The AMGEN

Thursday was a big day for Visalia! Stage 5 of the AMGEN Tour of California started in our very own downtown! Lance Armstrong came out of retirment and was riding in this race and we saw him.

Waiting in the parking structure for the race to start!

Here come the riders!!

Lance is circled in yellow for your viewing convenience.

It was fun to be part of something so big!

Art Wall

Monday was a holiday for Michelle and I and since we did not have to go to school or work and had the house to ourselves we decided to do some art work. It was a pretty successful event. We lit a ton of candles and made some good art. Then we decided that we should display some of it on a wall in our room.


This was mine.


This was Michelle's.

This is me working away.

This is Michelle working by candle light.


This is the wall in our room TADA!

Valentine's Day

I had to work 12:00-close Saturday and it was crazy! I was pretty tired coming home and wasn't very excited to make a lemon raspberry cake for a live auction at church the next day. However I got help from Mom and our good friend Brenna who was here for a short visit.


Not feeling like making a cake.


Brenna and Mom cutting off the tummy.


Brenna and I with the finished product!

Decorating the cakes was fun and they both turned out beautiful!

Mom's German Chocolate

Out To Dinner

After Sarah mentioned her dinner at Chilli's and I said I'd never been to Chilli's, Dad and I thought it would be a good idea for us to go.

Bottomless chips and salsa

Mango Margarita

More Storm

Here a some pictures that I have taken of the storms that keep rolling in!

Moon Flower

My daffodils are blooming again!!

The moon has looked cool the past couple of nights with all the clouds in the sky.

The clouds covered the moon before I was able to get a really good picture.

The Monday Storm

Jonah and I went over to Jaime's house to meet her landlord Lori, who might possibly become our landlord. While we were at her house it started storming!

Jaime standing in the hail.


The hail was pretty good sized!




The sky as we headed to Monet's for Jaime's goodbye dinner before she goes into the air force. When we got to Monet's we found out that they are closed on Mondays. So we decided to try out East Meet West. It was interesting, nothing like Monet's so it was dissapointing because we had all been looking forward to the cozy atmosphere of Monet's.


Heidi, Phil, Jaime, and Jonah eating dinner.

Bragging Rights

I have decided that Michelle does not get recognition for a whole lot of things that she is very talented at. I have decided that this blog will be dedicated to showing everyone those incredible talents. Michelle is very artistic and creative. She loves to make things and those include earringgs as shown in the last blog.

She is also an incredible photographer. Here are a few of my favorites.

She is also good at crocheting. She can crochete beanies, blankets, and scarfs. Not only did she take this great photo but she made the beanie I am wearing.

She is an awesome artist as well. Since I am doing this post in secret I don't have any photos of her art so you will have to take my word for it.

The end!