More photos of le bebe du jour:

i’ve become so used to capturing the moments of preparation before a wedding, but such was not the case with michelle+brian’s wedding. and so, like all family and guests, i found myself holding my breath in anticipation of the beautiful bride.

when she emerged from her limo, everybody gasped. she was absolutely STUNNING. she had on a gorgeous bridal gown, mermaid-style, that was the best that i had seen. EVER.

the wedding was absolutely LOVELY, thanks to the seamless and stressless co-ordination by andrea from lotus events! andrea, you rawk! (:

Just thought I’d post this video –

I’m trying out new strings (Worth clear) on my Ayers ukulele.

Holy shit, I’m turning into my mom.

Time to get the staff to rifle through their backpacks and briefcases and report on the contents. 

Susan is reading:
After the Falls: Coming of Age in the 60s by Catherine Gildiner (Memoir, Hardcover, $32.95) Owl’s Nest is proud to be hosting the Calgary launch for this follow up to Gildiner’s previous memoir, Too Close to the Falls.  Please join us at 7:00pm on Wednesday the 28th of October 2009.

Jeannie is reading:
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Fiction, Paperback, $21.00) Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria during the 1960s.
Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant (Fiction, Hardcover, $32.00) Newest from the beloved author of The Birth of Venus.

Mike is reading:
Home by Marilynne Robinson (Fiction, Paperback, $18.99) Winner of the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction
The Heart Specialist by Claire Holden Rothman (Fiction, Paperback, $21.00) A novel inspired by the life of Dr. Maude Abbott, one of the earliest female medical graduates.
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (Fiction, Paperback, $24.95) Winner of the 2009 Man Booker Award

Judith is reading:
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy (Fiction, Mass Market, $5.50) The classic tale of adventure, credited with inspired many a secret-identity hero. 
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater (Teen Fiction, Hardcover, $22.99) An interesting and unusual take on the werewolf legend.
The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger (Fiction, Paperback, $24.95) A tale of mistresses and servants in Victorian Egypt.

 Did Someone Call Me?

A new weekly feature on our blog here at Owl’s Nest Books is something we’re calling “What We’re Reading Wednesday”. 

It’s exactly what it sounds like.  We in the store all read so many books, sometimes it’s hard to get a chance to talk about them all.  So each Wednesday we’re rounding up titles we’re in the middle of reading or have recently finished.  It won’t be every staff member every week, just the folks from whom Judith can wrangle an answer. 

You can also check our Our Staff page, to find out a bit about each of us.

And it looks like this week, we’re heavy into the Teen section.  Click on any title to be taken to our webstore, which has more information and current stock status. 

Mike is reading:
Rules for Old Men Waiting by Peter Pouncey (Fiction, Paperback $18.95) A beautiful novel of love, pain and war that spans nearly all of the twentieth century. 
Chosen by Ted Dekker (Teen Fiction, Hardcover, $17.50) First in the new Lost Books series. 
Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli (Teen Fiction, Paperback, $9.99) Follow up to the author’s previous, Stargirl. 
Girl, 15, Charming But Insane by Sue Limb (Teen Fiction, Paperback, $12.95) It ain’t easy being a teen… 

Jeannie is reading:
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimanada Ngozi Adichie (Fiction, Paperback, $21.00) Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria during the 1960s.
Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant (Fiction, Hardcover, $32.00) Newest from the beloved author of The Birth of Venus.

Judith is reading:
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater (Teen Fiction, Hardcover, $22.99) An interesting and unusual take on the werewolf legend. 
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (Teen Fiction, Hardcover, $21.99) Second in the immensely popular Hunger Games series.
The Lacemaker and the Princess by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (Mid-Grade Fiction, Paperback, $8.99) A child’s eye view of Versailles in the months leading up to the French Revolution.

I went to a porridge shop with grandfather and grandmother. And I ate the porridge. It was very bad. Than I ate the dumplings with kimchi. That was great! That shop’s kimchi and dumplings is very delicious, but not porridge, because It was too flat And I ate the snacks Today I had a full stomach

My brother was crying very sadly. That mean is I have to do my mother’s missions. Like a get the diapers, make a milk and turn on the TV. And I was very fret. I don’t have any energy. Uh! Today was the worse. I want my brother is doesn’t cry anymore.

I will go to the tideland tomorrow. I will catch the crabs and sellfish. And we’ll eat them! That’s very great, but I think the crabs are bite my fingers. But next month I will catch the dragonflies, but I think It is hot. I hate them.

I am getting so excited about learning about all the at home jobs out there. I have been researching this for years. My primary at home job is my hair salon. Yes I have a very successful hair salon at home. I love what I do but I am also excited about adding the online at home jobs out there. I have a nutrition business for my own personal heath, I have a flip flop business, I have a benefitsbusiness . There is so may ways to make money out there! I am still amazed at all the ways to make money. Online you are able to reach more people with any opportunity there is out there. Stay with me as I learn and put these peices together and really add lots of money to my bank account. I will keep you posted all of these opportunities. So far I always break even if not ahead. So that is not too bad. God Bless us all!!! Stay tuned!

Well I am really excited about this holiday weekend. We leave for Myrtle Beach on Sunday. No worries, my home is never empty. My oldest child will be here to take care of things as well as Donna and Wilma running the beauty shop. The cat will be well fed. While on this vacation,I am very interested in learning internet marketing, business for dummies, affiliate marketing, seo design, and all that goes along with the internet. Lord show me the way and inspire me. Feel free to comment with suggestions and advice. Have a wonderful Holiday Weekend!!!

Do you ever feel like there are so many things going on in your life that you have a hard time putting it all together? Husband, kids, homeschool, work, extended family and thier puzzles, church, excercise, eating right, having the right moisturizer, paying the bills, managing debt, learning new things. Are you starting to get the picture? Some times I have a hard time putting all these peices together. I guess prioritizing is the key. My first thing would be to seek the Lord in putting things in the right order. His way is the way I want to go. The book of Proverbs helps with direction, and Prayer helps with understanding the Proverbs. So as I learn new things and I put all these peices together and let the Lord lead, I don’t want to loose site of the important people in my life. May God Bless Your Day!

So we must keep learning? While in school we thought that 13 years we were done or 4 more years of college or even further in education. I don’t think when I was young I thought about learning and learning and not stopping. One teacher inspired me with this statement, when you are green you grow but when you are ripe you rot. If you take that in and let it inspire you, what have you learned today?
So what can I learn today. There is alot to learn in the information age. Some times the information is overwhelming but I try to take it in. So early this morning I was watching Joyce Meyer and she was teaching on contoling the tongue. Can we learn to control the tongue? I want to learn to be more encouraging and less crictical, more kind and less harsh. If praise is God’s language and complaining is the enemy’s language, then what language do you speak most often? I aspire to speak more of God’s language. Today, we learn to speak well and apply what we have learned. What will we learn the rest of the day or tomorrow?

Good Morning, I Love Sunday mornings. Sunday is the day our family choices to worship and spend time together. We have church this morning. Nance’s Grove Baptist Church is our home church. Our daughter, Brittany, leads the music and we sing in the choir as a family. My teens, Tony and Brianna support their sister by singing in the choir even as teens. Even my mom is singing in the choir. Tonight we have a 5th Sunday Night Singing and I am singing with my mom. I can’t remember singing with my mom in public anyway. I am really excited. Our practice session went well and sounded pretty good. My daughter, Brittany, will be playing the piano for me and mom.
I hope that you allow music to fill your life with lots of joy. Have your ever noticed how music can change your mood and pick you up if you are down. It is amazing. I hope that you have a wonderful Sunday.

So this Saturday night shall be fun. It is our friends anniversary. Sonny and Tammy have been married for
29 years. That is really cool in this day and time. How
does love last that long? I believe the Lord is our source
of the love that keep growing. Sonny and Tammy represent this very well. They don’t just love each other, they seem to care about others. That is cool!! So we are off to dinner and a night out without children.

Jeanie sat in fron of her computer. She lit a cigarette and held her breath. She dimmed the light on her moniter and glanced at her lover’s sleeping body. She always wondered how he could sleep like that: just lay there…and sleep. Jenaie had always hated sleeping. She counted back and realized that she has now been awake nine hours, 18 minutes, and before that she slept for 2 hours or so, and before that she can’t remember.

Jeanie has a bladder infection. She thinks she has had it one and off since the abortion of Cadence. A few months back Jeanie got pregnant. She was two months pregnant when she found out. Jean is afraid that This was really more than a bladder infection. She feels like there is something inside of her belly and is dying. Perhaps the dissasociative drugs she took last night are planting anxiety in her mind because she still feels sad over Cadence’s pretermened death. There feels a swirling, bubbling poison growing in her belly, and she is determined to wash it out. She grabbed her bottle of cranberry supplement capsels and brank two down with a gulp of tap water. She took a pill for gas too. This all Jeanie knew to do: drink water and pop pills. Maybe it’s her period? Or maybe she’s sick,

One day, Jeanie decides to play a game with herself.  She decided to pretend to narrate her life, just to see what happened. She was a very curious girl. She wanted to create an abstract world in her mind, and watch it tick. Jeanie thought about Alice in Wonderland the movie.

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary-wise; what it is it wouldn’t be, and what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?” (Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043274/)

She decided to write a fictional autobiography; become her own deus ex machina. A story that was perfectly possible in the world in which Jeanie lived, but didn’t happen there. It happened in Jeanie’s world. The goal was to find out whether or not Jeanie was crazy.

Jenie was going to attempt to create a whole other world that she could write about. In Jeanie’s world, there is no such thing as time. In Jeanie’s world, she eats when she’s hungry, she sleeps when she’s sleepy. There really is no day or night for her. She does whatever she wants, afterall it is her world. She is a very passionate and artistic girl, and sometimes she worries she is too self-centered.

I didn’t go to school today. And I was so borning and funny! But, I think It’s very borning more!

I went to the dentist because my teeth was hart. It was smell bad. I think I brush my teeth clearly.

I played with my friend Wendy. We were playing a tig, but I didn’t be taken. It was so laborious and short-winded.

I take my friend Wendy. We ate a cookie there. It was so delicious! And Wendy too! We are friend, because we can telepathy.

I will go 63 building tommarrow with my friends and teacher, but I don’t like that place. I want to go a park.

I teach math for my friend. I think than question was so easy! But she don’t know. The question was plus 150. I thinked she was hard, becuase the number is big. I was very shocking.

My sister hit me with the golf ball. It was very hurt. And I had a wen on my head, but I was very ridiculous, because she hit me but she cried herself. After she cried, I cried too. I think my sister was very pitiful And I hated my sister!