5 States...9 days...

a Honda Odyssey van, 2 adults, 2 seniors, 1 teenager with a permit, 1 tweenager, a roof top carrier, a loaded ice chest, 2 boxes of food, 6 bags of luggage, a walker for grandma, i pods, cds, dvds, mountain dew, diet coke and a lot of gas money made for a fantastic trip! We started out at 5am on the 17th and headed out thru Oregon, down thru Idaho and into Utah for our first nights stay.

The Mormon tabernacle.
Our photo with "Jesus"...which none of us wanted,

but they insisted upon.

Another shot of the tabernacle.
Salt Lake City Utah's State Capital.
Amanda's dream conquered...we ate at a Sonic!

Antelope Island, on the Great Salt Lake in Utah! Beautiful!
"Lola" as we called our navigation system, making it look like we are in the middle of the Great Salt Lake, when in actuality we are on a cos way!
The second night we stayed in Utah as well, and then it was on to

The Dam!

The Grand Canyon!
Another shot of the Grand Canyon.
The four of us!

The third night we stayed at the Grand Canyon and then headed to Sun City Arizona!

Arizona sunsets!

Cactus...rock...cactus...and more rocks!

Amanda and Uncle Bob...Sun City AZ allows these golf carts on the main streets,

you see them everywhere.

Amanda and "Scooter"!
One of the many meals we shared as a family.

We wore shorts, capris and short sleeves and slept with the windows open in November!

Palm trees and 80 degree weather!
Scooter...a very spoiled and loved dog!

Saturday the 24th it was back in the van and up thru Arizona, into CA and up the I-5. We mad it home late Sunday evening...and back to the real world of cold weather, school and work!

Thanks so much Uncle Bob and Aunt Wanda for a marvelous time in Sun City, AZ. We love you guys! Thanks too, Jeff, for spending so much time with us. It was so good to see you.

(By the way, you should know, we are freezing to death! It is 36 degrees for a high today,

east wind and rain!) Gotta love those Arizona winters!

We are Home!

Here is all of us with our great relatives in sunny Sun City, AZ!

We had a great trip! More to come...

There Is Progress...

Okay...the cupboard is back in...

the tile has been sealed...
Shower curtain up... toilet working!...
mirror and light up...
not to mention a gorgeous floor.
We are close to being finished!

Isn't it amazing...not to mention looking good!

FINALLY...

We have an offical confirmed committee date for the twins! Thursday, December 13th, 2007 at 1pm. We should know by late afternoon if we are going to be having twins join our family forever.

Pray for all 4 of us! This is very difficult. Putting your family thru this month after month, time after time, is trying and emotional. We realize God is in control, and we know he has the perfect match for us...but none the less it is very difficult. Pray that these two boys would go to the perfect family that can help them become all that God wants them to be. These were our girls favorites from the very beginning of this selection process back in June. And if God's answer is "no", this will affect the girls the hardest. If God's answer is no, we start the selection process over again. All 8 little boys we would have chosen back in June will have then been placed with other families if the twins go to another "forever family". (4 boys were adopted, one went to a siblings home, one we decided wasn't a match for us.)

Thanks for joining us on this journey. We appreciate all of you who have supported us and our decision to add to our family!

Now we WAIT!

Nothing But Problems!!!

So you know that book..."If you give a mouse a cookie?"...well welcome to the Harding's LIFE!

• First there was the metro sexual husband who decided to rip apart the bathroom (that is still not back together!)
• Secondly, there were the ants...who still come back for visits!
• Third, our water heater started leaking all over the garage...
• Fourthly, we needed a new water heater. Do you know what those things cost?
• Then, Rob put the toilet back in the bathroom he is remodeling...only to find out that the toilet needed new "innards"!
• Then, after the new toilet parts, it rocked...so you were not sitting on a "firm foundation" so to speak!
• Then, the last night Nicole took a shower in the bathroom, and during the shower the fan stopped working. (Good news though...tonight during her shower it came back on!)
• Did I mention that the girls bathroom is still not all together yet?
• Our track lighting in our Family room has 6 lights...one never works, no matter what we do, last night started the tradition of only 4 lights at a time working!
• My bosses, live in girlfriend, I mean ex - wife, I mean, Oh I don't know what her title is today, started "working" at my office today, while my bosses mom is on "sabbatical or ?"

I decided I can't stand any more...I AM GOING TO BED!