Very interesting

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/29/evangelical.campaign/index.html

I would love to know your thoughts. Please leave them as comments.

My husband... the hero

As you know, I am married to an amazing man, otherwise known as "the LAW." (Well in our house anyway)

Here is a cute story to prove this point.

Yesterday, after lunch, I dropped Slim off at his car, so he could drive it home from church. This is a weekly occurrence, because Slim has to get to church really early to play, and I go to the 2nd service, thus there are two cars in the Summit parking lot when it is time for lunch. I head home. On the way home, I call Carly to talk, and about 20 minutes into the phone call, I realize that Slim is still not home. 30 minutes in, I get a beep... it is Slim. He tells me that he is helping a little old man who had an accident by our house. 1 hour later, Slim is still not home. I call again, and he doesn't answer. 1 hour 15 minutes later, Slim calls and says he is almost home.

Here is what happened.

Slim pulls up to the corner of Winged Foot Rd. and Lee Rd. (for those of you who know where they are). There is a little old man, who we will call Walter, to protect his identity, standing in the road staring blankly, outside his car. All of a sudden the car starts rolling, but there was no one in the driver's seat. The car takes out street sign that says caution. Walter then decides to stand in front of the rolling car to try to keep it from rolling into the small pond there on the side of the street. Apparently he thought he could stop it with his bare hands. At this point, Slim flings himself out of his car to scream to this man to get out of the way, because there was no doubt that the car was going in and when it did, the man would have been trapped. Walter listened to Slim and moved just as the car started to enter the pond. The little man then decides that in order to save his car, he should get inside of it and put on the brakes so that it didn't move further into the pond. Sadly, when trying to push the brakes, Walter actually pushed the gas driving the car right into the pond. At this moment, another car pulls up and he, along with Slim pull the little old man out of the water, leaving the car behind.

Slim helps the man try to get a hold of AAA. AAA was having a hard time understanding Walter, because Walter did not have all the information that he needed because his blind wife couldn't read it to him over the phone, obviously. Slim gets on the phone with AAA and gets a tow truck all set up. While they were waiting for AAA to arrive, Walter explains to Slim that he had pulled over to help a turtle get to the water and out of the street, but must have forgotten to put his car in park. CRAZY.

While they were waiting, a whole bunch of people that Slim knew came by... Todd Wermers and Ray Johnston being two. Also, an officer, who wasn't on duty stopped to check things out. He hung around until the tow truck came. Once the tow arrived, everyone was a bit nervous as to how he was going to get the car out. It took a bit of time, but the truck driver got the car out of the wedged position and hung it upside down for a bit to get as much water out of it as possible.

He put the car back down on the road, and much to everyones surprise, there was no damage on the car, and Walter was able to drive that vehicle home! Crazy huh?

So, my husband, continues to be the local hero of San Carlos Park!

I miss her...

...and wish she was here with me to celebrate the 4th, today!!! Slim and I cannot wait to see the Joneses when Libby comes in September.

Carly, I love you and can't wait to meet your little one!

my favorite...

Slim wrote this about me before I knew he loved me...

It is my fav, and Car's too. So here it is, a blast from the past.

She shouldve been named Georgia
She is she......and i am me...
Do i exist an any other world, but my own?
How can i be an icon?
Nobody even knows i......i AM slim...
Cliche': (n) 2 : a hackneyed theme, characterization, or situation
3 : something (as a menu item) that has become overly familiar or commonplace...
is this what i have become?...
in my search for individuality......
personality......
originality......
have i become commonplace?...
he is older...
he is wiser......
flesh of my flesh......
why can't i be more like he......
why would i want to be more like he......
y...and...z.......
next time wont you sing with me?
You are...
I am...
We are?
What if?
Who cares?
When?
Where?
Yes...
No...
"d'you know what I say?"
"I don know what I say!"
why is HE in my head?
a diversion from she?
but what if i don't want to be diverted?
what if i WANT to think of she?
she makes me happy......
she doesn't know......
she doesn't want to know......
she doesn't know me either...
surprise, surprise......
yet she giggles......
like her heart laughs too...
I'd like to think that...
I see her eyes...
They speak a language,
different from her mouth...
her eyes tell stories thousands of years old...
her eyes are warm......
loving......
kind......
understanding......
calming......
b......
e......
a......
u......
t......
i......
f......
u......
l...
her soul...
it calls...
who will answer?
ring, ring, ring...
i hope she doesn't get my voicemail...
i don't check it enough...
and my voicemail message is way too long...
is that the problem?
is there just to much too weed through?
is she afraid too?...
what's there to be scared of?
BOO!!...
i am slim...
=...i am coward...
they raised me better......
do i let my dad down?
is he proud of me?
i am finally proud of myself......
i am ...
a man......
i am ...
a man of......
i am ...
a man of GOD...
God will provide...
for she is Georgia......
Georgia on my mind

some more good things

I have been trying to find some tangible ways to give back to help people around the world.

Saint's coffee works hand in hand with my friend and yours, Tom Davis, of Red Letters. They are a free-trade coffee company who, for every lb. of coffee purchased, an orphan is fed for a month.

They claim to have the best coffee around, and how great would it be to know that the money you would already normally be spending is going to help a sweet orphan.

To read more about it, go here.

TOMS shoes

I came across this awesome website that gives one pair of shoes to a person in need for every pair of shoes that is purchased.

One for One.

50,000 pairs went to South Africa, already in 2008.

10,000 pairs went to Argentina in 2006. Check out the youtubevideo


I think that I am going to get these ones...

www.tomsshoes.com

The last trip to good ole Skip One

Just before my sweet Car and Kev left, we took one (actually two) last trips to Skip One. Here are the pictures from that outing.
We miss you, Car and Kev


Sharing their last piece of the best Key Lime Pie in town.

Kev is one of the freshest shrimp in town!