parties!!!

This summer I have gone to many parties! Here are a two more that I have been able to attend! I went to Emily tiptons 15th b-day party @ bass lake. We boated and swam & generally hung out! The second party is Weston's movie night. We watched Dudley-do-right. Which of course gave us many fits of laughter!!!
Billy :D

Hannah's Batmitsfah at Bass Lake

This is a girl turning 13, coming of age thingy. We made her something for a memory box or something like that. We got her a frame with four real butterflies in it because our Mom calls her a butterfly. Well anyway I had a lot of fun. There was a lot of food, very important, and friends, also important. The rafts we brought were really fun, we left them at the lake to be used by everyone when we left. Before we left something crazy happened. While I was swimming one of my friends was drowning. I swam over and carried him back to shore.
-Dave

"digefest"!!!!!!!

O.k so last night my family went to the north fork digefest. Now you're probably scratching you're head and saying what is a digefest? A digefest is short for a didgeridoo festival! So now you're thinking why in the world would you want to go to something as boring as that! This digefest opened my eyes to how cool a dige is! I had previously though that a dige only made one sound ( a deep and strange bellow). I was sadly mistaken.... these instruments are amazing!!!! They are so fun to play and you can make hundreds of different sounds! I saw many amazing players throughout the night. I was even taught by several players who were both very good and very friendly! So I now know and can do the basics of playin the dige! While I was learning to play a dige Ricky was busy swinging of a rock into the pond that was behind the festival!!!So the entire family had fun at this amazing festival!
Billy :D

Woodward Park with my cousins & Day at Lucas's house

On Thursday I went to my friend Lucas's house and spent the day shooting air soft guns and playing video games. They dropped me off at Chitudo at the end of the day. Then on Friday we met our cousins, the Chavez family, at Woodward park. We had a good time playing baseball and other stuff, and just having fun.
Ricky

Huntington Lake and Rancheria Falls

Once a year we go to Huntington Lake with Mr. & Mrs. Bell , Papa and sometimes Dad. We go out on their sail boat. We stop at the same restaurant every time. Then we go swimming before we start heading back to the other side of the lake to go home. This time we went on a hike to Rancheria Falls. It was an easy hike with a good view of the falls. I sat beneath the falls with it pounding on my back. I also went behind the falls.

Ricky

Chitudo Goodbye & House Shopping

We are moving to Fresno that means we are leaving Chitudo. Which I am very sad about. We don't know when or where, but we know its happening. We have been looking at houses. We know the neighborhood we like best now. So I'm pretty sure we will end up somewhere by Fresno State and Peoples church. It will be nice to be closer to family and valley friends. Its just that I will be moving away from mountain friends and Chitudo. I hope we move soon though. I will get to come to special Chitudo events and also we will come the first Thursday of each month. Please pray that we find the right house for us soon.

Ricky

What I did this summer

I spent a lot of time reading and watching movies. I also got a cold, which was a bummer to have when you are on vacation. I did get to see a lot of friends, so that made the summer better after the cold, for instance I saw Bowen for a movie and pizza and another time I spent the night at his house. I went to the Orazem's for movies and BBQ. I went down to Ranchos & Fresno to visit my friends there. We walked to the Pizza parlor, Pete's and a few other places with Austin & Kayleen. My friends from Tennessee came to visit for a few weeks. We have not seen them for a loooonnnggg time. We also went to Granny's house for swimming a lot. One of the times that we were there we got to try the new BBQ place in Ranchos and she also made a homemade cherry pie. We also made jam from white nectarines and white peaches with Granny. My Mom says we are going to go ride horses at Meme's house soon. We went school shopping a few weeks ago and again last week. We have an appointment to get our hair cut this week. I look like a rag-a-muffin. That means summer vacation is almost over. Although I did go shooting a few times, sit in a waterfall, jump off a cliff side and lots of other fun things like going to Black Beards, Boomers, Island Water Park and Johns Inc pizza, movie theaters in Oakhurst and in Fresno, I'm not ready for summer to be over yet. Its a good thing I have a few more weeks to go!!
Ricky

Dinkey Creek

We went to Dinkey Creek on July 26th. It was my first time there. It was really cool!! We went to a bunch of pools, which were really awesome!! I hope we go again soon!!
Ricky

Ok I'm feeling dumb...........

The reason for this post is because I forgot to post one very important event of the Kings canyon trip....! Anyway When we were looking at the lost grove we saw a "BLACK BEAR" !!!!!!!!!!! It was tearing at a log in the attempt to scrounge some termites! So now that I feel better about the state of my mind I will leave with only one one more word.



WWWWWOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW



Billy :D

Kings Canyon camping!!!!!!

O.K so I lied we camped in Sequoia.... but we explored the Kings canyon. So with that I'm not changing the title! Anyway we camped in a beautiful pine forest & hiked to see the quiet & secluded Muir grove! The next day we drove to grants grove and walked this crowded but amazing path! After this we drove down the side of the canyon & saw the roaring river ( a branch of the kings river) & many other cool parts of the river. We also saw a beautiful meadow that bordered the river!
Billy :D

summer party summary :)

This summer I have gone to several parties. They include a going-away party for some old friends.......(the Biggs) & a welcome back party for some other old friends(the Winters)! I have also gone to two b-day parties. Probably the oldest friend I have had his sixteenth b-day party/sleepover ( C.J ). Also a new but good friend had his sixteenth b-day party/sleepover
(Cameron)! Finally I went to a just because party hosted by the Delfins!

Morro Bay camping trip!!!

This weekend we camped on the beach! It was amazing... we woke up to the sound of waves crashing against the shore! There was only one drawback.... the campsite. It was a parking lot with a strip of dirt on both sides of the road! Anyway during our trip we saw morro rock, montana de oro, los osos, & went to pismo beach! Yes; it was amazing!!
Billy :D