We took some fun pictures awhile back with Clark Lara Photography
He is very good and we had such a blast!
check them out here :)
(just so you know although we may not be smiling we are actually quite happy)
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Showing posts with label tharpeness. Show all posts
11.10.2009
11.06.2009
the keys
to our First Home
(they gave us plenty eh?)
we've been homeowners for 2 solid weeks now and its been a blast!!
ive been dealing with a cold/cough thing for a week now so the settling has been rough
but we couldnt be happier :D
i hope to post pics soon
soon. soon. soon.
:)
8.31.2009
Nina is for the birds....
So this afternoon, I was doing my weekly Maintenance Connection documentation work from home - which means I get some "quality time" with the pup. She typically spends the day asleep on my lap or right below my feet. Occasionally though, when I'm going to give my eyes and backside a break, I'll take Nina out onto our back patio where she loves to just walk around get some rays. I'll pour some iced coffee and just relax out there for a few minutes until we get back to work.
Well, today I was walking to sliding door to open it up, and I remembered that I had a scheduled phone meeting around that time with my supervisor. So I almost let her out, but decided to just open the blinds a little bit and let her enjoy some sun!
About 1 minute later, I heard her barking frantically. I had a feeling I should go check it out. I walked over to the window, and what did I see, but a HUGE HAWK perched on our balcony railing staring at Nina like she was a field-mouse. This thing was so gorgeous and so big! (the pictures don't do it justice). It was totally majestic and was about 3 feet away from me. I grabbed my camera and snapped a few shots of that bad boy through the blinds/door screen/smudgy window. It sat there for a good minute or so, until I got risky and tried opening the door. It was incredible when it flew away though. It's wingspan was just amazing. Check it out...
I have no doubt though, that if I would have let little Nina out onto that patio while I made my call, she would have been bird food! That hawk was about twice her size with some mean claws! Thank God (and my supervisor) though....'cause Nina is safe and sound watching the birdies from afar!
(btw - she's been "shaking hands" like crazy lately, but that's for another post...)
-Mr. T
8.17.2009
Believe It or Not
So Ripley's Believe It or Not, with the incredible talented Dean Cain,
as seen below:
(lol)
They were doing a piece about a "TV Loving Dog" who apparently is drawn to the TV any time it's on. The dog will sit, watch, and react. I didn't know this stuff was TV material....otherwise I would have sent this picture in a few months back. Little Nina could be a star...
Well, after making that deduction in my head, Nina walked into the living room and took it to another level.
Can't say I could have posed or timed this any better.
Needless to say...."I Believe It!"
8.10.2009
8.04.2009
7.27.2009
we love Mickey D's
its true we do! :)
(even though it just may kill us....)
**House Update**
we had our pre-construction meeting today with Joel our construction supervisor, He seems a decent fellow and it was great to meet him he went over the whole process with us and we told him how EXCITED WE ARE!!
AND they may get to pour the foundation today Lord willin! :)
**House Update**
we had our pre-construction meeting today with Joel our construction supervisor, He seems a decent fellow and it was great to meet him he went over the whole process with us and we told him how EXCITED WE ARE!!
AND they may get to pour the foundation today Lord willin! :)
7.23.2009
Thanks!
dear husband,
you made me lunch today! thanks so much your really somethin!
thanks for sleeping till the last possible minute with me... i really appreciate it.
thanks for feeling bad for sleeping till the last possible minute with me and making up new ways for us to get up early and maybe eat a well balanced breakfast one of these days.... :)
im proud of you for doing your crossfit again even tho im afraid of that place... very afraid...
im really thankful for how hard you work.. you work so very hard.
thanks for bursting into spontaneous song with me.
thanks for being responsible and paying our bills.
thanks for being irresponsible with me and staying up late and talking with me about things
i like our talks.
thanks for being a Godly man and seeking God's Will.
also your really funny.... to me ;).
i Love you.
your sweet T.
Rachel
you made me lunch today! thanks so much your really somethin!
thanks for sleeping till the last possible minute with me... i really appreciate it.
thanks for feeling bad for sleeping till the last possible minute with me and making up new ways for us to get up early and maybe eat a well balanced breakfast one of these days.... :)
im proud of you for doing your crossfit again even tho im afraid of that place... very afraid...
im really thankful for how hard you work.. you work so very hard.
thanks for bursting into spontaneous song with me.
thanks for being responsible and paying our bills.
thanks for being irresponsible with me and staying up late and talking with me about things
i like our talks.
thanks for being a Godly man and seeking God's Will.
also your really funny.... to me ;).
i Love you.
your sweet T.
Rachel
7.11.2009
dang skippy!
So we signed all of our contacts & forms. made all of our selections, and it's now FINALLY official. We're gonna be first time home-owners this year....We're pumped!
We would have never guessed that within the 1st year of marriage, at the ages of 21 and 23 - we'd be able to own our 1st home. We've definitely been blessed.
We'll keep you updated!
6.29.2009
House!
We've found one and we love it!...Tis a humble abode 3bdrms, 2bath, spacious living :) filled out the application and signed all the necessary papers to get the ball rolling on Thursday, we selected our very own LOT too a handsome corner lot it is with plenty of room for the pup to play! We find out this week if we've been approved if so we get to go to a fancy design studio and maybe even make some fancy selections Fun!- Lots of nervous feelings mostly excited ones tho! :)
any extra prayers you have would be greatly appreciated!! Wisdom and God's Will thats what we're praying for! :) :) :)
funny thing i think im mostly excited to have a backyard :) ive been reading this:
lately, and i want a garden sooooo badly oh to plant my very own carrots and herbs and strawberries!! other stuff too probly, but those are my faves :) id like to have some chickens one day too and a cow.... in due time tho, in due time
any extra prayers you have would be greatly appreciated!! Wisdom and God's Will thats what we're praying for! :) :) :)
funny thing i think im mostly excited to have a backyard :) ive been reading this:
lately, and i want a garden sooooo badly oh to plant my very own carrots and herbs and strawberries!! other stuff too probly, but those are my faves :) id like to have some chickens one day too and a cow.... in due time tho, in due time
5.20.2009
cup-bundt-cakes
in case you didnt know im addicted to sugar... and last night i needed CAKE! :)
so husband made me these yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmm!
Funfetti cake is one of my most favorites (vanilla cake with colorful little dots inside)
they started out as mini bundt cakes but then puffed up to cupcakes... so cup-bundt-cakes were born
delicious!
so husband made me these yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmm!
Funfetti cake is one of my most favorites (vanilla cake with colorful little dots inside)
they started out as mini bundt cakes but then puffed up to cupcakes... so cup-bundt-cakes were born
delicious!
5.04.2009
Swine Flu, Shhmine Flu.
Okay - we promised from the beginning that this blog would be used to try and be a voice of reason in the world. Calling out the shenanigans we see every day. Well.....IT'S TIME TO CALL SHENANIGANS! This one will be a doozie...
Go ahead and scoll down to the blue header if you hate the proper format of Introductory Paragraphs > Supporting Paragraphs > Conclusive Paragraphs.
We've been hearing about swine flu, swine flu, swine flu every time we turn around. From the TV news, on the radio, in the newspapers, on any "informative" website out there (msn, yahoo, etc...), politicians are throwing out there 2 cents...AS WELL AS, from close family and friends, random shop owners who bring it up, the cashiers at restaurants...EVERYONE is talking swine flu.
Does anyone know why? Do you know why? What's the word they're using most often when talking about it? It always comes right after the words "swine" and "flu"..... it's "EPIDEMIC". (the really frightened ones are utilizing the much more severe description of "PANDEMIC".)
Well...being a compulsive truth-seeker, I've learned that the media is rarely ever "dead on". (So sad that people can walk by their tv set, hear a snipit about a breaking story, and take it at face value and start the whole..."did you hear that...." trend.) I hope I can inspire some of you to become truth-seekers. Not taking my word. Not taking the word of MSNBC, CNN, or Fox News. Not taking the word of our politicians. Either way...let's get into this one....
FROM THE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION:
Want to see how severe your REGULAR OLD FASHIONED GRANDMOTHER'S FLU is? I went ahead and used the CDCP to gather some data about the Classic Influenza vs. Swine Flu.
It is estimated that about 36,000 people died of flu-related causes each year, on average, during the 1990s in the United States. During these years, the number of estimated deaths ranged from 17,000 to 52,000.
Death rate extrapolations for USA only from REGULAR Flu:
63,729 per year
5,310 per month
1,225 per week
174 per day
7 per hour
Between 3 and 5 million people experience severe illness due to regular, seasonal flu around the world each year, and between 250,000 and 500,000 die as a result.
Let us put it into context....Remember the BIRD FLU pandemic that was sweeping the world? We were told that the threat was emminent and severe, right? Only 300 people have ever been affected by the bird flu (most in indonesia) and of those 300....about 2o of them were "confirmed" dead from the bird flu. 20. Twenty. Two-Zero. Yet it was a pandemic????
As of last night, there had been 20 confirmed cases of swine flu in the United States, 19 in Mexico, and six in Canada. But in Mexico "the infection is suspected of causing as many as 86 deaths and more than 1,300 illnesses". I will also note here, that the MAJORITY of cases of "confirmed deaths" were of indivudals who already had major illnesses that weakened their immune systems, or of babies who's immune system struggles with the common cold. All other healthy individuals simply went home and got over it the same way that they did from classic influenza.
You'll also start to see the differences in confirmed and suspected. Person A coughed a couple times before dying...therefore I suspect he had swine flu. Now, the news (being the stand-up reporters they are) isn't reporting the confirmed cases too often, are they? You're more likely to hear the climing death toll and hospitalizations SUSPECTED to be caused by swine flu. Please know...this is intentional.
So we have a pandemic on our hands...do we?
A little history....In 1976, the Swine Flu pandemic was supposed to sweep the world. (Hey, much like a global FREEZE was emminent in the 1970s and everyone needed to go green and change their lives. Do we really not learn from these things?) Well, congress decided that they needed to do something to save the people. They voted to give out immunizations to the public. (sidenote: only two perceptive congressmen voted against this idea. Both were actual physicians.) That year...26 people died related to the situation. One was SUSPECTED to have died from the swine flu. The other 25 died from complications from the immunization that the government provided.
Anyways...to wrap this up - we'll do a little short list of facts:
1. The Swine Flu is no more lethal than the Classic Influenza Virus.
2. The Swine Flu is no more contagious than the Classic Influenza Virus.
3. The Swine Flu is passed along the EXACT SAME WAY that the Classic Influenza Virus is passed.
4. The Swine Flu has the EXACT SAME symptoms of the Classic Influenza Virus.
5. The Mortality Rate of the Classic Influenza Virus is .96 per cent - The Mortality Rate of the Swine Flu is .04 per cent.
6. You have a significantly stronger chance of winning the lottery twice than dying from the Swine Flu.
7. You have a signfiicantly stronger chance of contracting and dyning from HIV/AIDS or Tuberculosis than dying from Swine Flu.
What's my point with all of this? NOT AT ALL to downgrade the severity of this or any illness, but to simply reason out the HYSTERIA. The CLASSIC INFLUENZA is a lethal, dangerous, and severe sickness. If you have a weak immune system, it can be deadly....just as much as the swine flu. So rather than freaking out, cancelling everything you have planned, and being afraid of the outside world....simply start taking some responsibility to take care of your body and your health.
By the way...Is anyone else still waiting for the Killer Bees to come, bringing a Global Freeze in their wake, followed by the Bird Flu Pandemic, proceeded by the Global Warming, and topped off by Y2k?
:) Yah, me either...
Signed,
Aaron
P.S.
Here are some videos that will be the small glimmer of reason you see on mainstream media sources.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8JTqMsef6s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ty73YK8e0U&feature=player_embedded
Go ahead and scoll down to the blue header if you hate the proper format of Introductory Paragraphs > Supporting Paragraphs > Conclusive Paragraphs.
We've been hearing about swine flu, swine flu, swine flu every time we turn around. From the TV news, on the radio, in the newspapers, on any "informative" website out there (msn, yahoo, etc...), politicians are throwing out there 2 cents...AS WELL AS, from close family and friends, random shop owners who bring it up, the cashiers at restaurants...EVERYONE is talking swine flu.
Does anyone know why? Do you know why? What's the word they're using most often when talking about it? It always comes right after the words "swine" and "flu"..... it's "EPIDEMIC". (the really frightened ones are utilizing the much more severe description of "PANDEMIC".)
Well...being a compulsive truth-seeker, I've learned that the media is rarely ever "dead on". (So sad that people can walk by their tv set, hear a snipit about a breaking story, and take it at face value and start the whole..."did you hear that...." trend.) I hope I can inspire some of you to become truth-seekers. Not taking my word. Not taking the word of MSNBC, CNN, or Fox News. Not taking the word of our politicians. Either way...let's get into this one....
FROM THE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION:
Want to see how severe your REGULAR OLD FASHIONED GRANDMOTHER'S FLU is? I went ahead and used the CDCP to gather some data about the Classic Influenza vs. Swine Flu.
It is estimated that about 36,000 people died of flu-related causes each year, on average, during the 1990s in the United States. During these years, the number of estimated deaths ranged from 17,000 to 52,000.
Death rate extrapolations for USA only from REGULAR Flu:
63,729 per year
5,310 per month
1,225 per week
174 per day
7 per hour
Between 3 and 5 million people experience severe illness due to regular, seasonal flu around the world each year, and between 250,000 and 500,000 die as a result.
Let us put it into context....Remember the BIRD FLU pandemic that was sweeping the world? We were told that the threat was emminent and severe, right? Only 300 people have ever been affected by the bird flu (most in indonesia) and of those 300....about 2o of them were "confirmed" dead from the bird flu. 20. Twenty. Two-Zero. Yet it was a pandemic????
As of last night, there had been 20 confirmed cases of swine flu in the United States, 19 in Mexico, and six in Canada. But in Mexico "the infection is suspected of causing as many as 86 deaths and more than 1,300 illnesses". I will also note here, that the MAJORITY of cases of "confirmed deaths" were of indivudals who already had major illnesses that weakened their immune systems, or of babies who's immune system struggles with the common cold. All other healthy individuals simply went home and got over it the same way that they did from classic influenza.
You'll also start to see the differences in confirmed and suspected. Person A coughed a couple times before dying...therefore I suspect he had swine flu. Now, the news (being the stand-up reporters they are) isn't reporting the confirmed cases too often, are they? You're more likely to hear the climing death toll and hospitalizations SUSPECTED to be caused by swine flu. Please know...this is intentional.
So we have a pandemic on our hands...do we?
A little history....In 1976, the Swine Flu pandemic was supposed to sweep the world. (Hey, much like a global FREEZE was emminent in the 1970s and everyone needed to go green and change their lives. Do we really not learn from these things?) Well, congress decided that they needed to do something to save the people. They voted to give out immunizations to the public. (sidenote: only two perceptive congressmen voted against this idea. Both were actual physicians.) That year...26 people died related to the situation. One was SUSPECTED to have died from the swine flu. The other 25 died from complications from the immunization that the government provided.
Anyways...to wrap this up - we'll do a little short list of facts:
1. The Swine Flu is no more lethal than the Classic Influenza Virus.
2. The Swine Flu is no more contagious than the Classic Influenza Virus.
3. The Swine Flu is passed along the EXACT SAME WAY that the Classic Influenza Virus is passed.
4. The Swine Flu has the EXACT SAME symptoms of the Classic Influenza Virus.
5. The Mortality Rate of the Classic Influenza Virus is .96 per cent - The Mortality Rate of the Swine Flu is .04 per cent.
6. You have a significantly stronger chance of winning the lottery twice than dying from the Swine Flu.
7. You have a signfiicantly stronger chance of contracting and dyning from HIV/AIDS or Tuberculosis than dying from Swine Flu.
What's my point with all of this? NOT AT ALL to downgrade the severity of this or any illness, but to simply reason out the HYSTERIA. The CLASSIC INFLUENZA is a lethal, dangerous, and severe sickness. If you have a weak immune system, it can be deadly....just as much as the swine flu. So rather than freaking out, cancelling everything you have planned, and being afraid of the outside world....simply start taking some responsibility to take care of your body and your health.
By the way...Is anyone else still waiting for the Killer Bees to come, bringing a Global Freeze in their wake, followed by the Bird Flu Pandemic, proceeded by the Global Warming, and topped off by Y2k?
:) Yah, me either...
Signed,
Aaron
P.S.
Here are some videos that will be the small glimmer of reason you see on mainstream media sources.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8JTqMsef6s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ty73YK8e0U&feature=player_embedded
4.23.2009
GET RED!
SO...
WE GOT 2 TICKETS TO GAME THREE OF THE ROCKETS VS. TRAILBLAZERS PLAYOFF SERIES TONIGHT (FRIDAY @ TOYOTA CENTER), AND WE ARE SOOOOOO PUMPED! OUR SEATS ARE RIGHT ABOVE THE TUNNEL WHERE THE ROCKETS RUN IN AND OUT OF THE GYM. ANYWAYS, WE'LL TRY TO BRING OUR CAMERAS AND DOCUMENT THE NIGHT, BUT BEFORE HAND - WE HAD TO MAKE SURE WE WERE ALL SET TO SHOW OUR TEAM SPIRIT. WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Aaron:
His Car
His House Key
Rachel:
Her Bag
Her Car
Her intimidation stare...
Nina: (yep - even she got in on the action)
"Nina Rocket-Aaron-Brooks-Landry-Scola Tharpe"
as Rachel calls her in this outfit...
Her NBA sag...
This was her best MJ impression (check the tongue out!)
CLUTCH CITY '09! ARE YOU RED?
And don't worry.....
No animals were harmed in the making of this blog.
4.20.2009
here comes the sun do da dee da
feeling soooooooo much better this morning still hurts to swallow but a whole 24 hrs without fever!! and im feeling good
**also took little nina pup to the vet and they gave her something for her tapworms shes doing fine now :)
so thankful for healing in Jesus name!
so thankful for a husband who prayed over me, constantly made me check my temperture, gave me cold towels when my fever was too high and gave me my medicine when it was time to take it :)
so thankful to be up and around again
so thankful that the rockets destroyed the blazers in game 1 of the playoffs
so thankful that when my throat is all better we're going to wunsche bros. to celebrate!! :)
thanks for all the well wishes everyone!
-rachel
**also took little nina pup to the vet and they gave her something for her tapworms shes doing fine now :)
so thankful for healing in Jesus name!
so thankful for a husband who prayed over me, constantly made me check my temperture, gave me cold towels when my fever was too high and gave me my medicine when it was time to take it :)
so thankful to be up and around again
so thankful that the rockets destroyed the blazers in game 1 of the playoffs
so thankful that when my throat is all better we're going to wunsche bros. to celebrate!! :)
thanks for all the well wishes everyone!
-rachel
4.04.2009
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