Sad News

A very sweet 8 year old boy named Truman that is in Devon's class and in his Cub Scouts has been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. It is so shockingly sad. He had emergency surgery to remove the ruptured tumor and some organ parts were removed as well. Our school has really stepped up and rallied the students to help out in any way they can. It is a good lesson for them to learn compassion and service. Devon had an opportunity to do something nice with him and a couple of other boys from scouts and I think it made him feel like he could some how help his new friend. Truman was going to start his chemotherapy so the boys went to his house and they all had their hair shaved off together. It ended up being fun for them and spirits seemed high. I am hoping for the best for this sweet boy and his family. He is the one in the front with the big smile!

My 20th High School Reunion

I went to my High School Reunion and really had alot of fun.It was interesting to see how people still seemed basically the same, I even noticed that about myself. I don't mean how we looked, although we all seemed to recognize eachother easily, but I mean our personalities. I suspect it may just have been being back in the familiar scene that takes us back to who we were as teenagers.

Here are then and now photos.

This is our Graduation picture in 1988!!!

Jen, Rachel, Marsha, Me and Sonya.

This is Heidi, Marsha, Sonya, Me and Jen at the reunion. Rachel was not able to make it or it would have been an exact 20 years later........ photo.

It is so nice to still have my girlfriends in my life, they mean so much to me and everytime we see eachother it feels like no time has passed at all. I always count them as one of my treasures in life.

Summer Visitors

Our cousin Derek came out from California to visit for 2 weeks. The kids enjoyed having another friend to play with. We hit the water parks a few times but they mostly just lived in the back yard pool or played video games. I joked one day that I think I could totally handle 4 kids...and the next day everyone showed me how wrong I was! So...I am sticking with 3.

While Derek was visitng we went to Rawhide western town to have some fun. The truth is, since we moved here I haven't found too many places to take visitors so we take everyone here!!! Brian is always saying that I don't need to be a tour guide but I figure if someone is visiting from another state I should show them what we have to offer. This was much easier to do in San Francisco.

I was so happy to have Julie come and visit! She brought her friend Vickie and their kids for a fun road trip to Arizona in July which is very brave. We had lots of fun. I think Brian was a bit overwhelmed having 9 kids in the house though.

There are 6 kids in this picture but 3 are missing...that makes a total of 9 kids playing here at our house for 4 days! It was lots of fun.

Ashlyn, Devon and Brandon loved helping to take care of Aunt Julie's twins, it was so cute to see them feed them their bottles.

Julie, Maddy and Evie

Anyone who knows Julie and I know it won't be a visit without a bit of lively "discussions"!

But we always manage to live through it and keep the LOVE.

Ashlyn's friend Kaylie from Fairfield came for a visit. I think it was a bit too HOT for her and her Mom but we loved seeing them. When we took them to the airport to fly back to San Francisco we wished we could get on the plane with them. We both still miss alot of what we left when we moved.