check it out

okay i know i've been doing alot of this lately but.. you REALLY have to check out brad paisleys video, "waiting on a woman". oh bless, you wanna talk about a heart melting song.. good heavens. also, andy griffith is in it. seriously... watch it. go. now. www.cmt.com

oh yea 2

i love taylor swift's song "love story".

oh yea

one more thing... please go check out marc broussard on you tube or iTunes.. look for "home". INCREDIBLE!! i'm in love with his voice. (thanks to molly for sharing!)

one more for the road

camp horizon

so here are pictures from my job this summer. i look back now and say aw! what fun! it was but i will not do that again. what a great experience.
amy and i had the five year olds. it was great, exhausting but great. why the mexico sign? we were team mexico for olympic week.

"c-a-m-p h-o-r-i-z-o-n! camp horizon's cry! and we'll yell it and we'll scream it, its our way of saying hi!we are the b-e-s-t of all, the r-e-s-t rest, and we'll prove it anytime you wanna put us to the test! we like to play out in the sun, and sing till day is done, oh we love our camp horizon cause we're always having fun! c-a-m-p horizon is cool at o.c. elementary schooooool!! camp horizon, camp horizon, your the bast you'll always rule! hey!"

ali

i love these faces. i wish she would have let me video her while she was singing "picture to burn" by taylor swift in the back of my car. she was singing her little heart out like some little boy had broken her heart, face expressions and all.

LB!

she is in south africa!! i miss her. check out her blog @ www.lbinsouthafrica.blogspot.com

labor day

good game of bocce ball till dark

knoebels

childhood. this is the best park to take kids 12 and younger. there are two roller coasters. they have every little kid ride.and couple rides i used to be scared to ride cause of heights, but thanks to mandy, i'm no longer scared. i love this place. its not really expensive either. so check it out!

ocracoke, nc

so han and i attempted to skin board and surf, respectively. it was fun, but probably funnier to watch.

the family trip to ocracoke, nc. its like mayberry on the coast.(you get around on bicycles!) can life get any better? i submit that it can not!

sunflowers

quite possibly my favorite flower. the bees would get so "drunk" off the pollen or necter (whatever they get from sunflowers) they would just sit on the flower even if you swatted at them. they were passed out.

shucking corn for 5 july

i love this one. hot summertime and it's time to eat sweet corn and crabs!

i love this picture

he is just soooo cute!!! i think he resembles his auntie linnea a little!

music

music is a wonderful tool. it can be make you feel up when you felt down. it can make you feel down when you were up. (although, i usually skip those tracks when they come on) God made music, and i'm so thankful. Satan can use it to make you doubt, make you angry, make you depressed. but don't listen. skip the track. even the most innocent of country song can make you sad. some make me doubt God. isn't that crazy? but tehn again you'd have to understand how my 100,000 mph brain works. it's very tiring. but that is besides the point.
i'm being tested in my faith and hope and trust in the Lord. i want to listen to sappy, pitiful songs. but what good would that do? nothing. i'm just thankful for bands like switchfoot, dc talk and jars (hey, oldies but goodies! don't knock'em!) but especially for switchfoot. God uses that music to minister to me. there is a song that goes something like this... does it have to start/ with a broken heart/ and broken dreams/ etc. does it have to start there? why? then i realized, God humbles us so that we have no where else to go. only to Him. the song continues to lift you up and remind you to burn out bright for Christ. when your hopes and dreams seemed crushed, don't despair, God has a plan for you to do great things. hang on. cling to His word. strive to burn bright. another one is the beautiful letdown. there are so many things and people that will let us down in this life. it hurts. but it is beautiful because it only causes us to dig deeper, to hold tighter, to pray harder, to grow closer to the Almighty. thank you to hannah for showing me isaiah 43. the almighty called you by name. he will give nations for your ransom. he will give nations for your life. pray for me as i dig deeper, pray harder, cling tighter to the cross and our Father Almighty. i will pray for you to do the same.