Lil' John/the girls/ and "snap yo fingers"

I know the video quality is bad on this too, BUT it was too good to pass up. This is Sierra and Maddy being the rapper Lil' John and "singing" his song Snap yo fingas. It was night time in the car with only the over head light and my camara phone. I did my best. I think it is too flippin cute for word, but I am biased :)

Video of Singing Kids

This is my nephew Caden (you all might remember him from when I was posting blogs about his cancer) he is much better now and staying with my mother for a while along with his brother Cameron. Anyway...this is a video of Caden in the back of my uncle's truck. He is singing "we will rock you," and I am taping with my phone. The quality is not great nor is the lighting because it is getting dark and we are traveling through the woods but it was very cute. He also told us that he likes "rock and roll...not girl rock and roll, just boy rock and roll."

Calaveras Big Trees

We went to Calaveras Big Trees National Park yesterday because my Grandmother had never been and neither had my nephews. It really is beautiful and the kids had a great time. The first picture is of me taking a picture of my nephews and Sierra while they are walking through a fallen tree. It really is HUGE.

Me and all the kids walking through the base of a tree. My mom took this picture. It is toward the end so if they look tired...they were.

My mom took this picture too. I like it because it is Maddy going through a hollow fallen tree; however, it also creeps me out a little too because it looks a bit like what I imagine a birth canal would look to a baby and causes me pain.

Little Michael, Sierra, Caden, Cameron, and Maddy in front of one of the first large trees that has a story about it in the bulletin.

I really love this last one because it is a cute one of the three youngest. I love it the most because MY baby looks so adorable in it that I could pinch her :)

In California

OK, so talk about culture shock. Now bear in mind that I am from a very small town where trees, cars that don't run, and people without teeth out number those of us that do; however, I am having a near panic attack every day right now. I think I would be better, but we don't have a definite place to land right now, and it is making me crazy. Anyway, here are some pictures for the masses. Oh, and by masses I mean Jenny P and Cindy :) Back Row Left to Right: Michael, My mom, Maddy.
Front Row Left to Right: Cameron, Sierra, Caden
Fourth of July 2009
My kids and their cousins Fourth of July. We were getting ready to watch a fireworks show in Jackson, California.

Maddy and Michael in the Atlanta airport on our way back stateside. I still can't call it home because it feels so foreign to me now! Weird right?

Sierra drawing a picture of our plane while we were waiting for our connection in Atlanta.