You guys have to watch this video, it's so beautiful!
Weight of the Ribbon
"The gallery reflects the emotional journeys of breast cancer victims in their battles against the disease...from moments of strength and triumph to moments of defense and collapse. Dancers from the Carolina Ballet translate the photographers concept into visual form through distinct expression and movement."
http://www.weightoftheribbon.com/
Thursday, May 28, 2009
PS...
I have another quote to add to my list. I was complaining to Momma the other day about how I wish sometimes that certain things in life could just be normal. She tells me in her typical sweet-Mother-way... "Lindsey, normal is just a setting on the dryer." I had to laugh... it's true though.
Quotes!!
I love quotes, don't you?? Here's some recent favs...
"Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life, you will have been all of these."
- Lloyd Shearer
"Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death. Grab life by the mane. Set God-sized goals. Pursue God-ordained passions. Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention. Keep asking questions. Keep making mistakes. Keep seeking God. Stop pointing out problems and become part of the solution. Stop repeating the past and start creating the future. Stop playing it safe and start taking risks. Expand your horizons. Accumulate experiences. Consider the lilies. Enjoy the journey. Find every excuse you can to celebrate everything you can. Live like today is the first day and last day of your life. Don't let what's wrong with you keep you from worshipping what's right with God. Burn sinful bridges. Blaze a new trail. Criticize by creating. Worry less about what people think and more about what God thinks. Don't try to be who you're not. Be yourself. Laugh at yourself. Quit holding out. Quit holding back. Quit running away. Chase the lion."
- Mark Batterson
"Faith is not clinging to a shrine, but an endless pilgrimage of the heart, audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind- these are all a drive toward serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell."
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
"If God were small enough to be understood, he would not be big enough to be worshipped."
- Evelyn Underhill.
"Jesus pounds 'Do Not Enter' signs on every square inch of Satan's gate and tells those hell-bent on entering to do so over His dead body."
- Max Lucado
"I have but one candle to burn, and would rather burn it out where people are dying in darkness than in a land which is flooded with lights."
- Anonymous Missionary
"Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved."
- Barbara Johnson
"...paying a baby-sitter every couple of Saturday nights is cheaper than paying a marriage counselor."
- Lisa Belkin
"The only thing worse than waiting is wishing you had."
- Paul Sailhammer
"People are not interuptions to my work - people are my work."
(don't know who said it but I have to remind myself of that everyday)
"Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable."
-C.S. Lewis
"Defending the Bible is like defending a lion - you don't defend the Lion, you just let him loose He'll defend himself!"
- Charles Spurgeon
"Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life, you will have been all of these."
- Lloyd Shearer
"Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death. Grab life by the mane. Set God-sized goals. Pursue God-ordained passions. Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention. Keep asking questions. Keep making mistakes. Keep seeking God. Stop pointing out problems and become part of the solution. Stop repeating the past and start creating the future. Stop playing it safe and start taking risks. Expand your horizons. Accumulate experiences. Consider the lilies. Enjoy the journey. Find every excuse you can to celebrate everything you can. Live like today is the first day and last day of your life. Don't let what's wrong with you keep you from worshipping what's right with God. Burn sinful bridges. Blaze a new trail. Criticize by creating. Worry less about what people think and more about what God thinks. Don't try to be who you're not. Be yourself. Laugh at yourself. Quit holding out. Quit holding back. Quit running away. Chase the lion."
- Mark Batterson
"Faith is not clinging to a shrine, but an endless pilgrimage of the heart, audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind- these are all a drive toward serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell."
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
"If God were small enough to be understood, he would not be big enough to be worshipped."
- Evelyn Underhill.
"Jesus pounds 'Do Not Enter' signs on every square inch of Satan's gate and tells those hell-bent on entering to do so over His dead body."
- Max Lucado
"I have but one candle to burn, and would rather burn it out where people are dying in darkness than in a land which is flooded with lights."
- Anonymous Missionary
"Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved."
- Barbara Johnson
"...paying a baby-sitter every couple of Saturday nights is cheaper than paying a marriage counselor."
- Lisa Belkin
"The only thing worse than waiting is wishing you had."
- Paul Sailhammer
"People are not interuptions to my work - people are my work."
(don't know who said it but I have to remind myself of that everyday)
"Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable."
-C.S. Lewis
"Defending the Bible is like defending a lion - you don't defend the Lion, you just let him loose He'll defend himself!"
- Charles Spurgeon
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
More reading...
I recently finished up another book...The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands by Dr. Laura Schlessinger. Very interesting book. Not one I would have picked up off the shelf on my own but someone wanted my opinion of it so I read it, very neat stuff. It had some new perspectives I never thought mattered to husbands before. It's an easy read too :)
I like what Dr. Laura says at the end: "Men rescue, repair, provide, protect. Men don't sit, stew, and rehash. Men are active and proactive. They do that out of love, duty, responsibility, and character. That needs to be respected and appreciated if a woman is to have a happy life married to a good man. A good man is just that--a man. A good man is not a best girlfriend."
"The truth is that when it comes to home and relationships, women rule, this is a book about how to rule wisely and lovingly."
I like what Dr. Laura says at the end: "Men rescue, repair, provide, protect. Men don't sit, stew, and rehash. Men are active and proactive. They do that out of love, duty, responsibility, and character. That needs to be respected and appreciated if a woman is to have a happy life married to a good man. A good man is just that--a man. A good man is not a best girlfriend."
"The truth is that when it comes to home and relationships, women rule, this is a book about how to rule wisely and lovingly."
Monday, May 18, 2009
Life is good
Life is pretty fun and exciting for us right now!!
We are trying to narrow down our list of things that we really need for the house and start our shopping. Our want list is like a million times longer than the need list, hehe. We should be in pretty good shape when we move in though. We have two months to finalize everything. The owners are being half way decent about repairing things that the inspector found, so overall we are satisfied.
Kyle is finishing up his softball season this week and then they start the tournament. It's been a very fun season, the games have been quite exciting.
We have various things that will keep us busy through the summer as well. I've started on a new team in the Women's Ministry at church. I'm going to be on the Heart-to-Heart Activities team, how awesome is that! There are two of us who get to plan a fun activity night for the ladies once a month. Kyle is on the Lawn Maintenance team so he gets to cut the church's grass a couple times (all 20-something acres of it, hehe) We have several trips we are trying to plan as well. I love summertime!!!!
We are headed to Jacksonville for Memorial Day Weekend to see Kyle's family! YAY! Hopefully we will get some beachtime in too!
We are trying to narrow down our list of things that we really need for the house and start our shopping. Our want list is like a million times longer than the need list, hehe. We should be in pretty good shape when we move in though. We have two months to finalize everything. The owners are being half way decent about repairing things that the inspector found, so overall we are satisfied.
Kyle is finishing up his softball season this week and then they start the tournament. It's been a very fun season, the games have been quite exciting.
We have various things that will keep us busy through the summer as well. I've started on a new team in the Women's Ministry at church. I'm going to be on the Heart-to-Heart Activities team, how awesome is that! There are two of us who get to plan a fun activity night for the ladies once a month. Kyle is on the Lawn Maintenance team so he gets to cut the church's grass a couple times (all 20-something acres of it, hehe) We have several trips we are trying to plan as well. I love summertime!!!!
We are headed to Jacksonville for Memorial Day Weekend to see Kyle's family! YAY! Hopefully we will get some beachtime in too!
Monday, May 11, 2009
Mother's Day!!!
It was a great week for the most part. First of all I finished up my 5-day work weeks for a while! Now I will be working between 2-4 days, I'm so excited about finally having some days off! I'm still working between 3 different offices and I've actually been enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would.
Second, the house inspection went very well. There is just a few things the sellers will have to fix, nothing major though. We are so thankful for that. Our list of things we want/need for the house grows longer everyday! :)
We had a wonderful Mother's Day weekend! My sisters and I took my Mom to the spa on Saturday to get pedicures. We have decided to make it a monthly thing, hehe. Then we brought Mom back to my apartment where I cooked lunch for everyone. It was fun and relaxing. Then Sunday we went to my aunt's house and we saw my grandparents too! Very fun times!
Our pretty toes after the pedicure!
Lesley, Leah Mom and Me!
Leah, Grandma, Me
Aunt Lou and Dad being... themselves
Gpa, Lou, Dad and Kyle playing bocce
Second, the house inspection went very well. There is just a few things the sellers will have to fix, nothing major though. We are so thankful for that. Our list of things we want/need for the house grows longer everyday! :)
We had a wonderful Mother's Day weekend! My sisters and I took my Mom to the spa on Saturday to get pedicures. We have decided to make it a monthly thing, hehe. Then we brought Mom back to my apartment where I cooked lunch for everyone. It was fun and relaxing. Then Sunday we went to my aunt's house and we saw my grandparents too! Very fun times!
Our pretty toes after the pedicure!
Lesley, Leah Mom and Me!
Leah, Grandma, Me
Aunt Lou and Dad being... themselves
Gpa, Lou, Dad and Kyle playing bocce
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
They Accepted!
The sellers accepted our offer! Whuhooooo!!!! The inspection will be on Thursday so Kyle has to go to that, hopefully there is nothing major wrong with the house. We are so super excited that I can hardly sleep at night, which doesn't happen often to me, haha.
The foot is slowly getting better. After 8 hours of walking... or hobbling on it yesterday at work, it was very swollen and sore last night, and both legs are cramping up like crazy. SO annoying. I did get tons of sympathy at work though, it was kinda nice ;)
Have a great week!!
The foot is slowly getting better. After 8 hours of walking... or hobbling on it yesterday at work, it was very swollen and sore last night, and both legs are cramping up like crazy. SO annoying. I did get tons of sympathy at work though, it was kinda nice ;)
Have a great week!!
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Crazy Weekend
Friday night Kyle and I helped chaperon a Youth Lock-In! Yes, we are crazy, haha. We were supposed to be at Adventure Landing from 11pm-7am with like 50 teenagers. I agreed to ride as passenger to one of the teenage girls... who didn't know how to drive. So we ended up crashing, really hard into another kart and I hurt my foot REALLY bad. I seriously thought it was broken. I was so mad... the first race of the night and I was already hurt! So my foot started to swell and bruise and hurt even worse. I tried to elevate it and ice it but it didn't help much. Kyle and I had to leave early, 3am and head home so I could take care of my foot. So I slept for about 4 hours and then after continuing to deny I needed an x-ray I finally gave in when I could no longer put any pressure on it. Kyle took me to the urgent care to get my foot x-rayed (by a girl I used to work with... radiology is such a small world). Thankfully it was not broken, only sprained. I did get a sexy looking shoe I have to wear for 4-5 days though. At least I can walk without crutches though, and I can still work! Don't think we'll be doing any more lock-ins though... it was fun while it lasted, I feel so old!
Saturday my family from Atlanta came up for my cousin's baby shower!! We had tons of good food and Holly got lots of super cute things for her baby! We are so excited for her!
Today Kyle and I had the 4-year old nursery at church, wonderful timing with the hurt foot and all! God really does have a sense of humor sometimes, haha.
Anyways... negotiations are still underway with the house! We are getting closer... and super excited!
Saturday my family from Atlanta came up for my cousin's baby shower!! We had tons of good food and Holly got lots of super cute things for her baby! We are so excited for her!
Today Kyle and I had the 4-year old nursery at church, wonderful timing with the hurt foot and all! God really does have a sense of humor sometimes, haha.
Anyways... negotiations are still underway with the house! We are getting closer... and super excited!
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