8-??-06

Ok, so clearly I am horrible with arranging photo's on xanga. I need some lessons I guess! Anyway, there you are. It was such an amazing day....I was surrounded by the best bridesmaids in the world and it was just a day right out of a fairy tale book. I am sure all bride's feel that way....they surely should! Yes, of course things went awry...the florist made me a bouquet with everything I DID NOT ask for, in fact, specifically asked NOT for. Yes, my step-mother did not get her corsage and there was a family crisis. But you know...none of it mattered...at least not to me. For those of you not yet married...ENJOY your wedding day. Who cares what goes wrong, just drink deeply of all those goes right...cherish every step down the aisle, the look on your spouse's face, the feelings of being a princess, all of it. The day goes so fast and so many times I have wished to revisit it...if only for a moment. What a treasure.

EDIT: This is our budding little artist. He is constantly asking us to show him how to draw things. He has never really done anything substantial but the other night while Jonathan and I were lost in conversation Landon kept interupting. When we finally looked down to see what he wanted he said, "Look, I drew a face!" We were astonished...to say the least...and extremely proud.

It has struck me recently how all my two year old really WANTS in the world is for us to play with him. He tries everything to convince us that we can, should, and would be benefited from playing with him...anything, cars, train, obstacle course out of couch cushions, etc. Children's desires are so simple. Playing is all that he cares about in the world. He does not want after new clothes, or even toys, doesn't want a bigger or better house or car, a boat, a vacation...none of those things. He just wants to play...and be played with. How simple is that. I suppose it is just some of the innocence of childhood that we lose as we get older and find ourselves coveting and lusting after more and more things. If only life could be so simple...I wish I could bottle up his little desires and save them forever. I love to see the innocence of childhood playing out before my very eyes.