The Masser Story

Hello. I will be your preschool tour guide to Victoria's Garden. It's a fun little gathering of strawberry patches, pony rides, and all my preschool friends!

They have a really cool bounce house and slide there.

This was my pony, named "Beth Girl, California Blonde."

We got to pick our own bucket of strawberries, wash them in a huge old fashioned sink, and then eat to our heart's content. THEN, we also got a full bucket to take home! Sweet niblets!

See! These homegrown ones are the sweetest; for sure!

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The girls had been begging for MONTHS - ever since mom did Locks of Love; they wanted to do it too! Access locksoflove.com and see what you can do to help those who need wigs - cancer patients, etc.

Lon had 14 inches to spare! It was down to her hiney. It had never had a serious cut.

Look at my cookie - i mean, ice cream - monster! she's so excited! She had the minimum 10 inches to spare. She's looking forward to not having to brush as much. ;)

Here we go!

How sophisticated!

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This is our neice Caty Mayer, aged 13, (a few years ago) with her brother Colin

Calling all prayer warriors!
Our sweet and fun neice Caty has been diagnosed with Ewings Cancer recently. She has a tumor the size of a chicken egg located in her tailbone. She is about to embark on 40 weeks (9 months) of strong chemo treatment to battle it.
Monday July 21st she gets her "port" put in. Starting tuesday she has chemo. The routine will be, normally, that she'll go in on a Thursday, get started on chemo and then stay all weekend in the hospital. She'll get to go home after Sunday if she feels ok.
She's supposed to start high school this year, and will be having a unique experience going in like this. Bless her heart!
She and her family are great people of faith, and we look forward to God's faithfulness here!

You can get updates on her at this site:

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/caitlinmayer

Posted in: on Saturday, July 19, 2008 at at 4:48 PM 1 comments    

Isn't baby Clay the cutest little guy?

It's bubble hunting time! Let's go!

Allison's pretty good at this. The girls kept busy for a good 20 minutes with this activity. And, most amazingly, London was so busy blowing bubbles, she was almost quiet. Woah!

Allison takes it into hyperdrive at the park...

Working on baby Clay's abacus skills. Chicks dig guys with skills.....nunchuck skills, abacus skills, it's all good!

Posted in: on Thursday, July 10, 2008 at at 11:11 PM 2 comments    

London and Allison diggin in the sand.

Look Dad, it's Bio-Diesel!

Mine runs on veggie oil!

Sydney and Clay were so enamored with one another!

Good lookin' guys!

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Well, here's Marshall on our hike up Stonewall. It was fun family hike. Except London pooped out before we began, really, but our friends' teenaged daughter offered to keep her back at the trailer for us. What a blessing! The hike continues...

Sydney and Bailee in a hollowed out burned tree that looked like a wood-burning stove. There is still a lot of visible damage from the Cedar Fires in '03, and we see interesting shapes every time we camp or hike.

The view from the top!

Daddy at the top with Sydney, guarding her life, as mommy is huddled down at the bottom of the last staircase coming to grips with her fear of heights. That is, gripping the stair rail with all of her life. Look how FAR apart the rails are on this!!! How hard would it be, really, to add another bar of iron in the middle? Or maybe chain link? Come on!

Posted in: on Wednesday, July 09, 2008 at at 10:40 PM 0 comments    

Went camping over part of spring break with our friends. We stayed in the Cuyamacas at Paso Picacho.

Yes, you caught us. We DID use trailers for camping, not tents. So, it's not very purist of us. But man, you gotta try it!!!! Here London and Bailee are hiding nuts in the tree. Then we sit back and watch the squirrels, Stellar Jays, and woodpeckers compete for them. It was quite a show!

Great little hiding places for the peanuts.

Mystical Mr. Octopus. We have no idea what this is for. (comments?) We found it in the trailer we were borrowing, and we used it for a conversation piece, mainly, and also to hang up wet rags to dry. It might be a torture device of some kind from the middle ages; we're not sure.

Here is a crazy one-toothed hag tree from our big hike.....more to come....

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Ahhhh!!!! There goes the new Easter dress!

London and her little friend Bailee from church.

Oiy! The paparatzi is at it again!

Yes, you caught me red-handed! I got the eggs!

Aw. This wonderful family from church had a new litter of puppies - golden retrievers - that they brought to our service in the park. Here is Sydney falling in love with one!

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Here are the girls with their friends - Taryn and Ryder - at the world famous San Diego Zoo. We had a good time. My friend Tammie and I got a great workout pushing the stroller up and down all those hills (some of the escalators were out of service that day.....)

Our little London got chosen as one of the volunteers in Dr Zoolittle's Show, where he had the kids eat BUGS. I still can't figure out - and I've seen the show several times - whether they are real bugs or not. Some kids eat them. London stopped smiling pretty quickly and sat down when she found out what she was up for.

Taryn and Syd making funny faces!

Man, that bus tour always puts me to sleep!

My FAVORITE site this time at the zoo was during Dr. Zoolittle's show, we spotted the X-Man Magneto, as a baby. I'm not sure how it all fits in the space / time continuum, but I'm sure it was him! Comments??

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Here is Sydney going to a "dress up" party where you got to dress up like whatever you wished. She picked a character from the Harry Potter series, of which she's read all 7 books twice now. Whew. I haven't even finished book 5 yet. Daddy has. They are my heroes!

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Marshall and I spent a romantic weekend up in Irvine (Orange County) for Valentine's Day / Triathlon...... here are some highlights. Here are Marshall's awesome legs, with his number sharpee'd on. (it's a booger to get off later). This is during warm-up. This particular TRI, one lady warmed up, and participated, in a bikini. A bit distracting and unusual, to say the least (sorry, no pics). Perhaps it was her strategy......


Here's where we did the "jig" before the race. Just kidding. Just warm ups.

There he goes! Those bike shots are hard to get. They are FAST.

After the race, we headed to a beautiful state park to lay on the beach and enjoy nature, on the way home to San Diego.


It was called Crystal Cove Park. We explored the tidepools and hiked and laid around. Heaven!

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