farewell corona high

It seems that I blog about Rachelle the more than my other siblings. Maybe that's because my other two sisters have their own blogs and they can tell you what's going on in their lives themselves. Or maybe Rachelle just has the most exciting life out of any of us. Or maybe Rachelle's just my favorite. I guess we'll never really know.

Just yesterday, Rachelle graduated from Corona High School. She is the fourth and final Fisher girl to graduate from that fine institution. By the time Jacob graduates high school most of the teachers I had will be retired. And thus ends the "Fisher Legacy." So let's run the numbers...

The number of Fisher girls who:

extracurriculars

Ran track = 2

Played in band = 1

Sang in Choir = 4

Sang in Madrigals = 3

Were in Madrigals for more than one year = 2

Were able to enjoy the new performing arts building (announced my freshman year) = 1
Went to plays with the International Studies Club = 4

Were in student government = 2

Were members of the California Scholarship Federation = 4

academia

Had Mr. Vaughn for World History = 4

Had Mr. Smith as a choir director = 3

Had Mrs. Robson for AP Language Arts = 4

Had Mr. Phillips for 11th grade Language Arts= 3 (unless you count Amy's one week in there... and then it's 4)

Had Mr. Williams for psychology = 2

Had Mrs. Hippie for 10th grade Language Arts = 4
Had Mrs. Gray for art = 2

graduation

Wore the same cap and gown = 4
Were salutatorians = 2

Graduated with honors = 4
Years at CHS = 1995-2008 = 13 years

So farewell Corona High School. We made many fond memories with you.

Congrats Rachelle!!!

boys camp

Friday afternoon William and I were discussing who would be at a wedding reception we were attending that evening. He inquired if Whitney would be there. "No," I told him, "Whitney's at girl's camp." I then proceeded to name several other Young Women who were at camp to which he replied, "Oh. I wish there was a boy's camp."

And so Rich, being the fantastic dad that he is, decided to go on a camp out with William. William was ecstatic!

Here he is hammering in one of the stakes.

Pop! Goes the William! This little hole was William's favorite part of the tent. I'm not sure what it's purpose is other than for little boys to stick their heads out of...

Here are the boys all tucked in for the night.

Seriously, William was wired! He was so excited to be on a camp out!

And here they are stoking the "campfire."

And what camp out is complete without some s'mores!

William wasn't so sure about the s'mores so he just held onto the marshmallows for us.

What a couple of handsome guys...

William was so hyped up that Rich got our little TV and set it up in the tent. They watched a movie until William fell asleep (around 10:30!)... And then William was up with the sun at 6:30! What a night! William can't stop talking about it though. He's pretty certain that he's camping out every night!

Hooray for campouts! Hooray for great dads! Hooray for summer!

girls camp

Yesterday I had the chance to drive some of the young women in our ward to girl's camp. It was a pleasant 3 hour drive up to the camp and when I got there, crossed the lake and was surrounded by big pine trees I almost forgot that I wasn't in the mountains! I was pretty glad not to have to stay up there for the week but once I was there I really didn't want to leave. I left much later than I thought and ended up making the long drive home in the dark, finally arriving home only a little before midnight.

Being up at girl's camp made me remember my own experiences. The camp here is much different from ours--we were in the mountains sleeping on the floor of a-frames and here they are in humid Oklahoma sleeping on beds in an air-conditioned cabin, we were divided up mostly by age and here they sleep together as wards, in addition to many, many others--but the spirit is essentially the same.

For some reason I can only find pictures right now from my last 2 years of camp but I thought I'd share them with you anyhow.

I'm just realizing that we are wearing our camp sweatshirts in some of the pictures. Funny. They would never even dream of making sweatshirts for camp here (although the girls had that air cranked in the cabin so it was rather chilly!)

What were your girl's camp experiences like?

**After Sis. Holmes' comments I remembered that the thing that the girls here are missing out on the most is the BATH girls!

brisket at the barn

There are many perks to small town life, one being the community events. Perhaps my favorite gathering is the annual "Brisket at the Barn" sponsered by the local bank. There's brisket, hotdogs, chips, drinks, snowcones, tractor "train" rides, and even entertainment from Chester the Clown. And best of all? It's all FREE. Now that's my kind of party!

So Thursday evening we headed down to the barn behind the bank for our wonderfully delicious (and free) dinner. Just about everyone in Piedmont was there. William couldn't get enough of the train ride and loved to run around with his friends.

We also enjoyed some refreshing snowcones.

However, it was not a perfect evening. You see, William is terrified of Chester. Unfortunatley he's a staple at town events. If Chester was in sight then William was clinging for dear life to either my or Rich's legs. It's kind of hard to walk that way! The funny thing is that on the way home William cried and cried because he didn't get a balloon animal from Chester!

So if you're ever passing through around this time of year we'll be sure to treat you to some fabulous fun and food down at the barn!

a TEXAS-sized weekend

This post is long overdue. Sorry for the delay. A few Fridays back--May 16th to be exact--we traveled down to Texas for this cute couple's open house. Heather was my wonderful roommate back in the day and it was so good to see her again and meet her new hubby, Royce.We are so excited that they are living so close for the summer and hope to see them again soon!

Since we were going to be down there anyway, we stopped in on our good friends the Smiths. Katie and I have been friends since we were in Sunbeams. (For some fabulous and embarrassing pictures of us through the years click here.) Her oldest, Parker, and William are Sunbeams now. It's funny to think that our moms met when they were our age. The boys got along fabulously. It was so fun to visit with them and let our boys play! Plus they were so nice to let us stay the night... and even nicer to treat us to a breakfast of wonderful crepes! Thanks guys! And we couldn't leave without checking out their fantastic park:

Seriously, this park is every child's dream. You've really got to see it to believe it!

And then we headed home. We are super lucky that our boys are great travelers! The boys conked out and napped even after we got home. Later that night we dropped the kids off at Grandma's while we went out. It was our anniversary after all. Rich and I headed down to Bricktown to dine at the Spaghetti Warehouse. (Actually we were planning on eating at the Melting Pot... but we were too starving to wait an hour.)

All in all we had a great weekend!

(And a Happy belated Anniversary to you Rich... it's been the best 5 years!)

26.2 miles

We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves. The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable.

-Sir Roger Banniser, first man to break the four minute mile

Saturday Rich ran his fourth--yes, you read that right--fourth marathon. Crazy? Yes, I think so. He claims that this is his last one... but we'll see. He did awesome and had his fastest finishing time yet--4:14:56! He placed 19th for males, 2nd in his division and averaged a pace of 9:30 minutes per mile! I, for one, think that's pretty amazing!

Yea for Rich! You are awesome!

Happy Birthday, Amy!

A big Happy Birthday to my wonderfully incredible sister, Amy. She is now a quarter of a century. Wow. Hope you have a great day!