Scuba at Central High

 Earlier this summer the Goodbars invited us to go scuba dive at Central High. Basically it was an intro program to scuba diving. I enjoyed this experience. It was a good simple way to introduce Scuba to random people. We went under, and then swam the entire pool length. On another point this pool was massive! I have never seen a pool that big in my life. I could probably fit our house into it. Oh and Central High also has a small water park in the pool area. Awesome day.
Billy :D

Millerton Lake Rocks!

We go a lot of places in the summer. But we most definitely go to Millerton Lake. Mostly because it's so close to where we live. This summer I was able to go with my church high school youth group 3 times. We went  rafting and the guys driving the boats were awesome. Then we eat BBQ.  Then we had a bible study. This was the schedule each time. It was fun to do this over the summer. Billy & I are taking a break from the youth group for a while though.
Rickydave

More memories of June

So I went to the San Joaquin River Gorge. As we were hiking I realized that my stamina has gotten better. I am usually in the back, but this time I was way, way  in the front. I was running far ahead of my parents and brother. Then we went on the bridge.  It was so hot so we did not go much further. But it was cool looking at the river.   After that we went to are Granny and Papas' for dinner and a swim.

For the Chitudo promotion we preformed for the parents and friends. Then all of us had turns trying to break bricks or boards. I  broke a brick yayaya!!! My dad broke 5, go Dad!!!


  I went to my first my guitar and piano recital. I did good, but my teacher did really good. He played a song his Dad wrote. We had junk food after we all played, which is always fun.

Dave



                                                                                                             rickydave

June.

In June I slept late, woke up late and generally laid around reading. I read The Inherited Series, The Redwall Series, The Rangers Apprentice Series, The Lord of the Ring Series and then a bunch of Garfield Comics. Now I did do more than read. It's just that Mom won't let me read these books during the school year. Anyway one thing that happened in June is that the Biggs girls (who live in Kansas) came to visit all of us friends in California. While they were here they had a swim party. It was fun!! We had pizza and of course swam. It was cool to see them again.



                                                                                                  Rickydave

CHEFA Square Dance

Last spring Billy & I went to a Square Dance with our home school group. I saw a lot of frinds and had a good time hanging out and dancing. The last dance we did was the waltz. I did not get all the dances, but it was fun...
                                                                                                                          Eric David Vincent

The Tale of Dads New Desk

OK so the guy that delivered my Dads desk thought he would be bringing it in himself.  Well it took my brother and I to get it in the house. We were doing pretty good, but there was one piece we couldn't get in. Just when we needed it my Dad showed up. The guy was really determined to have the desk go in the office a certain way.  As soon as he left my Mom had us move the hutch to a different part of the desk. My said the whole thing was a comedy.

Eric

Yearbook, CHEFA

This year I joined the CHEFA yearbook team. We met once a month to hash out the details of the yearbook. We gathered pictures at every event, and made then brought them to class to pool our resources. At some of the meetings we just discussed what we wanted the yearbook to be. Other times we would sit down, and get to designing. We ended the year with a pizza party. In the start of the new school year we will give out the yearbooks people ordered and have a yearbook signing party. It's called the CHEFA kick off!
Billy :D

Shakespeare In The Park

I was invited to go watch Shakespeare in the park with a bunch of my church friends. We met about an hour before it was supposed to start, and had a potluck dinner thing. I arrived a little late so about when I got there we started packing up to go to the play's location. I hurriedly ate, and grabbed stuff to carry. We arrived at the site of the play about 20 minutes early, and found a spot to set up our stuff. We then proceeded to hang out until it started. While we were chillin, we saw some CHEFA people, and talked to them for a while. The play was funny, and was well acted. We had somewhat of a difficult time hearing as they had little, or no microphones. They did manage to make themselves heard anyway. We watched "The Merchant of Venice."

Billy :D

Modesto Convention

  This summer my dad, mom, and I went to the Modesto convention. Ricky would have gone, but he was up at camp Chawanakee with his boy scout troop. We drove there, listened to several talks, bought some books and went home. The second day we did the same thing.
   The talks this year were pretty good. My parents liked so many that they bought the entire recorded conference on mp3. This included talks from Voddie Bachum who is a well known conservative, home-school preacher.
   We bought some books written by Voddie Bachum, and some by Todd Wilson. Other than this we bought books on science, and government.
Billy :D

Dakota House

   This summer I volunteered at the Dakota House. This is a safe house run by a lady in Bembe named Jaime Barker. Dakota House is an inner city mission. It is an outreach to less than fortunate children. These kids come twice a week to play games, and have fun, but the main focus is to teach them about Jesus. They get taught about what he did, and why they should care. Also at the end of every meeting they have a prayer time. Where they go around a circle, and everyone who is comfortable doing so prays.
   In addition to the normal meetings they had several extra activities they did. Which the kids who got in trouble the least were picked to go on. Such as going to wild water, & a movie day at at one of Jaime's friends house. They also had a camping trip in August.
Billy :D

psca choir concert

Last month we had the PSCA spring concert. It was so fun.  I had a good time singing, but also being with my friends. After cookies, punch and returning uniforms etc...we went to Starbucks which is a choir tradition.

                                                                                                                  Ricky Vincent

Chefa Conference

  This year we went to the Chefa conference. Which in this case was more of a used book sale. The Chefa conference in years past has been much bigger, and I was somewhat surprised at this years diminutive nature. There were a few classes, but not many. Most of the time I stood outside, and hung out with my peeps. However my Mom did have a part in talking this year, so that was cool.
Billy :D

Shrek 4

 Since the beginnings of Shrek our grandparents have taken us to "the new Shrek movie" for our birthdays. We also go to pizza after the movie. This years movie centered on a twist of Rumpelstiltskin. I enjoyed the movie, and thought it was a clever way to twist the classic storyline. After the movie we went to pizza (cuz that's what you do after a movie) and then headed home.
Billy :D

Dam Diner & Lost lake

We have been trying to taste the food at the Dam Diner for years. This summer we finally managed to get to it for breakfast. We really enjoyed the food. After we finished eating we drove to Lost Lake. We rafted up, and down the lake (which is more of a small river) for the afternoon. At one point we ended up stuck and two drunk guys (who were really excited about life) helped us. Then we had a picnic dinner before heading home.
Billy :D

Movie & Game Nights

  The last few years we've been having movie nights once a month. Last year they ended up being a mix of games as well. I invited a bunch of people over, and we watch movies like hoodwinked, and then turn around next time and watch the Last Samurai! So we really don't have much of a genre. Oh yeah we also had everyone bring something for a potluck dinner.
Billy :D

Graduation Parties

  After the grad ceremony there were numerous grad parties I attended. In fact there were so many invitations that I had to choose between many parties. I did this by simply choosing the invitations that came in first. I enjoyed these parties a lot because they were just a gathering of friends there to celebrate the graduation of this person.
Billy :D

Chefa Graduation

  This years Chefa graduation was epic. I knew almost the entire class, and a lot of them were close friends. We went to the grad ceremony, and watched them all get told how wonderful they were by crying parents. It was a good night in that a bunch of friends are moving on in their lives, that they are commencing a new chapter. The sad part follows in the same wording!
Billy :D

TS3 & Jamba

  I am going back once again to the month of June. We went to see Toy Story 3 & had a jamba before we went in the theater. TS3 was a good adaptation to the first two movies. It had a deeper plot giving it a somewhat depressing feel. The movie was well done, and it followed the other two quite nicely.
Billy :D

Wgtb Camp

This summer I reinstated my career of teaching at we got the beat camp. I have been doing this for about 9 years, but I took a break last year. I came thinking I was only going to help teach, but Brenda (the camp director/my teacher) had other ideas. I ended up playing in three songs, and helping people all over the place! So it turned out to be a lot of fun =D

Billy :D

Scuba Diving

   It been a while since I've gotten on to post, so I'll be going back to the month of June. About mid-June I went Scuba diving. This time right off of Monterey. We could see the aquarium from where we anchored the boat. When I got to Monterey my Dad, and I just hung out, and ate lunch while we waited. When we started to see other divers we found Ed, (who is the owner of the dive shop I learned from) and asked him about the dive, and who he suggested I should dive with. He answered our question, and then set me up with an experienced diver.
We went diving twice, each time seeing a multitude of wildlife.
Billy :D