I Wish It Was My Home Sweet Home...

Hot Springs
Goose Island

Hidden Lake
A Glacier Waterfall

Under the trees
Elk resting at the hot springs

~I will post more pictures of my trips soon~

A Day in Florida is like a Day of Dreams

NASA Shuttle
On the Streets

The morning sunrise

A Place I Call Heaven

Well, I'm back from the most amazing trip ever!!! I've actually been back for a while, but I need to tell you everything!!!!

Glacier: glacier is probably one of the prettiest place ever! There are great hikes, scenery, and even drives (like "To the sun road"). You can even go swimming! Bighorn sheep cross the roads, mountain goats come and hike next to you, marmots play in the grass next to you... everything is perfect there. I even saw my first black bear!!! The best hike we did was hidden lake; you hike through sturdy snow (you could almost were a T-shirt, it gets pretty hot sometimes). You walk near little alpine tree's with ponds and families of mountain goats come right up to you. Then you come upon a beautiful lake with amazing blue water. You can stay and look over the lake or go right to the shore.

Yellowstone: Yellowstone is almost desert-like. The first thing we did when we got there is go into the boiling river. The boiling river is a river fed by hot springs. half of the river is hot half of it is cold. You see animals everywhere, on the roads and hiking. The best place to go see animals is Lamar Valley. Herds of buffalo walk right to your car and down in rivers and meadows.We also saw two black bears near the road and elk. The geysers there are beautiful, Old faithful is beautiful. It is actually in a place with hundreds of other geysers that go off too.

Grand Tetons: the grand Tetons are absolutely beautiful. snow covers the tops of all the mountains. Lakes surround the mountains (we went swimming). There are so many beautiful hikes there. We saw moose, one in a valley near the road and two or three near Jackson hole. I loved every part of it.

If you have any kids I defiantly recommend doing the junior ranger program. Go to a visitor center and ask them about it. You fill out a packet about the park and after you finish you get a badge. You go on scavenger hunts, do activities and much more.

If you have any question about my trip just ask/comment. Cabins, animals, hikes, anything? I know it all... maybe. Please consider this trip. It really opened up my eyes to the world and I realized what a beautiful world we live in.

Wyoming here I come!

I am excited!!! I am going up to Wyoming/Montana for a trip and I just can't wait!!!! We leave tomorrow, a 3 hour airplane trip... wow! I have everything packed and ready to go. We are going hiking, horseback riding, whitewater rafting, and having FUN! There are about 4 to 5 hotels we're staying at, most of them are cabins... YIKES!

I love animals and nature, but if I see a bear; I'll be on a plane and out of there before you can hand me bear spray. Yep, that's right, bear spray! We have to take bear spray on our trip, a big can of it. If you have any advice, you may want to tell me, soon. It is going to be about 30 degrees in the morning! I am going to freeze to death!

I have bad news that you may already have figured it out...I CAN'T BLOG FROM WYOMING!!!!! That means about 2 1/2 weeks of no blogging, none! I am going to blog like the wind when I come back, and I will have a LOT of things to blog about. When I am gone please, please, please, check out and comment on my other posts (my last 2 are the best). Also check out Puppy Laps (puppylapslucy.blogspot.com) my other blog, and  Define Design (ddblogging.blogspot.com) one of my favorite blogs.

~Goodbye for a while, I will really miss you guys... BYE!

 

True Talent?

I painted this picture and I never really knew if it was good or not. If you lovely followers could do me a favor and vote (1-10) on how good my painting is, that would just make my day! Remember I'm not a grown women with lots of experience, I haven't even had 1 art lesson if my whole life! So if you would just be so kind to vote on my art piece, that would make me happier than a little baby getting her first kiss from her parents!

I am very proud of my work, even if you all vote 1! But if I am happy with your vote I will thank you on my next blog, and you will be one of my favorite followers yet! Vote, comment, follow!

The Wonderful Things of the World

My family and I recently went to Florida. While I was there I saw lots of things I normally don't see here in my home town. Pelicans, fish, crabs, shells, and starfish were everywhere, even sea turtle nests! We went on a sailing trip and stopped at a sandbar. There were birds running around on the shore, conk shells buried into the sand... but my favorite thing there was the huge orange and yellow starfish. When I saw it my mind opened up to the world. I noticed that this starfish didn't just grow to be this amazing, something or someone was behind this... my answer was, Jesus/God. This world is full of such wonderful amazing things that our minds haven't opened up to. Florida is one of the prettiest and most amazing places on earth (to me) and I think it is a wonderful place to let your mind explore. My sister had one of the most exciting, life changing moments of her life there. On Easter morning she went out on our ocean view balcony and asked Jesus into her heart. I think that was just one of the most amazing things I have ever seen.

If you read this blog and think about the beautiful things on this earth your mind will change the way you look at things. How did we get here? When will everything be perfect? Am I ever going to understand? These questions can be answer from a book I like to call the Bible, but the true and exact answer to everything is...  Jesus!

Hello Summer, Goodbye Stress!!!

Now you may be wondering why I haven't blogged in a while, well I have great explanation. You see, my old neighbors (best family friends) came back from Texas to visit. We were having soooo much fun , I just couldn't leave for a second. We set off the best fireworks, they were from Tennessee! Some of them went shooting up above all of the trees, it was incredible! We had some other family friends over, they are sooooooo much fun. We also went hiking with them and went to the pool.
Later we went over to our other neighbors house and had a party. We had fireworks, food, singing, and just plain old FUN! We have this party about once or twice a year.
Now that our neighbors are gone, I am bored to death. We're going to the lake today, which is always fun, but it just won't be the same.

☼A Delicious Summer Recipe☼
*Hawaiian Beach Cake*

*Ingredients

-1 baked 13-by9-by2-inch cake
-2 1/2 cups of blue frosting
-1/4 cup of whit frosting
-1 cup of graham cracker crumbs
-Candy rocks
-Birthday candles
-Plastic Hawaiian Dancers
-Candy flower sprinkles
-Plastic Palm trees
-Fruit Stripe gum (surfboards)
-Plastic figures
-Lifesavers (inner tubes)
-Sour tape, cup into 1-inch lengths (beach blankets)
-Paper parasols (paper umbrellas)
-Plastic dolphins or gummy fish



*Instructions

1. Lightly coat the entire cake with a thin layer of blue frosting. Swirl extra blue frosting on two thirds of the cake to create the ocean with waves and a curvy shoreline. Add whitecaps by squirting white frosting through a pastry bag (or plastic bag).

2. To make the sandy beach, sprinkle graham cracker crumbs on the remaining third of the cake (the crumbs will stick to the thin layer of frosting). Next, turn the cake into a bustling beach. Arrange a circle of candy rocks around a candle bonfire.

3. Add Hawaiian dancers, a candy flower path, plastic palm trees, Fruit Stripe gum surfboards, plastic swimmers, Lifesavers tubes, sour tape beach blankets, and paper parasols (umbrellas). Don't forget to stock the ocean with edible and decorative sea creatures.


This is a great cake to make with your family and great for any occasion! Have fun!