Gay Marriage

Yesterday, the Supreme Court decided to make same-sex marriage legal in all fifty states.

#lovewins

Love won the day Christ died on the cross for us all. What's happening now is not a matter of "love", but rather man's perception of equality.

#lovewonalongtimeago

Battle's been won. Truth is always truth.

Funny

I walked in the bathroom to find B with a piece of tp. I asked him what he was doing, to which he responded: "Getting the bat out of my cave". 

This Week in Photogs

Braelyn's High School Graduation

My Sister Surprised Me

My sister and her kids drove from Arizona to be here for Brae's graduation. I had an idea that she may surprise us and come out but in the moment I wasn't expecting her! It was fun to get home from work and have them surprise me. Ken got it on video. 

To celebrate them being in town we thought it was a good idea to go dress shopping for graduation with a bunch of our kids! :)

It was so fun to spend time together. The most mundane tasks are fun together. Angie and I ran errands Saturday morning and ended at the grocery store. As we left we each had a cart full of groceries and we raced to the car with our carts to see who would win! 

So fun! 

Most of Saturday was spent getting ready for graduation but Angie found time to help me clean and do my laundry. 

Sunday we chilled at home and watched movies. One of the most memorable parts of the weekend was Sunday dinner. 

This was us as we put on our headbands in preparation for cooking a big meal. 

hahahaha

Angie was going to make deep fried tacos. Yum!! We ran out of vegetable oil and opened a very old shortening. As she attempted to melt the old shortening it stunk up the whole house. She abandoned ship and we made a HUGE shortening/grease mess. She poured it back into the can and put the can out in the garage on my file cabinet. It leaked… hahaha

Then it ended up in a pizza box in the driveway… it leaked. 

Every time I file anything and touch a little leftover grease I think of her. She left a piece of her heart here in Texas. 

                                                                            ...in my driveway, too. 

We had boring ol' tacos for dinner that night but the highlight was our "Summer S'more" recipe. It turned out delicious. We put chocolate chips on the bottom and honkin' HUGE marshmallows on the top and put that baby in the oven, then dipped grahams in the 'dip'. 

YUM! We know for next time to melt the choco chips first so they don't taste so "cake-ey" but it was still successful. 

<3 

Family, Fun, Memories

Bella's Birthday

Cali's Birthday

Completely Backwards

This week two things have come out in magazines and verifies that our society is completely backwards (with no hope of getting better)...

Bruce Jenner had a sex change and posed on the front of Vanity Fair as a woman, his new self. He has been the recipient, as of this week, of the ESPY Award for courage.

In the meantime... The Duggar family is on the front of People magazine with a caption under Josh that reads "Duggar Scandal". Where's the scandal... there isn't one!

In my mind Jenner is receiving national attention for nothing (his personal issues are his alone) and the Duggar family has no scandal. This is the media. What Josh Duggar did 12 years ago was a sin that he took care of. By no means is it scandalous.

Blows me away. 

Finding Beauty Everyday

My friend posted something on Facebook last week and I can't stop thinking about it. It is the bottom photo in this post. 

I really believe that life is rather ordinary most  days and the trick is to find the beauty everyday, especially the bad days. 

The following photos were ones I have saved on my Pinterest board and are applicable to this topic.

There is something magical in finding beauty in the small things. The key, in my opinion, is having an inner peace to be able to appreciate the "ordinary" beauty all around.

Braelyn's Graduation Announcements

We were so excited after putting a rush order on announcements to receive the box in the mail.

We opened them up to find Vanessa's announcements instead of Braelyn's. 

I wasn't super happy about that...

Brae's came yesterday (Monday: week of graduation)

They turned out absolutely beautiful. We are very pleased. 

This was her main stack that shipped out Monday. Fortunately for us (and thanks to Robin for pointing it out), the envelopes were correctly delivered last week so she was able to address them over the weekend then quickly stuff the announcements right away.

4 more days!