I am trying to get my players ratings up, but I am having trouble finding a list of tournaments upcoming in Southern California, can anyone please help me?

The US Chess Federation maintains a list of upcoming USCF rated tournaments. The page for southern CA is http://main.uschess.org/assets/msa_joomla/tla/yState.php?st=CA-S

Depending on where you live, it looks like you may also want to contact someone at the LA Chess Club (http://www.lachessclub.com/). Good chess!

Thanks for the information.

http://chesspalace.com/  is in Garden Grove, CA... they have about 3 tournaments a week.

does any1 else have more websites?

Try www.scchess.com  upcoming events. They list most USCF events in Southern California especially weekenders.