C'est La Vie: 08/11/07

We hit Jacob's Ranch in the summer for some horseback riding. We cowboy'd up... Love family trips up to the cabin.

KaisjaBaby

Birthday: September 3
Fun facts: Loves to photograph her kids, dance, sing, ride motorbikes, snomobiles, roller coasters... once split her head open after falling about five feet while spelunking in the Bloomington Caves
Biggest Fear: Anything bad happening to my family, claustrophobia
Hidden Talents: Cake decorating, netivism, hack writing, kicking Rhett's butt
Lifetime Goal: Working on writing my first book... travel for humanitarian/volunteer purposes- Peace Corp or something. Africa baby.
Pet Peeves: racism, violence, war

Favorite Quotes

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without a desire to read.~ Thomas Babington Macaulay

Be good and you will be lonesome. ~ Mark Twain

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.- Captain Corelli's Mandolin. "Love is the beauty of the soul." ~ St. Augustine

Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start now and make a brand new ending.

Children are a poor men's riches. ~ John Ray

Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts.

What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories. ~George Eliot

If you don't believe in angels, then you haven't met my grandmother.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.
Ann Radcliff

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.~ Margaret Atwood

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. ~ Matt Groening, "Life in Hell"

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. ~Kin Hubbard

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. ~ Edward Chapin

"They mis-underestimated me." ~ George W. Bush (president)

“All that we are is a result of what we have thought.” – Buddha

C'est La Vie

Saturday, August 11, 2007

Ride 'em cowboy!

I do all my own stunts, text and photos...

Auberry Shortcake, Age 6