when i came back from traveling...

i unpacked my bags.  i turned on the computer and.... the blue screen of death.
kaput.
kablooey.
finished.
finito.
not any more - as peter sellers would say.

but since i married a person who knows how to do more than type on a computer (unlike me) that person replaced the hard drive so i'm b.a.c.k as of 11pm last night.   but i don't know when i'll get more pictures up.  hopefully soon. 

in the mean time I'm thanking the Lord for:
safety in over 26 hours of driving.  especially when we were literally almost hit by a tractor trailor (i woke up mid night. i woke bo up in passenger seat.  bo said TRUCK! (running us off the road from the other lane) dad threw on the brakes.  maybe a couple of feet due to braking kept us in the lane we were traveling in and not on the side of the road.  s.c.a.r.y.)

time with my family.  so refreshing to just be me and loved for me and not be judged or compared at all.  sooo refreshing. 

a whole week with pen and daddy.  pen and grammie.  pen and pappy.  pen and aunts, uncles, cousins.  pen with friends old and new.

the beauty of God's creation.  i love driving through virginia/shenendoah region.  the amazingness of the ocean.  and the beauty of my favorite of God's animals... the horse.

hopefully some pictures will come soon but it might take me a while to sort and choose.  just sayin.