Smile.....Time For School Pictures

Class of 2009

Well, can you believe it......

Amee is a senior and BOY is she beautiful.

"I am certianly not old enough to have a SENIOR."

This is one of our favorite pictures. We haven't made our final decision yet.

Wow.....How handsome. Gotta love the hair, all the girls do.

Bryan is a Freshman this year, and enjoying the Artquest program.

He is already learning how to develop pictures.

How cute is this kid.

David is really enjoying 5th grade and his new school. There are eight kids that came to the charter school from David's old school so he isn't completely alone.

Happy Anniversary

Roger and I celebrated our 17th Anniversary on Sept 18. The years have just flown by. We are still having fun and our marriage is stronger than ever. We have had trails and expect more, but we will stick together. We were talking with Amee about our relationship, and she was totally shocked that we have not had a fight, EVER. We may disagree and get our feelings hurt,

but never a fight. We are in this for the long haul, FOREVER.

We went to lunch at the China Room, I made a nice Salmon dinner

and then after we went out to ice cream and frozen yogurt.

Roger's Big Day - 39 and Holding

Hey, look, Roger finally got a motorcycle.

Roger snickers as we surprise him with the Iron Maiden Vans he kept asking for. He actually wore them to the KISS concert at Konocti last weekend.

" Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you."

Hey grandma, there are some candles missing.

Jenn and Grandma got creative with Roger's piece of cake.

DON'T TOUCH MY CAKE!!!!!!!!!

School Has Begun

Well it's the first day of school again, can you believe it, I can't. The kids were all a little annoyed about mom taking their picture, yet again. Boy this will be great fun when they are parents.

Amee is 17 and a Senior at SRHS, Bryan is 14 and a Freshmen at SRHS, and David is 10 and in the 5th grade at Santa Rosa Accelerated Charter School. Amee caught me coming down the hall with the camera as she was getting ready in the bathroom, she grumbled. I told her to be nice or I will take her picture on the first of college, too. Bryan asked me if I got at 5:30am just to take their pictures, I just giggled and smiled "Of course". David just gave me an "If looks could kill" look. He didn't have to get up until 6:30am. I was looking forward to this year. Only two schools to deal with, but only one child to drop off. Amee and Bryan ride together, but have a church class at 6:00am. Amee gets out of school at lunch and cannot bring Bryan home, so he will ride the city bus, of course I will pick him up, occasionally.

Another Day at the Beach, Hmmmmmm

David keeping a eye on his little cousin Simon. David just loves his little cousins.

Amee trying to take a bad picture, yeah right babe.

Bryan didn't think he'd be cold, good thing mom came prepared.

Amee and her cousin Mason, getting water and sea weed for a couple of hermet crabs that Mason is going to try to take home to Utah.

David and his cousin Becca. It's funny how the kids always dig a big hole when we go to the beach. This one filled up with water when the tide came in, the kids loved it.

Our lodging while visiting Santa Cruz

This is the outside view of our two-room suite. There is a whole story behind why we ended up with a suite. We booked a family cabin online, but they turned out to be 2x4 structures wrapped with tarps. It is of course, very windy on the coast of northern California, this was not going to work. By staying in the lodge we got to use the hot tub "awesome". We spent two nights here.

The lodge had these really cool outside fireplaces, so we were still able to make S'mores.

Amee and Bryan playing bunny. You do this by stuffing as many marshmallows as possible in your mouth. After the inserting of each marshmallow you have to say "Bunny". Very funny.

David doesn't like marshmallows so he stuffed chocolate into his mouth. Definitely mama's boy

She's a bed hog.........poor David. We took the cushions off the chair and love seat to make a bed for Bryan on the floor.

A Day at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk

Amee, Bryan and David on the biggest roller coaster on the boardwalk.

Check out their hair................

Well, they look like they're having fun.

You know, it's not often Roger will pose for a picture.

The kids screaming on the Cyclone.

Silly Boys..........

Bryan and David thought it would be fun to ride on a kiddie ride, the Starfish.