Hey Jude!

Isn't this little guy just the cutest thing?!! Yes I am an extremely proud cousin. :) This is Aunt Laura's little bundle and a couple weeks ago almost the whole fam came, anywhere from upper Michigan, to Pennsylvania, to stay at our house (18 people sleeping in our house...absolute craziness and I loved every minute of it!) and meet this little guy. Jude, I can't wait to see you grow up, and I'm praying even now that you would be used by God to accomplish marvelous things for Him. I love you!
(Sorry, just had to brag a little!) :)

pictures taken 10/11/09

Thoughts

Thoughts

by Jacqueline Bouvier

I love the Autumn,

And yet I cannot say

All the thoughts and things

That make one feel this way.

I love walking on the angry shore,

To watch the angry sea;

Where summer people were before,

But now there's only me.

I love wood fires at night

That have a ruddy glow.

I stare at the flames

And think of long ago.

I love the feeling down inside me

That says to run away

To come and be a gypsy

And laugh the gypsy way.

The tangy taste of apples,

The snowy mist at morn,

The wanderlust inside you

When you hear the huntsman's horn.

Nostalgia - that's the Autumn,

Dreaming through September

Just a million lovely things

I always will remember.

-1943

pictures taken 10/25/09

Frozen in Time...

I'm taking an online photography class this fall and last week we were working with shutter speed; this was one of my favorite shots from the study. I took this at Lake Pymatuning the day Hannah Ring got baptized...such a happy day! Have a good evening; hopefully I'll be back tomorrow. :)
-AG