Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Trip to Cali

My trip to Los Angeles to visit my good friend, Patti, was great! I left last Thursday and came home Monday night. It's been a year and a half since we last saw each other, so it was soooo wonderful to be together. She and her family hold a special place in my heart. They are now fostering two children for a family member, Victor(3) and Natalie(15 months). It was so nice to meet the children she has been telling me about. So between us we had 5 children.

Amazingly, between Grandma Janet and Patti's husband, Gerard, her and I were able to get away on our own a couple of times to enjoy each other and share our hearts and what God is doing in and through us. God really blessed our time together.

I didn't take many scenic pictures, as I have been to California several times and didn't do a whole lot of tour-isty stuff. We did visit the Natural Museum of History, Huntington Beach, shopped and went out to eat a few times.

Thanks Grandma Janet for the trip and coming along to help with Joel!!! Thanks Patti and Gerard for opening up your house to us. We love you guys!

Patti, Tara and Joel @ the Natural History Museum

Mommy and Joel @ Museum

Huntington Beach

Grandma Janet, Joel, Brittany & Brianna


Our Last Day

Gerard, Victor and Natalie


5 comments:

Beth said...

That little Joel is so darn cute I think he needs a playmate Tara. :)

Tara Stiver said...

Ya' think? I was just thinking it's time for you to have another:) haha

Manda said...

Why don't you both have another. :) I do agree with Beth, Joel is just too cute!

Beth said...

No no... I have 3 rugrats to your 1. You are way behind in the game..

Tara Stiver said...

Okay, so I've deleted all comments that would spill the beans for our friends:) Hopefully no one has been reading my comments lately. I've heard from more than one person, so I assumed it was public knowledge. Guess not!