Tag! I'm It!

1. What is your name?



2. When is your birthday?



3. What kind of car do you want?


actually we already had one of these - I only want a car that doesn't keep breaking down and has front and rear a/c - nothing special

4. Where do you go to school?



I don't currently go to school but I finished high school in WA state.

5. What's your favorite season?


6. What's your favorite type of shoe?

I wish I could wear these but...

these are the ones I am forced to wear on a daily basis. It's all about comfort these days!




7. What's your status?

8. What's your favorite movie?


9. What's your favorite song?

It's the hymn "Mansion Over the Hilltop."

10. What's your favorite Disney character?


11. Favorite clothing line?

It's whatever fits, is feminine, and is comfortable.

12. Favorite vacation destination?

13. Favorite dessert?


Just in case you can't tell, it's Pecan Pie.

14. Favorite letter?



15. What are you most afraid of?


I'm most afraid of not learning from my mistakes.

16. Favorite TV show?


It's called "Paula's Home Cooking." Though I haven't watched it in over a year because we don't watch TV anymore.

17. What annoys you most?


It's when people show off the parts of their bodies that nobody should see!

18. What's your job?


(Homeschooler)


19. What's your favorite animal?



I used to have a purebred. However the one below is my absolute favorite right now (my Ruby).


Now I'm supposed to tag 2 other people. So here goes. Shari, consider yourself tagged.
MacKenzie, consider yourself tagged.

So here's what you do.
1.Go to photobucket.com
2.Type in your answer for each question into the PhotoBucket search bar.
3.Only use the first two pages.Choose your favorite photo to represent your answer.
4.Copy the html and paste it here.
5.You can only answer in picture form.
6. Tag two more people to do it!

Gotta Love Those Kiddos!

Saturday night after we left Legoland we stopped for dinner. We ended up at a restaurant called "The Old California Mining Company." It was a neat place. Anyhow, four of the five of us decided to have the all-you-can-eat soup and salad bar. Walter comes back with a plate of salad that included alfa alfa sprouts. Lyndsey says, "Dad, it looks like you are eating grass." To which we laughed quite a bit. This was said while Phyllip was up at the salad bar himself. When he got back to the table and looked at his dad's plate he said, "Is that hay on your plate?" Of course we all laughed for a long time and hence the picture of the infamous plate of salad!


Yesterday Walter and I taught Jr. Church during the worship hour. We have come to love working with those kids. You just never know what will come out of their mouths! Hence the following conversation with this precious gem of a girl!

Kaylyn: Hey, Mr. Pettis, did you know that you have the same Bible as my daddy?

Mr. Pettis: Yes I did know that. Pretty cool, huh?

Kaylyn: Yes.

Mr. Pettis: Does that make me cooler than your daddy?

Kaylyn: Huh?

Mr. Pettis: Does that make me cooler than your daddy?

She thinks for a few seconds.

Kaylyn: My dad is the pastor!!!! He's cooler!!!!



And finally, tonight we were on our way home from church when Tyler said the following.

"Hey Mom, Pastor barely preached an hour tonight!"

Translation - He didn't preach very long!

When a kid says that you know he's been going to church for a long time!

Happy 9th Birthday Tyler!!!!

Yesterday was Tyler's birthday. My how time flies! It seems like just yesterday my little man was born. Now he's 9 years old! This is our last year with a child under 10.






So we decided against a birthday party this year in lieu of having a family day at Legoland. We hadn't been there in at least 6 years and we hadn't really done anything as a family in quite a while, either. It was a gorgeous day. Legoland is located about 1 mile (maybe 2) from the beach. We stopped for the view and a couple of pictures.

We had a blast. It was so much fun there. We stayed until closing (which they are only open until 5:00 p.m.). The weather was great (not too hot and not too cold). I think I took over 100 pictures. We made lots of memories. Walter and I had more fun watching the kids having fun.


The boys rode the boats by themselves. There is a funny picture of Phyllip down below when he was in his boat.





Ahhhh! This is the life! Phyllip did actually say that while riding in his boat!

























Thought I would throw this picture in. A couple of weeks ago we had a wind storm the likes of which I have never seen. We had 98 mph winds go thru here. It was so strong that it knocked one of the windmills down.






And just to prove again that the desert does in fact turn green, here's another picture.

You Won't Believe It!!!

It's been snowing here today!!!!!!! Yes, I said snowing!!!! In the desert southwest!!!! I know you don't believe me so here's the proof!!! Click on the picture to enlarge it so you can see the white stuff falling for yourself.

It snowed for about 2 hours. Even my husband called me and told me that it was snowing where he was working. I called Sileena and told her to look out her windows and she said it was snowing. Pastor didn't believe her until he went outside and saw it for himself.

On to a little something that happened this afternoon. I think this is something that only our two boys could have ever thought up. I don't believe that anyone else would have dreamed this up. So here goes. I was in the bathroom getting ready to leave when my husband got home from work. Little did I know what the boys were doing.



You see this here couch? Up above the couch is where it happened! Take a look at the curtain rod.






I walked into the living room and over to the couch to fix the blinds behind it. I noticed the couch was pushed all the way up against the wall. As I was going to move it forward away from the wall, water started dripping on the couch from the ceiling, or so I thought. My first thought was, "Oh no, another leak in our roof!" However, after looking up towards the ceiling I noticed the curtain rod. Guess what was on it! A large pile of ICE CUBES! Yep, you read right. They were melting and dripping all over my couch! Of course, I was upset. I asked, well maybe screamed, to know how the ice cubes got up on the curtain rod. Phyllip comes running and said, "Oh, we put them up there so we could sit under them and catch the drops of water in our mouths as they melted. We forgot they were there." The ice must not have been melting fast enough and obviously their attention span isn't very long. Now how can a mom stay upset with an explanation like that?! I got the ice cubes down, wiped the water off the couch and went to my bedroom as fast as I could so that I could laugh. It was just too funny to be mad at them!



Here's a picture of the curtain rod where the pile of ice cubes were. There were at least 20 ice cubes! Whatever possessed them to do it, I will never know!






Since it's Valentine's Day, I decided to have some fun with the camera and take pictures of me and my sweetie. Just a couple of the shots.

Drum Roll Please.....

Congratulations are in order to our nephew, Richard!

Today he is the proud owner of a real, bona fide driver's license!

He called shortly after the drive test was over. I gave him a hard time about it (sorry!). All kidding aside, we are really proud of you!

Absolutely wonderful...

For those of you who think the desert never turns green, here is the proof that it does. We just need to get a couple inches of rain and poof, we turn green!

The pictures didn't turn out as good as I thought they would because I took them yesterday morning while we were driving and I didn't realize there was a glare on the window. But you can still see the green desert!

Walter got yesterday off of work so we decided to go to the Leadership Conference at Lighthouse Baptist Church in Lemon Grove, CA. If you ever get a chance to go you will absolutely love it! It's great!

Our day started out by getting up at 4:45 a.m. because we needed to leave the house at 6:00 a.m. in order to get there on time. As it turned out, we got there late because we didn't know about the early bird session for the men at 8:15. Oh, well.

On a little side note - While we were driving to the church the boys fell asleep. In fact, they were snoring! Tyler wakes up and proceeds to say with a loud voice, "Hey, why are we going backwards?" To which we lovingly reply, "We're not going backwards!" Tyler says, "Then how come the steering wheel turned the car around back there?" To this we laughed and replied, "The steering wheel is always in the front of the car, son!" Obviously, he was still asleep! *smile*

When we got to the church Walter and the boys went their way and Lyndsey and I went our way. There are split sessions for the men and women. There is also a session for all kids under 12 but we didn't find out until lunch where that was.

Let me tell you how the ladies are treated at this conference. There is a "Tea Room" and it's open each day of the conference from 9:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. There is just about every kind of tea plus the goodies (biscotti, 2 kinds of fudge, little cheesecakes, muffins, mini eclairs, fresh fruit, etc.)! Oh the goodies! They are incredible! It's all free and you can frequent the Tea Room as often as your heart desires! Then there's the pampering room. Massages. Pedicures. Parafin waxes for your hands. Manicures. Haircuts. All FREE! So I decided to indulge myself yesterday. I had a massage, a parafin wax, and my first pedicure, ever (Hence, the picture below of my feet. I don't like my feet but I discovered how great a pedicure is)! Oh my goodness! I felt like a queen. It was wonderful!

All of the paid delegates at the conference are fed lunch each day. Since we weren't paid delegates, we were going to find a place to have lunch. However, one of the associate pastors at Lighthouse Baptist Church told my husband and our pastor that we could stay for the lunch. And the food was really good! We had a choice of manicotti or linguini, salad, and dessert! Wow! We were stuffed to the brim! The Lord sure is faithful to take great care of us!

When we were done at the conference for the afternoon, our family and our pastor's family ended up at a mall not too far away. It was an outdoor mall and there was some pretty flower gardens so we took some pictures. They are below.

We went to dinner and then had the long drive home. We were exhausted but it was so worth it! The Lord again showed me how much He loves me! I so desperately needed the ladies sessions. They helped put me back into focus of what my life should be as a wife, mother, and a Christian. Again, if any of you ever get a chance to attend, don't hesitate to do so. You won't be disappointed!