sacramento here come..again

well this was not a planned trip. i heard that a family friend of ours passed away. her name is diane jenson. she was my life growing up. she put me in all of the stake plays. we actually went to sacramento for her funeral before i did the aladdin play. i was so glad i did that play just because diane was a big part of my life and so i got to deicate my preformance to her. anyways...she was also the one that put me in strauss festival, other small plays like roadshows and a pioneer play, and also she put me in dance festival. she was an amazing person that touched so many peoples lifes. she also came up to my wedding and her husband did the pictures for it. a long time ago i decided if ever diane died i would be at her funeral. so that's why we went. my mom and the kids and i got to go. we stayed at my sister cherie's house. this is the kids hanging out the day after we got there watching cartoons.









this is natalie, elaina, lex, and nick.

the day of the funeral i went with my 2 sister and my mom. i saw a bunch of people i knew when we lived in sacramento.

they had this picture there on the sign in table picturing diane dancing into heaven and everyone waiting for her to begin her next production.

these are my friends i hung out with when i was a teenager. susan, me, ruth, and nathalie. it was great to see them and be with them. we decided to get together the next day while i was still in town.

the next day we met up with our old neighbor michelle. she lived acrossed the street from us when we first moved to sacramento. so we went to lunch with her.

we went back to cherie's house and whenever the penner girls get together we play games. and we're talking playing for hours and hours. :) of course when you go to sacramento...you have to go to leatherby's to get ice cream. mmmmmm. so we took everyone and went. michelle came with us and her husband joined us. also bryan my brother in law met up with us too.

elaina ate her entire icecream. she takes after her mom..the little oinker. :)

that night my family took my kids with them and i went off to play with my friends. :) we went over to ruth's house and looked at pictures and saw a videos of one of the dance festivals we were in. we just hung out and talked and it was so much fun!!!! i loved every second of it. it was like getting my batteries recharged after years of having them dead. i can't even explain how great it was to see them again.

on sunday we went over to camille's house and hung out and of course...played games. :) the kids all just played and ate treats. we had a great time.

ben passed out in the middle of the floor. it was a great party. :)

we went home the next day but we stopped off in reno (the last round table pizza) to eat some pizza. sooo good. elaina was just drinking the ranch. sick.