Hannah gave up on her skates long ago but Jake's still rollin'....

Here's a pic of the Grand Canyon. I'll post "regular" ones tomorrow. This one's tweek'd.

Hannah took this picture and I LOVE-LOVE-LOVE it. See I was able to bring out his blue eye!

I love this pic of Matthew but I wish I could bring the color out in both his eyes. He has beautiful blue eyes. Picassa will only let me do 1 circle of color and it would show the flesh tone between his eyes...I still love the pic though.

A pic from the Abq botanical gardens last week.

Ok, I downloaded Picasa from google so I can tweek my photos and hopefully be able to size them down so they'll upload faster to blogspot. I'm gonna play around a bit:)

I love this one! This was taken at the park about 3 weeks ago.

Park Day back in April

Here are some of the pics I've been promising. Not sure how far I'll get as it's taking forEVER to load them.

Wow, it's been awhile since I updated, huh? Not much has changed in the job department. Michael interviewed with a company and they are excited to hire him but they have a "hold" on hiring anyone because of the construction slowdown. He's not too sure of his job security where he's at so we're going to continue to look. I'm patiently waiting and trusting. Both God and Michael's decisions as well.

We finished up school at the beginning of May and I'm all ready to start again. The kids are driving me crazy because they are bored.

We've taken a few small trips in the last month. Mother's day weekend we met Mom in Flagstaff, stayed a night at her boss' condo there and then drove up to the Grand Canyon. It was totally cool. If you haven't been, GO!

Then, this last weekend we took a day trip up North a little, to a small river on the Jemez Indian Reservation to go fishing. It was gorgeous up there! Think Sedona, Az with the red rock only "cozier". We caught a 6" trout and 6 crawfish. We didn't keep the trout since it was too small.

We also visited the Petroglyph National Park right next to our house. We did that when my sister was down from Washington. It's basically ancient indian drawings on the volcanic rock there. We live right next to 3 extinct volcanoes. It was really cool. Even the kids enjoyed that one.

I've got some great pics I'll have to try and post sometime.

Take care!

Ok, a few quick updates and huge prayer request.We're almost done with school. I think we have 2 1/2 weeks left! And we survived, LOL.Next year we're going "classical". I'm a little nervous about that but we'll work it out.

We visited a church on Sunday. We'll be going again next week. They have a small homeschool group and I've already made one friend! I got invited to park day which was today but Hannah had a dentist appt so we couldn't make it.

Ok, now for the prayer request. Long story short. Michael's not traveling anymore (right now). He's also NOT the DM of Abq. They decided not to give it to him. They decided that they'd use him as a "trainer" for the company. You know, what he's been doing the last 4 years! Basically what all this means is that he lost the promotion, yet they still expect him to train the Abq staff, then he's supposed to start traveling again training people in various offices. Well, the whole reason we moved here was to settle down! We were done with the training and he applied for a position where we could settle down. So, we've decided that this company no longer offers what we need personally as a family, and we're moving on. Michael applied for a postition in Austin, Tx. today with one of his clients. His client sounded pretty excited that he was applying, so I think he's got a pretty good chance of getting the job. Anyways, we need prayer for wisdom right now. We've got some logistics to work out if we're indeed moving again. This whole thing is from God and we're clearly seeing it. We literally felt God asking us to choose the family or his company. We're choosing the family, but we're really quite shaken up over all this. He's been with this company for 7 years. Prayers would be greatly appreciated! And in case anyone's wondering why he lost the promotion. They've just decided that he's so great at the operations side of the business, they're going to keep him there because he's so valuable.(blah-blah-blah) I just wanted to make sure that everyone knows that he didn't do anything "wrong". Oh, and by the way, they knew in February that they weren't going to promote him. He found out on Saturday, 2 days before he was supposed to start as DM. Nice huh? You can tell we're a little frustrated with them!

Ok, on another note. If you could also pray for my grandfather as well. He was just diagnosed with lung cancer and I guess it's pretty aggressive. They said that when you find out that you have this particular one, it's already spread somewhere else.

And a praise on this same note. My grandmother in Washington, who's been dying of lung cancer, might not even have it! Can you believe that? She got a new Dr. who looked her over and said she was healthy and to plan on "living" because she's got awhile. He ordered chest x-rays to see what's going on, and they couldn't find any spots. They've ordered a CAT scan to get a better look, but if she still has lung cancer, it's the slowest growing cancer on the face of the earth! LOL

Oh, thank you to everyone for sending your well wishes and concern over my lack of posting. We are alive! Abq is definately growing on us. The first month I seriously just wanted to pack up and head back to Phx. I'm fine now though, LOL.We don't have internet at the house. Don't know when we will. It's just not a priority for me right now. Moneywise or timewise. Frankly, it was just consuming too much of my time. I am a "learner" and got into the habit of running to the web to research anything and everything and it just took too much time. Not to mention my blog-hopping, list reading, email reading, etc....so I'm on a sabbatical for now. I hope you understand! I do miss everyone though!
Here are Hailey's latest pics. She's almost 11 months now. Can you believe it!?!
Some other updates....
We're 3/4 of the way done with school. This year has been a little rough. I have a sneaking suspicion that Brandon has dyslexia and it's really taken a toll on the both of us. I'm trying something new this next year and if things don't improve I'll have to figure something else out.
We're enjoying Abq finally. Haven't found a church yet. And honestly, we've only visited one so far. It's not my most favoritest thing to do you know. There are some "doozies" out there. We've got 2 more in our radar and are hoping one will work out. Michael is STILL traveling to Las Vegas. I've just given up being upset about it and am just rolling with it now. I just feel bad for him, he's "missed" 9 of Hailey's 11 months by traveling. I'm thankful though that he does get to see us on the weekends. There are military people who don't get to see their families for months at a time, trying to keep things in perspective:) He should be done at the end of April and is more than excited to get started in Abq. They are really wanting him to come as well. They are currently without a manager. We have a new doggie, actually she's Hannah's, named Layla. She's a miniature dachshund with longish red hair. She's a sweetheart. My camera got lost in the move, like it's GONE, so I haven't been able to take any pictures. I'm probably going to break down here this weekend and get a new one. Well, that's about all. Again, I miss everyone. I hope to join everyone here again in the next few months. We'll see.
Love,