Lightsabers at college

found

I found my camera....it was in the couch...our couch has those cushions that have lost their fluff, so the gaps between cushions sometimes eat things like the remote, pens, just about anything you set down. I looked there this morning, but the camera was really hidden way down a corner crack. Glad I found it, now you can see Scott's fish picture!

Sacrament Talks

Scott, William, and I all had to give talks in our ward this Sunday.....Melanee also had to give a talk in her ward in Virginia.....Bradley and Andrew sang with the choir, so we were all featured this week. I told people that they should be happy, William talked about preparing for a mission, and Scott told a bunch of parables, but they weren't all from the scriptures, they were from Scott's life----Parables of Scott. Here we are before church.....doesn't William look happy????

Fish Story (this one is true)

Scott had Saturday off (that NEVER happens). He went to work for a while in the morning anyway. Then he turned in all our recycling. Then he mowed Reva's lawn. Then he did some other work around the house. After practically working half the day away, he decided to take the little guys fishing up HWY 70. It's what they call "wild fishing" cuz they have to rock climb, stomp through berry vines, poisen oak, and go over boulders bigger than our house. Sam, our dog, could barely make it down to the river. When they got there, Scott let Bradley and Andrew use the good fishing poles and easy to cast spinning reels, while he was left with a little kids pole with a lousy Zebco push button reel. He had taught Bradley how to tie on lures, and Bradley had tied his on so he was fishing with many disadvantages. Scott hooked into a large trout right off the bat. Andrew and Bradley had tangled up their lines. The fish that Scott hooked into jumped out of the white water and hooked into his spinner. It pulled real hard so Scott pressed in the release button so it wouldn't break the line.....he set the drag, turned the handle and started fighting the fish....it got stuck under some rocks....after it got loose from the rocks, Scott fought it for over 10 minutes before he finally got it in. Andrew and Bradley were screaming, "Don't lose it dad, we want to eat it, we need food." The dog wanted to fetch it, like a duck. It was real exciting (according to Scott). He measured it....16 inches long and 4 inches wide.

Melanee's game

Melanee's team played a game since I last blogged and I have never gotten around to posting any pictures (I may leave the recap out of this blog (since it is a "mom BRAG blog") I don't know if I can write something that is about a blow out LOSS!) But win or lose, I still really love my daughter and I am so proud of her for all that she does and how she lives her life. Here are some pictures for you to enjoy....I thought Richard took them, but he said he only saw the second half of the game and these are basically warm up and pre game pictures, so I don't know who to credit them to. *ok, what's MATT doing in the "girls" Locker Room?

***yeah, I don't think Richard took the locker room pictures, but I'm still wondering why MATT is in there.

Captains!

Bob Bradley

I want to write about the re hiring of Bob Bradley, but I, more than that, want Richard to blog about the rehiring of Bob Bradley....now that we are friends, I want to challenge his opinions, but I seriously doubt he will agree with me with what I am about to write, so I will write it (subject to change).....my first thought was "OH yeah! More chance of Jonny Bornstein to be around the USMNT with Bob Bradley as coach." Really, that was my first reaction. (NO, I am NOT obsessed with Jonathan Bornstein!) I know that Bob Bradley likes Bornstein. I was watching the Chivas game and who was in the stands watching LIVE....yep, you guessed it... Bob. Yeah, I know Bob lives in LA and the Chivas play in LA. I know that Bob likes soccer and would go to the Colorado games if he lived in Colorado or wherever, but I think he was there to watch Jonny play. Or possibly to watch Justin Braun, maybe he impressed Bob enough for a call up to the next camp.....his goal was SWEET! An 18 foot header(.....or Richard, was that just a goalie gaffe????) Bob was Jonny's first MLS coach....he drafted Jonny in the 5th round.....made him into a left back and has loved him ever since. I was SUPER impressed last night with Jonny's speed. MAN, he is F A S T. Seriously fast! Without having to deal with dribbling a ball or trying to defend flat footed, that man can RUN.

Oh, back to the hiring, (rehiring?) of senior Bradley.....this wasn't supposed to be a Bornstein or Chivas post.

I think he is good for the job. He is American.....and what other American has more experience. I do like Kinnear, though, since he is my age, is from Fremont, and played on the boys u19 Fremont traveling team when I was on the girls team, so I can claim that I sorta know him. I also know John Boyle, the President of the San Jose Earthquakes.....he was on that same boys team as Kinnear.....except Kinnear went to Kennedy and Doyle went to Washington, I believe, while I went to American. I wonder if Houston was doing better this year would Kinnear look like a better coach.

It used to really bug me that Michael Bradley was the coach's son, but he is a good player, so I think he has earned his spot.......now wouldn't it be HILARIOUS if Jonathan Bornstein was ALSO his son (somehow)...now if that was the truth and was ever found out by the press they would go CRAZY with the favoritism/nepotism stories! haha (I can picture the stories now---NO WONDER Bornstein GOT SO MUCH PLAYING TIME!)

I've seen a bunch of funny Twitter comments about Bob Bradley today, but haven't taken the time to see what real newspaper or magazine columist have to say about it, but I bet they will have nothing but nice things to say if they want access to interviews and that sort of thing in the future....BUT if someone else had been hired I'm sure they would have done their best to SLAM poor Bob.

I just wish Bob would get a better wardrobe, the sweats are probably very comfy, but not very classy, AT ALL. I don't even wear grey sweat pants and I'm a SLOB. He wears them TO WORK e'ry day!

1st Practice

Andrew and Bradley's soccer seasons have begun. Today each of them had their first practice. I coach both teams. Andrew's team practiced from 4:30-5:30 and Bradley's team went from 5:30-6:30. I picked Mondays and Thursdays for our practices because Andrew has flag football games on Tuesdays and flag football on Fridays. William has high school soccer games on Wednesdays and Fridays. Cub scouts are on Wednesdays. So basically every day of the week is full. Bradley's team is called the Stingrays, Andrew's is the Wolverines. Andrew's flag football team is also called the Wolverines, isn't that funny? When Bradley and Andrew played basketball they were to Wolf Pack. I wish we could name our teams, I could be more creative. Come on, how about the Beatles or something like the Eyelashes (William came up with that.) Andrew's soccer team is black, he thought a good name would be "The Dark Side".

If you were wondering, no, I didn't make dinner tonight......it definitely time to BREAK OUT the crockpot!

New Cleats

When William decided to try out for the Varsity Soccer team after having not played soccer during his freshman, sophomore, or junior year of high school, I told him to wear his old cleats and if he made the team I'd buy him some new ones. His old cleats are the ones he has had since he was 14 years old. We bought them at PLAY IT AGAIN Sports, so I'm not even sure if they were new....they are an OFF "name" brand and are not fancy or made well or anything. But they still fit and they still had some life in them....but after a week of soccer camp for 6 hours a day, then a month of 3 hour a day try outs, those old cleats are THROUGH. So we went shoe shopping in Chico. Tried the ONE soccer store in town. They carry 4 styles of shoes, one of them with metal studs, one of them they didn't have in William's size. He tried on the other 2 and hated them both. We then went to Big 5, Wal Mart, and Ross without any luck. There were some $11 "all Purpose" cleats at Wal Mart, which Scott couldn't figure out why William didn't want them. But there were NO cleats in the whole town of Chico that would make William happy.

So we spent our Saturday driving to Sacramento. You see, we have a Honda which gets good gas mileage and we have a GPS, so we knew it would be a worthwhile trip, NO PROBLEM! (or so we thought).....

We left town about 1:00. Scott took Bradley and Andrew fishing, so it was only William and I on a little adventure together. It was a fun ride down to Sacramento. The day was overcast and cloudy, so it wasn't hot at all (Like it usually is in August). We didn't have any traffic problems or car trouble or anything. The GPS gave us 2 choices when we typed in soccer stores. One was "Soccer Locker" and the other was "Extreme Soccer". About 4 years ago I had been to "Soccer Locker" with Melanee. We loved the store, with a little old man who talked to everyone, helpful employees, wonderful specials, and tons of stuff in stock. One of William's teammates had recently bought his cleats at Extreme Soccer, so we knew that would probably be a good option. We had been to a store called "Soccer Etc" or something like that a few weeks ago when we went to the temple, so when we picked "Soccer Locker" and then arrived there, we were surprised to see that it was "Soccer Etc". We went in anyway. It wasn't the friendly Soccer Locker. The employees stood behind the counter chatting away with each other. The young girl working the shoe section was NOT knowledgeable about ANYTHING and she stayed in the back for LONNNNGGGGGG periods of time. William did find a pair of purple "Fredy Montero" cleats that he did like, but NO ONE helped us, the service was SO BAD, and William wasn't as sure as I would have liked him to be......so we decided to leave them and go check out "Extreme Soccer". According to the GPS it was only 4 miles away. We took off, but in Sacramento 4 miles takes TIME. There are numerous stop lights and STOP and go traffic the whole way. With a little (meaning LOT) of stress, we made it to our destination according to the GPS, but there was NO "Extreme Soccer" in that strip mall. (The stress was caused by the traffic, my sense of direction (William yelling "right" while I was turning what I thought was "right" but it was actually LEFT.), and the increasing stress of knowing that Soccer Locker closed at 5 o'clock and we weren't going to make it back there if we didn't find anything at Extreme Soccer. We call Extreme Soccer (from here on out it's going to be abbreviated ES) and say, "We are here, where are you." The nice lady on the phone tells us that they've moved and she gave us the new address.....which we were going to type into the GPS, but the first thing the GPS asks is your city, which we don't know because when you are in "Sacramento" you are not actually IN Sacramento and you can go from Folsom to Fair Oaks to Roseville to Ranch Cordova to Citrus Heights to Highlands to Roseville to Rocklin without even switching roads. So we didn't know what city we were in or what city ES was in. So we remember that the nice lady on the phone said they were near Wal Mart and only 5 minutes away from where we were, so we type in Wal Mart. We find the nearest one and guess what? it is now a Home Depot....and there was no ES store to be found. We call them back and ask for directions. They tell us a few names of roads....we take them but end up going in a CIRCLE, not finding it AGAIN. We call them back ask what city they are in and type that into the GPS. We drive for WAY more than 5 minutes and DO find a Wal Mart sign. We cross 4 lanes of TRAFFIC and finally reach our destination to find a VERY small ES with a very, very insignificant amount of stock on hand! UGH. But when we go in we find a very helpful staff. William proceeds to try on and go through all the cleats in the $50- $60 dollar range. He doesn't fall in LOVE with any of them. I even had him try on the $99 Copas, but he thought their toes was too pointy. He tried on a few of them again and decided on the Predators. Earlier in the day we had called Melanee to ask her for some shopping advice and she said "Anything Puma or Umbro, but don't get Predators. I CAN NOT STAND PREDATORS". I even Twittered Stuart Holden and he said, "Anything NIKE"....of course he said that, he's sponsored by Nike. I liked the Predators, they look cool, he got the ones in the San Jose Earthquake color, and the price was RIGHT! We also picked up some Nike socks and some "approved" shin guards. The time was now 5:50, ES closed at 6. We sat down in the car and William started having a little buyers remorse. I didn't drive away. We called Scott to see if he'd be mad if we came back empty handed. He didn't answer. We called Melanee to find out her reason behind her "Don't get PREDATORS" statement. She answered. She said, "People who wear Predators are jerks". But by this time it is reallllllly close to closing time at ES. Melanee put her friend Nelson on the phone to help with the decision...he said that Melanee's dumb and that Predators are good, get them! William decided he doesn't care if only jerks wear predators, and we drove away. I don't know how he even knows what kind of cleats Jonathan Spector wears but William said that "Jonathan Spector wears Predators and he's not a jerk". He was happy with his purchase!

William wore them today at practice. When he got home I asked them how they felt. He said, "Only the bottoms and tops of my feet hurt".

Hopefully they will wear in!!!


On the way home we stopped for dinner and while walking in, William turned to me and said, "Don't do anything embarrassing." Do you think I'll ever take him out again??!???!! (I hope so.)

It was a great day. I loved spending time with William. He's a fun kid. When we were talking I told him that he should bring his drivers license next time (to help out with all that driving) and he said, "NEXT TIME! When are we ever going to do this again?" And he's right. And it made me a little sad.

Where in the world is Diane?

I don't EVEN know where last week went, but it's gone and I didn't blog about it...now I don't know how I will ever catch up....AND I can't find my camera.....but I had it yesterday and even took a picture with it, so it is SOMEWHERE!!!!!!!

Dance

It seems like it's been a while since William has gone to a dance....but he did tonight, so here's the traditional before the dance photo, with the traditional smile!

Pleasant Valley Soccer Varsity Soccer

GREAT NEWS! WOO-Hoo I get to do another blog post which I call a "mom BRAG". Isn't that one of the main reasons moms blog???

William has been trying out for the high school soccer team for the past 3 or 4 weeks. I didn't really want to blog about it because I didn't want to JINX him and I didn't want to have to say something here if he didn't make it.

William played football his first two years of high school. He ran on the cross country team when he was a Junior. Now that he is a senior he is playing soccer. What a multi talented, multi sport athlete!

His coach posted a list of players who would make it if he made cuts last week on his classroom window last week. William was on that list, but he still had to work hard this week in practice. Today the coach was handing out the uniforms, so the kids who got one knew they made the team. He handed out 17 uniforms and told the rest of the players they had another week to try to earn one of the last 5 spot on the roster.


William picked #2. His favorite USMNT player is Jonathan Spector, who also wears #2 now. William has been playing right side defender, Jonathan Spector's position, so it's kind of fitting. His birthday is on the 17th and #17 was still available when he was picking, but he decided against it because it is Melanee's #.

I had him put on both of his shirts for some blog pictures. #2 looks great on him!

He's so happy and I'm so happy for him.

Gone Camping

William's scout troop mostly has meetings to plan meetings, he gets frustrated because they hardly ever do anything fun. Well, with him as one of the leaders now, they have planned a WATER SKIING trip. They left tonight to camp and tomorrow they get to have some water skiing fun. I got a picture of the 3 who had to leave late because of soccer, football, and work.

Game Tomorrow

Melanee's team's first game is tomorrow night. Her school's web site is fairly basic, with no exciting new pictures or anything past the most basic of information. But Melanee is mentioned in the pre game article on the Radford website. Read it here:
http://www.radfordathletics.com/news/2010/8/20/WSOC_0820100842.aspx?path=wsoc

Dread the Red...um. OK!?!?!!??

Was just going to research the team that Melanee's team plays on Saturday and look at the first thing that popped up on my screen when I typed in a search for Radford---

New Shirt

Check out Scott's new t-shirt! What do you think???

Hummingbird

Hummingbirds are so cool. I love watching them. At the place where we go swimming there is a hummingbird feeder. Aren't they neat???

Swimming

In hopes of getting the kids tired out so that they would go to bed earlier, I took them swimming tonight. They had fun and Andrew was asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow tonight. My evil plan worked and they had fun.

Thirsty Much?

I have been trying to save money, so I haven't been grocery shopping as much as I usually do (we live a few blocks from Safeway, I think I go there (or used to) just about every day). We have been eating the stuff in our freezer and cupboards. We have been fine eating this stuff....but, the problem comes in when you are thirsty and want a cold refreshing fruity beverage....the choices here are pretty much just water or milk....milk doesn't taste very good when you are thirsty, water gets boring after a while.

I guess Scott was THIRSTY yesterday....haha....I went out to dinner with my friend (THANKS Michelle!) last night and when I came home I found that Scott had been shopping. He didn't buy any food...he bought- 2 lemonades, a Sunny Delight, a Fruit punch, and Orange Juice. He must have been REALLLLLLY thirsty!

I guess I shouldn't deprive my family of the basic necessity of thirst quenchers!

Day Off

I was supposed to report to Court today as a witness to a felony robbery.....LUCKILY...the defendants settled before the trial and I didn't PERSONALLY send a man (or 2) to PRISON!

But I had already covered my bases and got a sub for me at work, so I had a DAY OFF (something I don't get very often). Now it is 2:30 and the kids should be walking in the door any second and NOTHING really got accomplished today....UNLESS you count the cleaning out of our junk drawer or "the drawer", not to be confused with the "drawer next to the drawer", haha. Look at it- I also was able to watch the Manchester United game in the middle of the afternoon with no interruptions. It was nice. They won and THEY ARE GOOD. (Either that or Newcastle is BAD!) I sort of like having a day off, our check book doesn't, but I do!

Seminary Honor Student

Today in church, the bishop stood at the podium before the speakers and began talking about his high school seminary teachers and experiences. I didn't really realize where he was headed, until I noticed a few plaques up next to him on the podium. I quickly counted them and tried to figure out who won them. I was hoping William would be one of the recipients, but I wasn't sure. I know he reads his scriptures, I remember him teaching a lesson, I KNEW he had over a 90% attendance rate, and I thought he probably could memorize all the scripture mastery scriptures, so I HOPED he would earn one. So I continued to listen to the bishop until he called the 5 kids up....yep, William was one of them and I couldn't have been prouder. He worked hard. No one knew there were going to be any actual AWARDS given out, so that was a special treat. This is the first year they gave out more than just the computer print out certificate. The plaque is actually VERY cool and high quality. I bet all the kids will work hard next year if they want to earn one!

Good Job William!

Melanee today

New Shoes

Melanee needs new cleats just about every season. She plays A LOT of soccer and her school has a new turf field, so her old cleats are well worn, in fact, they had ripped completely apart....so, lucky for her, today her team took a ride to "something"-burg, can't remember, and went shopping at the soccer store owned by the SVU men's soccer coach. Melanee said it was very nice. She was also thrilled to stop at Sonic on the way home. Here are the new cleats she picked out. She loves them and is excited to wear them. Hope they score lots of goals!!!

(***the soccer shoe models pictured holding the new cleats are Brynnlee and Jackie!)

as promised

William in front of the palm tree on the second day of school (Senior Year).

Cub Scout field trip

Our cubmaster works at a nut plant, so today for a field trip we went out there for a tour. I wont say if the boys really enjoyed it all that much but it was an educational trip in which I am sure they learned a lot. They got to see the trees, the cleaners, dryers, cookers, freezers, storage thingys, got to see workers work and all that goes into growing and harvesting nuts. What a wild, rowdy, disrespectful bunch of wild boys, though.

1st day of school

I took these in front of the palm tree out of tradition, but the palm tree has grown so high, that all that is hanging down are the dead palm fronds, which make for an ugly back drop, those dead fronds along with the duck and goose decoys and all the toys, I can tell is definitely time to find a new first day of school picture location. (I think we can do a blog search to last year's pictures and I BET I said the exact same thing.)

William left before I thought to take his picture in front of the palm tree, but I do have one of Melanee, even though her school doesn't start until the 28th, the day she left I made her stand in front of the palm tree-

I WILL get William tomorrow. (If I remember and if he lets me.)

U.S. vs. Brazil friendly

Well, it's my last day of summer vacation and all I wanted to do today was watch the soccer game. That's all I looked forward to.

Kinda disappointing game, in relation to how much I wanted it to be exciting.

I did cheer OUTLOUD once, but that goal was called back! The rest of the game I sorta sat still, a little mad at the US style of play. Then Brazil scored their first goal. And I KNEW that EVERYONE would be blaming it on Jonathan Bornstein. It did LOOK like it was his guy who scored and it did look like he should have given more effort to get his head on the ball. It did look like he got pushed out of the way like a skinny rag doll, but in actuality, it was NOT his fault ALONE. The #11 guy Bedoya shouldn't have let the cross get crossed. Bedoya's effort was half effort at most, just putting his foot up. And since the ball was coming down THAT side of the field, where was #2 Jonathan Spector? Really, where was he? And if you watch the replay again, watch it and wonder why Tim Howard didn't come out and just snag the cross. He could have even stepped forward and punched it away. But, NO, he just stood there WATCHING the shot, watching it go passed him. He didn't even move an INCH, it was very similar to the shot taken in the World Cup that froze him. So, blame Jonny B if you want, but I'm not going to. And SOME may blame him for the second goal also.......I couldn't tell from the replays or the angles from the cameras, but was it Jonny B holding the guy ONSIDE, allowing him to score??? If it was, that stinks, but that goal was also one that Tim Howard failed to stop. He's the goalie, he can use hands, just run out there and pounce on the ball!

I did NOT like the way ESPN covered the opening ceremonies or whatever they are called with the walking out onto the field and national anthems. The cameras were 85% of the time just panning the stands, showing us weird fans cheering and singing. And the post game shots were JUST AS BAD, showing us for more than 85% of the time a close up on Bob Bradley wandering the sidelines and the field. I WANT TO SEE THE PLAYERS. I could care less about the fans and one second of Bob Bradley is long ENOUGH. The first second was a shot of him SMILING. WHY? I ask, why? Why was he so happy? His team just gave a dismal effort. He may be losing his job. His team failed to score. UGH!

I was not impressed with Landon Donovan. He could have scored in the first few minutes of the game....but he fell, possibly flopped (hoping for a PK), instead of shooting the DANG ball. Then he ran to the ref, explaining his case, ummmm...that DOES NOT work, when is he going to learn that?

Jozy dribbles too long. Michael Bradley did quite of few passes to Brazil. Sacha tried really hard, but maybe too hard, he looked like a chicken with it's head cut off, running around aimlessly, but I sure could tell that he was TRYING. Buddle failed to impress. He's 29, he's not going to be around in 4 years, why waste our time with his half hearted efforts. If Findley has SOOOOO MUCH speed, why doesn't he use it to chase the ball when the full backs are just playing around with it, stalling? Bedoya bugged me the most. I know he is also young, but if he was in there to impress some European teams, he should have been playing a lot better. Edu did OK. Bocanegra, Goodsen, Gomez...OK. But why was Omar a starter, he has only practiced with the National team for a few minutes. Trial by fire, I guess. If a player if a good soccer player, they should be able to play well any time, any where. Feilhaber also ran around everywhere, but not in a constructive manner. The defense, which includes Bornstein, didn't ever steal the ball, ever. All they did was back track, wait, and try to throw up a foot when Brazil finally tried to make a cross or a shot. Not good strategy. Not fun soccer to watch. SOOOOO many times Spector could have stepped forward and attempted to cut off a pass, but instead he just let the passes go. All the guys who played in the middle seemed to just let their guys go hoping for an offsides call or a missed shot. Bad defense today. BAD. But seriously, the USA didn't score, so NO ONE can blame the loss on the defense. The US barely even took any shots. They either dribbled the ball right to the feet of the Brazil defenders or they did a wayward pass. VERY few shots. Can't score if you don't shoot. Can't win if you don't score. So U.S. lost. Soccer is a team sport, so the whole team lost, except Cherundolo, no one can blame it on him, he didn't even get into the game. (Lucky for him.) I read that he had fitness issues, what, a guy on the United States World Cup team let himself get out of shape in the span of a mere few weeks????

The U.S.A. back up goalie, Guzan, played well. He made some stops. Brazil missed some shots. It could have been a much more lopsided score! (I'm glad it wasn't.)

Atop the Empire State Building

I don't know if this blog post if for Richard or Melanee---maybe Richard, because I KNOW these guys are BY FAR his two favorite players (using A LOT of sarcasm here) or because I know that Melanee is now WAY tooooooooo busy to be looking around online for the goings on of Jonathan Bornstein, but she may take a SECOND to look here at my blog, so now she can see this awesome picture taken from the 103 floor of the Empire State Building where the average person is NOT allowed (cuz there is NO RAILING), but since Jonny (and I guess Sacha) are not "average" they got to go up there today. (nice run on sentence)

Looks like they are holding on PRETTY TIGHT, though.

Photo Shoot Favorites

Melanee got to do a photoshoot yesterday for fun with Cameron's mom and sister. Here are my favorites, out of over 100 pictures. I picked these, but LOVED them ALL.

I don't usually like the staring off into space poses, but I do like this one. There were also some close ups of this pose and scenery, and usually I prefer a close up to a full body shot, but I just loved the entire background of this.

Black and white is a good effect also.....but look at the picture below....to get their outfits to match better, Melanee's pick shirt was colorized to be a red shirt, COOL.

Funny old guy

The Chico Air Museum is right next door to the Chico Airport. It's free. So why not go look around with the little boys after watching Melanee take off??? We went over to the outdoor area first and looked at the planes on display. Then one of the volunteers walked up to us to show us around and tell us more about the airplanes. I told him about Melanee just leaving to go back to college and he said to me, "What college?" and before I could answer he answered for me..."Southern Virginia University." I was shocked. I was amazed. So I asked him, "Do you know her?" I looked at his name tag and his name wasn't familiar. I thought maybe he was someone from church or maybe Melanee's junior high or the soccer she has been playing this summer....but wouldn't I know him, if he knew her????????? And it was just an odd few moments---------------until he pointed out my shirt. HAHA.. I was wearing the SVU t shirt Melanee brought home for me. LOL!!!!!! Smart guy! Silly ME.

Melanee's plane taking off taking her back to the place she now thinks of as "home".

At the Airport

We only had to drive 4 miles to the Chico Airport this time, so that was nice. Melanee flew to San Francisco, then the Washington DC, then to Roanoke. She flew on United Airlines!

Here she is after we gave our final hugs as she is unloading and basically undressing to pass through security.

Boarding the plane.

Here's the guy putting the luggage on the plane...notice the door seems to be sealed with DUCK TAPE.

We watched the take off, then I took Bradley and Andrew over to the airport museum next door.

Family Pic

Used the timer again to get us all in the shot.

Pictures

We stayed up late last night watching "Baywatch" on the Comedy Channel.....isn't that a funny channel to show Baywatch????? But the acting is COMEDIC, so I guess the Comedy Channel is appropriate. Then Melanee was so excited to go back to school that she woke up EARLY this morning. We had extra time, so I got out my camera and took a bunch of pictures. Here are pictures of Melanee with each member of our family-

The boys were happy to see her go. (Just Kidding!!!)