Our trip to the Lake with Mom

This was our second trip the Lake Martinez this year. We decided to take my mom there when she came down to visit. When I was little Mom and Dad took me there so I thought it would be fun to take her back. We had a good time even though it was 109 the whole time we were there. We found this lake that had some cliffs at it, so we decided to hang out there for a while. The water there was actually cold compared to the water at Martinez. It was nice and refreshing. We also found out there was a place you could get soft serve ice cream so we went there everyday to get ice cream. It was nice and relaxing and I think Mom got to relax a little. She got to see how good Bree is getting on her wake board and knee board. She is my little hot rod. Keith also got a chance to have some nice water while we were there and learned how to clear the wake. It was awesome. I don't have any pictures of course though cause I was driving the boat and Bree was flagging and she can't do two things at once. By this point mom had enough fun in the sun so she was in the cabin reading her book and relaxing. Well here are some pictures of our adventures.

Bree eating the Smores we made. This is what happens when its still over a hundred at 9 at night.

Keith, Bree and Mom at the cliffs, Keith had just jumped off the 40 foot cliff.

Bree and Mom with the lake and boat in the back ground. This is across from our cabin.

We plan on taking John, Milie, Michael and Alex the first week in Oct. We are all looking forward to going and having some fun before boating season is over for us. Well will write again soon.

My Big 3rd Grader

Well as we all know school is back in and Bree is now in 3rd grade. She is getting so big so fast I don't know what we are going to do. She is in a new school this year since we had to move out of the house at the beginning of summer. When I took her to school for her first day she kept telling me that we were in the Kindergarten section, and I kept telling her no Bree this is your school. We went back in forth for about 5 min until she finally realized that everyone was meeting in this area. She said mom I can't believe that this is the whole school. The lunch area is the same size as her old section were the 2ND graders ate. So it is a big change for her but I think she will do much better at this school. She seems to like it so far. She is also wanting to get back into cheer leading so I am working on finding her a place to cheer at. We are in a really nice area now and there are lots of things to do but we live right next to million dollar homes so everything is very expensive also. Well I will blog again soon to update everyone on what is going on here.

Our Adventures at Lake Martinez

Bree getting up on her Wake board!!!!













I know it has been a while since I blogged and so I am going back a while to try and catch up on some things. We took a trip to Lake Martinez in April after Keith returned from Deployment. I was one of the lucky kids that got to go here when I was about Bree's age. I loved it so I thought is would be cool for me to be able to take My family there now. We enjoyed the week that we got to spend at the lake and river. Here are some of the pictures that I took while we were there.

Bree feeding the friendly raccoons!!!!!!!!

Bree on the Knee board!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Keith and Bree fishing! All they caught were weeds. Oh well better luck next time.

Bree posing for the camera with the lake behind her.

Keith and Bree the first night that we got there.

Sorry there are no pictures of me I am always behind the camera and the ones Keith takes are not pictures that I would post for everyone to see. Well we had a lot of fun relaxing and enjoying each other as a family. We went at the perfect time because there was only one other cabin that had people in it so we had the lake to our selves most of the time. Bree got to get up on her Wake board and had a blast with it and she learned how to get up on the Knee board. She loves playing behind the boat and is a little hot dog now on everything. At night we enjoyed going down and feeding the Raccoons. They loved to eat dog food and dog biscuits. We also went for a hike and our dogs thought they were going to die. But they didn't they made it just fine and we through them in the lake when we got back to camp. I can't wait to go back again.

Being a Slacker

Natural History Museum

Bree at one of the only Dinosaurs that have bones in the museum!!

My Friend Milie had asked me if I wanted to take Bree and go to the Natural History Museum today. So we decided to go and I was a little disappointed in it. I thought here in San Diego were they have one of the best Zoo's that they would have a great Museum. Well I am here to tell you that I don't think that this is true. O.K. so I have been to some very famous Natural History Museums so I had high hopes to start out. I should have used Keith's theory. Go in expecting it to not be great and then you won't be disappointed. Well next time I am going to do this. So it started out that there is only one room on the first floor that you can even go into and look at things. So we went in there and it was just o.k. nothing exciting. So we go up to the next floor and it was supposed to be animals and water. Well there were animals but none of them looked realistic at all. They were all plastic very few of them had bones at all and then they didn't even catch the kids attention at all. Then we went into the water section and there were some things that the kids could play with so it caught there eye a little more. I think this section was the one that took us the longest to go through. All in all it only took us about 1 1/2 hours to go through the whole thing. Here are some pictures that I took while we were there. But if you are going to be in San Diego in the Future I would not suggest that you take the time to go in here.

O.K. here is one thing that I did like there. This is a sculpture from Africa and is called difference of Opinion.

Here is one of the Dinosaurs

Here is the Michael, Alex, and Bree under the Big Shark!!!!!!!!!!!

My new way of keeping everyone updated

Hello to everyone!

I am trying this out and don't really know how long I will keep up with this. But a couple of my friends have a blog and they enjoy doing it and I enjoy reading them so I thought I would give it a try and see how it turned out. Its a good way for everyone to see what is going on in our lives, since I am so horrible about sending pictures. Let me know what you all think about this.

So as most of you know we are now in San Diego, CA and have been for a little over a year. We are enjoying ourselves here and spend most of our free time out in our new boat. Every weekend we have free we are out in the boat. Keith is in and out a lot so it is hit and miss when we get to do it but we love to when we get a chance.

So here is a quick update about what is going on. Bree is now 8 going on 18, growing up to fast for my taste. She is going into 3rd grade this year and is getting excited about it. Keith is stationed on the USS Topeka as the Doc. He was put up for IDC of the year and is doing good. He has to spend a lot of time away from us but its only a couple years. So we are dealing with it. I am working for an Insurance company doing there accounting. While we are work over the summer Bree goes to YMCA day Camp and has been doing lots of fun things this summer. We just moved into a new house. We are now in base housing (so much fun) since the owners of the house we lived in are foreclosing. We like the area but I don't know if I like having neighbors attached to us again. Oh well what can you do. Well I will blog again soon!

This is our first kiss picture from Keith's homecoming after his 6 month deployment.