Friday, February 27, 2009

Flashback Friday!



I remember this day well. We decided to move our family room out on to the front yard and the porch. Do you think it makes us look like Trailer Park Trash????? We all had a fun time taunting the neighbors and trying to make them believe that we were going to make this furniture arrangement permanent. Notice we even have blue carpet??? I miss the good old days when we were all together and were able to sit around, talk, and relax.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

S H O E S !



I need to get one of these for Summer and Tyler!

Friday, February 20, 2009

Flash Back Friday

Ah yes . . . back in the day when Nina ruled the roost! They say there is nothing more beautiful than a woman in red! Check out the family room decor. This is way back when the "country" look was in.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Not Me Monday

So we went to our friends Art & Michelle's wedding on Saturday. It was a reaffirmation of their wedding vows.

While we were there, Sandford DID NOT get his napkin too close to the candle and catch it on fire! He did not try to put it out with his hands while I poured Coke all over the table. Nope! We would NEVER try to draw attention to ourselves while the bride and groom where cutting the cake! That would be wrong!

When I asked Sandford "What Are You Doing"? He looked at me and said, "Cleaning"????

Just in case you were wondering, NO, this is not one of the favors that was sitting on the table that almost caught on fire too! Nope, that type of thing would be wrong to have happen on such an important day for our friends!


And we wonder why people never invite us over! Huh! I don't get it!

How to have fun with no $$

I got this awesome shirt from my friend Tim. He has one just like it and I just had to get one of my own! It is NOT a DARE shirt! Read it carefully! It says "Who Need Drugs?" "No, seriously, I have Drugs!" Gotta see the humor in this!







We went and got free yogurt at the Golden Spoon!



Then we went over to Lowes Home Improvement Center to hang out! 3 outta 4 of us really wanted to go and just look around!



Beth & Hal decided to check out one of the shower displays! Don't buy this one! You can see right thru it!






Then they tried out rocking chairs to see what it would be like when they grow old together!












Hal climbed into the revolving display for shower doors!











Then Beth need to go to the bathroom but was too lazy to walk to the front of the store!











And if that wasn't bad enough, she climbed into one of the bath tub displays!













Not to be out done, Hal realized that his Fiber One bar had suddenly kicked in!










He made such a mess, he had to take a tub bath! Right in the middle of the store!










By the end of the day, poor Hal was all tuckered out and laid down to take a nap!














I don't know why, but the people at Lowe's told us to never come back to their store. Why don't people like us?












Friday, February 13, 2009

FLASH BACK FRIDAY

Taking a break during an all day concert.
I can't remember which concert it was (I've been to sooooo many) but I remember that it was incredibly HOT! I think it might have been Inland Invasion. Can you help me out girls?

Front left to right:
Nina, Me, Jenna & Beth

Monday, February 9, 2009

Not Me Monday


Oh . . . Monday's! My favorite time to blog! j/k So here goes, I did not go to Disneyland while I am only 3 1/2 weeks post op from my surgery. I did not sit thru the Aladdin show two times in a row with V.I.P. seating and feel bad about getting priority treatment over those in wheelchairs. I would never do that. That would be wrong! I did not enjoy the show so much that I wet my pants. Not me!

Friday, February 6, 2009

Flashback Friday

This is a club in Mexico that we all went to back in 1999.




Sandford decided he wanted to get in on the "fun"! Ahhhh, what a day to remember!

Monday, February 2, 2009

Innocent Bystander Dies in Chino Robbery Shootout

CHINO - An innocent bystander on Sunday was killed during a shootout involving police and two men who had attempted to rob a restaurant.
A Chino police officer and two suspects in the robbery were also hospitalized following the incident.

Police said Daniel Baledran, 21, of Rubidoux was shot to death by a police officer during the shootout near the Papa John's restaurant on 12615 Central Avenue.

Baledran was in the immediate area of the restaurant when the shots were fired and was considered an "innocent victim," said Michelle Van Der Linden, Chino public information officer.

Police officers initially thought Baledran was part of the robbery, but investigators later determined he was not.

A police officer - whose name was not released - and two suspected robbers were wounded about 10:15 p.m. near the restaurant.

The injured police officer is in stable condition.

On Monday evening, the suspects - Edward Cisneros of La Mirada and Joel Anthony Jaquez of Hacienda Heights, both about 28 years old - were in critical condition and awaiting surgery, Van Der Linden said.

"This is a tragic event that is still under investigation, our deepest sympathy goes out to the Baledran family during this difficult time," Police Chief Stan Stewart said in a released statement.

Cisneros and Jaquez attempted to rob the Papa John's and, as they fled from the restaurant, opened fire on police officers, Van Der Linden said.

She did not know if any money was taken from the restaurant.

Officers returned fire and wounded Cisneros and Jaquez.

"There's a lot of information still under investigation," Van Der Linden said.

The investigation includes figuring out Baledran's location before he was shot, the types of weapons used by the robbers and how many shots were fired.

Witnesses said they heard hundreds of gunshots during the crossfire.

On Monday morning, more than 100 yellow evidence markers, identifying bullet casing droppings, were scattered across the nearby parking lot.

Javier Lopez, 28, who lives just blocks away from the restaurant, said he was home with his girlfriend when the shooting began.

Lopez said they heard initial gunshots, a quick break and then gunfire was returned.

"I thought someone was happy about the Steelers winning," he said. "But the exchange made me think, `This is something bad here."'

The shootout was "definitely not typical," for the residential area lined with businesses, banks, restaurants and coffee shops, Van Der Linden said.

Linda Fair, a veterinary clinic assistant who is employed across the street from Papa John's, was working at the time of the shooting. Fair said she heard the loud, rapid gunfire of what seemed like hundreds of bullets for about 5 to 10 minutes.

Fearful, Fair said she stayed inside and saw and heard nothing else but gunfire.

On Monday morning, broken glass, bullet casings and blood on the sidewalk were a dramatic sight for onlookers along Central.

Police tape sectioned off three prominent business properties on the heavily traveled street south of Walnut Avenue.

About 8:30 a.m. Monday, the San Bernardino County sheriff's coroner removed the dead body near the south side of Papa John's.

Bullet holes and shattered glass exposed the interior of nearby Daniel's Home Center. In front of the furniture store, two piles of dark clothing and a pair of white shoes were placed near what appeared to be several pools of blood.

The pizza restaurant, the home store and a McDonald's restaurant were closed Monday for investigation.

The northbound lanes of Central were also closed from Riverside to Jefferson avenues.

The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department will handle the investigation, officials said.

"This is standard procedure for the Sheriff's Department to handle the investigation in an officer-involved shooting," sheriff's spokeswoman Jodi Miller said.

Update on shooting!

A man killed during an armed robbery at a Papa John's restaurant late Sunday may not have been a suspect in the crime, police said.


Police said it is possible the person killed may have just been caught in the crossfire in the gunfight between the robbers and Chino police.


"It's unknown what his involvement was, if any, in this crime," said Michelle Van Der Linden.
One Chino police officer and two robbery suspects were also wounded in the shooting in the 12600 block of Central Avenue.


Police received a call at 10:13 p.m. about an armed robbery at the restaurant. The gunfight began when officers arrived at the scene.


Paramedics took the officer and two suspects to hospitals for treatment. The officer was in stable condition. The condition of the robbers was not known.


"The person who is dead is not being named as a suspect," Van Der Linden said.

Every cop in Chino out tonight!

This is standing in front of the old Sanwa Bank looking south down Central towards McDonalds
Sandford was outside working in the garage (rearranging his tools) and he heard three different rounds of gun shots from three distinctively different guns. Somehow I didn't hear it but our neighbor Keith did. He came out and then we could hear sirens for a good fifteen minutes. Then the helicopter started flying around with the spot light on. Sandford suggested we try and go find out what was going on because we're nosy that way. Most of the road were already blocked but I was able to find some side streets and we made our way to where all the action was. There were people lining the streets on the West side of Central from Washington St. to in front of Straw Hat Pizza. As we were driving, we pulled over to the side of the road and asked a group of people what was going on. They said a cop got shot at the Papa John's Pizza place (next to McDonald's) I don't know if this is true, I'll give an update in the morning when I read the paper but whatever it was, it was bad. There were well over 50 cop cars there. They were from Chino, the Sheriffs Dept., Upland, Claremont and Ontario. Well, those were the ones we saw. We also saw two ambulances. I saw them put someone on a stretcher into one of the ambulances. I had Sandford take a picture of it when it went by. There was still one more ambulance down the street and I saw them with another stretcher. Then that ambulance left down another street. We got in my car and started to following them to the Chino Medical Center. When we pulled out of the back parking lot, two cop cars were stationed there with their lights flashing. One of the cops said, what are you A$$Holes doing here? And the other one shouted "GET OUT OF HERE!" So as I was heading toward the hospital, we saw a firetruck, and ambulance, and another police car on the side of Chino High School. I pulled into the doctors parking lot across from them and then we heard a loud noise. It was a life flight taking off from the field at Chino High. We pulled out of the parking lot and passed the ambulance and could see that they were working on someone inside. So we know that at least four people were injured. When we got to Benson, there were two more cop cars blocking the road. These cops where much more nice. I rolled my window down, he looked at us and then he flashed his light all around inside the car. Then he said we were allowed to leave. That leads me to believe that there are still suspects out there that they are looking for. Then we came home so we could report our findings to the Doheny Court Association. I hope they were wrong about a cop getting shot but there was so much gun fire, Sandford thought it was two gangs fighting. Please say a prayer that the police officers will be okay.





This is the first ambulance we saw heading north on Central, then it made a right onto Walnut Ave.









To get your bearings, you can see Straw Hat across the street and all the cars are south of Straw Hat in front of Papa Johns Pizza.




This is the paramedics working on somebody in an ambulance in front of the field at Chino High School


This is the life flight leaving Chino High School