Winchester Mystery Mansion

As you all know from Tacey and Mari we went to the Winchester Mystery Mansion on Sunday. Here are some pictures that I took.

Mom taking a picture of us girls.

Pedigree chart.

The Carriage.

Stairs that lead to nowhere


The window with the 13 things .

Some of the may windows they had in a room just propped up.

Mari posing in front of the doors that they brought the horses in.

Tacey in one of the doorways. Rod would have had to totally bend over just to get through the door and up the stairs.

Mari and Emiko. Which is one of the rare pics of Em that I got.

The size of the stairs.

Window at bottom of stairs that looked into a dark room.

Norah and Mari.

The sewing room.

Looking down into the kitchen sink.

The totally awesome bed. I so want it, even if Sarah W. did passaway in it.

The plant room floor where the wood floor comes up in sections when they wanted to water the plants.

My sisters in the plant room.


One of the many sinks in the mansion. I liked this one best, its just beautiful.

The thirteen holes in this sink.

Gas fireplace.


An armoir.

Some of the oriental style furniture.

I have no idea what this is supposed to be. But I thought it quite interesting,

This is the room where my camera batteries died. Which is in the room Sarah Winchester got locked in during the 1906 earthquake. Thus the end of my pics in this house.

Our Trip To California

Mom , Emiko, Diantha, Tacey, Mari and Nora at a Mom & Pops type restaurant called Nicks.

The food wasn't to bad, but do not & I mean do not try the spagetti, it was not very good. Every thing else that we ordered was pretty good.

This is Christy our cousin . Also we have Nora and her bandage. Tacey has a friend from her volleyball team that moved to Cali that we met Saturday night at a Icecream shop called Fentons. It had the and I mean the best carmel topping. It makes me wish that we had a Fentons around here.

Diantha & Norah


Tacey, Mari and Shannon

My sisters with Shannon and her hubby Ryan.

Norah was so worn out from her ordeal that day.

Thank you Shannon for having us all for Icecream.

Twilight, Track meets & Derbys

Last night I made my husband take me out on a date at 11:00 to Walmart for the Twilight dvd thing. He hated it, I was bored, all I wanted was the movie and to go home. Well I eventually got the movie after I managed to find a line that had maybe 10 to 15 people in it, mainly consisting of moms with their tweens and teenage girls with drool dripping off their lips. Well I managed to get home and to bed. Jayden had her 1st away track meet today in Price. She ran the 100meter hurdles and that was it today cause of her shin splints. She said she made it over her hurdles just to trip herself just before the finish line. She came home very sunburned and bruised. I am very proud of her. I'll post pics of her sunburn later. Sean had his scout pinewood derby this morning. His car was the richest car there. Therefore the car decided it didn't need to as fast as the rest, but it tried. Sean was upset but got over it. But hey there is always next year. You learn by trial and error. We have 12 months to perfect it and do one for Dakota. I'll post pics later of the derby.

A Saturday at moms

As you know the kids and I went to mom and dads to build Seans derby car for scouts. But this is what two of the girls did that day, and they worked pretty hard and their efforts paid off. Jay was paid for the the work she did and mom got the satisfaction of having some yard work finished up and the old play house cleaned out. Here are some of the picture I took of them working. I didn't get to many because I was in the house cooking lunch and rocking out to the Eagles.Yep! She got to clean the chicken coop.

She poses for almost every picture.

It's lookin good.

A Saturday at dads

Dad and the boys before they became pinewood derby car builders.

Deciding the design.


Thinking...

I know what I want.

Making sure the wheel grooves are straight.

Yep! They're straight.

Dad showing Sean how to use the scroll saw.

Using the chisle. He did a great job.


Lookie, lookie.


Now for the lesson in how to sand wood.

Look at him go. He got it quite smooth.

Sanding some more.


He painted it yellow and blue. Dad is in the back putting his weights in.

$2.25 worth. They did an awesome job for it being both their first pinewood derby car.

Thank you Dad, we love you.

Los Bastardos Veijos

As many of you know dad goes out with the boys a few nights a week, now we know he isn't out cause'n trouble, he's been doing some good deeds for the High School FFA. Way to go Dad. The boys that dad goes out with are known as the Los Bastardos Veijos. It means The Old Bastards. Please read the following article. If it will get any bigger.

Dad you are totally awesome.