Two Became One
Kristin and I just got back to the hotel and checked out some of the pictures. Over four-hundred in all. It’s been a long day. Matt and Hannah are now officially married and headed to some amazing honeymoon location that I forgot to ask where. I think it has something to do with Mayan Ruins though.
The wedding was pretty amazing and Rob had some great things to say. I am holding off on putting some of the pictures of the actual wedding on here until I have time to edit them. We had a great time, got some pretty good shots, and I’m glad it’s over. I hope what I came up with was what Matt and Hannah were looking for in the pictures.
Now we are headed to dinner and a nice quiet night before heading home in the morning. I’ve got some car time to edit so maybe by Monday I will be able to post some. Matt gave me permission this morning at breakfast so show you all. So stay tuned.
The Last Day
Kristin and I are still up in Michigan, but I wanted to remind everyone that tomorrow is the last day for our Blood Water Mission fund raiser here. Remember three months ago when I asked what everyone thought about trying to raise some money to build wells in Africa for three months? Well this is three months later and I am planning on sending the check to Blood Water Mission on Monday. Honestly, we are nowhere near the amount to build three wells, but we are closer than we were before we started and that’s all that matters.
If you haven’t been paying attention, or are new to this blog, there is a giant orange button over on the right where you can donate to Blood Water, or you can head to JesusGreaterThan.org and buy a “Jesus>Thirst” shirt. All the proceeds from the shirt sales will also go into this account.
So here’s the deal. Let’s all dig deep today and tomorrow, click that orange button and give whatever you can. I know there’s a bunch of stuff you can be giving to right now, but if at all possible this is something great to help with. And thanks to everyone who has given already. It’s going to be be great to pass that check along.
While I’m Gone
We are throwing together the last few things that we need for our trip and getting the “large” and “medium boys ready to stay with Kristin’s dad. I think we’ve got everything ready. We have our Death Cab album as a handful of others to accompany our drive. The car is cleaned out and full of very expensive gas, and I think even the tire pressure is okay.
So, while I am staring at the road for the next twelve or thirteen hours I thought I would steal something that I saw over at Without Wax the other day. Here’s how it works. I will start with a question and the forst person to answer it asks another question. That way we can all get to know each other. So, here goes.
If you could take a road trip anywhere where would you go?
Have a great day. Ready? Go.
Road Trip
Tomorrow morning Kristin, Cooper and I are taking off to Grand Rapids. A friend of mine is getting married and I was asked to take some pictures of the wedding. It’s a little in intimidating to be the “photographer”, but I’m not calling it that, so it makes me fell better. Matt used to be the road manager for the David Crowder Band and now is the Technical Director at Rob Bell’s church in Grand Rapids. Rob’s doing the wedding so that should be a pretty interesting to hear. It’s going to be a great day for Matt and Hannah and it’s cool we get to be a part of it. It’s interesting where this photography thing has taken me. I never planned on being a photographer, but for some reason opportunities keep popping up. I still love the creativity of it, and don’t know if I could do it for a job. I wouldn’t want to start not liking it.
We have little to no agenda driving up there and the wedding isn’t until Saturday so we are taking our time getting up there. One thing we do plan on doing tomorrow is stopping in Chicago for dinner. This is one of the first times in a really long time that Kristin and I will be able to travel together and have time to actually hang out. She has never been to Chicago, so we figured it was a perfect time to drop in and at least see a little bit of the city and grab some dinner. Then on to Grand Rapids.
Today will be a day of making sure everything is packed, the car is cleaned, the new Death Cab record is on the iPod, and the big boys are ready to stay at Kristin’s dad’s house. The boys are still asleep so I better get started.
*Creative Chaos – Photography*
Coming Soon
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I’d Like To Check You For Ticks
This morning I went in to check on the boys as they were waking up. Cooper had woken up and since he shares a room with Aiden I waned to get him out of the room before he woke Aiden up. If Aiden is woken up and doesn’t wake up on his own, we all pay for it the entire day. He’s the musician in the family. Oh, come on you all know it’s true.
So anyway, as I was walking out of the room Aiden started to look around and I patted him on the head to tell him to go back to sleep. When my hand touched the side of Aiden’s head I felt a little bump deep in his hair that felt like something stuck in his hair. Not wanting to wake him up, I just let it go until he woke up.
About an hour later, Aiden came into our room and I asked him if I could take a look at his head. I started digging around in his curly hair and found the tiny bump that I had felt earlier. I noticed it was a little brown thing that looked like a mole or something like that, but I knew he didn’t have anything like that on his head. I’ve seen his head with no hair on it and it’s never been there before. I started to realize that it looked more like a little creature and decided to pull it out. I grabbed it with my fingernails and did the twist pull thing that they tell you to do with ticks and out it popped.
A freaking tick on Aiden’s head! I wanted to throw up, but I was holding this little tiny creature that was, just moments ago, was sucking blood from my three-year-olds skull. I knew that these little guys are tough to kill so I pinched it between my thumb and middle finger nail. As soon as I did that I felt a quick, light spray all over my face and looked at my fingers that were now covered in smooshed bug and child skull blood. If I had eaten breakfast yet it would have been on the floor. So gross.
I checked the rest of Aiden’s head, and Blue’s and Coopers. They are all good to go now, but I haven’t stopped itching yet. I have a new understanding for that lame country song about the ticks. You know the one with the guy that plays amazing guitar, but sings lame lyrics. Yeah that guy.
Positive Post Tuesday – Cooper Tr3y
He’s the baby and he knows it. This is Cooper Trey. He gets what he wants when he wants it from his big brothers, and can handle his own when it’s time to wrestle. But he’ll also sit and play with your eyelashes as still as he can be.
Last night I went in to check on this little thing in his crib. He had torn apart another book, and was sitting there in all the shredded paper piles. He looked up at me with the sweetest face, which is how he gets away with things, and whispered, “down”, which means “up” to him. I picked him up and told him that he needed to go to sleep, so he grabbed my face and smashed our noses together and started a low, fake laugh in an attempt to be cute. It worked.
We didn’t plan on having three kids. In fact, we never actually “planned” any of our kids, but Cooper was the biggest surprise. The older he gets and the more his personality shapes, the more I realize that out family wouldn’t be the same without him. He’s the entertainment. He’s the “shake your head and smile” moments during rough days. He’s the sweet hugs late at night, and the laugh that infects the house. He’s a sweet guy and I’m glad we get to keep him. We love this little thing. He’s a perfect addition to our crazy family. Here’s a video Kristin put on her blog last Tuesday introducing you to our MiniCoop.
Welcome to Tuesday again. For those of you just showing up here’s how it works. It’s pretty simple. (1) Write something nice about someone, building them up, encouraging them, you know.. being nice. (2) Fill out the box below.
*Make sure that you put the URL of the “Positive Post” not just your blog. That way people can find that specific post if they come back to read them later in the week. It should look like this – “yourdomain.com/the-name-of-your-post”*
Have Fun.
Prince Caspian
Blue and I went to see Prince Caspian today. He was pretty excited to see it, and after all the talk I was looking forward to checking it out. So far I have heard all the different reviews. Some loved it. Some hated it. Some thought it was entertaining, and I think I fall in this camp. I didn’t walk out of the theatre blown away by it’s greatness, but I didn’t feel like I wasted my seven bucks either.
Now, if your looking for a thorough movie review, you won’t find it here. Pretty much every one of my movie reviews will end with something like this. ”If you want to see it, go for it. If not, don’t. It’s a movie.” I was entertained for a couple hours. I got to hang out with Blue and eat some Berry Mike And Ikes and watch some buffalo men and cheetahs crash into things and fight, so that was cool. Oh yeah, and I’ve had this song stuck in my head all day.
I’ve been going back and forth about saying “Happy Memorial Day”, but for some reason the words “happy” and “memorial” don’t seem to fit. So either way, I hope you had a good day off.
It’s A Number Four Guard
Now, I don’t claim to be able to answer all the questions on the show LOST. I don’t even claim to remember all the things that could raise questions on the show LOST. Tonight Kristin and I almost finished Season Three. We have one more episode and then apparently there is an “enhanced” version of the Season Three finale.
So far lots of people have died, some have “switched teams”, others have almost died and not many questions are answered. However there is one question that I have that I’m not sure will ever be answered and that is this. Who’s cutting Jack’s hair all this time? I shaved my head a few weeks ago because I was tired of dealing with having hair. That was only a few weeks ago, and already I am finding myself in a situation where I need to decide whether to cut it again, or start the whole “growing out” process again. Jack just seems to have that perfectly shaved head the entire time.
Now, I know what you are saying. ”Well Brody, what about everyone else on the island? Their hair doesn’t look like it’s growing either. What do you say about that?” And to that I would say, “Well they have scissors, but they don’t have clippers, now do they?”. There’s no possible way that Jack could get his hair like that without using clippers with a number four guard and I’m not seeing that in the bonus features. Sure, razors for the bald fella. I’ll give you that. Scissors for everyone else. But not Jack. There’s no way.
So these are the things that keep me up late on a Sunday night. You?
**P.S. If you give anything away about the season finale of Season Three, I will publicly humiliate you in front everyone who reads this blog. We haven’t seen it yet, so play nice. **
