Georgia and Sawyer

2011-01-30T19:42:00.000-08:00

The end of our sexuality series...

Where We Get It Wrong

http://www.firstchurchbhm.com/media.php?pageID=24

The abuse of sex.

2011-01-28T05:58:00.000-08:00

Birmingham First United Methodist Church's January Sermon Series has been
Sexuality: Let's Talk About It!
This past week we addressed the question
"LGBT: Has the Church Gotten it Wrong?"

From across the country we have been getting responses from folks. It felt like an empowered moment for First Church!

Click here to listen to the sermons http://www.firstchurchbhm.com/media.php?pageID=24

2008-11-24T12:24:00.000-08:00

2008-11-01T13:26:00.000-07:00

While i was away this is what they did...played with Bamma ( and Papa and Grandma and Grandpa Arnold) and went to the fair. They did so well. I know they missed me but it is also nice to know they go on just fine when i am away. They have great people who love them like I do and care for them so well. Thanks to them all for all they do for them and for ME!!!

2008-10-20T06:39:00.001-07:00

Preface: This is really jumbled and scattered and it has some really horribles things written about in it, but it is what I have been through today and these last 2 weeks. I and what I believe am a work in progress so please bare that in mind. I have not processed enough to have real thoughtful, coherent politically, theologically sound arguements, yet, but I will. I will!!!

Today was possibly the hardest of all the days I have been here and tomorrow I leave to come home. I am so glad! I don't think I want to see anymore. I can not believe the world inwhich we live in. I can not believe the things i saw today...these were not things that were done in the past but things that are happening right now. I strolled through informal settlements and townships today. These are largely black families that reside in these areas, mostly because the government during the "struggle" placed them here. Now families move to bare patches to ground in a city beside the highway and build their homes. These homes were worse than anything I have seen on ASP. And ASP has some true devastation. The homes were built out of cardboard, wood, tin, plastic tarps. In one of these rooms today while the cardboard roaf dripped above there was a small three month old baby sleeping on its bed sucking its thumb. There might be fifteen buckets outside for a community of thousands to use...the city empties these buckets 2 xs a week. I say rooms the size of my washroom with three beds for six persons to sleep in. People were selling their wares outside there homes and I could not bring myself to barter with them..."$4 for a wooden elephant...No problem". Then after eating lunch in downtown Cape Town where I sat infront of the most destitute, impoverished street woman I have seen we went to SHADE, a United Methodist ministry here for woman and children. There we met woman who have come to SA after fleeing the Congo. Hey told us there stories of why they fled. Then before we knew it they were flashing pictures of their stories on powerpoint. Pictures none of us were prepared to see, many of us wished we could have looked away. Pictures of soldiers with decapitated heads at their feet, happy to have slain the people. Pictures of children murdered while they slept. Pictures of woman being mutilated...female circumcision. Pictures of childen on the brink of death due to starvation. Let me tell you it is different seeing these for real versus on a movie or commercial asking for donations. These families took these pictures to help show others what is going on in the world.
One of the most interesting things we hav ALL experienced here in SA is how interested foreigners are in the US presidental elections. Everyone here wants to talk to us about our country, their preception of us and how they hope and need us to be a leader. I have been realized what an impact the US has on the world, but we do. And let me tell you, the perception right now is that we have squandered the power, reputation and ability we once had to speak out against injustice. People here are afraid of us in many ways. They are afraid we will do something to hurt them. They have said we are afraid the US will want our resources and come take them from us. They are afraid we will continue to turn a blind eye to things happening here, like the Congo. They are afraid the money we allocate for Africa will continue to not be able to make it to free health clinics here that pass out birth control, because in Africa the places that pass out birth control also offer abortions. Our politics the last 8 years has not allowed these agencies to receive funding because we don't want to give money to someplace that also offers abortions to women. So instead of providing measures to stop unwanted pregnancies we teach abstinence...in a country where violent acts against women such as rape are rampent. I am dumbfounded. I am angry. I am disgusted at how in such a amazing country as the USA we have somehow turned inward on ourselves and live in this bubble that doesn't want or let ourselves see the hurt and pain in the world. We live so isolated and don't even realize the ramifications of our actions and non actions in the world. Here they talk about how much food we consume and how Africans don't understand how we can order so much when we can never eat it all. We are wasteful they say, and they are right. They say we are consumers and they are right.
But they also believe we can change the world if we would but choose to. We can help empower the weak and seek to make heard the voice of the oppressed. We are only given power inorder to give it those who have none. I am ready to come home to hide from some of this again. I need a break from all I have seen. I need to see my healthy, beautiful children with their bright future. I need to walk in my safe neighborhood and not be asked for money or food when I step out my door. But I need not stay there too long. I need to bring these stories with me. I don't want to not know anymore. I don't want to be ignorant of the worlds sickness. I want to help shine light onto the places we need the grace of Christ most and see if God can still work some miracles.

2008-10-17T08:00:00.000-07:00

Me on top of Table Mountain!!!

Home in 4 days...YEAH!!!

2008-10-16T06:51:00.000-07:00

So we are now in Cape Town. It is a beautiful city city underneath Table Mountain which we will go up on tomorrow if the weather is good.

Pictures are from the last few days.
1.Hot air balloon safaris
2 Shot of the land
3 White Rhino
4 Who I miss most!!!!!!

5 Disctrict 6- which is where 35,000 "coloured" persons were made to relocate from there long time homes into far off designated areas where they would live according to their "classified, determined" race, in order that whites might demolish and take over the area. This is a picture of a map that a Methodist church has on its floor that allowed people who were removed to come into the church and write their names on the map where they had lived. It was there way of helping them to reclaim what they had lost...I found my family name amongst all the names of the displaced families.
6 Leper Graveyard on Robbin Island where it has been used for hundreds of years a a prison and isolation area...beginning with persons with skin conditions considered lepers.
7 Cape Town on Atlantic ocean heading to the island.
8 Zebra in the road...posing :)
9 My lion shot :) YEAH!!!

2008-10-13T01:24:00.000-07:00

Today we began at 5:30am with our fist game drive. My camera battery holder fell off and was lost so that I had to hold the battery in with the same hand I shot with. I ran out of tape in the cam corder and I got a terrible nose bleed...even with all that I managed to spot 6 or 7 of the animals we saw...everyone says I have a gift for seeing the animals...oh and I didn't even have my glasses on :) Within the first five minutes I spotted elephants (my favorite). We think we may have even have seen a lion very far off. So even though it began rough with all that happened to me it ended well...I even found my battery lid to the camera in the room...whew!!! I am trying to decide if I want to take a safari in a hot air balloon...it is quite expensive, but possibly a once in a life time opportuntiy...also many are aware I am NOT a risk taker and they go quite high in the sky. SO I am a little afraid.
The animals are a nice break from all the thinking and squalling we have been doing. Yesterday i sat through one of the most convicting, excellent sermons I have heard. Hopefully I am getting a copy of it before I leave. It was about how we can be so double minded...wanting to please GOd and wanting to please the world. Loving money and loving Jesus. The preacher even said in the sermon," i confess, I do truly want to preach a good sermon for Christ and the kingdom, but I also want to preach well so that you will think I am a good preacher." You could hear a guteral sigh from our row...as we are all preachers who identified well with that example. It also touched me on a different level of feeling doubleminded about wanting to do two things well...be a good mother and be a good minister.

Steve I wish you were here. Seeing the animals would be so much fun with you. Where we are staying is nice enough to be a honeymoon spot. Great food, and nice facilities. I am trying hard to take good pictures for you. I keep thinking that if I can take nice enough pictures, then that is what we can frame for our wall art in the den. I really miss you not being here...we must come again. The babies in due time would enjoy this as well. It is really exciting looking for animals. The predators are hard to find though cause they sleep and hide in shade during the day. We will go out tonight to see if we can spot them.

I'll write more when I get some more time. Glad to be here, but i can't wait to get home!!

2008-10-11T13:11:00.000-07:00

" It is said that no one truly knows a nation until pne has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones...And South Africa treated its imprisoned African citizens like animals.| Nelson Mandela

So today we went first to Constitutional Hill which now houses the highest court in SA. It resides on the same spot as Old Fort Prison which hosues thousands of crimals, political activiest and such...Ghandi and Mandela are two of the most famous. Most people there were not even guilty of a crime. This prison ran up until 1983. They did horrible things to prisoners. Not letting them shower for months. Making them eat only rice soup, which it the water you cook your rice in. Requiring them to strip naked, jump up and down and bend over to show they were not hiding anything inside themselves. With the adoption of South Africa's new constitution they have abolished capital punishment. They have stated 8 reasons which I do not have with me so I will post them later. It is profound the way this country now values human diginity in all of us...even the worst.
After this we went to The Cradle of Humankind...this is where the oldest remains of humanoids have been found...3.5 billion years old. It was quite fascinating. And finally we went tonight to an outrageous outlandish bizzare play. It was quite entertaining simple because of the silly nature of it.
We go to church in the morning and then head to the bush to spent some days with the wildlife here in SA. I can't wait!!!

Pictures
1. Isolation cells. The one with the metal door open was used for torture and believed to be inhabitated by a ghost
2. Barbed wire even covered the top of the prison
3. The skeletal remains found in SA of humanoids through our present day form.
4. Me standing infront of the talk grass...you can see how easily a lion could hide in this tall grass without being seen. There were antelope up on the hill above me.

2008-10-10T22:50:00.000-07:00

A child in Soweto

2008-10-10T13:48:00.000-07:00

Today was a hard day. We went to Soweto, which is a township outside of Johannesburg. There are over 4 million people living there largely in poverty. It was a stark difference from the Nelson Mandella square we shopped in the night before that was possibly the largest shopping mall I have been inside. Today I met a woman named Carol who was a part of the June 16, 1976 uprising that began to turn the tide on aprtheid. She was 13 then. She among 15000 other students led a march through the streets of Soweto to protest the schools being forced to teach in the Afrikans langauge. For them it was the language of their oppressors. Things turned violent when the police opened fire into the crowds and rioting lasted for days and months even. Many children were killed. She was there in the march that day. Now she runs a clinic for children who are orphaned by AIDS. There parents died from AIDS and now many of the eldest children ages 11-17 are caring for the rest of the their siblings. She is helping them and over 310 household and 2000 children now call me their "Mama". Many of these children also are HIV positive. She has sacrificed so mush in order to help these children. She says so often they just want to talk about "what hurts inside". She says she loves these "children of the soil" as much as she loves "the children of her loins". This was very challenging to think about.
I felt very selfish and guilty for only caring for my two. And then at the same time I as I listened to the cost she has paid for loving all of them with such a passion I wondered if the cost was more than one ( me in particular) should bare. So it is the constant struggle to me about what we cling to most tightly. And when is it the right and possibly healthy time to let go of somethings in order to pick up others, which may not serve "you" as much as they may serve the greater good.

Much to think about and my brain and heart hurt.

2008-10-09T11:52:00.000-07:00

Hello from Johannesburg South Africa!!! The internet connection is painfully slow . Today was our first full day here and already it is such a powerful and emotional journey. Today a United Methodist pastor here in SA, but who also recently pastored a UMC church in Jackson Mississippi spoke to us about racial reconciliation and true integration of blacks and whites. He spoke about how after living for 4 years in the South he could see that even though 40 years ago we wrote laws to desegregate yet we are still very segregated..."This is where white people live, and this is where black people live. This is where white kids go to school and this is where black kids go to school. This is where white people shop and this is where black people shop." It really touched me because this is so true. He spoke about how we can have dieing churches of the same denomination across the street from each other but they will not join together in order to be a live vibrant church. He challenged us to consider the idea that a white man or woman could serve a black church or vice versa. I wept through much of his talk and they say tomorrow is the emotional day. I brought tissue paper here after learning in Israel that not all countries keep toliet paper handy, but i now realize the tissue paper will be for me running nose and watery eyes. Our history in the USA and particularly the south mirros much of what we have here. SA prayer they said has become that in 40 years of ending apartheid they will have come farther than where we are as a country.
On a lighter note, I have eaten some really good food. I tried Biltong- beef jerkyish, droewors- Slim Jimish, Samoosa- which I Love, is fried meat wrapped in a bread in the shape of a triangle, and Cook's Sista- not sure how to spell that, but a sweet syrupy fried bread and I had the best passion fruit ice cream!!!

Pictures are of me in front of the hotel SunnySide Park where we are staying and of me on a South African street in Pretoria surrounded by Jackaranda plants and a huge monument telling the Africaners story here.

The people have been so kind and I love the African understanding of "ubuntu" which is that we can only be or understand our humanity through recognizing others humanity. This is what has enabled so many to forgive the tremendous sins that took place here.
There is much hospitality here...I see now why Cheve is so generous and hospitable...its in her culture!!!

Much to learn here! Thanks to those of you helping me be here by loving my kids and teaching classes for me while I am gone!! XOXO

2008-09-18T13:05:00.000-07:00

Some pictures from this summer!!!

2007-11-13T18:12:00.000-08:00

Man, isn't making cupcakes fun!

Oh no! We've been caught in the act of destroying your room Brother!

And finally cuddling with daddy!

2007-10-15T22:53:00.000-07:00

Today we head to all the major places of Christ's passion and resurrection. I am pretty excited adn can't wait. Though in Jerusalem things don't really look how you expect them too. there are lots of people and everything important has achurch or mosque built on top of it. But still I am expecting it to be a special day. yesterday we saw and walked throught the spot that David fought goliath...they feel 110% sure of this spot. It was really neat. We all picked up stones from the creek bed that David found his 5 smooth stones. My trip is almost over. I can not express my readiness and excitement to be home. yet at teh same time i will miss having such easy access to such sacred adn holy spots. It is easy to feel God when surrounded by such history. the stories come alive in ways you have never known them too before. I already regret not being able to retain more and not knowing my Bible better. We spent time with a Jewish man who expressed that Jews beleive all who come to Israel the Holy Land are called by God to come here. they beleive that whatever the reasons were you came God used that to get you here just to spent time with you in this Holy place. hearing that brought tears to my eyes because it reminded me god has been and will always be trying to get close to me and to help me experience him. God goes to such great lengths to be with us. How often I neglect to be open to his closeness and how much I am glad i was open to this. It is like being on a spiritual retreat and knowing the feelings will not stay the same when you leave, but you must leave because you need to share it adn give it away to other people. i pray i use these experiences wisely and that I encourage others to see God more clearly...even though at this time my head is swimming with fussiness from all i have taken in. I am even more convinced that God is more complex than we can imagine...the only easy answer is that God loves us all no doubt...and it seems much else is a matter of speculation.

2007-10-14T22:43:00.000-07:00

1. Our group on the Mt of Olives overlooking the old city of Jerusalem...you see the gold Dome of the Rock.

2. Woman praying at the Western Wall...or the Wailing wall.

3. Picture of door inside the Church of the Nativity.

Doing well on the trip. It is almost over...not sure where we are going today. Can't wait to be home and process all of this. I hope i can remember it all. Let me know if anyone will EVER be interested in seeing all the hundreds of pictures i have taken...probably not :)

2007-10-13T13:48:00.000-07:00

1. Me lighting candles for my grandfather adn granny at St. George church is Medeba.

2. me floating in the Dead Sea

3. Me and Bryan and Emily riding camels in Petra

4. Me touching the stone on which they say Jesus was born in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

we are now in Jerusalem and hopefully I can post more while I am here. going to bethlehem was amazing and a little scary tonight. I will say though that now being a mother and reading inside the cave where they beleive she and Joseph came one very busy and crowded night that after giving birth to Christ and having the angels come adn proclaim him the Messiah that she pondered these things in her heart...it was VERY moving. I can remember holding my babies in the hospital and pondering the mystery of how precious they are to me. the best word to describe this site of the natvity is mystery.

I am having an amzing time. So far my favorites have been Tabgha, Jordan and Bethlehem. But we have just now arrived in jerusalem so we will see :)

2007-10-12T13:07:00.000-07:00

2007-10-10T12:26:00.000-07:00

Tonight I am in Petra Jordan and will be going to the ancient city of Petra tomorrow morning. We are getting to ride horses into the city which is carved completely out of a wall of sandstone. So i am excited about that. We will in the day at the Red Sea and hope to swim in that as well. Today we went to Mt Nebo where Moses saw the promised land and then died and was buried below in the valley. I am enjoying the trip and all the people with me. I do so miss my family and babies. But I will be home in a week from tomorrow. YEAH!!!

2007-10-09T09:05:00.000-07:00

Okay so I can't post pictures cause it won't work at this hotel. And I spell terrible anyway but worse on an arabic keyboard.

Yesterday I swam in the Jordan rivier as it turned to dark. We had a remember your baptism service in the water too. It was so cool. The river is really small about the size of the Cahaba River in Helena, Alabama. It normally is shallow but we found a deep spot and I dove right in clothes and all. It was great. Today I am in the country of Jordan (for the next two days) and we are visiting some Old Testament sites. Like where David sent Uriaha to be on the front lines of the battle so that he could marry Bathsheba. Tomorrow we are going to Nebo where I think Moses died, then down to Petra which is known for its beautiful sandstone. Jordan is different feeling that Israel. It is 98% muslim. GREAT food. I have not enjoyed the Kosher Israeli food, but like the Arabic food. It is a very different place though. it is so hot here and NO ONE wears shorts...except us.

I'll sned pictures when i can...I am heading to dinner and to listen to some Arabic music.

BYE

2007-10-07T11:55:00.000-07:00

Todays pictures:

1. Tabgha-place where Jesus reinstates Peter after Peter's denial and Christ's resurrection by asking him over a charcoal breakfast on the beach at the Sea of Galilee "Do you Love me?" This was the most moving spiritually for me. It was very quiet and early morning when we were there. This has been a favorite so far. I got some sand and stone from the beach...though it is VERY rocky.

2. Me on top of Tel Hazor. This was a LARGE Cananite fortress and city that is on top of a mountain/hill. This was one of the places that Joshua conquers into to bring the Israelites into the Promise Land. VERY OLD SITE.

3. This is an even older site. It is under escavation right now so not much to look at but this is a Gate that is quite possibly one Abraham walked through on his way from Ur.

I got great sleep last night and no stomach problems today...so I am doing much better. My little boy Sawyer is sick with a fever and diarhea though so please prayer for him and all those caring for both my children. I miss them so much.

2007-10-06T09:01:00.000-07:00

Todays pictures are as follows:

1. Me in a boat on the Sea (lake because it is fresh water) of Galilee. We road from Genesar where we are staying to Capernaum this morning. Everything is very close within like 5 to 10 miles around the Sea of Galilee. From the sea you can see the Mt. of Beatitudes, where Jesus asked Peter do you love me 3 times after his resurrection, the feeding of the 5000 and then the 4000, the city of the hill that is Jesus example of letting you Light shine. I plan to swim in the sea before we leave.

2. Picture of the Synague in Capernaum the Jesus taught in. This was need to see where Jesus was known to have read the scriptures and taught. Capernaum is where around the age of 30 Jesus left Nazareth and made this his new home base. He called his disiples from the surrounding cities within about 4 miles.

3. This is Geresean or Kursi best known for where Jesus drives out the demon from the man who was naked and could not be bound in chains. The demons...Legion...runs into a herd of pigs of 2000 and they run down a cliff into the sea of Galilee. This is a picture of that cliff. After being healed Jesus tells the man to go to the Gentile lands of the Diaspora across the sea and tell of what Jesus did for him. Shortly after in the Gospels telling you read about Jesus feeding the 4000 in the Diaspora. Possibly this man was the first Gentile Evangelist.

4. Picture of the Jordan river feeding into the Sea of Galilee. It is lush around the Jordan. The picture is hazing because of the dust and lack of rain for 7 months.

Because of the dust my nose is bleeding and because of the food or water my stomack is turning, and because of the time change I am not sleeping much. But things are well. I look forward to American food. Today I have eaten two hard boiled eggs, lots of Pita bread, sopme hummus and two bites of cucumber. We are about to have dinner, but i don't much feel like eating. Tomorrow we head first off to the Mt. of Beatitudes.

Oh and don't let anyone tell you gifts here are cheap or that food is either...they are wrong :) So far we have not been able to bargin and lunch is more than in Homewood/Vestavia.

2007-10-05T23:12:00.000-07:00

First picture of me standing on top of Har Meddigo...fortress where most battles fought in the world. It is where we get the word Armegedon. 25 layers have been discovered. Solomon and Ahab fortified this city. It looks onto the Jezreel Valley.

2nd Me at Caeserea...Herod the Great made a luxurious palace here. I am putting my feet into the Meditterean.

3rd Picture in Nazareth at the Church of the Annouciation...where the angel told MAry about Jesus. This is what homes looked like in 1st century. They are caves. Animals slept there with the people.

4th the View of the Church in Nazareth and city from our quaint hotel the first night.

I am now off to ride a boat on the sea of Galilee...half of us have a stomach bug. Pray immodium works :)

So far it is great but I miss my family.

2007-10-04T13:19:00.000-07:00

Spending my first night in Nazareth. It is a very large city now, but In Jesus' day it was quite small. The city has this haze over it because they need some rain to settle down the desert sands. Nazareth is in a bowl shaped valley with mountain ridges all surrounding it and as I look out our balcony you see millions of lights littering the hillside. Several are green which I have learned is to ward off evil spirits for muslims. Our hotel is quiet and just like out of a movie. We have a beutiful interior garden with trees and tables and lights. Everything is open air and you hear constant car horns and firecrackers. It is a Jewish holiday...celebrating the Torah or Law. they set off firecrackers...but they have no lights. So it sounds a lot like gunfire, but they say it is not. Everything so far feels quite safe and quite foriegn. Well wish me luck sleeping. Tomorrow we are off to old Nazareth and then Sea of Galilee.
Shalom.

2007-09-29T19:21:00.000-07:00

In four days this is where I will be headed...Jerusalem

2006-11-28T12:05:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas!

2006-09-12T06:11:00.000-07:00

Georgia at 4 months...does she look anything like Sawyer yet???

2006-09-12T06:01:00.000-07:00

getting bigger everyday...now 2 months and chubby and quite happy!!! I think his eyes might stay blue :)

ready for church...wave your arms like you just don't care...

Hair...finally...in pigtails

Daddy's girl

Who says she looks like Steve

2006-08-24T06:26:00.000-07:00

WILD Georgia...finally getting hair!

Little Sawyer at 5 weeks looking at daddy

Daddy and Sawyer at 2 weeks

SawyerMan at 3 weeks

2006-07-17T12:46:00.000-07:00

Sawyer resting on mom!
Georgia with mom after delivery. She loved the gift bag Josie brought her...she still says "Josie, thank you!"
Mom's Favorite picture.
Mom, Dad and Sawyer day two.
Going home!

2006-06-21T11:10:00.000-07:00

Swimming in Prattville with Grandma Carol and Papa

I love riding the BIG tractor...actually I like driving it!

It was so much fun playing with Abby and Kimberly...I still talk about them!

One more photo of me on the tractor :)

2006-06-08T06:51:00.000-07:00

Georgia got to see her cousin Jackson Tuesday. They had fun swimming at Grandma Carol's. They didn't like it when each other took their Dolphin or blankie though...or when they swapped parents :)

This is Georgia with Grandma Arnold

Georgia and Daddy at our first wedding together. She really enjoyed eating the cake. She even walked up and took some off of someone's plate, along with chicken fingers too :)

Georgia and Grandpa Arnold...he reads to all his grandchildern and they love it. She says she has been missing the Arnolds.

At the ordiantion service...Steve was taking the picture.

2006-06-06T18:45:00.000-07:00

So I got ordained last Friday night. It was a great service and it was the culmanation of 10 years for me. I began the process when I was 18 years old, but orginally felt the call to ministry when I was 15 years old. After being ordained I offically took a year off to have Sawyer and enjoy my time with my family. So far my first two days on my new job have been great. I guess you could say I am the offical minister in residence for our household :)

2006-05-24T07:18:00.000-07:00

Choosing MY Life

So I am not a big poetry fan...but I came across this this week and had to save a copy. It affirms for me my decision to stop and take time to be with my childern and family right now. In no way by saying that am I trying to imply that mothers or fathers who work are not taking time and doing what is right for their family...because I don't believe there is only one way to be a "family". But for me I am ready to not have to worry and feel guilty about choosing how to manage my time so that I give some to work and more to my family.

Choose Life
"It used to be she had not time for
eating ice cream cones on frail afternoons
or wading barefoot thorugh tes parties.
Her time was spent in seriou hurry
and navy-blue practicals
with none left over
for wrapping rainbows around children's ankles.
When finally she saw
icicles dancing on the back of winter,
no one was listening for her clapping.
So...now she sits cross-legged in the snow,
hoping someong will come cartwheeling by
and touch her check.

O God, we shook the dust from our sandals once
and went on.
Now theat the scene's changed,
are we supposed to go back and get her?"

(Admittedly I don't yet get the last four lines)
But here's to wrapping rainbows around Georgia and Sawyers ankles, wading barefoot together and clapping for them all day long!

2006-05-23T07:50:00.000-07:00

Sawyer's room is almost finished...Mama Carol made all his bedding and it looks amazing! His room is a safari theme.

Easter Sunday by the cross.

Daddy and Bunny at the beach...she loves her Jasmine glasses!

Better view of the bedding and quilt! We love it!

She had a blast playing in the sand! What a great beach vacation.

2006-05-03T13:20:00.000-07:00

Sneaky BunnyMom and Bunny gathering eggs!
Sweet Bunny Girl

2006-05-03T13:14:00.000-07:00

Wild Easter Bunny!!!