Happy Birthday Mom!!!

Thursday, November 4, 2010 was my mom's 60th Birthday. We had the opportunity to surprise her this last weekend. My dad rented a vacation home in Salt Lake City. Most arrived on Thursday. I arrived on Friday morning. After I got in, most of us went to the zoo. Surprise number 3 was Friday night. We all went to Arctic Circle. We had arranged ahead of time for my dad to call Alma when they got close and meet for dessert. We hid behind the play ground and when my parents arrived we all walked out and surprised her! Surprise number 2 was Saturday morning. Since Neal is serving a mission in Brazil, my dad asked him to email a special letter to my mom. He read it just before breakfast. It was a very touching and beautiful letter. Surprise number 3 was Saturday night. My mom and dad went out to get ice cream for dessert. While they were out, most of my mom's siblings that live in the area arrived at the rental home. We had a great visit with lots of laughs. Sunday morning we attended church with Alma and Matti. It was great weekend and we all had a wonderful time. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM, I LOVE YOU!!!

The Zoo.






Surprise number 1!!!














Playing games and enjoying the beautiful weather we had!













Surprise number 3!






Giving out the rubber band guns I made for all my nieces and nephews and my siblings!




Reading to several of my nieces and nephews while their parents got packed and ready cleaned things up.


Family photo. The only person is Neal, who is serving a mission in Brazil!

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

My cousin, Amy Petersen, put this video together in honor of a good friend/mentor who died quickly from Breast Cancer. It is a very beautiful and touching video. Click here to watch it on YouTube. Please feel free to share with anyone you feel could benefit from it.

Bike!

After much thought, and the great encouragement of those who commented on my last post, I decided I am going to see if I can do a 100 mile bike ride. Click here to see the link to the one I want to do first. To start out my goal right, I got a road bike. I realize that a ride like that would be extremely difficult on my mountain bike!

Do YOU think I can?

As most of you know, I have been getting into riding my bike more often. I think this is my next goal. I know I have a LOT of work to get to that point, but it isn't until May, so I might be able to work into it. What do YOU think?

Visit from my parents

Friday night, my mom and dad flew in for a visit. Saturday we spent the day in San Francisco. We started at Coit tower, then drove down Lombard Street. Next we went to the Cable Car Museum, followed by China Town. We completed the day around Fisherman's Wharf. There, we wandered around and saw some of the shops. We completed the day with a 2 hour sunset cruise. On Sunday we went to church, relaxed and went to visit with the Wiscombe's for a little while in the evening. Monday we relaxed in the morning, then walked around Downtown Davis for a little bit. We got lunch from Subway then took a bike ride down the U.C. Davis Arboretum. We left around 2:00 and took my parents to the airport. A fun time was had by all! Thank you, mom and dad, for a good weekend!!!

Coit Tower:








Lombard Street.




Cable Car Museum.






China Town:


From the Submarine USS Pampanito:


















From the Sunset Cruise:

Weekend with the Picanco's

YES, I know this is way over-due - no excuses, just haven't sat down to do it till now!
The weekend of June 24th - 28th, I had the opportunity to go to Boise, Idaho to visit Brenda, Andrew and their three boys. I arrived on Thursday afternoon and was able to enjoy time with them until Monday. The pictures show a lot of what they did (they are not in any particular order). Most are of me with the kids. I had a great time and want to thank Brenda and Andrew for their wonderful hospitality!!!

Bauer and I (Keagan asked to use my camera to take a picture of us, so I let him!).



One night I got out my computer to play some music, and Keagan and Deker got their computers out to be like me!!!



Aunt Vera with Emmalyn and Brooklyn (Jeanette and Jeff's twins).



Bauer taking a nap in Aunt Vera's arms :)



Bauer giving big smiles to Aunt Vera!!!



The Picanco Family on the morning of the Baby Blessing.



Bauer's Blessing outfit. Brenda made his tie (as well as her skirt and the boys' ties [including Andrew's]) and my mom made the pants, shirt and vest.



Yummy stuffed jalapeno peppers. Click here for the Recipe



Keagan and I in our go-car ready to get moving!!!



Keagan and I riding in the go-cart.



Reading to all my Picanco Nephews!

Back to the Future!!!

Just a useless fact!

Today is the day that Marty McFly arrived in the future after hitting 88mph in a pimped out Delorean in 1985!!!