Photo of the Month: January

snow falling on snickers

Photo of the Month: December

By far the most eventful night of the month…

Merry Christmas!!

Photo booth

Today I awoke to the unpleasant discovery that my digestive system was in revolt.

Ohhh nooooo! Tonight is the fall family festival and we’ve been working on the photo booth for weeks! Now what do I do??

Well, I slept. And ate nothing. And then I sucked it up and went.

Boy am I glad I did.

It was super fun!

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And now I am going to crash.

Some b&dubs from the weekend

I love camping. I used to hate it. Then somewhere in the course of my teen years,  at no exact time that I can pinpoint, something inside me shifted. And now I love it. A lot.

Here are some shots from this weekend in Douthat.

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Photo of the Month: September

This photo has nothing to do with September. Actually, I didn’t even take it in September. I took it yesterday. So in all honesty, this picture has nothing to do with anything.

Except for the fact that this man is my husband. And I like to look at him.

And sometimes I wonder if I will ever get a picture of him without that hat on.

Ray Ring Relay

Today I arrived home from work to find a little bundle of joy sitting on my front door step:

The Ray Ring Flash.

So I took it to hang out with some of my girls tonight.

You rock that Ray Ring relay face girl!!

Let me explain…

It was a relay race. First you had to bob for apples, then you had to bob for marshmallows in a bowl of flour.

It got everywhere. Including down my shirt and pants.

And now I am going to take a long shower…

In the meantime if you want to know more you can watch this wonderful video review.

Photo of the Month: August

Riley

Isn’t he the cutest thing?!

Oh geez…do we have to look at all of these?

It’s a well know fact that no one cares what anyone else did on vacation. A well know fact that everyone seems to forget right after they get done with their own. Hence, I swore I’d never make one of these, but I did.

So. There’s that.

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Sometimes I wonder how Adam’s life was after the garden. Part of me wants to understand how much things changed for him, but the other part never wants to know. We are born into imperfection and incompleteness, and we hope for the better things to come. But Adam? He had it. He had God there with him. And he lost it.

I wonder how he felt. Did he and God still talk afterward? Was he sad a lot? All the time? Hopeless? What was it like watch humanity spiral down so quickly? To witness the first murder, one son against another? How intense was that new pain?

I wonder if sometimes the weight of it all rushed over him, making him sick to the core with grief.

I used to think that people who could look at the beauty of the earth and still long for something more were ungrateful, but now I don’t. I remember one of our pastors once talking about looking at something beautiful and wanting more. Wanting to be a part of it somehow. I get that.

I love the beauty and happiness this world has to offer, but at the same time it’s empty. And although I’ll never get tired of traveling and visiting friends, I’ll never stop feeling the longing for more. For completeness. And loving that I feel that way.

Phil Wickham-Eden

Photo of the Month: July

So I’m a little late for June (oops…) so we’ll go ahead with July.

Skaneateles Lake, NY. Totally clear. Totally beautiful.