Thank You Jesus

This is my favorite thing to say. This is one phrase that could never be said enough and is always appropriate to say. Thanksgiving is a powerful thing. When it seems like nothing is going right and I have nothing to be thankful for; I say thank you Jesus. Not because I'm thanking Him for calamity or hard times, but because thanking Him is what brings me out! Thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ! Thanks be to God who always causes us to triumph in Christ! These two scriptures are very similar and they both tell me one thing: Thanksgiving is connected to victory.

There is no such place between being thankful and unthankful. Either you're thankful or you're not. If everything in your life is great, then thank God because it is only by His grace. If the world is falling down around you, then thank God because it is only by His grace that you will come out. His grace amazes me, because it replaces what I deserve. Thank you Lord! I'm so glad that we don't get what we deserve and that Jesus died for us when we were still sinners! What love and mercy and goodness!

Everyday with its new reasons will I bless You and gratefully praise You. Yes I will praise Your name forever. Thank You Jesus!

New Header Pic

I have finally changed my header picture to one that was not taken 8 years ago. This will make my wife very happy. As promised, I will provide pictures from Alaska but only if you are willing to go to Cortney's facebook to look at them! I'm not going to post on here because it will take me forever and...well........that's basically it. So if you are interested in looking at the pics then here's the link you can go to find them. Enjoy!

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/album.php?aid=132724&id=743666272

Real Computer, Real Blogging, Real Pictures.....

Finally back to Razorback Country where fires break out in water parks and people don't look like ghosts wearing white sheets who have white out fights during snowstorms. That was a little much, but it feels really good to be back home. Just in case you were wondering, I finally fixed the pictures on the two previous posts if you want to check them out. They probably aren't as exciting now but at least they are complete.

Me and Cort had a great vacation but came to the realization that 5 days is long enough for a cruise. Good food, spectacular scenery, lots of old people, lots of drunk people, lots of diversity, and lots of the word "lots" makes this sentence grammatically incorrect. Seriously though, the trip was fun but maybe just a little long. I would highly recommend it to people who enjoy 50-65 degree weather, like to eat a lot, would splurge for a room with balcony, enjoy non-stop scenery of snow-capped mountains and large glaciers, and like small touristy towns with 28 jewelery stores in each one!

My favorite part about the cruise was getting served a four-course meal every night and eating it and just walking away! They served some fancy food that we weren't too familiar with, but most of it was really good and they also served up an awesome melting chocolate cake with ice cream for dessert. Here's a picture of Cort on one of our formal nights. It appears that she enjoyed her dinner so much that she licked the plate clean. It could also be that they haven't served us dinner yet.......I'm not sure. I have a feeling she will make sure that I'm sure that it was the latter, so here's a makeup compliment to offset it: She was stunningly beautiful that night. That should do it.
Cortney's favorite part of the cruise was her roommate and the little towel animals that they made everyday. We even took a class to learn how to fold some ourselves!

Thanks to everyone for asking how the trip went. It was very relaxing and definitely a new experience for the both of us. I plan on posting a little more about it on Wednesday with a lot of pics. Oh, and if you couldn't figure out the question to the t-shirt pic below.......then tough luck because I'm not going to say it!

Leaving on a Jet Plane...

Well, that last post didn't turn out as I had hoped. I will post the pics when I get home. We are waiting to get off the ship and go to the airport to wait some more. Why is it that no matter how good a vacation you have, you're always ready to come back home in a week or less? We fly out from Anchorage all the way to Atlanta. We could get to Japan quicker! I'm not bitter though. The trip has been fun but we are both ready to be back with our family and friends. I'm not sure why.....

Congrats to the softball team on their big wins in my absence. I know that my shaky fielding and anemic batting average were sorely missed in the 28-4 win on Monday. Maybe I should strictly be the 3rd base coach.

Got some great pics to post, however I missed out on some chances to get Cortney tripping, spilling, and face-planting ALL week. I thinks she forgets how to walk during vacations. It has become a vacation tradition for her to trip in public, this year it was on our ziplining excursion. Good stuff...

I'm going to try this pic thing again. Here's Cort in front of a big waterfall feeding from the Mendenhall Glacier to the left.

If this works......maybe a post later today!


-- Post From My iPhone

Alaska Post #1 (for the eighth time)

This is attempt #8 to post from Alaska here. This app has not been cooperating but I know it will work this time. I'll make this post short. Here's a few things we've encountered so far on our trip.
$7 deodorant. This is the last time I forget mine at home.

We saw this shirt at a shop on Ketchikan. I guess it answers the age old question...

More to come later.

-- Post From My iPhone

Vacation Time!!

Wow, I really haven't been very good at blogging. I don't know what my problem is either, because I have had the time to do it.

Well we are leaving tonight for Tulsa and flying out tomorrow morning to get our Alaskan cruise started! I'm pretty excited. I usually enjoy the warm "golfing" weather here in the summer, but it will be nice to be in a place where it's 45-65 all week. We actually had to pack jackets! We're taking a video camera, so who knows, I might actually have some footage to post after the vacation. Hey, don't roll your eyes and say "yeah right, we've heard that before Landon." Well since this is a major vacation that should include pics, video, and great stories, I think I will put forth the effort to blog about it. Maybe even while on the cruise from my phone!

If I don't blog during our cruise though, I want to publicly say "Happy Anniversary" to my wife of 5 years (Friday). It has been the best five years of my life and and you are the best wife a guy could ask for. You are definitely one of the "super-abundantly far over and above all that I could dare ask or think, infinitely beyond my highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes or dreams kind of answered prayer!" I love you!

Christmas Pic??

Yes, my new header pic is from Christmas of this last year at Silver Dollar City. Cortney has ordered me on multiple occasions to change the header and sadly enough we don't really have any up-to-date pics to replace it with. We need to take more pictures I guess.

I will make a conscious effort to take a new pic of us to head this vivacious, over-active blog. Until next time, let me leave you with something to think about.

Donald Duck never wears pants, but when he gets out of the shower he's got a towel wrapped around him. What's that about??