snippets of smoyerdom: seamus o'malley

before i headed to ireland for MAP in 2002, i jokingly told all my friends that i just knew that i was going to fall in love and marry an irishman named seamus (pronounced "SHAY-mus") o'malley. (making me emily o'malley. heehee!) but the only seamus i met while in ireland was a toothless old man who wandered over during street ministry. sooo...i thought better of marrying him.

ever the romantic, i figured my prediction must've been slightly off, and that there was still bound to be a seamus o'malley i would fall madly in love with. and here he is...

seamus o'malley smoyer

who could help but fall in love with this li'l guy? :o)

and, fittingly, seamus came from one of my dear teammates & roommates from my time in ireland, debby (gifford) vannoy! debs and her husband bred their chocolate lab, mattie, and we were able to bring home one of the 8 pups from that litter.

seamus was born on march 21st, so he is almost 4 months old now. we drove over to chattanooga the weekend of june 21st to pick him up, and were able to squeeze in some good visits with debby's fam, one of my best friends from college, terrie and her fam, and my "surrogate parents", scott & carol collier. we even got to worship at new city fellowship on sunday morning. yaay! it was a whirlwind of a weekend, but a good whirlwind.