Catch Up Post
I have been very bad at updating our webpage the past few years. In 2019 we were supposed to travel to New Orelans, LA for the National FOP conference,...
Amanda Gets Engaged
Amanda and her mother went to Cancun, Mexico over New Year’s. Canyon Farnsworth and his family also went and while there Canyon proposed to Amanda....
Scotty graduates from Santa Ynez Valley High School
Scotty graduates from Santa Ynez Valley High School and is planning to attend Santa Barbara City College with an undetermined major. Am sure he will...
Colby joins Swack Real Estate Group
Colby join the Swack Real Estate Group in Pismo Beach, CA.
Miranda graduates from Santa Ynez Valley High School
Miranda graduated from Santa Ynez Valley High School. She went on to study nursing at Alan Hancock College in Santa Maria and is currently planning...
Amanda gradates from Sonoma State
Amanda graduated from Cal State Sonoma with the intention of going into teaching. She tried that for a year and decided that it wasn’t to her liking...
Scott Hadley Retires
Scott is retiring from Bartlett, Pringle & Wolfe, CPA at the end of June after 20 years, the last twelve years as the managing partner. The company...
Colby Barrick Graduates from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Colby graduated from the Orfalea College of Business at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. He plans...
Miranda gives out scholarship award
Miranda gave out the Rochelle Hadley Bruhn scholarship award this year to Leanna Zamora. Miranda also wrote the following speech which she read:
2017 in Review
I remember being told when I was younger that as you get older time speeds up. Am finding out that was a true statement. It doesn’t seem like it has...
Skyler Barrick Graduates from Icon Collective
Skyler graduated from Icon Collective, a music production school, in 2016 and is currently living in the Burbank area and wants to produce music
Miranda [Randi] Bruhn
Miranda is now a sophomore at Santa Ynez Valley High School and played on the JV Volleyball team this year. This was her second year of high school...
Scotty Bunch
Scotty is currently in 8th grade at Rio Hondo in Buellton and will be attending Santa Ynez Valley High School next year. He is more passionate about...
Colby Barrick Baseball
Сolby played baseball for Alan Hancock College and made All Western State Conference First Team. After the college season was over he played for the...
Amanda Rochelle Hadley
Amanda graduated from Santa Ynez Valley High on May 29, 2015, and enrolled in Sonoma State University which is part of the CA State University system...
Blake Hadley Basketball and Volleyball
Blake’s is now a senior at Santa Ynez Valley High School and his passion is basketball but he is also a very good volleyball player. He played forward...
NFR - Las Vegas
We made our annual trip to Las Vegas for the National Finals Rodeo and stayed at South Point. This year we went to the first two nights and were accompanied...
Olivia Newton John Flamingo in Las Vegas
We went up to Las Vegas for the NFR a day early and were lucky enough to catch a show by Olivia Newton John at the Flamingo. After the show she took...
50th Wedding Anniversary Mississippi Boat Cruise
To celebrate our 50th Wedding Anniversary we decided to take an upper Mississippi River cruise. We took an American Cruise paddle wheeler out of St....
Yakima, WA Road Trip
Betz, Miranda and I took a road trip up to Yakima, WA, so Miranda could meet her great aunts, great uncles and cousins. Miranda enjoyed herself but...
NFR - Las Vegas
We went to Las Vegas for the National Finals Rodeo and stayed at South Point. Went to opening night at the rodeo and to the next night. As usual we...
Olivia Newton John Flamingo in Las Vegas
We went up to Las Vegas for the NFR a day early and caught a show by Olivia Newton John at the Flamingo. She was very entertaining and took us backstage...
Thanksgiving at Mammoth Mountain
Betz and I went to Mammoth Mountain to spend Thanksgiving with Scott at his condo. Emily and Scotty had gone back to Tennessee to be with her parents...
FOP National Conference Pittsburgh, PA
The Fraternal Order of Police celebrated their 100th birthday with a National Conference in Pittsburgh, PA. While we were there we attended a Pittsburgh...
NFR - Las Vegas
We made our annual trip to Las Vegas to attend the National Finals Rodeo. Went up a day early and saw Shania Twain in concert at Ceasar’s Colosseum....
Bass Lake, CA trip
We rented the home in the picture above for a week in Bass Lake, CA. Skyler and Chris were unable to come as they both had to work. Theresa and Colby...
NFR - Las Vegas
We attended the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas and went to performances on the 6th and 7th. Janice and Jean went with us this year.
Mike’s 70th Birthday Party
Back: Greg, Janice, Mark, Emily, Betz, Mike, Bob, Scott, Warren Front: Scotty, Theresa, Randi, Chris, Colby, Skyler
Had a great...
Skyler graduates from Fire Academy
Skyler completed and graduated from the Alan Hancock Fire Academy in Santa Maria. We are very proud of him.
Yakima, WA
We drove over to Yakima from Spokane and stayed with Ted and Patty Roy. They arranged for a little get together of Betz’ cousins, aunts and uncles and...
The Davenport Hotel Spokane, WA
We attended the wedding of Grant and Carrie Strickland which was held in The Davenport Hotel in Spokane, WA. The hotel was gorgeous and the a great...
Front Patio cover
Chris built us a front patio cover for our home and we think it came out great.
Birthday with my Sisters
Janice and Jean came down to spend a couple of days with us and we all when out to dinner last night to celebrate their uncoming birthday on the 30th....
Update
What with FaceBook and other social networks, I have not kept up this blog page. We went to my 50th Glendale High School class reunion in May and enjoyed...
Blake’s team wins U-12 in Area Q Tournament in San Luis Obispo
Blake’s team won a total of 3 games on Saturday, one by a forfeit and two games on Sunday to win the Area Q Tournament and will represent Region 180...
National Finals Rodeo
We just returned home after attending four nights of the NFR in Las Vegas. We met Emma & Lester Roy [Betz’ aunt and uncle] up there and attended the...
Randi’s team wins league play-offs
Randi’s team won the play-offs for their league and her next game will be in Arroyo Grande. Congratulations and Good Luck. We are very proud of you....
Blake’s Team wins league and he is picked for All-Stars A-Team
Blake’s team won the play-offs for their league and he was picked for the A-team on the All-Star soccer team in U-12. His next game will be in Arroyo...
Kerry Kuhn Horsemanship Clinic
Betz attended another clinic held at the Santa Ynez Valley Equestrian Center and put on by Kerry Kuhn. This was her third clinic as a rider and fourth...
Ralph Caesar "Bobby" Goodchild
Ralph “Bobby” Goodchild passed away September 26, 2009 at home in Arroyo Grande, California at the age of 90. Bob was born to Alexander and Dora Goodchild...
Arroyo Grande High School 45th Reunion
We attended Betz’ 45th High School reunion and had a great time. The event was held in San Luis Obispo at the Madonna Inn. On Friday night there was...
Soccer Bragging Day
This was a GREAT soccer day. Colby scored 3 goals, Scotty scored 3 goals, Randi scored 2 goals and Blake scored 2 goals. It doesn't get much betty than...
Amanda and Blake attend another volleyball camp with Todd Rogers
Amanda and Blake, after a very busy summer, squeezed in time to attend another volleyball camp put on by Todd Rogers. Amanda has now decided she is...
Randi rides JD
Randi went for her first horseback ride today. She finally talked her Dad into letting her get on JD. She rode with Betz and then both she and Blake...
Blake gives JD a workout
Blake is turning out to be a natural horseman. He is very comfortable in the saddle and enjoys riding JD. If he could find the time from his other...
Colby, Amanda and Blake graduate from Junior Lifeguards
Colby, Amanda and Blake all attended and graduated from the Refugio Junior Lifeguard training held at Refugio Beach. It was a 3 week course that included...
Trip to Costa Rica
We went to Playa Langosta, Costa Rica with a high school buddy and his wife, Cary and Lorin Schwartz. They have a condo on the beach located just south...
Betz Attends a Kerry Kuhn Horsemanship Clinic in Santa Ynez
Betz rode Ritzie in a clinic put on by Kerry Kuhn at our neighbor’s in Meadowlark Ranches. It was a three day clinic and Kerry used JD as his horse....
Blake & Amanda attend Todd Rogers Volleyball Camp
Blake and Amanda just completed attending a 4 day volleyball camp put on by Olympic Champion Todd Rogers. The camp was held at Santa Ynez High School...
Mike and Betz attend National Finals Rodeo
Betz and I drove to Las Vegas, NV and went to three rounds of the 50th Anniversary of the National Finals Rodeo. We attended rounds 2, 3 and 4 with...
Blake and Colby are soccer all-stars
Blake and Colby were both picks for their All-Star soccer teams. They have their first game on January 3, 2009 in Lompoc. Way to go boys, we are very...
Blake Hadley wins Triathlon
Blake entered and won his first triathlon which was held at Dunn School. Although he was close to last in the swimming, he excelled in the bike race...
Roy Family Anniversary 100 Years in hops
Betz and I flew to Yakima, WA on August 31, 2008 to attend the 100 year anniversary of the Roy Family being involved in the growing of Hops. We had...
Kerry Kuhn Horsemanship Clinic
Betz and I attended a horsemanship clinic put on by Kerry Kuhn at Rancho Oso in the Santa Ynez Valley. Unfortunately, a couple of days before the clinic...
Kentucky - 2008
Betz, Janice, Greg, Jean, Warren and I all went back to Lexington, KY to attend a Frederick Family reunion. We left on Wednesday the 11th and came home...
JDs Scenic Investment
Meet JD, our newest addition. He is a registered Paint [I know he doesn’t look like one] that we purchased in Atascadero. JD is a six year old that...
Welcoming the New Year
My sister, Janice and her husband Greg, came down on the 30th of December and stayed until the 2nd of January. We had a quiet family New Years party...
Mike and his Sisters
On November 2, 2007, I finally met my half sisters in Carmel, CA. We share the same father and unfortunately we had never met before. Janice is on...
Scott is named to 40 under 40
Scott was named one of 40 top business and professional leaders this year by The Pacific Coast Business Times. He was singled out for his role as managing...
Cindy and John
Cindy and John Duncan were married in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Amanda was the Maid of Honor and Blake was the Best Man. Betz and I were unable to attend...