Choose Life!

Today, Zachary and I went to the Georgia State Capitol to attend the Together for Life Memorial and Silent Walk with the Crozier family and the Henderson family. This event is held every year on the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade. This year marked the 36th anniversary. The Memorial Service is a respectful appeal to our lawmakers to pass protective pro-life legislation and the peaceful and reverent one mile walk is such a powerful witness to our commemoration of the Sanctity of Life. Over 5,000 people attended this year's event.

I was so proud of Zachary today. He had the chance to help make an impact in the lives of the unborn. At the same time, he got a very good education on what abortion is and why it is wrong. We had some very good discussion time today. He was excited to tell his teacher tomorrow why he got to miss school today.

I love that every member of our family can take a stance on an issue as important as this and that as a young child he can begin to make a difference for the future.

If you are interested in learning more about this cause, you can visit: www.supportpersonhood.com or www.grtl.org.

A Most Important Day

In our nation's history, there are many days, years and even decades that we are not proud of. Our nation began with a small group of folks seeking freedom to express their faith without fear of persecution. It quickly became the land of opportunity. Not long after that, slavery came to define our country and nearly split it in half. The slaves were freed, but were never seen as equal. Over the last 40 years that inequality has evaporated. Today was a day that our nation thought would not happen for several more decades to come. We elected to the highest position in our land, a black man to lead us for the next four years.

While our family did not vote for him (not because of his color, but rather for his political positions), we will pray for him and his administration. We recognize the importance of this day and what it means to our nation.

We hope his administration is able to live up to the promise of "Change We Can Believe In." We pray that the change is honoring to the God he stood before today with his hand on His Word and is honoring to our great nation.

World of Wheels

Over the weekend, Allison's Dad entered his '55 Chevrolet BelAir into the World of Wheels. For those of you that don't know, it is perhaps one of the biggest car shows in the southeast this time of year. There were over 400 cars entered this year. He won best in his class. Congratulations!
Not exactly sure why the photos are so small. Probably operator error. Sorry.

Georgia Aquarium

For the last month or so, we have been borrowing a camera from a friend of Marty's. She is an awesome professional photographer (you can check out her work at snapshotzphotography.net) and has given us lots of great advice about cameras. We both know we want a new one, but are not exactly sure of what to buy. She has highly recommended the Cannon XOS camera and the Nikon D40 for their dependability and ease of use. We were borrowing her D40.

Her are some of the wonderful photos taken with this camera at the aquarium. We never realized how different the camera is from what we were used to until we saw these photos.

Hopefully after our other bills are paid with our tax returns, we will have enough money to be able to buy one for ourselves.

What beauty. God makes some of the most amazingly beautiful creatures. Hopefully, we'll have more pictures in the next few months from our new camera. (hint, hint, Marty)

Happy New Year

Wishing everyone a safe, fun and happy New Year!
Hope your year is filled with countless blessings.

Now that Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years are over, there are no more holidays that are "supposed" to be cold. Good. Bring on Spring!! We're ready for it!