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my life

it's been almost a year since this photo was made. it's amazing how fast life passes by each day. so much has changed, and yet so much is still just as it was. i know it's crazy, but everyday i have moments of wishing i could re-live the past, wishing the future would get here already, and wondering where today has slipped away to so quickly. i guess that's life.

these are for mom

summer

i have had an incredibly memorable summer. it didn't turn out at all as i expected it would. some of my favorites from the summer would be:
- we took finley on her first visit to disney world
- we met the real black stallion and i almost died
- finley got to meet her favorite princesses and disney characters. she even got to dance to her favorite song with sleeping beauty.
- we spent a week at honeymoon island beach in florida
- i saw a manatee swim by 5 feet from me
- i went kayaking in the gulf of mexico
- we spent hours and hours and hours at the pool.
- i drove over 4,000 miles between tenessee, kentucky, indiana, missouri, illinois, and arkansas
- we got to see Wicked again. on the front row. it literally took my breath away
- i got to visit my favorite valley in the world at sunrise and take pictures. and i got to see the steel bridge before they tore it down.
- we got a new professional camera and i actually got some jobs taking people's pictures... www.andyrobephotography.blogspot.com
- i got to have a big pal with cheese and a sweet tea
- we spent a week in the mountains we miss so much
- we spent a week at the largest man-made lake in the midwest
- i got to go tubing with finley. she absolutely loved it
- i'm sure there's more... i have to think

my joy

more shots from florida

two views from our room

we made it to honeymoon island outside of tampa fl. this was the first view we had of the gulf as we arrived just after sunset.

hooray for vacation

we made it to florida

we made it! and today we head to disney!

just saw our new baby on ultrasound for the first time. there is no greater joy.

i read The Road (Cormac McCarthy) in two days. It is a profoundly moving story. I could not stop reading. McCarthy's style of writing is so full of emotion that it deserves to be savored, but I was racing through it to find resolution. you need to read this book.











as hard as it is to be alone in the big city, memphis does possess a strangely enticing allure

incredible

Adele |MTV Music

i'm still here

happy earth day.

crystal and i did our first 5k this last weekend. it was so much fun. i'm so glad we did it.

last night while we were putting Finley to bed we asked her to pray for Jasper since he had surgery yesterday (castration). so her prayer, all by herself, with no prompting, was...

"dear God,
God is great, God is good,
Jasper's doodle,
thank you Jesus,
Amen!"

love that girl!

the recession on our street

the neighbors next door are really gone. no more vans stuck in the side yard. there's a padlock on the front door.
last week before we left to drive to indiana for easter, we saw the man that lives across the street loading pillows and junk into his car. he had all the car doors open and was cramming in as much as he could fit. we haven't seen him since that morning. today there were three women cleaning out the house. they had propped open his garage (which i have never before seen open). when one of the neighborhood boys went to ask if his friend could come out to play he was told, "they're not here, they probably won't be back for a long time. we've really got to get this place cleaned up." today was the first time i have ever seen the window blinds open.
odd.

happy tax day.