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So . . . my new banner and these pics are some that I took VERY close to our house this weekend. The banner is the entire valley where we live. You can even see into Canada if you look real close. We were up pretty high! I LOVE it here! Oh, and one of these photos is slated to go into the paper next week. It was an assignment from my editor. Even going on the front page! So excited!

Bex, this one's for you! So . . . here are some pictures of my family, and where we live. The first picture is from a trip Chris and I took to Idaho to go hiking and camping. We went to Goldbug Hot Springs. The next one is all of us at Hidden Lake in Glacier National Park. That was a six mile hike and the kids were troopers! They did a great job! The next picture is our back yard. I LOVE where we live! It is paradise! The next picture is the kids on our back porch. Walker has serenaded Teryn to sleep on the swing in the sunshine. They are really becoming friends and it warms my heart as a mother to see it happening. : ) Then we have The kids and me at Mt. Rushmore. I set up the tripod and we snuck into the corner of the frame and luckily it turned out. And last, but not least we have my little fairy. Sometimes when she looks at you, the way her eyes turn up at the corners and with those lashes that make it look even more dramatic you'd just think she had lost her wings or something. She is definitely beautiful. I think she gets more gorgeous with every passing day. Oh, and by the way . . . next time any of you guys talks to her, ask her who Hunter is. She's got a little crush and its so funny!

Soldier of God

I met this man on a flight out of Detroit heading to Atlanta. He was shipping out, bound for Korea, I think he said. He was a GIANT, very tall, very strong and solid looking, quite formidable. I overheard him tell the passenger next to him that his mother had given him this bear as he left her. It was soft and fuzzy and said "Now I lay me down to sleep . . . " on it's foot. When I snapped this picture I had glanced over at him and was moved to tears by what I saw. Here was a Giant of a man, a soldier, who was everything a soldier should be - big, tough, strong - in his most vulnerable state - asleep. And who was watching over him, but his soft, snuggly Teddy Bear, obviously a Soldier of God.