Emma's First Day of School

So here she is. She is quite excited.

Daddy praying with her.

After Daddy prayed with her. She had such a great day!!!

John's Pizza

Dustin wanted to take her to John's Pizza for dinner to celebrate her first day of school.

She got to drive the car on the track

Miley had fun playing in the toddler area.
Riding in a fire truck together
On the horsey
We just rolled Miley up there

Our Aniversary (10 years)

This is one of my favorite pictures EVER We are at the Jetty at Dana Point
Dustin used to bring me here when we were dating.
Now we are bringing our children on our dates, ha ha.
Getting warmer clothes on.

I was loving my new hat.
We had gone to Ruby's for dinner
And despite these pictures, Miley threw a mad fit and ruined our dinner. :)
Emma and Daddy

Time Has Passed

I am sitting here right now and it is our ten year anniversary. Today we are going to pack up the girls and spend the evening in Laguna as a family. The Lord is doing so much in our lives. We have been so busy this summer and today I feel pretty tired.

But I feel so bad, because I haven't blogged or posted pics since April and SOOOO much has happened in that time. I am planning to update this blog with our summer activites this week.

D-Land

Prince Dustin and Princess Brandi Our Magic Castle
Our littlest freak
flying on the Zephyr, Emma was the honorary flight commander
Our other freak
Emma and an Indian Princess
Emma dancing. She was cracking EVERYONE up!!!
Pretty girl

Shady Grove

Warner Kids (Don't show Steve)

Emma and Elianna Stephen dressed to kill (or give his dad a heart attack)
Looking cool!!!
the girls making mud pies
digging in the dirt

Mammoth Vacation

Here is our family picture.

We drove for such a long time, I decided to just let the girls out of their seats. They were happy to ride in feedom. (j/k)

Cute picture.

Our first stop was my Grandpa Bill and Grandma Gerda's house in Maripossa. They have a beautiful view of the valley out the back of their house.

It has been a long time since I have seen my grandpa. And the first time he has ever seen my girls. I had never been to his house before, so it was so nice to have lunch with them and to have him show me around.

We had to drive through Yosemite National Park to get over to Mammoth. It was the most beautiful place I have ever seen (asside from the helicopter ride on Hawaii).

So amazing. The pictures can't do this justice.

Half Dome was so big.

Many places still had snow in mid July.

FAMILY CAMP

We finally made it to Mammoth. And the next day, we went on a hike with a group from our church to Devil's Post Pile. It was a little difficult with four little ones. Then Dustin got sick. We were stranded, and praying for a bus to come pick us up. We got lucky.

We had to cross a raging river by walking over a fallen log. It was crazy.

When we got back to Mammoth Lodge, we let the kids go rock climbing.

Emma didn't really like it. She let go, swung around and hit her head on the side of the wall.

The next day we just wanted to relax and take it easy. We spent the day at the pool.

I think that one of my favorite memories was the night we had everyone over to play cranium and we made brownies. We laughed so hard.

Here is the big group of people playing games with us.

One morning the guys went fishing and Mollie and the kids came over and Stephen read a book to Emma. It was so cute. "Brown Bear, Brown Bear . . . "

Fishing

A stream going to Lake Mary

Me and Miley, naturally repelling mosquitoes (thanks Burt's Bees)

Emma, waiting for a bite.

Dustin with his Barbie tackle box at Rock Creek.

The kids horsing around the bear.

Dustin and Emma, fishing

Sometimes we would go relax in the jacuzzi in the evenings

We had worship on the lawn, but we would just sit on the balcony at Mollie and Steve's condo, so the kids could play inside and we could hear the worship.

Miley and me at the picnic on the last day.



Our trip was so much fun. We got to bond as a family, and we were able to bond with our church family too. Family Camp was a blast.