The most talented dog...

Tonight I was in Mallory's room looking for something. She comes in and hands me her ukulele. "Mom, look inside this."

I peered inside the little hole in. Oh boy. No. It can't be. "What is that, Mallory?" I asked.

She smiles and says, "Well, I put my finger in there and touched it. Then I smelled my finger and it smells like dog poop."

If you can tell me how our little Griffin managed to get the poop inside the ukulele....

Anyways.. we'll be buying a new ukulele soon.

"Not yet."

The past little while I've been doing a lot of reflection. I think it's important to stop and look back at the past and think about how you have changed. I try to take time to reflect on my decisions and how they have affected me and those around me.

I feel I have reached a critical point in my life in which I feel I need to consider my choices for the future. I'm faced with many questions. What do I want? What is holding me back? What am I doing to set and reach goals. Am I progressing and making life better? Or am I living in stagnation? What is keeping me from attaining that which I desire?

I am a strong believer that if we don't actively seek after the things in life we truly desire, a passive approach will leave us with regret. "If I would have only..." is no way to live. There have been times in life when I wonder, where is my breaking point? I ask myself, "When is it OK for me to just give up or let go?" The answer that I always seem to come up with is, "Not Yet."

Pictures mean so much to me. I love having them to remind me of the significant happenings during a period of time. It seems like, I can never have enough pictures, and there's nothing worse than feeling like I'm missing a picture of something important.

Here are just some of my favorite pictures from the last year or so in black and white.