GONE

Yep yep..we are getting ready for our much needed vacation with the Frasers!! We have been best friends with the Frasers for 23 years and NEVER gone on vacation together!! We are STOKED!! Seattle here we come!!!! All 4 of us are ready to just get out of town and put aside our "real lives" for some R & R together...we are going to go to Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle and San Juan Islands...going whale watching, fish catching on the pier at the fish market, going to the ocean shore to get shells, going to eat lots of fresh seafood and drink LOTS of Seattle coffee!! But MOST of all enjoy the company of our very best friends for one long week without ANY interuptions!!! Take care.....

Monkeys

"When we sit down for half and hour - without talking to someone,listening to music, watching television, or reading a book - and try to become very still, we often find ourselves so overwhelmed by our noisy inner voices that we can hardly wait to get busy and distracted again. Our inner life often looks like a banana tree full of jumping monkeys! But when we decide not to run away and stay focused, these monkeys may gradually go away because of lack of attention, and the soft gentle voice calling us the beloved may gradually make itself heard."
Pray for Stan and Debbie Ball, Emily's parents, Stan is not doing well at all and is going to have another operation this week. I cannot IMAGINE living with cancer for this long. They have fought a very brave and good fight. That is what we do when something we need,deisre and love is being threatened by being taken away from us,fight....

Home again home again jiggety jog!

We are back from a wonderful vacation and already back in the swing of things...whatever THAT was! We had a FANTASTIC time with my parents and brother on our 2 week ride on our cycles to Yellowstone and back! It was truly a once in a lifetime experience. When you are on a motorcycle, you EXPERIENCE the ride with all of your senses. You smell the pines and water,you feel the cold rain and wind on your face!! You don't just ride in a "cage" protected from all these sensational spectacles! The ride up and back was just as breath taking as Yellowstone itself. Actually some of the places we went were better than!! We saw SO much diversity in not only the LAND we rode over, but in the PEOPLE we met! It is incredible to me that we get caught in the vacuum of our own little world and don't even realize what is out there!!We miss so much by being confined to our own priorities. People are strange, incredible and always have a story if we will only take time to listen and learn. The land we have in America is awesome and diverse, from 14,000 ft.above sea level to Tulsa Oklahoma, the beauty that was created by God is overwhelming! And all the while the Middle East is at war,Sudanese are being murdered,soldiers are being shot,people have life threatening illnesses...our world and lives are full of tragedies, but it is and CAN be full of beauty and wonder as well, if we will stop what we are doing long enough to see,hear,taste,smell and touch it.
p.s. check out the pics!

THERE AND BACK AGAIN

Yo! We got back Monday from a birthday trip to Parker to celebrate the big numero sixo with Colin! And let papa get one last P.J. concert in before he gets too old. Had a great time as always when it is spent with our family! Colin is such a fantastic young boy. The only problem with him is that he is getting older every year....much to my dismay and pleasure! Time is too short kids....don't waste it....eat drink and be merry and love the one your with! (Quotes from the Bible and C S N & Y)
We are now getting ready to head off to the high country of Colorado and into Yellowstone!!! A never before attempted 2 week bike trip!! My parents (75 mind you), my brother and Rick and I all have bikes and form our own club! We plan on having a BLAST and will post some awesome pictures upon our return. Hope we get stuck in the road with a buffalo like Colin did when he went!! The bike is great therapy for us all and we are really blessed that we all get along so well and can stand eachother for that amount of time! At least we think we can. We don't know how many years dad will be able to hold that mega bike up, so we cherish each trip with them. I am trying to talk him into triking the bike! That way I could drive wiht gma on the back and we could talk up a storm while going down the road! He thinks I am talking it up for him, but it is really for MY benifit!!! See ya on the flip side!!

ENTER THE MEATRIX

Enter the real world of the Meatrix right here.