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Mt. St. Helens

When I last wrote you, I was in Florida visiting Dad and Veronica. After celebrating the 4^th of July and Dad’s birthday, I left Florida on July 9^th and flew to Oregon to visit some supporters and dear friends there. My friends usually take me to see something in the area and this time they took me to Mt. St. Helens. I was particularly interested because Washington was my Mom’s home state and she used to talk about Mt. St. Helens. The trip was very educational. It was interesting to read the stories of people who were there the day the mountain exploded. Some of them survived and some of them were never seen again. I learned two important things on the trip.

1. Don’t go near rumbling mountains, especially if they have recently had fire spewing out of them.
2. Never underestimate the power of God in nature.

See the end of my post for more fun facts that I learned at Mt. St. Helens.

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Olivia and Aunt Lori

I had a great time in Michigan on Easter weekend with my brother, sister-in-law, 2 nephews, and niece. When I arrived, Ethan, the oldest, greeted me with a big hug, Isaac ran to Daddy, and Olivia stared. The younger two quickly warmed up to me, though. I learned more about my nephews and niece while I was there. Olivia is the little drama queen, always making noise to make sure that no one forgets about her. I think Isaac is going to be a mechanic when he grows up. He has a fascination with cars, especially the movie, Cars.

Ethan, Aunt Lori, Isaac

Ethan is 5 years old and is developing into quite a little personality. He is fascinated with the weather and is going to be a storm chaser. I found this out when I was visiting in the backyard with my brother who mentioned that the neighbor’s house didn’t have a basement. Ethan, who was swinging nearby said, “That’s not good! If an F5 comes through here, then that won’t be good!” “An F5? What’s an F5?” I asked. Eric then informed me that it is a classification of tornado. The Fujita scale goes from F0 to F5 with F5 being the worst. Surprised, I said, “How does he know that?!!” Then Eric told me that Ethan loves the weather, especially tornadoes, and when he was only 3, he was in a store talking about the weather and the cashier said, “Oh, so are you going to be a weather man when you grow up?” And Ethan replied, “It’s called a meteorologist.”

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