This is out of order as I accidentally deleted it! It's the real (there are two) golden spike from the joining of the Union Railroad's easterly and westerly divisions in Promontory, Utah. It was of special interest to me as the Blaines and Jill took Granny and me there a few years ago and we got to see 'the' spot that joined the two. This spike is in the Railroad Museum in Sacramento and automatically goes down into a vault every evening at 5:00 pm when the museum closes and comes back up at 10:00 am when it reopens.
Bronco, Nate, Jill, Thain, and Rilan prepare for laser tag at Emily's 10th birthday celebration in January! They did great!
Emily is attempting to control the ball in one of her great gifts.
Deven built this fire station almost all by himself from the many pieces in one of his Christmas gifts.
Nate, Ben, Deven, Emily, Jen and Bronco in a family picture in front of the font after Benjamin's baptism.
Colby wearing his letter jacket - the Bobcats were the divisional champions this year, and Colby was key as their offensive guard!
I had the honor of sewing on his letter!
This is one of the aftermaths of our beautiful snowstorm a month ago. Two huge oaks tumbled and crashed. Unfortunately they damaged some fruit trees and Dad's electric fence around the bee hives. He spend many cold hours repairing that fence because we were leaving the next day for our Road Scholar "Trains across the Sierra" trip and wanted no bears dining while we were gone.
While touring the capitol in Sacramento we passed all the countys' displays. This one for San Mateo County has a picture of the Pulgas Water Temple near the center, which happens to be where Dad proposed to me!
A picture of California's Governor's office
Dad and I loved the railroad museum with all the different cars and engines - a few we walked through were a dining car with samples of china from the different lines, a Pullman (sleeper), a mailcar, etc. Upstairs are wooden trains and tracks for kids to play with, and this working display of different sizes of Lionel trains. A Lionel electric train was big in the lives of my brothers growing up - for years they and our dad had one going around our Christmas trees!
Dad and I had a yummy meal at Fats Restaurant in Old Town after our afternoon at the museum .
On our Amtrack Zephyr trip across the Sierras we saw oodles of snow and stately trees, beautiful clouds, traveling along the Truckee River and Interstate 80 in parts, and went through many tunnels, one several miles long.
Yesterday Brianna's school's choir put on a wonderful program. This is a scene from their segment on Star Wars.
