More canada pictures

waterfall at the first hotel (near where I met Jean-Nicolas)


This one is at the first hotel. A restraunt we ate at.



This one is blurry, taken from the train...but loook at that water color!


Another picture from the train






Mountain Goat!

My adventures in Canada so Far

Hey Baby,

These are some pictures from yesterday Lake Lousie (the one with Giant glacier) and another lake. I took these just for you!

Bravo, Walmart, Bravo...

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New Wal-Mart jewelry can be traced from mine to store

Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:06am EDT

By Nicole Maestri

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc is introducing a line of gold and silver jewelry that can be traced from the mine to store shelves as the retailer looks to sell more jewelry sourced from mines and manufacturers that meet its environmental and human rights standards.

Wal-Mart said the Love, Earth line, which includes a $69.84 sterling silver necklace and $48 hoop earrings, will be sold in its U.S. discount stores, Sam's Club warehouses and online. A customer who buys the jewelry can log on to a website to see where their particular piece of jewelry was mined and learn about the suppliers' environmental programs.

"It's the first time ever that we, or any major mass retailer, have been able to provide customers with a way to trace the path of their product from the mine it was actually mined from to the shelf," said Wal-Mart spokeswoman Tara Raddohl.

Under Chief Executive Lee Scott, Wal-Mart has set goals of one day using only renewable energy and creating zero waste, and has challenged its suppliers to follow in its footsteps.

Last year, it released a report outlining the progress made in meeting the goals, and included a section on sourcing more sustainable products, like jewelry.

"For every ring that is made, gold mining generates approximately 20 tons of waste. Most of the world's gold deposits consist of microscopic specks that must be chemically extracted from rocks using thousands of gallons of cyanide," the report stated.

"As the largest retailer of jewelry in the world, we see an opportunity to bring more sustainable practices to this industry," it said.

Wal-Mart's long-term goal is to ensure that 100 percent of the gold, silver and diamonds used in the jewelry it sells in its U.S. stores is sourced from mines and produced by manufacturers that meet its sustainability standards.

Those standards currently include minimization of waste and pollution; safe disposal of waste and hazardous materials; respect for employee rights; and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

While Wal-Mart's Raddohl could not estimate when it might meet that long-term goal, she said Wal-Mart wants at least 10 percent of its jewelry offerings to meet those standards by 2010.

To create the Love, Earth jewelry line, Wal-Mart worked with mining company Rio Tinto Plc; Newmont Mining Corp, a global gold producer; and Aurafin, a Florida-based jewelry manufacturer.

Wal-Mart said it now plans to increase the number of approved mining and manufacturing suppliers it works with, and it will introduce diamonds in the Love, Earth line.

(Reporting by Nicole Maestri; editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)

A Tribute to Bastille Day

Not really, it's a tribute to us. To the wildness, the liveliness, the vulnerability and the recklessness that is our relationship! And to commemorate such an occasion, here's to our pact, the pact for the next year of our God-given relationship to be wild, to be crazy and to surprise the other with something that is Davy-like, when she goes and visits Van in Pearl Harbor. To Bastille Day, to the French. Here's to us. And ultimately, here's the the One who gives us life, who gives us an identity, who gives us a purpose to live life together, to be reckless and to life. Here's to what is eternal...

::raises champagne class::

I love you, my dill pickle!









Here's a little montage of us from the past couple of weeks in Tahoe...















Meet Care, the most excellent and loving girlfriend any man could ever meet:


Meet Alex, thighs of steel:


Bring them together and you've got a pretty compelling c0uple:


This other couple's got nothin' on us...


Babe, here's to the good times...the next step in life that we're approaching...having a long distance relationship and living more recklessly for God...

Here's to Him:


and here's to you:


::raises another champagne glass::

gosh, i'm so celebratory...lol.

Babe, I'm madly in love with you. God is opening up so much through you to me...challenging me.

So this is Peas Out for now...just for this blog. Let's live that reckless & Godly life that He's calling us to...

Blessings!




Love.