Kalifornia Kids

7.26.2007

Arica and girls, Susan and kids VISIT!

Peyton on the horsey

Aurora in the Humpty Dumpty sandbox

Aricaroo and Me----aroo.

Miki and her orange cream soda. :)

Rica and me again

Ille enjoyin' that hot hot sun

Selina having a great time

Ille with her Diet Coke. Silly!

We had a fun surprise this past weekend... a quickly planned visit from Auntie Arica, her girls Ille, Mikaela and Aurora, and their awesome friends, Susan, Sawyer and Malia! They drove for 12 hours to spend the weekend with us. We felt so special, and had a grand time getting to know each other all over again! :) The kids had such a great time together. Us adults got a few minutes alone on Saturday night after all the beach craziness. All-in-all a superfun time. We hope they come back soon!!!

Boating!

Arica, Aurora, Susan, Sawyer and Malia with Lee out on the boat.

Arica with Aurora and Selina on the beach

Peyton eating with Noah and Jenney in the background

Aurora and Selina

Malia eating her lunch on the beach

It was 95 degrees and the water wasn't too chilly. We left with some pretty severe sunburns, but had lots of fun! Ille, Mikaela, Noah, Jenney, Noah's daughter Tila, Lee and I all tried out the new wakeboard tower, which works juuuuuust fiiiine. :) Wakeboarding was a little difficult due to the choppy water, but kneeboarding was just as fun and kept us occupied.

Sunday

Mikaela and Selina

Ille :)

After mtg on Sunday

He doesn't like this at all.

Selina and Aurora and their "big eyes"

Susan's cool spoon trick! Ha ha!

6.20.2007

Trying out the boat!

We took Lee's Father's Day present out on the lake yesterday. It was a perfect boating day! Nobody was on the lake, since it was a Tuesday. We stayed on the water for 4 1/2 hours. The water was cool and refreshing, almost warm. And the boat was awesome! We got such a deal!

So much fun!

Happy boy!!

Father's Day!

Selina and Peyton made us breakfast! They formed a perimeter with my sewing trim that was their "house", and set up this table. We had a good breakfast of bread spread with cream cheese, and topped with raspberries. Yum! They sure know how to put on a good breakfast! :)

Father's Day morning... in the grass after meeting at the Doede's.

Father's Day lunch, Thanksgiving-style.

6.05.2007

Riding horses!

Selina and Peyton enjoyed the horses at the fair.

Selina's Pre-School Graduation!

walking to the stage behind her "future husband", Christopher.

Performing, far right

Getting her Graduation Certificate from teacher Ronda

The Special Girl!

....and I want one of those, and one of those, and one of those!

5.23.2007

Mountain Ranch

Mountain Ranch Convention #1, May 16

The convention was so nice!! The weather was perfect, stayed in the low to mid- 80's. It seemed like all of our favorite people came to the same convention, so very nice to see everyone again. We also had a ton of visiting workers, so many that they had a hard time fitting everyone in on the speaking list. All in all a wonnnnderful convention!