Do you ever have those moments when you think to yourself, "I am so thankful to be exactly where I am right now?" Tonight I had that happen to me. It was perfect out this evening and really unusual for June in Nebraska--70 degrees, no humidity, no wind. My brother, Korey, my sister, Jordie, and I decided to take advantage of it. We headed on our normal route down our gravel road with our dog, Ruger, along just to go for a quick walk before supper. We talked like normal, and I asked Korey (who is 11-years-old) my usual question of, "So do you like anyone these days?" Instead of getting his usual response, "No! Why do you always ask me that?" I got a quick smirk instead. Of course me and Jordie squilled with excitement since we had never gotten this sort of information out of him before. We dug for details, but only got the girl's name, which we then informed him that we thought they would be adorable together. All the while I was thinking to myself, it's crazy how fast he's growing up and will actually talk to us about this stuff now. After throwing some rocks over the bridge into the crick, we headed to the lake just in time to watch the sunset. It was absolutely perfect. As I set there watching, being perfectly content with where I'm at in life, I remembered something my dad once told me. "We live in the most beautiful place in the world, and no one even knows it." I don't think anyone would believe this, unless you were born and raised here, but I find it to be the absolute truth. So tonight I find myself being reminded of how lucky I am to live here in Nebraska and in the small town that I love so much. I've traveled a lot of places, places that where the people that grew up in there would never even think of traveling to Nebraska. But that's just it, Nebraska is not a place to vacation in, Nebraska is a place to live--it's Heaven on Earth.
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