President Ronald Reagan Library

“Trust, but verify”

A signature phrase of President Ronald Reagan

While we were out-of-town, a few weeks ago, Fermín and I found ourselves with a few hours in our hands.  I have been thinking about visiting our Presidential Libraries and living here in California we are blessed to have two, President Richard Nixon’s and President Ronald Reagan’s.  Here are some of the photos I took while at President Ronald Reagan Library.

I couldn’t help taking this photo.

Marine One

Air Force One

A young boy contemplating history.  President Ronald Reagan grave site.

An authentic section of the Berlin Wall at the Library

A view from the Library – Simi Valley, CA

For more photos just click on my Flickr Photos to the right of this page.

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Easter Eggs

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I have always bought the egg dying kit that came with color tablets or used food coloring drops.  This year I found a new way of dying eggs, new to me but I understand people have been dying eggs this way for generations.  I used onion skins to dye the eggs and I think they turned out beautifully.

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Happy Birthday to My Most Precious Little Boy Losiah!

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There are no words most precious than the words of gratitude coming from a father and a mother so I lead you to Carlos’ and Heather’s blogs to celebrate our grandson’s 4th Birthday.

I miss you Losiah and I wish we were with you to celebrate your birthday.  Have a Happy Birthday My Love.  Papa and Lita loves you so very much.

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Earthquake on Easter Sunday

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This is what we were doing while the earthquake was happening.  It was Easter Sunday afternoon and we were also celebrating my nephew’s 7th birthday.

I was taking pictures, not listening to what people were saying and everyone was turning and looking towards the pool, then I thought I was feeling dizzy.  The pool was splashing water and the ground was moving!!!

Notice the wet area around the pool and the water coming out of the filter.

Right after the earthquake finished shaking us all, my nephew got back to what was on his mind and we followed and started to sing Happy Birthday to him ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♫♥*•.¸ ❤

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Resurrection Sunday

“He is not here. He has risen from the dead as he said he would.” Matthew 28:6

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Crazy Couple Of Days

These two couple of days have been crazy just watching from the other side of the country my son Carlos’ family being interviewed  on a couple of different TV networks and watching the video Carlos made on many of the networks.  My grandson Losiah reacted like a typical three-year old when his Daddy corrected him . . .  well if you are one of the few that has not seen the video, I hope you enjoy it.  Here it is:

This video has opened up some conversations about adoption and we hope God uses it for some children here in the United States or anywhere in the world to be adopted.

The original video has had over a million hits since they posted it on YouTube.

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Oh No – Mr. & Mrs. Geese In My Pool!!! Again

And the geese are going to Canada  -  or not!!!  Instead they decided to stay here in Fresno, in my pool to be exact.  Out of the 15 years we lived in this house, LAST year Mr. & Mrs. Geese decided to spend some time in our pool.  At first I thought they were so cute, “Geese in my backyard! maybe they’ll still be here when my grandchildren arrive.”

It did not take long to experience the destruction of the pool.  I did some research and did you know that geese poop every 6 to 8 minutes and that they poop about 2 lbs. a day?  And they like to eat slugs, leaving the shells in the pool for the sweeper to pick up and deposit them in the filters which they….  You get the picture.

This Spring they came back, and they look like the same couple!!!  Mr. & Mrs. Geese spent the night in the pool and by morning it was a big mess.  Went back to cyberspace to find some help.  Someone wanted to sell me a silhouette of a dog for $70 plus dollars.  Getting a real dog was out of the question since we travel a lot, and my husband running out to scare them off, well it would work for a while but they always came back after an hour or so.  Somewhere in cyberspace I read about putting some beach balls in the pool, I thought the wind would blow them away or bunch them all up in one corner of the pool.  So I decided to get some mean looking pool toys and tied them down.  I did and… Ta Daaaa, so far so good, they have not returned!!!  I hope I’m not singing a victory song too soon and the geese realized that the mean looking shark and alligator are just inflatable toys.

Two angel fish, one mean looking shark and an alligator.

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