Happy 2010 Colorado Style

Great skating with Grandma.................

Look...... Mom can keep up with us....

Happy New Year Everyone

Great family, great fun! We are so blessed!!!!!!!

Christmas in Colorado Springs

Ray, Lynn, Amber and Alissa.....




Christmas Scavenger Hunt........ again for Christmas......................




Jonell's family joins in for a White Christmas...... See the snow angels??????

Wow..... what fun........ event the Moms love this sledding..... It was a great day.......sun was out, no wind and a great sledding hill. Thanks Lynn for all the great activities.

Christmas week in Georgia

Westview Baptist Church...... We went to a Christmas Cantata..... The music was lovely and homilies were full of the Christmas Spirit.

Next we attended the Shirley Hills Baptist Church in Warner Robins. They had a grand program called "A Walk Through Bethlehem". This was only open on the 19 and 20 of December from 3-10pm. We entered the town of Bethlehem in groups of about 15. We were given a tour guide who was there to help us find lodging.

I really wish my pictures had turned out better but I was told that there was no flash photography in these days.

Anyway....... as we entered Bethlehem we each had to pay taxes (they gave us coins). They had chickens running loose, a camel, and many merchants who sold all kinds of items, such as..... bread, candles, pottery, silk, a carpenter and a basket weaver, to mention some. So you really got immersed into the sounds, smells and sights that was Bethlehem the night Jesus was born. The walls, the ground and each merchant looked real. The tour guide would ask each merchant if they knew a place for us to stay but the answer was always the same "No room in the Inn."

Eventually, we came across some sheperds and while talking with them an Angel appeared and announced.................

"Christ is born in Bethlehem......Glory to the new born King"

We followed the sheperds and were led to where the baby laid in the manger. Let me tell you ..... this was so well done. We then were led to hot coffee or hot chocolate and cookies. I am sure our God is well pleased with everyone who was apart of this program.

Wormsloe Historic Site, Savannah, Georgia

Wormsloe Historic Site....... The home site of Jones Wormslow. Sheltered by live oak trees and Spanish moss, this road takes you to the ruins of Wormsloe Estate. Jones & family were original settlers in Georgia, arriving in Savannah with James Oglethorpe on February 1, 1733. He was a middle class carpenter in England. When he came to Georgia his new roles were: constable, physician, surveyor, Indian Agent, soldier, member of the royal council, treasurer, senior justice of the providence. Wormslow was also know for his horticulture efforts.

The original structural model of the Wormsloe home and fortress.

Showing the outside wall of the fortress.

Isn't this just like brothers..... And best of friends.

The best of Georgia.. our friends, Julie and Mike!!

Savannah, Georgia

Colonial Park Cemetery......These are grave sites right here in the heart of Savannah. They are graves from 1775-1783, in memory of patriots of American Revolution.

This is a typical street in Savannah.

The home of Juliette Gordon Low...... She is the founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA. She was born on October 31, 1860.

Good friends and good Southern food.

Tybee Lighthouse, Georgia

Tybee Island Lighthouse...... Ordered by General James Oglethorp, governor of the 13th colony, in 1732, the Tybee Light Station has been guided mariners safe entrance into the Savannah River over 270 years.

This is the original model of the lighthouse.

The lighthouse has 178 steps up to the light, with window landings to look out about over 25 steps.

This is just one angle of the view from the top of the lighthouse.

The lighthouse has the first Fresnel lens 9 feet tall. It was beautiful to see.

Friends and Robins Air Force Aviation Museum

Robins Air Force Base Museum, Georgia...... A museum full of Aviation from past wars with a particular emphasis on outstanding men/women from Georgia.

Mike and John in front of the museum..... note behind the two handsome men is a Boeing B18 Lancer. The Lancer has a wing swept of 78ft, 147ft length, and a speed of 900+ mph.

Looks BIG doesn't it boys?????

My battery died after taking this picture..... You know this is a Flying Tiger plane...... flown in WWll...... But the rest of the story is..... the battery is made in Japan. Heeeeee..........

I really love all the information they had on WWll and the Flying Tigers. When we were in China..... in Chun Ching to be exact.....the people there had great admiration for the men of the Flying Tigers. This little niche of history is very interesting to me..... will have to find a book about that part of history sometime.

I found a very interesting story about Brigadier General Robert Lee Scott, who was a Flying Tiger. As a pilot he saw The Great Wall from the air, and promised himself to walk the Wall someday. Finally in 1980, he walked The Wall at the age of 72. He traveled almost 2,000 miles from Tibet to the Yellow Sea and only toting a knapsack filled with homemade oatmeal cookies and water...... ( I have his recipe) ........ and have now made them several times. The cookies are delicious.