Saturday, March 27, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
Friday Photo Favorites
A few from Christmas
Sporting the hat Uncle Tim brought back from Italy.
Checking out Baily
PT- The motorization of a horse
Izzie-A heart's desire fulfilled.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Dance Machine
He's got style. He's got grace. He's got it going on!
You have got to be having a better day now!
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Pajama Sliding!
While at Gia and Pop Pop's house the g-kids took advantage of wood floors and footie pjs! PT gets style points for his roll out of the slide and Izzie is the winner for furthest slide. Daniel has the best victory dance, while Luci has a pretty stinking cute grin that earns extra charm points! This is all brought to you by the ingenuity of Peter. He is the one that organized the sliding festivities.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
From the Ashes
Eight months after exchanging vows, the church we were married in burned down. St. Mary's was my childhood church and was where I was baptised, received first Holy Commiun, made my first confession and most recently was married in. However with all that it was only a building and a not very beautiful one at that. It was sad to watch the clips of it burning, only because watching a building engulfed in flames usually invocates that emotion. The sadness was quickly replaced with hope that the parishioners that made St. Mary's a home would get a truly beautiful church. One worthy, or as worthy as we can make, for Our Lord to dwell in.
Vast improvements were made in the new church.
As you walk in.
They finally have true Stations of the Cross. The cross on the top of the fame was what represent the Passion of Our Lord in the early church.
There are three commissioned tapestries that are representative of the region.
The new facade is really special.
It is amazing that a medium as rough as bricks can capture this tender exchange between Mary and Jesus.
A close up of the detail. It is actual bricks!
Friday, March 19, 2010
Friday Photo Favorites
Brotherly Love
This is how they enjoyed the latest viewing of "Pomas" the train.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Pop Pop's Boys!
We were treated to a cancelled flight, due to snow in Amarillo, which meant a quick morning visit with Pop Pop!
Here are some pictures of the morning tickles!
Oh not snow in March, this actually took place the day after Avery's Birthday...I'm just behind. They were too cute not to share.
A New Thing!
Recently, Avery discovered three new things.
The ability to walk with his hands over his head.
His hand above his head,
and the lights above his hands.
These three things have kept him entertained just about every where we go, and likewise, he has kept us entertained as each time he rediscovers any of the three he squeals in delight!
These three things have kept him entertained just about every where we go, and likewise, he has kept us entertained as each time he rediscovers any of the three he squeals in delight!
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Bumper Stuck
The phenomenon that is the bumper sticker is marked usually by over-stated positions, over-generalizations, or over-used cliches; perhaps they become a cliche having been a bumper sticker first. Am I the only one who flirts with the limits of the posted speed to catch a glimpse of the owner of a slogan I find particularly thought provoking or enraging? The entire goal of an automotive anterior decal is to catch the eye of the other drivers, make a point, be witty or memorable, and do it all at 70 mph. Given these criteria, I have recently witnessed two very successful pieces of car flare that I, obviously, deem worthy of comment on this our most prestigious and cute blog. Sadly, due to the subject matter of the stickers, no further attempts to entertain you, strictly speaking, will be made.
The first bumper sticker, stuck cock-eyed next to the classic "KEEP YOUR LAWS OFF MY BODY" was blue with white lettering and read "if you can't trust me with a choice/you can't trust me with a child." I had to inch closer to read it again because at first glance I wasn't able to grasp the point. The intended message, as far as I perceive it, sets in contrast the "sacred choice" a woman has as granted from her reproductive freedom against the sacred duty (notice the lack of quotation marks) of parenthood. Given more space, it may read thus: "the choice I have to continue this pregnancy or not is a fundamental right that I have; if you cannot trust me to make this first, fundamental choice, how can you, then, trust me to make all the rest of the choices I will need to make as a result of not making this first." The argument makes sense from their point of view only, however. Why is it that any one person can be "trusted with a child?" Even more than raising them to know right from wrong and to always put forth their best effort, at the most basic level, a person can be trusted if that child will be kept safe while under said person's care. The stark truth is that this "choice" the woman has is whether or not to KILL the child. The bumper sticker has it backwards: "You cannot trust me with a child because you cannot trust me with this choice." Because ultimately, the baby may end up dead.
The second is perhaps more poignant. Its companion on its unkempt car read, "War is terrorism on a bigger budget," which could itself be a whole post topic. Our focus, though, will be on the yellow one that said, "Just say NO to sex with pro-lifers". My first thought, as I tried to decipher the meaning, was that the author (do bumper stickers have "authors"?) was pointing to the irony of future demographics in which all the pro-abortion people have chosen themselves out of contention, while all the pro-lifers keep producing rodent-sized broods and command the political/cultural sphere. But the conclusion is much more sinister. Historically, abortion has been, so to speak, the last line of contraception/birth control. The sexual revolution failed to account for the consequences of "freeing your inner sexual being", so if condoms didn't work, an abortion was the final solution so as to continue a sex life as one wishes. Abstinence only sex education will never be effective, we are told, because people just are unable to control themselves. This bumper sticker elevates the abortion lobby to a new plateau; no longer is it about exercising one's libido consequence-free, but it plainly is about killing babies and nothing else. In other words, the sticker is admonishing us to make sure that every pregnancy has the opportunity, or potential, to be terminated. Sex with pro-lifers leads to babies who are not aborted.
It is the same dark, poisonous ideology in operation here as that at whose hands countless millions died in Europe not so long ago at all; one in which man is sacrificed for the sake of morality.
The first bumper sticker, stuck cock-eyed next to the classic "KEEP YOUR LAWS OFF MY BODY" was blue with white lettering and read "if you can't trust me with a choice/you can't trust me with a child." I had to inch closer to read it again because at first glance I wasn't able to grasp the point. The intended message, as far as I perceive it, sets in contrast the "sacred choice" a woman has as granted from her reproductive freedom against the sacred duty (notice the lack of quotation marks) of parenthood. Given more space, it may read thus: "the choice I have to continue this pregnancy or not is a fundamental right that I have; if you cannot trust me to make this first, fundamental choice, how can you, then, trust me to make all the rest of the choices I will need to make as a result of not making this first." The argument makes sense from their point of view only, however. Why is it that any one person can be "trusted with a child?" Even more than raising them to know right from wrong and to always put forth their best effort, at the most basic level, a person can be trusted if that child will be kept safe while under said person's care. The stark truth is that this "choice" the woman has is whether or not to KILL the child. The bumper sticker has it backwards: "You cannot trust me with a child because you cannot trust me with this choice." Because ultimately, the baby may end up dead.
The second is perhaps more poignant. Its companion on its unkempt car read, "War is terrorism on a bigger budget," which could itself be a whole post topic. Our focus, though, will be on the yellow one that said, "Just say NO to sex with pro-lifers". My first thought, as I tried to decipher the meaning, was that the author (do bumper stickers have "authors"?) was pointing to the irony of future demographics in which all the pro-abortion people have chosen themselves out of contention, while all the pro-lifers keep producing rodent-sized broods and command the political/cultural sphere. But the conclusion is much more sinister. Historically, abortion has been, so to speak, the last line of contraception/birth control. The sexual revolution failed to account for the consequences of "freeing your inner sexual being", so if condoms didn't work, an abortion was the final solution so as to continue a sex life as one wishes. Abstinence only sex education will never be effective, we are told, because people just are unable to control themselves. This bumper sticker elevates the abortion lobby to a new plateau; no longer is it about exercising one's libido consequence-free, but it plainly is about killing babies and nothing else. In other words, the sticker is admonishing us to make sure that every pregnancy has the opportunity, or potential, to be terminated. Sex with pro-lifers leads to babies who are not aborted.
It is the same dark, poisonous ideology in operation here as that at whose hands countless millions died in Europe not so long ago at all; one in which man is sacrificed for the sake of morality.
Friday, March 5, 2010
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