Dream Big!

Mark and i have returned from weekend #1 of Sam Camp (http://www.klemmer.com/)

and what an incredible experience it has been so far. This journey is set to change out entire lives and reach our biggest goals one step at a time. We are asking for support from all of our friends and family to hold the intention that we will be not just completing our goals but surpassing them.

Sonda's goals: On or before November 13, 2009, I have 21 paying clients in the family Foundation and have completed the love Dare.

Mark's goals: On or before November 13, 2009, He has completed the first Monkey Band book, 20 pages or more and had 25 or more daddy daughter dates.

Pray for us, visualize us there, give us happy thoughts, lots of words of encouragement. WE ROCK! I will keep an update of completion as soon as we do it.

Our Labor Day Weekend

What a busy weekend. We started out Friday night running the Moon Run 5K. Chloe ran the 3.2 mile race by the light of the full moon and took a gold medal for her age division. She ran it in 37 minutes and 09 seconds. Sasha walked/ran the mile with her daddy and also took first but unfortuantely they did not had out medals fo the mile.

Then we went to a family movies night in St George to see Shorts. Next came Sunday when after a wonderful and inspiring church bible study we enjoyed a relaxing and fun picnic at Yankee Meadows. The girls had fun exploring and the dogs fell in the creek it was great.

Monday morning bright and early Sasha was lined up with her cheer squad to walk in the Parowan Labor Day Parade, of course she was the cutest one out there and looked just like a bright shining star. We will finish off this great long weekend enjoying dinner with friends.

Back to School

It is unbelievable how beautiful these girls continue to get. Breathtaking. Sasha started that 1st grade and Chloe is now a large and in charge 2nd grader. The first day held a few challenges but we are now off and running. Here comes homework, spelling tests, math quizzes, and of course girl drama! Wish us luck.

I am a business woman

After nearly 5 years as a Child Protection Investigator I have decided that I can serve myself, my family, and my community much better offering prevention to child abuse rather than intervention.

Here is a look at my new home office. It is cozy, homey and absolutely PERFECT. The girls' art center is sharing the corner of the room and they love working on crafts while I am busy at my desk.

Be sure to check out my newly built website as well. It is my first website so I am open to any and all suggestions. http://www.yourstrongfamily.com/

Two more days till back to school, I will be sure to post some great first day of school pics.

Fun Family Times

What a lucky weekend, we had Great Grandma Dottie from Pennsylvania, Grandma Kathy from Montana, and Uncle Mike, Aunt Kris, Aime and Jessica from Arizona. We went to Duck Creek, sat by the fire, lit off fireworks, and laughed A LOT. It was really wonderful to have family together. Hopefully we can make it happen as often as it should. If not then we have tons of pictures to remeber this great weekend.

The mighty swimmer

This is Chloe's 25 M butterfly. She swam in three races and took second in all three. This was the biggest swim meet she has been to with 300kids competing. She is pretty great all day she was scared to race the 100 IM and did phenomenal! Her second place in the 100 IM was only 1 second off of being a 1st and this was the first time she has even tried it. She has two more big meets this summer. We will keep it posted.

Summer Vacation Dalton Style

Do you know how to hoola? I am thinking for Grandpa that is a NO. But lets give him an 'A' for effort shall we. As you can see it was a week of relaxing and fun in the sun in Albuquerque. I wish we could do this every week that would be a dream, but alas it was back to reality where both Mark and I are considering career moves but only our good Lord knows what lies ahead.