Home Again

We finally pulled into our driveway at 9:30 last night after a 13 1/2 hour drive. It feels good to be home. (Thank you for the welcome Katrina!!) But about the trip.....
The Highlights

- Driving for the first time on our trip in a torrential downpour. It stopped as soon as Mom took over.
- Listening to the new Rascal Flatts cd
- Swimming in the pool!!
- Listening to Andy at the Appomattox courthouse in the sweltering heat and then making a bee line for the air conditioning.
- Boating in Tennessee w/ family...jet skis, water slides, jumping off the roof of the boat, warm water
- Playing with the littlest cousins
- Walking down broadway in Nashville
- The view from Monticello
- Going out with my Aunt
- The niece party
- Out to eat with everyone
- Coming home once again

So there you have it. If you want to hear more about anything please ask!

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Godly Young Women

"Like a lily among the thorns,
So is my love among the daughters."
Song of Solomon 1:2

Godly womanhood... the very phrase sounds strange in our ears. We never hear it
now. We hear about every other type of women: beautiful women, smart women,
sophisticated women, career women, talented women, divorced women. But so seldom
do we hear of a godly woman... It is a far, far better thing in the realms of
morals to be old-fashioned, than to be ultra-modern. The world has enough women
who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. The world
has enough women who know how to be brilliant. It needs some who will be brave.
The world has enough women who are popular. It needs more who are pure. We need
women, and men, too, who would rather be morally right than socially correct.

-Peter Marshall, quoted in So Much More.

Sisters, do not be afraid to stand alone. Be willing to be a lily among thorns.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Yes, I saw the movie opening day at 3 in the afternoon. It was creepy, it was funny, and it was a cliff hanger ending if ever I saw one. I won't spoil anything for those of you who haven't seen it, but there were a few things I didn't understand. Can't wait to see the next one, only a year to go.

P.S. I also watched X-Men 1 and 2. Good movies...wolverine is awesome!

A Long Weekend

Guess what I finally got to watch...Narnia! I know, I know, it's about time. I think I'm the last person I know to see it. How ironic since I wanted to go for my birthday and be one of the first. Oh well....it was pretty awesome watching it late at night with a couple of other Narnia fans. And it was even better than I had hoped. Lewis's allegory came to life in the eyes of Aslan and how could childlike faith be more evident then in Lucy?

The rest of the weekend was pretty cool too. Had some friends stopping in on their bike tour of New Hampshire and got to take them kayaking since they just weren't tired enough. :) We swung by Taz and Heather's graduation party (Congratulations guys!) and met Heather's brother Spencer. To top it off youth group went walking in Mines Falls. What a day.....

Oh, and a recommendation for anyone interested in the works of C. S. Lewis, you should read Out of the Silent Planet. And if you bother to really read it, you might just discover somethings about mankind that we should know, but for some reason we don't.