Relaxin' at Mandy's

Alex enjoying an afternoon nap OUTSIDE!
Havin' a WII party
Mandy and baby #3
Chalk fun

Winchester Mystery House-San Jose, CA

One of Ms. Winchester's bedrooms
Stairway to nowhere!

Winchester Mystery House

Mother's Day! Headin' to Medieval Times

On our way to Medieval Times

"Our" blue knight!
Cheers!

Bill of Fare :
Garlic Bread,Tomato Bisque Soup,Roasted Chicken,Spare Rib,Herb-Basted Potato,Pastry,Beverages and NO untensils!

AWANA

Awana has come to an end! What a fun year for the kiddos! Sofie really enjoyed getting to know her little group of kids as well. Danny and Sammie did very well with their books in their "Truth in Training" class. Tristan finished his book in the cubbies group! Way to go!

Coronado Beach

Sweet Jacob
The Saylors
All of us at Coronado Beach
Fun in the Sun

Calderon-Saylors San Diego Zoo Trip!

We have been having a great time with Lonnie and Kacee! We've hit the beach and had a lot of fun at the world famous San Diego Zoo! We also took them to all of our hotspot eating places! Souplantation, In & Out Burgers, and Rubio Fish Tacos!! Yum! We sure don't want to leave.

yes, we all stuffed ourselves into one of those itty bitty booths for this pic! It was pretty hilarious!


watch out for those spiders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Very old turtle!
Having fun at the sea lion show
Aw, my little sweet sunflowers
Tough guy

Lonnie, Sofie, Tristan, and Cade on the Sky Ride!
Buds!
Buds! No we did not plan this............
We just love hippos!
What a cutie

Spring

Well, times just moving along. We had quite a few visitors in the last few weeks, but now they have all left for home. Spring Break has come and gone and we are getting back to business with school and church and sports and lessons. Sammie started her polynesian dance lessons mid-April. She's learning how to do the hula, the Tahitian dance, and the New Zealand dance with poi balls. She's having lots of fun and has really taken to it. At the end of her lessons she will get to perform everything for us! That will be so great. AWANA is still going full steam ahead. That will soon come to end after a year of fun in May! Tristan is still having a great time with his friends at T-ball practices and we have games almost every Saturday as well. We are looking forward to Sofie's brother Lonnie and his family's visit in May. We will be heading down to meet them in San Diego to take in some sites there. We just can't wait.

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Danny & Sammie Achievements in April

Danny recently had some competitions at school in spelling in which he did very well in. Consequently, he was one of 2 in the whole 6th grade (and 1 of 4 in the school) that was chosen to go to the district level competition for "SPELLBOUND." This competition includes grades 4-6 in which they compete in several events that have to do with spelling. The group from his school ended up doing very well. They all received participant ribbons along with placement ribbons. Third place in the "spell off" and fourth place in "using words." What an accomplishment. Some of the groups did not even place so it's something to be very proud of. Great job Danny!

At the Spellbound competition

The bottom row of kids are representing Danny's school.

To many ribbons for ya?

Danny receives Scholar of the month in spelling. He is actually reading at above a 12th grade level. Not to sure how high since the school can only test up to the 12+ level!

GOOD JOB SAMMIE AND DANNY

Sammie is just doing excellent in math! She has mastered all of her times tables up to 12!

STOMP performance at school

Family Time

Grammy and Granddad getting ready to fly back home.

Wee- - - boom!