Jr. Pheasant hunt

On 11/21/09, the boys went to Mendota pheasant hunting. Brandon was drawn for the jr. hunt, so he was the only one allowed to shoot. Mike, Kyle, our dog Casey, Mike's friend Andy and his dog Gunner all went to help Brandon kill 2 pheasants. Well, the dogs flushed up a total of 4 rooster pheasants. But, after not being able to take his gun off safety, not being able to fire, and two misses by Brandon, the only successful hunter was our dog Casey. She found this rooster, and caught it in mid air as it attempted to fly away. We sure are glad we had her, or we would have gone home empty handed,,,,,,,,Big Hunters!!!!! GOOD JOB CASEY!!!!!! Who trained that dog anyway?????

Halloween....

Here some pics of my kiddos. We had the traditional Chili cook-off at the chapel and then..."trunk or treat". These guys really enjoyed the candy collection..

This Boo Bingo room was organized for Grandma Sharon....

Tucker dressed as Keith Lorang..... Who's who????

My guaguas with cousins Kylie and Collin and Nicole's friend Brittany.

Smokey Run Race 2009

Well.... to be our first race ever, we did pretty good. It was a 2 mile race. Nicole and I took 2nd. place. Mike and Brandon got 4th, each one in their age group. It was fun and beautiful on the mountains (by Bass Lake).

Cocinando humitas ....mmmm!!!! riquisimas

ESTAS FOTOS SON PARA MI MAMI!!!

Por fin pude hacer humitas reales. Conseguimos unos choclos que son especiales para tamales, son duros y pense, hm! talvez si funcionan para humitas y si!!! super ricas y esponjosas...

Aqui esta la masa preparada, tuve que licuar bien finito el choclo en la licuadora, huevos, mantequilla, manteca de chancho, sal, azucar y polvo de hornear, (no tuve anis)..

bastante queso....

y pasas....

listo para cocinarlas....

algunos de mis ayudantes..

y aqui esta ya lista....

mmmmm.... super rica

San Diego get away

We're lucky to have a couple more days to go to San Diego,since the kiddos hadn't started football practices yet. We enjoyed our time there visiting with Mike's brother and family, sister and parents. I loved the place. The beaches reminded me to my beautiful Ecuadorean ones. We had a good time....

First thing Mike and the boys saw was a MMA Gym behind our hotel in San Diego. They went there and found these two guys "world champions" which names are: ____ and ____ (I don't remember, so I'll left the spaces to Mike to fill them in)

Then we drove South to the very end of USA. Here're some shots of the Mexico and USA border

We could see Tijuana from our side

For lunch all the family met at the Mission Bay...

and then we went to Mission beach...

but we decided to go up North to Del Mar beach... I liked this one. It was cleaner and nicer..

the fun is just starting!!

Here is Grandma going to boogieboard with the kids...

Nicole had some fast rides!

A mermaid!!!

For dinner we headed up to downtown to this place called "Dick's last resort". The style of this restaurant is the rudeness in every aspect, starting for the waitresses. The place was disgusting, you can see the floor in one of the pics. Everybody was allowed to be misbehaved. People threw paper balls to each other. Kids didn't have to show manners (only for that night!!!) So, they had a blast, well everybody except for cousin Sean. He was very serious about it. He thought we were sinning. I think he didn't like it at all...

When dinner was over. Our waiter brought these silly hats for some of the kids. Brandon's said "puberty sucks", Kyle's "I pee in my bed",,,, etc. etc.

The environment was contagious. They had a live band and Cameron and Ethan decided to go up in the front to dance with other people there... that was hillarious!

Our host and one of the servers..

One last shot outside the restaurant..

After dinner we went for a walk around Gaslamp Quarter. I loved the buildings and also remainded me to Quito and the busy nights....young people going to Clubs and walking around..

I Look how brave was Ethan letting the papagayo stood up in his head!!

At the entrance of Petco Park (Los Padres Stadium)

My silly family...

The next morning was very sunny, so we hit the beach again before coming back home...

And our last stop was at the beautiful San Diego Temple..