Simply Love You

Simply Love You

Seems that life's become so complicated
I don't think it was meant to be this way
I find myself so distracted
Caught up in the chaos of each day

When did I stop asking for your wisdom?
As if your words were meant for someone else
Why do I choose to second-guess you?
Oh I only frustrate and confuse myself

I just wanna love you, Simply love you
The way it used to be
When your love was new to me
I just wanna love you, simply love you
To hear what you say and live every day
Like you asked me to
I just wanna simply love you

Many times you spoke of us as children
Childhood seems to me so long ago
You say I can trust you like I did then
If I give you my hand then you'll lead me home

Oh...to fall on my knees
With the freshest belief
Stirred once again in the story
of how you loved me

-Ginny Owens

DAY 3

We made it all the way to New Mexico yesterday. It was a fast paced day and I really don't have time to add any pictures...maybe another day. Had a pretty crazy night and ended up getting 2 hours of sleep in the car as we hit unexpected heavy snow on our way across the Arizona border! It was too heavy to drive in, hence the attempted sleep in the freezing car. Life is an adventure, right? :) It was still awesome. And it was AMAZING to wake up to the beauty of God's creation covered in a blanket of snow. Watched the sunrise, now grabbing a bite for breakfast at McDonald's. We're hoping to make it to the Grand Canyon today, then Vegas tomorrow. We still don't know where we're staying once we get to L.A., so we're looking for connections!

More sometime soon...


Please pray for safe travels! :)

Day 2, Arkansas to Amarillo

We hopped on Route 66 in Tulsa this morning and after an entire day of driving stopping at awesome little places, we made it to Amarillo tonight around 9pm. The internet is slow where I'm at currently, so I'll only load a couple pictures from today...

ROAD TRIP, Day 1

Well, I've been talking about doing a road trip for years now. One of the trips I've always wanted to go on is Route 66 to Los Angeles. I graduated this summer and when my parents asked what I wanted as a graduation gift I said, "A road trip". But nothing ever came of that dream...until now!

This trip, for me, came about fairly last minute (as in Friday), but I love spontaneity. It makes things more fun when you don't know what you are doing! But basically the way it came about is a friend said, "Hey, I'm going on a road trip via Route 66 in a couple days, wanna go?" Um, YES!

So here we go! We left Dallas today around noon and headed to Arkansas where we are "officially" starting our trip. (It's a long story as to why we're starting in Arkansas, but regardless, that's where we're starting). And we'll arrive in L.A. by Friday! The two major (and somewhat pre-planned) stops are the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas. Everything else we'll be doing is a complete mystery to us.

We have no idea where we're sleeping along the way or what we're doing, but that's part of the fun of a road trip, right? But if you have friends or family that live off Route 66 and have a spare piece of floor, give me a call!

Anyways, here we go...

Videos

Just wanted to share a few amazing videos. I'm appologize if you find any of these offensive, I just think they're hilarious. And PLEASE share any awesome videos with me that I haven't posted!

DAY 3. Beauty.

Aly said I should post another blog. I explained to her, yet again, how much I hate writing and said I would just post a bunch of pictures instead of having to actually think of something clever and exciting to say to my one reader (thanks Kelly for your devotion! ha ha! It's all for you!). She said to paint pictures with my words. I told her she could paint pictures with words on here any time she wants and I would just paint pictures with my camera! She did not take me up on that offer, so here are some pictures of what we've been up to.
(one of my cameras is still not allowing me to retrieve anything from its memory card, so this is only pictures from one camera):

I have so many pictures from this past week that I will only be able to post DAY 3 pictures in this blog.

Friday, September 11, 2009


Went to a small Norweigan town about 20 minutes from "The Island" called Paulsbo:

Awesome bakery!

Aly eats all proper and petite

I don't

View of Mount Rainier from Paulsbo

FREAK!

Cute little town!

We saw tons of seals in the harbor a few days later, but those pictures are on the memory card that is not cooperating

Headed into Seattle:

View from the ferry

For my sister

Self explanatory



Legendary


The Original, 1912


My favorite part of the market; the flowers everywhere!

My flowers

Aly being the Statue of Liberty with my flowers! (on the ferry with a man standing behind me laughing!)



I am just fascinated by these!

September 11, 2009

DAY 2. Bliss.

Thursday, September 10, 2009. Bliss.

I seriously love Washington.

I slept in after a late night. Woke up pretty cold (it's in the 50's in the mornings and evenings) so I looked forward to a hot shower. Threw on long sleeves, grabbed a map, and headed out.

Aly had to work until 4 so I had the day to myself. Exploration. I headed West on the 14 x 4 mile island. The fastest speed limit I found was 40 mph. Up and down winding roads through all the trees. It was beautiful. I kept the windows rolled down the entire day. The cool breeze blowing my hair into a rat's nest. It was glorious. I came to the top of a hill and could see a mountain off in the distance. When I was in the midst of the Grand Forest, I parked and began wandering through random trails. It was beautiful. I was in awe of our mighty God's creation.

I kept thinking of Kate and our vacation in the rain forest in Kenya. I kept waiting for monkeys to run across the moss covered branches. No monkeys. But I did see a very large, very yellow slug! I was wishing Kate was with me to enjoy it though.

I didn't stay in the forest long because I was antsy to see more places. I found my way back to the car then headed toward water. I drove for a while and could not find water. There were so many trees that I couldn't actually see the water. I pulled out the map and found a road that seemed to lead to a dock. I figured if there's a dock, I must be able to see water.

It was beautiful.

There were other islands less than a mile across the water from me. They were covered in trees. Some guys were standing on the dock fishing. Well, I'm not sure how much they were actually fishing, but they seemed to be having a great conversation. I walked around a bit and found a shell to take home to my nephew. Saw an awesome red jelly fish. Then moved on.

DAY 3

We got up this morning and went for a walk. Then we drove North on the island and over to the mainland to a small town called Paulsbo. It is an adorable Norwegian town. We ate a pastry and sipped some coffee while we looked out at the sailboats and mountains in front of us. We wandered through downtown for a while, then headed back to Baindbridge. After we got back, we headed to the ferry to go into Seattle for a while. We walked around the market and scavenged for lunch. We finally gave in to an overpriced sandwich. It was a hot day, so we were both really tired and so we headed back to Bainbridge Island around 4:30pm. Missed our ferry and had to wait an hour for another. Now I'm really too tired to take the pictures off my camera so a couple of pictures from day 1 in the market will have to do for now.

There will be no blogging tomorrow because we are waking up early to go to Mount Rainier. I'll add pictures from today and tomorrow soon.