Journey to Arizona Final Reflection

This month marks our first year in our house. It is amazing to look at all that has happened in the past year. We are so thankful to have found the home and community that we live in and have Tessa & family to thank for that. We are glad to have been welcomed into [...]

Happy 7th Birthday Haley!

What a beautiful young lady Haley is turning into. We had the best party to celebrate her today. I can’t believe that she’s 7 and going into 2nd grade already.
A few things about Haley … for a lot of Haley’s life … I wondered what she was thinking … where she came from? Her [...]

Camping at Roper Lake

Eric found an awesome campground with great hopes of finding a location to create a family camp down here. We are really missing our family camp experience after going for so many years with such a wonderful group of friends (20ish families … kids running everywhere … s’mores, swimming, soccer, field games, s’mores, scavenger hunt, [...]

Happy Birthday Eric!

My husband’s birthday is today. We have special celebrations with friends tonight and a babysitter to watch the kids. Should be awesome. We are going to the Desert Botanical Gardens Jazz night and before that we will see the Chihuly display on it’s last weekend. I’ve heard it’s spectacular! Eric loves blown glass and it [...]

The Last Day of School

The last day of school was last Wednesday. They had a half day and Haley’s class had a party. Connor’s class had a party the day before and I didn’t take pictures because it was mostly kids running around the room and there wasn’t a formality to the ending. Haley’s class; however, was photo worthy. [...]

Field Day!

The end of the year field day was very interesting at the kids’ school. They divided up into mixed teams from all different classrooms and wore colored shirts. I helped all morning and anticipated some great competition between teams (assuming that was why they mixed them up … to make the teams more even in [...]

Kid’s Choir Performance

Another great performance by the kids. This time they integrated the kid’s singing with the adult choir for a night of music last weekend. It was nicely done and I was glad to hear them sing some good contemporary songs.
Enjoy …

Make a Smilebox postcard

Haley’s Field Trip

Both 1st grade classes took a trip to the library and to the park as their end of the year field trip. I think it was over 100 degrees that day that we walked to the library. Wow … it was very hot. The kids enjoyed a great little presentation by the librarian and then [...]

Talent Show

The kid’s school has a talent show and it was so much fun!! Noa and her friend did a little song and the entire thing was 50s theme. Very cute. Afterwards, we helped clean up and the kids found the sprinklers on outside …

 

God Made My Kids

Today I was reminded that God made my kids. Despite the many days that I discipline all. day. long.  Today was not one of them. I had a meeting this morning at 8:00 downtown and had to wake the kids early to get there. It was not a work-related meeting but rather one that was [...]