I filmed our lives for two-and-a-half years.  I don’t know why, I just did.

Like writing this blog, something told me that I needed to capture that time of our lives on film.  To have it forever.  To be able to remember it and share it with others.  I had no idea how important it would be.

Especially to me.

I keep my guitar pics on my desk in a little bowl that our oldest daughter made and gave me one Sunday in May when she was probably five or six years old.  It’s pink and handmade of pottery, and in big grey letters on the outside it says “Happy Mother’s Day Dad”.

It’s one of my most prized possessions.

We spent this past weekend in Kentucky at a camp called 'The Center for Courageous Kids'.   Indiana's best friend Scout has been coming there with her little brother Ash and her Mom and Dad for the last couple of years... so this year Indy and I came along.  I'd been hearing about the camp for awhile - not just from Scout's family - but also from people at Indiana's school and many others.  It's primarily a camp for children with special needs and their families, but once we arrived, it was easy to see that this place was that and much more.

One morning a week I meet a few of my buddies on our neighbor Gabe's porch for coffee.

Gabe is Indy's best-friend Scout's daddy.  He's also a close friend and has worked with Joey and I for years on all of our music videos, tv specials and film projects.  He was also the "old-school" host of our weekly television show.

April 4th. It's hard to believe that it's been a month already since Joey left this world and made her journey to the next.  In some ways it feels like only yesterday, and in others... it feels like forever.

Easter is Joey's favorite holiday. It always has been.  Not because of Easter baskets or bunnies or candy or eggs, but because today celebrates the day that Christ has risen from the dead.  Joey loved sunrise services, and the Lords' supper and the newness of life that Easter brought to the world.  She would get so excited about the day coming and would talk about it for weeks, months sometimes.   I'm embarrassed to say that my favorite holiday is still Christmas.  Partly because of Jesus' birth, but also for a million sentimental reasons and trees and carols and the 'feeling' that's in the air that time of year.  I still have a lot of growing in my faith to do I guess.

Joey had every intention of home-schooling Indy as she grew up.  For many reasons.  But life has changed that plan. I have written before about our desire to live our lives with "high hopes and low expectations"... but during the month of January, when Joey and I decided we needed to start researching what and where the next-best option for school for Indy might be...we had no idea that God would lead us to a place called, of all things... 'High Hopes'.

The first time I came to the place Joey was born and raised in was in April of 2002.  It was my first trip with Joey to her hometown and to meet her family.  It's also the weekend that we got engaged. We had been dating for two months.  But when you know... you know.  And so what is there to wait for.