I Heart Saturday AND .......a lego a day

ROAD TRIP!

Oscar got up today and decided to put on a happy face

Check out this photographer/legolover's site.

http://legomyphoto.wordpress.com/2009/03/

It is his quest for a lego a day for one year.

He is on day 300

They are really great

Rennick's heart legos!

a day at the aquarium of the pacific

I love Long Beach! It was such a beautiful day. Just a lot of pictures showing off the cute kids and some favorite underwater creatures. It was great for the kids to see all the different underwater life that they have been studying this year in science. So much to touch...and you gotta feed those birds and get pictures of them on the kids - they loved it!

I Heart Saturday AND.......dad and daughter

Brian and Bria - Spring 2003

what I liked about oregon

downtown trees

downtown food court

powell's bookstore
bridges, bridges, bridges

so cold I got to wear my new gloves

trees

that turned into snowy tress

more snow

and then I reached the coast

and seaside houses on lewis and clark street

driving pacific coast highway

finding the coastal town manzanita, known as the carmel of oregon, and this cute little inn

a quick tour of the tillamook cheese factory and their sample table

but happy to be home

I Heart Saturday AND....homeschool bloopers

We are studying Roman history. After a stunning lecture of the story of Julius Caesar's highs and lows and and his triumphant cry "Vini, Vedi, Vici" ( I came, I saw, I conquered).....

We played a game where the kids could earn chocolate if they answered correctly.

Mom: "Who can tell me what Caesar's famous phrase "Vini, Vedi, Vici" means in English?"

Both kids stand up excitedly and Mom calls on Matt...

Matthew: "I came, I saw, I vanished!"

this is your life - are you who you want to be?

When Brian and I first met, we talked of dreams and plans and what God might have in store for our lives together. Brian was a Christian music artist. He had been since he was 16. Leading worship, writing songs about Jesus and sharing his love for Him was all he knew. We met while he was leading worship at a youth conference center. I was a political science major on my way to Bible school in Europe and was praying and thinking God was leading me to be a teacher to missionary kids in some other country (yes, I was just a little confused)

I came home six months after meeting Brian and we began to date. We were both still in college and I was also in a real estate finance program related to the appraisal firm I was working for part time. Brian was studying psychology (only due to his love for helping people - though he could not stand the worldliness of the psych world and changed his mind) and in full-time music ministry.

While Brian has always worked full or part-time in music realted ministry work, he has also been a graphic artist, web designer and print production manager for several magazines. He has poured many hours into learning and growing in the field God has put him. But, a web/production guy is not what he wanted to be.

I have had my real estate appraisal certification for 15 years. While I have always been able to work from home and I am thankful, a real estate appraiser is not what I wanted to be. I never became a teacher to missionary kids, or in politics, but I do find so much joy being at home and teaching my kids.

This week Bria (2nd grade) had a grammar assignment. She had to write sentences about jobs her relatives have. Regarding Brian and I she wrote:

My father writes music about Jesus.

My mother is a teacher.

I smiled. Maybe we are who we wanted to be after all.

I Heart Saturday AND........no line on the horizon

simply put

from city girls to island girls - they are cute!

I Heart Saturday AND.......girl scout cookies

delivered last night in a basket by our favorite neighborhood girlscout....have you got yours?

BFF's and Fiction Family

I am a Jon Foreman fan. I was so thrilled to hear he had teamed up with Nickel Creek to form Fiction Family and even more happy to find out they were playing live in San Diego.


They played here, a club called "anthology"

Way cool music venue. Cannot wait to go there again. Seriously an amazing club to go to with friends and family. We had some of the best seats. It is a hip dinner club. You eat over-priced yummy food or order over-priced fancy drinks, sit in white high-back leather chairs and enjoy music in an intimate setting.

This is poet Jon in a cute grey sweater and floppy hair.

This is Sean Watkins of Nickel Creek and Nicki R :)

He came down and sang on the tables.

Here he is on another table and a view of Jessica and Michele.

This is Sarah Watkins of Nickel Creek after the show. I am so happy I got to see her jam on her fiddle - so great.

Two of my all-time fav girls

Me and Nate

Jessica did take a very cute picture of me, Kelly and Michele, but of course I cannot find it. Somehow it got deleted along with a video I was trying to take of Fiction Family's version of Hey Jude.

So, instead I am posting a picture of what we ususally look like when we hang out. Yes, we are very spiritual and are dressed for any occassion.

did i forget to mention he likes sushi?

and the improtu celebration at the Calvi's - he loved being with his favorite friends!

katie is not holding a pipe :)