How to make a candy roll-up (October 2008)

While camping at Carpinteria in October, Melissa
demonstrated how to make a candy roll-up.
A California Roll, candy style.

First the ingredients:
sour rainbow strip candy and gum tape.

Then lay them together,
and roll 'em up!

Viola!

Almost a White Christmas

Not quite. We had our snowstorm that dumped about a foot of snow in our neighborhood the week before Christmas. We had a blast playing in it. We were glad we didn't have to be anywhere else.

Most all of it melted by Christmas Day.

We're swingin'

Saturday, we picked up our new swing set. Well actually, it's about 15 years old, but it's new to us! We are so excited! We have my brother and his family to thank for this donation. He and his father-in-law built the swing set when my niece was 2 years old. It's made out of 10.5 foot steel pipes and built so strong that an adult can swing on it. They even made a glider for it. Dave and my brother spent 3 hours taking it apart on Saturday. They were able to fit it INSIDE the minivan for the hour-and-a-half drive home. Dave spent most all of Father's Day putting it together. He still has the glider to finish. What a DAD! It needs a new coat of paint, and the glider seats need re-upholstering. But otherwise it was operational today. The girls had a blast swinging together this afternoon. Linda was swinging herself on her without someone pushing her for the first time today. Yay!!

LIFE is Good 2008

We just returned home from Vancouver, Washington, where we experienced LIFE is Good for the second time. It was a wonderful and exhausting experience! We connected with friends from last year, and made new friends. Linda and Melissa played with their new friends every waking moment they could. Karen hung out with old and new friends, hosted a funshop, sold her hand-painted wooden spinning tops, swam in the pool. We saw the amazing Amy Steinberg in concert. Enjoyed the opening band, The Vibrations. Very cool.

Still decompressing, processing, reliving moments from an amazing weekend.
It's a Wide Sky Life!

-Jenny