obviously awake in the middle of the night.. well, here’s my plan

Adventures in Late Night Parenting from Gavin Richardson on Vimeo.

Richardson Family Reunion 2008

Every fall, the first Sunday of November the Richardson family gathers in Banks Alabama for our annual family reunion. Its generally a weekend deal for us. We go to Birmingham, meet up with the siblings & parental units, then head down Banks on Saturday for the ‘fish fry’ then gathering on Sunday morning.

Here’s some of the photos from our Richardson Family Reunion in 2008

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