snow on the foothills :)

the rain has made things so beautiful. cold, clear air, bright colors, snow in the mountains...the trees are my favorite. they're the #1 reason why i love fall/winter (kind of the same round here)...

joey and gwen...





beautiful family


cam in his school christmas pageant...he stole the show as the unsympathetic innkeeper...

dad and i in laguna looking so very cool...

a few more trees:


just wait until i get out and take some pictures on our street. maybe tomorrow...seeing as i'm not quite up to my full prowess yet.
stomach flu = rather DIE
i was feeling stir-crazy when i finally woke up today and went to the store, and now i feel like i've lost a pint of blood. yaaay!!

Christmas is in 4 days...just in case you forgot.

anyway, that's all for now.

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it's good to hear a sweet sound

i swear, overnight the bleachers for the Rose Parade went up...

Kristina, Brie and i saw Twilight last week...midnight! oh yeah. we are so with it.


This last Sunday after church, the kids and i celebrated weather that sort of remotely felt like fall...by throwing leaves at each other.







Caid and i realized we would be much more successful as a team. so i became the legs, while he handled throwing the leaves. Here we are loading up our ammo...

...and then about to get pelted.


Caid watches forlornly as the ice cream man passes by.




another video of gwen...the first 10 seconds are superb.



it's raining :)


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monkeyball

the past 5 days or so

to see Caid getting his "rawr" on for Halloween: go here

this picture was completely un-posed. that's how amazing pip is.

after i saw all my friends at LCAD last friday i went to the beach for a while and wrote a few letters. while i was there a homeless man i know stopped and talked to me for a while. Pip and i and another friend of ours met him a couple of months ago. His name is Reegan, and he's in his early 40's and dying of cancer. but he is one spirited guy and looooves to talk and tell stories...

When we met him it was at night and he was drinking a bottle of Listerine. we ended up talking to him and a couple of other guys for about 3 hours. We prayed with Reegan as well...he knows the Lord and the only thing he's looking forward to is the day he gets to go be with Jesus.

Anyway, so that was pretty neat to see him last week. we got to catch up a bit, he showed me some shoes someone had just given him, and told me what was going on down in Laguna with all the people who were living on the beach. He also told me there are some people trying to get the rights to a book he wrote about his life, so they can make a film from it. i told him that that was amazing! he didn't seem to excited, though, and told me that if he ever does get any money from either of them, he's going to leave it all to his nephew who lives in Colorado. i hope i get to see him again...

there was also a woman on the bench near mine reading Twilight. it made me happy. i told her she was going to love it. hehe...

aah, southern california in the winter!

Halloween night, i saw the family, and Caid was more than proud to show off his "Dino" costume...



horraay for politics.


even BIGGER (and more sincere) hooraay for amazing weather!!!


mom carved a pumpkin :)

go america!



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aaah. (contented sigh)

well, fall is here...and

it

is

so

beautiful...


impromptu trip to disneyland with mom and sarah on thursday...






i've been playing some songs on the autoharp...it's pretty fun.

and reid is getting very tall.


more later...gotta go do stuff...

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rain, rain, come again

"i tell ya...there's a stage somewhere in america waiting for you, colleen." my dad just said to me. he thinks i should be a stand up comedian. actually, i'm being serious.
no, seriously.

anyway, last week i went by pip's to catch up on my seinfeld education

after prayer on saturday, amaris and i went to zona rosa cafe and sat by a window
while it rained. we had hot chocolate.

she wrote...

i started a new drawing...

and here's a picture of Alec and mom.


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