Birthday Pictures

As I don't have a digital camera, I can't post pictures immediately after an event. I've debated over the digital thing and will probably get one...eventually. Right now, the "old fashion" way works fine for me and it's easy to send my mom pictures since I get double prints.

Here is the Singer in her "Before" picture when I took her to Merle Norman for a make over before her birthday party.


Here is the "After" picture.



Here is another "After" picture. She doesn't look happy enough, does she?



Here's the Tinkerbell Castle Cake I made. I went I little overboard with the pink coloring...should have made it lighter...didn't realize how "Pepto Bismal" it was till I was finished. Yipes! The Singer said it was the perfect pink. (OoooKay.)

I don't know why I always think there will be more hours in the day...It seems each day has fewer and fewer hours in it. I have wanted to crop and work on my scrapbooks, but haven't managed to do it once this whole summer! I did set up my work table last night and even though I'm off to work today, I am determined to get so much done at work that I can crop tomorrow. )Ithink I can, I think I can).

The Imp is spending the day with her great Aunt and Uncle and their grandkids (their cousins). THey're going to the free summer movies (March of the Penguins) and then off to Aunties for board games the rest of the day. The Singer is ...surprise, surprise..singing. She's practicing the songs she needs to know for Music Ministry Alive camp next week. She was sent 17 songs to know before she got there. We're off to her voice teacher's tomorrow.

Hubby and I have to write our talk for Engaged Encounter weekend. The title is "Married Sexual Intimacy." It is actually a great talk based on the writings of John Paul II on Theology of the Body, but it's not easy (the whole concept of theology of the body) and sharing on this topic is even harder. One of the big points is that God's love has four basic qualities: free, total, faithful and fruitful. Married love needs to have these qualites if we wish to live our sacramental lives. The best part of Engaged Encounter is how it keeps Hubby and I focused on what marriage should be. I think we have a great marriage (strike that) I think we have the best marriage, but we do have bad days (weeks, months...). But reading what we've written for Engaged Encounter (and it was all written during 'good' times) brings us back to marriage as a vocation and call, not just something that feels good. One of the key points of Theology of the body is that "There is one path to happiness and that is to learn to love as God loves." This is actually a statement that is similar to alot of what I am reading about in a book "Don't Waste Your Sorrows."