Pro-Abortion Obama: Good info

Just thought I would post a little something about Obama. There are some scary, scary, Halloween/Jason/Freddy type things in here that you should be aware of. Really its scary.
This will take you to Pastor Sam's site that has a summary of an essay. This will take you to the essay.
Have fun reading. I have decided that I know who I am not voting for.

Thanks, Liz!!!

My best friend, Liz took our pics last weekend at the Collierville Square...she did an INCREDIBLE job!!!! I'm SOOOO excited!!!

You've GOT to check it out!!! (and the sweet story she wrote about how we came to be such lifelong friends!)

Thanks, Liz!!! You're the bestest!!!

http://elizabethwiggsphotography.blogspot.com

Tag I'm It

My sister, Angie, tagged me and so I have to do this crap.
She is an amazing mom, sister, and friend. And I can't begin to say all that she means to my family, and personally to me. So I won't :)

She did this tag thing, so I have to be a good sport...I have to write 6 random things about myself and then tag 6 other people.

1. I can touch the tip of my nose with my tongue
2. I scored 30+ on English, Math, and Science on the ACT, but a 15 in the Reading section.
3. I went to the following schools in K-8

• K - Ross Elem
• 1st & 2nd - Germantown Elem
• 3rd - Benefield Elem (GA)
• 4th (Semester 1) - East North Street Elem (SC)
• 4th (Semester 2) - Ridgeway Elem
• 5th - Germantown Middle
• 6th - Crump Elem
• 7th & 8th - Germantown Elem

4. Joanna turned down my date requests for several months before giving in to going to a DC Talk concert. HAHAHAHA
5. I have Crohn's disease
6. I often wear shorts under my jeans/pants, and two pair of socks

I don't know six people to tag that haven't done this, but here are a few

Clay...
Zach...
Heather (or Benjamin)...
JR...

Here are the rules.
1. Link to the person who tagged you
2. Post the rules to your blog
3. Write 6 random things about yourself
4. Tag 6 people at the end of your post and link to them
5. Let each person you have tagged know by leaving a comment on their blog.
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is posted.

5 YEARS!!!

Happy 5-Year Anniversary to Us!!!

I can't help but think that I have the most awesome husband in the world. God has made Joey so unique and special. And as we have grown and journeyed through the ups and downs of our ever-changing life together, these 5 years, my love for him has grown deeper and stronger. I am so blessed....so, so blessed.

Well, our lives have pretty much been constantly changing since we got married! Here's the run-down:

2003-Married

2004-Expecting 1st baby

2005-Ella was born

2006-Expecting 2nd baby

2007-Seth was born
2008- 5 YEARS!!!

Here we are in 2003...

Here we are in 2008!...

So we really wanted to "get away"for our anniversary...and we did...sort of. The kids spent the night at their Honey and BB's house, and Joey and I were off to downtown Memphis. We checked into the Madison Hotel, got dressed all fancy, then went to Grill 83 (in the Madison). All the food there was great...Joey and I both had steaks (of course) and they were delicious. It was nice and quiet...and we had lots of time to talk and reminisce. It was so nice going out "just us".

After we ate, we went to the rooftop and watched the sunset...it was so peaceful and beautiful. Perfect weather.

Okay, so we got a little bored up there...

Doesn't he look like a hot-air baloon? (check out the lightpole)...

I tried it, but it just wasn't the same.

I like getting pics of ALL face...it reminds me of the hilarious time a while back when we noticed one of Joey's mom's multi-picture frames on the wall at her house...where she put a big close up picture of him in a tiny circle.

It was kind of like this...

Sorry for the randomness.....

Okay, so after that, we rode the trolley down to this quaint little hole-in-the-wall place called, Cheesecake Corner. I tried to eat a yummy cheesecake brownie, but I was so stuffed from dinner, that I barely made a dent in it.

A few trolley pics...

Then we trolleyed on down to Beale...we almost decided not to b/c we were so tired after all that food! It was only like 10:30 or something, and we were both yawning! Man, we must be getting old. Anyway, I'm so glad we kept going, b/c we ended up randomly running into our friend, Brock (who we hadn't seen in almost a year) and his new fiance, Grace. So we hung out with them at the Flying Saucer for a while.

Then Joey and I headed back to the rooftop to relax for a bit...we just could not get over how awesome the weather was! It was a perfect ending to a perfect night!

hello again

hello blog world...

we are still here... just crazy busy this summer.

i'm in the process of posting stuff, but thought i'd say hello first. :)

more to come! :)

home sweet home

(this is joanna, by the way)

so, after we got home from our most recent beach trip, ella was really wanting to be home! she talked about going home the WHOLE trip back! "i just want to go to sugar lane," is what she says.
well, we got back on a saturday night, and had a pretty busy sunday planned. so ella's next day consisted of going to church, eating lunch, taking a nap, waking up and heading straight to a graduation party...then coming home and going back to bed! poor girl...i really did feel bad for her. every time we had to leave that day, she would just say, "i just want to stay home, mommy." (though it really makes me feel good that she loves being home)

so, of course i made it a point to go NOWHERE the next day! we were just going to stay home!

well, that day turned out to be so much fun! still in "beach mode", i got out the little pool in the backyard. i ended up bringing the slide over and putting it half-into the pool...and that was a HUGE hit for both ella and seth!

ella and i spent some time out there "just us" while seth took his morning nap. then seth joined the fun when he woke up. they were absolutely hilarious together. i think i had just as much fun watching them as they did playing!

seth would climb up the slide as far as he could, then slip down into the water...CRACKING up laughing the entire time. ella would do the same, sliding down into the water (and into seth)...and they would just laugh hysterically! so, of course, i HAD to catch some of this on camera!

we stayed out there all morning and into the afternoon! it was definitely past "lunchtime" when i took them inside to eat...but the rest of the day was just feeding them lunch, bathing them (they were so muddy and greasy from the sunscreen), and then putting them down for their nice, long, nap. :)

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it was just an awesome day at home.

hmm........uh...

i really think my brain is out of practice.

i just have a hard time thinking and communicating well these days.

my brain doesn't seem to give me words to express what i feel or think very quickly...and it's pretty frustrating. i think i've always been a pretty good listener, and that hasn't changed much...but what takes most people like a minute to take in, think about, and respond....takes me, well, ...a LOT longer.

....oh, and by the time i'm ready to talk about it, or have thought through a response, everyone else has moved on. but even if the conversation returns, i've usually forgotton my thoughts. (VERY bad short-term memory)

i don't think i've realized until lately how out of practice my brain is. my mind has been racing about heavy, life-changing things lately, and i'm beginning to feel overwhelmed. well, i don't know if that's the right word for it. my brain just constantly feels FULL.

hmm... i think i could probably illustrate this better than can explain it...(easier to do that if i were blogging with a pen and paper)
i think i just have so many issues that i need to engage...but in the meantime, they're just stuck racing in my brain (really fast, usually)...and it seems like more new ideas/convictions keep being stuffed in there on top of it all... and picking and choosing which ones to focus on first can be staggering to me.

my day-to-day life is spent communicating VERY simply, and doing simple things (though mostly in multi-task form), but it's definitely busy, tiring, and emotionally draining. so usually, when i have down-time, i'm too tired to think about the overflowing heavy issues in my brain....though i DESPERATELY want to.

anyway, just been thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking lately.

:)

jo

...and funny (and interesting) that this is what i post right after our 2 incredible, relaxing beach vacations. something else to think about, i guess. ;)