LG: MC Youth BBQ

with special guest..AMY KAPP!!

Cata & Edgar the cook

Youth Committee getting the food together
Sk8n'

Amos holding up the line..

!!!HUMAN FOOSBALL!!!

So much fun!

Amy staying warm with the cook

Bo. Yessenia. Alberto.

Take it easy..Jose Luis!

The Homies.
Bryan. Andy. Jonathan.

!MEXICAN TRIBAL POWER!

HAHA!!

Maria & Rebecca

Andy!

Deemac's Friend. Deemac. Cata. Wah-Wah.

!!!SAULITO!!!

Saul & Amy!

Young B jumping in the pic! haha

Wah-Wah. Young B. Saweezy.

Edgar multi-tasking! haha

Jose giving some inspirational words to kick off the new year.

!Love my MC Youth Family!

LG: Fav Five

Once upon there were five best friends.

They always had great times together.

...

From going to a college prep high school that was kicked off their property,

then moved to 98th Elementary School, and then to the back end of Southwest.

Fun times eating (Carls Jr. & Food 4 Less junk), laughing (about everything), talking (about the past, present, & future) clowning (on everyone), flipping (backpacks), running (from MCHS administration), riding (on the bus to 98th), selling (Noe's Snapples), planning (school events), making ("school spirit" posters), working (on Strauss & Dixon's HW), playing (softball), taking (stats for the basketball team), dancing (at prom & other random times), AND simply enjoying each other.

...

There came a time when we all had to go our seperate ways and go to college.

Vanguard. Berkeley. San Diego State. El Camino. CSUN.

[June 2007]

Nevertheless, we finally REUNITED and had a good time.

[Jan. 2010]

LG: Wish you were around...

during the stormy nights.

No one can perform this better, enjoy.

P.S. Look what I found! No doubt in my mind you said that to him. And apparently, according to the artist, Jace and I were in love (and I had dreds). hahahaha..

Art done by, non other than the infamous, Momo.

LG: The Book of Eli

BELIEVE IN HOPE

RELIGION IS POWER

DELIVER US

Allowed me to realize how certain things are worth more than anything.

How we are able to have a Bible in our possession, without having to hide it.

How we wont be persecuted for having this significant book in our hands.

How this one book, The Holy Bible, is the answer to all of our problems.

LG: Dream

"I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality. " -Martin Luther King Jr.

LG: Tamales! Tamales! Tamales!

Grandma cutting the plantain leaf..

The ingredients:

Chicken

Fresh Tamale Flour

Garbanzo Beans

Green Olives
Potatoes

One of my job for the past years...boil the plantain leaves.

Mom starting to make the tamales..

Roll em' up...

Ma's the best!

Grandma doin' work!

They've been trying to teach me for years..

Grandma's an expert!

Sis-in-law Johanna helping out.

Edgar waiting for the tamales to be done.

The other job I've been doing for years...Counting the tamales.

All the hard work, always pays off!

Mami and I eating the Tamales!