I know I said I'd write about Aperture today but I'll save that next week I promise!  Today I thought I'd leave you with our crazy night last night and a little as Me Ra likes to put it, "personal reflection"  Sorry no photos in this one, just some good ole' story telling. For the longest time now, Lauren and I have been talking about getting a new car for multiple reasons...many of which I'd say are just as weighty as the reasons why your 4 year old NEEDS a new Xbox 360 =) No, this isn't about our story at the dealership buy our new car...it's actually quite opposite really. On the way to see my sister, driving down the 71 freeway and just as we start laughing about how our car is starting to sound really scary and how I'm going to get an oil change this weekend...it actually start to make this really loud and even scarier sound.  "uhhhh, that doesn't sound good hunny!"  yeah that's me telling Lauren that, not vice versa =)  So I start to ease my way over, mind you, the sound is getting worse by the millisecond and I look in my rear view mirror and see smoke and something literally fall from the car!! Can you believe it?!!  I have a pregnant wife in here and our car is literally falling apart right before my eyes!  Then right as we finally get over to the shoulder..OF THE FREEWAY!! smoke starts seeping out of the hood!!  Definitely not a good thing...not at all!  I knew this was bad but just how bad?...you'll see. Oh and get this, here's the funny thing about all this happening.     So there we were pulled over on the side of the freeway and I look up and notice that the sun was setting and the sky was changing color!  First thing I thought of..."where's my camera!".  I have the sky above me a zillion different colors, cars zooming by and...it's the perfect photo opportunity and guess what..WE DIDN'T HAVE OUR CAMERA!!! NOT ONE!  That seriously was a perfect situation for shutter speed and longer exposure type images!! Talk about a missed opportunity!...a shot i've been walking to do for who knows how long and I missed it!  I WAS SOOO BUMMED!  Which reminds me, next week I'll post one of my favorite photos we took while in New York walking across the Brooklyn Bridge.  I'll show you the effect i'm talking about with the slow shutter speed and all. Moving on.. So we get picked up by the Tow Truck and decide to just drop the car in front of our house until we know what our next move will be.  So how bad is the damage?  Well with the help of my trusty neighbor we pop the hood open and get this...THERE'S A HOLE IN THE ENGINE!  not only that, but we find big metal fragments from the engine casing! which, btw I think I'll be keeping as a souvenir.  That's how bad it is =( Talk about a crazy night! Anyway, it may not sound like it, but having this happen was actually a blessing in disguise.  Without getting too deep into it with details and all,  the best part about it, is it's brought Lauren and I closer already.  God has a funny way of doing that sometimes.  He takes things away to put something better in it's place.  We may not see that "something better" right away, but if we wait patiently enough, you'll see it in some form or another.  It also brought me to reminisce about when Lauren and I got married.  We thought "how the heck are we going to pay for this wedding?!!"  Over a year later, we talk about having almost the most perfect wedding we could've asked for. For all our Bride-to-Be's worried about their big day and even for anyone that might be worrying about tomorrow...here's a Truth that Lauren and I love.  Have a great weekend everyone! Matthew 6:25-34 "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?  Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."