Say Cheese

Back in August, we had our pictures made with Olan Mills.   We just got them in.

Let not Human ingenuity suprise you

The quickest way into a person’s heart is through a relevant analogy, a metaphor.  All great writers and speakers have mastered the use of the quickening power of an analogy.  The list below contains analogies that were found in essays written by high schoolers.  Do not attempt to drink anything while reading this for you’re [...]

Hannah is 3 months

Hannah is now 3 months and is putting on the weight.  She enjoys eating, sleeping, looking at odd objects for an extended period of time, and having her brother Trey give her big, wet, sloppy kisses.

All are appointed to hypocrisy

From the same Wendy D. article (I think it is a post edit): Her decision to make her own choice but not grant it to others is a sign of her hypocrisy. This comment is made in reference to Sarah P. keeping her Down Syndrome new born baby.  She is a hypocrite because she made [...]

Two quotes and some commentary

From Wendy Doniger’s Newsweek blog about Sarah Palin: Her greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman. How dare she be pretensious about being a woman; the nerve of those fundamentalist conservatives.  They are letting thier women get out of hand!
and another quote that I heard all too often in Portland: [...]

Down in the dirt

Right behind our back patio is a drain ditch where every rain brings a new opportunity for mud cooking.  Trey does what is natural.

Though Shelby is no tomboy, she loves playing in the dirt.

Not a day goes by that I don’t well up with affection for my children.  They are treasures in earthly clay.

Golden Eagles fly high

Lorrie and I had an opportunity to go down to Hattiesburg for USM’s for football game thanks to Lorrie’s mom watching all three children.  We had a good time and of course we won the game 51-21.  Nice start to the season.
Below, Coach Fedora (our new coach who replaced Jeff Bower who had been at [...]

Hello Pilgrim

We recently had a visitation from Lorrie’s dad (Grandpa) who lives in West Palm Beach, FL.  Grandpa brought Trey a cowboy outfit and he and Shelby dressed up in it to display their adventure/warrior side.    Shelby made her hat at church and probably has some Godly purpose originally but it quickly became her cowboy hat.