<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647</id><updated>2012-01-27T09:50:00.015-07:00</updated><category term='My wonderful husband Micah'/><category term='Trent and Cody came to visit us in July 2007. We went bridge jumping and had a peaceful night at the sand dunes with a fire'/><category term='Joe and Lindsay and Roxy drove to Idaho to visit us. We went mountain climbing... swimming at Rigby lake... and out to Yellowstone National Park.'/><category term='assignment #2'/><category term='on the golf course.'/><category term='Time of Day assignment'/><category term='Fire at Sand dunes'/><category term='12 visits to same location throughout the semester: Monet'/><category term='moon is rising'/><category term='overlapping perspective-diminshing scale-linear perspective'/><category term='Beaver Dick park'/><category term='assignment #1'/><category term='color harmony-isolated-monochramatic-contrast'/><category term='My husband Micah'/><title type='text'>Pura Vida</title><subtitle type='html'>'Pure Life'</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Desiree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10044121739861853862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>47</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647.post-2816516070007398712</id><published>2010-01-20T15:24:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-20T15:45:27.698-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Another look inside!</title><content type='html'>HERE'S LOGAN AT 36 WEEKS GESTATION.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shannon practiced on me again, and I was able to get another peek at him. He has filled out so much since last time I seen him and I am in awe everytime I look at his little face. He was sleeping so sound when we peered in. He is so precious. There are a few shadows that prevented us from seeing his whole head, but if you like seeing these kinds of pictures- you'll get the idea. I can't wait, I can't wait, I can't wait.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/S1eD6p5IInI/AAAAAAAAAhQ/B1AZVALHidg/s1600-h/LOGAN_12.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/S1eD6p5IInI/AAAAAAAAAhQ/B1AZVALHidg/s400/LOGAN_12.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428952919519535730" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He was sleeping on his arms...like a real little person. :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/S1eD6_TJdTI/AAAAAAAAAhY/isPX-cDO1jA/s1600-h/LOGAN_51.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/S1eD6_TJdTI/AAAAAAAAAhY/isPX-cDO1jA/s400/LOGAN_51.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428952925265818930" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is looking down at him. A few more shadows in this one.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6602602650592597647-2816516070007398712?l=desireehawton.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/feeds/2816516070007398712/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6602602650592597647&amp;postID=2816516070007398712&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/2816516070007398712'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/2816516070007398712'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/2010/01/another-look-inside.html' title='Another look inside!'/><author><name>Desiree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10044121739861853862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/S1eD6p5IInI/AAAAAAAAAhQ/B1AZVALHidg/s72-c/LOGAN_12.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647.post-7747511686055173147</id><published>2010-01-04T15:17:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-04T15:22:46.313-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Logan's 3D Pictures</title><content type='html'>Shannon (my cousin) is practicing how to take 3D images. I was able to have her practice on me and we got some neat-sneak-peak pictures of Logan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;embed src="http://widget-e2.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="l" wmode="transparent" flashvars="cy=bb&amp;amp;il=1&amp;amp;channel=3386706919823026146&amp;amp;site=widget-e2.slide.com" style="width:400px;height:320px" name="flashticker" align="middle"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div style="width:400px;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;at=un&amp;amp;id=3386706919823026146&amp;amp;map=1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-e2.slide.com/p1/3386706919823026146/bb_t001_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide1.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;at=un&amp;amp;id=3386706919823026146&amp;amp;map=2" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-e2.slide.com/p2/3386706919823026146/bb_t001_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide2.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;at=un&amp;id=3386706919823026146&amp;map=F" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-e2.slide.com/p4/3386706919823026146/bb_t001_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide42.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6602602650592597647-7747511686055173147?l=desireehawton.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/feeds/7747511686055173147/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6602602650592597647&amp;postID=7747511686055173147&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/7747511686055173147'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/7747511686055173147'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/2010/01/logans-3d-pictures.html' title='Logan&apos;s 3D Pictures'/><author><name>Desiree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10044121739861853862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647.post-6257325237287839611</id><published>2009-12-06T13:20:00.005-07:00</published><updated>2009-12-06T13:25:07.677-07:00</updated><title type='text'>30 weeks: posing for the camera</title><content type='html'>Che Morris (WhiteOrchidPhotography.blogspot.com) took some awesome pictures of my pregnancy. She is amazing. I'm excited to always have these and treasure them. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;embed src="http://widget-90.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="l" wmode="transparent" flashvars="cy=bb&amp;amp;il=1&amp;amp;channel=3386706919820951184&amp;amp;site=widget-90.slide.com" style="width:400px;height:320px" name="flashticker" align="middle"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div style="width:400px;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;at=un&amp;amp;id=3386706919820951184&amp;amp;map=1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-90.slide.com/p1/3386706919820951184/bb_t047_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide1.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;at=un&amp;amp;id=3386706919820951184&amp;amp;map=2" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-90.slide.com/p2/3386706919820951184/bb_t047_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide2.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;at=un&amp;id=3386706919820951184&amp;map=F" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-90.slide.com/p4/3386706919820951184/bb_t047_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide42.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can't wait to meet you Logan.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6602602650592597647-6257325237287839611?l=desireehawton.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/feeds/6257325237287839611/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6602602650592597647&amp;postID=6257325237287839611&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/6257325237287839611'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/6257325237287839611'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/2009/12/30-weeks-posing-for-camera.html' title='30 weeks: posing for the camera'/><author><name>Desiree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10044121739861853862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647.post-1936499431656725183</id><published>2009-10-14T15:02:00.006-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-14T15:18:02.475-07:00</updated><title type='text'>17 wks to go...</title><content type='html'>Here are some pictures and updates to how the babe and I are doing!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/StZK9Tuw43I/AAAAAAAAAhA/bExfbKOU2LE/s1600-h/14+wk+US+c.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 304px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/StZK9Tuw43I/AAAAAAAAAhA/bExfbKOU2LE/s400/14+wk+US+c.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392580020951638898" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is the 14 week Ultrasound picture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/StZK8vC0kmI/AAAAAAAAAgw/074DC7dRaeE/s1600-h/14+wk+US+a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 304px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/StZK8vC0kmI/AAAAAAAAAgw/074DC7dRaeE/s400/14+wk+US+a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392580011103654498" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is where they ruined the surprise we were hoping to have... it's a boy! I thought it would be too early to see what I was having so I didn't think I had to tell the techs' that I didn't want to know. Apparently they didn't care to ask whether I wanted to know either. We weren't at all disappointed though. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/StZKt7rbSvI/AAAAAAAAAgo/Bwy6VTviQq8/s1600-h/18+wks+b.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/StZKt7rbSvI/AAAAAAAAAgo/Bwy6VTviQq8/s400/18+wks+b.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392579756797151986" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;18 weeks. The bump is growing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/StZKtcacRuI/AAAAAAAAAgg/4R3in1YruNA/s1600-h/20+wks.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 335px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/StZKtcacRuI/AAAAAAAAAgg/4R3in1YruNA/s400/20+wks.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392579748404414178" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;20 weeks. I'm really looking pregnant. Right at my 20 week mark I got into a car accident. I was stopped at a red light and a kid didn't even see us sitting there. He ran so hard into the back of my car that it pushed me into another car. My Volkswagen just buckled right up. My drivers seat and head rest were broken after the impact. I got severe whiplash and a sore back and had to go get checked out at the hospital to make sure the baby was OK. We heard his heartbeat and everything was turning out OK with him. His heart was a little fast but we couldn't blame him. My poor baby!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/StZKsFK-xYI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/K6ROvNxHp24/s1600-h/20+wk+US+b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/StZKsFK-xYI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/K6ROvNxHp24/s400/20+wk+US+b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392579724985681282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 days later we got to have an ultrasound of him, his 20 wk ultrasound. He is so beautiful. We can tell already that he is going to have his daddy's big lips. YAY!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/StZKr9LWsgI/AAAAAAAAAgI/VQBnZwIg5vE/s1600-h/20+wk+US+a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/StZKr9LWsgI/AAAAAAAAAgI/VQBnZwIg5vE/s400/20+wk+US+a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392579722839765506" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/StZKshFf32I/AAAAAAAAAgY/2lvi-25PG8Y/s1600-h/20+wk+US+c.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 306px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/StZKshFf32I/AAAAAAAAAgY/2lvi-25PG8Y/s400/20+wk+US+c.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392579732478877538" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No doubt about it... He's definitely a boy!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6602602650592597647-1936499431656725183?l=desireehawton.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/feeds/1936499431656725183/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6602602650592597647&amp;postID=1936499431656725183&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/1936499431656725183'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/1936499431656725183'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/2009/10/17-wks-to-go.html' title='17 wks to go...'/><author><name>Desiree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10044121739861853862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/StZK9Tuw43I/AAAAAAAAAhA/bExfbKOU2LE/s72-c/14+wk+US+c.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647.post-1402590849806526224</id><published>2009-07-30T14:27:00.006-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-30T15:06:04.189-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Village People</title><content type='html'>We went up to the monkey sanctuary last weekend. We took a walk in the jungle and found some monkeys. We got to each hold a banana up and the monkeys would hang onto the branch with their hind legs and fall forward to gently open the banana as it was being held. The monkeys would look you in the eye and back at the banana, it was quite surreal compared to what I'm used to doing on a normal weekend. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SnIY7w19_tI/AAAAAAAAAfg/nRn4xb9FKAk/s1600-h/DSC01565.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SnIY7w19_tI/AAAAAAAAAfg/nRn4xb9FKAk/s400/DSC01565.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364377521154293458" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We then got to go to Wili Waterfalls. It was a huge waterfall and the rock wall next to and behind the falls were completely covered with bats. We tried yelling to get them to stir and it didn't work. Then our tour guide banged a 2x4 onto the dock making a huge echo and they all awoke and took flight above us. There were hundreds flying around. Reminds my of the good ole' days in the Minneapolis house. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SnIWWvhivPI/AAAAAAAAAew/Y_Kz_jdtwvg/s1600-h/DSC01594.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SnIWWvhivPI/AAAAAAAAAew/Y_Kz_jdtwvg/s400/DSC01594.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364374686121770226" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SnIY7fVcxiI/AAAAAAAAAfY/LmWrlxgBK8k/s1600-h/DSC01583.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SnIY7fVcxiI/AAAAAAAAAfY/LmWrlxgBK8k/s400/DSC01583.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364377516454495778" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That night at the monkey sanctuary the villagers preformed a cultural experience for us. They had a story teller there who's been telling stories for 30 years. He was blind and had a translator. All his stories had wonderful morals that he shared to us that were sitting in a circle around him. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SnIWXX6aXKI/AAAAAAAAAfA/iuHsLToqkzc/s1600-h/DSC01619.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SnIWXX6aXKI/AAAAAAAAAfA/iuHsLToqkzc/s400/DSC01619.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364374696963497122" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SnIWXDodlQI/AAAAAAAAAe4/hbW2oVuAJiQ/s1600-h/DSC01622.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SnIWXDodlQI/AAAAAAAAAe4/hbW2oVuAJiQ/s400/DSC01622.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364374691519501570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the stories were thru we were entertained my drummers and singing. Dancers came to dance around the fire in their traditional style. We ended up joining them and it was real neat (and sweaty).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SnIWXxo3LQI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/7MZGYkvBIL4/s1600-h/DSC01639.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SnIWXxo3LQI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/7MZGYkvBIL4/s400/DSC01639.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364374703869209858" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SnIWXtdN4FI/AAAAAAAAAfI/L_QinazEIhE/s1600-h/DSC01624.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SnIWXtdN4FI/AAAAAAAAAfI/L_QinazEIhE/s400/DSC01624.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364374702746624082" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That night we got to sleep in a home under a mosquito net. Pajamas consisted of pants, socks and everything covered up. It was a very long and hot night.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6602602650592597647-1402590849806526224?l=desireehawton.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/feeds/1402590849806526224/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6602602650592597647&amp;postID=1402590849806526224&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/1402590849806526224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/1402590849806526224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/2009/07/village-people.html' title='The Village People'/><author><name>Desiree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10044121739861853862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SnIY7w19_tI/AAAAAAAAAfg/nRn4xb9FKAk/s72-c/DSC01565.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647.post-4646279490458799994</id><published>2009-07-26T15:37:00.006-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-27T06:15:37.086-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Three little pigs</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Smzc3g4OlCI/AAAAAAAAAeg/7Jx12JIrjr4/s1600-h/DSC01103.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Smzc3g4OlCI/AAAAAAAAAeg/7Jx12JIrjr4/s400/DSC01103.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362904102568104994" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We got up early on Friday 7/17 to start on our 14.5 hour drive to Mole National Park. The last three hours were nothing but big bumps and unavoidable potholes. We literally spent three hours jiggling non-stop. It was 8:00pm when we finally arrived. It was time to unload our stuff to our rooms when we were greeted at our door by a few guests. There were three wart hogs sleeping right in front of our door. We were excited and frightened all at the same time. How would we get in we wondered? The whole group of us stood around amazed when a hotel personnel came to throw rocks at them to scare them off. They grunted and squealed but we were the ones scared. We were yelling and trying to get out of the way. It was quite the site, I'm sure. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SmzcIN6VmRI/AAAAAAAAAdo/CyTB8ktTgtk/s1600-h/DSC00926.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SmzcIN6VmRI/AAAAAAAAAdo/CyTB8ktTgtk/s400/DSC00926.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362903290022828306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next morning we started the day with a walking safari. It was beautiful weather and we were ready to see some wildlife. We started walking thru a village and low and behold, there were elephants, baboons and warthogs wondering around the village people. And how completely normal it was for them. We stared in amazement. Elephants are such beautiful creatures. As soon as one would turn toward us and look at us that was our cue not to get any closer. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SmzcIQlR6ZI/AAAAAAAAAdw/XiOj-xFFQAs/s1600-h/DSC00945.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SmzcIQlR6ZI/AAAAAAAAAdw/XiOj-xFFQAs/s400/DSC00945.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362903290739812754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SmzcIiEQ5KI/AAAAAAAAAd4/uF0OE5g-lLo/s1600-h/DSC00961.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SmzcIiEQ5KI/AAAAAAAAAd4/uF0OE5g-lLo/s400/DSC00961.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362903295433172130" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We continued to walk down thru the jungle to the watering hole. Along the way we saw many antelope, water buck, wart hogs and interesting birds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Smzf0YZz-5I/AAAAAAAAAeo/yNDhVwOLgLM/s1600-h/DSC00980.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Smzf0YZz-5I/AAAAAAAAAeo/yNDhVwOLgLM/s400/DSC00980.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362907347288325010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SmzcJdvvYAI/AAAAAAAAAeI/lmi-Z_74kcw/s1600-h/DSC01050.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SmzcJdvvYAI/AAAAAAAAAeI/lmi-Z_74kcw/s400/DSC01050.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362903311453216770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SmzcJCw19sI/AAAAAAAAAeA/O-IF4_tGYHg/s1600-h/DSC01041.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SmzcJCw19sI/AAAAAAAAAeA/O-IF4_tGYHg/s400/DSC01041.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362903304210085570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lynley and I in front of the watering hole. It was so beautiful there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Smzc3PGzh3I/AAAAAAAAAeQ/wzCxpAItvj0/s1600-h/DSC01068.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Smzc3PGzh3I/AAAAAAAAAeQ/wzCxpAItvj0/s400/DSC01068.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362904097797408626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our safari guide: Kope. Gun loaded and ready.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Smzc3dA0w-I/AAAAAAAAAeY/nYgVcqgz2LM/s1600-h/DSC01080.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Smzc3dA0w-I/AAAAAAAAAeY/nYgVcqgz2LM/s400/DSC01080.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362904101530420194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We were greeted by a red monkey while eating breakfast. He jumped on our table and took a drink out one students glass of juice then ran off not before scratching another students arm as she tried protecting her juice. Don't stop the monkeys from getting what they want is the lesson. We had a wonderful weekend full of adventure.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6602602650592597647-4646279490458799994?l=desireehawton.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/feeds/4646279490458799994/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6602602650592597647&amp;postID=4646279490458799994&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/4646279490458799994'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/4646279490458799994'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/2009/07/three-little-pigs.html' title='Three little pigs'/><author><name>Desiree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10044121739861853862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Smzc3g4OlCI/AAAAAAAAAeg/7Jx12JIrjr4/s72-c/DSC01103.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647.post-5316578116002643646</id><published>2009-07-26T15:18:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-27T06:16:24.182-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Women without a voice</title><content type='html'>We went to Manya Krobo again to teach a women's group about AIDS prevention. They are young girls going to school to learn a trade. They are learning to cook, sew and more so they can provide for themselves and their family. Samuel, the peer educators leader has found some of the girls himself off the streets. Some of them were working as prostitutes and his good heart would save money and find away for these girls to get off the streets and learn to make something they can sell besides themselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SmzYa0esVCI/AAAAAAAAAdg/Vsyort8ZE90/s1600-h/DSC00839.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SmzYa0esVCI/AAAAAAAAAdg/Vsyort8ZE90/s400/DSC00839.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362899211566994466" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We were welcomed by beautiful song and prayer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SmzYaZUdMyI/AAAAAAAAAdY/dH6u06Tu3kE/s1600-h/DSC00852.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SmzYaZUdMyI/AAAAAAAAAdY/dH6u06Tu3kE/s400/DSC00852.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362899204276302626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lynley introduced a skit for them to learn how AIDS weakens the body and allows it to become a host to many other diseases. This turned out to be a fun and helpful learning tool for them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SmzYaGYTWII/AAAAAAAAAdQ/oyjConM1YTY/s1600-h/DSC00884.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SmzYaGYTWII/AAAAAAAAAdQ/oyjConM1YTY/s400/DSC00884.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362899199192160386" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deborah (above) and Abigail (below) were 2 of the 3 girls that I interviewed before and after the lesson. Deborah liked a pair of my shoes and I ended up giving her a pair of my flip flops the last day we worked with them. It was a nice feeling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SmzYZwkV5pI/AAAAAAAAAdI/EtyXzyulttE/s1600-h/DSC00883.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SmzYZwkV5pI/AAAAAAAAAdI/EtyXzyulttE/s400/DSC00883.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362899193337079442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These girls were scared to tell us the answers to some of our questions we could notice. They didn't want to be embarrassed. But one thing we noticed was how they don't stick up for themselves. It's okay for their husbands to rape them because it's their responsibility to put out for them when they so desire. We tried to teach them that it was still wrong to be raped even if it's by your husband. We tried using the approach that they should tell the authorities if this happens to them. We quickly learned that the police would only laugh at them and tell the woman to go back home and apologize to her husband, and she may even be taken advantage of by the corrupt police themselves. The pastor that was there with the girls kept asking if we were trying to teach them American law or African law. We were the ones in for a wake up call. It was sad and discouraging to try to teach these ladies what's right and help them have the courage to stick up for themselves and only allow them to be in a good situation at home, while the pastor was countering most things we had to say about their rights. We only hope that the little ripple we've made here will have an impact on some of their lives.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6602602650592597647-5316578116002643646?l=desireehawton.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/feeds/5316578116002643646/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6602602650592597647&amp;postID=5316578116002643646&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/5316578116002643646'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/5316578116002643646'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/2009/07/women-without-voice.html' title='Women without a voice'/><author><name>Desiree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10044121739861853862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SmzYa0esVCI/AAAAAAAAAdg/Vsyort8ZE90/s72-c/DSC00839.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647.post-4586246037890824896</id><published>2009-07-12T13:42:00.006-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-12T14:16:19.002-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Rough Ryder</title><content type='html'>On Monday and Wednesday 7/6 &amp; 7/8 we went on a two hour bus ride to Monya Krobo to teach our first group about AIDS Prevention.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlpNWLX3uaI/AAAAAAAAAcw/X6G7CL0whvw/s1600-h/DSC00355.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlpNWLX3uaI/AAAAAAAAAcw/X6G7CL0whvw/s400/DSC00355.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357679750115998114" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We arrived to a warm welcome. They were playing drums and singing as we approached, we took our seats in front of them and listened as they continued. It was a neat way to be greeted and I actually was excited to start. We arrived so late the first day however that we couldn't get through to my first lesson. I would be teaching on Wednesday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlpNW6J7-tI/AAAAAAAAAdA/fBBti1IuKuU/s1600-h/DSC00375.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlpNW6J7-tI/AAAAAAAAAdA/fBBti1IuKuU/s400/DSC00375.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357679762674023122" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jonathon (18 y.o.) was one of the three guys that I interviewed before we started our lessons. We wanted to know a little about them, their knowledge and current beliefs about HIV/AIDS and some personal questions about their own sexual experiences. When we completed our interviews we started with our lessons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlpNWYk99GI/AAAAAAAAAc4/eR7d1nbaDko/s1600-h/DSC00359.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlpNWYk99GI/AAAAAAAAAc4/eR7d1nbaDko/s400/DSC00359.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357679753660593250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We had to stand in front of the group and speak about myths of contracting HIV, cultural factors, the ABC's of prevention (Abstinence, Being faithful, and Condoms). testing and more. The Condom lesson was the most popular among the group. They had lots of questions about how many to wear, how frequent to change them and how gentle to be when using them. It became a very interesting topic and a little off track. One guy was actually telling a story of when his fell off in the girl, and the following steps asking her to look for it and then he proceeded to give the group advice on which condoms are a poor chose. The Rough Ryder is one that makes it feel like you are wearing a rain coat apparently. Oh, the knowledge that was shared today. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When we finished with our lessons we conducted a final interview of each person. We were trying to gauge how effective the lessons were, if any of them learned anything, etc. One of my interviewees wasn't honest with me the first time and opened up the second time about his first time having sex relating to the questions in the interview. He was only 12 his first time. Many of us heard some interesting things relating to having sex at a young age (for whatever reason). It makes you think. I'm just grateful to be a US citizen and to not have to worry as much about these problems. It is so humbling to teach them about AIDS and to witness how much they actually don't know. Some of them even thought you could get AIDS from a curse being placed on them.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6602602650592597647-4586246037890824896?l=desireehawton.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/feeds/4586246037890824896/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6602602650592597647&amp;postID=4586246037890824896&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/4586246037890824896'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/4586246037890824896'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/2009/07/rough-ryder.html' title='Rough Ryder'/><author><name>Desiree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10044121739861853862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlpNWLX3uaI/AAAAAAAAAcw/X6G7CL0whvw/s72-c/DSC00355.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647.post-5101589290301912396</id><published>2009-07-08T08:45:00.012-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-08T09:20:13.780-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Teshi Orphanage</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlTAa4ivBqI/AAAAAAAAAbA/IC4hy_DAzT8/s1600-h/DSC00259.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlTAa4ivBqI/AAAAAAAAAbA/IC4hy_DAzT8/s400/DSC00259.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356117424937567906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We went to the Teshi Orphanage on Monday 6 July. The kids were very shy at first but it didn't take long to gain their friendship. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlTCYT7oH8I/AAAAAAAAAcI/AdvknP8LTZI/s1600-h/DSC00332.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlTCYT7oH8I/AAAAAAAAAcI/AdvknP8LTZI/s400/DSC00332.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356119579773378498" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We played many games with them. Red Rover - Red Rover, red light green light, and we had them teach us some games.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlTCX835vHI/AAAAAAAAAcA/FDXE6KbtLB8/s1600-h/DSC00317.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlTCX835vHI/AAAAAAAAAcA/FDXE6KbtLB8/s400/DSC00317.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356119573583740018" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Football is everyone's favorite sport, it was pretty exciting for them that the boys brought them a soccer ball to play with.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlTCXeelhZI/AAAAAAAAAbw/jqWcustdn6I/s1600-h/DSC00287.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlTCXeelhZI/AAAAAAAAAbw/jqWcustdn6I/s400/DSC00287.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356119565424493970" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The children were so sweet...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlTCW2pCnkI/AAAAAAAAAbo/aSoQg1PU5v0/s1600-h/DSC00286.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlTCW2pCnkI/AAAAAAAAAbo/aSoQg1PU5v0/s400/DSC00286.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356119554730925634" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and innocent...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlTAcQjMEGI/AAAAAAAAAbg/MQFbZeBODW4/s1600-h/DSC00293.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlTAcQjMEGI/AAAAAAAAAbg/MQFbZeBODW4/s400/DSC00293.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356117448561791074" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and adorable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlTAcONtMYI/AAAAAAAAAbY/FXIo9spngkY/s1600-h/DSC00288.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlTAcONtMYI/AAAAAAAAAbY/FXIo9spngkY/s400/DSC00288.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356117447934816642" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm so excited to go back next week to play more games.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlTAbnEiJvI/AAAAAAAAAbQ/FGezPP62Hzg/s1600-h/DSC00285.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlTAbnEiJvI/AAAAAAAAAbQ/FGezPP62Hzg/s400/DSC00285.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356117437427361522" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Desmond was the youngest one there. Everyone fell in love with him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlTAbadG68I/AAAAAAAAAbI/bhfJs-1w4ug/s1600-h/DSC00271.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlTAbadG68I/AAAAAAAAAbI/bhfJs-1w4ug/s400/DSC00271.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356117434040773570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Carlie, Valeri and Anne Marie (below) got lost and they didn't show up until ten minutes before it was time to leave. To top it off Anne Marie cut her leg on the way out of the taxi. Thank goodness for Tetanus shots.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlTCXlbyd6I/AAAAAAAAAb4/uB5NqAu3jWQ/s1600-h/DSC00312.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlTCXlbyd6I/AAAAAAAAAb4/uB5NqAu3jWQ/s400/DSC00312.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356119567291807650" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6602602650592597647-5101589290301912396?l=desireehawton.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/feeds/5101589290301912396/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6602602650592597647&amp;postID=5101589290301912396&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/5101589290301912396'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/5101589290301912396'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/2009/07/teshi-orphanage.html' title='Teshi Orphanage'/><author><name>Desiree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10044121739861853862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlTAa4ivBqI/AAAAAAAAAbA/IC4hy_DAzT8/s72-c/DSC00259.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647.post-913139380386644589</id><published>2009-07-07T16:20:00.005-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-08T09:19:22.903-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Grays Memorial School</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlPZd8TkwLI/AAAAAAAAAa4/YjkGRTspFxQ/s1600-h/DSC00252.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlPZd8TkwLI/AAAAAAAAAa4/YjkGRTspFxQ/s400/DSC00252.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355863490301313202" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We got to go to the school for the first time on Monday 6 July, to introduce ourselves to the Head Mistress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlPZdafEnRI/AAAAAAAAAaw/zx1L9jDhNB8/s1600-h/DSC00244.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlPZdafEnRI/AAAAAAAAAaw/zx1L9jDhNB8/s400/DSC00244.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355863481222733074" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The kids were so excited to see us. It was overwhelming and unlike any greeting I've had before. It completely eased all fears I had of teaching them (for them moment anyway).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlPZdKXSYrI/AAAAAAAAAao/4vwNmRkYxKg/s1600-h/DSC00235.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlPZdKXSYrI/AAAAAAAAAao/4vwNmRkYxKg/s400/DSC00235.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355863476895113906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You know how when you start feeding geese and they crowd around you closer and closer and then all there friends come and you try to back away slowly and look for a getaway? As soon as we took out our cameras it was like feeding geese. They kept getting closer and closer and all of them wanted there picture taken, but would stand so close it was difficult to get them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlPZcajITzI/AAAAAAAAAag/lAVxxITMPB0/s1600-h/DSC00242.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlPZcajITzI/AAAAAAAAAag/lAVxxITMPB0/s400/DSC00242.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355863464059883314" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The girl above was real excited her her photo opp, she begged for her picture to be taken. She was pushing all the other kids away so it would be just her in the picture. When she was done pushing them away and had me to herself she gave me the most serious expression until I was finished with her picture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlPZbxAyEHI/AAAAAAAAAaY/6OmrrHBX2Ik/s1600-h/DSC00243.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlPZbxAyEHI/AAAAAAAAAaY/6OmrrHBX2Ik/s400/DSC00243.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355863452909965426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They were all such beautiful children.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6602602650592597647-913139380386644589?l=desireehawton.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/feeds/913139380386644589/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6602602650592597647&amp;postID=913139380386644589&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/913139380386644589'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/913139380386644589'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/2009/07/greys-memorial-school.html' title='Grays Memorial School'/><author><name>Desiree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10044121739861853862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SlPZd8TkwLI/AAAAAAAAAa4/YjkGRTspFxQ/s72-c/DSC00252.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647.post-6918657693947118775</id><published>2009-07-05T15:47:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-05T16:20:41.141-07:00</updated><title type='text'>number 1 weekend fun</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;embed src="http://widget-cc.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="l" wmode="transparent" flashvars="cy=bb&amp;amp;il=1&amp;amp;channel=3386706919805601484&amp;amp;site=widget-cc.slide.com" style="width:400px;height:320px" name="flashticker" align="middle"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div style="width:400px;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;at=un&amp;amp;id=3386706919805601484&amp;amp;map=1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-cc.slide.com/p1/3386706919805601484/bb_t028_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide1.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;at=un&amp;amp;id=3386706919805601484&amp;amp;map=2" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-cc.slide.com/p2/3386706919805601484/bb_t028_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide2.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;at=un&amp;id=3386706919805601484&amp;map=F" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-cc.slide.com/p4/3386706919805601484/bb_t028_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide42.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fourth of July was a little different this weekend. No parades, fireworks or hanging out at the cabin with family and friends. Instead when we got up and decided to take a walk we ended up going to a local hospital to see around and what conditions are like. We got to tour the children's ward. They invited us as if they had been expecting us. It was quite unusual. 85-90% of the children there were being treated for malaria. The rooms were small. 5-6 kids per room, beds and cribs in the hallway with children lying on them. When we were finished looking around we asked if there was anything we could do to help out. They kept asking if we knew how to do several things related to nurses line of work such as putting in IV's etc. We had to admit we didn't have many skills to offer. They amused us and let some of the girls change bandages and take pulse and temps. Jon got to watch the doctor drain a babies bloated stomach/intestine, while Kate and I just got assigned to visit with the patients. I quickly wondered what the heck are we doing here. We went into a room and introduced our selves to the mothers in there. We talked with them and then they wanted to teach us Twi. We got pretty good at several of the sayings. I don't remember half of them now though. I sort of felt like their puppet. They had too much fun with us and laughing at us I think. Making them smile is all that counts though, Right? lol. We left the hospital with an invitation to come back. It was so amazing to see what it's like there, I'm so glad we could go.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When we got home we got ready to go to the beach. La Badi Beach. We show up and the first thing you see are piles of trash. It wasn't the cleanest or prettiest beach. As soon as we touch sand several guys on horses came up to us. A few of us went for rides. It was really cool to be able to look of into the ocean while going horseback. We also got to ride in the shallow part of the water too. It was a nice touch. When we found our seats we were bombarded by vendors. We knew we would be but some were relentless even when you told them no and that you didn't like their stuff, they'd still try to sell to you. Peti was really cool though. He liked the dreads and had some crazy ones of his own. I bought a couple of bracelets from him and he taught me to weave a style that I had wanted to learn for awhile. He didn't charge anything. They had some wonderful things at the beach however. One man was there and had beautiful drums. I bought one and hope it makes it home safe. He even showed us how he carves into the bottom of it. Peti told us about a reggae party they are having on the beach on Wednesday night. All the rasta's will be coming out. The whole group has decided to go to the party on Wed. It will be one of our cultural events that we need to do. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today we went to the LDS church. It's right next to the beautiful temple. At church we got to witness a couple of confirmations and a testimony meeting. The Ghanaians have stronger testimonies than anybody I've heard. They all acknowledged how grateful they are for having another year that they lived through. Their testimonies were so sincere and strong and powerful. It was tough keeping back tears at this meeting. We also got to meet the lady from the cover of July's Ensign. I have my picture with her. She is the Stake Relief Society President. A neat woman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This evening we went for a walk and ran into Isaac a neighborhood boy. We asked him to show us somewhere neat to go and we pointed out a church we could see and he lead us there. It was a prayer church open to all religions. You have to take off your shows and the women need to put scarves on their heads before they can enter. It was interesting. Not as much as the Presbryterian church we went to after; also led by Isaac, this is his church. The had an evening service taking place and invited us in. We observed for a while. It was so very loud. They had an enthusiastic reverend and drums and guitars playing while he spoke and prayed. Then we were about to leave and they totally called us out and said we should really stay for another 1/2 hour. They started doing some unusual ceremony that I've never seen before and a little bit after that people started to go up to the front and dance and sing. 1/2 of the people there were now in the front dancing away. They told us we could take pictures and join them if we'd like. After we got the courage some of the girls and I went ahead and joined them up front to dance around. It was so hot in there, sweat was dripping from all of us. We were all sticky and probably not a pretty site. Needless to say the freezing cold shower I had to take didn't feel as bad tonight.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6602602650592597647-6918657693947118775?l=desireehawton.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/feeds/6918657693947118775/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6602602650592597647&amp;postID=6918657693947118775&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/6918657693947118775'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/6918657693947118775'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/2009/07/number-1-weekend-fun.html' title='number 1 weekend fun'/><author><name>Desiree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10044121739861853862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647.post-4964084614659270119</id><published>2009-07-03T13:38:00.005-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-03T13:51:45.427-07:00</updated><title type='text'>1st day in Ghana</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;embed src="http://widget-59.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="l" wmode="transparent" flashvars="cy=bb&amp;amp;il=1&amp;amp;channel=3530822107881248601&amp;amp;site=widget-59.slide.com" style="width:400px;height:320px" name="flashticker" align="middle"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div style="width:400px;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;at=un&amp;amp;id=3530822107881248601&amp;amp;map=1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-59.slide.com/p1/3530822107881248601/bb_t056_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide1.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;at=un&amp;amp;id=3530822107881248601&amp;amp;map=2" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-59.slide.com/p2/3530822107881248601/bb_t056_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide2.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;at=un&amp;id=3530822107881248601&amp;map=F" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-59.slide.com/p4/3530822107881248601/bb_t056_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide42.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was a long flight but we made it. I'm not sure how real it feels yet. Today they just want us to relax and hydrate so we get used to the altitude. The hardest thing so far was saying goodbye to Micah at the airport. It was so hard to hold back the tears (don't be fooled by the picture of us smiling, it's just for the camera). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On our bus ride to the Pink hostel (our new home) there were street vendors all over walking in the middle of the street. They were selling bicycle tires to food to clothes to you-name-it. You really get to see and appreciate how strong the women are. So many are so poised while carrying large objects and baskets on their heads. Our teacher mentioned that they feel if you are not strong you would die in Ghana. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I look forward to tomorrow because we get to go to the beach (free day while the teacher has to hang out at the airport to pick up the rest of the students). Hope I don't burn. :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Love you guys!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6602602650592597647-4964084614659270119?l=desireehawton.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/feeds/4964084614659270119/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6602602650592597647&amp;postID=4964084614659270119&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/4964084614659270119'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/4964084614659270119'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/2009/07/1st-day-in-ghana.html' title='1st day in Ghana'/><author><name>Desiree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10044121739861853862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647.post-2467545001862945196</id><published>2009-07-01T22:43:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-01T23:10:30.319-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Things don't always happen on our timing, they just happen when they're supposed to.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SkxKUTzTUAI/AAAAAAAAAZU/iODR56lBwuc/s1600-h/positive+1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SkxKUTzTUAI/AAAAAAAAAZU/iODR56lBwuc/s400/positive+1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353735769809965058" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We received some wonderful news...we are going to have a baby! We've tried so hard and long for several years. Last year I was on Clomid from February to December hoping to 'get lucky.' In January of this year we decided to take a break so we could regather ourselves mentally and physically. It takes quite a toll on you to try so long with no success. The doctors told us that we were infertile. Really just me, Micah was fine. :) But now appears to be our time (with no medical intervention I might add).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SkxKU7-3aKI/AAAAAAAAAZc/lqBKu9XIYH4/s1600-h/positive+3.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SkxKU7-3aKI/AAAAAAAAAZc/lqBKu9XIYH4/s400/positive+3.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353735780595886242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are two lines. Holy cow. I actually found out with the blood test first since I was on a diet with hCG. I had a strong feeling I was pregnant but the doctors wanted to take two quantitative tests a week apart to compare the numbers and be sure the diet wasn't affecting the test results. It was a couple weeks later that I took the urine test "for fun." &lt;br /&gt;This has given me a real testimony that the Lord is always looking out for us. It was hard to wait at times, but I definitely know why it happened now vs. when we were trying earlier. The almighty is amazing and really does do things on His time, the right time. We are just so thankful that we get the chance to have a child of our own. There was question for awhile that we'd have to find other ways to be parents. We feel so blessed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SkxKUE4JeNI/AAAAAAAAAZM/7DoQfa4Cx5w/s1600-h/1st+US+f.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SkxKUE4JeNI/AAAAAAAAAZM/7DoQfa4Cx5w/s400/1st+US+f.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353735765803759826" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SkxKT3LwfmI/AAAAAAAAAZE/Jw-9CemJI00/s1600-h/1st+US+c.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SkxKT3LwfmI/AAAAAAAAAZE/Jw-9CemJI00/s400/1st+US+c.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353735762127912546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We had an ultrasound on Tuesday, 6/30/09. The date they told us to go by is different than the one on the US. We had two different measurements and they say our due date should be around 2/11/10. We are so excited, I can't say that enough. It's sort of surreal still. I read that February is the month with the least amount of babies born in it. (Maybe because there is the least amount of days in the month, but still very interesting.) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SkxKVDFv8TI/AAAAAAAAAZk/MYw_DmBPVtI/s1600-h/basinet+3.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SkxKVDFv8TI/AAAAAAAAAZk/MYw_DmBPVtI/s400/basinet+3.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353735782503805234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;We've had the bassinet for awhile. It was like encouragement for us while we were hoping to get pregnant and then just became discouragement. It's been stored away for some time now. When I told Micah that it was for sure after both tests proved what I already knew he pulled it out of storage and set it up in the living room for me. He's so sweet. It fits there perfectly. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Things don't always happen on our timing, they just happen when they're supposed to.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6602602650592597647-2467545001862945196?l=desireehawton.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/feeds/2467545001862945196/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6602602650592597647&amp;postID=2467545001862945196&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/2467545001862945196'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/2467545001862945196'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/2009/07/things-dont-always-happen-on-our-timing.html' title='Things don&apos;t always happen on our timing, they just happen when they&apos;re supposed to.'/><author><name>Desiree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10044121739861853862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SkxKUTzTUAI/AAAAAAAAAZU/iODR56lBwuc/s72-c/positive+1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647.post-3080510406948640070</id><published>2009-06-17T17:11:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-17T17:18:31.338-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Only 14 days to take off...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SjmGmQwqKdI/AAAAAAAAAY8/KPCl8x9JEsI/s1600-h/P6170717.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SjmGmQwqKdI/AAAAAAAAAY8/KPCl8x9JEsI/s320/P6170717.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348454024371382738" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My countdown board at work has improved greatly thanks to Mindy and some others who have wanted to share some messages with me before I go. It has become so Beautiful and fun to look at everyday. The elephant is a fantastic touch! So many people are tracking my countdown to Africa, even co-workers in other departments stop by to check out my board and see the ever decreasing number. It has been fun and quite amazing to the how darn fast it falls. I honestly can't believe I take off on the airplane in 2 WEEKS!!! I will be in Ghana in 15 DAYS! Holy Smokes! Can you believe it?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6602602650592597647-3080510406948640070?l=desireehawton.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/feeds/3080510406948640070/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6602602650592597647&amp;postID=3080510406948640070&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/3080510406948640070'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/3080510406948640070'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/2009/06/only-14-days-to-take-off.html' title='Only 14 days to take off...'/><author><name>Desiree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10044121739861853862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SjmGmQwqKdI/AAAAAAAAAY8/KPCl8x9JEsI/s72-c/P6170717.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647.post-5141989746265236083</id><published>2009-06-17T16:32:00.007-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-17T17:02:57.530-07:00</updated><title type='text'>No Doubt Concert 5-25-09</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Sjl-8Hz9hEI/AAAAAAAAAXk/guQ7dKIJX3g/s1600-h/P5250499.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Sjl-8Hz9hEI/AAAAAAAAAXk/guQ7dKIJX3g/s200/P5250499.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348445603833414722" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Sjl-8U42AtI/AAAAAAAAAXs/ewno0VQgkoI/s1600-h/P5250517.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Sjl-8U42AtI/AAAAAAAAAXs/ewno0VQgkoI/s200/P5250517.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348445607343555282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Sjl-8upe5YI/AAAAAAAAAX0/s55X-EGrO18/s1600-h/P5250651.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Sjl-8upe5YI/AAAAAAAAAX0/s55X-EGrO18/s200/P5250651.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348445614258447746" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Sjl-89s6twI/AAAAAAAAAX8/9w_cUPCL1aE/s1600-h/P5250587.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Sjl-89s6twI/AAAAAAAAAX8/9w_cUPCL1aE/s200/P5250587.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348445618299385602" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SjmDSA-ok1I/AAAAAAAAAYc/mFNXNVJWcrM/s1600-h/P5250580.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SjmDSA-ok1I/AAAAAAAAAYc/mFNXNVJWcrM/s200/P5250580.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348450378002764626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SjmDR6xHrRI/AAAAAAAAAYU/zjwSibvaxZ4/s1600-h/P5250643.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SjmDR6xHrRI/AAAAAAAAAYU/zjwSibvaxZ4/s200/P5250643.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348450376335469842" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SjmDRlARD3I/AAAAAAAAAYM/7HVm6pae2Ks/s1600-h/P5250513.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SjmDRlARD3I/AAAAAAAAAYM/7HVm6pae2Ks/s200/P5250513.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348450370493419378" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Sjl-9Sl-mWI/AAAAAAAAAYE/hR7p2W9DwAM/s1600-h/P5250678.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Sjl-9Sl-mWI/AAAAAAAAAYE/hR7p2W9DwAM/s200/P5250678.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348445623907424610" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Micah bought tickets to No Doubt for me. They are my ALL-TIME FAVORITE BAND! We had so much fun there. We had floor tickets and were right up front. Paramore opened for them and we got to rock out and dance around the whole time. It was killer there. We moved up a little before No Doubt started and made this old couple quite mad. The lady pinched me and a bunch of other girls in our stomach's while her husband was yelling at everyone. You wonder why these people come to concerts and stand on the floor. Anyway Micah really let him have it and started yelling at him really loud and stuck up for all the girls he'd been yelling at. Everyone around us was staring. It was awesome and it shut his stupid mouth up. Ha Ha!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gwen was such an amazing preformer. It was so fun to be there and watch and get into it. It was like the ultimate rollar coaster. I had my arms up the whole time and dancing, bouncing and singing and having a great time. It was the best concert I think I've been to. She ended running right up to the fence and the crowd rushed us. I was so close to her...maybe a foot away. I was so giddy about that and had my arms out like everyone else. LOL. It was great.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6602602650592597647-5141989746265236083?l=desireehawton.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/feeds/5141989746265236083/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6602602650592597647&amp;postID=5141989746265236083&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/5141989746265236083'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/5141989746265236083'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/2009/06/no-doubt-concert-5-25-09.html' title='No Doubt Concert 5-25-09'/><author><name>Desiree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10044121739861853862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Sjl-8Hz9hEI/AAAAAAAAAXk/guQ7dKIJX3g/s72-c/P5250499.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647.post-838370342462355448</id><published>2009-05-14T11:57:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-14T12:03:51.621-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SgxqL9u7CjI/AAAAAAAAAXc/SVcvMXUKzK0/s1600-h/af+pic+3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SgxqL9u7CjI/AAAAAAAAAXc/SVcvMXUKzK0/s200/af+pic+3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335756412309670450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mindy was so kind to draw me a lovely picture of me in Africa teaching many little children. It's so lovely. &lt;strong&gt;Thanks Mindy&lt;/strong&gt;, you're such a &lt;em&gt;wonderful stick figure artist.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Only 49 DAYS LEFT TODAY UNTIL I'M IN GHANA!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6602602650592597647-838370342462355448?l=desireehawton.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/feeds/838370342462355448/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6602602650592597647&amp;postID=838370342462355448&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/838370342462355448'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/838370342462355448'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/2009/05/mindy-was-so-kind-to-draw-me-lovely.html' title=''/><author><name>Desiree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10044121739861853862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SgxqL9u7CjI/AAAAAAAAAXc/SVcvMXUKzK0/s72-c/af+pic+3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647.post-5687896188409329458</id><published>2009-05-06T14:45:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-06T15:00:25.734-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Pink Hostel (In Accra Ghana)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;embed src="http://widget-d8.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="l" wmode="transparent" flashvars="cy=bb&amp;amp;il=1&amp;amp;channel=3386706919799645144&amp;amp;site=widget-d8.slide.com" style="width:400px;height:320px" name="flashticker" align="middle"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div style="width:400px;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;at=un&amp;amp;id=3386706919799645144&amp;amp;map=1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-d8.slide.com/p1/3386706919799645144/bb_t016_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide1.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;at=un&amp;amp;id=3386706919799645144&amp;amp;map=2" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-d8.slide.com/p2/3386706919799645144/bb_t016_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide2.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;at=un&amp;id=3386706919799645144&amp;map=F" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-d8.slide.com/p4/3386706919799645144/bb_t016_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide42.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are our accommodations in Accra Ghana. We will be staying at the &lt;em&gt;Pink Hostel.&lt;/em&gt; It is a catchy name if you ask me. Quite fitting too. The rooms have lovely bunk beds and we will be sleeping two to a room. They have 19 rooms containing 55 beds, 45 bunk beds &amp; 10 standard (private) rooms. It's features include: Free Breakfast, lockers, Lounge / Common space, Food/Restaurant, TV, Washing Machine (laundry), Free Hot Showers, Phones (public or in room), Air Conditioning and a guard. Sounds exciting. I have less than 2 months now.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6602602650592597647-5687896188409329458?l=desireehawton.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/feeds/5687896188409329458/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6602602650592597647&amp;postID=5687896188409329458&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/5687896188409329458'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/5687896188409329458'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/2009/05/pink-hostel-in-accra-ghana.html' title='The Pink Hostel (In Accra Ghana)'/><author><name>Desiree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10044121739861853862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647.post-4535080582871680020</id><published>2009-05-02T22:20:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-02T22:32:02.740-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Invisible Children Rally</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;embed src="http://widget-dd.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="l" wmode="transparent" flashvars="cy=bb&amp;amp;il=1&amp;amp;channel=3098476543647649245&amp;amp;site=widget-dd.slide.com" style="width:400px;height:320px" name="flashticker" align="middle"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div style="width:400px;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;at=un&amp;amp;id=3098476543647649245&amp;amp;map=1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-dd.slide.com/p1/3098476543647649245/bb_t024_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide1.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;amp;at=un&amp;amp;id=3098476543647649245&amp;amp;map=2" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-dd.slide.com/p2/3098476543647649245/bb_t024_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide2.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=bb&amp;at=un&amp;id=3098476543647649245&amp;map=F" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-dd.slide.com/p4/3098476543647649245/bb_t024_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide42.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Saturday April 25th, we went to Salt Lake City to March in a 3 mile peaceful demonstration for the Invisible Children. We are trying to raise awareness to rescue Joseph Kony's child soldiers. He is the leader of the LRA " the Lord's Resistance Army" in Africa, the cause of the longest running war over there. 90% of the LRA is abducted children. He goes around Uganda and 3 other neighboring nations terrorizing families, children, and governments who can't put a stop to him. 150,000 people gathered in 100 cities across 10 different countries on the 25th to try to raise awareness to try to rescue these children. They need a voice. This war has a chance to be ended and our leaders can help that. This is a crime against humanity and it's time for a humanitarian revolution. Please visit the website www. therescue.invisiblechildren.com to watch the video on what is happening to these children. It is absolutely tragic, you'd be shocked. Don't think you have to do much to make a difference in there life. Just watch a video, be a voice, maybe you can write a letter to a politician and tell them what is going on and how important it is for us to help them out to stop this war and send these children back with there mothers. No one has the right to take someone away from their mother. It's something to think about this Mother's Day when these mothers children have been kidnapped to be soldiers.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6602602650592597647-4535080582871680020?l=desireehawton.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/feeds/4535080582871680020/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6602602650592597647&amp;postID=4535080582871680020&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/4535080582871680020'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/4535080582871680020'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/2009/05/invisible-children-rally.html' title='Invisible Children Rally'/><author><name>Desiree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10044121739861853862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647.post-5056191768989888888</id><published>2009-05-02T21:16:00.010-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-02T22:04:31.595-07:00</updated><title type='text'>It's Spring...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Sf0bgem0deI/AAAAAAAAAWI/0dkbvTpi274/s1600-h/kite+09.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Sf0bgem0deI/AAAAAAAAAWI/0dkbvTpi274/s400/kite+09.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331447778662184418" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Micah surprised me with a Winnie the Pooh kite so we went to the park and tested it out. It was quite a blast. Micah got it up and going and was a much more fabulous kite flyer than I was. I was a little gentler with it. It was such a beautiful day to be out together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Sf0d-vO-qNI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/ZVAbJTq5jTg/s1600-h/carveboarding1-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Sf0d-vO-qNI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/ZVAbJTq5jTg/s400/carveboarding1-2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331450497544923346" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For Valentine's Day I bought Micah a new carveboard to replace his that was stolen. He loves to get out go carveboarding to pass the time. It is very fun to go flying down the ramp and in and out of the pillars. It's a rush to feel the adrenaline going and your heart rate race. Micah taught me how to ride on the parking ramp and we have such a great time going carving together. I need to get one now so that I don't have to keep borrowing one.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6602602650592597647-5056191768989888888?l=desireehawton.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/feeds/5056191768989888888/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6602602650592597647&amp;postID=5056191768989888888&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/5056191768989888888'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/5056191768989888888'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/2009/05/its-spring.html' title='It&apos;s Spring...'/><author><name>Desiree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10044121739861853862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Sf0bgem0deI/AAAAAAAAAWI/0dkbvTpi274/s72-c/kite+09.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647.post-5888226569292208395</id><published>2009-03-09T15:01:00.012-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-10T15:23:50.107-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I'm back!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/6luSpOnaYKvzZWY2Twfs0g?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SbazFwPBjoI/AAAAAAAAAV4/NLzlgQZaJQ8/s400/P4251027.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've been out of the blogging loop for two and a half years. I mostly started it for an assignment for a photography class in 2007. Now I thought it would be nice to get on here so that I could keep family and friends up-to date with life 'in the wilderness'. Micah and I have been away from 'home' for over TWO years now. It's hard to believe sometimes. Time has just flown on by. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We currently are in Orem, Utah trying to raise as much trouble as we can. We are staying very busy this Spring, although with nothing interesting now our summer is going to be very intriguing. Micah is going to TriCities, Washington to sell Dish Satellite this summer. He is going to be so busy knocking doors and working six days a week. It will probably be the hardest summer ever being away from each other. It will definitely give me a greater appreciation for the wives of military servicemen. It will at least be comforting to know Micah will be safe. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While he's going to be working his butt off, I'll be flying away to &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Accra Ghana &lt;/strong&gt;in July for 5 weeks. The trip of a life time. I'm going for an internship with school to teach AIDS prevention. It's my dream career field. The Ghanaians have been taught HIV/AIDS prevention before but they still have so many misconceptions about how you contract it. Many of them still believe for instance that you can get HIV from a mosquito bite. You get so many other diseases there from the mosquito like malaria, Dengue &amp; Yellow Fever that it's understandable that they may be confused. Some believe it's as easy to get as touching a person with AIDS or being sneezed on. I can't wait to go and make a difference. I know my eyes will be OPENED!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My tentative itinerary is as follows: mornings-teaching HIV/AIDS prevention to a group of adults likely; afternoons-teaching a classroom of ~30 children 6 lessons each (I'll have to teach 2 health lessons, 2 non-health related lessons, &amp; 2 fun lessons- one of the lessons I want to teach them is karate. That would be tons of fun. They'd probably get a good laugh.); 2 x's a week we will go to an orphanage to spend time with and play with the children there. (I'm very excited for this opportunity as well as the others.); weekends-the school will take us on excursions. We will spend a weekend on a beach, spend a night at a monkey sanctuary where we'll stay in a home with someone and they have no electricity there, learn some slave history and go on some hikes and see some waterfalls.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Right now, Micah and I we are trying to spend as much time as we can together before the summer temporarily separates us. I don't know how we'll do it except we're pretty dang strong!!! And we have unlimited text that we'll take advantage of till I go oversees. We've learned by being away and on our own that the strongest bond is between husband, wife, &amp; Jesus Christ. It's really been a blessing being away and seeing us unite together and grow as one. You have to rely on each other so much more when you're away from family. You're support group becomes each other and ultimately makes you stronger and I'd recommend it to all newly married couples, as it says it in the Old Testament; 'Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh'. It will always be a work in progress, but as long as we're moving forward we're in good shape. We &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; come a long way, we can say that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:400px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="400" height="267" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fdmhawton%2Falbumid%2F5311628354400072769%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="float:left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/dmhawton/HappyHappyHawtons" style="color:#3964c2"&gt;View Album&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/getEmbed" style="color:#3964c2"&gt;Get your own&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6602602650592597647-5888226569292208395?l=desireehawton.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/feeds/5888226569292208395/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6602602650592597647&amp;postID=5888226569292208395&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/5888226569292208395'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/5888226569292208395'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/2009/03/im-back.html' title='I&apos;m back!'/><author><name>Desiree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10044121739861853862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh3.ggpht.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/SbazFwPBjoI/AAAAAAAAAV4/NLzlgQZaJQ8/s72-c/P4251027.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647.post-348555488397955604</id><published>2007-09-15T10:55:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-15T11:04:16.229-07:00</updated><title type='text'>My trip to San Franscico</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RuwdEK5lFZI/AAAAAAAAAK8/Mh8eKzGFLuY/s1600-h/SF.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RuwdEK5lFZI/AAAAAAAAAK8/Mh8eKzGFLuY/s400/SF.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110491634641212818" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Ruwcv65lFWI/AAAAAAAAAKk/lPYZD4PGjck/s1600-h/SF2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Ruwcv65lFWI/AAAAAAAAAKk/lPYZD4PGjck/s400/SF2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110491286748861794" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Ruwc4K5lFXI/AAAAAAAAAKs/xFjyIS9YhvQ/s1600-h/SF3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Ruwc4K5lFXI/AAAAAAAAAKs/xFjyIS9YhvQ/s400/SF3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110491428482782578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a &lt;br /&gt;href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Ruwc_a5lFYI/AAAAAAAAAK0/fOQJoTN-iD0/s1600-h/SF4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Ruwc_a5lFYI/AAAAAAAAAK0/fOQJoTN-iD0/s400/SF4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110491553036834178" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We took a school trip with BYU-I to San Franscico... we went to many musuems... we went on a boat ride around the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz... we went to Fisherman's wharf and to China town... On our way back we went to Muir Beach and Muir Woods.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6602602650592597647-348555488397955604?l=desireehawton.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/feeds/348555488397955604/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6602602650592597647&amp;postID=348555488397955604&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/348555488397955604'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/348555488397955604'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/2007/09/my-trip-to-san-franscico.html' title='My trip to San Franscico'/><author><name>Desiree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10044121739861853862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RuwdEK5lFZI/AAAAAAAAAK8/Mh8eKzGFLuY/s72-c/SF.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647.post-7830359317326722506</id><published>2007-09-15T10:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-15T10:54:47.831-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trent and Cody came to visit us in July 2007. We went bridge jumping and had a peaceful night at the sand dunes with a fire'/><title type='text'>When the Oelker's came to visit us in Idaho</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RuwcYa5lFVI/AAAAAAAAAKc/xd0MR445BkU/s1600-h/Oelk.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RuwcYa5lFVI/AAAAAAAAAKc/xd0MR445BkU/s400/Oelk.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110490883021935954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6602602650592597647-7830359317326722506?l=desireehawton.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/feeds/7830359317326722506/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6602602650592597647&amp;postID=7830359317326722506&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/7830359317326722506'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/7830359317326722506'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/2007/09/when-oelkers-came-to-visit-us-in-idaho.html' title='When the Oelker&apos;s came to visit us in Idaho'/><author><name>Desiree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10044121739861853862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RuwcYa5lFVI/AAAAAAAAAKc/xd0MR445BkU/s72-c/Oelk.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647.post-8803748290571328020</id><published>2007-09-15T10:44:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-15T10:52:01.314-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joe and Lindsay and Roxy drove to Idaho to visit us. We went mountain climbing... swimming at Rigby lake... and out to Yellowstone National Park.'/><title type='text'>When the Reinwand's came to visit us in ID</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RuwarK5lFTI/AAAAAAAAAKM/QopYXTDhNeM/s1600-h/Ylwst4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RuwarK5lFTI/AAAAAAAAAKM/QopYXTDhNeM/s400/Ylwst4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110489006121227570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Ruwa3K5lFUI/AAAAAAAAAKU/CO8z3DE67zo/s1600-h/Ylwst.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Ruwa3K5lFUI/AAAAAAAAAKU/CO8z3DE67zo/s400/Ylwst.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110489212279657794" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Ruwaha5lFSI/AAAAAAAAAKE/r673zO1bkMM/s1600-h/Ylwst3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Ruwaha5lFSI/AAAAAAAAAKE/r673zO1bkMM/s400/Ylwst3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110488838617503010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RuwaS65lFRI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/Jl0vhyX5Uw0/s1600-h/Ylwst2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RuwaS65lFRI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/Jl0vhyX5Uw0/s400/Ylwst2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110488589509399826" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6602602650592597647-8803748290571328020?l=desireehawton.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/feeds/8803748290571328020/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6602602650592597647&amp;postID=8803748290571328020&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/8803748290571328020'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/8803748290571328020'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/2007/09/when-reinwands-came-to-visit-us-in-id.html' title='When the Reinwand&apos;s came to visit us in ID'/><author><name>Desiree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10044121739861853862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RuwarK5lFTI/AAAAAAAAAKM/QopYXTDhNeM/s72-c/Ylwst4.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647.post-1571475637744720210</id><published>2007-07-12T09:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-14T10:07:32.279-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Series: Water Towers of eastern Idaho</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RpkCbed2gUI/AAAAAAAAAI0/P0c0o7XJ4yk/s1600-h/series10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RpkCbed2gUI/AAAAAAAAAI0/P0c0o7XJ4yk/s400/series10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5087099925149679938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RpfBQOd2gRI/AAAAAAAAAIc/RuAFJcWcSNw/s1600-h/series7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RpfBQOd2gRI/AAAAAAAAAIc/RuAFJcWcSNw/s400/series7.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5086746788643635474" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RpfBQOd2gSI/AAAAAAAAAIk/7USBOt9Bzv8/s1600-h/series8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RpfBQOd2gSI/AAAAAAAAAIk/7USBOt9Bzv8/s400/series8.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5086746788643635490" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RpfBQed2gTI/AAAAAAAAAIs/1KHJdlE0fO4/s1600-h/series9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RpfBQed2gTI/AAAAAAAAAIs/1KHJdlE0fO4/s400/series9.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5086746792938602802" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RpfBDOd2gMI/AAAAAAAAAH0/7ybsldDA8io/s1600-h/series3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RpfBDOd2gMI/AAAAAAAAAH0/7ybsldDA8io/s400/series3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5086746565305336002" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RpfBDed2gNI/AAAAAAAAAH8/F8Vn07Ix5Z0/s1600-h/series2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RpfBDed2gNI/AAAAAAAAAH8/F8Vn07Ix5Z0/s400/series2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5086746569600303314" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RpfBDed2gOI/AAAAAAAAAIE/Nj364jfwD7k/s1600-h/series4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RpfBDed2gOI/AAAAAAAAAIE/Nj364jfwD7k/s400/series4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5086746569600303330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RpfBDud2gPI/AAAAAAAAAIM/QevkXx8-2wY/s1600-h/series5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RpfBDud2gPI/AAAAAAAAAIM/QevkXx8-2wY/s400/series5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5086746573895270642" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RpfBDud2gQI/AAAAAAAAAIU/NgdfKdPIGio/s1600-h/series6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RpfBDud2gQI/AAAAAAAAAIU/NgdfKdPIGio/s400/series6.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5086746573895270658" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RnlYAXB1HCI/AAAAAAAAAF8/stuYDHNr-48/s1600-h/series1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RnlYAXB1HCI/AAAAAAAAAF8/stuYDHNr-48/s400/series1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5078186818041879586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;During 2005 and 2006, I lived in Burgundy apartments and my main view from our windows and balcony was the New Hope water tower. It was right off the high way. When ever I was stuck in traffic on my way home from work, I would be able to see the water tower and know that I was almost home. It was like a sense of New Hope for the day. I would soon be able to relax and enjoy the company of my beloved husband. Ever since then, I have grown attached to water towers. They represent a town and therefore, where people live and call home. When I moved away I realized that I missed seeing the New Hope water tower. Some fun facts about water towers from Wikipedia, the free encycl. ‘A water tower or elevated water tank is a very large tank constructed for the purpose of holding a supply of water at a height sufficient to pressurize a water supply system. Many water towers were constructed during the industrial revolution and some of these are now considered architectural landmarks and monuments and may not be demolished. Some are converted to apartments or exclusive penthouses.’&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6602602650592597647-1571475637744720210?l=desireehawton.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/feeds/1571475637744720210/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6602602650592597647&amp;postID=1571475637744720210&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/1571475637744720210'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/1571475637744720210'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/2007/06/series.html' title='Series: Water Towers of eastern Idaho'/><author><name>Desiree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10044121739861853862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RpkCbed2gUI/AAAAAAAAAI0/P0c0o7XJ4yk/s72-c/series10.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647.post-1137763662818660399</id><published>2007-07-11T13:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-11T10:01:13.397-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='12 visits to same location throughout the semester: Monet'/><title type='text'>Monet</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RkTXaxZsDRI/AAAAAAAAABM/quX9ztVDbqs/s1600-h/desi006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RoazXK3dvuI/AAAAAAAAAGs/80LJZqrN-zE/s400/mixedlight5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5081946440169537250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6602602650592597647-4428580991730752823?l=desireehawton.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/feeds/4428580991730752823/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6602602650592597647&amp;postID=4428580991730752823&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/4428580991730752823'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/4428580991730752823'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/2007/06/mixed-lighting.html' title='Mixed lighting'/><author><name>Desiree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10044121739861853862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RoazWa3dvrI/AAAAAAAAAGU/dFhYfLkAWjQ/s72-c/mixedlight2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647.post-448084968517982510</id><published>2007-06-15T13:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-15T13:51:51.078-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='My husband Micah'/><title type='text'>Formal Portraits</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RnL7zXB1G9I/AAAAAAAAAFU/gUynZ3f9B9I/s1600-h/portraitmicah1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RnL7zXB1G9I/AAAAAAAAAFU/gUynZ3f9B9I/s400/portraitmicah1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5076396589773560786" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RnL7z3B1G-I/AAAAAAAAAFc/KvXaEPMOHME/s1600-h/portraitmicah.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RnL7z3B1G-I/AAAAAAAAAFc/KvXaEPMOHME/s400/portraitmicah.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5076396598363495394" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6602602650592597647-448084968517982510?l=desireehawton.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/feeds/448084968517982510/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6602602650592597647&amp;postID=448084968517982510&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/448084968517982510'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/448084968517982510'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/2007/06/formal-portraits.html' title='Formal Portraits'/><author><name>Desiree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10044121739861853862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RnL7zXB1G9I/AAAAAAAAAFU/gUynZ3f9B9I/s72-c/portraitmicah1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647.post-8447000935512890996</id><published>2007-06-13T09:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-13T09:29:05.176-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='on the golf course.'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='My wonderful husband Micah'/><title type='text'>Environmental Portrait</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RnAbSHB1G4I/AAAAAAAAAEs/T0Yaf2cXPNY/s1600-h/Micah.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RnAbSHB1G4I/AAAAAAAAAEs/T0Yaf2cXPNY/s400/Micah.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075586777984867202" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6602602650592597647-8447000935512890996?l=desireehawton.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/feeds/8447000935512890996/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6602602650592597647&amp;postID=8447000935512890996&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/8447000935512890996'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/8447000935512890996'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/2007/06/environmental-portrait.html' title='Environmental Portrait'/><author><name>Desiree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10044121739861853862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RnAbSHB1G4I/AAAAAAAAAEs/T0Yaf2cXPNY/s72-c/Micah.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647.post-8836596069827188979</id><published>2007-06-12T09:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-15T12:28:50.279-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Abstract</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RnLoXHB1G8I/AAAAAAAAAFM/JFd4qLS3MZk/s1600-h/abstract4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RnLoXHB1G8I/AAAAAAAAAFM/JFd4qLS3MZk/s400/abstract4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5076375213721328578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RnAhFXB1G5I/AAAAAAAAAE0/HQ3v6r7jsy0/s1600-h/abstract1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RnAhFXB1G5I/AAAAAAAAAE0/HQ3v6r7jsy0/s400/abstract1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075593156011301778" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RnAhFXB1G6I/AAAAAAAAAE8/2TEOotsk6Pc/s1600-h/abstract2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RnAhFXB1G6I/AAAAAAAAAE8/2TEOotsk6Pc/s400/abstract2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075593156011301794" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RnAhFnB1G7I/AAAAAAAAAFE/AtKxInAGsd4/s1600-h/abstract3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RnAhFnB1G7I/AAAAAAAAAFE/AtKxInAGsd4/s400/abstract3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075593160306269106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6602602650592597647-8836596069827188979?l=desireehawton.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/feeds/8836596069827188979/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6602602650592597647&amp;postID=8836596069827188979&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/8836596069827188979'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/8836596069827188979'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/2007/06/abstract.html' title='Abstract'/><author><name>Desiree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10044121739861853862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RnLoXHB1G8I/AAAAAAAAAFM/JFd4qLS3MZk/s72-c/abstract4.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647.post-7479643188650612324</id><published>2007-06-01T16:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-02T10:39:00.670-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Time of Day assignment'/><title type='text'>Open Shade</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RmCqMWqcNUI/AAAAAAAAADs/hUc_EucTIbQ/s1600-h/openshade+.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RmCqMWqcNUI/AAAAAAAAADs/hUc_EucTIbQ/s400/openshade+.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071240309637920066" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6602602650592597647-7479643188650612324?l=desireehawton.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/feeds/7479643188650612324/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6602602650592597647&amp;postID=7479643188650612324&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/7479643188650612324'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/7479643188650612324'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/2007/06/open-shade.html' title='Open Shade'/><author><name>Desiree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10044121739861853862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RmCqMWqcNUI/AAAAAAAAADs/hUc_EucTIbQ/s72-c/openshade+.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647.post-974653726043044022</id><published>2007-06-01T15:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-01T15:30:19.862-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Time of Day assignment'/><title type='text'>Before Sunrise</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Rl2pR2qcNOI/AAAAAAAAAC8/Bm_bbn0VcdQ/s1600-h/beforesunrise.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Rl2pR2qcNOI/AAAAAAAAAC8/Bm_bbn0VcdQ/s400/beforesunrise.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070394879685440738" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6602602650592597647-974653726043044022?l=desireehawton.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/feeds/974653726043044022/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6602602650592597647&amp;postID=974653726043044022&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/974653726043044022'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/974653726043044022'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/2007/05/before-sunrise.html' title='Before Sunrise'/><author><name>Desiree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10044121739861853862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Rl2pR2qcNOI/AAAAAAAAAC8/Bm_bbn0VcdQ/s72-c/beforesunrise.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647.post-8018608746394431671</id><published>2007-05-30T10:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-01T15:29:44.538-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Time of Day assignment'/><title type='text'>At Sunrise</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/Rl2symqcNQI/AAAAAAAAADM/ODpmbBTB2Kc/s1600-h/atsunrise.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RmGv3GqcNYI/AAAAAAAAAEM/1IqeFH64DSA/s400/sunset.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071528016612177282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6602602650592597647-8699481409796277870?l=desireehawton.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/feeds/8699481409796277870/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6602602650592597647&amp;postID=8699481409796277870&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/8699481409796277870'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6602602650592597647/posts/default/8699481409796277870'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://desireehawton.blogspot.com/2007/05/at-sunset.html' title='At Sunset'/><author><name>Desiree</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10044121739861853862</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RmGv3GqcNYI/AAAAAAAAAEM/1IqeFH64DSA/s72-c/sunset.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602602650592597647.post-2996899040202391070</id><published>2007-05-30T09:25:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-02T11:14:20.897-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beaver Dick park'/><title type='text'>After Sunset</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_K_mpv6NhGUg/RmGv3GqcNZI/AAAAAAAAAEU/3arXK4-g8vs/s1600-h/sunset2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; 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