My New Haircut

So I was really bold....at least for me and it was shorter than I've gone before. I love it!!!

Embarressing but True

All my life we've always laughed at my mom and how when she doesn't know the words to a song, she just fills them with her own made up ones. Now, you have to know, its done very well. In fact if you didn't know the song, you wouldn't know....one of her many talents. Anyway, I have started to noticed that I inherited that trait from you. I never noticed how bad I was until I was singing the National Anthem and Joe started laughing. I looked up the words, and there are three lines in the song that I've never even sung. I had made up an entire addition to the song!!!
So I am admitting this on the World Wide Web....I don't know the National Anthem....well not totally it.
Needless to say, I am working on it. I will learn it at least the three lines I don't know. Do you all know it? Come on, tell the truth!!! Does anyone know the other verses?

Crazy weather

So almost everyday lately it's been 10-minute weather. Everytime I look out the window it's different. Yesterday it rained and rained and then in the evening there was this beautiful rainbow. I tried to get some pictures and some of them turned out pretty good. Of course my camera was in my car...so I ran out in the rain to find out it was dead. So I took these by going out the porch as far as the cord would allow. The rainbow was literally shrinking every second.
There is something so majestic about a rainbow....just screaming that God exists and that he is true to his promises.






Then today....it snowed...huge, juicy, wet flakes....all day. Just another June in Montana. I'm ready for some sunshine.

Anniversary

We had alot of fun on our anniversary yesterday. Look at my beautiful bouquet Joe got me:





We hung out here at the house during the day and then Miriam watched Eric while we went to dinner and a movie. We went to a new Wood Fired Pizza place and we really liked it, besides it's right across the parking lot from the theatre. Then we went to see Indiana Jones....it was really good. Why does Harrison Ford still looks almost as young as ever?
Joe has off until Monday and he wanted to work on the fence more but it's raining. Everyday it's been doing this....rains, 10minutes of sunshine, rain and so on. Tomorrow I am going to my cousin Apirl's baby shower and then Sunday I'm singing in worship. It's really neat that I get to do it more but I'm also learning alot about having confidence and not feeling so inadequate. There is something about a microphone that is just intimidating. I have a lot of learning to do!!!


This is me being silly with a wig. What do you think....Should I make it permanent?

Tulips and happiness

I haven't posted very often...I'm sure people get tired of looking and it's the same old post. And the last two were kinda depressing:-(
So, I thought I'd move on to happier things like tulips. This is the first year that I have grown tulips. I planted a lot of bulbs last fall hoping that some of them would take and they did. I haven't planted the rest of my annual flowers yet but Monica and I got out all the weeds.
Here are some pics.









Tomorrow is our 4th anniversary and Joe got off at 2 and has off until Sunday!!! Right now Eric is out helping him build our fence that we've been working on. There something inexplicably special about watching a little boy help his daddy. Eric has this look on his face like he's accomplished some great feat and Joe is patiently letting him "help". I asked Eric what he was doing and his said "I'm tape measuring!!1"

Dear Grandma

I've just been thinking about you alot lately....I miss you. I know you are having a great time in heaven but sometimes I just want you back. It still doesn't seem real that you are not here. I don't want to forget anything about you. I don't want Eric to forget you. The other day he asked me to sing Beautiful and as I sang it I could here your wonderful voice singing along with me.
I was watching a show tonight about this Italian girl who had her Italian grandam with her. Her grandma kept trying to feed all the people around her breakfast and it just reminded me of you, always making sure everyone was taken care of and most of all, fed:-)

I'm so proud to be your grandaughter and be related to such a wonderful, strong women with such a kind, caring heart.

I love you
Moriah

The News

I've been trying to avoid the news lately because of all the stuff about that polygamist cult. It really hits too close to home for me. The cult our family was involved in, has evolved into a polygamist group and our friends are still in it. Today I had the tv on and Dr. Phil was talking to a women who escaped with her mom from that TX cult.
It really makes me remember alot of things and how nobody understands what it's like to be in something like that. You don't realize what is happening. They make you question everything about your feelings and beliefs. There are so many precautions taken to keep everything a secret...even silly things. It's always about male domination over women, keeping women covered up and used as possessions. It's nothing new, they all do the same things.
I know the solution, time away from the group and it's influence. Thats the only thing that got our family out but not without damaging it forever.
I feel so helpless to get my friends out of this group, because the authorities can't do anything without proof and unless one of them speaks up, it will just go on. I just want to kidnap them. They are in Alaska which is a great place for it because it's so remote.
My heart feels so heavy, I guess I'll I can do is pray. There aren't alot of people to talk to about it because not alot of people understand what it's like or want to hear about it.
Alot of people don't know that this is happening, here in America, and no one knows about these groups until they get large and the scale of abuse and harm is so large.
I'm sorry if this is a depressing blog....i just needed to write out my feelings. I also want people to be aware.