Trick Or Treat

I've never really lived in a place that trick or treaters really came by. Out in the country in Alabama... in an apartment in Miami... they just didn't seem to come by. Tonight I was amazed at how many children rang the doorbell.


We had a small pumpkin left over from when Ben's mom made pumpkin soup last week, so we carved it tonight. My idea was to make a cross in it, although Ben at first thought that idea was a little weird. I thought it would be pretty. Besides, all the skeletons and gross things around Halloween spook me out.



Here is is all lit up.




















I was outside taking pictures of my pumpkin and we had a trick or treater come up. He saw me with the camera and asked if I wanted to take his picture before he left. I thought it was so cute so I said "sure". He said, "wait, wait, you've got to get my weapons in there too..." so he took out his weapons for the shot.

Chipmunk Love

Who said that Chipmunks are ugly, smell like poop and eat all your rosebushes? If that's the case I guess these are lab-munks or something. posted by Ben.

Bizarre Halloween

Well... just down the road from "Country Stonehenge" I noticed some very interesting Halloween decorations. Here we have a giant spider and a guillotine in the front yard. I mean, who puts a guillotine in their front yard? What you don't see is that they also have a coffin with feet coming out of it and other such decor to their front yard.









Here's a close up.

Thoughts

These past few weeks have been very interesting and very full of change for me. I found out my due date... May 31st. This is one of those times in life when you just have to say "have thine own way Lord" and trust Him. (there are many in life I think) There are always things to worry about, but just knowing God is in control is a huge comfort. I heard that hymn this morning and it really did speak to me. Here are the lyrics.

Have Thine own way, Lord
Have Thine own way.
Thou art the potter, I am the clay.
Mold me and make me after Thy will,
while I am waiting, yielded and still.

Have Thine own way, Lord
Have Thine own way.
Search me and try me, Master, today.
Whiter than snow, Lord, wash me just now,
as in Thy presence humbly I bow.

Have Thine own way, Lord
Have Thine own way.
Wounded and weary, help me, I pray.
Power, all power surely is Thine.
Touch me and heal me, Savior divine.

Have Thine own way, Lord
Have Thine own way.
Hold o'er my being absolute sway.
Fill with Thy Spirit
till all shall see
Christ only, always, living in me.

Kansas City Chorale

This is a video Ben took of my choir tonight at our concert. Check out the church we sang in... beautiful! This is the first part of a beautiful song called "If Music Be the Food of Love" by Jean Belmont. She lives in Kansas City and we've all met her. If only I could write songs like this.

More Adventures with Rusty

So I'm beginning to understand why so many of the videos on America's Funniest Home Videos are with animals... your life is certainly never boring with them.

Yesterday it was raining TORRENTIALLY outside with huge long rolling thunder booms right outside our house. And of course, the dog had to be walked. So I prepared for the worst, putting one of my parents old sailing jackets, swimming trunks and beach sandals. The photo to the left will give you an idea of what I looked like (notice the beautiful snot-colored rain helmet that comes with the sailing coat).

Now All I need is a whaling harpoon to complete the outfit!








So I began to jog up the road with Rusty tearing madly at his leash. It was really pouring out so I started to encourage myself by shouting "don't you LOVE this rusty? This is GREAT isn't it? I LOVE the rain! I LOVE THE RAIN! I LOVE THE RAIN!!!!" (getting progressively louder of course).

I was no more than 50 yards up the road, shouting as I jogged, when I looked up and one of our neighbors was staring at me. He was standing in his garage wearing a suit waiting for a break in the rain before heading out to work I guess. He gave me an apprehensive wave hello, as if to say "hi, how are you? (you're really weird and please don't come over here)".

Ahhh, the sweet bliss of unashamed dog walking. (posted by Ben)

Here's another entertaining Rusty moment:

Honda "Cog" Commercial

When I first saw this movie I thought - wow those are really amazing computer graphics. Then I looked it up on snopes.com which is where you can go to find out the truth about any of those chain emails about viruses (they are almost always fakes). So I was extremely surprised to find out that this commercial is REAL and doesn't use any computer graphics! Absolutely amazing! Here's the snopes link. Enjoy! (posted by Ben)

Stressed Out Pig

Click on the pig's nose to stress him out!

Deer Spotting at Lake Jacomo

Lake Jacomo is up the road and it has a great nature area surrounding it. We saw 5 turkeys, 2 groundhogs and about 15 deer scattered in 4 different places. Pretty exciting! Hope you enjoy the pictures. (posted by Ben)














We live at the south of this map between Langsford and Hwy 50.

This is the extremely rare "demon-possessed deer" that you may have seen on nature programs. Click on the photo to see the freaky eyes better!














More deer!

















Even More Deer!

A Little Humor

Hillbilly. Get it? I could not help but share this one.

Great Expectations

In case you haven't heard Ben and I are expecting our first little one. I know many people don't share this news until later on, but Ben has told practically everyone in the universe now, so I thought I'd go ahead and blog about it. Please keep us in your prayers. These are the tests that prove it. I have kept them to look at and remind myself that this is not a hoax. We are both very excited.

Old People + Wii Bowling = WWF Smackdown

As many of you know, we are Nintendo Wii fanatics. But this next video takes Wii bowling to an unprecedented level. It almost makes me wanna be old! My favorite quote is when the 8 ball guy says "You got served" about halfway through. Absolutely priceless! posted by Ben