What do you do when the seams come unglued?
With the pieces all warped and worn out and chewed.
Do you break out the tools?
Try rebuilding anew?
Can you travel through time and reverse crude abuse?
To break is so easy.
It's the fix that's the trick.
When the ocean of love gets so muddy and thick.
You get frantic and panic.
My heart burns in the static.
As the beast is released from it's cell in the attic.
Complete chaos ensues.
A dark blaze takes the day.
I churn while I burn in a swirling black rage.
All time goes away as we lash out and say
Silly things we don't mean and think things we don't say.
Anger shocks me in blasts.
Overwhelms me so fast.
In those moments I feel like I grasp psychopaths.
For one smoldering instant I am fury supreme.
I am unbridled frenzy.
Choking love to it's knees.
But this isn't me.
A slave to this rampage.
It's breaking my heart and melting my days.
So this stops today.
Set these demons ablaze.
I'm a servant of love.
And I will find my way.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Monday, July 6, 2009
Aaaaaand my daughter is the cutest little thing ever!!!
Winter has been an amazing little baby on this trip. From her first time up in airplanes to spending long, eventful days in the hot Carolina weather she has been so good. It's been so cool having her be around so many people. She seems to really enjoy everybody and anybody's company. No matter who had her in their arms she was usually as happy as the day is long. Of course, like any baby, she has her daily grumpy moments but they are usually quite easily quelled by a little dose of beauty sleep. It's been amazing having so much loving family around to share the load of baby duties for a while. Being able to have some alone time with Lyndsey while Winter was with the Glamma or my Brother or whomever has been a serious treat. On top of all this, watching Winter grow so fast over this month of away time has been amazing. She has been changing so quickly it is simply blowing all of us away. Winter will be 6 months old on July 20th (not to mention that I will be 30 years old on the 28th...holy shit). It feels like she is going to start crawling any day now and she is so vocal nowadays it feels like she could start spitting out her first words and day also. We love her so much. Each day is such an exciting adventure. It is going to be so fantastic when she is running around and having little kid conversations with us. For now we will be treasuring each day as it presents itself with hope that they don't all flash by in a blur. This Mommy and Daddy thing is the best and we will continue to cherish every moment.
The photos above with Winter are with the following loved ones: Tom/Pop/Grampa, our dear friend Jeremy from Portland, Broham Casey, and cousin Randi.
XO
The Pier, my dear...
One of the many traditions that come along with the family beach times is an evening at the Garden City Pier. Everyone drives there and walks down to the end of the Pier. There's a bar on the Pier and we all get drinks and take photos and have a relaxing good time.
Above are some of my favorite photos from this year:
My brother and I were getting photographed and Riley and Luke decided to jump in.
The Mandersons and Ganterts. Left to Right: Lindsay and Tombo(they just got engaged yesterday!! Hooray!! Congrats kids!!), My Lyndsey and our little Winter, Maggie and Tom(Lyndsey and Tombo's mom and pop), myself and the lovermuffins Cherlyn and Casey.
A great shot of Casey and Cherlyn. Pretty pretties.
The original lovebirds, Tom and Maggie Gantert. Seriously, the coolest folks in the whole wide world. love em, love em, love em.
Lyndsey and I. Livin' and Lovin'
Greatest family ever? yes I think so.
XO
I wanna live on the ocean
Obviously, a huge chunk of our time was spent on the beach and in the ocean. The ocean was amazing. It was brilliantly hot outside everyday and all we really wanted to do everyday was jump in the water.
I was so happy to have my brother Casey and his girlfriend Cherlyn on this trip with us. They are two of my favourite people in the whole world and they made the trip even better. I can't wait until next year.
Jumping in the waves was the name of the game. I really like this shot of little Mckinley.
So many good times were had just messing around on the beach. You would see crabs scuttling around and on one occasion Casey grabbed one for an intimate moment. On the topic of beach wildlife pretty much everyday we were on the beach we would spot huge black spots on the ocean. The first day we saw one none of us were really sure what they were exactly so a few of us decided to swim out and investigate. It turned out to be a massive school of fish. Literally thousands of fish just riding the waves together. Supposedly when you see those schools it means that sharks are never too far away. We never saw any sharks but we saw those schools a lot. Sometimes they were way far out in the water and sometimes they were no more than 10 or 15 meters. Swimming out there and being right on the edge of the school of fish was one of the coolest things I've ever seen. So many fish, no more then 3 or 4 inches long. You could get so close that you could see their little eyes flashing in the sun and their little mouths opening and closing. Super cool. I wish I had an underwater camera so I could have gotten a few photos of them.
Luke & Woody
The little guy is Luke. He's 2. Woody is his Dad. He's huge. This was the first time I had ever met them. It was my 3rd year coming out to the beach but they hadn't made it out the previous 2 years. Luke is a hilariously energetic little dude. It basically gave us a window into how awesome it's gonna be when Winter is up and running around.
One of the days at the beach we spent at beach house that we rented out in order to celebrate some birthdays. At one point a bunch of our towels and a skim board fell over the railing into a fenced off, weedy area along the beach. Woody grabbed Luke and dangled him over the railing to grab it all. Hence the photo of the dangling baby. Michael Jackson had nothing on Woody.
Life's a Beach
Alright, I haven't posted anything in about a week. My hand is healing up nicely and I can actually use it to type again. We are all back in Charlotte as of yesterday afternoon. Casey and Cherlyn caught their flight home yesterday as well. This whole wonderful trip is almost over. We are here until Wednesday and then it's homeward bound. The beach week was pure greatness. A whole lot of swimming in the ocean, fun in the sun and feasting on fried foods. Even with my ridiculous metabolism I managed to gain a few pounds. All in all the week zipped by way too fast but we had a blast watching it go. I'll just post a load of photos with captions to make it easier on my stupid, busted up hand.
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