We have finished our Masterbath countertop. It's been a long time coming. In an attempt to fix a leaking faucet almost a year ago, I cracked the marble countertop. We have been washing our face, shaving and brushing our teeth with the kids in their bathroom. I decided to attempt to make my own Concrete countertop and it worked. New under mount sinks, faucets, knobs on the cabinets, lights, tile and next venetian plaster on the walls. Now we're back in business.

Disneyland on Bonnies B-Day

Bonnie and I spent the day at Disneyland for her birthday without the kids. I hope they let us back in the house when we get home.




































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Yum. Dutch oven bannana nut bread

I made some good Bannana nut bread in our Dutch Oven



So good.

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Lizzy plays soccer.

Lizzy is doing very well this year in soccer. She plays goalie most of the time and is getting good at it. She is trying her best not to let her club feet issues hold her back.









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Lizzy scored her first goal of the year tonight and got the game MVP. 6-0 win. The firecrackers are undefeated.







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Eagle project

Scott is on his way to becoming an eagle scout. Today was his eagle project. As you can see we planted trees in the city of Monrovia. It was a good fun project. Scott would like to thank everyone involved. Scott is now one merit badge away from his goal.






-Scott with his Great Grandpa Card planting trees on Alta Vista


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Liz in a boat 2

Liz didn't want to get out of the sea kayak. Now she wants me to build a bigger pool.



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Liz in a boat

Lizzy got a chance to ride in our friends new Sea Kayak




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For our 19 year anniversary, Bonnie and I have gone to the Marriott Shadow Ridge in Palm Desert. We had the kids for the first few day's over fathers day and then Bonnie drove them back to Monrovia where Nana was waiting for them. Thank you Nana for watching them. Scott and I played a round of golf on Saturday and then Bonnie and I played a round on our anniversary. We had a lot of fun but despite the 105 degrees weather. The pool was refreshing and the poolside virgin lava flows were Wonderful.

Yea... It's Megan's 12th Birthday and she requested tortellini with cheese bread for lunch today after church. And guess what, I didn't burn the bread this time.

Yep. I burnt the cheese bread for our wonderful after church spaghetti dinner. I was a little upset but Lizzy wanted to comfort me. She said, "It's OK daddy, you always burn the bread, this is nothing new."
Thank you Lizzy. That made me feel better.

“To laugh or to Cry”
This morning Bonnie was getting ready for the day when she said out loud, “ I don’t want to go today”. Lizzy asked Bonnie, “ You don’t want to go where?” So Bonnie gently told Lizzy about going to the Dr. to get an annual Mammogram. Bonnie gently explained to her what a Mammogram was. With a funny look on her face, Liz said, “OK” and turned and walked away.
After school Liz came up to Bonnie and said, “Mommy, how was your Dr. boob thing today?” Bonnie trying to get Liz to use proper terminology said, “They are called breasts and it hurt when they squished them in the machine.” “Liz looked Bonnie over for a second or two and then said with a very straight and serious face, “they do look smaller from all the squishing.” Bonnie didn’t know whether to laugh or cry but in the end we all had a good laugh.

We were sitting at the dinner table enjoying a nice home cooked meal and Bonnie was reading a scripture to us. It started a discussion about angels which lead into Megan asking a question, "Why does the devil have so may names like, Satan, the devil and Christopher?" Bonnie and I looked at each other and started laughing. Then Megan said, “ and who would name their kid after the devil, I don’t get it.” After we stopped laughing we explained that its Lucifer and not Christopher.

HAPPY EASTER!




The Card Family wants to wish everyone a wonderful Easter. We dyed some eggs on Saturday and had a great Easter at church. We are hosting an Easter Dinner at our house and wish that everyone could come. After Church we went and visited Scott Alan Card's grave site as well as my great Grandma and Grandpa Smith. The kids left plastic Easter eggs on both sites.

Baseball is now off and running after this mornings opening ceremony. I had to cook pancakes and sausage and Scott was asked to carry the Flag. Baseball is all that I'm going to know for the next few months. We have 3 games per week plus practice when we can fit it in. We play teams from several other cities, Duarte, Rosemead, Covina, West Covina, Baldwin Park including the other Monrovia Pony team. I'm getting tired just thinking about it.

I wanted to go golfing today but its raining like crazy so I’m enjoying an old western, “Support your local Sheriff” with the family. Liz was kind enough to go and get my slippers for me. Bonnie’s making me update the blog because she doesn’t want everyone to see nasty feet. Here’s a picture of my feet in slippers watching a western on a Lazy rainy Presidents day.

While I was watching an old Brady Bunch TV show with Liz on a lazy Saturday morning a commercial came on advertising the “Ped Egg”. I looked at Liz and said, “What in the world is this all about?” Liz said, “you know Dad, you use like a cheese grader on your feet taking off all the yucky stuff, you know like Nana has on her feet”
Sorry Nana, now everyone knows that you have “yucky stuff” on your feet that could use a cheese grader devise like the Ped Egg.


This is NOT a picture of Nana’s foot.

While we were at a wedding reception, Bonnie received a phone call on her cell from Liz. She left a message for Bonnie, "Mom, this is an emergency, I need you to go to Target on your way home from your wedding and buy me another ballet outfit. The one I'm wearing is giving me a major wedgie."
As Bonnie was listening to the message, once she heard, "This is an emergency" our hearts jumped and then both had a laugh as we found out that it was all over a "Major Wedgie".

Our family decided to go on a little hike in the Monrovia foothills to the waterfall. We all enjoyed the wonderful hike seeing different kinds of vegetation and animal life with the exception of a Crazy Killer Evil Squirrel. I took a picture of him just before he tried to attack. Megan said, "He's just protecting his NUTS"