Wednesday, November 3, 2010

The backyard

 The beautiful Teton Mountains, seen from the Jackson Hole, WY side...Millions of people come from all over the world to see YNP, GTNP and Jackson Hole. We are happy to call it our back yard. So much we take for granted, including the beauty all around us. With a world as beautiful as this, how can we be blue?
A picture of my wonderful kids and Brian! They are so well composed and happy to be standing for a family picture! (Big Springs, ID) The water is so clear that you can see everything! Huge fish too! The picture they took with me, on the other hand, every child was going in a separate direction! I stomped my foot to insist on a happy family picture!! The kids reluctantly posed for the picture, looking bored and so, so dissapointed! ;~P
     So, there ya go, a little snapshot into our beautiful backyard we call Idaho! (and Wy, and MT...)

Monday, November 1, 2010

My heart...

will be so strong by the time I am 30...You go through hard things in life, but nothing will test your hearts limit and strength like having children. All aspects of it. Full of joy for the new life, the worry about thier well being while growing like a watermelon in your belly. You just want them to be born so you can take care of them and love them! By the time they reach 5, and school politics, you wish you could shelter them and keep them safe from this cruel, nasty world. But you cannot, so enjoy that time when they are innocent and protected inside of you. There is nothing worse than seeing your child be hurt by someone else, with nothing to do about it. All you can do is hope you have done a good enough job in the first years of thier life, that they know they are quality human beings, and to have a heart strong enough to take the school of hard-knocks, and keep on loving. My mother sure did a good enough job, because after all I see out there, I can still find the mushy, trusting(to a fault), heart that I know is mine. Always wanting to see the good but being constantly dissapointed. I sure am thankful that I have such a wonderful little bubble I call my family to keep my heart strong. Bubbles is a whole 'nother entry...note to self...bubbles...So hold your kids dear so they may be strong in heart. Your family keeps your heart warm. Cold hearts are to be stayed away from....Day by day, the tests never end, and what seems unbearable now, in 2 months, or two years, will seem like a piece of cake...