Aunt TT comes to visit!

Our good friend Tracy, otherwise known as Aunt TT, came to visit this past weekend. Her gracious husband let her come, leaving him at home with 6 kids. Thanks, Dustin! We had a wonderful time!

Here we are at a mountain-top lookout watching the sunset.

Tracy and I took a day to drive to Jerome and Sedona. We stopped in Jerome for lunch at a place called The Assylum. As you can see, we sat at a table with a great view and the food was delicious. Jerome itself was a little creepy, however. It's an old mining town that's basically stuck in the side of a mountain. We felt like we were driving through a foreign country!

Slopfest

The youth group at PCC hosted an outreach event called Slopfest where they play games in the mud. We took Levi and as you can see he had a blast!

Arizona Cardinals Game

Jason and I were given tickets to go see the Cardinals play their first pre-season game against the New Orleans Saints. Our realtor who helped us find a place to live here has season tickets so he and his wife took us along with their son and his friend. Other season ticket holders around them couldn't go so they were able to invite our youth minister and his wife as well as our youth intern and his sister to go as well. It was fun hanging out with all of them and getting to see our first NFL game, even if it was a pre-season game. We hope to get to go again at least one more time this season. They were fantastic seats and the indoor stadium, which is only three years old, was super nice. We definitely appreciated the indoor part of it considering it was 112 degrees at 4:00pm in Phoenix. The top picture looks far away but we were so close that we could feel the heat coming from the flames shooting up to the side of the tunnel the players were running out of. It was very exciting. Unfortunately, the Cardinals lost 10 to 17 to the Saints. Oh, well. Jason said they were just filling out the rest of their roster anyway.

Levi aka ET

This is Levi and Renae on the trampoline. Renae is the daughter of some friends of ours at church. Her and her mom helped take care of Levi while Jason and I went to Phoenix to go to the Cardinals football game. It was kind of a misty day so Renae put this hoody on him so he wouldn't get wet on the trampoline. He totally looks like ET! He had a blast and he looks hilarious!