Let it Snow

Saturday morning my mom gave Charles and I a call telling us that they might get snow up at their house, so we jumped in the car with the dogs and lots of warm cloths and headed up to my parents house in Cathey's Valley. Since this year winter has not existed in California I was so excited to see the snow. The snow did not start falling until about 8:30 that night but the next morning when we got out of bed the entire mountain was white. We spent most of the early morning out in the snow sledding. My parents driveway by far the best hill I have sledded on in a long time. This was the perfect weekend filled with fun, snow and lots of family time. Loved it and can't wait to do it again.

The beautiful view we woke up to Sunday morning

My parents house under 3 inches of snow

It was so nice to get away from Fresno and enjoy a weekend together with family.

Tuck loved the snow

This was Tucks and Daisy's first time in the snow. They had so much fun playing in it.

Charles shot a black bird

After a full day of playing the pups were tuckered out

SRC Follies

This past Friday and Saturday the High School that Charles and I graduated from had their annual fundraiser. They had a delicious dinner, a live action (witch raised money for scholarships), and a choreographed talent show. The theme this year was "Let Freedom Sing", it paid tribute to all the people who have served our country so that we could have our freedom. The night was so much fun, it amazes me how much God can do for those who are faithful. Stone Ridge Christian High School has blessed my life in more than one way and I pray that it continues to train up the next generations to love and serve Christ more deeply.

Us at the Dinner

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Dad, Mom, Mom L and Me enjoying the live action. It is such a blessing how much our parents support Charles and I's dreams.

Charles singing and playing the guitar ( If I die before you wake)

He looked so handsome in a uniform and he did a great job singing!

The uniform that Charles is wearing is my Aunt Jacquie's Dads. Really special that he got to wear it.

Charles and Mom

DIY Weekend

This past weekend Charles and I had three days off of work... We decided that we would work on projects around our house. Friday night Charles had a Stone Ridge Basket Ball Game, so I stayed home and did a couple small things around the house, so Saturday morning we could start all our projects.

Saturday morinig we woke up early and moved all our furniture out of our formal dinning room so we could deep clean the carpets. Note: Last June we got puppies, which were not potty trained, and just as puppies will do they peed and pooped on our carpet, so we felt that it was time to deep clean them since our pups are now 100% potty trained. After we got the carpet clean we hopped in the car and went to Michaels to get supplies to make a wreth that I saw on pintrest. That evening we went over to our friends house to have pizza and game night.

Our puppies only 8 weeks old "before they were potty trained"

"L" for Lockridge and the "6319" for our home address

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday we moved all the furniture back into the formal dinning room and moved the living room furniture out so we could deep clean the living room and hall way. That night we dicided to relax and go on a date to a fresno monsters hockey game. When we arrived at the game a girl turned and asked if we wanted free tickets to the game, who could resist.  Our whole date cost us a total of $5 and we had a blast getting out of the house.

Monday I organized our bathroom which was much needed. We had so much junk in there that did not belong, plus once again I got to use an idea that I found on Pintrest.(I am totally hooked on Pintrest) My wonderful husband made me a candle holder out of an old piece of wood for the Beach guest room. We ended this productive weekend with a wonderful dinner with my friend that I meant in Kindergarten and her boyfriend.

My closet is all organized

My hubby made this for me. He is awesome!!!

Viva Las Vegas

This past week my whole family went to Las Vegas to watch my cousin Alex play in a Basketball tournament!

Steak and Shake at our hotel

The pool at Caesars Palace was so gorgeous

Inside  Caesars Palace's  Shopping Mall

Texas De Brazil

Brandon had 18 servings of meat that night

One of the hotels has an awesome aquarium that we all got to.

We were standing on top of the aquarium. It was so cool!!!

Alex Fletcher #11

Alex's #1 Fans

My hubby and I

The family at Alex's last game

Christmas

 It is really hard to believe that this is our second Christmas together as husband and wife. We are truly blessed to have all our wonderful family around to celebrate with. This year we did a total of 4 Christmas celebrations (Fletcher's Christmas Eve, Nordman's Christmas, Lockridge's Christmas and Fletcher's Christmas Day)

Tuck and Daisy even got a visit from Santa

Daisy knows that she first must sit before she gets a treat

Christmas Eve

The oldest four cousins got to sit at the adult table for Christmas Eve Dinner

All ten cousins are together for the first time in over a year

One of our many attempts of taking a nice picture

Twins

Brandon got this robe for dad

Uncle Brandon got our puppies lots of fun chew toys

Target Practice

Charles and Dave both got Craftsman stools

All Decorated for Christmas

Our Christmas Tree

This year we did not have a fire-place so we improvised

I saw this in a magazine so I decided I could make it cheaper than I could buy it. I cut down some tree branches from my parents house and spray painted them white, then I decorated it with red and silver bulbs and our personalized Christmas ornaments. I had so much fun making this!

Each Christmas I buy a new ornament and personalize it. I think it will be a fun tradition to continue each year, especially as our family grows!

All the wonderful Christmas cards we got this year

 A Christmas tree in our beach bathroom. I made this one too including the sand and shell ornaments

Bass Lake

The whole Lockridge family rented a cabin at Bass Lake the week before Christmas. It was so much fun and we all agreed that this would be a yearly tradition.
Day 1: We all arrived at the cabin early afternoon on Tuesday. Got the cars unpacked and the cabin fully stocked of yummy food, snacks, games, puzzles, movies and all our sleeping stuff. We wasted no time and got a 1000 piece puzzle started, which we finished in 24 hours. Megan cooked us a wonderful dinner of corn-flake chicken, rice and veggies. We ended the night with the movie Christmas Vacation.
Day 2: Woke up to the smell of coffee and monkey bread knowing that we had nothing to do that day but relax and enjoy each others company. We went on a walk down to the beautiful but very empty lake. Spent the afternoon playing board games, ping pong, and finishing up the puzzle. We all had another wonderful dinner and stayed up way to late playing games.
Day 3: We all woke up early that morning so we could eat breakfast and pack up the cabin. Two days at the cabin was just not long enough so next year we hope to add another day to our Lockridge Family Vacation.

The whole family

Uncle Charlie and Levi enjoying breakfast together

Auntie Christina and baby Caleb " I love that he is so snugly"

Games at the cabin "Lots of good Laughs"