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Showing posts with label LIFE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LIFE. Show all posts

Project 365, Days 1-7

1/365
Our front porch is still very much a work in progress… one we haven’t gotten back around to… Life and other stuff (good stuff) took over…
But in the meantime, here’s what happens on our new front deck.  Just what we were planning to happen out here :)



2/365
Matt had the day off :) 
I had so much to do—Christmas decorations to pack, an entire house to clean, mail that had been sitting for a week, paperwork to attend to… 
He wanted me to join him on his errands. 
There was a battle going on at first.  He doesn’t need me to go with. We’ve already spent an entire, wonderful morning together. I should get my work done. 
But I didn’t.  Instead, we talked the whole way there and back.  We had fun running errands.   I laughed at him as he ran around Home Depot like a kid in a candy store.  He treated me to my favorite drink from my favorite coffee shop.
The other stuff eventually got done… it always does.



3/365
2011 UFC Champs here :)  With our victory came a flat screen TV.  Yesterday we returned it, then upgraded to a 55” LCD.
My husband happens to be a medical rep by day and a tech-junkie-genius by night.  Here he is working his magic to upgrade our wireless signal so that we can be cord free.  Because our technology must be pretty… my rule.


4/365
I spent ALL day in the computer chair… paperwork, taxes, bill paying, paperwork, retirement accounts, filing, calculating, paperwork, charts, Quickbooks, emails, paperwork…
Till evening came, I dimmed the lights… took a beat and hit the yoga mat :) 

    


5/365: Disaster Averted! 
Matt couldn’t find his wallet… AGAIN!  He tends to lose it every other year or so…  I tend to lose my cool…
We looked everywhere.
Just as we were about to call the credit card companies, he checked the truck a second time.  There it was, caught on the inset of the passenger side door…
Thankful :)


6/365
Our impromptu dinner at the parent’s house spun itself out into a most lovely evening together.
There was steak and crab.  Excellent conversation.  An Auntie Anne’s pretzel experiment.  Please laugh at our beautiful pretzel “creations…”
The boys cleaned their guns till well past our bedtimes.  The manly smell of Hoppe’s lingering about on our drive home. 
Matt and I agree, life tastes a lil bit sweeter at the parent’s house… when we’re just along for the ride… with two people we love and trust and genuinely enjoy.

7/365
The weather has been glorious here in SoCal!
Absolutely BEAUTIFUL!
All week, I stared out my open window and told myself I would stop, get out there and enjoy it…
Never happened.
Guess my to-do list was just too long… I couldn’t stop…
Correction, I didn’t stop.  I chose not to stop…
Today, however, I did :)
Just got out there… stretched my legs, felt the sunshine on my skin, walked the doggie.
Fabulous!



Daily Tide 12.21: Good (Enough)

Four
Days
Till
Christmas!?!


We're finishing up the last of our Christmas "pre-game" around here (more on that soon)...
But we've also made the decision to not get caught up in the needless pursuit of a magazine-cover-perfect-Christmas... in that ever-elusive, joy-killing notion of perfection.
Instead, we are doing what we can.  Working with what we've got.  And remembering WHY we do this.


Yes, I could spend tonight out running around looking for that perfect Christmas tree topper I have yet to come across...
OR
I could settle for good enough and enjoy this gift of an evening with my wonderful husband...


I choose him :)


Here's to working with what you've got...
& to remembering to keep the important things important...

Daily Tide 12.3: Date Day :)

These are the kinds of things that tend to happen when Matt and I go out on a date... we come home with things like this...
And, instead of talking over dessert, we talk, as we empty out the back of the truck brick-by-brick... 
:)

Daily Tide 11.21: Mueller Family & The Wild Animal Park

wedding weekend
wonderful whirlwind
it came.
it went.
it was good.
so good :)

Last Monday, with wedding lights dismantled and decorations (mostly/sort of/kind of) packed away, the Mueller family headed out to visit San Diego's Wild Animal Park.  We have a fun family.  I'm so grateful for my family, for fun, for laughs, for the crazy.  



Couldn't have asked for a more beautiful day :)
 Lots of animals were seen...


LOTS of fun was (clearly) had...




And now my friends, since Christmas is officially 25 days away, I leave you with the Cheetah run :)






Daily Tide 11.19: Mr & Mrs. Dan Mueller

It was a very, very special day!  
The ceremony was incredible...the venue absolutely beautiful...
Here are a few snapshots from my camera, taken by my friend Sienna...  



Bre looked stunning... radiant... absolutely beautiful...  It has been an incredible privilege for me to watch the Lord dress her up and make her beautiful from the inside out... true beauty... Her Savior he has clothed her with a gentle and quiet spirit... He has adorned her with joy and love and grace...

Dan's first look at his beautiful bride...






How is it that the old man jumped the highest... ?!?
Scan through the next two pictures quickly... these two will have to find a place in my house soon...

 :)
It was FREEZING in the field...  here we are trying to hide in the boys jackets...
Bridal party...
Ceremony...
First kiss as husband and wife :)


God is SO GOOD... today is a special reminder of His great love and goodness :)

My prayer for you marriage as you begin your life as husband and wife, is that you love for each other would be defined and motivated by an overwhelming gratitude of how God has loved you...  That as you celebrate the grace of the Savior, you would willingly, sacrificially, and unconditionally desire to give your spouse what God has already given you.  My prayer is that you both, together, grasp how wide and long, how high and deep, is the love of Christ; because we serve a God who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine.

I love you guys!  Congratulations!