A Place to Write

I'm not even sure how to begin this. We're about to make a huge life change. It's so big I don't even know how deeply it will effect us. It will change the course of our lives and possibly several others as well. How do you explain that? We've decided to become foster parents. To teenagers. One teenager, actually. We don't know who yet. We just know we have one extra bedroom and one slice of love left to give. My job is challenging. That's not the right word but hard isn't the right word either. My actual job duties are satisfying and sort of come natural to me. I enjoy researching and writing and educating. That's all good. What's challenging is being surrounded by stories of broken families all day and not doing anything to directly effect change. There are so many kids out there in need of a good home and all day I'm a cheer leader to everyone else saying "Get involved!" and yet I'm doing nothing. Yes, I'm busy. I w

We've had a good summer. So it's time to include ALL the photos in one big post. We planned a big trip to Provo, Utah at the end of June. We technically went for a wedding but we took two days to get there and two days to get back and stopped everywhere in between. Of course Eisley ended up getting sick the night before we left. Made for a very miserable little girl the first day in the car but luckily once we stopped for the night the barfing was behind us and you were perfectly healthy the rest of the trip. We just didn't eat eggs. I put so much planning into this trip! I made all these games for you to play on a cookie sheet. They were magnetized so they wouldn't slide in the car. Kaybree loved the puzzles. We stopped briefly in Vegas. It was freakin hot and miserable. We sweated it out long enough to get lunch and then decided we'd never like to go back again. Vegas Temple You two held hands the w