First Field Trip

About 3 weeks ago, we went on our first field trip to Yosemite! I was a little nervous and didn't know how it would go, but it turned out well. We didn't lose anyone, that's a good start :). We went to a ranger program about the Miwok Indians that lived in Yosemite.

There is a mock Indian village they got to see and go into a ceremonial house.

After lunch we set off to walk the lower yosemite falls trail, which is only a half mile and paved. The falls, however, were completely dried up, but the kids LOVED climbing on the rocks and a big fallen tree. We decided to take a longer way back on a different trail to get to our cars... it ended up to be a bit of an adventure, but the kids loved it! Most of them said the hike was their favorite part :). We had a great day!

New Car!

We finally got a new car! We had been looking online for a while, and had spent one frustrating day a few weeks back looking at cars at used car lots and dealerships in Fresno. We really didn't want to go that route again, and had started looking more into private sellers on craigslist. We really hadn't been finding very much lately in our price range for the years and mileage we were looking at. What we ended up finding was so much better than what we had been seeing! It was better than we thought we were going to be able to get in every way... such a God thing! The man who sold it to us was super nice, brought it to get it checked out for us, and took $100 off when the mechanic found a small something that needed to be fixed. He had taken immaculate care of the car... and we love it!