James : “I had a nightmare last night”
Dad : “Oh no buddy! What was it?”
James : “I dreamed there was a clown and he was eating my body.”
Mom : “Oh my goodness! That is pretty scary.”
Dad : “Good lord!”
James : “He was eating my face, and he ate my lips.”
Mom and Dad : “…”
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James and I discovered Signal Point today. What a view!
This is the Tennessee River Gorge. I’ve read that in the old days it was called the Tennessee Grand Canyon. Across the gorge is Raccoon Mountain. Off to the left you can see Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain in the distance. Raccoon Mountain has one of the largest cave systems in the country. We feel pretty lucky to be living in such a beautiful place.
Oh yeah…I had a birthday. I’m 35 now. I got a sweet TV, a spice rack, a mitre saw, a Shark handheld steamer, and a nice dinner.
We went to Rock City today with Heather’s friend from work Arwen and her family. We had lunch first at Mojo Burrito.
Rock City is nice, but made us kind of nervous. James is a madman as we all know…what we weren’t expecting was for the guard rails to be so low and non-existant. There were lots of places where James could have easily just walked over the edge and fallen 100 feet onto the jagged rocks or crevices below. It was a bit harrowing to say the least.
It was beautiful though (if you ignore all the weird little gnomes everywhere) and we had a nice time enjoying the scenery!
We had our first Halloween on Signal Mountain today! We went as Toy Story Family, plus Anakin. I was planning on reprising my Darth Vader costume, but couldn’t find everything in our unpacked boxes so Heather bought me a Buzz Lightyear costume this morning.
Our neighbors had a block party in the street in front of our house and then we all went trick or treating together. It was pretty fun and picturesque. All the old houses and hundreds of kids running amuck was like something from a movie. There isn’t ever any traffic up here anyway, so the kids were just free to run. Luckily Pierce had my lightsaber so we could see them from far away! So far we are loving it up here!
This pretty much sums up James. Sweet and angelic to menacing in a span of 3 seconds.
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James at his bedroom window.
I took this photo of Pierce in the car the other day. Look at those eyelashes!
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Pierce has been meditating lately. He’s getting pretty serious about it and goes off by himself for hours on end. He had been gone for a while the other night and I went looking for him. What I saw left me speechless. LUCKILY I had my camera with me and I was able to snap a quick shot of him. Check it out. It will blow your mind.
Well the story doesn’t end here. Pierce eventually came down and Heather and I went on and on about how impressed we were with his progress…levitation is a pretty big deal! All of the attention Pierce was getting sort of made James mad though and he ran out of the room in a huff. I felt bad and went looking for him and this is what I found. Again…I just happened to have my camera and snapped a quick shot before the lens exploded in my face. Creepy to say the least.
Happy Valentines Day!
Josh
Josh