I have been discoverd. Yes, I was the undercover photo journalist who took the two christmas pictures of John and Nate. Oh and by the way I LOVE SCRAPS! were getting married! And were making scrapy monkey chitlinds! Watch out for more of my pics! They're on the way!

New Dastardly Plot

Operation Meneses Shame is now in play. When you least expect it I plan on biting all you Meneseseses and have one of me minions take a picture of you and posting it. I'm telling you, becuzes I know I cantz be stopped.

Scraps out!!!

Baby Smith Arrives

After 15 long hours of labor, Reese Vivian arrived. Cathi and Mark looked tired but great. Paxton was apprehensive about his little sister, but we know that will change soon. Congratulations Mark and Cathi on your lovely little girl. Approximate information: born at 7:55 pm on Jan 9th, 7 lbs, 9 ozs and 19 inches long. (I may be off on the weight.)

Watch your Car!

Ron, don't start your car today!!!

Here are Some Old Photos

Okay so for some reason I was digging through old photos. There were a few that I thought I could post up here and to save space I made another slideshow. I haven't seen any Christmas photos yet so these will have to do for now.

Mark

New Year's Resolutions

I usually don't make them, but I was wondering if anybody in the family had a New Year's Resolution. I just finished reading the book "In the Heart of the Sea", a book I borrowed from my dad about the true story of Essex. It's the story that inspired "Moby Dick". Anyway, I liked the book so much that I'm making a resolution to read at least one book a month.
So let us know if any of you have resolutions of your own.
Mark

Engaged!!!

In our ideal world, all of you would have shared Christmas Eve and our exciting news. Hopefully, we'll see you at the wedding, April 2009!!

~ Love, Elias and Susan

Christmas Carol Music

I just wanted to put up a link to the website that has free Christmas Carol Sheet music. For each song there is sheet music in all keys, and I believe there are guitar tabs for most of these. It's just a start, but I think this can give us some ideas for a list of music to work from. I just want to thank Nate for the idea. It's really going to be a fun challenge.

Also I would like to thank Aunt Elvia and Uncle Jim for hosting a great Christmas Eve party. The kids had a blast seeing Santa Claus. The food was great, and the games were fun.

Mark

old pics of Nate, Doug, and Mike fishing

Just found some pics of Mike, Doug and Nate fishing into the nite at Camp Wishon! LETS GO AGAIN! How about a Fishing Trip guys??

The New Lord of The Ring

Congratulations to MEEEEEE!!!! I finally broke through and got a win in the Lord of the Rings Risk game on christmas eve night 07. The players were Mike, Greg (who di very well for his first LR risk game), Red Beard, and Me(nate). Mike had a really strong game and would have won if he would have been able to roll high enough to move the ring to the ending position, but he wasnt able to so i was able to sweep through his depleted armies and end my turn and roll high enough to move the ring to end the game. Due to the fact that i NEVER win I had to make a posting and let everyone know i finally got my first and probably last win in Lord of the Rings Risk. THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE!!!!

The Gift and Love of Music within the Meneses Family......Just an Idea!

Just throwing this out there to see what type of response i get and what you guys think............Ok here's a pretty crazy idea that has been kinda running through my mind lately that i think would be great to do ( though I am not sure if its very feasible at all). I believe that music has been a huge part of many lives within the Meneses family and I am convinced that it has brought many of us closer to each other as we grew up in Woodville. I think we can all remember all of the things we did together which include but aren't limited to the many different trips, concerts, marchings, competitions, playing in church, and other things that we did together because of music. We have all been part of great programs which have given us great experiences together. Do you guys remember the feeling of winning Selma or Visalia as a Marauder? I'm sure if we sat and talked about different things that we have experienced in music we could talk for hours. For example, I can still remember an instance where we were marching around Woodville, as we did often in practice for a marching competition, and getting to the Sams house only to see Landons two box turtles in the middle of the street after they had escaped from his backyard. I think there was a time where all of the Grimsleys and Smiths were in band (either Monache or Woodville elementary) at the same time. I remember playing in Larry Sams church band with all you guys too and that was always great, and i actually miss that sometimes. So my thought has been that it would be really cool if we could all get together, dust off the old instruments, practice a few hymns, maybe Christmas songs, and when were comfortable with our awesome skills, record! I think if we put our minds and efforts together we could do something super cool with this, have a lot of fun and create a family musical CD for our parents, kids and ourselves. I'm sure people would be willing to let us use enough equipment to do this, like Scott and his four track recorder, Larry Sams with instruments and a place to play, anyone with a computer to make the CD, anyone who would want to make a video recorder of our day of music. I think it could turn out great. So the players I'm interested in getting in on this project would be........Carolyn-clarinet, Mike-percussion, Allison(Butch)- Trombone, Mark-Sexyphone, Scott-Trumpet, Nate-Sexyphone, Dave-percussion, Doug-Trumpet, Larry Sams- saxaphone, trumpet, whatever he wants :), Purvy Sams-organ, piano, Chris Craven-guitar, John Meneses-Guitar, Jae Meneses- Piano, and anyone else who would want to be a part of this project would be more then welcome. We could create a song list, practice until were comfortable, then record. Anyway, this is just an idea that i know would probably be pretty tuff to pull off especially with all the varied schedules, family situations, and living distances. So if anyone else out there thinks this would be cool, fun and actually possible then start blogging :) If i mispelled any of your names to bad, I suck at spelling!

funny stuff from the net!

Hey guys its nate! just wanted to put up a few funny things to check out from the net! maria, harrison, you guys have seen a couple of these so im adding a couple more for you two! check out ping pong football its pretty funny! my favorite is still the man fights bear commercial and matrix ping pong. so if you guys havent seen any of these check them out! they are pretty funny! anyway if anyone else has anything cool or funny from online let me know. oh i also recommend watching anthing from the strongbad collection. just go to homestarrunner.com and theck out the sbemails. sb stands for strong bad. i recommend watching the fishing episode first! anyway happy viewing all!

from
the nate


Man Fights Bear

Matrix Ping-Pong

Matrix Karate

Matrix Futbol

here's one more that Darrel set up

Still Need Pictures

Hello everybody (in my mind I hear Dr. Nick from The Simpsons saying that, so I get to laugh, but I don't know if you guys got that joke so I'll try not to laugh out loud)!
Well I am still in need of pictures from a lot of folks out there. Counting the newest kids, our family has grown into a number in the 60's, so I am hoping to get lots of pictures. I've got lots of old pictures that I go through and my dad has lots of pictures that I can get to, but I'm really wanting people to submit their own choices, I think that would be more fun.
I was going to post a list of people who I still needed a picture from, but the list was way too long. So I've got a few more days that I can wait, but if you've got pictures please email me so that I can get everyone included. Thank you,
Mark

Mother Daughter Luncheon.

We wanted to thank all the ladies that made it to the Mother Daughter this year. We had a lot of fun and had a good time in general. Here are some pictures. Sofia and Lillian enjoyed their very first one and we hope they enjoy so many more in the years to come. Brea had a good time too, and she looked like a little princess in her dress. We were so glad to have all the new girls with us.

Meneses Family
Christmas Events!!!

December 16th @ 3:00p.m
Tamale Making
Favereaux’s House

December 22nd @ 6:00p.m
Harrison’s Birthday
Favereaux’s House
Shafter

December 24th @ 4:00 p.m
Cookies and Hot Chocolate
Grandpa and Carlos’ House
Woodville

December 24th @ 6:00p.m
Dinner and Gift Exchanged
Grimsley’s House
Woodville
*Finger Foods Potluck
**Bring a wrapped DVD, CD, or game for

Entertainment Musical Chairs**

January 1st @ 11:00 a.m.
Volleyball
Lost Hills School Gym