McKenna Cheering for Placer Jr Hillmen

McKenna and her fellow cheerleaders cheered their hearts out but the fighting zebras from stinking lincoln crushed the peewee hillmen (49 -6) on October 3, 2009.

Watch video of the girls cheering.

Mother's Day - A Great Family Day

To celebrate Mother's Day we went on a family hike in the Auburn Canyon on stagecoach to Flood trail. We brought a picnic lunch and enjoyed the view from the bench. We brought our new addition to the family, Enzo. He is a beautiful, but destructive yellow lab like Marley (from the movie Marley & Me)

Daddy Daughter 2009 Camping Trip - Angel Island

I would have had a hard time believing that we could have had a better time than we did for daddy daughter 2008 when we went to Yosemite. But I think we out did it with this trip to Muir Woods, Tiburon, Angel Island, ride across the Golden Gate Bridge and afternoon in San Francisco at Fisherman's Wharf.

This is all of the Daddys and Daughters packing up and heading out on the first morning.


The girls stop for a quick photo before we hike into the Muir Woods.


The girls all standing inside one of the massive redwood trees in the Muir Woods.


Emmelyn and McKenna sitting on top of the hollow log that all the girls had a ton of fun crawling through. This was right before they played with and kissed a banana slug.


Here we are hiking through one of the beautiful trails in the Muir Woods.

This is a photo of the girls having a blast in the sail boat that we got a personal ride on. Everyone had a blast and this was a real highlight of the trip even though it was due to us missing the ferry and us fortunately finding a nice gentlemen who offered to sail us over to Angel Island where we were planning to camp for the next couple nights.


Finally, we made it to Angel Island and hiked about a mile to our wilderness campground. What an adventure!


Here we are at dinner time...enjoying the beautiful scenery and peacefulness of Angel Island.




Here we are playing a fun game of cards in one of our 2 pound tents. It was a tight squeeze but was a ton of fun. This night we all took a midnight hike up to the peak of Angel Island for a 360 degree view. It was incredible!


Here comes the Sun! The girls all slept outside without a tent believe it or not. I was so impressed with them all as none of them complained and they all slept great.


Here we were playing on the beach and had a great time fooling around, relaxing, snacking and playing football. Even the girls played and they were amazing! Throwing and catching passes like all stars, especially Brooklyn. She caught some bullets from her Dad, Charles.


Can't wait for our next Daddy Daughter trip which already sounds like it might be another backpacking adventure but to the next level. These trips are some of the best times of my life and I am so thankful to be invited and experience them with our friends and my sweetpea McKenna. Love you sweetpea!

Supporting Dan Moore at PHS track

Christine and I joined a large group of other runners who came out to the Placer High School track to raise money and show support for Dan Moore, the owner of Auburn Running Company, who is in the hospital being treated for Leukemia. Christine ran 10 miles and I did 8 miles. It was fun seeing all those who came out and playing soccer and running with Mason. Hope Dan recovers and gets back into the running shop soon.

Mason and Dad Sledding in the snow at Yuba Gap

Mason and Dad went sledding with the Davis Family at Yuba Gap near Tahoe.  We had a ton of fun throwing snow balls, playing in the snow, sledding down the hill, sledding down the road, racing and crashing in the snow, drinking hot chocolate, and eating Danee's yummy chili.  Thanks for the good times Davis Family!  It was quite the adventure because the snow park was closed and we drove about a mile on snow to get to the only place you could turn around and we made our own snow park with several other families.

Halloween 2008

Dad hanging out in the house with the kids

Everyone on their laptops on the couch.


Watching the Packers in our Packer Jerseys.

Christine's First Half Marathon and our Weekend Adventure

The adventure started out precariously with Snow on the way through the sierras and in Nevada. Luckily we were able to get through before the roads got too bad.


While Mom was out warming up and hanging out with her running buddies McKenna, Mason, and I had a fun breakfast at McDonald's.


Here she comes...Christine had a great run and finished in 2:17. This was considering it was a trail run and the temperature was in the twenties with ice on the ground when she started. Great job, Honey!


The kids and I hiked about 4 miles to see Christine out on the course. We had a great time throwing rocks, volunteering a little, and cheering the runners on.


McKenna actually ran the last mile with Christine. Below is a photo of Mom and the kids after Mom finished her first half marathon (biz johnson).

McKenna & Mason Birthday Rock Climbing Bash

Blair and Mason Doing Wheelies

At the SSWC 08 Race in Napa, Mason had a great time riding his singlespeed specialized bike and especially enjoyed when Blair helped him ride wheelies!

Mason Hammering on his bike up a hill

When we were riding to the park and Mason stood up on his bike and hammered up a hill near our house.

Hanging out with long-time friends Larry, Dan and Adam

July 2008 Family Trip to Sugarpine, Tahoe

Mason and Kayden Building an Arbor