Thanksgiving Day

It's been over 2 months since I posted here so I figured today was perfect. When you move in and out of reflecting upon your current life and all of the things that brought you to this moment, you realize that you have categorically aligned your memories. Fun, sad, difficult, amazing, transforming, etc. Whatever the memory or life experience is, it has a category tag. We all have them. Some we talk about freely, others we would rather just move on. That's life. So today as I'm reflecting and shuffling through random memories I'm sure at some point I'll think of you. And when I do, I will be thankful. Thankful that you are in my life. Thankful that I have been influenced in some way by your love and friendship. Thankful that we have shared some experience together and you have a unique place in my life. One that no one else can claim.

i know, i know . . .

i'm so ridiculously bad at keeping this blog up-to-date. i could make the excuse that i'm just way too busy. or i could say life just moves too fast and i can't keep up. but any excuse i come up with would easily be shot down by Lori and her multi-tasking, super-mom self! so i won't even try to rationalize my inconsistency. but i do know one thing for sure, we had a wonderful time this summer when Lori, John David, Julia, Boo and Max came to be with us in Colorado! Rather than post a bunch of pictures, just go here:Summer 08

5 more days!!!

only 5 more days till the fun starts! woo hoo! we're gonna have pancakes and tacos and cheezy spaghetti and coconut pie and home-made donuts and cheese burgers and popsicles and candy and apples and smoothies and steaks and shrimp and crab legs and ice cream and snow cones and popcorn and chocolate pie and peach cobbler and home-made chicken fried steak and mac & cheese and mcdonalds and rumbi's and cinzettis and then a nap . . .

tic toc, tic toc

only 18 more days!!!!

sometimes i wonder

so i'm sitting in a meeting in Milwaukee yesterday afternoon with all the techno-babble you'd ever want to listen to. after a while it just sounded like blah, blah, blah to me. then i started thinking, "what am i doing?" a thousand miles away from anyone i love or really care about. another day is ticking by and i haven't kissed my wife. i haven't hugged my son, daughter or son-in-law. i haven't chased or tickled my grand babies in weeks. i hate those moments. and for a fleeting moment i even imagined standing up and saying, "you know what, this just isn't that interesting to me." . . . and then walking out the door and heading to the airport. then someone said something in the meeting that must have gotten my attention. ugh! escape was so close!

a canvas in the sky

On Wednesday afternoon, June 2nd, a cloud formation on the east side of Longmont developed into this massive display. I raced home to get my camera just in time to capture the striking colors of the sunset bouncing off these monster thunderheads.

There were people all over the place standing outside watching this unfold and the photos can't really depict the moment. Standing there watching God paint this picture in the sky is something you won't quickly forget. And to think . . . the one who painted this knows my name and calls me friend. It's times like these when you can feel really, really small.


(The posted photo is actually two separate shots I put together. I needed to shoot one exposure for the clouds and another for the house.)

the boys are back in town!