Day Out With Thomas

The day after James' birthday party, James went on a special train ride in Durango with his mommy. They had lots of fun seeing Thomas in person, looking at the all the trains in the gift shop (James had his mommy go in there multiple times that day!) and playing with new "friends" at the Thomas train tables on display. We had a wonderful time celebrating James' big day with Thomas!

Flooding

It is hard to imagine that it has already been one year since we packed up in Indiana and moved to New Mexico. This has been a crazy summer in terms of the weather here in the Four Corners area. We have had several weeks of 70%+ humidity which is unheard of here in this desert climate. All of this extended humidity has led to rain and lots of it. We have had so much rain in the last several weeks that the Navajo Nation just issued a State of Emergency due to numerous flash floods. An elderly Navajo woman was killed when the roof (made of logs and mud) of her traditional hogan collapsed due to all the rain. Please pray for the Navajo people as they rejoice about all the moisture but are in danger due to the heavy amounts of rain that come at one time.

School is about to start again. Farmington Schools start on August 16th with teachers' first day on August 11th. The kids will go to a Christian preschool in Farmington. James is now officially potty trained (hooray!!) so he will be going to preschool with Lily just in a younger classroom. Krista is really excited about this. Krista will continue to work part-time as a speech-therapist at the Farmington public schools which will work out well taking the kids to preschool in Farmington on the days that she works.