Mother Theresa

Madi did a book report on Mother Theresa for school.  She got 100% .  I got to see her give her speech.  Way to go Madi!   When Emma was in 3rd grade she did her book report on First Lady Laura Bush.  Madi will be missing the Wax Museum part (see post Laura Bush on Wednesday, April 14, 2010) due to our Oregon trip.

What's Up With Us

In August Emma and I had the opportunity to go to my parent's house for 5 weeks.  This was for me to rest due to my health while starting our journey in homeschooling with Emma.

We have been home for almost two weeks.  It took me a week to adjust, but I am glad to be home, although it was nice not to worry about all the household chores (thanks Mom!), although I have to say that Chris helps a lot as I can't physically do it on my own.  God blessed me with the most wonderful husband in the world!   

Emma is doing well in school.  Today we had a competition in health to help study for her quiz coming up.  She was proud to beat her dad.  She will be 11 years old in two days!  Crazy!

Madi is doing well in school.  She was a trooper spending many extra hours at the church while Chris had to be there for different events.  She is so glad to have her best friend and sister home to play with.

My T&Ter

Last night Madi started AWANA.  Chris took pictures.  Look how grown-up she looks....

Madi met Sammy at school.  She is the only Christian friend the girls have found in the schools that they have been at (it's kind of hard to find Evangelical Christians when they are under 2% of the population).  Sammy unfortunately moved in the middle of last year.  We switched AWANA's to where Sammy goes and they both were super excited to be reunited.

Yellowstone

August 15th, Chris and I along with 14 other people headed to Yellowstone.  We took the Sonrise Youth.  We had a wonderful time and saw amazing sights!  This was our first time and we can't wait to take our girls someday.  It was hard to choose the pictures since we took so many.

We had just walked back to the parking lot and were ready to pile into the vehicles as one of our kids pointed to this bison.  I actually didn't look at first, because I thought he was joking since we just walked from there, but sure enough, there it was walking down the road.

There were many times that we were on high places or bridges.  Many of you know that I do not like neither.  This view was one of my bravest moments.  I was overwhelmed with standing over this rushing water fall.  I actually had tears from fear combined with awe of this powerful beauty.

We saw a lot of these animals.  I was just getting, maybe a little, comfortable camping with the wild animals until we saw a bison standing in the middle of the campground with people all around!  It looked like someone photo shopped it into a picture.  It wasn't near our camping area, but still, close enough.  Then minutes after seeing this we had to stop our car on the main road so a bison could walk right by to our car.  If it moved it's head toward our car it would have smashed the window.  Crazy!

There was loads of laughter playing games at camp, our group even played them in the car.  There was lots of driving.  Have you ever played Apples to Apples in the car?  I have.

On our longest travel around the park day, we stopped at this beautiful location for dinner.  I love this picture.

Have you ever had a roasted Starburst?  They are yummy!

Embarking On A New Adventure

Here we are again starting another year of school.  Emma started her fifth grade year and Madi her third.  They both had a great time and wonderful teachers.  For those that don't know, I am homeschooling Emma this year so that was funny.  Are you laughing?

Our Vacation Week

Here are some of the highlights of our July vacation week that we spent in town...

We went to the Great Salt Lake.  We ate our picnic in the car because of all the flies.  The second picture shows them a bit better.  See the black lifting in front of Madi and Chris?  Those are flies.




One of the days we took a day trip to Silver Lake, Doughnut Falls, and Storm Mountain.

While Chris was reading the sign on moose, I spotted one in the bushes.  This was the first time any of us saw a moose.

We also went to the farmer's market and the zoo.

5-Day Club

About 120 CEF (Child Evangelism Fellowship) workers came to Salt Lake City to share the Good News of what Jesus did for us.  They partnered up with 29 churches and did over 80 5-Day Clubs.  Our church was involved with three parks.  We had 11 children except Christ as their personal Savior!

I had to share these last two pictures.  A boy that wanted to join the club had two puppies and asked if we could watch them for him.  Of course.  The girls did for awhile and then I and other workers helped out.  The boy came back the next day, but thankfully didn't bring the puppies, because as you can see they are a distraction because of their cuteness.