nothing says "independence day" like ball park hot dogs on a chinese melamine platter: of course, when there are four chinese people at your house celebrating their freedom, i guess that's appropriate. too much rolling around in my head yesterday when it comes to "freedom". even this morning ...

They are grand. They are kids. And my mom has TEN of them! A little sneaky peaky of her Christmas gift! My favorite part of taking these pics tonite was turning around and seeing my mom and step-dad smiling and crying as they watched their blessings... Priceless.

i have no idea how many "parts" this little series will have, but i think it will be at least two ;-) first, our last full day, i took pics of my peeps together. some on the beach. some at fort gaines. side note: fort gaines is not free like fort morgan (three years ago) was. we were all read...

*smile* i still smile almost every time i say it. "lake iguana." it's pretty simple, really. this year, we decided to pull back from a lot of extra stuff. one of the things we decided to do was to skip AWANA at our church in favor of focusing on some basic biblical training at home. we found ...