Live a Meaningful Life

This past Wednesday, Johnny and I celebrated 20 years of marriage. It has been the best 20 years of my life. Despite what our shared Facebook status suggests, neither of us has had an affair. For those of you who don't know, there is a meme that suggests if you have a joint Facebook account it is due to one person having an affair. The truth is, we have a shared Facebook account because several years ago we flew to Northern California to look at an area we were going to serve through a placement with the North American Mission Board. We both come from split families and creating a FB account was the easiest, quickest way for them all to see pictures and share our experience. We created the account in an airport while we waited on a flight. Despite the reasoning or circumstance behind our account, it turns out to be a pretty wise idea. Check out this quote: " A third of all divorce filings in 2011 contained the word "Facebook," according to Divorce Online. And more ...

Warning ... PICTURE OVERLOAD of our family! This will be more of a pictorial post than reading. Can I just make a plea for some sympathy first? It is a joke among Johnny's mom (Granny) and my dad (Papaw) that the boys have to go to grandparents to get rest. No kidding...they are always up by 6:30. Jack is usually out by 9. John is usually down by 10. How they can get on the beach by 7:30 and play (active play) ALL day, evening and part of the night without collapsing....I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND! They will go to grandparents house and sleep until 8 sometimes and just lay around the whole day! I told Johnny we went wrong during those early years--we should have been more boring! Just kidding-we only have a few more years to cherish these boys at home. And as of right now-I have over 15,000 pictures documenting the process. I tell the kids I have to have these memories in case I get old and can't remember them all! Enough said, here are some of the highlights of this trip: ...