Pictures

Since everyone wanted to see the shoes, I decided that I would post a few pictures of them for all to see!











The green shoes happen to make the socks I wear with them green. . .









While the blue shoes happen to make my socks blue!









How crazy is that?



Well I hope you enjoyed looking at the lovely shoes. Hope you are having as great of a day as me!

My Favorite Quote

""One of the secrets of life is to find joy in the journey."
"But Grandma, you weren't on *this* journey. It was just crazy--"
Grandma held up her hand. "You have six brothers. You got to spend a whole day in the car with them. You're all healthy, well fed, happy... Someday, when you're a little older, I'll bet you'd give anything to be back in that van of yours with all of your brothers, smelly diapers and all."
I mulled that over.
"Well what about Dad?" I pointed out. "He didn't find any joy in the journey. He was yelling at trees."
Grandma sat back, "Your father and mother are masters at finding joy in the journey."
I didn't understand.
Grandma continued, "Do you really think your parents would have had seven kids if they couldn't find joy in the journey?... I would be willing to wager that he'll be laughing about this trip on Monday morning with his friends at work."
Grandma took my hands into hers. "There are a lot of people in this life that will try to convince you that they're selling something that will bring you joy. The simple fact of the matter is that *things* don't bring you joy. You have to find joy in life experience. And if you take along somebody you love, then that journey is going to be all the more enjoyable.
"I can promise you right now that both good and bad things are going to happen to you in your life. Good and bad things happen to everybody. Some people are good at finding the miserable things in life, and some are good at finding the joy. No matter what happens to you, what you remember is up to you."" -Matthew Buckley

This is one of my favorite quotes from the book, Bullies in the Headlights, I strongly recommend it if you want a good laugh. Hope you are having as marvelous of a day as me!

Lime Green Shoes

Does the title say it all or what? So today I walked into Walmart following my mom, bored out of my mind, when she suggests we go to the shoe aisle, at this I grew excited and followed her, expectantly, forward. I grabbed at a pair of blue plaid shoes and said, 'Oh can we get these, please?' but my mom said, shaking her head, 'I don't really like those,' But guess what! We looked a little to the left and low and behold there were the most amazing, lime green with polka dots, shoes! They are so stinking amazing! I'm wearing them to school tomorrow!