When the official acceptance paper came, we also got one of the original photos. It was fun to see the Chinese characters for Qiu Ju's...

Lyle and Adam enjoyed a fun Memorial Day weekend at the Father/Son basketball camp at BYU. On Sunday, the group took a trip to Salt Lake wh...

O.K., you may think we're nuts, but we really think little Qiu Ju looks as much like a Beck as a little Chinese baby can! She has the s...

Introducing Jin Qiu Ju Born: September 2, 2005 in Guangxi province, China Her first name, Qiu Ju, is pronounced choe (rhymes with ...

Lyle completed a beautiful rose trellis for our front entry. It was a challenging project--not just to put together. Painting was an absol...

Lyle finished his first marathon! His goal was to run it in less than 4 hours, and he finished in 3 hours 45 minutes. He was able to run t...

I love the beautiful porch swing that Lyle finished last night. We first painted it the same blue as the porch ceiling, but we weren't ...

Home school is not for the faint of heart! As part of Adam's anatomy class, he dissected a snake the other day. He wasn't the leas...

During the kids' spring break, I enjoyed a spur-of-the moment trip to Chicago see our friends, the Bays. I left on Monday and came back...