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!!!