August 2010 first half of the month

Fiji - Matt went on a 2 week mission trip to Fiji with Pastor Randy Ponder from our church, and 6 others, 4 of those friends from MBHS...

Maddie stacking peaches that we had picked from Auntie Julie's tree...

Karen & Maddie worked 2 days at Klife while the staff was gone on a retreat...

We participated in the 2nd annual Relay for Life 24 hour cancer walk at MBHS. Michael piped the opening lap, which was the survivors lap. Thom, my oldest brother, is a cancer survivor, at almost 4 years now. My other brother Greg, came over too.

Matt earned "Bottom of the basket" winner at Albertsons, which means he was really good at making sure there was nothing left in the bottom of the shopping carts when people are checking out...

Maddie's room re-do...before...

after. Still more to do as time & money allows...

My nephew Jeff, got married to his sweetheart, Jackie. Maddie was the flower girl & did a great job!

July 2010

Highlights of July:

Backyard camp out, tent on the trampoline - Mater & Maddie!

4th of July...

Bucket Busters at Cayucos library, gave the audience a chance to play too...

Matt summer varsity basketball...

Drive in, Mommy & Maddie SLO...

Fiji team bonfire, Avila Beach...

Matt gets baptized by Pastor Randy Ponder

Maddie's swim teachers...

Lindsay moves out...

Maddie wants to travel with Mater to Fiji...

June 2010

Highlights of June 2010:

Maddie's 4th birthday - Pizza at Me-N-Ed's in Santa Maria (Matt had a weekend basketball tourney there so we went out for pizza in between the games!)

Princess Maddie

Maddie & her Cars cake

Princess, er, I Mean Prince Matt

The triplets! 2 girls (Jasmine at the top - Maddie's kitty, Drogba in the middle - Matt's kitty) & 1 boy kitty (Lindsay's kitty - Luigi) They are about 8 weeks old here

Karen with the babies sleeping on her...bliss!

Matt's 1st job - Albertsons - courtesy clerk

Swim lessons, Cayucos pool

8-4-10 Peaches & Apples

Peaches & Apples from Dennis & Julie...

Maddie making a tower of peaches...

Maddie slicing peaches...

1 peach cobbler for Grandpa Ream & 60 cups of peaches...

1 apple crisp ( & 24 cups of apples)...

Fun, busy day!

7-21-10 26th anniversary

26 years ago today:

I said "I do"

He said "I do"

so we did!

Love you so much Mikey!

7-1-10 backyard camp out!

Matt & Maddie are having a camp out in the backyard-tent on the trampoline! Not sure who is more excited: Matt or Maddie! lol She has quite the agenda for tonight-snacks, stories, games, movies...will any sleep be had? How long will they make it outside? What will swim lessons be like tomorrow?

6-5-10 First swim of the summer!

Today was a beautiful sunshiny day. So what to do with it? Why, go to the pool, of course! We drove up to Hardie Pool in Cayucos where it was a gorgeous 82 degrees. Got Maddie signed up for upcoming swim lessons & then on to the toddler pool. Maddie had no fear of getting in the water, whatsoever! The hot question of the day, "is it time for swim lessons"? Unfortunately they don't start for several weeks yet.

We spent about 3 hours at the pool & by the end, we pretty much had the toddler pool to ourselves! Maddie is a little water bug. She had no problem making friends with every child in the pool. Looks like we could be spending A LOT of time there this summer!