Sonoma's Drawing Video "Fireflies"

Sonoma made this video of our family to one of my favorite songs. Love It!!!

Kate's Video "Touchin on my 3OH!3"

Here's a video that Kate and her best friend Katie made. For 30 Sec of video it took them a whole day. Kinda of fun.

Sutters Fort with Olivia

Waggon Ride Into The Fort
The Whole Group

Olivia Being a Fur Trader

Our Pioneer Day Picture

Our Modern Day Picture

This year is our last year at Sutters Fort. We have had the opportunity to come and participate in an amazing program. Both Sonoma and Katelyn were able to go when they were in 4th grade and now it was Olivia's turn. This year since Bob and I had done it 3 other times they concerned us experienced. So we had the duties of Coordinator, Photographer and Personal Assistant to Mrs Bales. Bob also had the duty of making sure all the fires were cared for.

The experience at Sutters Fort was to recreating a 2 day 1 night day in the life of a pioneer that lived at the fort. The kids were able to ride in waggons from old down town Sacramento to the Fort which is about 6 miles. Then they were greeted by John Sutter (which was played by a boy in Olivia class). After that the Pioneers moved into their groups and went to different stations. Some of the Stations were candle making, blacksmith, making corn husk dolls, bakery, fur trappers, rope making, kitchen, and carpentry (they get to make a square stool that is branded with the Sutter Fort brand, we have 3 of them and they are very handy).

We also make all of our meals there over fires and in dutch oven. This year we had Deer, Boor, and Bear stew for dinner. I must say it was so amazing, thanks to Nathans dad TY who is the owner of a local restaurant Bootleggers. After dinner we had the Amazing Harmonica's and the kids were able to square dance and listen to some old time music.

The kids all slept in tents as Bob and I headed to the local Hyatt (I learned after we went with Sonomas class that there was no way I was tenting if I was going to be coherent the next day for clean up). During the night the kids all do Night Watch were the get the chance to walk around the fort in the dark and make sure they are not being invaded.

The following morning after a great nights sleep, we cleaned up and cleared out. It does make me sad that we most likely will be our last chance of going on this field trip, but I am so glad that we were able to especially with the talk of the State of California closing it due money issues.

The End Of Another Year

We have at least 15+ pairs of Converse, are we addicted or what?

As we move into yet another year, I love to take pictures of the girls as a tribute to the year that has gone and the growth of my girls. I love to go back and see all of the pictures of them and how different they are every year. To Sonoma, Katelyn, and Olivia we are proud that you are ours. Love Mom and Dad

Sonoma's Choir Concert

This year is Sonoma's 3 year of performing in the High School Choir. Since the school only does the Cabaret 1 time a year Sonoma has been lucky enough to have choir that semester. This year the main theme was Broadway. They did a couple of songs from Lion King. What an amazing production!

Christmas 2010

It was a hard getting into the swing of things for Christmas. This year I didn't do the whole Black Friday shopping. Bob and I decided that the girls only got 1 Santa Gift, and that we would all pick each others names for their other gift. So really I had no shopping since most of the deals were online. But as I think back I could have done the white elephant, christmas socks, and dresses. Oh well enough about shopping. We kept it on the down low this year since Bob was still recovering from his hand surgery and I was just tired from a year and a half of 4 of mine own. All in all we did have a great time with our simple christmas.

Thanksgiving 2010

This is one of my cooking day. I try to always do at least 1 thing diffrent every year. Every year that goes buy it is nice to have the girls in the kitchen more and more. I can't wait for the day when they feed Bob and I and we get to come as guests. It will be cool to see what they have on their Thanksgiving table.

Fort Bragg

If you haven't noticed our favorite vacation spot is the beach, especially in Fort Bragg. We were able to take our one and only vacation in 2010 to fort bragg for 2 days. Of corse our main stopping place is glass beach were we of corse read our newest book and pick thru all the old blue, green, and brown glass washed up on shore.

Soccer Season

We had an amazing summer full of soccer games. Kate was able to play 3 games the whole season due to the fact that she hurt her knee and was out for 6 weeks and then ended up with Mono and slept thru the rest of the games. I was still her assistant coach and our team did an amazing job. This was Kates last year in rec ball, but has big plans to refree to make some money.

Olivia was played with all her heart, she loved every min of it especially the half time and after game snacks. Her team was the Eagles which is the same as our High School. Her coach same taught them all the fight song and they sung it as their cheer. It was very cool.

4th of July

We kept 4th of July pretty simple. We went to Bob's brother Tim's new home. We ate, swam, ate, hot tub sat, ate, and then enjoyed the hour long multi firework show in the street. Had a great time with all the cousins.