It's 1:28AM..I can't sleep..

I don't watch TV & if I surf, I'll spend...so I'll blog....

Over the last 20+ years I've taken thousands of pictures...

(mostly of Mia in the last 9 yrs...but of others too)

I love taking pictures...here are some random

shots from all different periods of time

and include Mia, Jason, our friends and

family, dogs, places we've been & other stuff.

the end...

Last night we watched fireworks at the home

of Jason's boss, they had

cases & cases full of fireworks and

hundreds of sparklers for the kids, the show

lasted almost 3 hours....non-stop!!:)

July 4th

Happy Independence Day

We are blessed to live in the

greatest nation on earth and the reason we are

the greatest is because we were founded under God.

May God Bless You & Our Great Country!

20

FRESNO HIGH SCHOOL

My 20 year high school reunion is in a month....20 YEARS!!!

Big permed hair

MTV

The mall was the place to be

Billy Idol, Rebel Yell

Don't we all have stories to tell ?

Jelly shoes, parachute pants

Everyone do the Safety Dance

Michael Jackson was a king

Moonwalk, "Beat It" "Billie Jean"

Uptown Girls, West End Boys

Rubik's Cube, Transformer toys

INXS, Prince and U2

Yuppies in BMW's

Video Killed the Radio Star

We've come so far to where we are

Like totally, a valley girl

Benetton and Jheri Curl

Breakfast Club and Top Gun

Girls Just Want to Have Fun

Purple Rain, Pretty in Pink

Funkytown by Lipps Inc.

Ahh, the 80s were so much fun

Now just nostalgia thanks to VH1.

52 Years!

Happy 52nd Anniversary

Auntie Cleo & Uncle Vern!!

Here's a little poem about marriage:

To keep your marriage brimming

with love in the loving cup,

whenever you're wrong, admit it

whenever you're right, shut up.

THE FIRST DAY OF SUMMER

more fun:)

Lexie & Mia spent 4 hours in the pool today....and they are a bit pink

the 3rd day of FUN

5 days of FUN:)

Vacation Bible School

Northwest Church

Summer time sleep over!

Mia & Lexie having popcorn & enjoying a movie

it's 103 degrees...time to swim!

Fun in the sun!!

fresh from the groomers & shaved for summer!!

Puggy & Sissy, our two little old ladies

My Letter to the Editor

My letter made it into the Bee!

They said it wil be published on one of these days...

June 13th, Friday

June 14th, Saturday ...it's in today's paper!

June 15th, Sunday

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The Fresno Chaffee Zoo receives approximately ten million dollars a year from Measure Z. In 2004, it was impressed upon the voters that funds from Measure Z were critical to improve & repair the existing exhibits. Today, 4 years later, the animals still wait while the plans to grow the zoo by up to 20 acres, and even more than that for parking, are studied and studied. The decision to bring aquatic animals to the zoo while doing little to nothing to improve the habitats for the mammals is irresponsible. I would like to remind those at the zoo that we already have an aquarium project underway in the Central Valley. The aquarium project is being funded by private money, donations and grants, not a local sales tax. If the aquarium had received Measure Z funds for the past 2 years, it would have been enough to build the entire facility and have it open to the public today because its plans were already approved. The conditions at our zoo are shameful & I would rather see the zoo closed than run so poorly. Perhaps it’s time to repeal Measure Z since our tax dollars are being spent so deceitfully.

We are looking forward to this...

Watch the trailer

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809902253/trailer

Watch the trailer

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809826133/trailer

We saw this on Saturday, it is very cute & full of laughs:)

Fun at Boomers

This was our 2nd time at Boomers.

It's a fun place if you don't have anything else

to do and you don't care what you spend, we had a gift certificate

thanks to Santa. Mia liked the little cars, she thought it was so cool

to actually drive using a gas & break....

a little different than Autopia.

She did really well parking too...that was until the

little boy behind her bumped her and

messed up her perfect parking job...

she was not happy and gave him a mean look.

Oh No....an aggressive driver at age 8!

Save Roeding Park!

OK...if you have time please visit

www.saveroedingpark.org

There is a great deal of information on what the zoo

is planning and why we should be

upset that they are spending

millions of dollars to do exactly what they

promised they would not do....EXPAND!

They are supposed to use that money to

improve & repair the zoo, not increase it's size.

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Play Ball

take me out to the ball park.....

T ball at Harry Goorabian Park

The team: New York Mets

MVP's : Connor, Nathan & Jacob

Jacob saying "hi" to his fans

the zoo

At first this tiger would not look in my direction...

so I called him...here kitty kitty I said..

then this guy (big fat jerk) next to me says in his stupid know-it-all voice

"they are way smarter than that...he won't look at you,

they know what you are trying to do."

I greatly dislike people who are rude...just as this guy

started to walk away the tiger looked over in my

direction and kept looking so that I could take several shots....what a good kitty.
Mia was surprised to see one of the

stingrays jump out of the water.

Glad we saw them before they all died..

DID YOU KNOW??

The Fresno County Zoo Authority is the public agency responsible for the administration of Measure Z, the unique transactions and use tax (sales tax) which is collected throughout Fresno County for the support of the Chaffee Zoo in the City of Fresno. The sales tax, at the rate of 0.1%, is collected by retailers and sent to the State Board of Equalization (BOE). The BOE then deducts its administrative fee and forwards the remaining revenue

(about $10 million per year)

to the Zoo Authority.
The Zoo Authority may spend up to 2% of the revenue for its own administrative expenses. Of the remaining 98%, at least 2/3 must be spent on capital improvement projects at the Zoo, and up to 1/3 may be spent on operations and maintenance at the Zoo.