Some Recent Pictures

Our Jeep parked on the beach at the Oregon Inlet, NC.

Also found at the beach. I'm not sure what kind of animal this belonged to, but I'm almost 100% positive that it was a magical creature. A griffin perhaps.

This is what was left of some sort of shark. I'm guessing a sand shark since we found it lying in the sand. That's pretty logical.

I love black and white photography and I love this picture of Molly.

Hey, it's nature's candy necklace! Yum!

We drove by the cottage that we stayed in last August. Just for spite, we knocked the trash can over. That'll show 'em.

This is the hotel where Joy and I spent our honeymoon. Ten years ago next month.

Molly and Caleb playing on the sand dunes in Nags Head. I guess it's technically called "Jockey's Ridge".

I just finished burying my kids in the sand in this picture. Look! You can hardly see them! (I'm kidding of course.)

Molly and Caleb on the dunes again.

Joy on the phone at the sand dunes.

Joy on the phone (again) with Caleb. On the dunes, by the way.

She loves cheesing it up for the camera.

Joy at the dunes. Umm, on the phone again.

I think it's safe to say that we take a lot of pictures.

Mommy with the kids. She's not on the phone this time. Oh wait. Yes she is. She has the hands free set in her ear.

A fitting end to this series of pictures. Joy, Molly, and Caleb ascending the hill.

Stuff We're Doing Today

Today we're going to drive down to Nags Head, NC for the day. I've always liked going down there in the "off-season" because it's not as crazy busy. Also, this is gonna be my chance to have a little fun driving out on the beach with our Jeep Wrangler. I've been wanting to try out the four wheel drive on this one. We used to have a 1992 Jeep Wrangler and we had a lot of fun driving off road with that one.

Due to a number of reasons, we had to sell our beloved Jeep shortly after our daughter was born in 1999. Then, about five months ago we were shopping for a new car. My wife and I said, "Well, we've always been saying that we really want to get another Jeep whenever we can. This is our chance. Maybe the stuff people do in their lives don't amount to hill of beans. But this is our hill and these are our beans."

Okay, I stole the bit about the "hill of beans" from Naked Gun but you get the idea. I'll be sure to post some pictures of the emergency tow that I'm sure we'll require once our Jeep gets stuck on the Oregon Inlet in NC.

See ya!

Lotsa Gaps

I've gotten a little lazy when it comes to updating this blog. Maybe I need some sort of reason to keep posting here? I don't, really, but here I am anyway.

I finally got my Xbox 360 (no thanks to Gamestop) and I must say that I'm really enjoying it. The most ingenious thing that Microsoft did was to integrate Xbox Live Arcade so perfectly into the console. I'm not ashamed to say that I love Zuma, one very addictive Live Arcade title. My wife is hooked on it as well.

I got Perfect Dark Zero and it's pretty good. The strange thing was that when I decided to thumb through the game's manual, I noticed that the pages are all out of order. Bear in mind that this is not a "pre-owned" game. This was brand new, out of the shrink wrap and the manual is screwed up and is apparently missing at least four pages! Not that care all that much.

Maybe I could sell it on eBay?

The Moon

I saw the moon tonight and it struck me how the earth and the moon face each other. In sight but unreachable. The moon, shining brightest in the darkest night then forgotten the next day. Quietly fading away under the blinding brightness of the sun.

I thought how strange it must be to know your life's work may go unrecognized by the world but still hold so much purpose. But, maybe that doesn't really matter. The value of your life is not in the eye of the world; the world is fickle. Your life is important to God whether or not the world gives you a second thought.