PaulsBlogging.com

2010-02-22T14:46:00.000-08:00

Haha, I can't believe I still have a blogspot.
It's almost been a full year since I've posted on here... I'm so good at the blogging thing, ha.

School's sailing- I still have an Honors 4.0. I actually just got my grade back for my first Prob & Stats Honors exam, which was probably my hardest math test to date- and I made a 96 on it. I was pretty happy to see that.

Anyhow this is just an update so that Google won't delete my blog. :P

Take care,
Paulie

It's been a while!

2009-03-15T12:35:00.000-07:00

Found my blogspot blog, yay!

Maybe I'll start blogging over here again... (probably not....)

What's new?
School, got a new phone (Omnia), I've been taking a lot of pictures - though, they're all on facebook, and started playing Frisbee whenever I get a spare moment. Frisbees are fun....

Anyhow, I need to finish a paper.
Later!

iTouch

2008-11-09T23:37:00.001-08:00

Test from iTouch...

Here is a very rough draft of the paper I submitted for comp class today…

2008-10-09T14:48:00.000-07:00

The Three Main Prejudices
Against Homeschoolers

Paul Suarez
Mrs. Baxter
ENGL 1010
October 7, 2008

It is understandable that parents and the educational system might be concerned about children who take their education at home rather than from their local public school. Homeschooling seems so “against” the system. Why would parents want to educate their children at home? Why would a child want to be homeschooled? Homeschoolers are often misunderstood, which sometimes results in people forming a prejudice against them.
Here are a few points that some prejudiced people make against the homeschool movement. Just like any other prejudice, these are ignorant assumptions:

1. Homeschooled students aren’t intelligent and can’t possibly learn as much from their parents as they could from a licensed teacher. Parents aren’t qualified to teach.

2. Homeschoolers can’t socialize; they’re stuck at home all day. Homeschooled students don’t have the benefits of a public school as far as sports and other extracurricular activities go. Homeschooled students shouldn’t be sheltered and should be allowed to interact with anyone of their own choosing; therefore, they can learn from their own mistakes.

3. Homeschoolers seem to be fanatics, separatists, i.e., “religious nuts”.
I frequently hear these kinds of statements from public schooled students and/or their parents. They spit out these prejudiced assumptions without even thinking them through first. The following paragraphs address the points above based on my personal experiences with other homeschoolers for over 13 years, along with unbiased statistics to support some of my conclusions.

Homeschoolers can’t learn as much from a parent as they could from a teacher.

I hear this myth a lot. This argument lacks good, solid evidence. Actually, it goes the other way around; homeschooled students are frequently outperforming public schooled students in national spelling bees, science fairs, geography bees, and other competitions. Some biased individuals mistakenly assume homeschoolers are less educated than public schooled students, based on the amount of schooling the teacher versus the parent had. But the educational outcome of the student actually has very little to do with the amount of education the parent had. Dr. Lawrence M. Rudner, Director of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation, stated that homeschooled students, from parents who have had little to no college education, are often times several grades ahead of their peers in the public schools!

"On average, home school students in grades 1–4 perform one grade level higher than their public and private school counterparts. The achievement gap begins to widen in grade 5; by 8th grade the average home school student performs four grade levels above the national average" (3) .

Sure, the parents have to be capable of teaching their child reading, writing, grammar, and basic math. But once a student possesses these basic tools, he can do a lot of his schooling independently. Apparently, this method works very well. According to Dr. Brian Ray of the National Home Education Research Institute, homeschoolers average 22.6 points on the ACT exam, which compares favorably to the national average, of 20.9! Homeschoolers seem to actually enjoy learning. Dr. Brian Ray additionally states that over 74% of homeschool graduates continue their education through college, compared to a mere 46% of the general United States publicly educated population (2).

Socialization

Even though statistics have sufficiently proved that homeschoolers are getting a great education, one of the main prejudices is that most homeschoolers don’t know how to socialize with their peers. This argument has surfaced time and again. But this is an unfair assumption (as are all prejudices) because homeschooling hasn’t been around long enough to disprove this myth. But from what I have witnessed, homeschoolers not only don’t have a problem socializing, but they may be even more socially integrated. Of course, there is no way to prove this point, but we do have access to a few polls from Dr. Brian Ray’s research which demonstrates how homeschoolers are more involved with their communities, both politically and socially, than public schooled students. Seventy-six percent of homeschool graduates from ages 18-24 voted in national and state elections in the past five years versus the 29% of general United States graduates. Approximately 71% of homeschooled students/graduates participate in ongoing community services, but only 37% of the general United States can say the same (3).
Homeschoolers aren’t tied down to any one method of educating. There is a lot of liberty and flexibility in the customization of a child’s education. For instance, some children are auditory learners; others are primarily visual. Still others learn best by touching or feeling (kinesthetic). Public-schoolers spend most of their school time in classes with other people of their own age. But that’s not how the “real world” works. When we enter the work force, we will be interacting with people of all ages. Sure, public-schoolers can socialize with other students their own age, but from what I have observed, those same students have a hard time interacting with people of different ages. Homeschoolers just seem to do well socializing with people of all ages.
There is so much flexibility with homeschooling; these students school online with friends, siblings, and with large groups called co-ops. Homeschoolers set their own hours and pursue their own interests. They have plenty of time to socialize and plenty of like-minded homeschoolers to socialize with.
There are 2.5+ million homeschoolers in this country, and the community is growing at 15% annually according to reporter, Shannon Bream from FOX News. (1) Therefore, socializing is not a problem for homeschoolers.
Remember high school? The teachers would go on intermittently for six hours a day. How much of everything learned was retained? How much learning can really take place in a classroom with one teacher instructing thirty students? On the other hand, homeschooled students have one-on-one schooling with one to two teachers (primarily parents). These parents are going to make sure the student pays attention, and they are there to help the student along the way. My point is, homeschoolers can spend half of their time doing school work while maintaining the same GPA as their public-schooled counterparts (as Dr. Brian Ray has demonstrated above), and so they have more time to socialize.
Another common tag-on assumption is that since homeschoolers are at home all day, they don’t have the benefits that a public school offers, such as sports teams, chess clubs, bands, and other extracurricular activities. This may have been true when homeschooling was first legalized in all 50 states back in 1982, but now the homeschool community is so large that co-ops have sprung up in virtually every community and in every city. A co-op is a homeschool support group that has teachers, which are often parents of the students, that make up the learning group. Co-ops do, in fact, have sports teams, bands, clubs, and classes of all kinds. Homeschooled students have access to the same advantages – only better because they can customize to their own individual needs.

Homeschoolers are religious nuts.

Homeschoolers, for the most part, are religious - but they’re not nuts. Ninety-one percent of the homeschool community claims to be Christian, according to George Barna of The Barna Group (11-12). Most homeschoolers are firm believers in parents’ rights, too. I think parents should have a say over when sex-education is taught to their children. A lot of schools have mandatory attendance to “gay-days” and “diversity training.” Subject matter of this nature that students learn from the public school system is introduced without a parent even knowing about it in many cases. My point is, yes, most homeschoolers are in fact religious and they do believe in parents’ rights. And from an extreme point of view, it may appear that parents are “sheltering” their children. But honestly, parents aren’t keeping their children locked up at home 24/7. No one can learn like that and education is the whole point, after all. Homeschoolers often have more real life experiences than public-schooled students. They actually get out a lot more than people may think. With such a flexible schedule, they can fit in more field trips, go camping with the family, or just take the day off. For instance, in my family, we tend to travel frequently, which fits into our personal learning goals. I’ve been to 42 states, to England twice and Ireland once. As a matter of fact, this weekend, our family is headed to Gettysburg to study Civil War history. From there, we’ll head to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, further fulfilling my desire to visit all 50 states one day. Field trips might consist of places such as zoos, national parks and monuments, and other historic sites.
A lot of people are prejudiced against homeschoolers. They have a distorted picture painted that all homeschoolers are a bunch of lifeless nerds. And I’ll admit, I’ve known a few that are really odd but for the most part, homeschoolers are normal. Just look at the data; I think the reports speak for themselves.

In my opinion, homeschoolers aren’t socially-retarded; they get a fine education, they have the same advantages as public schoolers, and they’re certainly not nuts.

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My blog is: www.PaulsBlogging.com

Math Test

2008-10-09T14:00:00.000-07:00

I just took the biggest math test yet. It covered everything we've been studying. A whole ton of stuff...

I won't get my grade 'til one week from today.
I think I did well...

I'm so tired; I only got 3 hours of sleep last night.

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I did well.

2008-09-04T14:14:00.000-07:00

The teacher really like what I had to say. I had 3 other students come up to me afterwards and told me they really liked it. One guy said he didn't know the hdd speed was so important. A girl told me she like my dweabness - which was kinda awkward... Another girl asked me questions about her laptop and how it compared to HP...

So, I guess it went well. Fellow students took notes as I was talking. I didn't say have the things I wanted to. I forgot to mention a lot of important things, oh well...

Now I get to enjoy lunch. I don't have a TON of homework... But I haven't been in math yet either....
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IMG00631.jpg

2008-08-31T19:36:00.000-07:00

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TN

2008-08-31T19:15:00.001-07:00

Our 6 week trip is almost at an end.

We are now in TN and we will be home by tonight.

I hope this uploads...

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GRANDpa! Check this out!!!

2008-08-31T19:15:00.000-07:00

Nothing beats this!!!
This is amazing....
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Yyummm

2008-08-31T19:14:00.000-07:00

A tower of yum.....

Perfect....
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I'll be buying one of these very soon...

2008-08-31T19:11:00.000-07:00

Anyone want to cell me one? "Cell" - get it?
Never mind....

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Test again

2008-08-31T19:10:00.001-07:00

Photo test

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Test

2008-08-31T19:08:00.001-07:00

Testing...
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Game Geeks...

2008-08-15T00:56:00.000-07:00

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Squirrel

2008-08-08T15:04:00.000-07:00

This little guy keeps falling out of the tree, weird.
I think he's dying.
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Colossal Bridge

2008-08-04T13:16:00.000-07:00

It doesn't look big here but this bridge was massive!

Very tall.

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Colossal Bridge

2008-08-04T12:41:00.000-07:00

It doesn't look big here but this bridge was massive!

Very tall.

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Redwoods

2008-08-04T12:04:00.000-07:00

The redwoods are huge.

The weather here is nice, too.
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Here We All Are

2008-08-04T12:01:00.000-07:00

The photographer could have at least said "say cheese"!
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More Tree

2008-08-04T11:59:00.000-07:00

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HUGE

2008-08-04T11:56:00.000-07:00

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tree.jpg

2008-08-04T11:53:00.000-07:00

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whoa.jpg

2008-08-04T11:48:00.001-07:00

25 gallons for $125???

That's.... That is the very most we've ever paid for gas.
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gas.jpg

2008-08-04T11:42:00.001-07:00

Ouch....

That stinks.

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Nice Drive

2008-08-04T10:44:00.000-07:00

This is a great drive.
There are a lot of awesome views.

I'll get as many pictures as I can.

My blackberry is starting to run out of room from all of these pictures. I may need to start deleting some.
:(
Or buy a really big SD card.

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Beach!

2008-08-03T17:25:00.000-07:00

See Mr. Marcum?
Looks like home, huh?
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Amazing!

2008-08-03T17:20:00.000-07:00

Ok, I'm moving here.
I'll plant my house right there on that rock.
:D

This is the best drive of the trip!
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Energy Drink

2008-08-03T13:30:00.000-07:00

I'm trying out a new kind of energy drink. This one has several new energy supplements that I've never tried before.

Like:

Gingko Biloba - good for your memory.

Niacin - a type of B vitamin.

Milk Thistle - good for your liver.

Let me know if I got all that right, ha.

Anyhow, like I said, we're on our way to OR now.

I'll pick up the blogging, again now.
:D
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Sani.jpg

2008-08-02T13:59:00.000-07:00

There she is!

Cute dress, ha!

Ok, looks like sitemeter fixed their problem.
They were down for about 14 hours I think. 80% of internet users couldn't view 180 million sites.
Ha, that's a lot...

Anyhow, sign up on BlogStatter.com we're adding a ton of new features!
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Roseville Red Thing

2008-07-31T16:14:00.000-07:00

The red thing.

This is a sculpture I grew up looking at almost every day.

I have memories of when I was like two looking at this thing.

Anyhow, sorta a memory landmark.

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Kesslers!

2008-07-30T20:57:00.000-07:00

Ah, we had so much fun at their house.

We always love coming over here.

Here are a few pictures.

:)
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Mr. Kessler

2008-07-30T19:27:00.000-07:00

We're at the Kesslers' house again!
Yay!

Here's Mr. Kessler.

We used to come over here all the time. So sad that we live so far away.
:(
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193

2008-07-30T14:57:00.000-07:00

We lived off of here.
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Big Bridge

2008-07-30T14:47:00.000-07:00

And here's the big bridge (Forest Hill Bridge) we'd always look up at.

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Little Bridge.

2008-07-30T14:45:00.000-07:00

Here's the bridge we would always cross at he bottom of the canyon to get to Cool (the town we lived in).

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Grandma and Grandpa's old house.jpg

2008-07-30T12:41:00.000-07:00

This is the house that dad grew up in. I used to come up here all the time when I was really young.

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Wow....

2008-07-30T10:30:00.001-07:00

We had so much fun with the Kesslers last night!
(I think I was spelling it "Kesselers" before - which is not correct)
:P

But I'm so bummed... I didn't get any pictures!

Oh well, we might swing by their house later today and if we do, I'll get some pictures then.

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Bass Thing.jpg

2008-07-29T18:53:00.000-07:00

Yes!!!

It finally came... er I finally went and picked it up!
:D

We're over at the Kesselers' house and this is where GRANDpa sent my bass thing.

Thank you, GRANDpa!
Now I'll play bass all the way home! :D

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Oooooo...

2008-07-29T18:07:00.000-07:00

I like this car a lot.

I've always liked the body of a Toyota Spider better than that of a Mustang, Vette, or even a Porsche.

I just wish it had the engine of one of the three, ha.

Pretty car.

Anyhow, we're done metting with the Halls now, which is very sad.

Mr. Hall (our webmaster) is a genius, seriously.
He's probably the smartest person alive. He can speak in Binary, code/build amazing websites, and knows how to hack and hack-proof anything!
It was fun talking to him (even though I didn't understand anything - especially all that stuff about ASP, ha).
:D

Thank you, Shawn for taking time to meet with us.

Now, we're off to some good family friends of ours, the Kesslers!
I'll blog from there.
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Sani and Grandma

2008-07-29T16:26:00.003-07:00

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Shawn is Having Way Too Much Fun...

2008-07-29T16:26:00.002-07:00

Haha.

Left to right:

Luke, Levi, Shawn.
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Ha...

2008-07-29T16:26:00.001-07:00

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At The Park

2008-07-29T16:26:00.000-07:00

Meeting our WebMaster, shawn, for the first time.

A lot of fun!
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Mmmmm....

2008-07-28T18:52:00.000-07:00

Cheese and steak enchiladas, Santa Fe black beans, and fresh tomato rice!

AH!

In heaven.
:D

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Dos Coyotes

2008-07-28T18:49:00.000-07:00

Mmmmm.... This is.... WAS our very favorite restaurant when we lived here in CA.

So GOOD!!!!
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Family Leaving :(

2008-07-27T22:53:00.000-07:00

All the fun is now gone.

We had fun playing that game!
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....Oooook....

2008-07-27T22:25:00.000-07:00

That's my cousin's... pond...
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Why Does This Not Surprise Me???

2008-07-27T22:17:00.000-07:00

This is sad....

And it's 5 boy against 4 girls.
*hangs head in shame*

:P
Ha!

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Grandma, Luke, and Levi

2008-07-27T12:24:00.000-07:00

We're all playing Chinese Checkers, again.
:D
We'll be here at my Aunt and Uncle's house for the next week so I'll be taking random pictures of family and friends.

Oh, and I'll also be taking random pictures of this area.
I grew up here, in the Sacramento area so I want to take pictures of all the places I remember from my early childhood.

Anyhow, I need to finish up this game.
Later!

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Haha

2008-07-26T22:43:00.000-07:00

Dad woke up but Fat-San is still asleep.
:D

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Dad and San...

2008-07-26T22:40:00.000-07:00

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Checkers.jpg

2008-07-26T22:39:00.000-07:00

Well, we're here in Sac. now.

We pulled into our relative's a few hours back and jumped right into their pool.
:D

Here's a picture of ME (green) winning at Chinese Checkers. :P

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From the Fires

2008-07-26T15:56:00.000-07:00

You hear on the news that CA has been suffering from major fires; well, I believe it for sure, now.

We've been seeing tons of burnt-black land all the way up here.

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JONES

2008-07-26T15:42:00.000-07:00

Man, I love these.

You guys need to try the GreenApple.
So good.
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Grandma...

2008-07-26T15:25:00.000-07:00

I'm sorry I haven't blogged much today, guys.
This part of the trip is really boring, ha.

Anyhow, we picked our grandma and we're bringing her back up with us to Sac.

Here we now are at Penera, yum.

We'll be seeing our family in Sacramento (we have a lot of family in Sacramento) way later today.
I'll blog then.
:)

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HaNford

2008-07-25T20:19:00.001-07:00

Haha, oops.

The "N" and the "M" are so close together on this BlackBerry, I just got confused, ha!

Yes, thank you, it's spelled Hanford not Hamford.
:D
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At Some Relatives

2008-07-25T20:00:00.000-07:00

We're at another one of Dad's aunts and Sani is having fun.

Look at her hold her own bottle!
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Which Phone to Buy?

2008-07-25T18:18:00.000-07:00

Sorry guys, today is a slow blog day. We've been driving from L.A. up to Hamford all day and it's really boring. Sooo, I've been doing a little research. Which phone to buy?

I'm planning on buying a phone later this year and I'm open to any ideas. I have my heart set on the BlackBerry Bold and after looking at all the specs I think I'm going to buy it.
If you have and thoughts or experience with smartphone, let me know.

Here's an article on the three top smartphone OS's (BlackBerry OS, iPhoneOS (Mac MobileX), Google's Android)

http://www.stevenlong.net/blog/?p=377
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On Our Way Out...

2008-07-25T14:48:00.001-07:00

The trees here in L.A. are strange....

(Yes, that's a wireless tower)
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Mr. Marcum?

2008-07-25T11:02:00.000-07:00

We're at some friends house in L.A. and Mr. Marcum's having fun
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And These Are The Last...

2008-07-24T17:16:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the random word-less entries.
:D
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Big Mountain Back There, huh?

2008-07-24T17:15:00.000-07:00

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More Comming

2008-07-24T17:14:00.002-07:00

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Man, They Look Strange

2008-07-24T17:14:00.001-07:00

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These Things are so Cool!

2008-07-24T17:12:00.002-07:00

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Even More

2008-07-24T17:12:00.001-07:00

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More Windmills

2008-07-24T17:11:00.000-07:00

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CA Gas.jpg

2008-07-24T15:32:00.000-07:00

Wow, we really are in CA...
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Wow, That's The Most...

2008-07-24T15:18:00.000-07:00

This is the most we've spent on gas, so far!
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CA Gas.jpg

2008-07-24T15:12:00.000-07:00

Wow, we really are in CA...
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And Now We've Left

2008-07-23T19:25:00.000-07:00

We had so much fun at the Keith's house!

The two little girls were having fun, too.
here are some pictures of them.
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Great Food!

2008-07-23T17:03:00.000-07:00

Mrs. Keith made that great macaroni salad, very good!

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This Thing Looks Evil!

2008-07-22T15:12:00.000-07:00

....Ouch.....
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Rain....

2008-07-22T15:04:00.000-07:00

You can see it sweeping through!
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Aunt Hill

2008-07-22T14:59:00.000-07:00

These things scare me....
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Another Mountain Thing....

2008-07-22T11:47:00.000-07:00

The desert has its own beauty but it's a tad too dry for me.
:D
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Drive to Tucson

2008-07-22T11:44:00.000-07:00

This is a nice drive but it's a bit dry.

Here are some pictures of what the area looks like.

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Tucson

2008-07-22T10:41:00.001-07:00

We're on our way down to Tucson. It's about 2 hours south of Phx.

I'll probably blog a lot today.
Stay tuned!

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Yumm...

2008-07-22T10:31:00.000-07:00

Now, this may look really nasty to you but I love IN-N-OUT.
:D

Sorry, this is really sorta random.
:-/
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Milkshake...

2008-07-22T10:27:00.000-07:00

IN-N-OUT it awesome.

They have really cool cups and their shakes are great!

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I Love This Simple Menu!

2008-07-22T10:22:00.000-07:00

This was our favorite fast food restaurant when we lived in CA.
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IN-N-OUT

2008-07-22T10:20:00.000-07:00

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Rocks

2008-07-21T18:30:00.000-07:00

There are a ton of rock walls here.
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Rain

2008-07-21T17:27:00.000-07:00

It is totally pouring over there!!!
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Storm

2008-07-21T17:24:00.000-07:00

Sorry about all of the low res. pictures. I have it zoomed way in.

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Rain

2008-07-21T17:22:00.000-07:00

It is totally pouring over there!!!
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It Hissed

2008-07-21T16:38:00.001-07:00

Wow, that's kinda creepy.
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Hail?

2008-07-21T16:24:00.000-07:00

Now it hailing up here, weird.

This kind of weather is called "monsoon".
look it up on google. Monsoons are a lot of fun!
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Great View!

2008-07-21T16:19:00.000-07:00

This drive is really cool.

Look at that view!
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Hail?

2008-07-21T16:14:00.000-07:00

Now it hailing up here, weird.

This kind of weather is called "monsoon".
look it up on google. Monsoons are a lot of fun!
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This Part of AZ is Nice...

2008-07-21T16:11:00.000-07:00

Only a few hours from the hot desert (Phx.), Payson has lots of trees and it's very cool.

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Garmin

2008-07-21T16:06:00.000-07:00

Oh, I guess I forgot to post about our new Garmin.

We bought this just yesterday.

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This Part of AZ is Nice...

2008-07-21T15:58:00.000-07:00

Only a few hours from the hot desert (Phx.), Payson has lots of trees and it's very cool.

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IMG00252.jpg

2008-07-21T15:45:00.000-07:00

Lot's of cliffs out here.

(Pssst. You guys can start commenting now.)

:D
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This Part of AZ is Nice...

2008-07-21T15:39:00.000-07:00

Only a few hours from the hot desert (Phx.), Payson has lots of trees and it's very cool.

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Pines!

2008-07-21T15:22:00.000-07:00

See, the terrain changes from valley to valley.

It's really cool!
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Lizard

2008-07-21T15:11:00.000-07:00

One of SoBe's best.
Sorry guys, today's a real random blog day.
:D
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I'm Telling You,

2008-07-21T14:14:00.000-07:00

The sky is crazy, awesome!
Look at the cacti. << Cool word, cacti.
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Large Valley

2008-07-21T13:57:00.000-07:00

The terrain changes dramatically from Phx. to Payson.
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On Our Way to Payson

2008-07-21T13:56:00.000-07:00

I'm going to post several posts in the next few hours.

Payson is two hours from Phoenix and the drive is amazing.

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