Sooo, I'm totally done with City of God. nbd. ;) THAT'S 860+ PAGES, DUDES. And I read every word. BUT. I'm also done with GB for the summer.... :D Which means, not that I will stop reading, but that I can do more pleasure reading :) So, I thought I'd give you my preliminary list. Feel free to drop some suggestions to add to it in the comments. 

1) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain. I found this in our bookshelf the other day and my interest was piqued. It looks fabulous and fun :)
2) Surprised by Hope. Recommended by Mr. C in our last class. I can't remember exactly what he said it was about, but I remember that I was very interested in checking it out.
3) Gonna finish Confessions. We only read up to Book 10 in class. 
4) Maaaaybe someday I'll finally read Inkspell...since Inkheart is one of my all time favorites. 
5) Trusting God in a Twisted World by Elisabeth Eliot. I've started this but haven't had much chance to continue. It's been really good so far though. 

Annd, some book completeds:
44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith: Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Very Wodehouse-ish. But modern. And Scottish. 
And...I can't remember finishing anything else recently. Except for City of God. Which..was good. But hard, and long. I would not have gleaned much from it had I not taken the class. Still, Augustine rocks. And there was a lot of good stuff in there. 


-shainabo

I was doing dishes as Micah struggled to reach a cup from the cupboard. With his arm lifted up towards it, I poked him in the underpit. He grinned, and wiggled, then asked me, "Can you get me that cup?" (still pointing)  I poked him a couple more times, then made him say please before handing it over. He ran around to the other side of the counter and proceeded to pour pineapple juice from the can into his cup. I watched him and was thinking something like, "Somebody's getting too big for their britches..." 

But then, he finished pouring and went towards dad's office, saying, "Dad usually likes to have the juice.." 

That floored me. It doesn't sound like much. But Micah really wanted to please dad. And it was a mini life lesson for me. Am I willing to give up my 'pineapple juice' to please my Father? The Christian life isn't just about don'ts. It's about doing things that will please God.

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"Deep inside my heart Christ's name remained, and nothing could entirely captivate me, however learned, however neatly expressed, however true it might be, unless His name were in it."

-St. Augustine

the beginning of a lovely evening.
last night we visited Caleb and Micah's family and went to the park with them. it was soo much fun, just hanging out in the beautiful evening light and playing basketball, talking to the little kids and playing with them.

(L to R) Levi, Levi.

Justus bought a new bike with his birfday money. He is proud of it :) He likes silly bandz.

aaaand, he's adorable.

DAWWW. I'm finally getting Joshua to warm up to me juuust a little bit. He's soo cute and shy.

I played with him, rolling and throwing a ball around with him. the little dude's got some flexibility, haha.

some other girls that were at the park. Jasmine, Kayley, and Megan. sisters.

daaah. sooo adorable.

[eighteen/fiftytwo]
softest of light on the softest of skin

the traveling circus, haha.

*cough cough* Joshua and Kayley might have a small crush on each other... they kept hugging and petting each other on the head, hahahaha.

helping Megan blow the grass whistles.

She didn't really get it, haha..but it provided Samantha some much needed laughter, lols. (needed because I scared the willies out of her earlier that day and shaved about two years off of her life... hahaha)

Jadon showing the kids how to use the bow and arrows.

Sami took this on Sunday. And I like it :) Perhaps those who object to my serious picture faces will like it too ;)

Sylvia and Purrbucket.

i love cats :)

This moth was so pretty! It had these bright pink stripes on its wings and these amazing antennae!

my word, she's beautiful.

Haha, we coordinate our smiles nicely.

....but not our silly faces.

...haha.

taking a walk before we left to go bowling.

Joey got to hang out with the big kids for once, lols.

I found this leaf on the ground on our walk...and randomly stuck it on my face, like this. and it really stuck!! for some reason, haha. Anyway, it stayed on the entire night.

cutest.shoes.ever. I want a pair of these.

see? still on when we got home @ 11.
bowling was awesome!!! We had a really big group, 12 people I think. It was a lot of fun, and daddy even got to go :) Afterwards we went to a Chinese restaurant and ate...I'm having leftovers tonight, baby! :D