Our Peanut

After years of waiting to add to our family, our 3 will soon become 4.
Our baby is set to arrive in early May.

Who does Enrique look more like?

First Five

We've started our second year with First Five Ventura Neighborhood for Learning. I teach the Play and Learn classes for parents with their children ages 2 and 3.
http://www.ventura.k12.ca.us/vusd/vnfl/index.htm

Tanya turns 30

To celebrate her 30th birthday, Tanya had 13 and 1/2 inches of her hair cut off to donate to Locks of Love. This non-profit charity accepts hair donations to provide free hair pieces to children who have lost their hair due to illness.
locksoflove.org

Sailing in San Diego

Rique and I joined my parents for a road trip down to San Diego to visit Uncle Matthew.
The weather was hot and humid, but the water was great. We bbq'd and played at the beach. Rique road the 'monkey' board with his uncle and we all had a good time. That evening we swam in the pool at the hotel and drove to Old Town for a great mexican dinner.
The next day we all went sailing with Matthew in the harbor. Everyone took a turn at the wheel, it was very exciting. It was good to visit, and Seth was happy to have us home.

Ventura County Fair

It was a great day for the fair. After a sleepless night (she was too excited to sleep), Grandma Norton set out to the fair accompanied by her family. We saw the pigs and horses, smelled the manure, viewed art exhibits, rode ponies, watched jousting matches between the Great Grandsons, toured the horticulture building, ate lunch and finished the day off with chocolate dipped ice cream bars as Grandma's treat.

Mom brought Grandma from Ojai and we all met up with them at the fair. Robin and Terry brought a wheelchair for Grandma to use, although she did get up and walk whenever she got a chance. Amber and Jason came as well as Tanya and Enrique. Dad showed up during his lunch hour to get a Pink's chili dog and some of those tasty candied almonds. Chris and Minh came with Ethan for a few hours and toured the fair before Chris had to head off to work. Seth even joined us at the very end before everyone went their seperate ways.

Enrique and Jason had a great time chasing each other around. Grandma vowed she wasn't at all tired, she said that she gets tired staying in the house all day. She says she'd like to go to the zoo next. Everyone get ready!

Granados Family in Zion

July 26th-30th
The Granados family including: Rosie & Tony, Tony Jr. & Cami, Alyssa, Jacob, Nathan, Joshua, Jayden, Zoram & Carol, Aimee, Nicole, Adam, Lehi, Seth &Tanya, Enrique, Ariela & Mario, Roxanna & Jarom, Isaac, Ethan and Elaine all went camping in Zion National Park (hopefully Nefi & Michelle, Elias and Nefito can join us next year.)

Thursday everyone settled into camp. We were the only ones there in the group site area. A deer walked right through our campsite, the kids loved it! That night Tony said he saw a wild animal by the bathroom.

Friday we all piled into the shuttle buses to see the sights in Zion and hike the Emerald Pools. On the way back from our hike it started to sprinkle, then to pour, so we all rushed back to our campground to check our rain flies and huttle under our canopys. The rain passed quickly and we were all dried out by night fall.

Saturday after Grandpa and Mario joined us, we rode the bus out to the Temple of Sinawava and hiked the Narrows of Zion. At the end of the paved trail the kids and some of the adults stayed behind to play in the water while Seth, Tony, Lehi, Isaac, Carol, Mario, Ariela, Jarom and Zoram hiked through the water deeper into the canyon.

Sunday we all cleaned ourselves as best we could and attended sacrament meeting at the Springdale ward just a mile outside of Zion. It was sweet and memorable to sing "Come to Zion" on our trip to Zion National Park. After church we drove through the tunnels and admired the beauty of the checkerboard mountain, some hiked the wiggles then we came back to camp and ate. Later that afternoon, most everyone packed up and headed home.

Monday, Seth, Tanya and Enrique packed up the last of camp, bought some souvieners and headed out.

Now we have next year to look forward to.