Yearbook & Newspaper

I am in two yearbook committees, & a home-school newspaper. I am part of the CHEFA yearbook & the BEST yearbook. My family is one of the most active contributors to the Mountain Flame. A newspaper that the school group MATCH is putting together.
Billy :D

Physics

Physics is over for the semester!!!! We did our last class for this year this Monday. We start back up on the 4th. While the class is out we have to do two labs, & a study guide.
Billy :D

The Orazems visit

Last Friday the Orazems came over to see the new house & to hang out for a little while. We played we hung out & showed them the house. We hope to have them over again soon!
Billy :D

Candy Cane Lane Walk & Party at Railroad Park.

last week Billy and I went to a Christmas shindig put on by our home school group BEST. We had a good time walking down Candy Cane Lane. They go there because Christmas Tree Lane has gotten so busy! We played soccer, football, I've never and other games. We also had hot cocoa and snacks. One cool thing that happened with the gift exchange that I ended getting the gift Billy brought, which was what I wanted a Starbucks gift card.


Eric David Vincent ;)

David's Surprise Party

A month ago we went to a surprise party for our friend David. Because we were in the middle of moving we missed out on the surprise part, but we still got to go to his b-day. We had a good time we played board games. We also played yard games like assassin, mafia and other games and of course we ATE!!! It was a good party



Rickydave ;)

Lazer Quest

Every year CHEFA holds a Lazer Quest Christmas party.

We play 3 or 4 games each, eat & hang out in the arcade. This year I did pretty good but not nearly as good as I usually do. Two people came who couldn't play because they were wounded. Jessie has a broken neck, and Richard has a hurt knee. So they hung out & ate.... without playing. Jessie took pics, & Richard just talked. I had a great time talking, eating & killing people!
Billy :D

Holiday Treats w/our Cousins

Last Saturday we got together with our cousins the Chavez's. We hung out & made a few holiday treats. We made peppermint bark & chocolate dipped pretzels. For peppermint bark you melt white chocolate & put extract of peppermint into the melted gloop. Then you mix in crushed peppermint candy(like candy canes)& pour everything into a cookie sheet! It tastes amazing; we had a great time making these winter delicacies!
Billy :D

The Transiberian Orchestra

Last week my drum teacher emailed me & asked if I could come too the Transiberian orchestra. She had an extra ticket & I had some free time. So I said yes; not expecting what I was about to see! I had heard a few songs from the group, but I didn't know that I was listening to their songs when I heard them. The show they put on was AMAZING!!! There were lights, flame & all kinds of craziness. I enjoyed their performance very much and hope to go again next year.
Billy :D

Citizenship Merit Badge

I am working on this badge with my troop this month. We have worked on skill areas for earning this merit badge at our meetings. We watched Davy Crockett and discussed the ways he helped his community. We have had a member of the Clovis City Council come and talk to us, we also visited the Clovis City Hall. I am gathering information for a slide show I need to present for this badge as well planning some volunteer hours.

Ricky

Bunko w/ BEST

We played a really fun dice game called Bunko.

I had great time learning a new game and basically just hanging out with a bunch of my friends....and eating junk food!

Ricky

Jr. High Guys Night Out

Riverpark has guys night out for Jr High about once a month. They they have a girls nights out too, but that's another journey. Anyway the guys had a great time once again eating junk food and playing Ultimate Frisbee! We get to hit grown ups with frisbees, which is cool, this is because we play youth-against-grown ups.

Ricky

The Recue Mission

In The Bembe Worship Project we play at many different places and in many different styles. One of the places we play at is the Fresno Rescue Mission. We have played there several times & always enjoy it! This time we incorporated a few Spanish songs. We played a more Latin type style to these songs which for me was a trip to nostalgitopia! This is the type of music I was playing a few years ago.

Billy

MOVING!!!

O.K so we finally moved into Fresno. It has been amazingly hectic for the last three weeks. School has been difficult, we have had to let some of our activities go & we have been traveling in-between houses like crazy! We are almost completely done with cleaning the old house, so we can give the owners back their keys and move on with life.

Billy

Riverpark Mystery Dinner

This November the Riverpark Sophomore Class had a Mystery Dinner. It was kind of like the board game Clue except we had to act out the parts we were assigned. Everyone was given their character ahead of time so that they could prepare to act them out as well as gather what we needed to "dress in character". It was a fun night. We ate and hung out in-between each act. It was fun trying to figure out this who-dune-it!

Billy

Woodward Park, long time no see........

Last Sat. we went to Woodward Park with some very old friends of ours. They have been around so long we call them our family. We are more like cousins really. We hung out and ate lunch together. Then Ricky, CJ and I walked around the park....for hours. We were pretty much just catching up on stuff happening in each others lives. We have known the Shugerts for 13 years. It was really cool to get together with them! I hope it doesn't take so long to see them again. It probably will though because their schedule and ours are VERY opposite from each other.

Billy

Moonlight Madness!

I went to the Moonlight Madness this year with Riverparks high school youth group. We played CTF & we went down the zip line. We also played the all famous egg blow! This interesting game consists of putting a cracked egg into a short plastic tube & putting a person on either side. The person who stops blowing first........ well they get a little egg in their face! A lot of the people had glow sticks as necklaces , bracelets, head bands etc.. all over themselves. The youth leaders were giving them away. It was an awesome night! We had a ton of fun!
Billy

Chefa Bonfire

This years Bonfire was held at the Goosen Ranch. Hosted by CHEFA as it is every autumn. We hung out, played link tag. We tried to see who could go the farthest in the bungee run. We also had a bounce house. There was a time of teen lead worship etc..yet we mostly ate & generally hang out around the bonfires and food tables. This year I forgot to eat while I was standing right there with the forbidden world of junk food at my finger tips! I was so busy talking and taking pictures for the yearbook that I forgot about "food"!

Billy

Fun in Fresno

This week started out busy. The rest of the week is all about work work work! Monday Our homeschool group went to Color me Mine. There were so many people who signed up that we had to be split into two classes. Since I'm on the yearbook committee I had to be there for both classes. I had to take pictures of the first class. Then I painted a bowl in the second class. After that we went to Rubio's for lunch with our friends the Orazem's. We were glad to be going there because we have been hearing about how good the food is. Their Dad wanted to meet us at the restaurant and also to go see the movie. Yep, We went to Edwards next. We watched "where the wild things are" it was more depressing then I remember the book being, o well we got lots of popcorn and soda. After we refilled our popcorn and soda, you get a free refill, we went to hang just outside of the bookstore to visit with the Orazems some more. Mom say's I was on a soda high. Then I went to Boys Scouts and Billy went to Bembe. Tuesday I went to Choir and then we went to lunch at our favorite stand by Robertitos. I had an eye exam and got some new glasses ordered. See I'm special, so I need super special lenses. You know you are jealous of my awesomeness. We also had some houses we needed to check out. Before heading home we tried out this Chicago style pizza parlor that we have been wanting to try out for a LOOONG time. Man we never get to eat out this much. Yeah. Like I said now the rest of the week is work work work! Oh well it was fun while it lasted.

David

The Famous Schramm's Campout (well at least at our church)

With Riverpark Jr. High I went on this camp out that happens every year. This party always has a theme. This years theme was Mascot Mania. The person with the best costume won. People dressed up as a cheer leader, monkey eagle etc.. I don't really have a favorite mascot, so this was kinda hard for me. I ended up just wearing my Chitudo gee. My Dad and the other adults in the Black Belt club called me the Black Belt mascot because I was the only one sooo young in there fighting along with them. We got to ride on a giant zipline. We had a good time around the campfire. They had the guys in tents on one side of the property and girls way on the other side. We played some wild crazy games which resulted in some kids puking. Anyway it was awesome, too bad I will be in High School next fall.

Rickydave

Update on Boys Scouts

I have enjoyed Boy Scouts a LOT! Every Monday I go to the meeting from 7:00-8:30. We talk about different things each week. We also plan our next activities. These are the things that help us to earn badges. Then we play games and that changes every time too. We have played capture the flag. Sometimes we play infection. Other times we play ultimate tag, ultimate hide and seek or soccer. I really like Boy Scouts. One of the best parts is the things I get to be a part of. This last weekend we "volunteered" at the peoples church sports extravaganza. We had a booth of our own. When other people needed help at their booths we helped them too. I like helping people, so that was fun. Besides we get free food as Boys Scouts. One girl I know said "you and your stickin uniform" when she found out we didn't have to pay!!

Eric