The Most Spectacular Finish!

Ok seriously enough, you need to be watching the Olympics.  You shouldn't be missing it.  Tonight I watched and literally screamed and jumped up and down as the United States men "smashed" the French at their own game!  Here is the quote from the French early on about the Americans..."The Americans?  We are going to smash them!  That's what we came here for!"

I guess Alaine Bernard wasn't ready for the American team to use that for fuel.  Do they not know by now that this only makes us want to beat them even more?  So We started with Phelps, who of course kept us strong at the start, Garrett Weber-Gale and Cullen Jones kept us in it during the middle of the race.  The crucial moment came when Jason Lezak was trailing Alaine Bernard.  Suddenly at the end of the race, and I mean the end, Lezak literally snuck up on Bernard and just barely beat him to the wall.  It was AMAZING!  The shot above is Phelps SCREAMING for his team mates just after seeing the clock.  There was a brief moment when they didn't know who had won.  It was truly spectacular.  (Oh, and how about those muscles?)

This is why we watch the Olympics at the Shaffers.  I was by myself, Levi will watch it again with me in the morning, but I didn't care.  I felt like I was there with everyone else waiting with bated breathe for some sort of swimming miracle, and it happened!  Robby and the guys are on the bus and said they were all screaming and jumping up and down.  When we won they were all hugging and high fiving as though they too had just won!  

So, in short, don't miss anything else.  You are missing history unfold if you aren't watching.  I promise, you won't be disappointed.  It's always so unpredictable!  So buckle down and enjoy the rest!  I guarantee there will be more excitement!

People, it is us who "Smashed" them!

The Olympics

I have been waiting for this for 4 years and it is finally here.  The 2008 Olympics, and I CAN'T STOP WATCHING!!!  If I am not home, I Tivo them.  If I am home, they are always on.  Levi is even now always asking to watch swimming.  I think I am getting him interested in Gymnastics, he was a little hesitant with the Volleyball though.  

I am absolutely amazed at the human body that God created.  The abilities these athletes have.  The machines that they fuel by desire, focus, determination, and (yes Lanny) PASSION!!!  I hope that everyone is watching these Olympics.  I know that it is not healthy for my TV to be on all the time.  Not healthy for me or my son.  But you know what.  I DON'T CARE RIGHT NOW!!!  For these next two weeks we will be diligently supporting our country.  We will be cheering, crying, screaming at the tv as all these athletes are striving for one of the greatest moments in their lives.  We have so much to be thankful for, and one of them is that we wake up every morning and take a breath in order to live our lives to Glorify God.  I just wish I could take my breath everyday as a machine and fuel it with energy instead of thinking about how wonderful that cupcake is going to taste.  Maybe in heaven I will be the athlete I always wanted to be.  For now, I will just watch the ones that have that gift and root for them all the way to the Closing Ceremonies!  Please don't forget what an amazing blessing it is just to be able to watch these events as they unfold around the world.  I get to see it happen even though I am not even there!  It's greatness!  So God Bless America as we shoot to obliterate the competition. It's not about politics right now, its about the whole world coming together to show what they are made of.  And we, as the United States, are made of some amazing athletes!  So GO RED, WHITE, and BLUE!!!!

Peace Out!

THANKS ANDREA!

For those of you who don't know, I have been Scrapbooking for years.  I often look at pages in magazines that have been done by computer and think, how the heck did they do that?  Then there is Photoshop to deal with again.  I never understood the whole "layers" thing.  Until today!!!  I saw Andrea's blog (The Stewarts) and saw that she had done the digital scrapbooking thing.  So I tried it, and figured out Photoshop and there you have it.  A cool header.  So thank you Andrea, for putting that link on there and forcing me to use my brain and play with photoshop once again.   I will probably forget everything I just did, but you never know.  It just may stick!

Superman?

Showing his muscles (or trying anyway)
Superman?

I just think these pictures are hilarious.  The best part about these swim trunks are that they were Robby's swim trunks when he was 1.  I mean that's just awesome isn't it?  We had to squeeze little Levi into them, but it was well worth it just for the pictures.  We kept telling him to show us how strong he is, and I guess he is so strong he can take off like Superman.  Priceless pictures.

Celebrity Morph by MyHeritage

MyHeritage: Celebrity Morph - Free family tree - Genology

First Fishing Trip

 Levi and paw paw
 Here's my first fish!!

 Everything I needed to learn about fishing so far, paw paw has taught me!

This is Levi's first fish!  He caught it with Paw Paw!  He loved it till it started flapping him in the face.  That just wasn't cool and we aren't sure if he will ever do it again.  He loved it for a moment though.

WE'RE BACK!!

Greetings from home!  That's right we made it.  I am so sorry I haven't blogged in so long, but I have been gone forever it seems.  On the road to Colorado, South Carolina, Georgia, and Nashville.  For some reason though, I didn't take any pictures on the second trip.  I don't

 know what I was thinking!  Well, I am glad to be back with my community and so glad to be back at church.  I miss that place when I am gone.  Now if I could just quit eating like I'm still on vacation, that would be awesome!!!