We Saw Bears!

We were coming to the end of our trail when we saw a mama bear and two cubs. She must have heard us coming because she already had the cubs up a tree. We watched them for a good five minutes. It was an awesome sight.

Some Beautiful Scenery

Vernal Falls

We hiked to the top of Vernal Falls twice. The first time Mandi forgot her camera. It was such a beautiful hike we went back up the next day with the camera. Most of the hike was up and Kelly hiked like a pro. The mist sprayed us as we got closer to the falls.

Little Cub Jr. Ranger

Kelly completed the Little Cub Handbook and took the Little Cub Oath to become a Junior Ranger.

Kelly Lost a Tooth!

Kelly finally lost her loose tooth. She was brushing her teeth when it came out. She was very excited.

Ballet Performance

Kelly's homeschool ballet class performed "Peter and the Wolf". The little girls were the water. Tom gave Kelly a rose after the performance.

Family Camp

This weekend we went to family camp with our church. We camped at Woods Valley Kampground in our VW Bus. It was a great time of fellowship, devotions and fun activities.

Some of the activities we enjoyed were riding bike, horseshoes and swimming. It was 80+ so we enjoyed a dip in the pool.

Kelly's new chore is loading and unloading the dishwasher.

Kelly's First Loose Tooth

Kelly finally has a loose tooth. She's been waiting and waiting for a tooth to come out. It won't be too long until it's gone.

Wiggling her loose tooth. If you look closely you'll see that her permanent tooth has already cut through behind the baby tooth.

Ballet Birthday Party

Kelly's friend, Casey had a ballet birthday party at the YMCA. Kelly loves to do ballet.

Kelly had fun leaping and spinning and doing all the girly ballet things.

Kelly likes swinging from the monkey bars. Now that she goes to work with Mommy she gets lots of practice.

Field Day

Kelly's school had field day at the gym. She got to play volleyball, basketball and soccer.

Breakfast

Kelly and Mandi made a log cabin for Kelly's history lesson on Abraham Lincoln. This morning she enjoyed oatmeal for breakfast before heading out to school.

Mandi's 30th Birthday Party

Our good friends, the Seling's, hosted Mandi's 30th birthday party with a western theme. It was a great time of fellowship. What a blessing!

There were lots of party guests.

Opening presents was lots of fun!

Blowing out the birthday candle with some help from Kelly.

What would a western theme be without some fiddle music?!!

A Day With the Dolphins

Tom's friend took us to see the dolphins at the Naval base where they work. We were able to pet them, feed them and watch them do some tricks. It was so much fun.

Fathom, one of the girls let us pet her. She even jumped up for each of us.

Mandi was the only one who pet the dolphin's tongue. Wow-what a lot of teeth!

Trainers had Coho jump onto the raft. Then we took turns petting her.