Rest of the Vacation

Well here is the rest of the vacation.

Thursday, we did not do much because Rusty's phone took a swim at Magic Mountin so we had to try to get it fixed. For now it is working.

Friday we drove to Ranco Oso, a horse stable that we always go to, to have a ride. Breanna was excited because she has been taking riding lessons for the last 6 months, so she wanted to show off her skills. We arrived very early, but that was good.

Then we headed for the beach one more time before we headed home on Saturday. We actually had some sun late Friday afternoon.

Thought you all might like to see some vacation pictures.







The girls playing on the beach.

We went to the Natural History Museum on Tuesday. We went to see the Butterfly Exhibit.

It was real cool with all the Butterflies flying around us.

We even had a guide to show us what all the Butterflies were.

Then on Wednesday, it was off to Magic Mountain.


We did not open the park this year, but we could never top that from last year.


Justin was with us as of late on Tuesday. So it was fun for him to be able to go to Magic Mountain with us.

This ride is one of the girls favorite, it is the "Gold Rusher."



We had to have rode on all the water based rides from the moment we walked in the park. This one was the "Jet Stream."

Wonderwomen was always Rusty's girlfriend when he was growing up, so it was fun for him to get a picture with the character of her.

The girls have grown out of the Kiddy area and it was hard to find some in-between rides for them to be brave enough to go on. But once they tried them, they had fun on them.


The day was fun and we still have a couple of more days to go.

Stay tooned.

Well here we are the start of June and school is just about out for the girls. Wow where did the school year go?

Breanna has been doing some camping with Rusty and enjoying it. She tried to do some backpack camping and found out how hard it is. Then the following weekend she got to go car camping and she enjoyed that better. I do not know if it was because she got to also go 4 wheeling or what it was.

While they were camping, Sabrina and I had relaxing weekends. The first one was when she got sick, so that was a bummer. But this last weekend was fun. Swimming at friends houses and going to Birthday parties. We also just got to cuddle on the couch and watch movies.

School is over for me and I was glad that came around, one less thing for me to have to worry about. I pulled a “B” in my Algebra class. I was very happy. Next semester, I think I will take an English class.

We are heading to Santa Barbara this summer again. Go and visit with family and spend plenty of time on the beach. I hope it warms up though! It would be nice if the June gloom would not be there for once.

Well, we hope you all have a great summer. I will try better to update our blog more then this.

Well, here we are already in February. Wow where did January go! We are also almost done with the 2nd Trimester for Elementary school. That just means that Breanna is getting closer to going to Junior High and Sabrina will be in 3rd grade next year. Breanna is doing great in school, she has her struggles, but she is learning to work with them and around them. Sabrina got moved into another teacher’s classroom this last week. I have not seen her happier then this last week. I am still working doing lunch duty for the school, so I am there every day for 2 ½ hours and then I volunteer after that.

Oh and by the way, I did not mention that I have gone back to College. I am only taking 1 class for right now. It is an Algebra class that is 4 days a week for about 2 hours. I am getting my miles in both driving to and from all the schools and walking back and forth from class. I do not know what I am going to do and what I am going to major in just yet, I am just getting my general education out of the way.

Rusty is doing well with Intel. Things are rocky, but we are hopeful that all will work out.

Justin is currently looking for a job and considering on going on his mission sometime this summer.

Well, I hope that even though February is short, it does not fly by so fast as January did.

2nd Annual Poar Bear Plunge

Well, today was out second annual Polar Bear plunge. And it was held rain or shine, and we thought we were going to have more rain then shine, but it worked the other way. I of course was up and at the store by 6 am, just getting our usual groceries and the rest of the stuff for the egg dish I was taking. Then off to home again to get the family ready to go and cook the dish.

We got there just in time to do the first splash!!! Of course it was mostly kids that jumped in first, they are always willing to go swimming.

We did have some adults, that are kids at heart, that braved the cold pool

and weather and joined the kids. Mike Ducker came out and put his wet suit on to keep him warmer in the pool.

All the kids were going back and forth from the pool to the hot tub. Mike the brought out his snorkel gear and let the kids give it a try to see how it is to be able to breath under water. Wow they had a great time at that.

There was all our friends there, we did miss several others that could not make it. People brought great food and a great time was had by all, the jumpers and the watchers. We had a warm fireplace to warm up to and talk around while watching those crazy people in and out of the pool they went.

Alvina Phillips puts on great activities and here are the awards that were given out, some caught the glare of the flash so pardon the camera skills. We had a fashionable men's dive winner - Jon Kennedy, a fashionable women's dive winner - Rose Chidister, and a fashionable kids dive winner - Torin Ducker. They all got their own personalized Wheaties box. Congratulations to all, you are the brave ones!!

New Year - New Things

Well, it is 2009 and this is the first time for a post. Things are crazy around the Brown house as I am sure they are around yours. The girls are settling down back at school, just in time for a 3 day weekend. Rusty is back at work and oh boy is he. As for me, well I am just a little crazy. I just told the Principal of the school that I would be happy to do Lunch duty for him. Yes, at least I will be paid. I am also putting together organizers for my mothers CPA firm and still volunteering a hole lot at school. Oh, that does not count the Stake Primary and Cubs that I am in charge of and the Trek meeting that I happily get to attend because we were asked to be Ma and Pa for the 2009 Trek. Oh and the house work, and the getting gas, and grocery shopping, I guess I do not need to go on, you are all like me also!!!! So I will do my best to get the pictures and post up tp date.

We are happy that we have a roof over our heads and that we have such a loving family in and out of the church. Thank you to all of you that support us.