day 77

well today my best friend called and asked me and baby girl to came and have lunch with him, so we did just that. we had a good time visiting him at work and having some good food, courtesy of the ever delicious Arby's where he is the general manager. after lunch we stopped by to see my wife linda and to visit with her while she ate lunch, because she loves her aunt nina!!! then it was on to reserve a room at the beach for 1 night, so that baby girl could see the ocean. another first that we get to experience with her, it will be soooooooo much fun watching her play in the ocean and the sand. i sure there will be a few pics to share the moment.

peace..............

day 76

after the events of this past weekend, baby girl and myself had ourselves a lazy day at the house. we just stayed at home and watched TV and played all day, i think that i have offically caught up on my rest. now the next big event is friday when i get my baby girl's portait tattooed on my arm. i am sooooooooooo stoked.....can't wait!!!!!

peace...........

day 74

here comes the bride!!!!!!! and i must say she was absolutely gorgeous!!!!!! as was the wedding !! the wedding ended up being at the lear plantation in salisbury, nc, and let me tell you something they did an amazing job on such short notice to make it an amazing day for the bride and groom and all of us. to be honest i think it was a million times prettier there than it would have ever been inside that hunk of scrap metal we call a church.

now that it's all over i am offically exhausted!!!! time to kick up my feet and reflect on the beautiful day. peace........

day 73

it is the day before my baby girl's sissy's wedding, the day that every little girl dreams of their whole lives. the finishing touches have been put on the reception, and the place we are having the wedding is working hard to pull everything together to make it beautiful. it's amazing what can be done in 8 days after being told that the wedding had to be moved from the church it was originally suppose to be at or have it there with a big fake tomb in the middle of the wedding. now i ask you who wants that ugly crap on the platform beside them while they are getting married?? it is suppose to be the happiest day of their lives not a flipping funeral!!!!!

peace..

day 72

well today starts the non-stop running of getting everything pulled together for the big wedding saturday. we just spent almost 4 hrs. decorating for the reception. i think it really looks good, nothing fancy but i think everone will enjoy it. even though the bride is not our child, she still feels like one of our's. so moving on to tomorrow for the rehearsal and a few finishing touches on the reception.

peace.......

day 71

i took my baby girl to her first baseball game today, she had a ball playing in their playground and surprisingly even watched some of the game. i love experiencing new things with her and watching her experience them for the first thing. i think that is part of the joy of being a parent is taking them and letting experience their first of something. here are a few pics from our big day at the old ballpark. tomorrow like every other week is storytime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

day 69

after a couple of crazy days with unexpected wedding changes and apparently confusion and misunderstandings, we are now getting everything pulled together. so with a week to go till to big day we are almost ready to go. now all we have to do is pray for sunshine since this wedding has become a outside wedding instead of a church wedding.
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown

peace......

day 68

we were up early today for our hike in the woods with a friend at eagle pointe, a nature preserve about 30 minutes from where we live. we had a great time just strolling throught the woods, stopping at the water's edge to take a few pictures and let baby girl throw some rocks into the lake. so here is the better of the pictures i took today, which i thought was fairly good for a little point and shoot. but i really need to start saving some money for a better camera.

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. ~George Washington Carver

peace.....

day 66

more wedding planning was on tap for today, my baby girl's sissy came over and we took her dress to have it altered and then we went to meet a friend of mine who will doing the wedding pictures. that way they had a chance to meet and talk about pictures she wanted and didn't want. then this afternoon after my wife got home we rode to a lady's house who gave my baby girl a $400 castle slide. as she played i of course started taking pictures, since that has become i new favorite thing to do expectional since baby girl came to live with us. so here's a photography quote to close out today's blog.
No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want.
Ken Rockwell, Your Camera Does Not Matter, 2005

peace.....

day 65

after the busyness of the last 4 days, i decide that today would be a lazy day for and the baby girl. so after paying a few bills and having breakfast at biscuitville, we came home and took it easy. so after so many shared good times and laughter this past weenend, i thought this short little quote would be perfect for today's blog, since it is a short little blog. :0)
Laughter is by definition healthy.
Doris Lessing

peace......

day 64

HAPPY EASTER!!!!!! to everyone! today at church we had a great drama about the death, burial and resurrection of jesus and was informed that around 20 people gave their lives to jesus. then after church our family came over for a cookout, it was such a beautiful day that we stayed outside the whole day while the children played. i could not have asked for a better 4 days my wife's B-day, the zoo, pics with easter bunny, an easter egg hunt and a cookout with our girls. so here is my last quote for easter.......
Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer;
Death is strong, but Life is stronger;
Stronger than the dark, the light;
Stronger than the wrong, the right...
~Phillips Brooks, "An Easter Carol"

peace.......

day 63

we got up today and got ready to take baby girl the an easter egg hunt at the church we attend. we had a great time watching her play games and hunt for easter eggs and playing in her favorite thing.....a bouncy house. now it is time to get ready for the easter bunny to come and leave her some special stuff for a special little girl, and also for the celebration of the resurrection of our lord and savior jesus. so here is another easter quote for you............
Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. ~S.D. Gordon

peace.......

day 62

today we took baby girl to have her picture taken with the easter bunny and hunt for easter eggs at bass pro shops. it was a really nice event that they did for the kids and it was all free, which is good if you are like me and have been laid off. she was funny about having her picture taken with the easter bunny, she wouldn't smile for nobody she was just dead serious. today we also celebrate jesus dying on the cross for our sins, this aftrnoon it has been raining quite steady it's almost as if the sky is crying...remembering what happened today all those years ago.
We live and die; Christ died and lived! ~John Stott

peace......

day 61

today was an incredible day!!! not only was it my lovely wife's birthday, we also went to the zoo. it was the first time that my wife or my baby girl had ever been to the zoo, so they were both like kids in a candy store. it is 11pm right now and my baby girl is still jacked up about being at the zoo today. so instead of a quote i wanted to share a couple of my pics from today's trip!!!





peace.......

day 60

today as i said last time "all is right in my world now" because my baby girl is home with me today....yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i did get a few things accomplished yesterday while she was gone, i got her easter bunny stuff for her easter basket that the easter bunny will bring her saturday night for easter morning. i love holidays for kids... i love to watch her get excited about them. we are going to take to get her pic taken with the easter bunny friday so that should get her really jacked up for easter morning. i know that this holiday is not about easter bunnies or candy, etc...but it's fun !!!! so here a quote about the real meaning of easter.................
Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing. ~Albert Laighton

peace........

day 59

have you ever had a day or days where everything just seems off kilter??? well today was like that for me, since the laid off i have kept my baby girl at home with me. but today she is at her sister's house from the other side of her family. so now i just not know what to do with myself, i love having her with so i'm missing her like crazy. but like my wife says she needs to know the other side of her family, whether we like it or not they are her family. but all the stars and planets will line back up again soon, because she will be back home this afternoon. then my life will be back to normal and all will be right in my world again and we can start getting ready for the zoo on thursday!!! woooooohooooooooo animals!!!!!!!!!!

peace........

day 57

it is palm sunday so at church we had a drama called the living lord's supper, it's where each disciple shares thoughts about how there life was changed by jesus and the thought of who could possibly could be the betrayer among them. if you have never seen it, it is quite powerful!! then after church our neice came over to finalize some plans for her upcoming wedding, and baby girl played with her two kids until she was about ready to fall over from exhaustion. since we are starting to week where we celebrate the death, burial and resurrection of jesus i wanted in the next few days put some quotes up for easter, so the first one is....
Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there. ~Clarence W. Hall

peace........

day 56

today was another beautiful day in the neighborhood!!! we got out of the house and went to the park where baby girl wore herself out playing and i took a walk on a trail through the woods and took some nature pics. in light of trying to get out of the house and away from the TV here's kind of a funny quote that i thought everyone who enjoys being outside would really get a kick out of......

Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.
Gallagher

so now that the weather is getting warmer do yourself a favor and get outside and enjoy god's creation...

peace.....

day 55

as a father i have decided that i don't want my baby girl to be raised by the TV and to be a video game junkie. so i have made a conscious effort to get her out of the house and do something outside. she loves animals so i want her to enjoy nature too, the simple things in life like a walk in the woods listening to the birds and trying to find them. so today i went for a walk up dunns mountain and it was truly awe inspiring beauty. i am going to set some bird feeders around the house for her so she can watch the birds eat bird seed that she has put out for them, that way she is involved and get becomes somewhat of personal pride for her. so here is a nice little quote about nature and i hope everyone can get out and enjoy a little bit of nature with the nice weather we will be having this weekend.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

peace.......

day 54

today like every other thursday was storytime at the library, it's the day my baby girl looks forward every week. she loves to listen to book being read, almost every night i have to read bedtime stories to her for her to go to sleep. having her has gotten me to read more which has been fun for me too. so in light of it the being library day i wanted to use a quote about books. so here you go.....
A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend. ~Author Unknown

peace.....

day53

today was photo shoot day, baby girl and myself got with a great friend and went to the park so he could take pictures of her because he has a nice fancy camera that can take better pictures than my little camera ever could plus he's a great photographer. now if you have never met my baby girl....she looooooooves to have her picture so she was in hog heaven today, because she got to do her two favorite things...have her picture taken and PLAY!! so for today i thought i would put a quote about children on here.
Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.
Daniel Raeburn, The New Yorker, 05-01-2006