MCC sale, jennifer's birthday at wicked/yard house, american girl

everyone at wicked in orange county

KPY: we had a great time at Wicked and managed to get in a family photo despite the bright sun. 

kay and katie, same height

kpy: well not quite........Katie has a couple of inches to go........ 

birthday girl

sisters

zody's first trip to disney hall

KPY: Zody and I sat in the back balcony, Katie and Glenn took our friends, the Friesen's tickets in front. Zody sat perfectly still the entire time and seemed to enjoy the concert. At the end, the woman next to her complimented her on her behavior and asked if she played an instrument. ``Yes, said Zody, the piano.''

american girl luncheon

KPY: Eileen Givens and I took the girls to this luncheon while Jen was away. It was POURING rain that day. 

uniform donation to Dinuba Historical Society

KPY: The society is planning a military exhibit, so Glenn brought them his uniform - and his wood footlocker filled with fatigues, also. 

Eileen Givens enjoying lunch

KPY: This was at the MCC Sale. She was tasting a  fritter for the first time.  I asked her to 'ham' it up for the camera and, being a good sport, she did. I think she fell in love with them!

zody and face painting

KPY: At the MCC Sale 

quilt auction

ron and katherine

KPY: I met up with my cousin, Ron, and we had verenika lunch together. 

Eileen's favorite snack

KPY: This is another cousin, Jack, who was in the fritter booth. His job was to roll the fritters in sugar and then put them in the paper bags

mennonite breakfast food

KPY: enough said 

trip to chicago with katie april 2011

deep dish pizza at pizzera uno

KPY: Katie said she LOVED deep dish pizza.  For dessert, she wanted their deep dish fudge sundae, but i said no, we had to walk first

katie and glenn's favorite food

KPY: After the pizza we walked all the way to Navy Pier, in the dark! looking for ice cream. Nothing was opened, so we took a taxi to the old Hilton, which was very near our hotel. Luckily they had deep dish fudge sundaes. So cute in a little skillet.

chick exhibit at science and industry

sharks at the acquarium

KPY: Katie read that you have more chance of choking on a toothpick than of being eaten by a shark 

making front page news at the Tribune

KPY: We found this cool interactive display at the Tribune building. If you imput your email, they'll send you the photo........ 

lunch with John and Connie

KPY: The Wesley children were in the same school as Kay and Jen....back in Silverlake. He was working at Children's Hospital at the time.

katherine with katie's hersey choclate hat

dinner using a real Weber grill

KPY: I had a delicious hamburger, grilled INSIDE on a Weber Grill with REAL charcoal briquettes. The waitress assured me they have triple venting. 

american girl of course

who has the bigger mouth?

a second turn at the front page news

T rex and katie

KPY: Dinosaur Sue is the most complete skeleton found in the U.S.

Untouchable tour, katherine won the grand prize

KPY: What a hoot! This guy was a crack up. I won the book, which I gave to Katie. We learned all about Al Capone and saw where he lived, etc. 

that is as close katie would get to the stadium

KPY: We made a special stop on our taxi ride back to the airport, just so Katie could see one of the great old baseball stadiums. 

the new landmark in chicago

KPY: Its nicknamed the `bean' and is very popular. we saw all kinds of people waiting to take their reflected picture.  It's very cool

Katie learns about a 6 hour travel delay

KPY: American canceled our mid-day flight and arbitrarily put us on the 6:30 flight. So Katie and I made up a detective hunt and went off to find things like: wheel chairs, passenger dogs, twins, etc. 

last of an era yard sale 4/2011

the tricycle went in the garage sale

KPY: The kids all had so much fun riding it up and down the driveway that it never sold! 

katie and zody love water and sand