The Finished Album

Wow, I finally got this video made and loaded.  

Thank you Matthew for your help!!!!  

I have completed Matthew and Sarah's wedding album.  It has been a year long project.  Sorry for the blurry pics, not sure why that happened.  

Birthday Boy Goes Home

Yesterday was Matthew's 24th birthday! 

We spent the day playing games, going out to Red Robin and eating cupcakes.  But today he left... insert sad mommy face.  He went back to Colorado.  Back to his internship with Cadence International.  Back to Bible college studies.....  But I can't wait for him to come BACK in May for his wedding.

Notice I made cupcakes for his birthday.  My cake making days are over. 

Colorado: Warning Tons of beautiful pictures!

While in Colorado we went to

Rocky Mountain National Park. 

 We were going to drive the

Trail Ridge Road, but it was closed because of snow.  

 So we stayed on the west side of the park. 

We hiked to Adams falls.  It was really pretty.  We continued on the trail to the meadows.  There we saw fabulous views of the mountains.

Then we hit Coyote Valley trail.  We hiked along the Colorado River.  While hiking we had the river to our right and the big meadows to our left. 

We saw all kinds of wild life. 

While walking back to the car a MOOSE walked right across the road!  Michael and I have traveled all over Maine, New Hampshere, Vermont….. hoping to see a moose.  Matthew was with us and he said he was praying right before we saw the moose, asking God to show us a moose not because we want to see one, but to show us His glory.  Then BAM a moose walked right across the road.  He said he had shivers.  Pretty neat!

Next we stopped to look at a cabin.

We think this is a Osprey

Then our last trail was Lulu City.  We only hiked to the river and back.  We saw stream trout and birds in this area.

Elk from very far away.

This was a very beautiful place and we will be coming back to explore the rest of the park.

On the Road to Colorado: Day Four

Kansas is a long state with nothing but amber fields of grain!  So we decided to see if there were any roadside attractions to visit along the way.   This is what we found:

 Mushroom Rock State Park

It is the smallest state park in Kansas. It is in the middle of farmland (of course). They are made from Dakota Sandstone.

Matthew had to get to the top of at least

 one of these puppies!

The Next stop is Prairie Dog Town.  This stop reminded me of the possum stop in the Goofy Movie.

 This place is basically a man’s backyard (farm). He rescues animals and keeps them in very clean pens. O’ he has an 8000lb. Prairie dog you can take a picture with. He has trained prairie dog to hang out in the yard buy leaving corn around the holes.

We saw an albino peacock, Russian pigs, goats, donkeys, cows, buffalo, geese……

Yes we paid to go look at his animals. He is just trying to make a living and keep his animals fed and clean.

Our last stop was the Giant Easel in Goodland, KS. Here we found a 24’ x 36’ (FEET) Van Gough painting on a 85’ tall easel. Pretty impressive!

We drove a few more hours and finally saw……………



The rock mountains.

 

Next time...... Colorado!

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On the Road to Colorado: Day Three

Today we made our way across Missouri to Kansas City.

We spent a few hours at the Kansas City Zoo.

They had a 50% discount for military. Way to go KC! So we were able to take the trams, Africa sky safari, train, and ride the carrousel.

You could walk right up to these kangaroos!

You are never to old to ride the carrousel.

We were able to feed the Lorikeets.  They gave us little cups to put in our hands and they filled it with nectar.  The birds landed on our arms and drank the nectar. This was a real fun thing to do.  You had a real close up look at the birds.

The Sky Safari was a ski lift that took you over the Africa area. We saw all sorts of animals below.

 Then we headed out for dinner at Oklahoma Joe’s BBQ.  It was rated the #1 BBQ place in KC.   It was the best BBQ pork and brisket I have ever eaten.  It melted in your mouth.  YUMMY. 

We gave it two thumbs up. 

Next, roadside attactions on I70.

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On the Road to Colorado: Day Two

Today we drove through Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, and finally landed in St. Louis, Missouri.

We made our way downtown. The St. Louis Cardinals were playing, so it was a sea of red. The fountain was even dyed red for the occasion.

We arrived at the Gateway Arch.  Matthew walked around taking pictures from all different angles.  Then we went down under the arch to the Museum of Westward Expansion.  We learn how the early settlers came across America and basically took over the Native Americans land.  Sorry about that.  They had interesting displays to look at and read.

Next we got our tickets to ride the tram up to the top of the arch. I was bit nervous about this part of the trip. They stuff you in a tiny five seat capsule for a four minute

ride to the top.

When you get to the top you can see all of downtown St. Louis and the Mississippi River. We learned the arch is 630 ft. high and is 630 ft wide at the base. They built in triangular pieces from each side. If they were off by even 1/64 of millimeter the top wouldn’t have matched up. It was quite a feat to build this arch.

After eating dinner we headed to Crown Candy Kitchen.  It was feature on Food Network so I thought it would be a fun spot to go for dessert.  I had a yummy hot fudge Sunday and Matthew had a chocolate shake.  It was a cute place.

Next stop Kansas City for some BBQ.

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