The Masser Story

Posted in: on Sunday, December 27, 2009 at at 9:27 PM 2 comments    

As a family, day after Thanksgiving, we climbed Iron Mountain - 6 miles round trip.

We made Syd do some weight training too.....

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London had the pleasure of serving as a flower girl in her friends Hannah & Ricky's wedding, on Oct. 31st. It was the best "costume" ever!

The night after the wedding, we still got to dress up for the church festival! Here is Artemis! London was a flower fairy.

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Peace out! Here's back to our first day at Disney (1/2 day). We rode Nemo ride first and then plotted our course for the next 3 days in the "happiest place on earth"

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Here are the girls getting ready to walk out for their first day of 1st grade & 5th grade! Luckily, right before that happened......

We all went to Disney with Grandma for our birthdays! Ok, so this ride doesn't look so fun. But, truly, it was the only "bomb" ride. It was in California adventures and it's Mickey's Psycho Wheel (not sure about the name)........here's a tip.......do NOT choose the inner "spinney" wheels.........cause London is scared of nothing, and look at her in this pic. Another hint: when the attendent is REFILLING the barf bags in the ride car right before you climb in, run away screaming!

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YAHOO! Marshall & his hiking buddies made it to the top of Half Dome!

What amazing beauty in the Sierras. Marshall got to hike the John Muir trail for 3 weeks this summer.

3 weeks of amazing views, ultimate survival, blisters, and bonding.

Also in July, the NC crowd came to visit! Here we are after we took the train to San Juan Capistrano and went to the mission there.

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Thanks to incredible Uncle Joel and Aunt Marilyn, we have a new kitchen as of July!

When Auntie Marilyn wasn't cuddling with Sozie, or playing Barbies, she was partying it up with the kiddos and Claudia! Here we are at the zoo playing with Gorillas!

Whoops. Minor setback back in the lair of the Sabertooth Tiger.

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The girls were invited to care for and ride Tucker, who belongs to a super nice lady in our church. We can't wait to do it again!

First, our friend showed the girls how to brush and clean Tucker; which was one way to introduce them and also teach them how to care for a horse.

Sydney was a natural and really enjoyed this day!

What a beautiful place to ride and enjoy the scenery!

Back at the stable, we also met a super nice barn cat that put our "tuxedo" cat to shame in the friendly department.

Posted in: on Sunday, August 02, 2009 at at 10:14 PM 0 comments    

On our way to camping at William Heise park, we stopped outside of Julian, CA to do some gold digging. Syd has studied California history in 4th grade and was very interested in gold digging! Needless to say, after our experience here, none of us has quit our day jobs.......

Yeah, the lovely shiny gold covering the bottom of the pan makes it real hard to see if we actually got any REAL gold!

Oh, no worries.....all we found was Fool's Gold anyway. But we had a good time! :)

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Beautiful views from 4,000 ft. You can still see the remains of burnt trees from the '03 fires, tho. :(

Hiking along with mom and dad! The girls love to look at the plants and things we come across. They are good little hikers.

Here we are taking a bit of a rest on another hike we took.

Great photo op!

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There was a great play park at the campground......here's Dad on the balance beam swervy thing!

Sliding down the firefighter's pole.

Are you crazy?

U guys are wearing me out! :)

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No, we haven't seen any baseball players walking out of these cornfields, but they were pretty anyway! It was a fun experiment. I had no idea that you "can't" just plant ONE row of corn......so I had to personally cross pollinate them so they'd produce. Very interesting!

Our zucchini went NUTS, as did our pumpkin plants. We have been eating a zillion zuchinnis.

this gorgeous grapevine was here when we moved in, dead-looking. Marshall built that awesome arbor for it, and now look! Just last week they all ripened and have almost all been eaten or given away (about 10 bunches)

This is our gorgeous African Lily - Agapanthus.

Hello again, Zucchini!

Posted in: on Friday, July 31, 2009 at at 10:11 PM 0 comments    

We found a doggie! I know, she looks like our old Kione, huh? It's so neat! Ever since our "allergy experience" sadness in January, we decided to go back to a tried and true Maltese. We had our old Kione for her whole life and were just fine. Thus, we began to look. We looked into breeders, puppies, and rescues. We really felt more and more drawn to rescue dogs. We got on Petfinder.com (highly recomended), where you can input what you're looking for and in what radius to your home. Then it alerts you everytime a new "match" is posted. FRIDAY, we were alerted! This was after we lost our chances on 2 others previously. Kinda depends on how fast you respond.

Marshall and I drove up to LA, where the rescue group was, and we checked her out. I thought Kione was staring me in the face! She was a sweet, loving personality from the beginning. After all the rest of the paperwork and things, we were able to bring her home to the girls! They are in doggie heaven! They are even -on their own- getting up extra early to walk her with me in the morning (I think that's harder on me.....hee hee)

Here's Sozie crashed out from a hard day of playing! We named her after the Greek word "Sozo," meaning "saved." She saved us from our doggie loneliness, and we got to save her too.

Whew! What a hard day. She's 2 years old, they estimate. She's had all her shots and was spayed last week. Doing great!

This is the cat's opinion of the new family member......

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