Catching up

 Ok, after months and months of failure NOT posting anything, I am going to attempt to return to keeping all our out of town family and friends at least a LITTLE up to date with our life!  Here is the summer/fall/winter review:

1. We went to a lot of D backs games to finish the summer, including this awesome company outing with my office...RIGHT behind the plate!!!  All you can eat food FREE and a sweet view of the game with my coworkers.  Lots of fun.

 2. We moved to a new house!  It's just a few minutes from the rental townhome we were in, but it is a definite upgrade!!!  It has two stories, three bedrooms, three bathrooms, a ginormous backyard that we LOVE, and it is conveniently close to excellent places like Sabino Canyon, hiking trails, and our friends, The Masons, house;).  We both felt at home instantly here, and we plan to be in this place a long time.

3. Halloween: carved pumpkins with some of our FAVORITE people in the world, Jenny and Ben Scott.  We've had some great visitors so far in the new place and hope that they keep coming:)!

 4. Stupid javelinas ate our pumpkins the next day.

 5. Thanksgiving at our house!  My parents and Aunt Kathy joined Rusty and me at our house this year.  The week before Rusty's parents came for a visit...but I failed at taking any pictures to prove that fact.  We had a great time with them nonetheless:).

6. Rusty decorated our house for Christmas this week.  I asked him to make it look like Dr. Suess's house on Christmas.  Success.

7. Rusty and Joe put up our new backboard so we can play basketball in our backyard without accidentally ingesting fiberglass microshards!  Thanks, guys.


And that's the fall in review.

In three weeks, Rusty and I head to California for Christmas and skiing in Tahoe with Rusty's family for the New Year!!  Pictures and posts to come.  I hope:).

Summer 2010

Summer is definitely in full swing here in Tucson!  Temperatures are into the 100's and only climbing!!  We're excited for the next few months and all the fun plans involved.

Rusty has been keeping busy with work both here in Tucson at Noonan Physical Therapy AND up in Phoenix once a week to work with the Cleveland Indians at their rehab facility.  He helps treat minor league players and players from the Indians who are on the disabled list long term.  He has also picked up a new hobby in the past few weeks.  He joined the local boxing gym and has been taking classes a few times per week there. 

I just returned yesterday from summer camp with the middle school group from my church, The Journey!!!! We took 30 middle schoolers to Forest Home California for a week of fun an learning about God in the mountains, and it was a spectacular time! I learned a whole lot about junior highers, myself, and about the LORD! Thank you for everyone who was praying for the leaders and kids on our trip. It was a great time.

Spring Continues: Seven Falls Hiking

Today Rusty and I hiked to seven falls in Sabino Canyon, which is about 5 miles from our house here in Tucson!  What a gorgeous day, here are some pictures from our time with the Mason family out in the canyon!  Happy Easter to everyone!!  We are heading to Phoenix tomorrow to be with my family and celebrate with delicious food, fun, and of course, Peeps wars.  Description and photos to come at a later date.