My Sister the Graduate

Sarah graduated from Fresno State!

Sarah graduated summa cum laude (with highest honor) with a Bachelor of Science in Publice Health and she was also named valedictorian of the public health department for her 4.0 GPA!!


Congratulations Sarah, we are all so proud of you.

A Great Surprise

On Monday morning I recieved a call from my dad saying that Garrett Ghent was there at Midtown! The Ghents and the Chandlers have been friends since long before any of us kids were ever around. Jonah and I rushed over to Midtown to say hi. Garrett and six of his friends are on a road trip and were heading up to the Sequoias for the day and then would have dinner and sleep at my parent's house that night. We were graciously invited to go along with them so Dad, Jonah, and I were happy to accept (everyone else were already gone to go blueberry picking).

Notice the shorts and flip flops and then the snow in the background!! It was much colder (around 35 degrees!!) than we thought it would be.

The boys with General Sherman

We saw 2 bears while we were there! This guy was just across the road from us.

Trying to reach around a redwood (they didn't make it)

The view from atop Morro Rock

We made it home to have dinner and yummy blueberry cobbler! The next day they headed to Yosemite to spend the night there and Jonah was able to go with them.

Spring Dance

The COS dance show has come and gone once again. This semester the theme was "Movie, Movies, Movies." I thought the overall show turned out to be one of the better shows we've done.

Sarah was in tap and their movie was "Saturday Night Fever"


My ballet class performed to a song from the new "Alice in Wonderland"


Waiting with friends before going on stage..... we had over 2 hours before our numbers

1st of Many

I made my first pie!! I felt like having pie one day so I decided I would just make one. I realized after I had already started making it that I didn't have a rolling pin or a pastry cutter. The pastry cutter wasn't a big deal but the rolling pin was a little harder to go without. We had a wine bottle that I used instead and it worked good enough to get the crust at least some what circular and thin. Plus I figured it didn't need to be perfect since it was my first one. I was pleased with the overall results, however the peaches themselves weren't very good so the pie would have been excellent if the peaches had been better.

Our Neighborhood

We've had some interesting things happen around our house recently. One day when I was sick we had just finished watching a movie and I was about to take a nap when there were suddenly cops chasing someone in our backyard! Some guy drove through the park that is across the street from us and hit a tree and started running. The cops cornered him in our cement parking area in the back and beat him up pretty bad, he ended up going to the hospital from that. Here is the view from our front window. The car he was driving is on the far right.

Then a few weeks later we were coming home one night and there were cop cars all around our neighbor's house that is right across from us.

We ended up finding out that the son of the lady who lives there set himself on fire in the front yard and our neighbor to the left of us ran over and put him out with the garden hose. He had 2nd and 3rd degree burns over 80-90% of his body and last we heard he in the hospital in Fresno.

The Month of March

Here are some of the highlights from March....

One day after work Jonah and I went for a drive to enjoy the scenery.


We had to pull over to allow the cattle to pass.

We also enjoyed bouldering with our good friends Sam and Sierra and their new baby.

Introducing slacklining to Sam for the first time.

Sierra and baby Ava.

We went on vacation with my family to Monterey during spring break. This included time on the beach...

The Aquarium....

Of course a stop at Ghirardelli!


And lots of beautiful ocean!