Help Wanted

Okay, so I have to talk in church in a few weeks. My topic is Sacrifice, specifically sacrifices that we make that help build out character and our talents. Any thoughts on this? Ideas? Suggestions? Personal Experience in making sacrifices that have helped to build you character/talents????


thx

Mwah!

Crazy Fireworks Finale

random photos

So Nathan was pretty bored while we were gone. He took a bunch of random shots of our garden and yard and our wildflower patch, which you can't see cause it's blocked by the pool. :P


David decided to play photographer last night at the freedom festival. Man, they know how to do it right around here. Sounded like a bunch of RPGs going off!! Sammy was really scared at first but, his little heart was pounding in his chest, then I pulled him up on my lap and by the time it was over, he was back on the blanket, eating the remains of our funnel cake! Ike Ike covered his ears the whole time and David sat huddled behind me. I think he thought they were gonna fall on him!
I'm trying to upload video from the fireworks so you can see how insane the finale was. Leave it to the army to make you feel like you're in a war zone. I'll keep trying.

Randomness....

So I am totally in love with my new Live Feed widget over there. So cool! Hah! No hiding from me now, all you lurkers!!!!! :)

Did you know that July is Housefly month in Alabama. No joke. It's like they are really bad all May and June, and then it culminates in this symphonic climax of houseflies... (I almost typed Houselfs :P pppbbth) in July. My new favorite game is vacuum the flies. I'm like Miagi with a vacuum. Booyah!

So, just got back from visiting the mommer. I worry about her with a sucky car and all in this heat. She was doing pretty good, but having some ear issues. Lots of pain. I am glad she has such good friends there to help her out. I owe them big time.

So we went to get new ID cards today since Nathan's orders just got extended and

(NO... I WON"T GET AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER, YOU JUST WAIT, DANG IT!)

Ahem, anyhow, long story short the boys pushed over a giant, wooden rotating stand of magazines. Busted the sides right off of it and sent magazines flying everywhere. *Waves sheepishly* Yeah, hi, those are my kids....

Some seriously funny stuff.

I just love the Brits!!

Go get it, now. NOW.

Summer Time!

We went down to Destin last week. I swear that is the most beautiful beach I have ever been on. We had a blast! Buried David and then Daddy. Ike Ike was the only one not sunburned cause he sat under the umbrella the whole time!!














Sammy enjoying cherries.








Our friends wanted a bigger pool so we got their old one. Love it! I told Nathan to take some pictures of the boys playing in it but this is the only one he took.


Ike Ike fell off his bike and got a pretty good noggin bonk! YES, he was in a helmet, but it was too small and riding too high on his head. We went out and bought him a new one that day. :)



On an unrelated note... we rented a few flicks this weekend. Loved them. Amazing grace is about William Wilberforce who abolished slavery in England and his mentor John Newton who penned Amazing Grace. Beautiful, very good.
And we rented Stardust... don't even rent this one, just go straight out and buy it!!! It was SO good, of course, I'm in to that kinda thing. And I lurved Mark Strong in it. I'll let you watch it and then you can figure out why! :P
cheers

oman oman oman oman!!!!

So, we just paid a HUGE chunk on our van today. One more month and it will be ours for good! Paid off in a year, baby! (Sorry, this rather excites me!)

So Flippin' Cool...

Totally Rocks!

For Fun... Cause I like it...

You can skip through the songs by clicking on the little skip button (under the fm).

Oi.

Life's funny sometimes. I lead the music in Relief Society (the women's class) at church on Sundays and every week I give a 5 minute "Music Appreciation" moment. This week I wanted to play some of Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony and I typed in a google search to give some facts about it... and guess what... it's playing TONIGHT at the Woodlands Pavilion in Houston. Yep, go figure. 10 minutes from where I used to live and it's playing there TONIGHT! Seriously... remember what I said about missing culture and such... yeah.