christmas

just a few pictures before time gets too much further away from me!!...

Happy Happy Easter

Sarah and Alec are making a traditional Easter Sushi dinner.
Laurel is here in her new dress.
Some cool stuff.



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church.













pretty sky.

pretty girl.

lunch with sister and cousin.


Happy Neue Jahr!

so.

i kind of had a small inward meltdown over the last few days and i can't quite decide if it's over yet...i kind of want to go crawl in bed and cry...but at the same time i'm a little excited about taking a shower and crawling into bed and reading.
it's weird because it literally fluctuates numerous times throughout the day. i'll feel a certain way (i.e. scared, hopeless, panicked, &c...) and do a bunch of stuff, drive somewhere, or write like crazy...and then after about an hour i'll say 'what the hell was wrong with me?' recant stuff, apologize, and feel like a total spaz...only to be back in the same place later in the day.

God is really testing my patience right now. Because waiting on matters of the heart and head are at the bottom of my competence list. And so, as is His wont, He is making me wait.


In the words of Inigo...'I hate waiting.'







oh yeah...and my hair is gone.





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stuff and things...and Christmas too

Saturday the 23rd!
Amaris and i finished our Christmas presents for the family...


i headed to the Meyers' where David showed us all amazing pictures from his 80 days of wilderness training in the Pacific Northwest. it was beautiful...


Then there came a fierce couple of rounds of Telepictionary...probably one of the best we've ever played. Any questions about this fabulous game can be answered in this post from last year.



So much laughing...Bob started sounding like he was in pain after a while...




Christmas morning...

look, presents!


i like how Christmas morning has bscome much simpler ...just one or two gifts each. and Alec was here this year. so that was special...





Maela sat and watched the whole deal...trying so hard to figure out what was going on...


Sarah and Alec showing off their prizes. You can also see a painting i did of my grandma on the wall behind them...
and yes, Alec got Sarah a brown bathrobe. :)


i only have a few pictured from Christmas night with the whole family...plus a few more...it was a very lovely evening. it went so fast i can hardly remember it. i do remember the prime rib was amazing...
Jef, Amy, Johnny and Kyle...



yesterday there was some hang out time at the Pikes...





last night mom practiced her juggling...thanks to Alec, she is completely addicted. it's hilarious.



today my mom, aunt Wren and i went on a hike to the waterfall...it was cold and clear and lovely. i think hiking is one of my favorite things in the world.


word on the street is that there are some Pappas's coming to town...


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nothing like apple pie for breakfast

it's beautiful outside...maybe i'll go hiking. i left my phone charger in orange two days ago so i have no cell phone. it's weird. i'm sorry if anyone has tried to call me...
Thanksgiving was good this year...me, my mom, Sarah, Alec, mom's friend Beth and her husband Dave, their friend Yeung and an old family friend named Wendell all sat around the table for dinner. Then another friend of my mom's named Carole and her young tenant Krista came over and we all sang. The Lord blessed it.
It was also Sarah's 23rd birthday yesterday, and Alec and i (mostly Alec) threw together an impromptu birthday song for her. Pip did a little something, too. It's pretty fantastic.

i hope you all had a lovely day yesterday.

i'm lying on the couch right now and Maela is trying to get me to scratch her head. i have a lot to do today...just kind of trying to rev myself up i suppose...

every day for the last couple of days i've had to really pound it into my head that there's life after today. it isn't always necessarily positive or negative...it just feels that way for whatever reason.
it's strange not to be able to identify your own emotions...kind of feeling hypersensitive and numb all at the same time. it makes it kind of hard to look at people. it's also hard to be productive. i should do something about that.


i'll post some pictures later perhaps




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moments from my week...

Lunch at Saladang Song after prayer last Saturday...

Lovely Sarah...

Lovely Bettina...


Awesome Alec dressed to the NINES for Pip's birthday party...


Easter! Ginger, Joey and Caid...

(and yes, that is Ezekiel bread)



Spitting cloud...


Windy Day...


Reid trying to make his hair look like Tom's...

Yes? No...?


Silly Pip








Okayit'slatenowi'mgoingtobedgoodnight!


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