US Air force Thunder birds

My family went to see the Thunder birds to their stuff at the air show that McConnell air force base hosted. It was so cool, amazing, awesome, stupendous, loud, worth it, and all that good stuff. I got some pretty nice pictures to share with ya'll. Let me know which is your fav and why.

Here are all six of them flying in formation. They were always perfectly synchronized with each other even though they were going super fast.

Here were four of them that went straight up close together and then at the peak of the climb they all fanned out like a flower. It was awesome!

A lone Thunder bird got a little too close for comfort. It got so loud for that one I actually had to stop taking pics and plug my ears.

For awhile, four of them flew in formation and the other two would do things around them. Over all it was very entertaining and well worth the noise.

The Great Plains

We went to the Great Plains Nature Center for the evening last night. For those of you who do not live in Kansas, well...its great! I love flat open spaces, plus all of the sunflowers that grow wild all over. Here are a few pics of sunflowers to show off their beauty.

This is part of about an acre of solid sunflowers. All wild!

Okay I lied :) This one is of my brother Justin looking at the pond on the dock.

Yeah, this is not a sunflower either.

Okay here we go. This one turned out better then I thought, because I didn't know that I got Krista and James in the background. So cute ;)

James and Krista again. I love photographing them, they just look so...so...in love.

I tried some different things with black and white colorings with my photo shop. What do you think?

New Website/Thanks

I first want to thank all of you for praying for Jaynee Lockwood. If you haven't been staying up to date on their blog then I will tell you that your prayers were answered! She is doing much better and stabilized. She is still weak and in some pain, but not as much as before. She was able to walk around and get cleaned up as well. Thank you all for your prayers, I know that they were felt by the entire family.

On a totally different note...Anna and I have put together a new website. This website will be strictly for word posts. Articles, devotionals, prayer requests...This blog will be for photos mostly. I don't know what Anna will do with hers. So here is the link to our website...www.sistersforchrist1.webs.com

Urgent Prayer Request

I would like to draw your attention to an urgent prayer request that I learned about last night and some this morning. My family follows a blog of a family that are missionaries to Mexico. They have 12 kids, the oldest being 13 or 14. I have not actually met them, but they love the Lord, home school all of their kids and have a real heart for the people.

Well, Jaynee (the mom) miscarried twins several weeks ago, but the babies never delivered. She decided to wait to see if they would deliver on their own, but her body never went into labor. They went to the hospital and found out something scary. She had some major problems having to do with her uterus. She was bleeding very heavily so they had to remove it (now she will no longer be able to bear children). After the surgery she had lost 3 quarts of blood so they are giving her blood infusions every two hours. But because of the blood infusions she cannot have any pain medication (they can't mix the two). Her pain is very great and her husband said that whenever she stirred she would cry out  "mucho dolor" (great pain).
I ask all you prayer warriors to pray continuously for Jaynee Lockwood. She is in a life or death situation as we speak and for 12 children to lose their mother would be awful. Pray for her pain as well (she said it was the most pain she had ever experienced). If you want to learn more details about this whole situation so that you can pray more thoroughly then go to...Lockwoods to Mexico
Thank you so much for your prayers!

I can only Imagine

I can only imagine
What it will be like
When I walk
By your side

I can only imagine
What my eyes will see
When your face
Is before me
I can only imagine

I can only imagine

[Chorus:]
Surrounded by Your glory, what will my heart feel
Will I dance for you Jesus or in honour of you be still
Will I stand in your presence or to my knees will I fall
Will I sing hallelujah, will I be able to speak at all
I can only imagine

I can only imagine

I can only imagine
When that day comes
When I find myself
Standing in the Son

I can only imagine
When all I will do
Is forever
Forever worship You
I can only imagine

I can only imagine

[Chorus]

I can only imagine
I can only imagine
When all I will do
Is forever, forever worship you

I can only imagine

You Know Better Than I

I thought I did what's right
I thought I had the answers
I thought I chose the surest road
But that road brought me here
So I put up a fight
And told you how to help me
Now just when I have given up
The truth is coming clear

Chorus 1:
You know better than I
You know the way
I've let go the need to know why
For You know better than I

If this has been a test
I cannot see the reason
But maybe knowing
I don't know is part of getting through
I tried to do what's best
But faith has made it easy
To see the best thing i can do
Is to put my trust in You.

Chorus 

I saw one cloud and thought it was a sky
I saw a bird and thought that I could follow
But it was You who taught that bird to fly
If i let You reach me
Will You teach me.
(Repeat Chorus )

For, You know better than I
You know the way
I've let go the need to know why
I'll take what answers you supply
You know better than I