Washington Dives a Scion

Our house is finally on the market! It's such a good feeling.

Jason and I headed south on Sunday evening stopping in PA. In the morning we went to Valley Forge. It's a inspiring place. To know how much our forefathers sacrificed for us. If it was not for our history we would not have the blessings that we do have today. As we sat in our car having breakfast, none other than Gen. George Washington drove up. It was his 227th birthday, he should have the luxury of showing up in Scion instead of a horse and buggy.. :)

After Valley Forge, we headed over to Philadelphia. We saw the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall. I need to research this more ( and I'm sure one of my loyal readers knows this) but the Rising Sun chair reminds me so much of Sunstone from the Nauvoo Temple.

Then we headed to the very somber Gettysburg Battle Field.

Today I woke up at 3am and headed to Colombia SC. My Step-Mother is having surgery today, and my Step-sister is in need of extra special blessings in her life so I thought would be a great day for a temple work. I have such a testimony of the blessing of the temple! The peace and love I feel when i am with in the holy walls, defy all words!

So what next??

• On Thursday I head to Seattle until March 10th.


• Then I'm heading back to VA for a few days and then depending on the status of the house I will come up to NY to make sure the yard looks good for the spring. Or I will be having the movers come in to move us.
• I'm also getting together with somefriends one last time!!
  
• Around the 6th of April I head west.


• I'm stopping for a day in Nauvoo.


• Then heading to Liberty Jail ( just visiting)
  
• Staying the night.


• Then I will drive to Denver and stay the night, wake up in the morning and go to the temple.


• Then I will be driving to SLC
  I hope to be able to stay a few days (3 or 4 days)
  ( I have a few offers from friends to be able to stay with their families, but I don't have anything set in stone yet, so that might change how long i stay in SLC )
  I really wanna visit with some friends, meet their new additions.
  
• Then on Monday I'm heading to St George and staying with Sister Steele's mother for the night.
• On Tuesday I was going to go to the St George Temple and then drive to Las Vegas to go to the temple there.
• Then I get to head to Arizona and visit with one of my bestest friends, and I get to meet and re see all of her babies. I'm not sure how long I'm going to be staying there.
• Then I'm heading to San Diego to see my brother-in-law who is a marine at Camp Pendletion, and going to see my step sister, and all of my very cool niece and nephews.
• I'm then going to see my grandma in Long Beach ( my home town).
• Then to Sacramento to visit with my Dad and my Step-Mom
• After that I'm going to Seattle to spend time with Annabelle.
• And on the 28th of April I fly back to VA, and Jason and I make the cross country trip again.
• Stopping in Iowa.
• Going to the South Dakota Bad Lands, and Mt Rushmore. Then going to spend a week at Yellowstone, in a very rustic log cabin. ( not my idea)
• then we are going to Sacramento,
• Mt Lassen

and up to

• Seattle...

Whew. Tell me when its all over!

If you are on my way I would love to stop by and see ya! Drop me an email so i know if your going to be in town.

Under my Skin

A Realtor came to my home this morning, He walked around.. took in the size of the rooms, the colors, took in what ever it is that relator's take in. He walked upstairs and in each room. When he had finished, we meet back in our living room sat on the couch. He told me a few things that I should do, nothing that was too major.

And then he said something that I have been pondering for the past 4 hours ( you have a ton of time to ponder when you paint trim) He looked up at my picture of the beloved prophets on my wall and asked me who they where, (ding*) a missionary experience! I explained that they where the prophets of the church I belonged to. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. His smile faded and the he responded: "I would suggest taking down all of your religious pictures, and would not leave those bibles out where they can be seen by perceptive owners, In fact your book self upstairs( its all church books) should not have anything with that name on it." I had no idea what to say... I just kinda nodded and then saw him out...

I thought I would blog about it.

Happy Valentines Day

( look at his forehead)

Intelligent Design

I admit I am not nearly as smart as some of my dearest friends, but I love to learn, I enjoy getting into a good debate. I came acrossed this movie a while back, and well I love Ben Stien. I highly recommend this movie. The theme of the movie is about intelligent design and how scientest who even mention intelligent design are reprimanded or even fired.

If you have Netflix you can watch it free. I watched it a few times because its so interesting.

Here is a clip:

I also really enjoyed this book on the same subject.

Southern Roots

I escaped to Virgina for a few days so that I could get away from the freezing weather and snow. This is such an exciting area to be. The history of our wonderful country all started in this area. Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in America. The most interesting fact I learned about Jamestown was in1609–1610, over 80% of the colonists perished, and because of this the Spanish ( who wanted to control of the area , and out numbered the English) refused to attack the "deadly" town. Otherwise we would be all Spanish speaking Americans.

Over in Yorktown ( the last major battle of the Revolutionary War) the main reason the English General wanted Yorktown, was because in the 100 degree weather Yorktown has an amazing wind that kept the mosquito's away and kept the troops cool. It also was very well protected with the river on one side.

Well as the American and French attacked the English the English loaded up their troops to head acrossed the river and on their way over that once great wind turned on them and a storm sunk 20 of the English boats, and turned the tide of the battle and thus the English surrendered. So know your History lesson is complete, If you ever head down here and love history Its a great spot to come check out.