Penelope

Meet Penelope... the pink moped! Thanks to Geno, she is all put together and running great. She was an early birthday present to myself and went for her first outing today! We had a great ride to Summerland and back and look forward to many more!

San Diego Wild Animal Park

Last Saturday Geno and I headed down south to the San Diego Wild Animal Park. If you haven't been, you need to! This time of year they have lots of baby animals and the weather is perfect... warm, but not so hot that the animals sleep in the shade all day. Check out the pics! The last one is when we went out to dinner with the Castanedos...

Dusk and Dawn

Meet the newest members of the Lashlee household... or should we say petting zoo? We bought a rabbit hutch a few months ago and Geno built an amazing exercise pen last weekend.... and today we picked up our new bunnies! We adopted them from Bunnies Urgently Needing Shelter (B.U.N.S.) and are excited to make them part of our family! They look forward to meeting you next time you stop by!!

Big Bear

Last week was our first week of school and we were lucky enough to spend it in Big Bear! Here are some of my favorite pictures!!

Last real weekend of summer...

Geno and I are having a great last weekend of summer and I just wanted to share our pictures with you.

Yesterday we got to go hear Jill Marie play at the House of Blues on Sunset! Chris and Louie played with her too and it was an amazing night!! And then this morning we went on a fun hike in Montecito... we didn't get a chance to ride the natural waterslide... but we had a great time catching salamanders and enjoying the view!

Gabriel House

Hello and happy last day of summer! I can't believe how fast this summer has gone, but I am so thankful for the time I've been able to spend with so many of you and hope to see the rest of you very soon! I just wanted to let you all know that I had a great trip down to Maneadero, Mexico earlier this week and am now home safe and sound... but don't ask about my border crossing!

Four of us ladies left on Sunday and drove down to the Gabriel House, where we were blessed to stay at the "Angel Wing" hospitality house just a few houses down from GH. We settled in among the mice and lizards and scoprpions (all IN the house!!) and headed out to La Buffadora (The Blowhole) for some dinner. You can ask Geno to wear the authentic Nacho Libre mask I bought him next time you see us... he's thinking of becoming a professional luchador!

But the best part of the trip started Monday morning when we got to hang out with the kids at GH for two and a half days! It was so encouraging to see how well all our friends are doing there and hear about the ways God is working with them. For those who don't know, GH is one of, if not the only place in Mexico that cares for disabled orphans. There are about twenty kids there right now from just a few months old to somewhere around 20 years old. There are babies crawling around, toddlers born with HIV walking around, boys with Downe's syndrome running around, and many children in wheeling around in their chairs... or asking to go for a walk. We were blessed to spend time with these angels and got to do crafts, puzzles, and go for many walks/runs on the dirt roads around the house. The boys especially like to be pushed "rapido, rapido!" in their wheelchairs and have races... so we got our cardio in for the week for sure. We also got to cool off though, when we took Alejandro and Jose for a dip in the new pool! What a blast that was!!

I would love to tell you more so make sure to e-mail me or call and I will share all my stories... but I think that's it for now. Enjoy the pictures and please continue to pray for these inspirational kids and their amazing care givers. We hope to go back for a weekend in October and definitely for a week during Spring Break... so please prayerfully consider joining us! You will be blessed and be a blessing too! LOVE YOU ALL!

My 25th Birthday

Well... now that I am 25 years old and the proud mother of two beautiful goats, I thought it was about time I got my own blog. Geno spent the three weeks before my birthday coming home after work and building a corral and stable every day until sundown. Then, on Friday May 18th he put the finishing touches on his beautiful craftsmanship and we drove to Santa Ynez to pick up our new goats. They are both pregnant does and have been named Sheila and Betty! We are so excited that they are already well adjusted to their new and improved home and they love being our pets as much as we love having them!

On Saturday May 19th we had a small gathering to celebrate their arrival and my 25th birthday... thanks to all of you who were there with us and to those who weren't... we missed you and look forward to seeing you all soon!

Until next time...