Lisa’s family has made a tradition lately of camping for a week each year. This year’s adventure was to Westport Bearch near Fort Bragg, California. With us were the Rusts, Normans and Wassermanns. We took our Vistabule teardrop, Green Bean.

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Emily has developed a real passion for film.  Her dreams are to direct and produce, so she started with this senior-year film project. Emily had to produce a video that was a couple of minutes long for her “Film as Literature” class.

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It was time… time to make another major life change. For Christmas we brought home a new addition to the family. Introducing Ferris, the Boston Terrier.

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Every once in a while I actually look up and notice the design of this blog. Ok, so Emily doesn’t have braces anymore and the above banner was from before Patrick even had braces! He has them off now. Lisa looks exactly the same though. Hey, I know on which side my bread is buttered. […]

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This is what happens when Lisa’s entire family gets together to go see Christmas lights and the Limo company FAILS! Instead we all go shopping at the mall and visit Santa.

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Two local college coaches approached Emily today after the Commissioner’s cup tournament’s final game. The Sacramento Alliance Thunder netted a second place overall in the tourney, and Emily had a great game.

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We’ve enjoyed Serene Lakes for many years. We built a cabin there on the lake in 2000. Serene Lakes days is a two-day celebration that brings hundreds of families together to participate in the events, soak up the sun and eat the AWESOME barbecued hot dogs.

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Dear Lisa,

Happy mothers day! I hope you have the best time. Mothers day is for appreciation of our mothers who do everything for us. We never realized it, but mothers clean our room, help us out when problems occur, and most of all comfort us when we are sad. I am here today to appreciate what you do for us. You’re always saying you don’t want us to grow up. I never got the

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I almost brought my bike up this weekend, but instead we were treated to nearly a foot of fresh powder. Photos by Emily. 

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