A moose sighting!!!!

Ken and I were coming down the hill (we live at elevation 6,200 ft. so it is up in the mountains)
to go to the grocery store last night. I was driving because he just isn't up to it yet, as I came around the first of a series of turns I see this black animal sort of jogging along the other side of the road on the top of a small hill. I was so excited I started yelling at Kenny, "look, look" he saw it as soon as I started acting like a physco.....:) We pulled over and he came down the small hill that he was on, walked across the road (this is a 4 lane road and people usually scream up and down it thank goodness no cars were coming) and then walked into this little pond that you see him in. There must have been 100 cars that stopped to take pictures and just watch him. For those of you that know how much Jessica likes Moose (s) I called her right away and she jumped in her car and came up to shoot these pictures.



After we finally left, we must have watched him for a good 20 minutes Sis went up the road where she went and shot this one of him in the bushes. He is a baby obviously but let me tell you he was a big baby, about the size of a horse. We were only 50 feet from him and he acted as if we didn't bother him at all. Isn't it the coolest?

Today we were driving up to the house, Kenny and I were talking about how pretty things were. He told me how in Sunday school on Sunday they were asking people where are some of the prettiest places they have been. He told me how in his mind we was thinking, I have been to Cancun, Tahiti, Yosemite, I have seen the giant Sequoia's, the pacific coast, the east coast, I've been to Yellowstone, I've seen the redwoods in the pacific northwest reach the waters of the pacific and then he looked over at me and said I have never been to a more beautiful place then when I was kneeling across from you in the Temple. Of course he was crying as he told me which made me cry...........is it know wonder why we have been married for so long and why we are still madly in love with each other. Sorry I had to take a moment and tell this story and to gush a bit on the love of my life.

It was my day to tend the kids this week, here is Bompa playing the Night Night game with the kids, do you think it is working?????????????

This is what I saw out my window after everyone finally did go night night

I couldn't let this pass without Tyden getting to see it, he wasn't asleep anymore anyway

Bike road trip to Oregon

Here is Uncle Ford and Aunt Phyllis.......he started it all being the oldest and all......................:) They are awesome and we are glad that they started this annual family ride.

It is sort of hard to see but we all have patches on our vests that say "The Woods". It is Kenny's family's name so he thought it would be fun to have some patches made and sure enough we all had them on the back of our leather vests. Can you tell which one is me? Here is everyone we rode with. They were all so nice and it was a blast to get to know them!

This is Kenny's cousin Pat, his wife couldn't come on the trip :( so he felt it mecessary to bring a friend. People were laughing at him like crazy. It was so fun to ride behind him to watch peoples reactions. We love you PP!!!!

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Our Trip

Here we are at one of the formal nights.......you didn't think I was going to post a picture of me in a bathing suit did you?.......................lol!!

Here is the Temple in Tahiti, they wouldn't even let us on the grounds to take pictures, this was taken through the fence. They were doing some work so we couldn't go through....:(

A beach were we just played all day. Once again you can't really see how wonderful it is.

I don't think I need to say anything about this...................

Here is our ship along with a private yacht. It is called Maltese Falcon, google it and look at it in all it's glory. It is truly amazing. The captain of our ship told Kenny and I that we should think of ourselves as privileged because we actually got to see this yacht.....it is a once in a lifetime opportunity. I was thinking are you crazy, I have just been cruising all over the Islands and you want me to tell my friends about this boat. Kenny must have stared at it for an hour. It really is beautiful. Google a yacht called Ice and the Rising Sun (Nichole Kidman and Keith Urban were on it), we didn't get to see them though. Ken might have but he had no idea who or what he was looking at.

One of the sunrises that were spectacular!!

One of my favorite pictures. You can't really see how purple this flower is in the photo but I wanted to show you what grows over there, and they are all over the place.

Just a tease, we just got back. I will send more later.

This is a small Motu (island) in Riatea where we went snorkeling. It was AWESOME, the entire trip. It was as beautiful everywhere as it was here. I am however, glad to be at home where the house doesn't sway back and forth all of the time.