Wrangler Ranch...

Okay. SO me and my dad went on an hour and a half long TRAIL RIDE! For all you who don't know, I was in a homeschool drama about a ranch in AZ...The opening song went like this: "Theres a place in Arizona, out on the desert, about a hundred miles from the nearest town...Sagebrush, cactus growin all around! A homegrown windblown place in the desert, a rattlesnake and prarie dog breeding ground."
Well, this place fit that song PERFECTLY! So much that my father, who doesnt like to hear drama songs after a drama, started singing this song! My horse, Walker, was a really nice sorrel gelding, I have pictures but I will only be able to post them if I ever get them uploaded. We only have 6 more days =( I am really happy that I'm going to see my friends and horses, and I'll be REALLY happy to see my dog,  but I don't want to leave the hot, hot weather for snow and cold...Ew.EW. and EW again!
ALSO- Happy (2 days late :()  )  Birthday to Bethany!!!! Hope you had a TERRIFIC day, Bethany! I'm looking forward to seeing you soon!

Question.

Okay. All you readers. Do you prefer posts with lots of writing and few pictures, or lots of pictures with not as much writing?
I know what I prefer...hahaha but I wont let it bias your decision. Either comment, or, if you dont have an account, you can just click 'Cool' for more writing, or 'Funny' For more pictures.
Thanks everyone!!!!

Where we had crab (Well I had pizza)-look at the hilarious 'Free crab tomorrow' sign!!!!We had a good laugh out of that, dad actually said (JOKINGLY) to the waiter, "We saw your free crab sign yesterday!" Hahahaha!

California Beaches
This ^ is a picture I love of dad on the beach.

Tia and Madie running and screaming in the waves...

The neat pier. While standing here, not only did we see harbour seals, we saw wild DOLPHINS!!!! SO cool! They jumped right out of the  ocean!

The fishermen and fisherwomen (?) on the peir all had buckets of fish! These fish are alive, swimming, and jumping!

She looks like a real Cali girl in this pic!!!

Some of my favorite photos of our trip!



This is our condo!! And below are some of my favorite vacation pictures!



I took this shot of a bird during lunch in Goldfield.

This is a snail we saw on thw walk to Knotts-it had a loooong slime trail behind it! SO cool!

Dad-right at home on Huntington Beach, Cali.

Nikki-she is loving the sun!

A shot of my sweet little sister, outside on the patio/deck!

This is from Newport beach, California.

Mom's big meal! Don't you just love her bib? It says, "Let's get Crackin'!"

And, finally, the classic, 'Two on a Soda' picture! Mom and dad having a chocolate shake at In'N'out Burger.

I hope you enjoyed this photo collection... I will do it again soon. 

Knotts Berry Farm Adventures....

SO. We arrived at Knotts Berry farm, well our hotel, 1 mile away from the park, on Tuesday. The hotel was a total dive, sticky (EW) carpet and horrible beds, although, as Anika said, "*GASP* It even has a bathtub!!" Hahahaha! Tuesday night we had supper at Mrs. Knotts chicken dinner, a yummy meal! Wednesday morning we arrived at Knotts at 8:52-But the gates don't open until 10. Oops! BUT we WERE the first ones into the gate, which was awesome! Tia and dad went on some big rides while we did some tamer ones, then me and Madie discovered our new love-the swings!!! We went on them 5 times!! The log ride was just as awesome as we remembered it, we love that ride! a new ride for me was the Bigfoot rapids, a white water rafting ride, where you get WET! I really enjoyed that, and did it once with Tia and dad and once with Madie. Along with MANY other rides, I went on my first 'REAL' roller coaster...I am not really a roller coaster person, but me and Madie did it just o we could say we did...It was worth it for the look on mom's face!!! I can't wait for Callaway Park this summer, we all enjoy the rides more than ever now!

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Coolest Weekend yet!!!

We spent the weekend with my Uncle Gerry and my Aunt Debbie, who are both awesome!!!! Not only did they take us out for supper at The Cheesecake Factory, they bought us cheescake! We each got a huge piece-YUM!  We spent all of Saturday shopping, which was awesome, and then eating that YUMMY dinner! Sunday, we spent our day laughing (Uncle Gerry is HILARIOUS, especially paired with my dad-Imagine my dad times 5-Thats them together...), swimming, leaping onto inflatable rafts in the pool, and shopping. I helped my aunt pick a new camera, and we shopped at some nice decorating stores and Michaels. BUT by far the best thing we did all day, which we will forever love my Uncle even more for, is had ICE CREAM for LUNCH!!!!!!! He took us all to Cold Stone creamery and let us get what we wanted. I got a HUGE ice cream, mint with chocolate shavings, in a chocolate dipped waffle bowl.  Then we had Chili's for supper. What a terrific weekend...
I hope all of you had an awesome weekend!!!

One of the biggest highlights of my trip so far....

WE WENT TO A REINING SHOW!!!!
This post is dedicated to my two very best friends in the whole world-Tiffany and Bethany.
If you don't like horses, or aren't interested in hearing about them to great extent, this post isn't for you. Otherwise, read on!

Okay. First, GORGEOUS horse! Look at his muscle! Second, amazing moves!

Into a spin...Look at him bend! I gotta teach my horse to bend like that...

And...WHOA! What a stop! Look at the dust!

This gorgeous, zippity fast horse looks a little off color in this photo, he was a gorgeously amazing blue roan. I am kind of in love with roans right now.

This amazing black stallion ran like the wind, and lunged like a dream. I have GOT to teach this to my horse...

Yes, it is a WASH RACK! Is that awesome, or is that AWESOME?!?!

Look at everyone's tack...I dont have much of an eye for western tack (I'm a true english girl...hahaha), but I think it was pretty amazing tack!

Wait...I take back everything I said earlier. My true color obssesion right now is duns and buckskins and the sort. Tell me, is this not the prettiest horse?

And the terrific sliding stop...I dont know much about reining scoring, but thats gotta be worth a whole lot of points!!!

That pretty much sums it up...I could go on forever, showing you about 65 photos, but I will wait for that until I see you in person. I Hope you liked my post!

To Tiffany and Bethany: I miss you guys so much! You are both amazing people and great friends, and I am so excited to see you when I get home. Take good care of my Cowboy.

Goldfield-with PHOTOS!

SO. AWESOME place. It's called Goldfield, and its a ghost town/abandoned mining/gold camp. VERY Old West. We saw a loud gunfight in the streets, in which a woman saves the day =), tasted cactus candy, and ate a delicious meal of hot dogs/burgers and potato chips. It was simply an awesome place. Definetley a day I will never forget... After Goldfield, we drove up into nowhere, it seemed, past unbelieveble cacti and desert landscape. We got out of the car and hiked along a desert trail for a while, until we got hot and thirsty, and then we drove to Old Scottdale, where we shopped in some cute little western stores and rode the trolley cars. The trolleys are very neat and they are free! But they were really hot , because apparently they only air condition in "Summer". Not to mention that when mom asked for a juice jug at a store, the woman said "I'm sorry? That's a summer item." PEOPLE, DO YOU NOT REALIZE IT'S 30 DEGREES HERE?!?!?!?!
Okay. Now that I'm done whining about the heat, I must say I feel sorry for you guys...Glad to hear its warming up. Below are some pictures (YES!!!) of our cool day!!!



One of the totally awesome old buildings!



Hilarious!!!! Although I don't know how well I would cope with rule #4....

LOVE the cacti!

I think I'm becoming obsessed with cacti...This is where we hiked.

More of the hiking trail..."Sagebrush,cactus growin' all around..."

Dad and a cowboy statue in Old Scottsdale

Hello again everyone!

Its been a long time....But I'm back, with many stories to tell!!!! Sorry everyone! I will post each as a seperate post-I may even be able to post a few pictures!!!! I hope you are all doing good!!!! And for the statistics...I will do them all right here.
Swim count-We have lost track, but a whole lot of times!!!
Flag count: An even 300!!!
Craziest thing I've seen: Well, I have to say my family, Aunt, and Uncle eating ice cream for lunch! Hahaha
Best thing said: Everything my uncle said all weekend...He kept us laughing, thats for sure!!!!!

Fun, Fun....

So the alternator for the car went, and we are stuck here at the condo....
Hopefully it will be fixed by this afternoon. Yesterday we swam all morning, ate hot dogs and nacho's by the pool, and we swam a bit more!!! It was so fun! Then we watched part (Most) of 'Honey, we shrunk ourselves' (A good movie!) and dad got us pizza to eat while we watched another good show, Family Game Night.
It was a fun, relaxing vacation day. We are having so much fun, but I really miss my horses and my dog!!!!
I can't wait to get home to see them!!!!
I miss you all too!!!
Shaina

Good news/Bad news

Okay. So, unfortuneatly, I had my camera clipped to my swimsuit for the walk to the pool. Why is that bad? Because I fell into the pool. Yes, I was reaching for a ball Anika dropped in when I fell in. So, my camera was, well, 'Accidentley destroyed maliciously'. Okay, maybe not 'maliciously'. But it was definatley wrecked... BUT the good news is, I bought a new camera, which I had been wanting! It's 12 MP, 15X zoom, and an Olympus brand. I love it!!!

Top 10 things about our condo

10. The bedding on my bed.
9. The couch.
8. The view from my window.
7. The green grass.
6. The big desert across the street.
5. The flowers.
4. The palm trees
3. The cacti.
2. My dad not having to work.
And.....
1. The POOL!!!!!

Our first 'Outing'!!!

The highlight of today: We went to a baseball game!!! We had awesome seats, and although the game got a bit repetitive (Shows what I know about baseball...), it was fun!!! But the prices....  A jumbo hot dog was 7.00, a drink was around 7.00, and an 'Italian Ice' ice cream, which we had, was 5.00. Not a cheap place to eat... For all you people who know about these things, and know anything about the teams, they were the Colorado Rockies and the Cleaveland Indians. The Indians won the game.
Statistics....
Swim count: 8 I think (?)
American flag count: 172
Weirdest or funniest thing seen today: Okay. So during the game, Anika witnessed how the players say good job to each other-they, well, whack each other on the butt. So Anika was mimicking this, smacking herself on the butt and then saying, "Good job!!". It was quite funny...
Best thing said today: Me: "Anika, this is cool, hey? Do you like watching the game?" Anika, craning her neck to look around: "What game?"
Hope you are all doing well!!!
<3 Shaina <3

Reasons not to take a three year old to the mall...

Okay. NEVER take an anatomy- and bathroom talk- obsessed little girl to the mall. Because she may just happen to notice a 'Butt extension' (????) hanging on a rack. Then she will most likely point at it, and say in an overly loud voice, "WHAT is that?" And if you whisper to her, "Anika, shhhh. It's to make your butt look big." She just might yell, "OH! I want that, so my butt will be big and I can show it to  everyone!" Wow. And if thats not bad enough, she may, amid hysterical giggles, run to a mannequin, pat it on the butt, and then walk down the aisle yelling, still amid giggles, "I TOUCHED that girls BUTT!!! EEEEheeeeheeeHEEE!"
And you just stand there, face red, wondering why on earth your mother would leave you with her while she took everyone else to the bathroom...

Oh Yeah!!!

So the condo is the most awesome thing...
My room has a desk/bookshelves, a closet, 3 windows, and 2 twin beds (Tia sleeps there too) with really awesome polka dot blue/green bedding!! there are 2 more bedrooms, a big kitchen, a patio, a large living room, a laundry room, even a garage!!!
The Pool. It is BEAUTIFUL. And AMAZING. And WARM! And it has a WATERFALL into it! It also has a hot tub. I will take and try to post some pics later.
I hope you have a good day!!!
I will post more later!!!
Our swim count: 4 swims!!
American flag count: 141 Flags!
Weirdest or funniest thing seen in the last couple of days: Okay. you probably wont believe it but it's true. In Wikieup, AZ, which is a trading post type of thing, They have rattlesnake on the menu. It says, allow at least 30 minutes. I wonder why? Maybe they have to go find and kill one....ew!
Best thing someone said in the last few days: Me, upon returning from checking out the pool with Dad: Mom, the pool is awesome! It's warm, deep, and there may or may not be scorpions on the bottom.
Mom: WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!!
I hope you are all doing good!!!
<3 Shaina <3

WE MADE IT ALIVE!

The title says it all...And a picture says a thousand words.
But I haven't uploaded one, so I will need to try to post them tomorrow. But I do have some pretty awesome ones!!!
After leaving Vegas, we headed south to the Hoover dam-We drove across it twice, then climbed some stairs up the side of a mountain to the newly built bridge-over 800 feet in the air! Temperatures climbing, we continued to a small town, where, after lunch and ice cream at Wendy's, my dad pulled out his motorbike and cruised ahead of us, while my AWESOME mother pulled the trailer!!! Good job mom! Soon, we started to see big cacti-You know, the kinds that are at least 6 or 7 feet tall, big and green, with arms reaching out? Lots of other kinds, too, but those are the most impressive! Then there was the Joshua tree forest..Google it. According to my dad, it's "Wickedly cool". He is so right!
I really should go now, but I will post more later or tomorrow about the condo (WHICH IS MORE THAN AWESOME!!!)  and the statistics stuff...hahahaha! Just thought I would let you know we made it!
To all you drama people-apparently Cactus candy actually exists-if I see any, I will bring some back!!!
Talk to you soon,
<3 Shaina <3

All about our Las Vegas adventure...

So, yesterday we were in Vegas. Ugh. Ugh. And Ugh again. Not only did we give the hotel a 1.5 out of 5 star rating, due to beer bottle caps under the beds (The ONLY reason we gave it the .5 was because we had a nice veiw of fountains and palm trees (YES, PALM TREES!) and the Ceasers Palace.), the smoke from the casinos we had to walk through made my cough way worse. On the bright side, we had the most AMAZING supper EVER at the buffet, delicious food and Delectable desserts! Not only do they have cotton candy, a chocolate fountain, an ice cream maching, TONS of other desserts, a delicious green tea pudding cup dessert,  and a whole selection of sugar free desserts, they have crepes made hot to order!!!! YUMMY! Also, we got to go on an outdoor escalator to a bridge over the road. We saw two awesome shows, one of the greek gods, complete with fire and water shooting up all over the place!! The other was the awesome Bellagio water show-Tons of fountains shooting water in neat patterns ! I will try to upload the videos of them soon...
Oh! And there are flamingoes and other cool birds at the hotel!!
I hope you are all doing well! Hopefully all you drama people are well rested and better by now...Unfortunatley, I couldnt say so for myself..As for the well rested part, I will sleep long tonight...But as for the better part...doesnt seem to be happening.
Talk to you all soon!!
Shaina

Days one and two - Feb. 26th and 27th.

Hello from Salt Lake City, Utah!! We have now crossed all of Montana, and all of Idaho! On Friday night, we held our last Ponoka drama production (which was AWESOME-good job everyone!!), and then our cast party after. The party was stopped at 12:15, and I got to bed around 1:15. Since we got up VERY early the next morning, I was so tired all day! :) After supper at Fuddruckers (YUM!) and two little swims in the pool, we were ready for bed! We spent Saturday night in a nice hotel in Great Falls, Montana, with a pool, a hot tub, and a lot of guests...they had no cots or bedding left... 
This morning, we left at 7 AM, and after crossing through part of Montana, all of Idaho, and some of Utah, we stopped here in Salt Lake City. We had supper at Chili's and stopped at Wal Mart, then swam in the pool. Unfortunatley, probably party due to the fact that is was like 30-some degrees at drama, and then I was outside without a jacket in minus 20 weather, along with the lack of decent sleep, I am not feeling very good... I am coughing and sore and TIRED TIRED TIRED!! Hahaha I am so excited to have a fun vacation...But I cant wait to get back home to see everyone!
Today's statistics:
Movies watched today: Moe and the big exit (Veggie Tales ;) ), The Saddle Club, Part of Ella Enchanted, and I saw but didn't hear Little Einsteins...
Total swim count so far: 3 Swims!!!
American flag count so far: 64! (I think that Americans are more Patriotic than us...If you drive for 2 days in Canada do you see 64 flags??)
Weirdest or funniest thing I saw today: Ummm...Probably The people in front of us at the gas station...Hahahaha! Not because they were funny... only because they were from Saskatchewan and headed for Phoenix...strange coincidence...
Best thing someone said today: Anika-"I cant wait for tomorrow-We're going to Vegas Baby!!!!" (Thats what she calls Las Vegas) Also, our roll call...Thank to my dear mother, every time we get in the car we hear: Anika-"One!" Madie-"Two!" Tia-"Three!" Me-"Four!" Mom-"Five!" Dad-"Six!" Everyone-"TEEEEEEAM ROESLER!!!!!"
Hahaha....
Tomorrow- LAS VEGAS!!!!! Here we come, super duper excellent magnificent buffet!
Until then,
Goodbye!
<3 Shaina <3

Welcome, Everyone!

Welcome to my Phoenix blog!
Here is where I will post about cool stuff I do on my trip to Phoenix, AZ, and the surrounding area.
We are leaving on Saturday morning... If all goes as planned, we should arrive in Phoenix on Tuesday, and I will post all my entries from Saturday, Sunday, and Monday then as well. Remember to check back often! You can visit my mom's blog by clicking my name, then Carla under team members. Her blog is titled "Roesler Family Vacation".
Shaina