Beautiful Music

Peter's cousin Annabell and her husband Jay sing for us before they return to California. Click on the title of this post to go to YouTube and watch them sing.

Jumping on the Pool Cover?!

Grandpa let the kids jump all over the pool cover....GIANT NO-NO, usually.... It was like a fabulous waterbed party!

Horseback Riding

Horse - Madie and Donkey - Bandit

Rachel and Dominique with the Horse

It was very pleasant to see these girls getting along together and helping one another.

Hard Workers...Dead Tired

Everyone had to be up bright and early. The adults were in the orchard by 5:00AM and the kids came around 6:00AM. They day was pretty much over by 1:00PM.


Charles got to do a little tractor driving when he wasn't hauling boxes with the girls. Kimberly stayed at the house to watch the baby.

Jessica, Charles, Rachel, and Domonique helped haul almost 1000 of these boxes out of the orchard. They would carry them to the end of the row and put them in bins for the tractors to take to the top, where they would be sprayed down with cold water and loaded on the truck for the packing plant.

The Mexican pickers got a kick out of Rachel. They kept laughing and talking about the Americano in her bare feet.

These boxes seemed to get heavier by the end of the day. They weighed 18 - 20 lbs. apiece.

I had to snap this picture of the girls doing the dead man's float after a hard two days in the orchard. : )

Friday Fun in the Sun

Finally - a day she's not in the carseat!

Amanda was really resisting getting back into her car seat by the last day of our drive. She would stiffen like a board and fight and scream like she was being put into a torture chamber. It was all poor Rachel could do to get her buckled by that time.