Etreme Makeover Home Edition

So for those of you who don't know Myself and our friend Kaipo Ramos were able to get onto the set of Extreme Makeover when they came to Fresno. I happened to stop by one evening when I got off work, I started talking with the security guard, who had a million law enforcement agency pins on his jacket. After talking with him he informed me we could still volunteer even though they said they were full, we were told it would be a first come first serve basis. So I got a hold of some Probation pins and a couple agency patches, as a just in case we didn't get picked to help. Luckily a group of people no showed so we were able to go work. We helped move stuff in and out of the house and garage, but mostly we sat around waiting to hopefully see the stars, or even have the chance to do a little work. We had fun and we even got to sneak a peek at the inside of the house.

Since we had some time to wonder, I saw the security guard I talked to the night before and gave him the lapel pin and a patch from probation since I had them. So when we left that night we were excited and thought we would get our blue shirt they were out of and try and volunteer again the next night. Unfortunately they didn't need any help. It was the night before the viewing so I went to the site and saw the security guard I had given the patch to, he told me to put my blue shirt on and hang out. So I did, and I was able to see and help put a lot of stuff in the house. Most of the furniture was already in, but we helped put in the million picture frames, candles, pillows, oh yea the XBOX 360, PS3, and tons of other goodies. Its amazing what they do, the refrigerator was packed so full there was literally no space left in it everything was wedged in there, the same with the cupboards and pantry. I was afraid to use a camera inside so I tried to snaps some pictures with my phone.

The Coolest Tree.

So while we were driving home from snowboarding, I saw this tree that caught my attention. Usually I drive by stuff like this and say next time I'm driving by I might take a picture of that, but since I have been saying that to myself since I was in high school photography I decided this time I would turn the car around. So Chad and I squeezed through the barbed wire fence and snapped a few pictures of this tree.

It looks as though the tree was damaged and fell when it was young, It then continued to grow and turn into this awesome formed arch.

Cabin Update

Since I was up snowboarding I thought I would drive by and check out and see what the snow conditions were like at the cabin. So for those of us that are going up soon you might get a little excited, well that is if you are like me and love the snow, here are some shots from today. Remember this is just from last week! Its supposed to snow 5 days next week, and I am crossing my fingers it snow's while we are up there, it makes the stay up there so much fun when it snows.

Just Look at all that SNOW!

Winter is here!

Well with this last week and all the raining in Fresno there has been plenty of snowing up in the mountains. Since I don't live a normal life anymore I have tried the last couple weeks to take advantage of the beautiful days and go up snowboarding. Just over the last week sierra summit has received over 8 feet of new snow, it made for a great day of snowboarding. I have to say when I got off work yesterday I thought my brother chad was going to stand me up at the last minute like last week, but I was surprisingly shocked when he said he would go. We did get a little late start, but after riding in soo much powder my legs were cramping at 3 o'clock. So we headed down the hill and made it home in time to make Breakfast Burritos for dinner, Evans new favorite meal.













Huntington Lake completely iced over.













So much snow a SNOW CAT got stuck when the the snow compacted under it.