Mason Adventures... that’s what we called this blog so long ago not realizing what those adventures would entail.  Not dreaming that “adventure” is sometimes a misleading word...

Here’s the definition:  an unusual and exciting, typically hazardous, experience or activity. 

I guess the last five years have been all of those things...  fortunately we’ve had more unusual or exciting things than hazardous things.  Here’s the Reader’s Digest version: 

Skylar started ASU in  15 and graduated ASU Walter Cronkite School of Journalism this month.
Meta got a new job teaching Old and New Testament at Pusch Ridge Christian Academy. 
Kody started PRCA as a 7th grader and just finished his freshman year- soccer & drumline 
Hannah graduated from PRCA in 17 and just finished her sophomore year in the nursing program at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon. 
We bought a new home across from school and next door to the Fleming’s.
We sold our home on Como.
We sold our home on Copper Queen.
We built a home on Maple Lake in Minnesota. 

So much change.


This week marks the 5 year mark since Karl got sick.  That was the week we were supposed to be leaving on our biggest adventure yet... a week in England. A week in Netherlands. The rest of the summer in India. Previous posts tell that story.   That story

Now here we are. Travel adventure:  take 2.  

Kids and I flew out of Tucson this morning and are now in San Francisco waiting for our flight to Dublin. From there we will fly to Amsterdam. This is already further than we got the last time.  We’re ready for some new experiences. We’re ready for time together.  We’re ready for this adventure.  Always filled with Perpective. Gratitude. And trust.  

Ready or not... here we come!