N.Joy

Years ago my dad brought a creamer packet like this home from work for me. He thought it was so great that it had my "name" on it N.Joy (for Noel Joy). My mom thought it was goofy, but I kept it for years. I saw it today and it made me think if my dad. It is now my license plate on my car, and my daily reminder of my dad.

N♥Joy

Friday was a crazy busy day with lots of running around, but the sun was beautiful and we enjoyed its appearance. It was so bright the girls could hardly keep their eyes open for the shots. Out of the whole lot, I think I only ended up with 3 or 4 with their eyes open... here are two of them. 

"On the third day the friends of Christ coming at day-break to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but the dawn." 

-G.K. Chesterton, 'The Everlasting Man'