Wursten Family Blog

2007-10-31T20:56:00.000-07:00

These are mostly pictures from October 2007. We have more pictures from Hawaii, but they are on our video camera (since our digital fell and hit a rock and went swimming in the ocean) and we are still figuring out how to get them on our computer.....so more Hawaii pictures will be coming soon (hopefully!) The others are of Halloween. October was a busy month for us!
This is our family in July before Jack left for Ecuador.
This is Vic with the BIG GUNS of the USS Missouri
Vic and I at the Shore Bird restaurant along Waikiki beach. We ate here once for supper and once for breakfast. There are no windows between us and the beach!
Stacy on the beach on 10/23/07 with Diamond Head behind her. This one is a little fuzzy, but we loved the view.
Letty after playing the hostess for the "LDS Dating Game" skit at Standards Night. Isn't she cute??
Alyssa as Little Red Riding Hood 10/31/07
Letty, Lys and Stacy - an Indian Princess, Little Red Riding Hood and Mother Nature 10/31/07.

2007-09-30T18:50:00.000-07:00

These are pictures from this weekend. Dad turned 78 yesterday (9/29). Click on the first one of Alyssa so it gets big - it is a really beautiful picture of her blue eyes!

This is Alyssa at the football game Friday night (9/28/07). It was a little chilly so she wore a hat (sometimes). Before the game was over, the skies opened up and it rained really hard. We were completely soaked by the time we got to the car. It was pretty funny to watch everyone running. No one was prepared for rain!
Dad and Mom with Dad's birthday cake.
Alyssa in front of the fireplace in her church clothes.
Lys with her scooter.

2007-09-23T14:40:00.000-07:00

These are pictures from the month of September. Vic and I took Alyssa to the State Fair on Labor Day. That was after Lys and I participated in a 5 K (we walked - well I piggybacked her a lot of the way). It was a hot day, but we had fun.

On 9/15/07 we helped can tomatoes at the cannery. It is quite a process and you feel good afterwards - the canned food goes to help the needy and also for disasters as well as available for purchase. We thought that the best part was the new must have fashion accessory - the HAIRNET! I guess it is one of the great equalizers....no one looks good in them!

This past week was homecoming at Lincoln. Letty played in the powder puff football game on Wed 9/19. We never get rain that early - but this year it POURED! We were all soaked! She was also on the Jr. float. Lincoln High School is celebrating it's 100 year anniversary. After the game (we beat Gridley 35-0) was the dance.
Lys with a baby kangaroo
Vic and Lys at the Golden Bear
Vic and Judd at the cannery as Quality Assurance
Letty and I at the cannery (this one is a little blurry)
Letty and some of her friends at the cannery.
Letty & Mikael after the powder puff game
Letty on the float
All the girls that got ready together - Emily, Jenna, Kelsey, Letty, Mikael and Sarah
Letty dressed for the homecoming dance - isn't she cute??

August 2007

2007-09-01T08:15:00.001-07:00

Vic is on the Advisory Board for Northern CA Special Olympics. They do an annual fundraiser where you can buy a rubber ducky for $5. They take them to the Sacramento River and using front loaders they dump them in the river to "race" down. It raised over $150,000. We got to go on a short river cruise and then watch the duck race. Chrissy, Letty and Alyssa went with us.
We went to a "duck" fundraiser for special olympics. This is Lys and I with the duck on the ship.
This is all of us with the big duck.
Letty and Lys at the roller skating rink.
Letty on the first day of school - they were having a rally so she had to wear her cheerleading uniform.
Letty cheering at Blue and Gold night at the stadium on 8/30/07.

2007-08-08T21:47:00.000-07:00

A view of the playground that we all helped build in 1999.
The City has done some landscaping and installed a plaque that tells about how volunteers made the playground.
Letty all dressed to go to cheer camp at 6:30 a.m. on 7/30/07. Sorry, I don't know how to rotate her so she is standing correctly!

July, 2007

2007-07-28T10:11:00.000-07:00

Lys and I dressed for the Pioneer Day French Toast breakfast....that is my prom dress circa 1973.....
Lys in the wagon during the parade, she is being pulled by Tyler Boatman
Lys being excited after Vic blew out his candles.....good thing we didn't use 49 candles!
Lys and I at swim lessons.

2007-07-09T13:32:00.000-07:00

These pictures are from May through July 4. We met Gin when she came to visit Jason in Santa Clara. We ate at the Apple Cafeteria, which was amazing and had many choices. This post includes pictures from that short trip, girls camp, Provo and everyday life. Our summer has already had lots of fun! We plan on hanging around Lincoln for the rest of the summer. Letty starts cheer practice next week. Hope all is well with everyone!

2007-07-09T13:29:00.001-07:00

Chrissy looking beautiful

May 2007-July 4, 2007

2007-07-08T16:49:00.001-07:00

Lys asleep in our bed with her babies June 2007
We found the house in Lehi, UT where we lived back in 1980/81. It was our first carehome.
Letty, Gin, Vic and Stacy at the 4th of July parade in Provo, UT 2007
Vic and Jack 7/4/07
Vic after his graduation at Arco Arena in May
Alyssa in the pool with bubbles
The girls being silly at the hotel in Fremont
Can you tell she has been into the chocolate??

Letty and I at girls camp

April 2007

2007-04-29T16:49:00.000-07:00

Here is a picture of Letty's red shoes.
Letty & Jenna before the prom
Letty & Jenna double dated.
Letty blowing us a kiss as they are ready to leave.

Braxton & Letty
Vic and I dressed for the MIND Institute Gala - $300/plate dinner!
Letty & Lys hamming it up

Lys with Dinah
Lys and Amelya on Easter 4/8/07
Jack on Easter, which was also his 19th birthday
Lys on the trampoline at the McIntosh's.

Spring Break 2007

2007-04-07T22:06:00.000-07:00

We just came back from a trip to San Diego, CA where we met the Hersheys and Danielle. It was a lot of fun. We went to Tijuana, Mexico one afternoon. That was quite an experience. We all got pretty good at bargaining with the merchants. I don't know what was better - Jill getting a $100 bracelet for $15 or Jack buying a picture of Christopher Columbus for $3. (Still trying to figure that one out!). We went to Sea World on Thursday. Friday was the beach. The days were in the 60's. Not as warm as Sacramento, but much warmer than PA! Saturday we stopped at the San Diego Temple and then headed home. It was a great spring break!Vic, Bekah, Doug & Letty with a "Mexican zebra"
All of us after a day in Tijuana
The kids at SeaWorld - Jack, Bekah, Danielle, Isaac & Letty

Jack and Isaac at the Midway exhibit
Letty & Jack with a gorgeous sunset behind them.
Letty & Bekah
At the beach

Letty & Stacy on the rocks at La Jolla Cove

The adults - Stacy, Vic, Jill & Doug on the way home from SeaWorld. We had to stop for this photo opp.

At Outback restaurant
Our last stop - the San Diego Temple

Vic's graduation & Disney on Ice

2007-02-19T09:21:00.000-08:00

Alyssa watching Disney On Ice & eating popcorn
Letty with her boyfriend, Dash.
Group photo
Chrissy & Alyssa
Jack & Alyssa
Vic and Stacy at graduation
Letty, Vic & Jack
The group - Chrissy, Vic, Stacy, Jack and Letty
Beautiful Letty - now 16!
Letty was kidnapped by her friends for her birthday

Pictures from December 2006

2006-12-29T15:45:00.000-08:00

These pictures are from Jack in Peru.

We had a "tech" vacation - visited Intel, Apple and the garage that Hewlitt & Packard first worked in. From our hotel we could see Yahoo headquarters. A tech mecca!
Our family (minus Jack) in San Francisco 12/28/06.

Welcome to the Wursten Family Blog!!

2006-12-21T14:25:00.000-08:00

Here are just a few pictures of our family. More pictures from Christmas will come soon!

Alyssa playing in the sand at the State Fair
This is Vic, Lys and I at the Nimbus Fish Hatchery.
This is us prior to going to the PRIDE dinner. Aren't Jack and Vic handsome in their suits?
Chrissy & Lys in front of the Sacramento temple in November 2006.
Letty on the first day of school - August 2006 - a sophomore!