So I'm back tracking quite a bit but better late than never. These are pictures from some of our travels during the summer. We traveled down to Arizona for Nathan's internship with his cousin, which didn't turn out and we ended up traveling back to Washington. I learned from this experience that I do not like the heat as much as I thought I did. I love living in mild climates and I love having distinct seasons. I also love having vegetation around and after Arizona, Kennewick seemed like a lush rain forest. It was a fun adventure to have though and we got to spend time with Lisa and Jake and the girls which was by far the best part of the trip. They were so kind to let us invade their home while we tried to look for a place to live. Of course, we couldn't find a place to live, which was the reason we decided to leave. Nathan still wanted to give it a go so he drove me and the kids to Las Vegas to catch a plane back to Kennewick and he stayed for a month more. I found out that a restroom on a plane is a very very small place to change a diaper when you have two kids and a big pregnant woman crammed in it. Of course the kids stayed awake during the whole flight and managed to fall asleep just as the plane was landing so that I had to carry a sleeping Ephraim and drag a very groggy and grumpy Benny off the plane. Don't get me wrong, i'm not complaining, I'm just amused at life's little ironies. They make it interesting. I also experienced one of God's tender mercies on the plane. I was scared to go on the plane alone with the boys but as I was boarding the plane and picking a seat, a young man sat next to us and explained that he knew my husband and had actually taken a class with him at CBC and was now attending BYU-I studying construction management. When I heard that he knew my husband, I felt like there was a bit of Nathan there sitting next to us helping me out with the kids. The young man was so nice. He gave the boys a little plane toy to play with and bought us water and offered to pay for any other snacks from the snack cart. Nathan actually met him again when we came back to BYU-I and gave him a coconut leaf he had carved to show our appreciation for watching after me and the boys.That little incident really showed to me that the Lord was watching after us even though, at the time, everything seemed like it was going wrong and things wouldn't work out. In the end, things worked out better than we could imagine. Sister Beecroft generously and kindly offered her basement apartment to us for the summer, which was only two houses down from my family's house and my grandma hired Nathan for the whole summer to fix up her yard. I got to see Nathan and my family whenever I wanted. It was a perfect summer.

We passed by these cool rocks on the way to Arizona. 

There were some rock dwellings there too. We read on an information plaque that these dwellings got started when a woman's car broke down along the road there and instead of getting help to fix her car, she decided to settle down and live there for awhile so she built these rock houses and I guess other people gradually joined her. That is so bizarre to me. That would be the last thing I would think if my car broke down on the side of the road. There are so many interesting people out there.

Our little car that carried all our possessions for the summer. She served us well but we decided to sell  her at the end of the summer to get a van we bought from Nathan's parents.

This was on the way back to Idaho for school. We stopped at a plane museum. I think Ephraim enjoyed it especially since he's more into planes, trucks, and cars than Benny is. Benny is more of a dinosaur and animals guy. They're both so different.