#188/365--Song

There really is nothing like a good song to pull your heart strings.  I heard this song on the radio tonight for the first time: 

by Miranda Lambert.

It's a country song...

Here are the lyrics: 

I know they say you can’t go home again

I just had to come back one last time

Ma’am I know you don’t know me from Adam

But these handprints on the front steps are mine

Up those stairs in that little back bedroom

Is where I did my homework and I learned to play guitar

I bet you didn’t know under that live oak

My favorite dog is buried in the yard

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it

This brokenness inside me might start healing

Out here it’s like I’m someone else

I thought that maybe I could find myself

If I could just come in I swear I’ll leave

Won’t take nothing but a memory

From the house that built me

Mama cut out pictures of houses for years

From Better Homes and Gardens magazine

Plans were drawn and concrete poured

Nail by nail and board by board

Daddy gave life to mama’s dream

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it

This brokenness inside me might start healing

Out here it’s like I’m someone else

I thought that maybe I could find myself

If I could just come in I swear I’ll leave

Won’t take nothing but a memory

From the house that built me

You leave home and you move on and you do the best you can

I got lost in this old world and forgot who I am

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it

This brokenness inside me might start healing

Out here it’s like I’m someone else

I thought that maybe I could find myself

If I walk around I swear I’ll leave

Won’t take nothing but a memory

From the house that built me

Made me a little bit homesick for the house I grew up in...and made me miss my daddy.  I don't know if that is normal...missing someone so much after it's been about 3 1/2 years now.  But sometimes it just sneaks up on me. 

#187/365--Bicycling

I haven't really been bike riding in a very long time.  I thought it'd be fun to take the kids out this afternoon for some free fun.  After about 15 minutes or so of riding around the neighborhood, we got a little bored with it.  Well--that, and I was perfectly happy to stop because I was quite winded.  That being said--we were also dripping sweat!  I think 1:00 pm in the summer is not really the perfect time to go riding bikes; however, there were clouds building from storms that were forming and that gave us some reprieve from the sun.
So here are Lauren and Michael, biking in front of me...and I will say that trying to use the phone to take pics while biking is just about as dangerous as texting and driving...I almost bit the dust.

#186/365--Animal Cannibal?

#185/365--Styrofoam Cup Art, by Lauren

#184/365--Beautiful Wedding

My friend, Christian, got married today.  It was a beautiful wedding.  The most beautiful thing was the way the groom was looking at the bride.  Such a precious thing. 

#183/365--Beginning of the Second Half

And today's post (July 2, 2010) marks the beginning of the second half of the year (and also my mom's birthday--Happy Birthday MOM!!).  Today was also Friday, the start of a holiday weekend and so, the kids and I went to celebrate at the ballpark with Mike and Makenzie.  We started on rain delay.

Originally, the game was suppose to start at 7:05.  Eventually, the rain died down and the grounds' guys came out and took the tarp off of the field.

Over the next 45-50 minutes, the grounds crew got the field "Baseball Ready..."

...and eventually, the players came out and the game officially started at 9:30. 

This made for a VERY late night.  And unfortunately it ended in a loss for our Rangers.

However, we still got to watch fireworks at a little after midnight, which made it partially worth it!

Happy Fourth of July weekend!

#182/365 Half of Halfway

Today marks the first halfway point in a year (365 doesn't divide equally in half so I'm counting 182 and 183 as the halfers).  Half of a year's worth of pictures in my life.  And today...I forgot to take a picture.  So I'm using a crazy picture Lauren took of her pizza--we made homemade pizzas for dinner and this was hers.