We need to hire this gal for a little interior work—that is, if she has room in her date book… and we can afford her.
It’s so hard to find good help these days.
heh, heh.
Beauty All Around
April and I took a quick trip up the canyon yesterday and we were positively awestruck with the beauty of the scenery around us. Sincerely, it took our breath away. Then we rounded the bend and came out of the canyon and crested the Orem hill and saw…
this. We had no choice but to pull over to avoid getting in a wreck.
What a beautiful world we live in.
:}
Hammock Love
:}
Water Day
It seems to be an unwritten rule in our family, that if this boy gets out that football, and there happens to be a pool of water nearby…
somebody’s gonna get wet.
Usually it means…
that all the guys have to give it a try.
Kortney–you are so dang awesome.
No wonder this nut job married that gal. They’re perfect for each other.
Intermission: Lily needs a drink.
Beckham too.
Now we have the water blob game, where you toss hose water up in the air, just so, and it forms into big huge blobs–hence the name–
and you try to catch them in your mouth. If you do it right…
you get a mouthful of water. If not–
water goes up your nose and straight into your brain…
and you drowned.
Clap for Kortney. She did not drowned. Yep. Daney-boy married the right girl.
I, however, was in the background trying to shake water out of my brain.
For some people there is a very fine line between being a team player and needing to be medicated.
Sheesh.
Counting Our Blessings
This is what we could see right outside our window on Tuesday. There have been seven fires in different areas around the state in the last week. In fact, my own brother’s family and two of my nieces were evacuated from their homes when the flames came too close to their neighborhood across the lake.
But this new one–sheesh. How eerie is it to be able to see the red glow from the flames, in the smoke.
The next day, we could see this brave guy flying back and forth, back and forth–from the lake…
into the smoke. Our church leaders asked us all to please pray for the firefighters to be safe and to please, please, pray for rain.
Believe me–we prayed. In the middle of one of Miss Chompy’s prayer she said, “And bless the firefighters to be safe. Mom what’s a firefighter?” Pretty cute.
Then, this morning we woke up to a huge rushing sound in the yard. I sat up in bed at first, thinking it was the wind tearing through the rose bushes and rattling my windows.
I thought, Oh no, please–not wind. But looking out the window, I saw–it wasn’t the wind…
it was RAIN! Funny, even after all the prayers, it still surprised me to see it. In fact, I had to wonder for a minute if it really, truly was rain clouds…
or just more smoke.
Our fiery mountain was all clouds and steam by afternoon. I can only guess about the other, farther away fires…but we’re hoping they’re out too.
Isn’t Heavenly Father clever?
Just when we’re so-so tired of all that heat and ash and think we can’t stand it any longer…
He sends us the rain!
“So the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one…”