So much to share...

Oh boy do I have stuff to share with everyone. It's been awhile since I've posted an entry, so I'm going to make this one a long one, to make up for lost time.

There are a lot of reasons I haven't posted an entry recently. For starters, my keyboarding wasn't working early last week (what a frustration) but my brother fixed it (YEAH Brent). Then I didn't get online to post anything because I was busy playing with my brother, he came to Utah from Virginia and spent about four days with me. After my brother's visit I was busy making up time at work or spending time with my Utah friends that I had neglected. And now since Monday morning I've been trying to get my email account with AOL working, but it's a server problem so I gave up on that frustration and have decided to work online with things that do work, like my blogger. By the way, if you were expecting an email from me on Monday (prayer and support team or online biblestudy) all your email addresses are stored with my AOL account so I'm stuck until AOL starts working for me again...sorry...have patience with me.

So that brings me to the present, where I'm now currently updating my blogger with my most recent exploits. I'm going to start with some pictures of Brent's visit to Utah, maybe you'll get envious of the scenery and want to visit Utah for yourself some time.

This picture was taken from Moss' Ledge in the Big Cottonwood Canyon just east of Salt Lake City. I know you can't really tell from this photo but this is a small waterfall that at this dry time of the year people are actually able to climb up without injury (from rushing water). I had climbed about halfway up when I took this photo. It really is a gorgeous place to visit and have a picnic or short hike up the waterfall. Great views from up top too. I recommend not wearing flipflops though. I made the mistake not thinking we were actually going to climbing up the waterfall. The real kicker is that I had strapped sandals back at the car (they were so close yet so far away).

Anyways, flipflops or not it was still manageable and I had a great time.




The next day Brent and I went back up into Big Cottonwood Canyon and checked out Mt. Olympus and found Hidden Falls. As you probably guessed it the photo to your right is of Hidden Falls. It was a nice secluded waterfall that happened to be real close to the road, but you would never have seen it from the road (ha..."hidden" falls).

When we got to Hidden Falls three women were harnessing up to the left of this photo (I didn't photograph them) to do some rock climbing. They were actually geared for leading climbing and it looked like a right nice place for the climbing. Brent and I took off though before they actually started their climbing (we had some hiking up Mt. Olympus to accomplish).





This photo I took from a higher elevation off of Mt. Olympus (in the Big Cottonwood Canyon). I took a lot of photos from this elevation, but this is one of my favorites. It was great because you'd be hiking along and if you just turned yourself around from the direction you were hiking in (you know looking over your shoulder) this is the view you would see. It's all so absolutely breathtaking. What a wonderful Creator God we have to lovingly give us such beauty to enjoy.




On the third day of Brent's visit we traveled around town (town being Salt Lake City). This photo was taken at This is the Place monument. I've been to that historic site more times than I care to admit, but it does seem to be quite the place to take visitors. It also seems every time I go I take my camera with me. This time I decided to try and take some more unusual photographs while I was there and diversify my collection. Here is just one of those photos I took (you'd probably get bored if I should you all the rest of the photos...pretty standard stuff).









On Brent's last full day in Utah we actually took a short day trip west of Salt Lake City into Nevada. We across the Great Salt Lake Dessert into the border town of Wendover. It was on our way there that we passed this art work out in the dessert along I-80. It was built in 1986 and is known as Utah's Tree - the metaphor.

From a distance Brent and I were perplexed as to what it really was. The closer we got the more perplexed we were. It was just this large thing out in the middle of no where. It wasn't until we were in Nevada and I found a postcard with the metaphor and it's history on the back that I realized what we had actually seen.

It's pretty cool, ain't it?




My brother left to begin his drive back to Virginia on Friday morning. On Saturday night I was astonishingly not scheduled to work at Chili's and I took the evening to enjoy a campfire with my young adult group at Discovery Christian Community Church. It was great, we took a drive out into the western canyons and brought a bunch of food with us. Cooking over a fire, enjoying one another's fellowship and I can't forget the s'mores.

I had a lot of great laughs that night (just remember when a bat flys really close to your head LAUGH).

Hmmm...I could probably go on with a lot of different subjects, but I've probably written enough for one night. I guess I'll wrap this entry up right now...BLESSINGS!!!