Friend's Trip '08

Bald and I on the harbor cruise
Some of the fishing boats that were docked

You call this sand?? It's more like gravel to me!
Sally was mad because Zane kept skipping her! It was a little excessive I have to admit!
Fern Canyon...
Oh my gosh it was so pretty there. They actually filmed some of Jurassic Park II there. It was pretty cool. I would definitely recommend going if you ever have the chance...just don't drive a car. You have to go through 3 streams to get there! But my car made it!

More Fern Canyon. The ferns are just growing on the walls.

Banana Slug...I heard that you can lick them and they taste like bananas. But I didn't want to try. Sally tried it back in the day...so I will just believe it.
More ferns.. A trail that the boys found when they were exploring.

Bald on an old tree stump in front of a very large Redwood.

This was Big Tree. This picture doesn't show the true size of this thing. It went on forever. I swear I couldn't even see the top

The coast at sunset. The fog would come in too early to get a nice sunset picture, but these 3 are still beautiful.


The towns little old church.

On the last day, we walked down to the beach to check out the tide pools. It was so pretty and there were some interesting things. At first I was like what the heck are these glob things. Then I found out that they were THESE....

They contract when they aren't in the water to protect themselves and also to keep in the moisture.
Lots of starfish...and more globs!

Happy Birthday to Me!

I had a great day and a great weekend. I'm getting so OLD! I'm 22 years older than my youngest cousin right now...and he's probably not the last either!

Ubaldo bought me a new phone for my birthday! I really like it, BUT BlackBerry is coming out with a newer one that I think I really want. I have 30 days to decide if I like this one or not. So, hopefully it will come out before then and I will be able to check it out. Oh, and it will be in my given price range!

Grampa Ty and Grama Viv also sent me a card...with the traditional $2 bill that they have continued since the passing of Grampa Champ. And a gift card!

Grama Barbara sent me a plant. Hopefully I don't kill it!

Grampa Roger sent me a card and some cash!

My dad started a USB flash drive with all the pics that he had of me. I really enjoyed that. I will have to post some of them on here!

And thanks to everyone who called and text! I love and miss you all!

Fire in Paradise

There has been this awful fire in Paradise, CA. It's only about 15 minutes away from Chico. I looked out the window this afternoon and this is what I saw. A huge smoke cloud. It looks so dark and gross. Funny thing is that you can't smell the fire in the air. I always remember being able to smell the fire in Salt Lake when there wasn't a fire too close to the city.

Organization....what is that??

What is wrong with this picture? Well, this is supposed to be the office. Where the computers are on desks and the boys can talk about cards all they want while they are playing. Apparently it has become the "JUNK ROOM." Not only that, but the beer room, the locker room, the drink room, the poster room, the hotel storage room and last but not least...a sh** hole.

In this first picture I would Like to point out a couple of things...

• The poker table that we just HAD to get from Jake's house. The one that never has been used at our house.
• The FIVE boxes beer 3 Early Spring Beer and 2 Summerfest below the ESB
• The basketball bags that are there for???
• The case of water UNDER the bags
• The wonderful carpet cleaner that needs to go back to my Auntie, but I love it so much....and I forgot it last time I visited Utah.
• Can you see the corner desk?? Me either. It's the one on the far left of the photo...it's covered with Ubaldo's work clothes. I don't know why they can't go in our bedroom.
• The only things that are mine...the 2 clear storage containers...that are usually in the closet, but I took them out to find something and never put them back!
• Finally, our paper towels and shredder.

Moving on....this is the other side of the room.

• The "BEER FRIDGE"
• Empty boxes of beer
• Empty card box from Christmas
• Empty copier paper boxes
• Blue cups
• Tin foil
• Adam's desk.
• My mirror
• JUNK, JUNK and more JUNK. Oh yes and more empty beer boxes

Adam's desk again...showing the MESS of discs and empty Gatorade case. Do you think I need to get the boys moving on now what has become their junk room?? I do.

And this is...wait a second....how did this get in there?? Another story for another time!! It could be my mess, but where??!

Kangaroo Zoo

My mom and I took Morgan, Jace, Aidan and Beau here while I was visiting. They had a lot of fun. There aren't a whole bunch of slides there, maybe 5 or 6, but they still enjoyed themselves for a couple of hours. They even had 2 little play areas for kids under 4 and one for kids 8 and under. Beau liked those the best because she could do it herself. The other kids loved the biggest slide. Their faces were priceless!! We even talked my mom into doing it!

Dustin's Graduation!!

It's official, my little brother has graduated. Congratulations Dust!!

P.S. Thanks to Kalli for the fabulous idea, everyone LOVED it, as they did Zack's!!

Beau, Z's Graduation & Quail Lake

I drove down to St. George and took Beau with me. Katy, Grama Viv and Knox went down in Grama's car. Zack graduated on the Friday before Memorial Day (sorry no pics, but there are some cute ones).

I'm glad that Kalli asked me to come a little early and hang out! We had a wonderful time sleeping on the floor while Grama was on her bed...talking til 4 in the morning!! And creating more wonderful memories with Gram Viv!!

On Memorial Day I went to the lake with Kreg, Mindy, Kalli, Zack, Haylee, Klayton and Slayde. Kreg and Mindy just got some sweet new JetSki's! I had a good time and wish I could do it more often.