Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Home Run

To everyone: Please get out and vote...we are the VOICE of America and our Future!!
Vote for hope and change!

Tuesday, October 28, 2008


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A friend of mine got her site up and running...check it out for some cute products for little girls!!!

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Fall Time!!

So for our third year in a row we traveled south to the South Ridge Farms for a fun day out with good friends. Check out the last two years: 2006 and 2007



Thank you to the familia Balls for introducing us to this place again we love you guys!!

Jesus still loves his tractors!!
Eyes closed, wind blowing, and all I still think we look good!

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Dreams and Dreams

So few of you probably know that I decided months ago that I will, in my lifetime, write a book. It has become a goal, or rather dream of mine. Not to publish, but for my own enjoyment and challenge. I also figured that my plot and characters would probably originate from one of my dreams. Seeing as I don't sleep well and every night is filled with countless dreams, I figured it's a great place to start. So I have just been waiting for another one of those dreams to spark my interest, I didn't expect it to happen so soon but it has. I now know very little about my plot, but my main characters are in place, I am beginning and will just wait and see where they take me!!

Do you have any good books to recommend? I want to do more reading for inspiration and for fun!

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Intellectual absence

Over the past few weeks with presidential debates on the forefront of everyone's mind I have realized something lacking in my life. Intellectual stimulation. I could never complain about being a wife and mother, I want that to be clear. However, I have found that as I ponder over words from our Presidential hopefuls, as well as over the conversations of those around me, or online, I feel a yearning. A yearning for knowledge, the same yearning that I had entering into my first and last semesters of college. So much of my time is devoted to ABC's, and basic rote memorization of so many different things, not only at home but in my job as a teacher. So much of my time is tied up in planning and prep for school, or church or family, that I rarely get to sit and have an intellectual conversation. Again, I wouldn't trade my role as a mother or wife, but I just wish I could fit in those conversations often enough that I don't lose the vocabulary, or abstract thinking that used to challenge my drive and interests. I wish there were time, and money for me to get the six or seven different doctorate degrees that I would so love to pursue!

I suspect this is life though, at least as a teacher supporting her family. I hope and pray that some day soon my husband will be granted the opportunity to pursue the education he so badly desires. That someday I can have these conversations with him without him looking at me like I'm crazy and he has no idea what I am talking about.

For now though, I will continue to post all the fun pictures that document the growth of my handsome son and the progress of our small humility-seeking family and leave the boring babble to my very patient, understanding journal. Enjoy!

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Snow Snow Snow

We awoke this morning to our first snow fall. So at 7 in the morning I got Jesus ready and strolled outside to the "frio" as referred to by the kid. (That means cold)
Such a happy kid just strolling along, tasting the snow....
He even cleaned off our car!
Then inside for some breakfast cocoa, good for us...bad for him!
I don't know what I will do with a child who loves the cold and snow so much...I hope he grows out of it!! (For those of you who don't know me well....I am so not a cold or snow person!!)
But still...there is something very cute in this sad, pouty face!