Mt. Rainier

This is the base of the mountain. This is the visability they had when they started climbing.


I dont know if that's fog or cloud.


They are above the clouds now.

This area was on their path to the top. I don't know if you can see it, but there's an area of rocks that kept falling all day long, right across their path.

I love this picture. It's so beautiful. I love admiring the beauty that God created. This is a view that I will probably never see personally so I just love looking at this picture. We really have an amazing God!

There's so much more to these photos and Adam has stories for each one, but he would never post about them. Sorry you had to get the explanation from me!

Swimming

Ok first, I want you all to be impressed with my posting. This is 4 in one month!!! I know, it's even surprising me. Anyways, I think I have a fish for a son. I should probably change his name to Nemo. We live in the pool. It's wonderful since the weather here is almost unbearable. I'm so used to dry 105 degree heat. This humidity kills me so the pool is my lifesaver and it's Asher's favorite thing to do. We usually go twice a day. The nicest thing about it is that Asher is really swimming now. He recently graduated from ISR, a survival class for infants. It was such an amazing experience. He doesn't know the exact strokes, but he swims with his face in the water and rolls to his back to float when he's tired. He can swim all the way across the pool! Of course, we still stay in the water with him and help him when he needs it but the course was a serious lifesaver. Asher has NO FEAR!!!! He thinks nothing of jumping off the side and just going for it. My biggest fear was him falling in the water without floaties and thinking that he would just be able to float. Now he knows how. It's awesome! If anyone has kids who are fearless around water then this class is totally for you. Here are some pictures of Asher on his last day. They practice swimming fully clothed so that they will know what to do if they fell into a pool with clothes on.

Traveling

I love vacations! I really love vacations! BUT I HATE THE TRAVELING DAYS!!!! You know, the day to travel to where you are going and the day to travel home. Those days are FOREVER long and draining. Yesterday we flew back from Seattle (more on this trip later) and ran into that huge storm in Dallas. Well, we didn't actually fly into it but it was definitely affecting our flight. We made it to Albuquerque and we were supposed to just touch down, pick up more people, and take off again. We got stuck. The airport in Dallas was shut down. No one could fly in or out. So we sat on the plane and just waited until we got word that the storm had passed and we could fly to Dallas. That was torture. I wanted to get home to Asher sooo bad! All I wanted to do was jump off that plane and find another way back to Tulsa. However, the airport opened back up and we took off. When we got to Dallas, it was mass chaos in the airport. People had been stuck there all day. The stand-by line was over 100 people long. The bathroom lines (in every bathroom) where coming out the doors and going down the halls. People with babies and little kids where everywhere. Talk about stress!!!!! There was a lady flying alone with two kids and the youngest one was having a huge breakdown. Nothing the lady did made her feel better. My heart broke for both the mama and the little girl. There's nothing worse than being stuck in a place with no where to go. Needless to say, they made their plane and we made ours. I loved touching down in Tulsa just knowing that my sweet little boy was waiting at home for me. (Thanks mom and dad for watching him for us.) Anways, just wanted to say that I had a great time on vacation but I hate the traveling part. I'm really dreading the long flight I have coming up in a few weeks. I'm gonna start praying about it right now!!!

This is for you Ash...

This post is for my friend Ashlie. We have talked many times about dogs. Her little boy, Gentry would love a dog. We have two dogs so I have many stories to share with her. First thing, I love my dogs. I really do...BUT.... man they are a lot of work!! They have become very difficult lately. They have recently decided that they hate the rain. We live in Tulsa!!! You CAN NOT hate the rain!! It's like moving to Colorado when you hate the snow. We recently had a really long period of rain. I'm talking like everyday. SO...destruction! That's all I can say. We had to repair the backyard fence 3 times in one week. It's not like they don't have protection from the rain. They do. We have a covered porch and their dog house is on the porch. I also usually let them come inside but they literally give you two seconds to get them inside before they starting tearing a hole in the fence. One thunder and their gone. They have it down to a science. It doesn't take them long to tear a huge hole. Oh they are such babies! Not only was my fence destroyed but it also destroyed my house. I daily had to let muddy dogs into my house. My carpet is in horrible shape. I don't know what I'm gonna do with them! Sometimes I wish that an older couple who loves animals and treats them like children would come to my house and ask if I would sell my dogs to them. I think part of me would jump on that offer but the other part knows that my little boy would kill me. Oh life with dogs!

Ok Ash, these pics are for you.

I'M BACK!!!

Ok, I'm not gonna type again about being a bad blogger. You guys already know this but this time I have an excuse. My computer was not letting me upload pictures. It messed up everytime!! I finally got it to work and then my camera died. Today I got all my bases covered and finally uploaded all my pictures. I think I have some good stories to tell. Before I go on to my Asher posting, I'm gonna do a husband post first. PLEASE PLEASE pray for Adam this weekend. He is on his way to climb Mt. Rainier. I didn't think much about this at first, but then I found out that Mt. Rainier isn't like the ordinary mountain climb. It's a glacier. Yes, glacier. Maybe I should have known that but I didn't. He needed cramp-ons (shoe things with spikes on the bottom), ice axes, a sleeping bag that will go down to -20 degrees, crazy things like that. It has me a little worried but I know it's completely safe. People make this climb everyday. But still pray for him please. I think it's weird the desires that God gives men. God definitely knew when he created humans what he was doing making men and women so different. I guess men can admire God's creation from on top of a mountain and women can admire something different lying on a beach. haha. That's my idea of an adventure!

Adam- I hope you have a great time! I miss you already! (he's only been gone 2 hours...pathetic, right?!)