Our first house

View our condo's website.

We are so excited about our first house! We signed on Mon and move all our stuff in on Fri. The condo is so beautiful. I hope yall can come visit!

Prayer for a friend

Will yall pray for my friend Alex, her brother Brian and their family? Much love -

Dreaming of pirates

Danielle, this is for you....

Get your own pirate name from fidius.org.

Manda is:
Captain Anne Cash.
Even though there's no legal rank on a pirate ship, everyone recognizes you're the one in charge. You're musical, and you've got a certain style if not flair. You'll do just fine.

Josh is:
Iron John Flint
A pirate's life isn't easy; it takes a tough person. That's okay with you, though, since you a tough person. Like the rock flint, you're hard and sharp. But, also like flint, you're easily chipped, and sparky. Arr!



(The pic is of Bekah, Danielle, and Joshua at IMAX in DC.)

Eastboro "Church" Appellate Brief

   Our legal research professor assigned an interesting appellate brief topic. As counsel for the Appellant, the party who is appealing the lower court decision, I represent the Eastboro (Everyone's Going to Hell But Us, EGTHBU) Primitive Baptist Church. Unfortunately, this is a real group. You have probably seen them on TV picketing funerals of soldiers who have been killed in Iraq with signs referencing homosexuals and God hating America.

  In this hypothetical case, EGTHBU brought a suit against the Governor of Oklahoma for signing Senate Bill 1020 into law, the Oklahoma Funeral Picketing Act. EGTHBU is asking the court to find the Act facially unconstitutional b/c it abridges their right to Free Speech, and to grant a temporary injunction against the state so they could continue to picket funerals. The lower court granted summary judgment to the Governor, which means the court found that EGTHBU didn't present a genuine issue of fact for the court to decide.

  I researched their website to understand more about their philosophy of picketing soldier’s funerals, just out of curiosity. From what I gathered, they condemn the military for their "don't ask don't tell" policy, claiming that America has been turned over to homosexuals. As a result of this and an incident where their church was bombed, they claim that God, in his "retaliatory wrath" has killed these soldiers via Improvised Explosive Devices.

  Tomorrow, they are protesting a soldier’s funeral in Temple, TX about 3.5 hrs NW of where I live. I'm considering attending. What an interesting application of my legal research assignment that experience would be.

Anti-protest group that rides in on motorcycles to sheild the family from the picketers: The Patriot Guard.

Joshua in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. has the pleasure of keeping my husband for a week. Lucky! I heart D.C. I'm going back at the first opportunity. Just about the most beautiful city I have ever seen. The pic is of my sister Bekah during a bike tour I gave her of D.C.

URGE to POST

I've got the "blog posting itch." Be careful, its contagious. This is a semi-serious condition where a new-born blogger is inhibited from filtering the thoughts in his/her head to the thoughts that spill out onto his/her post.


The side effects include incessant rambling, nonsensical gibberish, confused readers, and later embarrassment. I'm going to go apply some "breakfast" to my itch to distract myself long enough from posting again. (The photo above is Joshua giving Foggy Bottom a cat-bath and me snuggling w/Shady Grove.)

Welcome to our blog

Welcome to our blog. I was trying to post something on my friend Dani's blog, but Google made me sign up for a blog in order to post on her blog. Anyways, I wanted to tell her that I took the How Evil Are You Quiz and I'm 36% evil. Not as good as you thought I was, eh? Not as bad as Joshua though, he's 64% evil. We don't look evil, do we? http://www.blogthings.com/howevilareyouquiz