Well summer’s moving right along here in Chico! Charlie and Samantha start school on the 11th and they are very excited! We went to Charlie’s orientation for kinder garden and Samantha’s orientation for her first year of high school yesterday.  Charlie is incredibly happy to start school with the “big” kids. Samantha is on the JV cheer leading squad and of course like any other 14 year old has a TON of friends and a very chaotic life :)

Gary and I have recently bought Dr. Oz’s book YOU on a diet and we have started adopting the VERY healthy advice in it! Gary and I have both dropped 21lbs. within just the last 2-3 months. Most of it has been through just watching portion control and making sure we have HEALTHY food to munch on instead of grabbing what ever is available. We are starting his two week detox plan this Sunday and according to Dr. Oz we can lose two inches off of our waist! But Gary and mine’s main focus is to get healthy not skinny!

Gary and I will be celebrating our 17 month anniversary (woo hoo :)) here in a couple of weeks. And we are counting down the days when we go to the coast back to our Forrest Suite for my birthday at the end of December.

As always BE BLESSED!!

Summer is Here!

Well it's HOT here in Chico CA! And it's only going to get hotter! Well I finished school! I managed to get an A in my college study skills class, a B in my Gender Communication and a C in my health class! I've got about two and a half months til I start school again!

Samantha graduated from the 8th grade and is really excited about starting high school. She will be doing cheer leading and is going to cheer leading camp this summer.  Charlie starts kinder garden at the beginning of August and he is eager to go to the big boys school. He just finished T-ball and started his first Karate class this week.

Gary and I are doing GREAT! We will celebrate our 15 month anniversary here in a couple of days! I know I know who celebrates the months (hehee) well  we do! We are VERY much looking forward to going to the Mendocino for my birthday in December. We are going back to our Forest Suite that we celebrated our one year anniversary at.  Life is AWESOME!

It's been a while........

    I know, I know.....it's been FOREVER since I've blogged! I've just been REALLY busy with school! I'm almost done though WOO HOO!!! I just have one more paper to write for my Gender Communication paper and I will be done with this semester! Then next semester I will be going full time! So I'm really looking forward to the summer break! 
    Samantha graduates from the 8th grade next week so as you can imagine she is really excited. She has done great in Junior high and is  planning to take all college prep classes next year for her first year of high school. Gary and I are extremely proud of her! Charlie is playing t-ball and is doing great. He just LOVES sports and is very much a little boy. He will start kinder garden in the fall and is very happy about that.
    Gary and I have been together for 14 months and they just keep getting better and better!! I couldn't have prayed for a better man in my life :) Until next time..........
By the way........Charlie took this picture of him and I, I thought it was a really cute pic so I decided to post it!

Day 2 Of Our Mini Vacation!

Day 2 of our vacation!!  AND our anniversary!! When we pulled into the driveway of our forest suite we were amazed!! It's an old barn that  an artist Jennifer Taylor remodeled as her art studio. Then she rents the loft out as a vacation rental. Its 2 miles south of Mendocino and about 1 mile from the coast. We are in the middle of a redwood forest and it is BEAUTIFUL! Gary and I drove over from Chico yesterday. It's raining right now outside and it is SO romantic! The whole west wall of our get away is windows and there are several skylights throughout our little oasis. Today we went down town to this great little coffee shop called the mendocino bakery. Gary and I had some fair traded organic thanksgiving coffee! Then we went down the street to the Harvest Market  and got some fresh baked sourdough bread, some wild locally caught prawns then came back to our little studio and had a WONDERFUL dinner! We are so relaxed here we almost feel at home. Too bad we have to go back to our actual home tomorrow but we WILL be back!!

Well charlie started t-ball practice this last Saturday!! What a little base ball player we have! Our coach, coach Chris is REALLY great with the kids! it was SO cute watching about nine five year olds learn how to play baseball!! Charlie hit the ball GREAT! I've attached a pic of him at the batting cages! What a little trooper we have!!

Gary and I are VERY excited about our upcoming trip! We leave 13 days from today! We CANNOT wait to get away to the coast!! Until next time.......

Well the weather here in Chico, CA is FINALLY getting nicer!! We've had nothing but rain the last couple of days which has prevented us from riding our bikes. Also Gary's gout has been flared up so he hasn't been able to hardly walk let alone ride a bike. Gary and I have decided where we are going to go for our one year anniversary which we are VERY excited about! Here's a link to where we are going http://www.vrbo.com/272501 . We are REALLY looking forward to getting away from the valley to the coast! Plus also eating some great seafood!

Yesterday we took Charlie to sign up for his t-ball at a pancake breakfast. Sometimes I think Gary and I are more excited about him starting t-ball then he is! He got his hat he's on the muck ducks team. It was great seeing him get all excited about starting something new! He has his first practice this Wednesday!! Until next time.......

REALLY sore!!

WOW!! today Gary and I were REALLY sore after our 2 hour bike ride yesterday!! We have both decided to ride our bikes 2 hrs 4 days a week! We would like to lose 50lbs and I'm pretty sure we can do that over the next 6 months! We are dropping our gym membership til it gets too hot outside to ride our bikes. I figured it out and depending on what website you look at we burned anywhere from 1388-2000 calories in a 2 hour bike ride! AMAZING! and its fun too!! riding around Chico it is VERY bike friendly and very beautiful! Anyways i was just stoked about being sore and thought i should blog. as always keep smiling!!!