Foxy Roxy's 1st visitors

3-25-09 Foxy Roxy had her first visitors, the Choi family! Soon, we'll have to introduce her to their other family member, Nobi. ;-)

Nathaniel says, "Hey Roxy, wanna meet my doggie, Nobi?"

Roxy seemed pretty calm around all the kids.

She's home!

3-24-09 We welcomed our newest addition today after I picked her up at the vet, where she was spayed this AM. Check out the pixs as she checks out her new home and neighborhood. BTW, the vet techs thought she was part shephard part lab, not chow. Her tongue is definitely pink! LOL!

We're still deciding on a name, but "Foxy Roxy" is the leader right now...we're seeing how it fits her. She does look like a fox in the sun!

Nice to have a dog back in the house...just didn't seem the right.

New dog!

3-24-09: Last Sun., we visited and shelter and found this 1 year old half chow half lab female dog there and fell in love with her. She passed all of the Dog Whisperer's tests for a shelter dog, so we adopted her!

Picking her up today at 4 PM from the vet where she's getting some of her shots, fixed, and chipped, so stay tune for more pixs and vid clips! No name yet...holding off till we have her a few days to see what fits.

3-21-09 Evening piano recital

Summer and her cousins, Jake and Josh, had a piano recital after the hike, so they quickly cleaned up and changed. After playing, they also received their awards, including their trophies for playing in the Inland Empire Piano Festival and getting honors in CM.

Summer also was one of 8 of Helen's students who earned Convention honors as well. Helen said that 5% of the 250,000 piano students in CA who do CM earn Convention honors, so that was a nice honor. (We can't go to play in Convention since it's up in Northern CA.)

They all did a great job tonight!

3-21-09 Another busy Saturday afternoon!

The weather was gorgeous today, again, so we decided to take advantage of it and go for a hike in the hills of Loma Linda after church today. While there, we had an unexpected surprise of running into the kid's gymnastic teacher from Camp Mivoden last summer, Emily! They happened to see her in the park from afar but were too shy to go up and make sure, so I went up to check and sure enough, it was her! They had a good time chatting and doing a pyramid. (She's down here from WWU for her brother's wedding.)

Busy weekend!

3-15-09 Here I thought it was going to be a calm weekend, but no such luck! LOL! OK, it was a blast, and here are the pixs as proof.

Saturday Sabbath, we taught Sabbath School Juniors, had a potluck/meeting for our Outreach Committee, Easter practice in afternoon, and b-day celebration in evening, including a suspended King of Ping tournament.

Sunday started early, around 7:30 AM, with a hike up Blue Mountain with about 500 other people. Then rushed back down, met some people at XRTZ at noon, then zoomed over to Summer's Honor's piano recital in the afternoon.

Whew! What better way to spend the weekend with family and friends, worshipping and having fun together.

Ready to start the week now. ;-) Hope ya'll had a great weekend, too!

Saturday in pictures:


Sunday in pictures:

RST takes 1st place in Red/White Championship!

3-8-09: Our swim team, Redlands Swim Team (RST), hosted the Red/White Championship for the Easter Section which we belong to. Almost 900 swimmers converged on our 2 pools over this weekend.

Out of all the teams there, RST took 1st place with almost 2,000 points! Congrats to all the swimmers, parents, volunteers, and coaches for making this meet a success!

Summer, Melissa, & Michelle hanging out between their events.


The girls holding RST's 1st place trophy!


The traditional post-meet glycogen replenishing trip to Souplantation...

Pathfinders make meal @ Ronnie's house

3-7-09: The Pathfinders, led by Directors Mike and Ellen, organized the Pathfinders into 2 groups: 1 made spaghetti at the Ronald McDonald House, while the other group made salad and cupcakes at the church. The church group then brought their food over to the Ronald McD's house for the families to enjoy. (The Ronald McD's house is special housing for families who have kids in the Children's Hosp. across from the street.)

They all had a great time cooking and playing afterwards in the backyard! Great community service outreach activity! All the kids did great helping to cook the meal.

Sorry, I didn't have any pictures from the church--I was with the "house group".