...and I get to live here for the next few days.
Idaho is amazing. I am absolutely in love with it, and have been since I was born. I'm up here on the "King Farm" in Moore...a town outside of Arco and Lost River...where the famous King Mountain is that hang-gliders lift off of. The sunsets are spectacular, the air is clear, the weather wonderful...and up here, you can understand the phrase in America the Beautiful: Amber waves of grain. Truly, beauty in one of it's best forms.
Tuesday I had a neat experience. Backing up, I went to the Single's Branch with three of my boy cousins, and the oldest of the three said he was going to do Baptisms for the Dead with the youth of the Arco ward. So I got to ride with him, and do some family names, and go inside the Idaho Falls Temple for the first time. Wow. So beautiful. They're doing construction work outside on the Temple grounds, but I got some good pictures of the Temple itself...and the falls across the street were magnificent. Tristan said they were especially pretty when they had rocks at the edge of the falls, but still, I thought they were nice.
I drove my little brother on the three-wheeler over to the river down the ways, and we waded in it for a while on Monday. The water was cold...but you didn't notice after a while. ;) We did manage to lose one of his sandals, and despite our best efforts to retrieve it...nada... Oops. :P BUT!!! We went back yesterday, and it had gone down some, and we found it stuck on a piece of wood! Hallelujah! :)
This place has completely taken my heart...I wonder how I'll be able to return to home in Utah on Monday. :-/ I love Orem, and the people and where we live...but I can't seem to get over how this place is. I've seriously thought about living up here in a few years when I'm older and perhaps out of college...course, I could always transfer to BYU-I. Right? Eh... Not completely sure. I guess I'm just loving this change of pace. This scenery. The love of family and friends that is up here. Something. Blogger has been frustrating me for the past few minutes, as I've tried to add a few more pictures a few days after I first posted this. I had things ready, we stopped to get lunch, and I came back and my tumbdrive wasn't working, and my post had been deleted. (Gah!!) Thank goodness for ctrl-Z. :P Anyhow, here's the updated version. :)
...Here's some more pictures.
When Nathan and I went over to the river yesterday, we'd planned on coming home after about an hour. Nice amount of time to get a nice little tan, right? Well, then our family came, and we stayed for another couple of hours. I'd gotten sunscreen on before we went...but you can see how that went. This is how I am now...semi-red on the arms, and red and white on the top. :P
We went out to take some updated pictures for grandma's wall...but the wind was blowing, so we'll probably wait until later tonight. We got these this afternoon.
These are some evening shots of the farm...
This one is my favorite right now. :)
Utah is definitely good. But it's nice to know that I can always call Idaho Home. :)
Love, Me.
