Wordless Wednesday

Another fun musical find...

So some of you probably already know this (as did Matt Bayley who told me about it today), but what a cool idea!

Like The Human Genome Project has set out to discover/label all genes found in our DNA, so Pandora has set out to analyze a LOT of the world's music, link it to many other types of music of its "kind" and group it. So type in a kind of music or artist you like and it searches its databases of all other kinds of music with similarities - some you may know, many you may not.

Are you in a "Cold Play" kind of mood? A "Watermark" kind of mood? A "Journey" kind of mood? Type them in and you get variety within a genre of a play list/jukebox around 40ish songs... PLUS if you like a song, there's an immediate way to buy it for all you MP3ers out there (no, I'm still not one of you since I can't think of a time when I would be exercising and not wanting to hear what Sarah says...). I'm going to try it out for a while (it's free) as background music... Let me know what you think if you try it.

Amazingly...

Beautiful music of a beautiful savior...
Check out JJ Heller's free online release!
If you know about Over the Rhine, you'll like...

Flashback Friday

The Bachelorette Par-tay

The Kiss

First Dance "Come Away With Me"

Dancing with Dad to "Unforgettable"

The Reception
MUCH dancing afterward - probably my favorite part!
Luminarias were super fun/romantic/Southwest
Quotes about love on table courtesy of my good friend Joey...

The Cake

It's amazing that I don't have more digital pics of our wedding and really don't want to take the time now to scan them all in (but it'd probably be a good project to do sometime as a way to back them up...), but I hope those of you who didn't get to come to our wedding feel like you caught a glimpse!

just a quote i like....

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
- Plato

I think that the reason I like it (other than that Jesus embodied perfect kindness for us to model)
is that it communicates an "others" emphasis - not just awareness - and certainly not an egocentric one...

An Afternoon at the Beach

(or Sarah by the "Sea")

She's addicted...
tears/begging to stay and no nap after we got home!
SO much fun...
Special Thanks to Jodi for letting us park at the house...

Five Great Years

God is so GOOD!!
Happy Anniversary to us!

Reconnecting a bit

It's fun to connect in person for a change!

Got to see some friends/friends who blog this weekend at Christie's wedding... SOOO good to give them a hug, hear their voices, and chat real-time! We talked about how good/bad blogs are to keep people connected, and don't substitute for the real face to face connection that is so important. I love technology sometimes, but I love hanging out in person so much more... I'm SO looking forward to a girls' night this week to stay up too late, talk about things that really matter now, and for eternity... For those of you who I got to see, you are a blessing! For those of you who I didn't, well you're a blessing too, and let's hang out soon!

Thankful Thursday

For Todd
Faithful
Disciple
Friend
Lover
Amazing Daddy
Provider
Carpenter/Mason/Painter/Handyman
Voice of Reason
Comedian
Patient beyond compare
Mathematician
Listening Ear
Baseball Fan
Calm in storms
Researcher
Encourager
Mower of our lawn
Ultimate Frisbee Expert
Reader
Juggler
Thinker
Mine

Wordless (well not MY words at least) Wednesday

Identity

Lately, Sarah's been grappling with the concept of identity...
I am NOT a penguin! I am a watermelon!
I am not a person...
I am a person...
I am a sweetie gwerl! (girl)
Mommy is a gwerl, Daddy is a boy...
etc.

Not sure what Sartre would have to say about that but...
(Remember, he's the "I think, therefore I am" guy...)

When I was not quite two (I think) my Aunt Judi gave me the lion outfit that Sarah's wearing in the video. Note the 70's green polyester - gotta love it! The reason it's still around is because it is/was my dad's favorite outfit on me from when I was little and somehow survived all the basement clean-outs my mom has done through the years, but after one of the latest clean-outs it migrated to our house... Sarah has been requesting to wear it a lot lately even though it's getting a bit high water on her. Just a short, fun clip. I know that we know this since many of us are mom's... Sometimes we just need to write posts to get out
pics and videos to the family...
So here's a shamelessly gratuitous post of our Sweetie Gwerl!

South 47 Farm

This morning at the farm we...

played with beans and grains

pretended to be a scarecrow...

picked an onion or two (since Daddy's away at a golf tournament he won't mind if we have onions with dinner!)...

Found a summer squash, and learned about worms (another post altogether), and made a caterpillar...

Sarah LOVED the wagon ride behind the tractor!

Almost 3 feet tall

First picture that Sarah has taken (my rain coat)

Not pictured: playing with worms, feeding goats and alpacas out of our hands, thoroughly WASHING our hands, and tromping through fields.

A perfect morning for an adventurous girl!