Its a Work In Progress

I am bored with the look of my blog but have to cook dinner so I will get back to it again soon.

Hello again

Delci, Noah, Aurora & Heather

Heather & Moe

Cheyanne & Lucky

Todd (this one is for the ladies) :)

Well it has been awhile, but I try to live by Thumper's doctrine, "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say nothing at all." I haven't had much nice to say lately so I have been in hiding. :) October is almost over and I can't believe how fast this year has gone. Heather just turned 6 a couple of weeks ago and she is acting so grown up now. We got her a camera for her birthday and she goes about taking pictures of everyone and everything in the house. Thank God for digital cameras I can't even imagine how much the bill would be for buying film and processing it on an old fashioned camera.

I still haven't found a job yet which is getting pretty tough. I really miss my old pay checks BUT somehow we are getting by. Every month when I pay the bills I am just happy that we sold our house and were able to payoff some of our stuff before I lost my job otherwise we'd be in a world of hurt right now and Todd would be riding his beach cruiser up the 15 freeway every morning.

Todd spent last nigh tearing apart the old Harley almost completely down to the frame (I helped but only a little). Once we get the last stuff off of there I think we will be stripping the paint and sanding it down ourselves and then we will probably do the paint ourselves. We've watched OC Choppers enough I am pretty sure we can do this :). Of course if one of our lottery tickets is a winner we won't be trying our hand at motorcycle painting.

I am posting a couple of pictures here from Heather's, Noah's, Aurora's & Delci's birthday party a few weeks ago. It was fun and the kids seemed like they had a blast. Til next time Love ya all.

Hello!!

This is all new so let us start with hello from sunny & HOT Southern Califronia. We have been doing alot of fishing latley and the girls just caught thier first fish this weekend. Cheyanne (9) caught 4 and Heather (5) caught 2 1/2 all little tiny fishies. Todd and I have been taking the girls fishing every Friday this summer and they seem to enjoy it.

I am still unemployed but have started school for Registered Veterinary Technician and hopefully someday when I grow up it will payoff. We are also still trying to grow our Real Estate company and are getting set up with a few companies to do REO's because that is where the money will be for the next few years. Wish us luck.
Our values have changed somewhat since all of this happened. We had to sell our beautiful North Upland home and are renting for now until everything cools down, then I got laid off. In a way its all been a blessing, I have spent the whole summer with my girls and have never been able to spend this much time with them before. We haven't had the money we used to so we've only been able to do a few things but I love taking them up to San Antonio Creek in Mt. Baldy and hiking around with them. Its helped me realize what is important again and although I sure miss my house its not what holds this family together and we are blessed to have two BEAUTIFUL little girls, we have a good, happy marriage, and lots for wonderful family and friends.

I guess the last 1 1/2 has been a learning experience and an oppurtunity to grow.

We have also realized the silver lining in my sister Leslie's passing. The adoption was final last month for Noah and Aurora and now we know that no one can ever hurt them again. They are safe an sound with Grandma and PaPa and are loved so much. They spend alot of time over at our house also and Todd and I have enjoyed getting to know and developing a relationship with them. It's still hard to know that my little sister is gone, I miss her terribly but it definitely has helped the healing process to know it was something that had to happen for her kids to be safe.

On a lighter note Todd and I had a brief ceremony after church yesterday presided over by Dr. Dale Smith who blessed our wedding rings again. After 10 years Todd's ring was so thin, had a breakage in it and was threatening to cut of his finger so we broke down and bought new rings. It was a nice little informal ceremony, where we stated some of the vows again and had Dale bless the new rings and our family (the girls were there too).

Well I will get going now and will add some photos and stuff at a letter date.