Moving over to the free land.

New month, equals new changes! Hopefully these will be good changes, and the ease of this blog will help me be more consistent. I cannot lose the entries from August 2005 forward! I can't believe that I have so many written accounts of this time. Miracle. Now I just need to go about getting them moved into a book!

Anyway, today is July 5th.
Yesterday was the 4th of July, and hopefully later today, I will be able to share some photos from that. I have to upload all of our pictures and get some from friends first. Let me go back and pick up a couple notes from June first.


Look at this happy bunch. We headed over to the raptor center (right up the road) with our ward's playgroup a week ago, and I was pleased to get my first look at what is actually in the raptor center. Some very cool birds live there, and the bird blind was pretty awesome. We stayed put inside that little hut and watched woodpeackers, turkey, chipmunks, blue jays and a bunch of other birds come and eat just a few feet from our faces. Pretty cool, and bonus cool that the kiddos actually wanted to go back a second time and sit quietly for awhile. Check out Mr. Turkey walking around:


I got to attend a part of girls camp, love it! Nice and cool in Iowa until I arrived on the scene. Figures. Here is a shot out to one of the best pranks I have ever seen [at camp].What is that you say? That's an orangutan suit found in the basement of our beloved Stake President's home. This suit toured camp on the very last night, on the body of one nameless young woman. Created the best laughs ever. Funniest part was that she hung it up to dry out (it was misting) after she was done, and stuck it in the WRONG ward leader's car!!!! Thankfully, they had preserved enough good humor to give it back to us that next morning, where we set it up for a photo shoot. Ha Ha. Best thing at camp this year!