Winter Concert @Columbia

Acting out a song from Wicked. Very clever!



Having a fun time. The audience enjoyed it too!


Here's Melanie in the center!


Here's Erin 2nd from Left.



There's Sammy Rodriguez on the left!

Thanksgiving in Santa Barbara

Too bad the median home price in Santa Barbara is $1,000,000. You can totally see why, though!

Birds hanging out people watching!

We brought the puppy to the beach. He was totally traumatized.

Chelsey and Tukker in the COLD ocean water.

Yes, Virgina, there really are palm trees in California.

A perfect day in Santa Barbara.
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Halloween with Grandma

Chelsey looks like she is about ready to step off and go down the cat walk!!

Chelsey plays volleyball with NOR

Chelsey -- #45 -- ready to serve and to hit the ball. Also, a photo of my parents who came for Halloween and to see Chelsey's game.


She is just finishing up volleyball with North of the River recreation. She loves it. Now she wants to play with that US volleyball league. Does anyone know anything about that group?

New Family Member

Relief Society Enrichment Night Craft

Relief Society crafts have certainly gotten better over the years! These individual wooden blocks that spell out FAMILY are the bomb. They are vinyl letters that you rub on! Judy Austin said that if you squint and look at the blocks just right, you can convince yourself that you hand-painted them!

The YW's presidency was curiously absent last night. We missed you three girl friends.

I WON! I WON! I WON!

It was Amy's birthday, but I won! I guessed the closest time to Amy's birth and won prizes! Ah, it's good to have friends with birthdays! I tried to get my grandson to hold the prizes...he wasn't too interested (just wait).

List of Fav's

Hubby & kids (when no one is complaining)
Being with My Girl (BFF)
Sausalito, CA
Target
Magazines
Diet Coke (none of this caffeine free stuff)
Diet Coke
Diet Coke
Massages
Pedicures
Hot Tamales
California Brittle (See's)
Solitude
Quiet
The Mommy Group
Project Runway
Ideas and people who are forward thinking
Boxed hair color!
A good haircut

Cubscouts Visit the Bakersfield Californian (newspaper)

What a great-looking bunch of boys gone wild! It was a great outing, and we even got to get inside where the reporters were quietly working on deadline seated in front of their computer (nothing like reporters of old!).

Daddy Daughter Party- -Friday evening 8/29/08

Chelsey and Daddy ready for the Party.

Chelsey loved her new haircut and new dress

Don't you love the coursage on her wrist?

Hard to believe Chelsey is eleven!

We were all pretty sleepy this morning, having returned the night before from Salt Lake City. But somehow we got to school on time. The kids had already missed 2 days of school due to our vacation, but on our way into town we had stopped at the school to check out which teachers they were to have. They had a great first day, loved their teachers, and found their friends after a long summer.