Vacation

We got to finally go see the Grand Coulee Dam light show in Eastern Washington. Something Jason has been wanting to do for a while now. We camped out for 2 nights and enjoyed some camping, beautiful scenery, wind and lots of sand.
This Dam was HUGE. This part of the dam, when the light show was going on they let the water in so that it was the backdrop for the light show. The laser light show was not what I expected. I was really impressed. I was just expecting lasers to be going all over but it actually had a purpose. It gave the history of why the dam came to be and it did this by having pictures done using the laser lights and there was sound to. It was definitely educational.

Vacation

Here are the Dry Falls. If you can enlarge the 1st pictures you can find out about them. It is pretty amazing. This goes back to the Ice Ages and a body of water in Montana. They had some before pictures and how the fall looked before it became the "Dry Falls" absolutely beautiful.

Here is how it looks. We camped not to far from the back of the fall so we drove around to check it out. It is amazing how this formed; sheet of ice moved into Washington, Idaho and Montana. A large lake in Montana helped the formation of the Dry Falls. When the lake grew it broke threw the ice damn and rushed into northern Idaho and Eastern Washington. "As the floods in this vicinity raced southward, two major waterfalls formed along their course. The larger was that of the upper coulee, where the river rared over an 800-foot cliff. The eroding power of the water plucked pieces of basalt front he precipice, causing the falls to retreat 20 miles and self-destruct by cutting through to the Columbia River valley near what is now the Grand Coulee Dam." information was taken from the Washington State Parks and Recreation pamphlet. They can explain it much better than I could, they also understand it a little better.

This was taken at a lake on our way home. This is Diablo Lake the water is so cool. It is a blue-green. The color comes from the powdery -stuff (sorry not sure what that stuff is called, there is some kind of big name for it) that come from rocks grinding together. When the light hits the powdery-stuff it makes it appear this color.

Vacation

Here are some amazing views we were lucky enough to see on our trip.

Here is a baby deer right up from our car as we were driving around checking out different spots.

Which one of these are not like the other!? I thought this was pretty cool. It was a wind mill garden. They were made out of all kinds of different things; pie plates, cups, spokes, and tea kettles. I thought they were neat. I love people's creativity.

Another amazing view.

Grand Coulee

Here is our campsite and the lake that was at the campground. Check out the view in these pictures. Unbelievable.

Here is the boys and dad (Jonah's feet are in there if your look closely) making scooby snacks. Jason and Jonah went on a boyscout camp out (Jonah was able to go because mom and Jeffrey were at cub scout day camp) and learned how to make these from an experienced camping leader. All there is to these things are wheat flour and enough water to make dough, you then throw them on the coals, yep right on those suckers, they decided to do them on the lid of Jason's dutch oven, a little less messy. The boys love them. Jonah chose them for our Family Home Evening treat. We made them right on our stove top .

Motherhood: An Eternal Partnership with God

THIS BROGHT TEARS TO MY EYES. I WANT TO REMEMBER THIS EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY HARD MOMENT.