30 YEAR CLASS REUNION

Heather, Kim, David, and I made a trip back to Paradise, CA to our 30th Class Reunion. We enjoyed visiting the sights of home (La Comida, Italian Cottage--the important stuff). We visited Paradise High School, Paradise Lake, our home, went to church at the 3rd Ward Building, but visited the 1st Ward Building.

Our Reunion was great! It was my first one, so to see the amazing people who I haven't seen for 30 years was wonderful. I loved hearing what they had done with their lives, who they have married, where they live, etc. I am so glad we wore name tags because at first some of these people were strangers to me.  Once we got talking, it all came back and they were very familiar.

(I am in the blue/green, Renee Jellema, and Heather in the brown)

The organizers did a great job and chose a great venue. The food was perfect, and it was all very casual--just my style.

We stayed at the Parrotts and were very comfortable.  We appreciated their hopsitality.

I hope to go to another reunion in 5 or 10 more years.

After the reunion, we stayed at Uncle Lowell and Aunt Anne's and had a Hagberg Family dinner at Uncle Earl and Aunt Gay's house. We saw Gretchen and her family and Aunt Debbie and her family.

Then we spent a fun day in San Francisco before heading home.

NATHAN'S SCIENCE ASSIGNMENT

For science, Nathan had to build a simple machine using levers, pullies, incline planes, and stuff like that. It was supposed to smash a grape. He had fun putting it together and we were so excited when it actually worked.  He started with a marble, and it went through this whole obstacle course very quickly resulting in a can of refried  beans that fell on a grape. It was cool!

OUR STAR

Chelsie is in our school production of "Pirates, The Musical".  She had aperformance last night and then will have another one tomorrow (a matinee).  It is a story about a stow away on a pirate ship who is discovered.  The stow away longs to become a pirate and has to prove to the crew that she is up to the task. Chelsie is a lassie and this picture is of her in partial costume.  They did very well and the songs were all so fun.