Camping Trip 2008! Mammoth, California!

We went on our annual family camping trip to our usual camp site, Upper Soda Springs in Mammoth, California! We spent several days hiking, fishing and staying in tents. Most of the girls tolerate the tent camping because of the family time, but Melisa I think is one of the best up there! She loves the hiking and the outdoors, truly an outdoor kinda girl!

The picture with all the family is 25 of us standing/sitting in front of where my grandparents want to be burried, a little twisted, but a really awesome picture!

Melisa decided to lead a few on a dance party in the dirt! Too fun!!!!

Melisa got a Promotion!!!

Melisa is the newest Kindergarden teacher at the Prescott YMCA school! I am so proud of her, clearly her gift is working with Children and now she will be able to impact a lot of children to follow God and many other important life lessons that you learn in Kindergarden....of course I have no idea since I cannot imagine teaching a Kindergarden class for even 1 day! YIKES

I wanted to drop a note to everyone to let them know about her new role, please reach out and congratulate her if you get a chance!

Hope everyone is great!!!

Sedona!!! We went on some 4x4 trails with a Jeep!

We went with Chris and Rachel to Sedona on Saturday and rented a Jeep to take down the "Broken Arrow" Jeep trail and "Soliders Pass"......they were awesome! Here are some pics of the trip! We also went to Jerome a little town built on the side of a mountain and had awesome hamburgers at the Haunted Hamburger!

Adoption update

We have gotten word on the latest birth family to receive our book and they have chosen another family. Melisa and I are confident that God has just not matched us up with the family that he has chosen for us.
Melisa has just finished her latest round of tests to figure out if she actually has PCOS, we should find out in about 1 1/2 weeks. We are confident that we can concieve once we get these tests finished.
Please keep us in your prayers, we are slowly learning patience, it will happen in God's time!

Independence Weekend

We had the whole family out here for the 4th weekend and we had a blast! The girls had some fun on Saturday night having a dance party in the living room. Caleb joined in the fun that night.

We also celebrated Kylie's 1st birthday with Aunt Wisa and Uncle Shaun since we were not able to make it out to California the weekend before. We sure love those kids....they are a true gift from God.

On that Saturday morning Caleb and Aubrey, went with Uncle Shaun to the Prescott 4th of July parade, we walked with Chase bank, of course! Reagan did a good job playing Chase the dog as well! We had a blast that weekend!

Adoption update #2

Melisa just got an email from Laura our counselor from our adoption agency, http://giftoflifeadoptions.com/ and they are sending out our "book" today to a potential birth mother. Basically what happens is they send out 2-3 books of different adoptive parents to the birth mother and they choose from there. We do not have any information on the birth family yet, but if we are selected then we will get more information and we will have the choice to say "yes" or "no" at that point.
We are pretty excited because this is the first time they have actually sent this to a birth mother that has agreed to do an adoption. Keep us and the birth family in your prayers!

Happy 4th of July!

I just wanted to take this opportunitiy to thank all those who are currently and have served our country! We owe you for your sacrifice and God bless you for what you have done.

I hope everyone has a wonderful 4th with family and friends!