Memorial Day Weekend & Softball=Summer

Before the game..Keith, Kristy, Anya, & Loren

The field

Relaxing with the paper

I think they were hungry....

Expert bbq'er

Rainbows & Wildflowers= Spring

Searching for discs in this was not easy....but fun!!

Getting ready for the ride home.

Say hello to Sedona and Cinnamon

Anya...getting ready to saddle the horses

playing disc golf

Nathan...mid-throw

pretty wildflowers

double rainbow

tried to get the entire thing on camera...it was too big though...but sooo pretty!!

This weekend was absolutely awesome!! I dont know if it's just because there's only one more week of school before this quarter ends or the fun we had, but why can't every day be saturday??? I had to work til 3 so Anya and Loren decided to take the horses for a ride down by the river. They packed a lunch and set off across the hills to Hart Park on Sedona and Cinnamon. My Dad, Mom, & Uncle Bruce went for a drive up to Lake Isabella to look at a job Dad is bidding. By the time I got off work it just happened that everyone was meeting at the park for a game of disc golf!! There's this awesome barn at the park that has corrals next to it for the horses so we took their saddles off and let them enjoy grazing on the green grass. Sometime soon we are going to ride over and have a bbq at the barn...its set up for bbq and picnic fun!! My cousin Nathan rode his bike over to the park too so we had a crew of us there to play...all the wildflowers are in bloom and it was a BEAUTIFUL DAY!!! Here's a few pics of what yesterday looked like....oh and a few of the huge double rainbow from 2 weeks ago when it rained here!!

Baby Shower Fun....

My friends Meg and Nick are expecting a lil baby girl in just a few days so last weekend I got to celebrate with her and ooh and aah over all the cute girlie stuff. My friend Krystal made this blanket for her...it's so cute she even sewed lil flowers on the corner!! Meg is so tiny you wouldnt even know that she is almost 9 months along!!

The yummy sugar cookies!!

Awesome cake!!

Baby scarecrows....hahaha..just kidding...the tables were decorated sooo cute and the whole party was a blast....

Happy 60th Birthday Dad!!

Sweet Pea...

Sooo...Anya and Dad went out to the ranch yesterday and as they were driving Anya saw this lil white thing standing on the side of the highway. They turned around and went back and found this little lamb still covered in afterbirth and blood standing by her dead mother, no other sheep in sight. Of course Anya couldn't just leave her there so we now have a new pet!! She is so adorable, all white after we gave her a bath this morning.

Anya's Birthday

Anyas birthday was on the 20th and Mom and I both had a holiday from school and work on the 19th so we drove down to Pasadena, met up with my cousin Kirsten and went to the beautiful Huntington Gardens. It was a gorgeous day and we walked around for hours admiring all the different themed gardens. After working up an appetite we had afternoon tea at the Chado Tea House. It was so much fun and the food/tea was delicious!!

Happy Birthday Mom!!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!

This holiday season was a whirlwind of travel for us. We had our family dinner tuesday night and then headed out to Wasco to spend Christmas Eve with my grandparents and uncle and cousin and from there headed over to the beach for Christmas Day with my moms side of the family. We drove back to Bako that night so Loren could work Friday and then I picked him up in Mojave and headed on to Vegas to celebrate with Lorens side of the family. It was an absolute blast all the way and enjoyed every minute we spent with everyone!!
The fountains at the Bellagio

Lorens cousin Melanie visiting from Australia.

Extreme kite flying in Nipomo

You'll shoot yer eye out.....

Visiting the lil cousins in Grover Beach

Cody with Grandpa and Grandma..

Dinner with everyone in Wasco

Predinner puzzle challenge

Silly boys....

Stocking fun!!

Lovin that Christmas is almost here...

Mom and Dad H. riding the carousel at the light show

Cody and Whitney

The best cinnamon roll in the world right here in Bakersfield at the 24th street cafe...yum!!

Just for fun....theres this awesome horse barn at the park near my parents house that you can ride to and have a picnic or bbq...we are definitely going to have to do that this summer. it made for a great location for a photo shoot this weekend for mom and dad g's christmas pictures. loren was the photographer but we snuck in this one picture of us...

My birthday at the Happiest Place On Earth!!

Disneyland!!!! (actually California Adventure in this pic)

Loren and I in front of the roaring rapids

You have to go on this ride!!! It was awesome!!!

Entering Disneyland

Cody and Whitney riding the train

Kirsten and I

On the train to frontierland

Anya and Kirsten in the Haunted House...they had it all decorated as The Nightmare Before Chrsitmas...very cool

On Splash Mountain

After the big splash!!!!

On Space Mountain

Ready to go tour the galaxy

Scary...

Mickey and Friends....Loren said it wasn't Disneyland until we saw Mickey so we got a picture with him finally towards the end of the night!!

Mom and Dad

Cody hangin on the California "F"

Just before we went into the Hollywood Hotel of Terror, I was trying to look tough....I don't think I pulled it off.....

The Golden Gate Bridge

Can you tell if the sunset is real??