Happy Inauguration Day to our President & Vice President!

Today President Trump & Vice President Vance are sworn into office.  Many feel like Trump was cheated out of his second term durning the last election but I feel that him having the break between his presidencies was a godsend.  It's giving him time to learn and grow so that he can do an ever better job for us Americans now that he's back in office.  I'm looking forward to all the great changes for our country and the American people.  

Happy MLKJr Day!

Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have A Dream" speech is one of my favorite speeches that he did because it has always spoke my heart for our nation.  May all people groups everywhere strive to this end and stop all the hate everywhere.  His dream is as alive today as it was back then.  The heart of his dream still speaks to us all today.  May we do our best to live it!

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. 

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. 

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. 

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today. 

I have a dream that one day down in Alabama with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right down in Alabama little Black boys and Black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. 

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together." 

~Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. 

August 28, 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial

New Personal Best's for Our Boy....

Last Saturday (January 11th) Tim did new Personal Best's in the Snatch and Clean & Jerk which gave him a new Total Personal Best as well.  Tim is on fire 🔥 right now and continuing to gain ground with each training session leading into the Virus Weightlifting Series 1 Meet at the end of February - beginning of March timeframe.  He can't wait to make his new personal bests his new Meet PR's.  Here are his latest videos:

86kg Snatch:

110kg Clean & Jerk:

Verse for Today...

 

Love This Quote....

This Is So True!!!

My Work Helper....

This has become my new normal every morning.  She loves to get between me and the keyboard and mouse...LOL!  She's just so stinking adorable that I just do what I can and sit and enjoy her company for however long she wants to cuddle with me.  She is such a lovable spunky frisky kitty.  She loves having play time with all of us.  

She's Just Like Tucker....

Stella is just like Tucker.  She loves to lay wherever the sun is.  She is even more spunky and frisky now that she's had a couple of days of meds in her for the parasite.  We bought her two new litter boxes too that will be her forever boxes unless for some unknown reason we have to buy her a new one that I can't foresee at this moment.   She is loving having more privacy as she goes potty.  She didn't like the doors it came with so we had to remove them.  

Stella chilling in the sun with her toy mouse.

Her new, hopefully, forever litter box.

Stella...

 

The entire time that we've had Stella she's had diarrhea off and on.  She's pooped💩 a ton.  We were just giving her time to get acclimated thinking it was stress of new environment or that we needed to switch her food.  We found out two days ago at the Vet that she in fact had a parasite that doesn't get taken care of with the normal kitten protocol meds that they give.  Two days into the meds and she's like a brand new kitten.  What a difference a couple days into a med can make.  This picture is of her once she got home from the Vet.  She was wore out.  

E. Staal's Jersey Retirement....

E. Staal is one of my favorite hockey players.  He's now retiring.  

The team all wore the number 12 at the game after the retirement ceremony.  

My Cabin at New Life Camp....

This was my cabin at New Life Camp when I was a camp counselor back in the early to mid '90's.  I spent four summers in that cabin and loved every minute of it.  The cabins were open air with wash sheds that were used for going to the bathroom and taking a shower.  I loved sharing Jesus with all the girls that were assigned to my cabin all those summers.  I got to watch as some of those girls became Jr. Counselors and then actual Counselors years after my time there.  Watching them grow in the Lord and now have families of their own and raising their kids to love the Lord has truly blessed my heart beyond measure.  I'm so thankful for social media in that regard because I've been able to keep up with so many of them.  This is what the new cabin that sits where the old cabin was looks like:

It has indoor plumbing with an HVAC system.  Definitely much nicer for today's kids then the rustic one that I had all those years ago.  

Here's some more pics that I want to share of all the changes that have taken place at New Life Camp since my time there.  I'm hoping to at some point to visit and see all the changes for myself up close and in person.  

Let's start with this picture.  The bottom portion is the dinning hall that I knew but the upper picture is the dinning hall all future generations will know:

This is an old picture that I'm sharing.

This next one is of the Tabernacle.  The first one is the one I knew and the second one is the one that all future generations will know.

The Tabernacle now sits where the maintinence building (pictured below) used to sit:

The bottom picture is of when it was first built and the second is of the Johnson men who all used that building for all the repairs of the camp just before they tore it down.  

There are more updates than what I've shown you here but I don't have pictures to share with you of them.  Suffice it to say that the camp I knew is gone and been replaced with a camp that is more conducive to how it runs now as compared to then.  I will always have such fond memories of the way that camp was when I was there.  I'm also hopeful for the years that the new camp will be able to run and accommodate all future endeavors of the camp and the souls that will be saved for Jesus because of all that they've done to improve camp for everyone!    May God Greatly Bless All That Come There!!!