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Friday, January 30, 2009

Surprise Dad!!!

So I was able to surprise my Dad also by showing up at his house in Ripon, California. He just looked at us and asked "what the heck are you doing here?" I said, well I was at mom's last week so we are here to surprise you! I had such a great time visiting with him. When we are at my dad's we do alot of just hanging out and relaxing...I really loved being there. Kaylie loved being with her Grandpa and I loved seeing him with his new grandson, Lucas Brock! Thanks Dad for everything, we had a great time with you! We love you!!!

It's Hailing!!

Ok so we didn't get to experience the snow, but we got to see some hail in Ripon. It reminded me of a story back in the day when we were little and it snowed, I think I was about 12 years old. I am not going to tell the story because it's kinda mean now that I look back on it, but it was funny then. Laura...you should know this story...it has to do with your brother and our old neighbors :)

Anyway, so we had a birthday party for Kaylie while we were at my dad's house. We had some family join us and it was fun....at first :) And then it started to hail, which was really cool. My dad made Kaylie a mini snowman, that she eventually brushed off the grill where he put it. Shortly after the hail was when it because funny...the electricity went out and didn't come back on until almost 2 hours later when the last person was literally getting into their car!

Kaylie is ready for her party!

Enjoying being outside but not being hit by hail.

She said it kind of hurt!!

Scott ran with Kristi out into the hail!

I know, this is kind of a sad snowman :)

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Great Grandparents

My kids are really lucky to have both sets of their Great-Grandparents on my side still alive. (that sounds odd to say) We were able to visit and spend time with both my Grandma/Pa Hicken and Grandma/Pa Rasmusson. They mean alot to me and I'm glad we get to spend time with them when we are in town, even if it isn't much. It means alot that my children are able to enjoy the time with them when possible.

Most of these pictures are them with Lucas since he is the newest member of our family...that and Kaylie was usually off playing!

Grandma Hicken

Grandpa Hicken

Grandma Rasmusson

Grandpa Rasmusson

4 Generations, Me, Lucas & Kaylie, My Dad and My Grandpa & Grandma

Kristi Poo

I loved being able to hang out with my sister, I sure miss living near her...well my brothers too, but this post isn't about them :) (Plus none of them will probably ever even read this)

I really loved seeing my sister with Kaylie & Lucas...she was way nicer to Lucas :) Kaylie kind of got into her stuff here & there. My sister was usually gone when we got up in the morning but on the weekend Kaylie would go into her room and yell "GOOD MORNING" and she would yell it until Kristi finally said it back.

Handcuffed!

My sister's friends, Kadee, had some handcuffs that Kaylie couldn't get enough of. It was hilarious. She wanted to handcuff everyone and anything. Finally they tried to give her a doll to handcuff and that didn't work so we handcuffed her!

Laura--My Best Friend

Well Ripon has something no other town has, Laura. I miss living near her so every time I get to go back to California to visit we see each other as much as possible. This time we had fun watching our little ones play around at my dad's house. Laura has a 4 year old daughter, Naomi and then she has Owen who is 13 days younger than Kaylie and she just recently had a daughter, Emme who is 3 1/2 months older than Lucas. It's crazy that we have been pregnant together twice and will have 2 kids in the same grade. Cool how it all worked out that way and wasn't even planned :)

Monday, July 21, 2008

Ripon California Vacation Pics

Here are the pics from the trip to my dad's house.

Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing - Photo Books

Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing - Photo Books

No she doesn't normally get a binky, she found this and it was taken away after I saw it on my camera (it was too dark before the flash)

Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing - Photo Books