Rock Climbing in the Canyon

         Our friends, the Biglers, took us rock climbing (#8 on my res. list) at one of the roadside cracks in Kern River Canyon.  I'll admit I was terrified at first but I really wanted to go so I wiped off my sweaty palms, calmed my seriously beating heart and I DID IT!  After only a few times down the rock I managed to overcome my fear of heights and we had a totally awesome time.  Evelyn and Brayden even got a chance to go down.  Evelyn braved it much better than I could have imagined and she was already ready to go again the second her feet hit the ground.  We had such a great time!  I can't wait to go again.  Thanks Nathan and Stephanie for taking us!  You guys "ROCK"!

New Years 2009

January 1, 2009~

Our new years was the best ever! Andy's DJ'd a New Years dance for the last so many years so this year we decided to do something cool.  We

 went over to our friends, Nathan and Stephanie's, house.  We played games, watched movies, ate food and even shot off some fireworks.  The kids both managed to stay up past midnight and Evelyn got her first New Years kiss. More photos...

Kern County Fair 2008

Sep. 24, 2008~

This year I wanted so bad to go to the fair.  Andy hates the fair so even though that's were we officially started "going out" we've only been back once since we've been married.  So I was extremely grateful when my friend, Stephanie, offered to go with me.  We went early Wednesday morning which was perfect because we hit the "school days" offer of free parking and free admission.  We had such a great time!  We wandered around looking at all the booths and the animals.  We caught the tail end of a bird show which was really cute and we got to see a little calf that had just been delivered about 10 minutes before we got there. The friend that went with me also has two little kids the same ages as mine so everyone had a good time hanging out. 

 How adorable are these kids?  You might recognize Evelyn's little boyfriend, Brayden, from this post.  He was Evelyn's very first play date.  The two youngest, Preston and Sadie, were stroller buddies.  They were both totally content in their strollers and were great the whole time.

Rock Climbing

Some friends of ours have this freakin' sweet rock climbing wall in their backyard so during our last visit with them we thought we'd let the kids take a crack at it.  Here's some pics...

Here's Preston hanging on tight...

...STILL hanging on....

...and STILL hanging on!  I'm not sure how long he actually stayed up but he managed to hang on for quite a while.  I casually took like 10 pictures waiting for him to drop. 

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<-----Evelyn rocked it too! Check out that technique! She actually managed to climb up a few steps too.