1.  Mat Kearney's new album, Young Love. SOOOoooooo good. My favorite songs right now are Hey Mama and Ships In The Night.

2. One Republic, Waking Up. My faves go back and forth, right now I love Secrets, Good Life, and Marchin On.

3. Hillsong United, Aftermath. Specifically: Like an Avalanche and Aftermath. These songs speak volumes (and volumes and volumes) to me right now.

4. Sherwood, QU. I haven't listened to the whole album yet but I like their sound so far.

5. Hellogoodbye's album called Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs! Still listening through it so I haven't heard it all yet, but they are fun and have a great sound. 

That's about it for now. I have a ton of stuff I listen to on and off, some new, some old, but when I find music I like, I listen to it a LOT until I'm sick of it. That's where I am with Mat Kearney and One Republic. I've been a fan of Mat's since I got his first album like 8 years ago, before he was well known. Not much of his music since then has had the same distinct sound as that first CD, and I've missed it. Young Love brought it back! So happy! One Republic has been at the top of my list for a good 6 months at least, and I haven't listened to much else until very recently. 

I hope to repeat this list once or twice a month. I love music and it's fun to share!

Indian Summer

 Our yard is in desperate need of some attention. I spent most of the afternoon trimming the bushes and tearing down climbing rose vines out front, while Audrey decorated the driveway with chalk, baby in tow. The weather was absolutely perfect today, high 70's with a balmy breeze - impossible not to want to be out in the sunshine. It's the summer we didn't get to have this year, but in October! I wish these indian summer days would last forever. (Click for big versions of photos!)

I love this little girl so much. I don't often stop and just sit and listen to her (she talks a lot, but often has lovely, funny, and surprisingly insightful things to say), simply spending time without always having to be DOING something. Either way, mental note: must spend more time with her. Sometimes I need to just forget my long list of to-do's! Time is flying by much too quickly, and before I know it Audrey will be in high school. Going to prom. Or college. OMG. Stopping that train of thought right now.

Such a beauty.

During my outdoor excursion, I found the most adorable little birds nest in a tree near the house. It was empty, but still cute.

I love this purple ground cover. It kinda takes over the grass, so I imagine a lot of people don't like it, but it's cool on your feet on a hot summer day and the color is beautiful.

I take a ton of pictures, as often as I can. I won't ever post them all, otherwise my blogs would be pages long and Blogger's image storage wouldn't hold them all. Speaking of which, I REALLY need to get an external hard drive for my computer... My poor little 160 gig hard drive is almost full, and a lot of that is taken up by pictures. Be happy I didn't take pictures of my poor shredded hands after tearing down climbing rose vines all afternoon! Geesh - ouchies.

I finally blogged a bit, and that is more than I can say for the past few months. My work here is done. Good night bloggy bloggers!

Overhaul Done... For Now!

I can't take complete credit for the overall look, as I got most of the graphics from Shabby Blogs. However, I did piece it together from a bunch of different designs and freebies I found there. I tweaked the header too (including adding the text, clearly). I'll be adding more as time goes on, and you know I'll be changing the theme for certain holidays and seasons... I love doing that!

Anyway, now that I've spent hours and hours working on this, I must step away to make a dent in the cleaning of ground zero, a.k.a my house. I'll be making an effort to blog more and also keep up with your blogs. I've been pretty terrible about that lately! Thanks for looking - let me know what you think about the new look! HUGS!

Finally...

Bloggy blog overhaul in progress. The header isn't done yet... I'm just testing some new stuff all around. If you wanna tell me if you like it so far, go for it! :) Pardon the mess, construction will be done soon!

WHY?!?!

For serious people, why is it so hard to find time to keep this bloggy blog blog updated?! GEESH! And it still needs a graphically graphical overhaul! I have ideas. Ideas that need to be turned into REALITY already.

I have been CRAZY busy lately. Don't worry, sometime during this century I WILL get this thing looking pretty and at least a little more active. Oh and I have a kazillion photos to post.

Here is what I've been up to in no specific order:

~ Running around town with Audrey, or is it, running after Audrey around town?
~ Taking lots of photos.
~ Doing lots of graphic arts.
~ Going through some trials and rough stuff.. such is life... trying to hang in.
~ Playing lots of video games.
~ Hanging out with friends, lots.
~ Singing and playing piano on worship team at church.

More to come... I know I know, I say that a lot! I need more hours in the day... or maybe I just need to PRIORITIZE! Hrmph! Too many things I want to do right now! :p

Happy Father's Day!

This video was played in my church this morning and I thought I'd share - too funny to resist! Happy father's day to all of the daddies out there, my own wonderful dad and my hubs who is an amazing dad also! I'm super blessed! (more bloggy blog updates to come!)

Graphicals

Graphicals is too a word, even if I made it up... it's a word! :p Here are a few postcards I created today for a client. Whatcha think? (Click for original size)

The first one I made from what I saw in my head (aka, what I was inspired to make), and the second one is the original concept I was told to make. The client went with the first one. :)