Blast From The Past

My very close friend in high school, Kim, and I lost touch about 8 years ago until last week. Kim found me on myspace and we have been on the phone ever since. Kim has two adorable kids. R.J. is three and Faith is two. We just had to set up a play date. So, we agreed to meet at Kid Concepts in Torrance so the kids could play and we could catch up. The kids played wonderfully together, R.J. and Zac seemed to hit it off right away.

After we had lunch we all went back to my house so the kids could play together a little while longer in our backyard. It was so nice to catch up with an old friend and hopefully we won't lose touch again.

AAHHHHHH.... I'm 30!

On my actual birthday my family and I went out to dinner to the Elephant Bar. It is a tradition in our family for all of us to get together on each of our birthdays and eat.
It has been almost a month and I'm still in denial that I am 30 years old.

The Final Stop On Our Vacation

For our last stop on our vacation we went to Castle Rock, CO to visit my bestfriend Teresa and her beautiful family. While we were there we also took some time to visit my Uncle Dave, Aunt Jeannie and cousin Cassey. All of the kids had so much fun together. I think this part of the trip may have been the most fun for my kids.

Sumpter Reunion

On the next portion of our trip we went to Red River, New Mexico for the Sumpter Family Reunion. The Sumpters are on my mom's side of the family. We had a really great time. It is always nice to see such extended family and to see how everyone has changed and grown up.

Summer Vacation

This post is a long time coming. I have been putting it off because we have so many pictures. The slide show below only contains pictures from my camera, I haven't even started to upload any from Ben's camera.

The next few posts on here are going to be sections of our trip. This post will be of our stay on the Sumpter Ranch.

Our vacation started the morning of July 2nd when we started our drive from Torrance to New Mexico and we didn't return home until July 18th. We stayed at our family ranch on the Johnson Mesa for over a week. We had so much fun spending time with family that we are only able to see every other year when we meet at our ranch.