Here's a cool picture! Its called "baby in a tree"...

I just love these incredible heartwarming stories...

In 1986, Mkele Mbembe was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University. On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant seemed distressed, so Mbembe approached it very carefully. He got down on one knee and inspected the elephant's foot and found a large piece of wood deeply embedded in it.

As carefully and as gently as he could, Mbembe worked the wood out with his hunting knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its foot. The elephant turned to face the man, and with a rather curious look on its face, stared at him for several tense moments. Mbembe stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away.

Mbembe never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.

Twenty years later, Mbembe was walking through the Chicago Zoo with his teenaged son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and walked over to near where Mbembe and his son Tapu were standing. The large bull elephant stared at Mbembe, lifted its front foot off the ground, then put i t down. The elephant did that several times then trumpeted loudly, all the while staring at the man. Remembering the encounter in 1986, Mbembe couldn't help wondering if this was the same elephant.

Mbembe summoned up his courage, climbed over the railing and made his way into the enclosure. He walked right up to the elephant and stared back in wonder. The elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of Mbembe' s legs and slammed him against the railing, killing him instantly .

Animal experts have indicated that it probably wasn't the same elephant...

1 pulled tooth closer to being an official hillbilly...

I went to the dentist today to get another tooth pulled. Pretty close to being the toothless Annie my mamma never wanted. I showed up at 9:10 a.m. for my 9:15 a.m. appointment only to find out my appointment wasn't until 10:15 a.m. Oooh well got some "down time" sitting in the waiting room. It was funny seeing the guy come out that was scheduled before me. He was getting his wisdom teeth pulled so he could go on his mission and he had gotten knocked out. He was hilarious! You would have thought he was drunk. He kept telling the receptionist "MaKenzie your so pretty" in a slurred kind of way. His dad couldn't get him out of the door fast enough. It took them awhile to get my tooth out because it was pretty stubborn. I am not one to be afraid of the dentist but I do hate that burning fleshy smell when they use the drill. I could do without that! They ended up breaking up the tooth and digging it out so I had to have a couple stitches...I am thinking I will try and milk this for as long as I can.

Samantha was upset because I wasn't going to make it to her dental appointment since I messed up on the time. Luckily the drugged up soon to be missionary was done about 20 minutes early and I was able to make it to Samantha's appointment. She was so cute. She was sitting in the dental chair and when the dentist brought over the needle she closed her eyes and didn't even move. The dentist gave her the shots, loosened her two front bottom teeth and pulled them out without her so much as even flinching. The nurse was cleaning her up and putting the gauze in for her to bite down on and she was still sitting there with her eyes closed. I said "you can open your eyes sis, your done!" She sat up and said "I am?" She didn't even realize the teeth were already out! After the ordeal I went back to work and it wasn't long before I got a call from Sam crying because she wanted her teeth back in...