Cardboard Testimonies

Not much sound at the beginning of this clip, but powerful. Grab a kleenex! Hope you can watch the whole thing!



This is Hillside Christian Church's Cardboard Testimony. What would yours say?

If a boy falls in the forest...

I love love love this time of year. Daylight hours are longer, temperature is warmer, and now we have a new neighborhood to explore. Yesterday we found this tree, which had fallen for no apparent reason. The leaves at the top and the grass around (what used to be) the base were still green so we had to come back today to take pictures.





It was great fun climbing all over that thing again. And then I asked myself, as I heard branches cracking in an unusually loud manner, "If a boy falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it..."



Yup, definately heard it. All the humans and dogs within a half-mile heard it. The squealing and crying that is.

Little guy was breaking off branches and broke off one too many and fell... out of a tree, for lack of a better explanation. I heard what sounded like a large branch cracking and looked to see what the fuss was and caught site of my wonderfully strapping lad, clinging, monkey-style to the trunk (albeit, a horizontal trunk). He was falling and his instinct was to cling to the tree for dear life. So, his entire body was wrapped around that tree trunk. A site that I have never seen before, outside of cartoons or the like. Of course, he was only inches from the ground... but now I can rest a little easier knowing that if a boy falls out of a tree in the woods and his mama ain't there to catch him, he will probably be fine. Seconds later, the high-pitched squealing began. He was fine, save for a puffy lip and a small scratch along the side of his nose and a longer one down his leg.

After the excitement, I, like any mother out for the worse-mother-of-the-year award, ran away from my screaming child to get my camera... sigh, there has got to be something wrong with me, ha

in lighter news, did i mention that i love this time of year? This one's for you Moke. Texas misses you!

Website: Westside Creeks

I've been so busy the last month with studying for the PE exam, that I forgot to mention that my newest website is live: westsidecreeks.com, a project for the San Antonio River Authority. You may recognize the logo from a previous post. You may also recognize that the logo from that post is different from this final logo, which went through several more iterations before this final version was approved by the various committees and subcommittees.


I no longer host it or maintain it, so I don't take much cred for it anymore. I can see they've already added some ugly text on the Event Calendar page. Not even the same font or color scheme. Sigh, letting it go...

Oh Brother

Meet my favorite (and only) brother. I changed many a diaper of his, taught him how to change the tv channel, and watched in confusion as a childhood friend accidently dropped him on his head as a baby. Don't worry, it was more funny than scary.

Anyway, stop what you are doing and pray for this artistic little soul for a few minutes.

Over the fence

Finally met my other neighbor today, a kind older woman. You see, we had lost a couple of balls over the fence in the course of the last few weeks. Poor dog had nothing to play with other than a couple of tennis balls she had found during our last visit to the park. So after a long romp along Shoal Creek today, we knocked on her door and hoped she would answer this time (we had tried previously a couple of times, to no avail). She was very kind and I explained that we had lost a couple of balls over the fence and needed to retrieve them. Well, I thought it was only a couple...





Unfortunately, at least one other ball is still MIA. The ever-favorite KONG ball. Looks like I will be meeting some more neighbors next week. Tough thing about living in a cul-de-sac is having 6 yards backing up to mine. Tough thing about living with a boy is losing everything over the fence...

Oh, and that face up there? That was his "Cheeeeeese" face. Poor kid has the most frightened fake smile I've seen in a while. Hah