most of the time i'm super excited to turn another year older. i attack each year with all sorts of new goals and new adventures. this year i feel like the year is attacking me! life is attacking me with its new adventures, i'm simply along for the ride. even as i type this i realize that my life is suddenly categorized into 'trimesters'. i'm finally realizing this as i enter the third and final trimester. you know the one that's capped off by that horrible yet they tell me it's sweet event called LABOR. At this point i'm actually looking forward to it. i NEVER thought i'd say that! this little guy is so active and wild that i can only imagine what he'll be like when he's out. i'm waiting in great anticipation to hang out by the fire in my new living room, the baby will be wiggling around, Sydney will be swatting at Christmas ornaments, Tiger will be lounging in his cubby on the shelf and Brian will be glued to a tacky Christmas special on TV.
House Update: the house is coming along....sort of. Color is up on all the walls, the next time I see it paint will be complete! Once old stuff gets moved out and floors are finished it will really take shape. i'll post a picture when things are looking better.....for now just imagine a bomb going off in your granny's house. Now that we're in full transition the house is taking on a different feel; the old is being replaced with something new. there are new colors, new finishes, new pieces, new flow to the rooms yet the old is being sustained. the spirit of the home remains.
that said it's been super hard to decorate for an old home while taking every precaution to maintain its 'spirit'. usually i'm ecstatic about taking a trip to IKEA (tomorrow) but this time i'm totally overwhelmed. this isn't supposed to happen till you get in the store! for the first time i've got an entire house to accommodate. of course all my angst is self-inflicted. i want it all done at once. within a week of moving i want it complete......we'll see. i think i'll be learning another lesson in 'letting go'.
though i'm sarcastically complaining a ton i'm surprisingly content with how life is attacking me. in life we approach all things with two attitudes: love or fear. in each situation we can choose death or life. sadly there is no in between. (this awesome life lesson taken from Meditations from the Mat) it's amazing where God will take you when you choose life in every little situation, the love overwhelms you. coming from an aspiring yoga teacher, i would encourage anyone who hasn't spent some time alone, in the quiet to do so. like other friends experiencing profound growth in the quiet moments i too am enjoying the silence. in the stillness there is a comforting peace.
water baby
climber
yep that's an arm...strong climbing arms
introducing:
Logan Keith MacIntosh
Foot
5 reasons....
these are my 5 reasons why this might be a good thing.
5 of the 10 reasons i have to run to pee every half hour = someone loves kicking my bladder.
5 reasons why i'm kept up at night.
5 reasons we're ripping out memories at my grandmother's to create new ones
5 reasons why i've gained 7 pounds and am ok with it.
5 reasons why my diet now consists of red meat, fruity pebbles and pickles (i.e. Brian's favorite foods)
5 reasons i'm ok with giving up mountain biking and climbing for a year
5 reasons to toally change our lives.
5 of the 10 reasons i have to run to pee every half hour = someone loves kicking my bladder.
5 reasons why i'm kept up at night.
5 reasons we're ripping out memories at my grandmother's to create new ones
5 reasons why i've gained 7 pounds and am ok with it.
5 reasons why my diet now consists of red meat, fruity pebbles and pickles (i.e. Brian's favorite foods)
5 reasons i'm ok with giving up mountain biking and climbing for a year
5 reasons to toally change our lives.
ever after....
the wedding story
Because so many have made requests and so many have not heard:
(wrote Dec. 2006)
This is the somewhat edited verson of the wedding story. The whole account would be too massive to record. One day it will be though, maybe then I'll send our story to Oprah. We had the worst wedding and honeymoon. There I said it. You may not believe the story I am about to tell, but I just had to write. Recently Brian and I watched a couple on Rachael Ray tell their story about how their truck was stolen before their honeymoon. We were like, "Is that it?!" We had not one but many unfortunate events occur during our wedding AND honeymoon....
We hired wedding planners to plan our wedding on the coast of North Carolina. The planners, a couple in their late 50's, took off with our money 4 weeks before the wedding! The whole fiasco became a police investigation! The day we discovered nothing was accomplished for our wedding our photographer also bailed. (Love you Rachel! For good reason, God knew what He was doing then! She ended up coordinating the whole affiar.) Since the invitations were already out, we decided to go ahead with the date.
We planned our wedding in 4 weeks! We found a new baker, photographer, decorations, transportation, ceremony site, caterer (me + whole foods).....So much was done at the last minute. The day before the ceremony Brian got a lead on the evil planners and took off with his pose (groomsmen) to track them down, in hopes of retreiving our money, leaving my bridesmaids, myself and family to set-up for the entire reception, ceremony site and cook the rehearsal dinner!
The following day (the wedding day) we awoke to sideways rain, some of the worst storms April had ever seen across the country and on the coast. No barefoot wedding on the beach for us. A miracle occured at the last minute; we were given a 30 minute window between storms. We had the wedding outside in the drizzle, not on the beach but on the lawn/dunes. From there things ran smoother thanks to our families and friends serving and cleaning the entire reception!
The following day we left for the honeymoon. We traveled to Arizona, planning to road trip it in a Jeep and camp in the Grand Canyon at Havasu Falls.....things never go as planned...
We nearly spent our first night in the airport because we forgot the credit card used to reserve the car. Several days later, half way to the Grand Canyon, trouble caught up with us again.... Our second day in beautiful Sedona, AZ we both fell ill. We ended up in the ER with extreme cases of food poisoning! We managed to make it to the Grand Canyon days later, looked over the side, then headed back towards Pheonix. We packed all our new camping equipment and never used a bit of it. The story does not end there.....
The next morning I was somehow locked in our hotel room at Arcosanti (an italian architectural commune). It nearly caused us to miss our flight home. Between being locked in the room and the flight we also managed to track down a REI & Advanced Auto Parts to buy supplies to patch a 4 inch rip in the rented Jeep's cloth cover! (I must say we have skills)
Once home from our horrible honeymoon and disaster filled wedding we were anything but happy newlyweds. To add to it all we later found out that our insurance did not cover our stay in the ER, we were left with thousands in medical bills from our honeymoon.
I promise every bit of this is true, our advice is "Don't have a wedding!" We may develop more humor about the situation once we finish paying for it......The whole event could so be a made-for-tv-drama/comedy! At least we have an awesome story to tell the grandchildren one day!
(see pictures from the wedding and honeymoon on facebook)
(wrote Dec. 2006)
This is the somewhat edited verson of the wedding story. The whole account would be too massive to record. One day it will be though, maybe then I'll send our story to Oprah. We had the worst wedding and honeymoon. There I said it. You may not believe the story I am about to tell, but I just had to write. Recently Brian and I watched a couple on Rachael Ray tell their story about how their truck was stolen before their honeymoon. We were like, "Is that it?!" We had not one but many unfortunate events occur during our wedding AND honeymoon....
We hired wedding planners to plan our wedding on the coast of North Carolina. The planners, a couple in their late 50's, took off with our money 4 weeks before the wedding! The whole fiasco became a police investigation! The day we discovered nothing was accomplished for our wedding our photographer also bailed. (Love you Rachel! For good reason, God knew what He was doing then! She ended up coordinating the whole affiar.) Since the invitations were already out, we decided to go ahead with the date.
We planned our wedding in 4 weeks! We found a new baker, photographer, decorations, transportation, ceremony site, caterer (me + whole foods).....So much was done at the last minute. The day before the ceremony Brian got a lead on the evil planners and took off with his pose (groomsmen) to track them down, in hopes of retreiving our money, leaving my bridesmaids, myself and family to set-up for the entire reception, ceremony site and cook the rehearsal dinner!
The following day (the wedding day) we awoke to sideways rain, some of the worst storms April had ever seen across the country and on the coast. No barefoot wedding on the beach for us. A miracle occured at the last minute; we were given a 30 minute window between storms. We had the wedding outside in the drizzle, not on the beach but on the lawn/dunes. From there things ran smoother thanks to our families and friends serving and cleaning the entire reception!
The following day we left for the honeymoon. We traveled to Arizona, planning to road trip it in a Jeep and camp in the Grand Canyon at Havasu Falls.....things never go as planned...
We nearly spent our first night in the airport because we forgot the credit card used to reserve the car. Several days later, half way to the Grand Canyon, trouble caught up with us again.... Our second day in beautiful Sedona, AZ we both fell ill. We ended up in the ER with extreme cases of food poisoning! We managed to make it to the Grand Canyon days later, looked over the side, then headed back towards Pheonix. We packed all our new camping equipment and never used a bit of it. The story does not end there.....
The next morning I was somehow locked in our hotel room at Arcosanti (an italian architectural commune). It nearly caused us to miss our flight home. Between being locked in the room and the flight we also managed to track down a REI & Advanced Auto Parts to buy supplies to patch a 4 inch rip in the rented Jeep's cloth cover! (I must say we have skills)
Once home from our horrible honeymoon and disaster filled wedding we were anything but happy newlyweds. To add to it all we later found out that our insurance did not cover our stay in the ER, we were left with thousands in medical bills from our honeymoon.
I promise every bit of this is true, our advice is "Don't have a wedding!" We may develop more humor about the situation once we finish paying for it......The whole event could so be a made-for-tv-drama/comedy! At least we have an awesome story to tell the grandchildren one day!
(see pictures from the wedding and honeymoon on facebook)
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