Confessions of City-Born Farmers: Our Two Newest Kids: Introducing Richard and Jessica!

Today we were granted Guardianship in court of Richard and Jessica! They came to us June 12, 2015 as a foster placement. It has been a great 11 months. We jumped right from having a 7 month old baby to having an 11 year old girl and a 13 year old boy! Learning to parent teenagers has been quite the experience! While they were in foster care we couldn't post pictures or write about them specifically, but now since we are the legal guardians, we can! We want to introduce you to the two newest members of the family with pictures in no particular order. We hope you can see their personalities shining through, and see what special people they are!

Our three kids :)

Aaron teaching Rich the art of BYU football victories!

They were home schooled for 6 months.

This pretty much sums them up...

Jess' first LDS Women's Conference

Jess joined a volleyball team at the YMCA and LOVED it!

At the National Missouri Fox Trotter Show

Just being beautiful :)

Peter puts up with their craziness pretty well.

Jess made a special dinner for the family.

Learning how to quilt!

As a family we read all of the Chronicles of Narnia- Amazing series!

Jess has read a couple of the Lord of the Rings books! Genius child!

Swimming at the hotel in Texas while dad was away at work meetings ALL day long...

Rich sanded and painted a board that we hung all of our Christmas stockings from.

Aaron teaching Rich how to bowl!

She did great!

At the temple in Texas.

Rich is growing up and needed help shaving for the first time. Aaron was more than happy to help...

She only lets him cut her hair. He is our family hair stylist. He cuts mine too :)

One of the few times ALL of us behind the camera at once! Usually we are missing someone who is behind the camera- but thanks to Aaron's long arms, we could take a family selfie :)