Coopie's New Friend

Cooper started crying, not because he is in pain, but because he does not want to spend the night. He has not decided on a name for the GTY tiger. But he is snuggling with him.

Such good friends

We still have no info. But already we have had an outpouring of love. Don Green came by to pray with us, several people have called, and GTY sent a balloon and stuffed tiger. It matches his new hospital gown.

Oh what fun

So we woke up this morning at Cooper was not feeling well. His heart was pounding and he did not look right. After a trip to urgent care, we were sent to the hospital to be admitted in pediatric ICU. After a bit we were actually put into regular peds! They do not know what's wrong with him, but with all the blood they have drawn they should have enough to clone him.

A Joyful Noise

We found some hymnals to use in our Sunday School class. Everyone loved singing, no one wanted to stop. They kept calling out to sing more. I guess the children had not heard from Rick Warren that hymns were old, dusty, and boring. These 1st graders must understand something that Warren does not.

Clip on

Some one left a sack of clip on ties on a table at work. I had never seen so many in one place, outside a Radio shack, or SBC in Georgia. Several were silk! I had no idea they made clip ons in anything but plastic based fabrics.

Nice shelf

A company I went to visit has a very high-tech setup. Note the high quality box holding up the KVMs. BTW the box is unopened with the printer inside.

American Size. Nathan ordered the chicken fried steak dinner at the big food place. According to Weight Watchers it has 85 points, that's more than 4 day's worth. If you order 2 it comes with a difibularor.

Would you like 'porno-size'?

The tech-heads at GTY were working late on some of the systems. We decided that we should take a break so we ran to Carl's Jr. Jay M. ordered his usual large drink, but this time it came in a limited SI swimsuit edition collectors' cup. It was so bad that we had to wrap it in a napkin so he could use it. Cups should not be R-rated. Next time you are at Carl's don't be surprised if they ask, "small, medium, or porno."

John Daley did the after lunch floor show. He decided to eat his cake native style.

Kristi provided the entertainment at today's lunch. She did the one glass and a lemon trick.

World Famous

We went to DelTaco for lunch. I ordered a combo with fries. I noticed that it was not their normal fries. The bag they come in says "Home of the World Famous crinkle cut fries." The counter lady said they were testing some new fries. I guess they want to be famous for something else.

Marco?

Mr Jay plays pool games with the Green & Fickett children.

Their McDonalds

We went to lunch at Wendy's and who did we find there? Two McDonald's employees. They were in the new uniforms, and had brought some of their own sauce from McD.

New Marine?

It's Mr. Green after Mr. "D" slipped with the clippers.

Sing with Ng

We has 23 people for Ted's birthday. Quite a crowd. We were at mostly one table. There were people from GTY, CGG, and TMS.

4th part 2

When we got home some of the neighbors were doing a small street show so we stayed to watch. The boys liked the loud ones best.

Fourth of July

We went to the park down the street to view the fireworks. From our back yard we can see the ones at Magic Mountain, but from the park we can see three shows! All was well till the park's huge sprinklers went off, Jay and I were able to redirect most of the flow. I was drenched.

And so vacation ends with a trip to Pick-up Stix with Pop and Nana. We don't know when they will be back to visit. This trip was great for all. The boys loved spending time with their grandparents. They will be sad in the morning when they leave.

Today we took the four mile hike through the anchient bristlecone pine forest. The boys did very well on the hike. The hike was listed as strenuous - it did not disapoint. We hiked past the oldest living things. There were trees that started growing just after the flood. The hike took about 3.5 hours. We all said we would do it again next year.

Sunday part two. After lunch we went to the top of Mammoth Mountain. The boys played in the snow, and kept us watching them to make sure they did not slide 3000 feet to the bottom. We saw a wedding party go up the lift, cake ane all. After we went on a small hike to the Fault. The we tried to go to a small stream, but the road was packed with a motocross convention. Tomorrow we plan to go boating at June Lake.

Today we went to Mono Lake to see the tufas. We had a slow hike around the lake. The boys chased the alkali flys, millions of them. We saw several ospry. One was flying with a fish in his talons. This afternoon we plan to go to the top of Mammoth Mountain.

You thought gas was expensive in Valencia (or where ever you are). In Lee Vining it was over the top. It was cheeper inside Yosemite. 

It was about 8:30pm when we came upon this view. We were amazed by all the rich colors so late in the evening. The boys only saw these mountains in pictures -- they were asleep most of the way home. He hiked them into the ground. 

We saw these deer on our way back from the Valley floor. We were going by the meadows at the perfect time. The sun was just setting and all the animals were coming to the meadow. It was like Bambi, but without the hunters. 

We made it to Yosemite. Wonderful views, great falls, beautiful drive. The boys had a great time. We did several long hikes along the river. There were some crowds, but we found some places where it was just our family. On the way home we saw several herds of deer in the meadows. We will have a restful day tomorrow.

Day 3 of vacation. We are starting to feel rested. Today we went to Bodie - 10 miles of rugged road, then 3 miles of dirt. Wonderful place, on our must see again list. Everyone found something they liked.

We hiked 2 miles up a closed road to see this view. It was well worth it. There was snow all along the road, the boys wanted to stop at every large drift. At the top there was no one but us. Very peaceful.

Day two of vacation. Inyo craters. So far everyone is well. Weather is perfect, sunny, clear, & a light breeze.

Our vacation to Mammoth begins. We were on the road at 8:35. Campbell and Cooper are packed away in the third row.

Our summer fire drill and ice cream social at GTY.

My sister Natalie at a father's day celebration in Burbank.

Why I live in SoCal.

Travis Allen explains web site changes to our design company.

Some children volunteer at GTY. They did all the work behind them.

In my spare time I do HVAC repair. Not really, but I do know more about HVAC than I should. Let's talk about VAV boxes, cold decks, boilers, return air temps, and air noise.

Mrs. Canem, Campbell, Ian, and Nathan sing "Jesus Loves the Little Children" for second hour Sunday school at Grace Community Church.

Campbell takes the General (Grandma's dog) on a walk. We've been dog sitting for the past few days. I think that we are ready for a dog of our own.

Customer Service at the Elephant Bar for Kristin's birthday lunch.

Sean/Ezra on the way to lunch at The Elephant Bar.

Campbell, Cooper, and grandpa on grandpa's 77th birthday.

Sean/Ezra shares his testimony with the staff of Grace to You.

John driving us to lunch. Nice day to be out.

At the castle waiting for the fireworks.

Campbell and me at Disneyland after dinner.

Campbell and Cooper waiting for the fireworks at the Disney hotel.

Mrs. Flowers getting dinner ready.

Me in my office -- my first photo from phone to blog.

My boss has started a most excellent blog at http://www.phillipjohnson.blogspot.com/ . This means that I must put a little more effort in keeping this blog updated. I'm hoping to post at least one update per week, plus a photo of something intersting happening in our family.