SOLD :(

Mr Noah "walking"

Mr Noah @ Friday Nights

Sports Shorts was awesome! =) See!

2007 Noah 12 Months ONE YEAR OLD!

check out the rest of Mr. Noah's One year portraits in his 12 month folder.

Time to start pulling your weight around here Mr Noah ;)

if ANYONE has pictures from Mr. Noah's one year birthday party, especially of him destroying the cake, please email them to me. I've got like literally 10 pictures from his birthday - none of them w/ cake. ;) However, we do have a good solid 15 minutes of video ;)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mr. Noah! Here's one of my favorite videos of Mr. Noah laughing.



Here's the feed for pix - for those of you that feed. ;)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/3tannersphotos
Stay tuned for pix from the official cake smashing!

one of my favorites! ;) There are PLENTY more videos if you click on the google button in the bottom right corner of that video. THen on the next page, over on the right click on "more from user." that should show you the other 11 or so I uploaded in the past week.

Today was 1st official haircut day and picture day - so make sure to check out the haircut pictures in the 11 month folder.

I'll never forget the feelings. So many, and so crazy.
1. I've never even heard my GRANDPARENTS say that they remembered foreigners attacking US Soil.
2. I was one month and 6 day married.
3. I was certain that I was going to war.
4. SO certain, that I began considering how I would join, which branch I would join, and how soon we could get pregnant so that there could be SOME sort of family started, if the worst happened.
5. I wonder how so many others like me felt years before when we joined wars that we were not "part of."
6. Though I knew what I THOUGHT he should do, and what he PROBABLY would do, I honestly wondered what President G.W. Bush would do.
7. I thanked God repeatedly all day long that Al (thank you for the internet al) was NOT the "leader."
8. I thanked God all day that none of my family or friends were in or around there.
9. Andrea, who usually worked her BRAINS out of her everliving head during school, actually laid on the couch (somehow we managed, I don't know, don't even ask) with me that night and watched all the coverage and enjoyed being together for fear that we soon wouldn't.

I'm still so thankful and grateful. It's so hard to imagine, guys who were younger than me, like in JR HIGH while I was graduating High School, went over there to give those punks what they deserved. Guys who were the little brother of friends of mine who we actually picked on and made fun of, they went and blew up cities and terrorists (and some not, I know, save it for Rush) and all sorts of other "targets." They went over there fresh out of High School. And I can't say I didn't understand, b/c maybe the scariest thing I felt on that day was #10. In two ways.

Like I said @ theLoft the other night, there is this scale that Andrea and I use to communicate levels of interest, or intensity, or to somehow say "it's THIS important to me." Dave Ramsey just calls it "the scale of 10." and when andrea says something is a 10, I'm all ears, drop everything, this is so important that nothing, not a job, not a friend, not family, NOTHING else matters as much as a 10. Truthfully, everything 7 and up is like this for my spouse. But you get the idea, it helps us to communicate to one another how very important or unimportant something is to each other. So, this day, in 2001, was a 10 / 10 for me. I thought that it was going to change the course of my life forever, maybe even irrevocably.

That was scary enough, but the other 10 was the feeling of revenge or justice I might even call it that seemed to pulse through me w/ every beat of my heart. It was like the more I watched/listened to the news (I still had work installing cable modems for charter) the more I wanted to be part of the solution. Or, the more I wanted to be over there blowing stuff up. I wanted to be a part of it. I couldn't believe it. I wanted to sign up for something that I thought @ the time, could mean death. Crazy...probably...but isn't that what discipleship is supposed to be like?

anyway, more cutesy videos of my favorite boy who came @ the perfect time, thanks to our faithful US Military. Ask me every SINGLE time I pay taxes. property, state, fed, sales, whatever. I know it doesn't all go to the US Armed Forces, but you can bet I'm sure glad that whatever does go there WENT THERE! =)

Andrea informs me that "the scale of 10" is called the Likert scale (and apparently it's "LICK-ert")

Pretty cool quote:

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all - Dale Carnegie

heard that on The Dave Ramsey show "today." I don't usually put a bunch of stock in quotes and stuff like that, but this one, I rather identified with and found it encouraging. Of course, I'd almost have to say that if he didn't have helpful people around him, surely Carnegie didn't accomplish much. I wonder if he later amended this thought with something like "boy, I really need help to really get anything done."

On that note, I applied for "Price protection" or "Return Guarantee" not sure which way it's going to fall yet. But, rest assured, apple is going to get their phone back. I'm going to get my $$ back. Then, I'm going to buy the SAME phone, for their newer, cheaper price. Thanks apple. I'm also considering buying it on ebay from some poor guy w/ buyer's remorse. =)

So, Dave, I reckon paying cash would have worked well for staying out of debt, but what kind of extortion protection, I mean price protection does the cash offer again? Does this still mean Credit Cards are all bad?

It was UK Day today for Noah and me. Noah invited me into his room (crawled out, smiled @ me when I came into the living room, and crawled right back into his room) to play some "toys." Now, relatives and friends, Noah's idea of "toys" is still either tearing up a magazine or playing w/ an empty box. Don't forget to check out the updated 11 Month folder.

For those that "Feed" here ya go ;)

http://feeds.feedburner.com/3Tanners

if you don't know what that means - don't worry - you're not missing anything you wouldn't see here. ;) It's the same cute face delivered a different way. =)