Saturday, December 17, 2011

Front Porch Finished

A few posts ago I mentioned that we were finally doing our front porch area.  Kyle put a lot of work and effort into it and it looks great.  He bought a flag pole at the LA County Fair back in Sept and has been just waiting to be able to use it, and now he does.


Finished front porch with concrete slabs and grass

Kyle's new flagpole, he even hooked up a light to the house to shine on it

Principal of the Year

My mom is the coolest!  She was the Principal of the Year for the entire district!!  Love you mom!


Dumont Dunes Thanksgiving 2011

This trip didn't turn out as planned but we made the best of it anyways. 

The plan was for all of us to drive up to Dumont Monday morning, stay 5 days, have Thanksgiving all together and then come back home Friday afternoon.  Well...my mother-in-law woke up Monday at 3 am with extreme pain in her side and abdomen.  So much so that she decided to go to the hospital.  Turns out she had kidney stones.  Kyle's parents told us to just go without them and they would head up when the kidney stones had passed and she was feeling better.  Turns out they released her from the hospital around 10 am and she was doing much better, so they decided we would all head up as planned. 
The kidney stones reared their ugly head twice more while we at the dunes, and then it was decided that she needed to leave and get to a hospital again.  Kyle and I stayed behind seeing that it wouldn't do any good to have 6 people in the hospital room staring at her waiting and waiting for them to pass.  My family came up on Wednesday and spent the day riding and hanging out, Kyle and I had Thanksgiving with friends, and then brought the motor home and trailer home.




Kyle pulling Kaleb

My sister Erin enjoying the ride



My brother Brian tearing it up

Our friend Troy let my brother Brian give his bike a go

Brian getting some air

Kyle teaching Zeke how to ride

My dad Mark putting around with his grandson Zeke

Zeke better learn to love the dunes with his Auntie Cheryl

Zeke getting a better view while driving the Rhino


Thanksgiving dinner with the Andersons and Hickens