The Insanity....

Ugg...

I feel...*insert emotion here*. We got our new bed last week (hurray!) and the three of us fit, if need be. Things have been rough here and I almost hate talking about it *err writing about it*, but I have realize lately that writing is such good therapy for me. My biggest pet peeve: people who tell you how and what you should do with you life! Give me a freakin' break. Try living your own life. *ok i'm done*

Thoughts going through my head right now: *I make a mean wrap*. I tried to copy this wrap I had at RED ROBIN awhile ago and it turned out really well. It was juicy and delicious! In a tomato basil shell I wrapped chick marinated in greek dressing. Then you add some mustard powder (just a little...that stuff is HOTT). Add a little lettuce, cheese and ranch dressing and WA-LA! You're done!

::::::::::::::thats all for now.

wedding. wedding. photography business.

So I was never really great at making up a good title. To be honest, today that is the best I can do. Lots of new and exciting things going on in the HERB world. Nate & Amanda(brother & sister-in-law) got married on 9/4/09. Very exciting and very pretty. As you can see from the photos below it was a beautiful day! Amanda and her father walking down the isle.

Greg and Rowen looking their best. Greg was the best
man and Rowen was pretty darn cute that day.

Grandma & Grandpa love their little 'Rowen'.
( Greg's parents)

Greg and the Groom, Nathan. Sharp looking boys.

This was where the wedding took place.
This is the reheasal. It was beautiful both days.

* in other news, Rowen Photography was born this week. i am not sure where it will take me but i am so excited about this new adventure. it will allow me to being doing what i love to do as well as stay at home with Rowen. i am excited and scared. i have never done something so daring. although, my mother would say otherwise. this morning i created somewhat of a website on FACEBOOK. it is simple called Rowen Photography. right now everything i am going to do for people will be FREE. yes, you heard it correctly. until i have created a bigger portfolio i feel like i cannot really charge anything yet.

* either way it will be fun. so check me out or i should say the photography. let me know if you are interested in any type of sessions. you can leave comments here. I check this everyday. if not you can email me: brownwynherb@gmail.com. love to here from you.

Today

So today I was going through some old books of mine and found something from at least 10 years ago. It was a book of peoms and quotes that I had apparently gathered over the years. It was intersting to find and some of them are really good. I thought maybe others would enjoy them as well so I am going to put them in here...I promise to write small( did i just really type that). I mean that I will TYPE small. Started a new book and who knows if I will ever finish but it's call " The Shack", a friend told me about it at least 6 months ago and it has literally taken me this long to get it. My procrastination will be the death of me.

* Favorites: 'The trail compels you to know yourself and to be yourself and puts you in harmony with the universe. It makes you glad to be living. It gives you health, hope, courage and extends that touch of nature which tends to make you kind' - Enos Mills

'The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways but narrower viewpoints. We spend more but have less, we buy more but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more convenience but less time. we have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge but less judgment, more experts yet more problems, more medicine but less wellness. We drink too much, smoke too much, spend to recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray to seldom. We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much, love to seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things but not better things. We've cleaned up the air but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom but not our prejudice. We write more but learn less. We plan more but accomplish less. We've learned to rush but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever but we communicate less and less. These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men but small character, steep profits and shallow realtionships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses but broken homes. These are the days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throw-away-morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight or to just hit delete. * I want to say that George Carlin wrote this when his wife died. It was a forward my grandmother sent to me.

'I love you, my brother, whoever you are- whether you worship in your church, kneel in your temple, or pray in your mosque. You and I are all children of one faith, for the diverse paths of religion are fingers od the loving hand of one Supreme Being, a hand extended to all, offereing completeness of spirit to all, eager to recieve all' -Kahlil Gibran

*** Thats all for now. Headed out to the BIG wedding this weekend. ***

Little Rowen and Life's Little Messes.

This is the princess I live with. Her cousins Nellie and MaryBridget made the crown for her for Christmas. She is so lucky that she has cousins who who understand her true nature. I was so surprised that she actually wore the crown...she usually won't wear anything on her head long.

This is my dear Rowen questioning me. I thought she might like applesause, but she gave me this look instead.

And this......is crazy Rowen. Not sure how i captured this but it makes me laugh every time i see it. I feel like she is saying ' I AM YOUR QUEEN IF YOU DO NOT LISTEN TO ME....I WILL EAT YOU'.....crazy kid.

*it's been a good couple of days. greg seems better but that may all be relative. there is a brothers wedding coming up on friday. how very exciting. we are so happy for them. greg has his best man speech all prepared and its very good. knowing myself, i'll probably cry.

so i am packed. yah! an accomplishment. i am pretty sure i will repack too. its my nature. rowen is sleeping soundly which is rare these days. there are so many things i could be doing this very second but this writing is such good therapy for me i can't seem to stop.

*i almost sold the dog yesterday. i came home from dropping off some baby clothes and i think i may have only been gone an hour or so and when i walked through the door a stench that made me gag filled the room. YUK. YUK. YUK. he had pooped in his cage again. i threw the cage outside, the dog went into the bathroom and i immediately had to spray the house, open all the windows and refrain from screaming all the bad words i knew. you know i wanted so bad too. rowen squealed. but alas, i didn't sell the dog or kill him. again, yah for me. in all honesty, my life is nothing of how i pictured it. and it's a bit of a love/hate relationship right now. right now i am looking into some art classes for rowen and i to do together. we'll see how that turns out. for some reason, right now, the dog has forgotten he and i do not get alone. ( he is curled up beside me)

*i am excited for my bed to arrive. sick of waking up more tired then when i went to bed. sick of sharing a queen size bed with two bed hogs! ( miss rowen and her daddy)