Ten Years Ago

Ten years ago today a terrible attack on America occurred. The terrorist attacks of 9/11 changed our country forever. We did not go home to Little Rock this weekend, but there was a football game there. The Razorback nation remembered 9/11 in a big way. Every other section of the stadium wore red/white and the student section wore blue, to create the look of an American Flag.

The players also had a different Razorback logo.

Student section t-shirts...

Everyone says that you'll never forget where you were and what you were doing when it happened. I guess that's true, because David and I can remember it like it happened two days ago. I thought the blog might be a good place to record where we were, what we thought, and what we feel today, now that it has been ten years since the attacks.

I was in 10th grade AP Human Geography class when our principal came over the intercom and announced that a tragedy had occured in New York and that a commercial plane had hit one of the world trade center buildings. David was in his 11th grade calculus class. We were allowed to turn on the class televisions and watched the entire attack unfold. I think for both of us, we mostly felt shock. Shock that something like this could happen on American soil, and shocked at the amount of lives lost. Today, David and I both feel grateful for our freedoms, proud of military and proud of the job that President Bush did. It might be a little cliche, but we really are proud to be Americans today and everyday. We are going to try and watch some of the 9/11 specials today/tonight, but some of it feels a little hard to watch.

For david and I, we had a family weekend with just the two of us. We went and ate dinner with some friends from Sunday school at their apartment on Friday night, which was great! Saturday we slept in, cleaned the house, and went to eat lunch with our friend Becca. On Saturday we had a pretty intense rainstorm, which was great to hang out inside during. We finished off Saturday by walking down to the Prairie Village center (about a mile from our house) and having dinner out on the patio at Blue Moose. Deuce was in attendance as well. There were two other dogs on the patio that night, and Deuce did pretty good!

Recently, David was asked to sing on the church praise team, which means he stand up front on stage with a microphone. He had been practicing for a while and today was his first Sunday as a praise team member! I was so proud! I managed to snap off a picture without too many people noticing. :)

I was so proud of him up there. David has a wonderful voice that I have always enjoyed. Now he is getting to share it even more at church! He will do it every other Sunday from now on, unless we're out of town.