The promise is beautiful

my heart is jumping
my mind is wondering
and all I can think about every second of every day is how much I love you (smile/wink)

Christian the lion (AMAZING)

Christian the Lion was raised by two men in a house in London but when he got to big they released him into the wild.This is what happened when they went to visit Christian in the wild, the other video is only words but it was him as a cub and as an adult! Touching touching story, brought warmth to my heart and happiness for the family. I can't imagine the feeling but the joy in the video(s) certainly captures so much love.




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a mountain of fire and ice!

MT. RAINIER!
Snow still around mid July?
Jordan surprised me and took me to Mt. Rainier on Friday! He didn't tell me until we were practically pulling into the park. What an awesome, loving, dear husband I have. He makes my every day great great great!
Mt. Rainier is a spectacular place and with snow still around it makes this year especially special. One of the gentleman at the help desk was telling us that it is easier right now to use snowshoes or cross country skis at Paradise (name of the last parking location you can park at before all you do is hike up to the top of Rainier) to trek up close to the mountain unless you want to use the mountain climbers’ snowy boot trail up to Camp Muir which let me tell you is very slippery and unless you have a stick or pole becomes very slow....LOL...Jordan and I would have loved to have trekked using snowshoes! They said that as of July 15th the mountain at 5 feet of snow! To say the least this snowy situation at Mt. Rainier has brought forth some addictive behavior in Jordan and I. We could really see our car being seen constantly heading back into the park to check out all the different climates and changes all year round if we lived here. I find myself wanting to go back there today and tomorrow and the next! I want to see Reflection Lake on the west side and Tipsoo Lake on the east side for I hear they are a site to see. I loved Adler lake as it was the bluest and greenest lake I had ever seen! I just wanted to hop out of the car and dive head first. It took our breath away at every site we saw but how wonderful it would have been to have binoculars! From the drive to the hike it was something I will never forget. Heavenly Father is extremely a beautiful soul to create something of such beauty.
I only put of a few pics as I will be posting more later on the blog as well as a slide show.
These photo's were taken on our drive up to Paradise stop

a few waterfalls we stopped to admire

the left side of Mt. Rainier: landscape

while on the trail we just loved being together and wanted to hug nature! LOL...you see the clouds are starting to settle down the mountain as the evening approaches.



Here I crawled inside of a rock that was just sitting on the side...I felt as though it was lonely so I wanted to enjoy it and give some warmth.

Here as you can see we were just tasting a bit of the snow and trying to build snowballs that would eventually be thrown at each other :-)

Here we had a ranger and his wife take a picture of us making some snow angels. How fun it was to be a kids again...at the far right can you see his first and then mine?

we got a bit wet but NOT WET ENOUGH in my opinion :-) doesn't my hubby have the best bod ever! (wink/blush).

I'll publish a slide show later on! miss and love you all and I think that with friends and family we should all make some serious plans to go camping here in the future! What do you say?!

4th of July pics at Gasworks

4th of july at GasWorks!

Our 4th was fun...Jordan took the day off! (smile) we went to the ward pancake breakfast at 8am where they served pancakes and bacon....yummmm for all of us. Kate and Parker went with us! It wouldn't have been the same if they weren't.We came home and Jordan went to his 9am meeting and came home...I went to Wal-Mart after that for some stuff that I forgot when we went there the day prior andddddddddd while I was there Jordan did school work and played some WOW.I got home and Jordan was just waiting for me and so ready to get out! LOL it was so nice to be excited and to see him so ready to get going anywhere that was just not in the apartment. So we picked up Kate and Parker and headed to the bishop’s house where he was having a BBQ, fireworks, boating, ping pong (yea Jordan and Parker are way competitive with that...almost as bad as the office episode...LOL...j/k) and just a ton of talking and friendly conversations. We left there around 4-5ish (I can't remember really) and went down to Seattle / GasWorks Park for some beautiful fireworks, at this particular location they were are rated in magazines across the country for the top 5 places to watch them (right near the space needle). It took us about 30 min or more to find parking that was 1-2 miles away from the hill in which we were determined to sit on and watch the fireworks. When we got to the hill...it was mayhem let me tell you. It is said that over 300 thousand people go to this thing on that hill...LOL so the four of us are caring our blankets, Thai food, drinks, and treats...trying to find a spot big enough (small enough) spot for the four or us. So we spotted one and headed for it...it was a very very tight squeeze but this couple that was there offered to move over so that we could sit two by two...just as cuddly close as can be (smile) anyways it was to much fun and we had (WE ALL THOUGHT) the best spot on the grounds....lucky lucky us. We watched those at 10:30am or so and got home around midnight...I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HAPPY AND FEEL EXTREMELY blessed to be an American today and it was crazy exciting and fun to sing the songs and watch the flags. I just can't stand how happy I am to be an American...sorry to repeat myself. LOL...but life is great.Random pictures we took. Here is one of our videos of the finale.

A School That Did The Right Thing

I read about a story on a while ago(not to sure when) but I wanted to let everyone know about it because it reminds and reminded me of all the good things in the world that children and people in general who are in charge of discipline are still doing so for the right reasons. So I thought that maybe you guys would appreciate it.

A high school football team in Illinois at a high school that I forgot the name of (sorry) finally had a winning team after many years of being at the bottom of their conference. It was the first time in something like 50 years that they were winning. I think they may have even been undefeated that season and were going to the state playoffs! The week before the big game 15 of the starters were caught drinking alcohol at a party. According to the school discipline policies, they were not eligible to play football. With the big game on the line, the coach and school officials could have made an exception for these starters...but they did not. They enforced the school policy.
On game day, the second string played the game. The stands were packed with fans cheering for them, but the loudest among them were the 15 starters who couldn't suit up for the game. They lost the game something like 65-0. But! the coach at this Catholic high school said, "we may have lost the game, but those starters 'won' a huge life lesson."

It's so refreshing to see that this coach and the school officials had the courage and integrity to "do the right thing" (as Dr. Laura would say *smile* Maybe they are listeners of Dr. Laura!).