going home...

i will be on the train in an hour on my way to Bakersfield. All my girls are getting together and I am so excited. There is alot of newness coming and we are getting together to celebrate.

Susan is going to Guatemala with YWAM
Layne is moving in with Cory
Erin is going to Nashville with YWAM
and me..... well I am just celebrating with them.

God is working in our midst and I can't wait to see what he has planned for all of our lives!!!
I love these girls.

Fresno half marathon...

...is my next adventure. I am really not a long distance runner. I would much rather be running up and down a basketball court but growing up means I must find new ways to stay active. A half marathon sounded like it would be a good challenge so here we go. November 8th is the big day.

Time Square

our summer adventure in photos

Here is a slide show of pictures from our trip to the East Coast. I was going to just pick a few to put on my blog but Andrew is such a great photographer that all of the pictures turned out great. Here you go...... enjoy!



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Lake Tahoe

              Andrew and Bryan were asked to be the photographers for a wedding. We then found out that the wedding was going to be in Lake Tahoe. That sounded like a great plan to me. While Andrew and Bryan worked, Kim and I got to hangout in a beautiful place. Carley came to visit for the weekend so she got to join our adventure. I had never been there before and it was definitely as beautiful as I have heard. I would love to go back again sometime to enjoy the lake and all that it entails. Here are a few pictures from our trip.

Tough job but someone has to do it.

I'm still here I promise!!!

My camera battery is still dead. I ordered a new charger, got it today, and realized that I had ordered the wrong one. At lease another week.... tear

Dodger Game

Friday night Andrew, Bryan, Kim, and I went to a Dodger game. It was an exciting game even though they lost in the 13th inning to the Braves. Here are a few of the highlights. 

- Some guy ran out onto the field and the security guards had to run out after him. 

- I accidently hit a beach ball right at a Dodger usher and everyone booed me. After that whenever a beach ball would come close to me everyone would boo me again. 

- Casey Blake hit a 3 run home run!!!

Half Dome 2009

How is it that we live so close to Yosemite and I have only been there twice. I hiked Half Dome yesterday for the 2nd time. We had a group of 11 and made it up and back in 9 hours. Not bad timing at all. Our adventure consisted of...

- Camping out

- Cool weather

- Trail mix, granola bars, and PB&J sandwiches

- Filtering Water (Thanks Andrew W. - Love that light filter)

- Great friends

- Amazing scenery

So all of these pictures are within the first 10 minutes of the hike and then my camera died....bummer.

Half Dome 2010 - Night hike, who's in??

Reading Program

During the school year we partner with an elementary school near our church, Easterby Elementary. We have classroom volunteers and do a Saturday sports/hangout program on Saturday mornings. For the summer we wanted to keep hanging out with these kids so we started up a summer reading program. (Keep those brains working) It consists of reading with the kids for about 35 minutes, a game, lesson, and snack. This Wednesday Tommy led a vicious game of wet sponge steal the bacon. It was definitely a hit!!!

Floating the River...

I love that Anna and Andrew came back to Fresno for the summer. Yesterday we went floating down the Kings River. Their friend Sean from Portland was visiting and thanks to F.C.A. camp, our new found friend "Getto" also came along. I love being a teacher and having the summers off!!!