The last couple of nights have been chilly and one morning I woke up and found Moses scooted underneath our drapes that reach the floor using them as a blanket. Whoops. So the next night I wrapped him up in his blanket and tucked him in tight. He looked soo funny, like a burrito. He seemed to enjoy it though and didn’t complain or try to get out. Silly dog.


 Snug as a bug in a rug. Moses wasn’t cold tonight.

 So, I decided to cut my hair again. I know its very similar to the last cut but it differs in the front with the long layered pieces and pseudo-bang. These pics are for my momma. Love you

We had our windows re-painted and glazed this past week. As you can see below the caulk, or as we found out glazing, was cracking and peeling and in some places completely gone. We decided to have the trim painted green to match the roof and brick at the bottom. We are pretty happy with the results!

Old windows

new glazing

Green trim

New front door

It seems like irony is apart of my every day life. Like Moses throwing up at 4 am in the morning on the 1 out of 8 days I work so I don’t get enough sleep.

t’s like rain on your wedding day
It’s a free ride when you’ve already paid
It’s the good advice that you just didn’t take
Who would’ve thought… it figures.

Those words are from a famous  Alanis Morissette song. (You can check out the rest of the lyrics here http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/alanismorissette/ironic.html ). Its a good song. But I think it misses the mark slightly or only tells the first 1/2 of the story.

I was thinking about irony though, and how prevalent it is. Maybe things aren’t ironic after all. Maybe its just how things really are. Bad, inconvenient things really happen in life. Maybe irony is our way of explaining it away to ignore the incongruence of how life really is and how we know deep down inside it should be. I think irony is really our adaptive mechanism to reconcile the difference between this fallen world and the the perfect world that our souls some how know we were destined to live in. It allows us to believe that in general good things happen to people and the bad or inconvenient things are a fluke or ironic on this earth. In a way it speaks to the eternal calling of our souls to be with God and perfection. Interesting.

This past Sunday our family headed down to visit Grandma RoseMary at her house on the lake. We enjoyed a wonderful pitch-in picnic, kayaking, napping, drawing and just sitting outside on a beautiful day. It was so much fun to hang out with everyone and just relax. Here a a few snapshots from the day.

Grandma RoseMary and Grandma C

Kayaking

The 3rd generation

Daddy beating up Dave and Chris

Grandpa and Aimie