We recently took a short trip down to Palos Verdes to see Steve's folks. For people in their 90's they are doing great. (I will post a picture of them later.) We left Sonora Sunday afternoon after church and got to PV by supper time and stayed until Tuesday afternoon. Then we drove to Jason & Heather's place in Canyon Country for a brief visit - well it was brief for Steve because he had to leave the next day for Sonora. I on the other hand had the wonderful privilage to staying for a week. Here is a picture of Steve and the girls in the back yard. They were playing "Pirate". Steve was the caption and Isabel and Acacia were his maties and they were finding buried treasure all over the yard (they were picking up their toys; sneaky way to get them to clean up huh?) It was one of the last dry days we had. The rest of the week was rainy off and on. That was OK tho' because I had a wonderful visit with everyone and then on Friday afternoon until Sunday evening I was honored with caring for all 4 kids while Jason and Heather took a littleR & R to Pismo Beach. While the parents were away we ate Mac & Cheese in front of the TV watching Wall-E; we stayed up after 8:00 pm; had monkey faced cupcakes for dessert and exercised to a hula DVD. All in all we had lots of fun. I then took the train home to Modesto on Tues, Feb 17. Well, first an Amtrak bus over the snow covered hills of the Grapevine to Bakersfield and then the train from Bakersfield to Modesto. Steve was there to greet me and take me out to dinner and then home to Sonora.
