blogger vs facebook

Have you ever Googled yourself? If you just search for Justin Brown Texas you might discover that I could be….
A lawyer- lawyers.legalhelpmate.com/TX-Lawyer-Justin-Brown-238865.aspx
A doctor- neurosurgery.wustl.edu/...nsf/attachments/forms/.../BrownCV.pdf
A preacher- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_dzG6Y6_6Y
An NFL draft prospect- www.nfl.com/draft/2009/profiles/justin-brown?id=89692

If someone just got that far with it and mistakenly thought I had become any of those things that would be okay with me. If he were to add things like San Angelo, Lubbock Christian, Temple, BNSF, or any of my girls’ names to the search, then he could find this blog and contact me.

I’ve never been on the cutting edge of cool. I got into this blogging stuff just as it was losing coolness ground to facebook. My cool wife, Leslie, is a facebooker, as are many of you. It’s interesting to me and Leslie lets me peek in on things she finds interesting, but I’m not sure if I’ll ever become a facebooker. I heard it's losing marketshare to tweeting anyway. I think I’ll stick with blogging.

I like writing and I’m full of opinions, and this is a good outlet for that. I also blog for my girls as a sort of chronicle of their upbringing. I’d like to give them a book of printed copies of our posts when they leave home. If I were to depart this life before our adult children or grandkids thought to ask my opinion on an issue, perhaps they could find it or at least deduce (or is it induce, Mom?) it from my posts.

Big Girl

Our Jonesy is growing up! She asked for a haircut a couple of weeks ago after seeing a little girl at the library. After talking to the mom and finding out where and who cuts her daughters hair, I made an appointment. Today was the day that the majority of her hair was cut off and she looks like a little lady. She went into her silent mode at the salon. The lady that shampooed her hair had hot pink streaks in her hair with bright blue streaks under the pink. So, I think she was in shock, or forming ideas for her next creative addition to her style.hmmm. The stylist was wonderful and at the end she got a smile, but I missed it with the camera. I am including a before picture of her hair in doggy ears and one from the store yesterday. Can you see the ponytail, headband, leotard, scarf, butterfly wings, and Princess pink sandals? :) I also painted her toenails with a green and pink giraffe design.

Toe Party

Today was the first toe party. We had 10 moms, including myself, and a total of 12 kids, 4, 3, and 10 under 17months. I did 6 ladies feet in 3 hours. There are two additional pictures, one from the weekend and the other from Monday night. Here are the results:

Design

Do you like this toe design?




Thanks Carla for letting me take a picture of your fun toes.

Watermelon!

Monday and Tuesday nights are fun for Kirsten and I. Jason works late on those two nights and when Justin is away, we get together for the afternoon and supper. Monday night we were at Kirsten's house. The girls played on Madalyn's new swingset, they played in the pool and sprinkler, we ate supper, had no bake cookies for dessert and then outside for watermelon. The donkey came to the back fence and the girls fed him. It's funny to me that all the girls want the donkey to come and they want to feed it, but when it does come it takes them awhile to get used to it being so close. It was a fun evening. Thanks for the meal, the fun and the company, Kirsten. I am glad we are friends :).

Our 3 year old ditched Bible class

This should have been written last Wednesday night....but, here's the story.

Jones, Georgia and Emma(4, 3 and almost 5) walked with me to the stairs by Annie's class. I left them at the stairs and they were to go on up to class. I took Annie to class and then I went to my class. I usually go and check to make sure they made it, but last Wednesday, for some reason, I didn't. After class, Scott met me at the their classroom door holding Georgia. And here's what happened during class:

Jones went into class by herself. Scott asked where Georgia was and she replied she was coming. Awhile after class started Georgia was still not there. Emma was not in class, but her older sister was in class too. Jenna(the high school class helper) was sent out to find the two girls. She found them. They were safe.

They were in the Coffee Spot!

Georgia was escorted to class tonight and I checked on her before I went to class.

Is this a glimpse into our future?

People Are Crazy

Turn your speakers up. This is my current favorite song. Reminds me of my friends, my Uncle Frankie, my father-in-law, Willie and Julio's "To All The Girls I've Loved Before", and fuels my dream of retiring to Mexico.


Let brotherly love continue. Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels. Hebrews 13:1-2


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaMgb0JMTeo