Alicia Rene'

Mom and Dad

February 7th and 9th are my parent's 51th birthday!

Just like Joseph and I, they are two days apart!

Tonight, we surprised mom with Grama & Grampa and Brenda & Joe coming down for dinner and pie! Grama made Chocolate Cream and Banana Cream pies! We had a great time visiting and taking lots of pictures.
I was able to use Brenda's new camera and mom is letting me borrow her 50mm lense. For some reason the 50mm wouldn't focus correctly inside with the low lighting, even with the flash on. I will have to try it outside to see what's up!

Chad is 18 !

Chad turned 18 on September 1st!

Dad made him cupcakes and decided to show off his creative side!

Hannah and Jordan's Wedding

A friend of mine got married on August 13th.

Joseph and I drove to Alta,CA and got to take dad's truck!!

Joseph wanted to take pictures...So we did =)

Engaged!!!!!

Joseph proposed on August 5th, 2011

He took me for a walk at our hill.

The Hill is a place where we have always gone to hang out and we can look out over the entire city of Fairfield. At night, you can see all the lights! It is pretty neat.

July

July

This is the 2nd camping trip this year. Ryan, Dora, and Emily were able to join us!

Emily and Ryan went fishing and she was able to catch a 16 inch Catfish on her first night out!

Grampa and Teresa had been trying to catch a good sized fish for quite a few weeks with no luck! We were about to tease them about Emily's larger fish!!

Joseph cut his finger with his new pocket knife. He and I drove back home to Fairfield to go to the Urgent Care center. He ended up with 5 stitches in his middle fingertip. I have pictures of it but decided not to upload them because some people would not like the pictures at all!!! Since Joseph had stitches, then he was not able to get his finger wet. He had to keep his hand above water and was acting like he had finger puppets... Joseph being goofy is.. not common... so I had a great time laughing and mom had a great time taking our pictures!

Since it was the weekend of the 4th, someone brought up some sparklers and we were able to have lots of fun with them!

Also, this weekend, Joseph and I decided to choose a wedding date. We wrote it out with sparklers =)

Chad was given a boat and this was the first time taking it to the lake. Adventurous as awe are, we took off the engine and attached a rope from the boat to dad's boat. We pulled Chad and Emily, who were sitting in the boat, out to the middle of the lake... Then, in Dad's boat, we circled Chad's boat to make a bunch of waves meet in the middle of the circle, where Chad was sitting! It was pretty awesome. Our goal was to flip Chad's boat... But it floated really well and we didn't even get close to flipping it!!!

Camping - June 2011