Thursday, June 18, 2009







It's already been an eventful few weeks of summer. We've had friends & cousins over for a beginning of summer party. I think there were about thirteen kids all together. They had pizza and ice cream, swam and played on the slip & slide it was better than Disneyland! Well, almost? Daddy and I took the kids up to the Feline breeding compound in Rosamond. That's pretty cool. They have Asian Leopards, bob cats, mountain lions, snow leopards and a few more exotic felines. It was a fun day trip. We've been to the movies with Aunt Sabrina and Raquel to see the movie "UP". That was fun, except it made me cry a few times. James started reading camp this week. He says he doesn't want to go but I said, " T double B!" Which means too bad, bad. Deep down I know he really likes it. We've been to the library a couple of times. Yea! for the Library. Oh, and the kids have been riding their bikes with me in the mornings. We've also been able to hang out with Daddy a lot more on his days off. Oh, and we went to our nieces dance recital and we went to two baby blessings on the same Sunday. My youngest brother blessed their baby girl, Katie and Marquis' brother blessed their baby girl, Aston. I think summer is great. Now I'm just going to be busy the next few weeks with young women things. The beehives are in charge of the all y.w. activity next week. We are going to make beaded lanyards for camp. Then a class activity the following week, "A Night at the Primere." A brother and sister that use to be in our ward have a movie theater in their house. Complete with stadium seating, popcorn maker, candy counter & movie posters! Then the week after that we are also in charge of the all y.m. & y.w. activity which will be, " Mormon Idle Night." Then the week after that is off to Girl's Camp.

Friday, June 5, 2009
























The weekend of May 23rd which happens to be my birthday, we went up to spend a day at the Tejon. It was a beautiful day and all seemed to be going well. The kids and I were riding with my cousin, and my mom and dad had their very good friends riding with them in their jeep. Suddenly out of no where a tree branch flew up and struck me right in the side of my head! It just about knocked me out and then it immediately started to swell up. I was having trouble seeing out of my right eye and of course my head was ringing so loud I couldn't hear. Well long story short it gave me a concussion. Later that day I decided I better have it checked out. My mom and I were at Mercy Southwest until 3:30am. I ended up sleeping until 2:00pm Sunday afternoon. Wow that hurt!

Anyway, here are just a few pictures of some of our adventures to the "Ranch" as we call it. It's hard to see but my oldest brother is in the huge oak tree. He hooked up his rock climbing ropes so the kids could swing from the tree. The other is the cabin. I have been coming here since I was a little girl. The kids were catching all kinds of butterflies in the meadow. The last one is a California Mountain King snake. It's hard to see the yellow, black, and red stripes. Before I swooped it up I said to myself, " Red & Yellow will kill a fellow, Red and Black is a friend of Jack! It's red and black, safe!" The only bad thing is the odor they give off for defense. My kids and my brothers' kids love it up here. Good Times!