beautiful... wish you were here!

this was taken at an approx elevation of 13,000 ft.  Bighorn sheep.

Kelsie's bday celebration.

on a mountain hike.

close up of a pine tree.

close up of a flower. 

The kids looking at the lake.

This is what we say almost every day.  What an amazing place.  Thanks to all of you for making our ministry with GCM possible, and thanks to GCM for making it possible for us to be here, and thanks to God for making such a beautiful place.  The first pic is of Kelsie's 1st b-day!  We had a great time with our new friends celebrating her life.  

On more park news... we saw a badger today!  None of us have ever seen a real badger before so it was quite the sighting.  Each week we drive into the National Park, and each week we pray we will see more wildlife.  God had blessed us with seeing almost every animal possible.  We still hope to see a bear, a mountain lion, a ptarmigan, a pika, and a bull moose.  There are only 50 bear in the park, and only 10 mountain lion so we most likely will not see the lion.  More to come later...

most likely circling

I am waiting in the Denver airport for Brook and the kids to arrive. I don't think I like this place so count me in the group who made this place controversial in it's design.  Brook and kids keep getting delayed so perhaps they're just flying around due to other planes needing to land.  Who knows how these places work.  I suppose Ben does.  he knows how to fly.  

Anyhow, I continue to wait, and I wonder how Brook and the kids are doing.  They have been in transport to CO for most of the day.  It's not 8:23 CO time, so the kids are probably ready for bed since it's an hour later their time.  

I can't wait to hear the constant noise again.  The cabin has been really lonely this past week.  I'm glad we'll all be back together here soon.

We'll start taking more pictures of again of this beautiful place.  I just found out about some hikes this week that made me scared to climb them even though we were just talking.  I also met a guy from Nepal today.  Everest is approx. 29,000 ft.  Our tallest peak is approx. 13,300 ft.  I can't imagine these mountains being dwarfed by Everest!  Two times taller than our place!!!