needed some away time the other evening...doesn't get much better than this...

a picture is worth a thousand words...(or several thousand words...!)
braces off!!!

If someone made this statement to you, "Evangelical Christians are abandoning certain truths." What would your response be? Care to comment...

aahh...a little crisp in the air, leaves starting to change.
...one has much to look forward to in the Fall......
oh, yes, ahem....we must have a high schooler, and a jr. higher in the house
door bell ditching in the wee hours, and beautiful new landscaping...

“Life is a steep climb, and it does the heart good to have somebody “call back” and cheerily beckon us on up the high hill. We are all climbers together, and we must help one another. This mountain climbing is serious business, but glorious. It takes strength and steady step to find the summits. The outlook widens with the altitude. If anyone among us has found anything worthwhile, we ought “call back”.

If you have gone a little way ahead of me, call back—‘Twill cheer my heart and help my feet along the stony track; and if, perchance, Faith’s light is dim, because the oil is low, your call will guide my lagging course as wearily I go.

Call back, and tell me that He went with you into the storm; Call back, and say He kept you when the forest’s roots were torn; That, when the heavens thunder and the earthquake shook the ill, He bore you up and held you where the very air was still.

Oh, friend, call back, and tell me for I cannot see your face; They say it glows with triumph, and your feet bound in the race; But there are mists between us and my spirit eyes are dim, and I cannot see the glory, though I long for word of Him.

But if you’ll say He heard you when your prayer was but a cry, And if you’ll say He saw you through the night’s sin-darkened sky—if you have gone a little way ahead, oh, friend, call back—‘Twill cheer my heart and help my feet along the stony track.”

Mrs. Charles E. Cowman, Streams In The Dessert

An Afternoon with Laney...

the sand, ocean and breeze feed her soul...just like her mama

deep blue sky and fancy kites...

little flops....

hours spent looking and finding treasures....

thank goodness for a nearby park...

had to get out of the heat....102 in slo - welcome back to school!

80's in Morro Bay, absolutely beautiful

all smiles...food was on the way

my favorite...

because of this....no one does fish and chips like the Hofbrau...

obligatory stop at the park...captain of her own ship (i so know how she feels)

a view from vacation...

little feet of baby jax...so perfect

I was having a post church siesta with my bink....
and then all the cousins wanted to hold me!

went to Shaver Lake and did a lot of this...

even the littlest grant was up for towing...

the man-child....contemplating...?

my view each morning...