Today the youngest turned 11. He requested his own mint chocolate chip ice cream for his candles. He also asked me to make a smiley face out of the candles. As another year has passed Joey says he doesn’t feel like he’s 11. Haha. However on this momentous day a sad thing has happened. He [...]
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27 Aug
a “key addition”
Matt’s name is in the Lodi News Sentinel today! There is an article about a Tokay senior cross country runner. In the article there is a section on the side with a rundown of different High School’s cross country teams. Matt’s coach listed him as one of the Key Additions to the team this year!
Cross [...]
24 Aug
Modesto Midnight Half Marathon
On August 8th, 2009, Matthew ran in the Modesto Midnight Half Marathon.
He placed 11th in his division (15-19 year old Men) and placed 42nd (out of 216 men) in the Men’s overall results with a time of 1:40:37! The pic below was from the newspaper at the start line…
I don’t have a picture of him to [...]
9 Aug
More teenagers!
At the end of July, Aaron and Austin officially became teenagers. I say officially because they’ve been acting like teenagers most of the year! Haha So, now there are FOUR teens and only 1 little Joey…. and actually he’s turning 11 pretty soon… so he’ll be hitting pre-teen before we know it! Can’t you feel [...]
8 Jul
Flowrider
Yesterday we took all the boys to Elk Grove to try the Flowrider, an indoor surf simulator. Here is a pic of it without the water flowing…… Kev and the boys were on it for one hour. You basically get a “turn” and once you wipe out, you get in line to try it again.
Here [...]
15 Jun
What I learned about camping..
This weekend we went camping at Golden Pines RV Resort in Arnold CA with a group from our church! This is the 2nd church campout we’ve attended. Before that neither Kevin nor I have camped since we were kids! So even being called amateur campers would be a compliment!!!
Here’s what I learned…..
Boys and husbands like to [...]
9 Jun
Summer Break is here!
More time for BBQ’s and dog walking!
More time for swimming and enjoying the back yard!
And my garden is growing…. this year I planted only tomatoes and cucumbers. There are 8 cucumber plants (4 lemon cucumber and 4 slicing cucumbers) and 7 tomato plants (1 yellow pear tomato, 2 sunsugar, 2 beefsteak and 2 lemon boy [...]
30 May
Happy Graduation!
Last night Little Kevin graduated from Tokay High! We were so proud of him as he has come a long way in his education and he never gave up. He’s not sure what he wants to do yet but he plans on going to Delta College and on getting a job. Here he is with [...]
21 Mar
Card Night… I finally won!
About once a month since November I have been playing games and cards with some ladies from church! Marianne who usually hosts it at her house teaches us how to play different card games… but the one we play the most is called “Louisiana Rummy” or “May I.” Its a fun game in which the [...]
18 Mar
Berkeley part 2
Berkeley part 2, originally uploaded by rox130.
I could have posted these all as one post but since I am posting from my phone by emailing this to my flikr account… I can only do that with one picture per post. I know if I wait to do it on my laptop then it will be [...]
