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my mom sent me an email letting me see the new hobby lobby email that if full of sweet deals. she told me to look at the top of the ad.
here is what i saw…
this was good to see.
what are your thoughts on businesses living out their Christian faith?
what other business have you seen live our their faith?
grace and peace.
ashley is a senior at b.f. terry high school in rosenberg, tx. she is also one of my youth at the church. i got to take her senior pictures last friday. it was a great time. shots were taken in downtown houston, and in rosenberg. hope you enjoy.
grace and peace.
and now after the photographs, here is a thought. i read this on ragamuffin soul and it really got me started thinking. we spend pretty much 2 months celebrating Christmas. why do we only spend a few days celebrating Easter? the birth of our Savior is great, something very much worth celebrating, but it is the resurrection that completes the story. why don’t we celebrate Easter for almost 2 months?
my sister-in-law asked me to shoot some pictures of her son david while they were in town. i took quite a few shots. you will be seeing quite a bit of david john farley for a while.
david…meet the blogosphere
grace and peace.
this is my wife’s “sister”, lindley. she is awesome.
sorry for the lack of fotos lately. here is one i took at a paramore show probably a year ago with my little point and shoot digital. we were on the front row, or should i say rail. it was great. yay for meet and greets.
dang it.
i hate it.
please pray. my soul hurts for this congregation.
i am going to start going through the beatitudes on sunday nights with my youth. i sat down today to start taking notes and such. here is what i wrote in my journal concerning chapter 5, verse 1.
Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him.
“…and when he sat down…”
why did jesus sit? i learned as a communication major that you can project more when you are standing up. there were crowds, why would he sit? jesus would have to really project. did he sit to get down on their level? it had to be really really quiet. how could they hear? how big was the crowd? i wonder if jesus was a spitter? i wonder if the front row was soaked. i wonder if jesus yelled when he taught or was he just simple and soft spoken. the disciples could not just pull out the sound board, speakers and lapel mic. so he probably had to yell. i wonder if that was out of his character?
thats what i have been doing for the past hour. its good sometimes to get in the office and to shut the door, open your journal, open your bible, and start writing.
so my wife has 8 o’clock classes this quarter. she is on the home stretch as she graduates in may. we live about 30 minutes from the school if there is no traffic. she usually sets her alarm for like 5:15 and hits the snooze a few times and then still has time to take her time and get ready for the day. i usually just roll over when her alarm goes off.
this morning my alarm goes off at 7:15 so i can get up and take my time getting ready. i hit snooze on my alarm and roll over and there is my wife. sleeping in bed 2 hours after her alarm should have gone off!
i have never seen her get out of bed and ready that fast. it was impressive.
i think we need to buy a real alarm clock. one that is really annoying. and not just trust our cell phones anymore.
day five was spent in jamaica. in all honesty, when i looked out the window and saw jamaica it was not what i expected. i expected jamaica to be beachy and flat. instead it was beachy, with huge hills and forests. it was b-e-a-utiful.
in jamaica we rescheduled our dolphin swim that we missed on the first day. swimming with dolphins was really cool. our dolphin was named Calypso. she was nice. she dance for us. she sang for us. she pulled us through the water, and she jumped 16 feet in the air for us. one of the cool things that they told us was that dolphins can swim up to 120 mph. that craaaazy.
after swimming with dolphins we got in a bus and went to dunns river falls. we climbed up this waterfall. over 200 feet. it was beautiful but the water was really, really cold. after climbing the falls we walked through an area where they allowed the locals to set up shops and sell their stuff. they are so pushy. i dont think i have ever been that uncomfortable.
after all of our experiences on the island we went back to the boat and ate lunch with our friends from canada. (they said “eh?” all the time. it was funny. but then they laughed at us cause we said “y’all” all the time).
day 6 was a day at sea so we really just relaxed all day. by relaxed i mean we spent time at the buffets.
overall, our honeymoon was great. we had a great time and made many memories that we will remember when we are 80 years old and drinking coffee on our porch. it was a great way to start my life with my wife.
now here is a picture for your enjoyment.
this is taken from our room balcony in the bahamas.
grace and peace.
in the previous post i mentioned that day 3 was a day at sea. so here we are at day 4. day four we were in grand cayman. this place was very awesome. loved it. our excursion this day was snuba. it was dang awesome. basically it is a mix of snorkeling and scuba diving. you can go 20 feet underwater with no tank on your back. you are pulling a raft above the water with two tanks on it. there are 4 people per raft, 2 people per tank.
after we got off the cruise ship we found our snuba guide and he took us to where we would be diving. they told us all the rules and how-to’s and then we got geared up and got in the water. at our dive site there was an actual shipwreck from the 1800’s. it was really cool. it took me awhile to get the hang of breathing under the surface, but i finally got a hold of it. it was amazing. we dove for 30 minutes and after about 25 minutes another guy attached to our raft and i looked frantically at each other and realized that we had run out of air! we were 18-19 feet below the surface with no air. that is a horrible feeling. we went back up to the surface and realized that they had hooked 3 people to 1 tank. it was supposed to be 2 people per tank. but we got it fixed and right after i got back under the surface kimb got stung by a jellyfish. watching your wife panic 15 feet under the surface is not a great feeling. after we got back to the base we got her jelly fish taken care of (white vinegar) and took our gear off and then went to eat.
we ate at this place called breezes. we both had fish and chips and the was really, really, good. we did some shopping and then caught our boat back to our cruise ship and then relaxed on the deck for a hour or so until the boat left the dock.
i would totally do snuba again.
here is the picture for the day. this is one of the excursions they offered in grand cayman. you got to go on this pirate ship dress up like a pirate and do pirate things. i.e. shoot canons, play with a parrot and even walk the plank. this picture was taken from our room balcony on the back side of the boat.
day two was the day of our first excursion. we docked in the bahamas during the night so monday morning we had to be at the end of the pier at 8 o’clock in the morning. this monday morning we were going to swim with dolphins. we were both really excited. so we got down to deck zero about 7:30 thinking that 30 minutes would be enough. NOPE SORRY! it took us 45 minutes to get off the boat and our dadgum dolphin swim excursion left without us. THEY LEFT WITHOUT US! we were a little upset. (and by a little i mean we were totally hacked) well, we got stuff worked out. we got reimbursed for the missed excursion and lined up dolphin swin for another day.
so while we were in the bahamas we went snorkeling. it was niiiice. we bought a bag of fish food for $1 and while we were in the water we would simply drop a small handful of fish food in the water and then look underwater at the mass chaos that was about to take place. it was a great experience.
we had to be back on the boat at noon on monday so after snorkeling we went back to the ship, waited in line, boarded the ship and then hung out at the food buffets for lunch and then that evening we went to the musical on the ship.
day two was a great day.
day three was simply a day at sea. not very exciting. we just floated on sea for a day and again spent time at the buffets. 24 hour buffets. amazing.
here are a couple more shots.
a shot from our balcony before we left port in ft. lauderdale.
kimb on the beach at ft. lauderdale
*post-script
i don’t really like getting bills, but yesterday my compassion international monthly statement came in.
i smiled when i opened it.
i voted today.
so after the reception last saturday night, kimb and i went to the marriott at bush airport in houston for the night. we woke up around 4:30 sunday morning to catch a flight to ft. lauderdale to get on our cruise ship. we had found out on saturday that our cruise was going to be arriving in ft. lauderdale late due to a “medical emergency” but we had already booked the flight so we dealt with it. when we arrived in ft. lauderdale we caught a taxi to the port and got our luggage checked in and then we were put on a charter bus and taken down to the beach to hang out while we waited for the ship to arrive. we met a couple from seattle in ft. lauderdale and hung out with them the entire afternoon. they were awesome.
due to the late arriving ship, we missed lunch so carnival cruise line credited each of our accounts $15 for that meal so we went and used that $15 to get some lunch. we went to bubba gump shrimp co. for lunch. the food was really good. to bad it took them over an hour to bring us our food and then when it arrived, it was the wrong meal. needless to say we were upset. so kimb and our new friend from seattle raised a stink about it and WE GOT THE MEAL FOR FREE!!!! that was awesome. thats my wife!
we eventually got back to the boat and were herded like cattle for awhile until everyone got on the boat. it’s amazing what a little medical emergency can do. we got to our room (we had a balcony room. it was nice.) and our luggage arrived and we had nice dinner that night. it was a busy and long first day but it turned out to be the start of a very memorable honeymoon.
more stories to come, but for now, here are a couple pictures.
grace and peace.
we arrived home saturday about 3:00 pm. its been kinda busy getting things in the house together. today is my first day back at the office.
i have much to do.
i will post this evening about the honeymoon and then maybe add a photo or two.
slim chance on the photos though.
its good to be back.
its good to be married.
more to come.
