In line at Starbucks....

when I heard the news Sept. 11, 2001. I am certain you remember the day as clearly as I. This day is a day that makes me reflect and re-evaluate. What is important? Where are your priorities? Do you truly appreciate what you have? Most importantly...where is your relationship with God? Live each day as it is the last, love openly, laugh often...

A poem of reflection on this day:

On Monday We E-mailed Jokes (Author Unknown)

On Monday we emailed jokes.
On Tuesday we did not.
On Monday we thought that we were secure.
On Tuesday we learned better.
On Monday we were talking about heroes as being athletes.
On Tuesday we relearned who our heroes are.
On Monday we were irritated that our rebate checks had not arrived.
On Tuesday we gave money away to people we had never met.
On Monday there were people fighting against praying in schools.
On Tuesday you would have been hard pressed to find a school where someone was not praying. On Monday people argued with their kids about picking up their room.
On Tuesday the same people could not get home fast enough to hug their kids.
On Monday people were upset that they had to wait 6 minutes in a fast food drive through line.
On Tuesday people didn't care about waiting up to 6 hours to give blood for the dying.
On Monday we waved our flags signifying our cultural diversity.
On Tuesday we waved only the American flag.
On Monday there were people trying to separate each other by race, sex, color and creed.
On Tuesday they were all holding hands.
On Monday we were men or women, black or white, old or young, rich or poor, gay or straight, Christian or non-Christian.
On Tuesday we were Americans.
On Monday politicians argued about budget surpluses.
On Tuesday grief stricken they sang 'God Bless America'.
On Monday the President was going to Florida to read to children.
On Tuesday he returned to Washington to protect our children.
On Monday we had families.
On Tuesday we had orphans.
On Monday people went to work as usual,
On Tuesday they died.
On Monday people were fighting the 10 commandments on government property.
On Tuesday the same people all said 'God help us all' while thinking 'Thou shall not kill'.

It is sadly ironic how it takes horrific events to place things into perspective, but it has. The lessons learned this week, the things we have taken for granted, the things that have been forgotten or overlooked, hopefully will never be forgotten again.
Author Unknown


Love you all!!! (stand by for a lighter blog this weekend....:) )

No big surprise...

Well, you know that there is never a "normal" event around here. I let you see Rhett's party. Now for the rest of the story... Throughout the party, we kept hearing what we thought was a baby bird crying loudly for it's mother up high in the tree above our back porch. We figured out at the end of the day when my mom, sisters and I were relaxing out back that it indeed was not a bird, but a very tiny baby squirrel hanging on for dear life. What to do? Courtney panicked and said we should call Diego. We mothers should really get out more... We went in to tell the guys about our finding. Dad, whom I will not reveal his actual age...but let's just say OVER 60, proceeds to shimmy himself up the tree. It is about 50 feet at least. He gets the squirrel and climbs higher and puts it back in what we think is his nest. Yeahh! The squirrel is saved...or so we think.

An hour goes by. Reid, Madison and I are playing croquet in the backyard when what falls from the sky? You got it...the baby squirrel. We then decided we would care for him until nighttime and leave him out for his mother to find. She didn't... I woke and went directly outside to find we still had our little "rat". I googled "what do I do with a baby squirrel that I found" and God willing in this crazy technological world we live in, I found a "Squirrel Lady" . After a lengthy conversation with Reid about how Alvin (yes he already had a name) would have a better life with an actual squirrel expert than with us, we drove him into Austin and delivered him to his new home. God bless Alvin...God bless the Squirrel Lady...and God bless this crazy life that we love...

Choo Choo Choo Rhett turned 2 !!!

Last Saturday, August 29 was Rhett's 2nd Birthday. We had a Thomas the Train party. He spent a great portion of the day running around saying "Choo Choo!". We had a great time with our family and friends. Man how time flies...

Rhett with Thomas

The Boys...they obviously were tired of mom's camera...

Cupcake time!!!

Our sweaty little monster.

Rhett thought this little cake for him was awesome!