Sunday, November 29, 2009

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Friday, November 27, 2009

today.

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Thursday, November 26, 2009

happy day.

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found these at the lakehouse yesterday and thought i'd put 'em up. pretty funny stuff. well...to us anyway! the first one's with me and my brother/cousin mac and the bottom one is my dad. yesterday, we all shopped until we couldn't see straight. i bought a total of 0 things. we ate at jack's bbq on broadway and it made my day. we also happened to find the new urban outfitters in the gulch and it was the neatest store i've seen. i told robin i wanted to have a church service in that building but he said the "acoustics" would be "terrible." i guess i'll just have to sing a little bit louder. we all went home and crashed.

this morning, i got the chance to get up and head to crockett park for a run. davy crockett's family is actually buried across the street from the park. i went to crockett elementary school. he is a tennessean who helped out the texans! gies...if you're reading this remember that! tennesseans are just the best or something. anyhows, the park was awesome and two miles of trails later i was pooped. my lungs were burning. it was 42 degrees and the wind was blowing the red and orange leaves into a little tornado thingy. fun times. then i came home and laughed my way through "the proposal" and then the whole fam came over. i had the best reese's peanut butter cup smore of all time and i think i gained 5 pounds. mom and dad are the best cooks ever. seriously.

tomorrow is downtown franklin and my favorite restauarant. if i can get out of bed.

and if you called, i left my phone upstairs! sorry y'all! happy thanksgiving.

g

ps...i hope bear is still alive.
ps dos...fall asleep music tonight is always off the new switchfoot. great reminder.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

nashville. day two. so far.

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thus far today we caught a total of 0 fish and had the best time ever doing it. we hung out with mr. art bircham and he showed us the best time. the air was cool and the clouds were in. he has a sweet "man house" in his backyard that is stocked full of fishing rods, reels, nets and knowledge. he even has old bamboo rods with more flex than you'd believe. did you know you can bend wooden rods using steam from boiling water??? i know...i'm a nerd. i learned so much in just a morning! he's a pastor too. he's the kind of guy that you know has way more knowledge than you could ever dream of, but is humble enough to let you in his brain. i think i asked a thousand questions. and it was almost as if he couldn't wait to answer. at one point i was on the dock and dad said he was going to go ask mr. art where the worms were. thirty minutes or more later, they hadn't come back. so i went looking. i found them. in the man house. talking and talking and talking. after i asked a couple more questions we all went back out. 'twas magic. just to be still and know. to slow down and breathe super deep. the Lord reminded me of how i've got to slow down and think about Him more. in all things.

well, after that dad had to go to the grocery and i "had" to go to rei. what a store. i didn't buy a thing. if you know me, that's kind of a big deal! but i wanted to! and then we went to the Lord's restaurant and then I heard that my family's church had built a brand new chapel on the end of the building, so we went to see it. it's brilliant. God is all over that place and the people in it and I'm so joyed the rents and sis gather there. their pastor is mike glenn and he loves Jesus a lot. he posted an interesting thought on his twitter last week and i thought i'd leave it with you...

"Greek philosophy taught the gods could not feel human pain. The good news of Christ is that He not only feels our pain, He bears it."

love it. love Him.

g

ps...dad got reese's peanut butter cups for smores tonight. watch out.

Monday, November 23, 2009

nashville. turkey edition.

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at this very instant i'm completely stuffed. from a hamburger at fat moe's, to j alexanders, to the traditional starbucks run a minute ago. i'm sitting watching my titans play on monday night with the whole gang. yes. perfect. the fire is going and i feel like i'm in high school again. only i don't have a curfew and no longer get sent to my room for less than pristine behavior. but somehow it's almost 9 and i'm all out of strong! it's fun to be home! i got to see mom, PAW (you're welcome pam...and i don't call him that), elizabeth, mac, glenda, catherine, and sweetie. i'll get to see robin and popie tomorrow. OH, and i saw green grass! really green grass. and TREES. trees of MANY colors. i feel like those last two sentences came out of a children's book or something.

anywhose, we thought it might be fun to keep a running blog updated each day this week so we can give you guys a peek into a little bit of thanksgiving here in nashvegas!

tomorrow morning is an early one. a fishing excursion is in the works. and it's stinkin' cold.

perfect.

g

ps...abby and julia...and others who may be plotting...if i hear of a party thrown at my house you are all in big, BIG trouble. seriously. but, if there is a party, please don't feed bear the wrong food.

you will have a lot of clean-up afterwords.

seriously.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

ben rector.



howdy. had to post this. i want to be this creative.
check out his other stuff here.
oh, and it's wed. night! can't wait to see the kiddos! see ya at 6:01!

Saturday, November 7, 2009

maddy.

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these are the first few from yesterday. i hope you like 'em.

g

Friday, November 6, 2009

my name is garrett. nice to meet you.

okay. so last night at dinner everyone gave me junk for not blogging for the last couple days. or months. i prefer to call it days. it makes me feel like i really haven't let you down that way. at least to a lesser extent or something. truth be told, there is a LOT going on. A LOT. more than i could ever tell you about on this machine. so much so that i haven't known where to start. God is teaching me to take it one day at a time or i'll over-think it all. and y'all, i'm a pro over-thinker.

ask me about my overthinking!*

i actually preached on this very thing two weeks ago. i think i can hear Him whisper "one day at a time garrett...one day at a time...we've talked about this...you talked about this!" so, in honor of that, TODAY is friday. more like FUNday. i picked up a new book at the new barnes & noble. well, that was yesterday, but i'm reading it today. turns out it's not against lubbock fire codes to build something TWO-story here in the city. genius! there was a line in front of the building on grand opening morning. i don't think anybody really wanted to go in at all. it seemed as though they just wanted to stare in wonder at this gravity-defying two story structure. i heard a bystander say, "unbelievable." okay, maybe not, but there was a lot of people staring in awe. maybe it was just me. long story short, i picked up that book and have been reading away. for those of you that know me, i mean really know me, you know that i'm one of the better book buyers in the greater nashville/lubbock area. my problem seems to be reading them.

but when i got home last night, i started the book and this morning, when bear approached the edge of the cliff and announced to the ENTIRE neighborhood that he had awoken from his glorious slumber (somehow, bear bought and watched the lion king over and over), i woke up and started flipping pages again. magic. and now i've challenged myself to finish the book before i watch another ounce of tv. oh dear. aaaaaaaaand college football day is tomorrow. OH NO. "one day at a time...discipline, garrett, discipline!" let the adventure begin.

anywho, today i'm also picking up the cameras. i haven't picked them up in a while. there's been no time. but, like reading and spending time with Him, i have to MAKE time. i better get good at this photo thing before too long. i'm picking up my new camera and also a really old b/w camera that uses...drumroll please...fiiiiiiiiiiilllllm! i prefer 400 fuji film for you photogs out there...but really, the 400 is what my dad recommended. the truth is i have no idea what i'm doing. it's more fun that way. but, for some reason i love black and white film, especially when it's printed onto contact sheets. the look and feel is vintage. the way it's shot and printed is old-fashioned and maybe it's time has come and perhaps gone. but that's why i love it. it's different. and classic. and it reminds me of dad and how he created them in the house darkroom all those years. still does actually. a small goal of mine is to help bring this stuff back.

anywhose, here's to TODAY.

g