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Watch Out Ecuador...


The Richerts are taking over!  That's right, the mini-Richerts (a.k.a Dave's brother Jon and his beautiful wife Heather) are moving to Guayaquil.  There  was a job opening at InterAmerican Academy and Dave and I encouraged Heather to apply for it.  Of course the IA crowd was wowed by Heather's mad teaching skills, and they offered her the post of teaching second grade for the 2008-2009 school year. 

Needless to say, Dave and I are incredibly excited.  We can't wait for Team Richert to take Ecuador by storm.  

Congratulations mini-Richerts!!  You are going to love it here.

Here's a question...how did both of these Richert boys manage this whole type of situation?  Both of their wives will be slaving away at work while they get to go out and play?  Interesting...

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