Hello family and friends!

Hello everyone! This weekend we enjoyed a short trip to the beach and some quality time at home. With everyone being so busy with school and work, we have really been enjoying our time off. Kyla and Casey have been doing great at their new schools, and we are very proud of them. For those of you that don't already know, I was just hired to teach first grade at a small 5 classroom annex across from Casey's school. This is a huge blessing for our family and I am really looking forward to the challenge.

Brandon continues to work hard at his job. When he drove home in his crime scene van the other day, he wouldn't let me take a picture, but I did anyway when he left to go back to work, hehe.

Back To School

Kyla and Casey started school on Monday. It has been an uphill battle trying to get them into the best schools available. God supernaturally blessed this situation, and as we finish up the first week, I am so grateful that everything worked out as it did. Sometimes you have to go through the valley to reach the hilltop, but once you are there, you can look back on how God placed each event as He did, and strengthened our relationship and trust in Him in the process. Kyla and Casey are both doing extremely well, and I will share more details of their school experiences in later posts.

A Visit From Home

We have had a very adventurous couple of weeks here in Monterey. We were so blessed to have Brandon's parents come for a visit, and were able to show them around our new town. One day while they were here, we went whale watching....big mistake. Kyla and I spent most of the trip with our heads hung over the boat. It was not a pleasant "three hour tour", but we did see a couple of humpback whales, and then partook of clam chowder in a bread bowl when we got back to shore (well, everyone but me....uuggghhh). We miss them already, and hope they come back soon for another visit, along with all of our other loved ones!