L-O-V-E

We're moving!

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We packed up a few loads today! Some of our wonderful customers, friends, and our realtor even, helped us by letting us borrow their trailers, helping us pack them up, and driving all the way to our property with them! The Lord is so kind.
But, no time for yackin' right now! "Things to do.... things to do" (Fanny Dashwood, for anyone who has seen the 2008 Sense and Sensibility).
Take care, all!

Dear Hannah

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She is one of the most beautiful women I know, inside and out. It was SO lovely to have her and the boys here for a few days. =D I wish they could always be with us. I'm still prayin!

Rach, Charlie and Hannah at Rosauers... for coffee. =) My camera died, otherwise I'd have more pictures from that morning.

Wanting to be outside having fun...

*Squish!*

There is danger afoot...

Clearly. ;)

lol

This swing has held up under many and crazy swingers!

I know, I know... the person with the camera must be destroyed. ;)

Counting... "1....................2.....................3...................4......................567891011121314151617181920! Ready or not!....." ;)

I love the hair. =)

Oh, the suspense.

Charlie's baptism!

Lizzie and Walter, too. =)

He is such a scrumptious little boy.

wow, John. Could you look a bit more severe, please? ;)

Poor Lizzie was not happy.

Many of these pictures were taken by the kids... Joshie, Emmy, Addie and Ethan.

Thus the addition of the coffee maker into our collection.

I love this picture... it's very.... Dad. =) Doncha think? That's his pastor-making-a-point finger.

Oh curly hair!

Me: "Group picture!"... they all scatter. Happens every time.

Trying to get everyone together.

Still working at it.

Singing Psalm 133. "Behold, how good a thing it is, and how becoming well.
Together such as brethren are in unity to dwell!" Amen.

Tada!
Everyone... but Josh. We didn't have the heart to wake a tired daddy.

lol, "Emmmmyyyyy!"

That's quite a feat... to smile with a baby cryin in your ear. ;)

Best friends. =D

The lovely ladies. =D

Chillaxing.

Well, that's all for tonight, folks. And for the next two months, most likely. ;)
We all love you, Hannah, and hope to see you back here soon!

(Hey... it's snowing... in Lewiston! In November! I'm so excited.)

Po Dunk =D

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Here is Po! He's reeeeeeeeeeeeeally cute.

This guy is a riot...

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Now, I know nothing about this Phil Davison... and maybe it's kinda mean to post his speech just for the sake of laughing at it... but this is stinkin hilarious.

But you know... I guess it's kind of like laughing at this:

I love it.

And one more thing...

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This music makes me cry. lol, It's really quite pathetic, but it's true. Like, I could just start sobbing. It's just that incredibly, wonderfully, marvelously, amazingly sweet toaster! ("sweet toaster" well never die!)

Listen and love ;)

Poor, poor Kristie...

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She has the lamest little sister ON EARTH. Ahem. I was supposed to post pictures of Jenni's house a while ago. Well, ya know, like relatively soon after she moved in there would've been nice. But! Here they are! Sort of. Poor Jen (yet another woman afflicted with a lame sister), I took pics of her house while it was (in her opinion) messy, while the boys were doing housework. And so I didn't get pictures of each room. Hopefully I will get better and more pictures soon! But this will give you a general idea. So I'm lame. Sorry, my seestahs!

Jenni's former putty-tat, Louie (in our living room). Very sad.. she couldn't keep him cuz of her her rental agreement. :(

He was really cute!

Ok, so here's the living room, all disheveled.

From the kitchen to the laundry room and back door.

Kitchen. Love the red countertops. =D (Remember, Jen. Dirty dishes are... natural) ;)

As are messy tables. =D

A pretty flowery thing from Ang.

The front yard.

I didn't even realize this pic was out of focus.

We grow really. big. roses here in Lewiston. You wouldn't believe some of the roses here! The size of their trunks.

The lovely neighbor-horse. I am quite fond of her.

The back yard... and unfortunately the sun was behind the clouds so this one paints a very dull picture. But her yard is very lovely. I'll get a good one... you'll see. :-P

All righty then... Good night, all!

Aaah!!

2010-08-23T21:50:00.000-07:00

Is this cute or what??? (And no it's not a nasty old blonde whig... it's Caiah's homemade ghillie (sp??) suit/hat thing... don't ask me) I don't even know who took this picture... but *sigh*... Walter is soo beautiful. =D Him and his diaper-butt self. But actually... he's almost completely graduated from diapers to... "whities." He runs around showing us all: "Daddy... whities! Mom-mom, whities! Auntie, whities! Daisy, whities!" Yes, he speaks to my dog like she understands him. He's even told Lizzie's toy fishies that he wears whities now. I love it, kids are hilarious.

"The Christian ideal...

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has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found difficult and left untried." -G.K. Chesterton
I love that quote. It's very apt for our society... and especially our Christian society. We try to get by with just the bare necessities of Christianity... and are too forgetful of just how offensive to the Lord sin is. Every sin. By one sin all mankind was sentenced to eternal damnation... but for the incomprehensible suffering of our Lord and dearest friend Jesus Christ. Can you imagine? We murdered our best, truest friend... because of greed and pride. What an amazing God we have. "There is no sin little, because no little god to sin against." -Matthew Henry "If ye love me, keep my commandments." -Our Savior "God's favors to us lay strong obligations upon us to be obedient to Him." -Matthew Henry
And a few more quotes... "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ." -Col. 2:8 "Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?" -Job 38:2 "Be not wise in thine own eyes:" -Prov. 3:7 "Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage forever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart. I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes always, even unto the end." -Psalm 119:11&12 That is wisdom... the fear of the Lord! To love the word that comes straight from His mouth... the wisest Sage... and truly there's no greater gain.

Here are some pics from spring... I couldn't arrange them in the post... so they're totally out of sequence. But you'll get the drift, I'm sure. ;)

Lizzie's first Lord's day.

Me and my buddy.

Hehe, isn't that cute?

Rach and Lizzie

Oh my goodness, she was so teeny! She's so fat now. =D

Aw, aren't babies just pathetic? You know, in a precious way.

Truly, she is the strangest... just for pictures, though. ;) However, I seem to recall another blonde-headed fruitcake that would never take a serious picture. Yesss, I have an abundance of horridly incriminating pictures of my itsy bitsy years.

Don't be fooled by that fake smile (cute as it may be)... She's got a double-barreled shotgun and she's not afraid to use it.

Walter looked so cute in his Chucks.... but, alas, he has outgrown them already.

Hooray for dogwoods!

These pictures don't relay their true beauty... they're rapturously gorgeous!
(sorry 'bout the drama, I just love them)

Well... that's all I got for now. I'll have to work up to being a real blogger again very slowly... wouldn't wanna pull a brain muscle or anything.

PS: Kris! What'd you think of the movie, btw?

Lovely =D

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Spring at last.

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Yay I love Lewiston! We had a mild winter and now we're having a turbulent spring...:> Which I love... it's raining and hailing right now, and you should've seen the wind! And the bluffs... you should see the bluffs down the river when it's raining but the sun's still shining on them. It's beautiful. The sunrises, too.... some mornings the bluffs are pink... some mornings they're blue, with a strip of clouds stretched across them, and golden sunshine.... mm-mmmm. :> And the sunsets... bright golden sunshine streams in through our kitchen, dining and living room windows and makes the rooms glow. =D And the rainbows the other day! It's so cool, cuz you can see where they start and end... from Burger Kind to Banner Bank. hehe. The trees are blooming, too. I can't wait for the dogwoods. They're soo beautiful! I have to get pictures of them this year.
Anyway... rambling. So, we're still up to the same old same old. For the most part. I'll just post some pictures... it's easier than trying to recall... stuff... my memory is fleeting. ;)

lol, Addie's "concentrating" face... I guess.

Her first crochet project =D

And the rest of these are just a bunch of weirdos. ;) I really love the ones of the girls together... they're such crazy little ladies.

Aren't the kiddos terrifyingly precious and cute and scary? :D
Oh, and by the way... if anyone's interested in some pretty music... I made youtube playlist of the Emma soundtrack. =) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59H8wXqqld0&feature=PlayList&p=92801119CA426447&playnext_from=PL&index=0&playnext=1

Anyway... toodles noodles.

2010-03-19T23:22:00.000-07:00

I cannot believe how long it's been since I blogged last!! Wow.

I don't have anything to say right now but I just watched some hilarious clips on youtube and thought I would share. I do have some pics to post eventually though. =)

Maybe it's just me... or just me and my family... but my face hasn't been that sore from laughing in a while.

Not much time to blog...

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But here is a pic of most of our present group... John, of course, was hiding behind Ang's head... and Justin had just missed the pic by coming 30 seconds later... and Walter beebee was sleeping. And, alas, the picture is blurry... cuz the camera was dangling from our clothesline. Oh well.
This pic is from the ginormous birthday party we had... consisting of celebrating Dad, Justin, Dan, Rach, Micah, Gregory and Addie.

And this pic is for Hannah... this is what I had started for your beebee... in expectation that it might be a girl. This was gonna be the centerpiece of the blanket. But, alas, it is just a lonely patch still. I'll find something to do with it. ;)

Anyway, gotta git! Having a lovely time with our company! Wish all of you could be here!

Just watched this....

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with the Hacklers and have found myself very encouraged by it! Minus some arminianism, along with a man praying to Jesus Christ via a cross, and Jesus Christ speaking back to Him via said cross... and even though Christian's burden did look a little funny... especially when he ran down the road, that was pretty funny. But! I thought it was very good. I liked it.

Man, I love the Lord's day! But there has been too much food for thought for me to handle. I mean, I've thoroughly enjoyed each bite of it... it's just me.... I'm the real problem here. ;) I either can't remember what it was... or I don't have time to meditate on it long enough. But it has truly been such an edifying day. The sermon was very good... discussion was good... the movie was good... more discussion was good. Especially the sermon, though. =) We listened to this today: http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=10260615583

Copy this link into your "open url" command in Windows Media Player: http://playmp3.sa-media.com/media/10260615583/10260615583.mp3

"O how I love thy law! It is my meditation all the day." Well... on Sundays it's all the day anyway... that's why the Lord's day is such a wonderful day! You can worship and read and meditate on the Lord all day! For the most part, anyway. The rest of the week housecleaning (our living... hey, it could be a lot worse) takes up much of my meditation. But I'm soo thankful for the work God has provided for us. Please pray that He'd continue to bless us with more work!

Ah, and a BIG congratulations to Ed and Hannah on the birth of their baby, Charles!! Praise the Lord for a safe delivery! And yay that Beka can be there to help out!

"For a day in thy courts [is] better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness." Psalm 84:10. That whole Psalm is really just... great.

Pardon the random-blurb style I've assumed in this post. It's just the way my brain works now. =D

And here is a picture of some really weird kids... /: No idea where it came from... just kinda found it on my computer. :P

This was taken on Caiah's birthday... he is officially... a TEENAGER. And that is a frightening thought. For a multitude of reasons. ;) (Just teasin, Caiah)

Anyhoo... I very much need to get to bed. So, sayonara, God bless, sleep well, sweet dreams, and above all... pray without ceasing (1 Thess. 5:17).

My Loverly Piano!

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Here it is, Sistah!

Yay!!!

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It's been such a long time since I really blogged, I don't even know what to say. I'm quite thoroughly out of practice. And... I've lost all taste for photography! Well, I say photography... what I mean is snap-shotting. Anyway, it's quite strange.
I just saw some really cool animals on the Africam. =) http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/wildcamafrica/ They're like wart-hog/hippopotamus/mule looking creatures. Very funky.

So... what have I been up to. Well, I've been working, knitting (so fun! I'll have to post my most recent somewhat-accomplishment), spending time at Jen's (as always =D), vegging on the floor in between jobs, eating cream puffs!, walking my dog, attempting to use my brain for Greek, Math, and Biblical studies, trying to figure out what on earth I can give a 15-year-old nephew for his birthday when I'm broke (any suggestions?), chuckling at Mom as she gloats over our new wheel covers (we've been missing one of our wheel covers since we moved here to ID... fits in with the whole hilly-billy/hobo thing, no? Hah, y'all thought those hilly-billy pictures were just for fun! So yeah... Rach just bought a car which came with an extra pair so she gave them to us! Isn't she nice?:D)... and I have a question for you...

Which is harder, in general... obviously certain things would depend... and there would be factors and circumstances, etc, but in general... Doing something you don't want to do? Or not doing something you want to do?

Here are some of my most treasured Bible verses at present:

"As a dream when [one] awaketh; [so], O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins. So foolish [was] I, and ignorant: I was [as] a beast before thee. Nevertheless I [am] continually with thee: thou hast holden [me] by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me [to] glory. Whom have I in heaven [but thee]? and [there is] none upon earth [that] I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: [but] God [is] the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee. But [it is] good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works." -Psalm 73:20-38
Yes, I copied those from Blue Letter Bible so you get all the brackets and such.

"[Let your] conversation [be] without covetousness; [and be] content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord [is] my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me." -Hebrews 13:5&6.

"My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation [is] from him. He only [is] my rock and my salvation: [he is] my defence; I shall not be moved. In God [is] my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, [and] my refuge, [is] in God. Trust in him at all times; [ye] people, pour out your heart before him: God [is] a refuge for us. Selah." -Psalm 62:5-8

And I love the commands and promises in Psalm 37: "Trust in the LORD, and do good... Delight thyself also in the LORD... Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring [it] to pass... Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him...For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth."

And the picture of the day... =D

So long!

Sense and Sensibility 2007

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The music in this movie is so.... wonderful. =D

I love these girls

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Farmer's Market...

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Quite a while ago... back before the trees leafed out. They're all green and beautiful now. =D
My goodness, I'm tired tonight... so I'm just gonna post a few pics.

The music was great! It made me oh so very happy. =D

This woman has an incredible voice!! She has some serious volume.

Hehe, her voice made poor Jenni cry though. I have to admit, for some inexplicable reason, I had to fight the tears. It was really weird. /:-|

Dancing cutie pies. =D

Groupness.

Etc.

You could tell this pretty little girl wanted to walk around in the water, too... but something prevented her. ;)

Josh and Kai.

Fried chicken!

Watching diligently for a crumb perchance. Actually, Walter loves to drop food for her. hehe, He calls her over... then down falls the food. ;)

Little Liney. =)

Some roses for Jen's lovely garden.

Hehe, this pic was taken mostly for Rach... whom I haven't even shown this to yet. I forgot. hm. Anyway! So she was saying that Walter would look cute with a mohawk... and I had just given him a bath that evening, so I gave him a mohawk. And he looked quite cute, of course. =D

Boots, obviously.

Cosmos and petunias...

Nasturtium and petunias...

yada yada

My awesome pomegranate bush/tree thing! Funky blossom, huh?

Sorry 'bout the lame captions... I'm too tired to think of anything besides, well, the obvious subjects of the pictures.

g'night!

2009

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Is FLYING by. It's really amazing. I can't believe the year is half over... and I can't believe we've been here 9 months. Wow.
Anyhoo... so we've been keeping busy with work and non-work work. I have many aspirations, it's just finding the time to accomplish them. So I really need to get organized.... have a game plan, ya know?
We went to the library a few days ago..... ohh how I love libraries. The Lewiston library has a particularly delightful selection of cook books. =D I got one about pasta-making... not just throwing the noodles with the sauce... but the making of the noodles themselves. I'm so psyched.... I really need to try it soon. Then there's a beautiful bread book... but Manda's pretty much got the bread department covered. She's been concocting some pretty amazing things recently. Sourdough bread-making... like, the fun way. The Panera way. =D I've also been craving granola on yogurt, so I think I need to make some granola soon. And then of course, there's the Southern baking cook book.... over which one can't help but drool profusely. The desserts are just... tantalizing. But, ya know... I don't know what's been wrong with me recently. I can hardly put together a good dessert! My cookies turn out retarded, and my brownies.... oh my. The brownies were..... amazing... in the worst way possible. Just ask Josh Hackler (haha, he was the first to test the brownies).. or John, for that matter, who actually ate a WHOLE brownie AND swallowed it. I warned him. See, what happened is this... as I was measuring the dry ingredients I mistakenly measured 2 1/4 cups of SALT rather than sugar. Our salt and sugar are in identical containers, aside from the labels, of course. Doy. So yeah, you can imagine. Salt in that proportion is just.... indescribably.... horrifyingly... disgusting. So I dumped them out and made a new batch... which turned out beautifully, thankfully.. otherwise I probably would've just thrown the brownies with the pan out the window. There's something about making disgusting food that just enrages me. *Sigh* I need to get a grip. lol.
I have been succeeding at something, though! Astounding as that may be. ;) I've been knitting a scarf with... cables. An idea I find extremely intimidating. Of course it's pretty much the most basic simplistic cable ever... but again, it's a big deal to me. I had started crocheting a sweater... I got the back done and realized... it was ugly. There are some things crocheting cannot do. In this case, it was make the sweater pattern look pretty. It's kind of annoying to undo the work I put into it, but at least it's being unraveled into a pretty knit scarf. =D I'll have to take a pic and post it. But that's for another day.
As an ending note... here's this: "Unto Thee lift I up mine eyes, O Thou that dwellest in the heavens. Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God....." Psalm 123: 1-2ish. I so need to remember to keep my heart and mind fixed on the Lord... in everything I do... and remember His presence at all times. How else can we trust in God, but when we're looking to Him? Peter couldn't trust the Lord when he turned his eyes from Him to the waves... neither can we. It's such a constant choice... either to look to the Lord, or not. And it's so easy to become lazy and let our eyes drift... it doesn't even feel like a conscious choice. But every moment is. C.S. Lewis said something similar in his book Mere Christianity... every moment we have the opportunity to step closer to the Lord, or farther away from Him. There's no step that leaves us neutral, that doesn't take us in some direction. We have to make the deliberate choice to believe the Lord, to love Him, to obey Him, to keep our hearts and minds in check and be faithful... consistenly! Oh boy. I know I don't. But "Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift" and "Who is a God like unto Thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He retaineth not His anger forever, because He delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, He will have compassion upon us; He will subdue our iniquities, and Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea." Amen. Praise the Lord for His mercy!
Have a good evening, all! Or good morning... or whatever time of day it is when you happen upon this post. ;)
Oh, Ken Ham is pretty awesome by the way. Just watched one of his lectures yesterday. Loved it!

Here are some relatively recent pics from the thanksgiving party we had.

lol, Why? I do not know. Just cuz.

Dodge ball is an evil game, despite Josh's vote of thumbs up.

A long day. A veery long day.

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But a good day. It's life, ya know? The good, the bad and the ugly... it's all life, it's all good, and it's all from God. Praise God that every second of every day of every year of every decade (and so on) is planned... and going according to plan... and it's all for our good... because (as my Dad likes to say): God cares more about our character than our comfort. And praise the Lord. Can you imagine what we would be like if life went according to our plans? We'd be a much more unsanctified people. I'm so glad the Lord cares about me that much. And even crazier, He rewards us in Heaven for the work He does in our hearts. Again, praise God.
If only we could be as patient with each other as God is with us. Waaay too often we focus on the bad in each other... and criticism unbalanced with understanding, humility and love leads to pride. And pride leads to dissension like nothing else. We become so used to pointing out others' faults that we start to ignore our own... and begin to think more highly of ourselves... then pretty soon, people don't wanna be around us because we just can't help but compliment ourselves throughout our conversation ("But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth" 2 Corinthians 10:17,18). We need to have love for one another... and that entails the actions in 1 Corinthians 13. Not just having a good feeling for someone, or having a good time with soemone... but acting it out. We need to have an understanding heart... and have compassion rather than criticism waiting to jump on people ("Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep" Romans 12:15). AND... we also need to learn to appreciate one another. Not just put up with one another... but really, trully appreciate them and be thankful for them... and admire them for their strengths and pray lovingly and humbly for their weaknesses ("Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each eseteem other better than themselves" Philippians 2:3)... and love them because God loves them... and He loves us. Our hearts should be so overflowing with gratitude rather than pride! "Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift" 2 Corinthians 9:15.

"They came to see that family need not be defined merely as those with whom they share blood, but those for whom they would give their blood."
-Mr. Crummles, Nicholas Nickleby

Mama and the girlies.

Addie.... trying to smile?

Flowers make her happy. ;)

The five hundred million faces of Emmy. The girl is quite... expressive.

And then there's Addie. And you just knoow she's plotting something inside that little head. :>

Oh, beautiful child. :D

The stubborn "can't make me smile" face. =>

I don't know what to call this, but she sure is a cutie-pie. :D

Ooh dear. lol, she really is the strangest girl. But endearingly so, of course.

Fair Emmy.

Scary Emmy.

She amuses herself deeply. hehe. Can't say that I blame her. She IS hilarious.

And then... there's Walnut. *sigh* This baby is truly... edible.

Walter getting tired, but trying not to freak out.

"Auntie? Have mercy? Please? Get me out of this contraption!"

Okay, everybody: "Aaaaaw!"

Ang and Rach. <3

Manda couldn't be in any of these pictures (they were Mother's day pics) cuz she was being a Mom... a pregnant Mom at that... and feeling quite sick. Poor thing.

*heart*

Um... Em? Half of the time I don't know what the girl is trying to do. lol. I love her.

Oh, my beautiful girls. Er.. my nieces. I can't help but be possessive. I just love them. =D

Shweethearts.

Mum-mum love.

See? Mine. My girls. ;)

Oooh, he's gettin the look. The Jenni look.

Oh, that's lovely, Greg. Sucha boy. ;)

Let's hear it again: "Aaaaaw."

The best love song...

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I have no inspiration...

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to write. I don't know why. My brain is just a little... dead. So I'll just say what I've been up to.
Typing (Precious Truth... by John Anderson), cleaning other people's houses, cleaning my house, cooking, trying to keep up with Greek (it's not like there's much homework.... it's just there's so little time. I love Greek though. it's fun. and awesome.), trying to read from a pregnancy book I have (I want to eventually be a midwife... but as I have no money saved up to take courses, I'm just starting with the basics), calligraphy, crocheting/knitting (I'm stuck on a crochet project cuz I can't figure out the pattern!! pattern's are evil, I tell you), reading Christ the Way the Truth and the Life by John Brown of Wamphray, and Do Hard Things by Alex and Brett Harris, spending a lot of time at Jen's and banging on my piano while I'm there =D, having birthday parties (Josh's and Ang's most recently), mother's day breakfast, thanksgiving-for-God's-bountifully-blessing-us-with-work party!, testing different Sam Adams beers =D, babysitting chillens, aaaaaaaaaand procrastinating about blogging. I think the reason I have issues with posting is cuz I don't have enough time to get a full post out.... at one time. Ya know, without interruptions. I guess I'm just spoiled, used to having more time on my hands. So therefore I give a ginormous round of applause to those women with children who STILL find time to post... more often than I do. hah. That's what I call time management. Rock on, ladies.
Well! It's 8:something... almost 9. Time for family worship, then bed! Hopefully a bit of reading before. I find reading so very encouraging, comforting, enlightening, and just plain old good.
Have a good evening, everyone! =)
(I don't have time for captions, so you're on your own as to the meaning or significance of the pictures)

Charles Darwin:

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"...one obscure, amateur naturalist who visited a tiny group of islands in the South Pacific, and observed a little population of finches, gave us modern science." [ http://www.visionforum.com/hottopics/blogs/dwp/ ] Ooh man, I love that. Darwin is so revered today among secular scientists.... which is most scientists... and that quote is just so... not flattering. =D I love it.

Some pictures! Finally. =D

The blog lives...

2009-03-03T20:28:00.000-08:00

so I suppose I should give an update of what's been happening in my life. well that would take too long. so I'll just say a bit... I got my GED in the mail yesterday... and did very well... except in Math (which is odd). My last test for At-Home Professions was finally posted online. Over the whole course, I have an A average. Yay. Praise the Lord. I need to write up a resume now. Scary.A random event that I find exceptionally exciting... I got a beautiful dress. Haha, why? Well cuz it was at the thrift store and we couldn't pass it up. I have no idea where I'll ever wear it to. Someone's wedding? I told Jen recently we need to have a wedding. So maybe someone will get married and I can wear my beautiful dress. Anyhoo... that's about all I've got right now. so I'll post some pics of the kids. ;)

They were making themselves quite difficult to photograph. ;) You know, wiggling and squirming, fake smiling, squeezing eachother to the point of major laughter eruption. hehe

And the color was all weird. I tried to fix it... but they still don't look right. ODviously. ;)

Very much brother and sister.

And... very much them. =D

Sniffin her flower.
Ahem, I mean, inhaling the glorious aroma of her birthday primrose.

Sayonara!

lol

2009-02-19T21:28:00.000-08:00

I love this... it's so funny, but sadly, true too.

I'M DONE!!!

2009-02-06T19:53:00.000-08:00

I sent in my final exam to At Home Professions tonight!!! I caaan't believe it. *sigh of RELIEF*
I'll post more later... pictures of Jen's necklaces and such things. ;)
Toodles!

All right....

2009-01-26T08:50:00.001-08:00

*Sigh* It's been a while... and a day. I could go on almost endlessly about how busy things have been (busy in a good way) and how I just haven't had time to post and yada yada... but I'll save that for later. ;)

Right now, I'm going to say something that I should've over a month ago. But, as you see, posting hasn't really been an option. ;)

What I should've said, is Happy Birthday to my Dad! His birthday was the 5th of last month. Almost the month before last. Ah, time flies. To spare the confusion, it was December 5th.

Dad is pretty much a one-and-only kind of man, in an admirable way. He is patient, approachable, slow to judge and astonishingly slow to anger, quick to listen and forgive, understanding... He loves his family and has always tried his absolute best to provide for us, spiritually and physically. He has taught me from the time I was born about God's Word (the absolute greatest gift a father can give. Thank you SO much!), answered my questions about Scripture, trained me and corrected me. I'm so thankful to the Lord for the understanding and wisdom my dad has imparted to me. He has been an instrument used of God to keep me from walking in unrighteousness... he has reeled me in, even when I didn't want to be. He has been firm and constant in what he believes. He is truly a man of principle. He has been a faithful minister, even when times have been so terribly hard and so tearing on his health and mind. He is a patient minister with his flock, and cares for them like a father.

In short, he has been a faithful, tender, caring, diligent husband, father, grandfather, minister... and well, man. I am so grateful to the Lord for my dad and for the way He has used him for His glory and our good!
All my love, Dad! Happy Birthday!

We get FIVE seasons here in Lewiston.

2008-11-14T13:12:00.000-08:00

I realize it... I am the LAMEST blogger ever. Or at least the most inconsistent blogger of all times. So I apologize. ;)
Many lovely things have been happening lately. =D
-We drove out to Moscow (and Pullman, too. not as nice as Moscow) yesterday... and what a lovely drive! Moscow has a nice old feel to it. I didn't get many pictures of the town itself... but the drive to. Ugh, and some of the pictures got flipped around. No idea why, but it's quite obnoxious.
-I'm on my last course in my Medical Transcription course! But ooooh my, is it frustrating! It's like the doctors forgot how to talk and are regressing to infancy and stumbling over words and stuttering and spitting and chewing while they're talking and purposely exaggerating their "outraaageous French accent!" (in case you've ever watched The Holy Grail; Monty Python of course) I don't mean to complain... I do need to work on my attitude about my school. It is frustrating, but God's given it to me to do, and it's a blessing... and it will help provide for the family. So I'm thankful... despite my complaining. ;)
-My wonderful family will be coming soon! I mean, some of the rest of them. =D =D And just in a few weeks! I never imagined we'd all be together again so soon! I especially never thought we'd be able to have the Hacklers here with us so soon. Having family around and friends that are as good as family... being able to spend hours upon hours with them and still enjoying them so much. Being able to worship with them, enjoy the thought-provoking conversation of like-minded brethren, stay up till 1 in the morning talking about things you can't understand (like God's neverendingness and neverbeginningness), eat pizza together! huddle in the freezing downstairs to watch a movie, or just chill. =) It's just such a wonderful blessing from God. Praise the Lord!
-And we even get visitors! The McClintocks are coming around the same time Jen and fam will get here. And I'm especially hoping the Wierzchowskis will be coming this winter..... I've heard it miiight just be possible! Woohoo!
-I've been seeing more and more of God's truth (cuz He's so faithful and kind to show it... through literature, conversations... and always the Bible. Praise the Lord for giving His Word to us!)... and have come to love the practice and doctrine of the Covenanters in a way I hadn't really before. I didn't really think differently from what I believe presently..... but I've just been so confirmed in those truths and feel them more deeply. I feel almost protective of them. It's God's truth and not one bit of His Word should be thrown aside or taken lightly or considered "insignificant." Who is man to decide what part of God's commands are important enough to obey or suffer for? You hear so often "who are we to say people are sinning because they don't agree with us on... covenanting, civil government, church government, worship in church"... take your pick. These aren't indifferent things. This isn't golf we're talking about, people. These are commands from the Lord that we're obligated to obey because He's saved us from bondage to sin! "If ye love me, keep my commandments." (John 14:15) The Christian has the God-given right to judge between right and wrong practices (in our own lives first, then others), as long as our standard is His Standard, and we judge in charity, mercy and truth.
We have to take stands in life. And yes, we are to love our brothers, even when we disagree with them. But God has Standards... and God help us all to believe them, love them, and live by them! Even when it means separating ourselves from those we love who walk and preach against God's Word.
-Jen (my dear dearest oldest sister!) sent us a lovely package (taped to the hilt, I might add:>) with lovely things in it! Green Mountain coffee for Ang (but of course she's so sweet and shares it with us). How Jen knew that we had been talking about GM coffee for the past few WEEKS and looonging for it, I don't know. But she did. The girl reads our minds, I tell you. =) =) She also sent us the cutest little iceskate decorations... and ribbon! Oooh, how I love ribbon! And I love the ribbon she sent. ;) So the other ladies allowed me to use their iceskates along with mine to decorate our front windows. They're strung up by red striped ribbon, hanging from the curtain rods. And they look lovely. =) I'll have to take a pic of them to show.
-Speaking of taking pics... I need to take one of Emmy's scarf! I finally finished knitting it, a weekish ago. So I decided it need a heart on it (the scarf is cream)... pink hearts, of course. So I wove a heart in it, with much frustration I'll have you know. I've never been skilled in drawing symmetrical hearts, let alone weaving them into a scarf evenly. Anyway. It turned out upside down.... So like when she'd be wearing it, there would be this upside down heart at the end. But Ang and Rach helped me in my stupidity and suggested I add another one.... so I did, right side up! Anyway, it's alllll better now.
-I finished typing up John Brown of Haddington's book. You know, the one with the neverending title. ;) It was an excellent book, though. So I'm starting on another book, and proofreading yet another one. I'm excited. =)

Well, I'm exceeedingly tired now.... haven't put that much time into a post for a while. ;)
So I bid you good night!
And remember, "...whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him." -Col. 3:17.

Driving back from Moscow. (hehe, notice the lovely sourdough biscuits on the dash?)

Pretty countryside between Moscow and Lewiston.

Looking down on Lewiston from the top of the bluffs. Yes, we drove down that windy rode you're looking at. That was sweet.

It was so windy that day! Especially up there! MY goodnessss!!

Anyway... I think Lewiston is beautiful. And Mom definitely likes it more than she used to. =)
We all love it.
Oh yeah, the reason we get five seasons here might be apparent from the pictures. The grass turns green BEFORE winter as well as AFTER winter. So it goes Spring, Summer, Fall, Spring, Winter... etc. =) Don't you just feel the urge to move here now? (Oh, gas is $1.87 now by the way.)

Sigh

2008-11-08T17:10:00.001-08:00

Well, Obama won. But hey! Check out this picture... and look closely at the lit sign. :> :> :> This is across the street from my house.

So like, what reason could you POSSIBLY have not to move to Idaho?!? Lewiston, especially. :>

EEK

2008-11-04T08:20:00.001-08:00

IT'S ELECTION DAY! Pray for God's mercy!

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/president/

Mavis Beacon isn't real!

2008-10-25T10:20:00.001-07:00

(Ok... so I wrote this the other day, and I tried to post it, but it wouldn't work... so just remember, everything I said is a few days old. =) And.. I don't have time to put captions with the pictures right now... housework and all. and we might be goin out for John's birthday too.. oh yeah! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOHN!)
Much to my surprise, and I must say, dismay, Rachael has informed me that Mavis Beacon actually isn't a real person... they made her up. I feel so hurt and deceived... I mean, I thought I could trust Mavis. She encouraged me, when I failed typing tests. She listened to me when I yelled at the computer, again, when I failed typing tests. And she never yelled at me for looking down at the keys instead of typing by memory. We were so close, Mavis and I. And now, to think she's not even real.
ok ok, I'm done.
I don't know what that was all about... :-/ ;)
So yeah! Life's goin good... just eeeeeeeeeeeagerly awaiting the arrival of ALL of my family. Well, I mean... all of my siblings and their families. =D Eeeek, I can't wait! (ooh something smells like fried chicken! oh dear)
The Hacklers have been here for two weeks and one day already! :O :O :O I can't believe how fast it's gone by. It's been sooo lovely. =) At first, it was just shocking, but after a couple seconds it was like they'd never left at all. Well, mostly. ;) But anyway, it's fabulous, and I'm so thankful to God for working it all out. We've had prayer meeting two times now... and it's great. =)
Ang and Rach are still trying to get work... it didn't work out at Safeway for a certain position... but the front end manager (or somebody) said that if a cashier position opens up, Ang is at the top of the list. So Lord willing something will open up, if not at Safeway... somewhere. We still haven't heard back from Rosauers (another grocery store) about Rach working there. So if y'all could pray for all that, that'd be awesome.
Oooh, while we were on a walk yesterday morning... we found a very cute house for rent. It looks like a 2 (maaaaaybe 3) bedroom house... WITH a finished basement, though. We peaked inside the windows, of course. ;) So Ang gave them a call and left a message, and we haven't heard back yet. It's pretty close to us, which would be really awesome. We live on the corner of 20th St. and 11th Ave, and that house is on 15th Ave and 11th St, if you can picture that.
And now to the main point of my post, which I am shamefully late in attending to. ;)
We looked at the house Larry and Jen are going to rent Lord willing, when the get here. And it's SOO GREAT. He's painting the walls inside, and I must say, he has great taste in color. I didn't get very good or very many pictures... they certainly don't do the house justice. BUT, it is something.

I love this.

2008-10-20T14:30:00.000-07:00

Guacamole it is

2008-10-15T23:12:00.000-07:00

As you see, from my poll (with all SIX people voting, hehe), guacamole is the best. The bomb diggity. Creme de la creme. Mucho quatorse excellante? Oh yeah.
Well, life has been just fine and dandy, with the Hacklers here now!! YAY! I must say, they're an awful (but oh so very fun) distraction from my school and work. Quite a welcome one, to be sure. ;)
But, this has got to be very quick, cuz it's very late and I have to get up very early so I can get very much done in my school and work and be done very early in the afternoon........ I'm feeling very extreme right now.
But news... yes news. Ang has an interview with Safeway tomorrow morning! Praise the Lord! And, for anyone who doesn't know... Dad and I are both working for Justin presently... and Lord willing more in the future. I'm typing up a book that Justin wants to publish and Dad is doing the editing of my typing. Hehe, makes you a little nervous having your dad do the editing of your work. " /:-\ Am I doing it right? Making too many mistakes? Aah!" But he said I was doing good work, so that's comforting. ;)
I'm sure I could think of something else to say, but I really have to go. But I'll post a picture along with this. It's old... but I just can't bring myself to post without a picture. I'll be taking pictures soon.... yes. I will. Lord willing. But I am very determined. hehe.
Love you all!!

A little something we like to call... Polish Sunbathing.

L-O-V-E

2008-10-06T19:05:00.000-07:00

Oh, goodness. Don't you just love this song? If you can't hear anything... turn your volume up. Oh, it just makes me so happy inside. hehe. Before a few months ago... this song didn't mean half as much to me as it does now... so I shall tell you why. ;) When Jen's house was on the market... someone had the great idea of making a slideshow of pictures of the house to play on my laptop while people would be looking at the house... which ended up being pictures of the house, pictures of cute little girly-poos, pictures of flowers, pictures of Josh and Emmy in the pool. Stuff like that. So I got the privilege of putting it all together... and putting it to the song L-O-V-E by Nat King Cole.... arranging and rearranging the pictures to match certain parts of the song (the lyrics, instrumental climax, and all that). hehe, Needless to say MUCH time was spent on it. ;) And, needless to say I heard that song a gajillion times. Also needless to say, whenever I hear that song, I think of all the pictures in the slide. And I love those pictures, and I miss being there with my family... so yeah. I love this song. It like, instantly sends me home. *sigh* Feeling nostalgiac. ;) Oh, I pray God lets us all be together soon.
Speaking of being together, Ang and the gang (well, most of the gang) will be here DAY AFTER TOMORROW. I can't even begin to say how excited I am. Like... exclamations marks DON'T cut it. I've never in my life been as... well, isolated, as I am now. And especially not from my family. And I definitely consider Ang family... so this is really... psycherific.
Speaking of family... I know this is SHAMEFULLY late... but, as they say, hey at least it's not a month late. No, I know...as they say, better late than never.
So let's see, about 4 days ago... the very most special lady in my life had a birthday. And she would be my Mama. =D There are so many things to say about her, it's hard to know where to begin.
My mom is the most hard-working woman I've ever known. Rain or shine, she works. She works when she's exhausted; when she should be laying down cuz her back's out; in the morning when she should still be sleeping but she "just couldn't sit still any longer!", so she goes outside and weeds the garden, or makes a beautiful rock ridge around the garden, or makes a new garden entirely!; not only does she work when she's depressed, when she is, she works because she's depressed (imagine the amount of work this woman does! it's practically incomprehensible); and finally, she works even when you think there's no other work she could possibly come up with. But she does. =) And she does it well. She does it for her family. And most importantly, she does it to the glory of God, whom she loves with all her heart. As you may know, as a younger girl and through most of my teenage years, I've certainly not been the picture of diligence. Nope, on the contrary. But my Mom and her beautiful example has inspired me and convicted me so often to be hard-working. And I thank God for that, because slothfulness is such a shame to Him. It's ungratefulness, cuz we should be serving Him with every ounce of strength in our being. So if I turn out to be half as godly and devoted as my Mom is... I'll be very thankful.
My Mom is still absolutely in love with my Dad, and has given much for him, and will always give for him.
She loves her children with all her heart. All. Her. Heart. I can't emphasize it enough. If you were living with her right now, being away from most of her children, you might begin to understand what I mean. =) And it's a wonderful thing, how she loves us!
She loves the Lord and serves Him with her heart, soul, mind and strength. She loves to spend time with Him, and talk about Him.
She's a comfort, she's an inspiration, she's a motivator, she's hilarious, she's just adorable, she's a home-maker, she's a good "shaper-upper" (when you need it:> ), plain old fun... and well, she's just a great Mom. And I love her to pieces! In the words of Abrams (from Chariots of Fire, great movie), she is "my most perfect" woman. =)
So, Happy Birthday to a Wonderful Woman!!!!!!! All my love, Mama!

Pictures!

2008-09-30T21:32:00.000-07:00

No way, huh? I know, this post is a few days late. ;) But, here it is.
I haven't gotten pictures of the entiiiire house.. didn't get any of our quite large downstairs. We have a big family room, a spare bedroom, bathroom, AND two big storage rooms down there. It's pretty cool. We love this house, actually. (except for the carpet in the bathrooms... well, in the rest of the house for that matter) Too bad we can't pick it up and drop it in the country somewhere.
Anyhoo!

My bedroom! Yes, I have a bedroom... with a bed in it. :>
Sorry, it's been a while. ;) Actually, it's kinda weird sleeping on a bed... I miss the couch, haha. It just feels right.
(oh, and see how nicely Manda's furniture goes in our house? we get to use their stuff while they're in Wisconsin. I'll trade them for the furniture, though. Can't wait till they come!!)

The beautiful butterfly Micaiah gave to me. XOXO

The living room! I love it. =D (and more of Manda's furniture, hehe)

Mama and Daddy's room. For some weird reason, I got the strangest angles... no full-room shots.
Anyway, you'll get to see it when you come. :>

The dining room and kitchen in back.

Our view from our front window... see the little "L" in the middle of the mountains? Yeah, that stands for Lewiston. ;)

Up 20th St.

Not a great shot of the house, but there it is.

My cute cute cute dog.

The swing... there's a clothes line right in back of me, too. :D

Mitchum's blanket!! I finally got it finished! So I'll be sending it soon, Kris. ;)

Well, I gotta go.... have a good night, everyone.

"Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us, To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace." -Luke 1:78 & 79

aHAH

2008-09-26T18:58:00.000-07:00

Hah! Finally! Uploading works. I'm feeling kind of powerful now, somehow. :P
Anyway, this is a pic of Eastern Idaho.... really pretty. Mom's dreamland, actually.

I don't have time to post long. Tomorrow I'm gonna try to get house pictures taken. My room is DONE. Ooooh my goodnesss, that took forever! Well, not the actually unpacking, but the getting to the unpacking. Cuz, I did the kitchen the first night... then it was the Lord's day. Then pretty much every day after that we had to go out for some reason or another. But anyway, I'm psyched. And so I'll take pics. :D I love our living room.. it's so.... like home.
Anyway, gotta go! Wives and Daughters is calling Mom and me. ;)
Toodles! Take care, everyone!

Let's see...

2008-09-19T20:23:00.000-07:00

I wanted to see if picture-posting would work tonight. We got a house! We started moving in today... then tomorrow some college guys are gonna help us move the rest in... since we don't have anyone here to help with the heavier stuff. So yeah. Praise the Lord!! A house at last! A kitchen! A bedroom!! A couch! Aah!! So exciting. Don't have much time to post yet, my legs hurt. And yes that directly affects my ability to be on the computer and type and all that. ;) For anyone who's seen Nicholas Nickleby, ".... which prevents him from holding a pen!" Aaaaw, I miss hearing Jackson quote that scene!!! :(
K.. well I tried to post a pic, and it didn't work. Guess it's not IE's fault, Rach. ;)

Have a good night, y'all!

Nevermind

2008-09-17T16:07:00.001-07:00

I can't post any pictures cuz well... not quite sure. Blogger's not letting me, and I can't on photobucket.... ech.
so I'll try another time. ;)

Yikes

2008-09-17T16:07:00.000-07:00

So we're here! And it's been a crazy/incredibly boring/sad/hopeful 5 days since we got here. We were afraid we weren't gonna be able to find a place where we could keep Daisy... well, basically we applied to rent a house... and we would've been getting rid of her this weekend. =( BUT! Oh my goodness, the Lord is so kind! Dad had an interview at St. Joseph for MT (we're waiting for the verdict)... so Mom and I decided to go check out the health food store (no comments, Rachael ;D)... so on the way to Vig's, we see another health food store. So, of course, we stop in. We spent a while looking at all their stuff (they have an aaaaaawesome selection. toonnns of skin care products. :> ), then when we were done looking, we started talking to the store owner. So he told us he has this house he's going to rent out... and depending on the people, would let them have pets. Anyway, long story short... we're pretty sure we've found a house to rent and keep Daisy! oh my gosh, I'm so relieved. I would've died w/o Daisy. :P So we have yet to look inside the house.... but it looks pretty good. It's a big, white house... which! he is re-doing to some degree. He's going to redo the kitchen, rip up the carpet throughout the house and put linoleum in(it's really pretty lineolum). So I'm pretty psyched!!!!!!!
Well, I have some pics to post.... but my blog isn't letting me post pictures... that's why there's no picture at the top of my page. ;) So I'm gonna try posting in my Picasa album... or photobucket or something. Anyway, I'll post a link to it on here.
Toodles! I'm prayin for y'all!

On the road again...

2008-09-12T05:29:00.000-07:00

1. I just have to say, travelling with time change is really annoying. And I'm tired. :P
2. We're in Montana right now... it's really beautiful here. In my opinion, not quite is pretty as NY, though... it's just very different. Oooh, but the snowy peaks are so gorgeous! They remind me of travelling back and forth to Prince George all those times.
3. Obama is really scary.
4. So is TV.
5. We'll be in Lewiston in 6-ish hours, from the time we actually get on the road.
6. Daisy spends the whole day in the car with her head buried in some kind of cave-like hole and panting frantically. She's really scared of the freeway noise. :P
7. I NEED TO DO LAUNDRY. On just one pair of jeans, I have accumulated berry juice, Starbucks' Mocha Frap (from Ed and Hannah. They were sooo good, thanks!), GUM, ink, sauce from a hamburger (??), and of course, a bountiful supply of dog hair.
8. If you get time to today, LISTEN TO "Tequilla" by the Champs! It's like the #1 most fun song in the world.
9. Last, but not least: A very Happy (and belated) Birthday to Jackson! The boy is 14!!! I can't believe how old he is. And he's getting so big... and turning into such a good man. =D Love you, Jack! And Miss you!!!

So long, everyone! And to most of my readers, see you in Idaho sometime!! =D

The Caravan's Leaving!

2008-09-07T23:04:00.000-07:00

Yes, at 3 in the morning.

Happy trails! ;)

FLORIDA

2008-08-29T07:13:00.000-07:00

was so much fun. Oooh my goodness.
Here are two pics from the trip. The first one is from Florida, and the sunrise pic is on Jekyll Island, Georgia... one beeeaauutiful island.

Yes, Jackson died on that trip. ;)

Sigh... I need to go to Jekyll and Florida again. Anyone going? :>

11 Days

2008-08-22T19:14:00.000-07:00

ELEVEN DAYS until we move! Pretty exciting... and sad, cuz I won't see the Jen fam and the Josh and Amanda fam for a few months. :( The Birgers are gonna be staying here til Novemberish, and Josh and Amanda will be going to Wisconsin for a few months so Josh can get some experience working with Mr. Wierzchowski. I'm not gonna have any cute little babies to hug and love on... and no nephews to beat on, hehe. (in a fun way, of course)

I was in deep depression when I first heard Josh and Amanda weren't coming along with us. Now I'm in... not-quite-as-deep-but-still-pretty-bad depression. :P But! We'll all be together again, soon Lord willing! And... I have some hope that a certain girly sibling of mine might be moving Idaho-way in the hopefully-near future! And I hope the Hacklers can move there soon so much!! I miss them like crazy. If only my othah brothah would make it out that way, too. 4 of us siblings will be together though this Monday, for the first time in about 4 years. It'll be sad saying good-bye to Nate.

Haha, I wish I would've had my camera out earlier tonight. Micaiah's got his flashlight out... and pointing it at his armpit, trying to show "Mum-mum" (my mom) his armpit hair. Haha, it takes quite keen eyesight to see it. lol, and since Greg didn't have any armpit hair, he took the flashlight and started pointing it up his nose "Hey look I have nose hair!" It's so hilarious... and cute, they very much want to be men. =D Micaiah shaved 3 times yesterday... with his bladeless razor and lotion. =D It's great, I love it.

Oooh, I got some exciting stuff in the mail today. :D Beka W. sent me my pictures I took while we were at Jekyll Island and Florida! I had to upload them to her computer while we were there so I could empty out my memory card... so yeah. I got them today!! I'm SO excited! I've wanted my Florida pics soo bad. :D So I'll have to post some of those eventually. ;)

And I had ordered some stuff from http://www.lush.com/ , and that came today, too. :D I got this funky hair conditioner bar... which works quite well... especially for a "healthy-hippie" type company. :P And! I got this patchouli deoderant bar... usually I can't stand the smell of patchouli, but this stuff is really nice. And it works! Oh my goodness, trying to find a deoderant that actually works, lol. It's pretty sad. But yeah, this stuff works and I'm psyched.

Then I got one of my recent quizzes back from At-Home Professions (the people I'm doing the medical transcription course through).. and got an A. Praise the Lord! That's so encouraging.

Here's a great song... people need to do this more often. Take Scripture and make a song out of it. http://www.last.fm/music/The+Byrds/_/Turn%21+Turn%21+Turn%21+%28To+Everything+There+Is+a+Season%29

Anyway... here are some oldish pics... a few months old.

Here are the colors I'm using in Mitchum's blanket... I'm almost done, yay!

lol, No idea.

Ooh, a treasure chest. :>

Josh's awesome margaritas! He's the best margarita-maker ever.

Fun times.

Mad skillz.

Settin up our awesome campfire and benches.

How adorable is this picture??

And this one's pretty cute, too. :D

And, well... this one's kinda weird. It's a horse-tail worm, I think. I found it while having my secret worship outside one day... so many things to find out here.

Jen's Birthday! lol, we have some other really crazy pics of Jen with her hat on and Mom looking somewhat like Rambo with her bandana across her forehead, and all. We call her: "Rambita" :P

lol

So sweet. =D

The day Big Papa died. That was an amazing storm the night before. Constant lightning flashing. It was aaawesome.

It was a really big tree.

Haha, Jenni really likes trees. :P

And look what we found in the pool filter that morning.

Aaaw, I miss my baby!!

A family affair. ;)

And the tent was still there!

And I just have to post a picture of my doggy... cuz I love her so much and she's so cute. She's a lap dog beagle. :P

Well, toodles!

Pictures!

2008-08-19T18:23:00.000-07:00

It's Mom and Dad's anniversary today! 36 years. Pretty amazing, huh?
Well, I've managed to post a bunch of pictures finally. Life's crazy. Whatever. :P
Not much news. Just doin the same old same old. Organizing, getting rid of stuff to sell in our second moving sale this Saturday (ooh not another <:( oh well), school, cooking, packing, mentally preparing for the move to Idaho (which, may I remind you, is in THREE WEEKS FROM TODAY), trying to figure out jobs so we can have an income, wondering where we're going to live when we get there. Ya know, normal stuff like that. :P
But here are some things we discovered last week:
1. Mom and I have decided we need to write a dictionary of "Words That Aren't, But Should Be"
2. Gregory found out he can crack his foot 84 times in a row
3. Micaiah discovered he's getting armpit hair
4. Jen and I have come to realize that life would be so much easier if we were llamas
Aaanyway, here are the pics. ;)

Jalapeno peppers! Yay!

Roma tomatoes. I love the way they look.

Ever seen an eggplant blossom? Pretty funky.

The remains of Big Papa.

The veggie garden.

Clematis.

Addie, oh so cute as usual.

Kissing her "fishy." (a leaf, actually)

She was so excited to get outside. With everyone being so busy, we hardly have time to take her out.

Echinacea. Oooh, the smell reminds me so much of our acreage in Canada. Soo many fun memories at that house.

Micaiah's nasturtium. It has so many blossoms and is sooo pretty.

The pond, green from my beta food. I didn't know it would turn it green! AND I had permission. Oh well, we're moving anyway. :P

"See these nails?" A lecture on nail hygiene. ;)

Latest cover for "Vogue" magazine.

Trying to hug Daisy.

Haha, something about trying on shirts and not getting lipstick or foundation or something on them.

Oh, I love her hair. So adorable. :D

"Ooh, delicious Oatmeal. What would I ever do without you?"
Ugh, and notice the fly on the towel? It's a conspiracy. They lurk at the back door, waiting for the precise moment when someone opens the door to attack. And attack they do. We've counted over 20 flies in the kitchen and dining room in one morning alone. Evil creatures.

Sportin Prada. Oh yeah.

Micaiah telling us about the wonderful things from his magazine. Guns, knives, bows, tools, and whatever other contraption you can imagine. ;)

Food is always so much better when it's not on your own plate. That's what Addie thinks anyway. She likes to throw her food on the floor for "Daishe" to eat, then go to someone else's plate and steal their food. ;)

Can't post long...

2008-08-17T17:35:00.000-07:00

Just wanted to post a line from Dad's sermon we listened to today: "There should be no one in the world who enjoys life more than the Christian."
I love that. Cuz you know, we're human beings, therefore life will be hard! But... as Christians we of all people should be the absolute happiest and most joyful people. We have the comfort and security of knowing that everything is for our own good, and that should make us happier than anyone!
Well, that's all. I'll be postin some pictures pretty soon. Mostly old ones though. Still don't know what happened to those pics I was gonna post that disappeared. Ugh.
Take care everyone! Have a good Lord's day!

Wedding dress!

2008-08-13T18:13:00.000-07:00

Oooh I'm so excited! Jenni gave me her wedding dress today! And I looove it. Mom took some rosettes off the bodice for me so that it'll be.. well, less 90's. ;) But it's such a beautiful dress. Haha, not like I'm getting married or anything. :P But it's fun to have. =)
We got some pics... I forgot to put the veil on though. Oh well.

Hmm, I don't think I know how to take a serious picture.

2008-08-13T17:21:00.000-07:00

Well... I was planning on posting some really cute pics of the kids... but my computer has stolen them and will not tell me where they are. SO frustrating! But I'll post what remains.
So life's been insanely busy, yada yada. :P Larry and Jen accepted an offer on the house! So we'll be leaving for Idy on Sept. 8th. Pretty freaky, man.
Haha, I'm so annoyed at my pics being lost I can't even think of anything to say. :P
Let's see.... I've gotten pretty far on crocheting the blanket for Mitchum. Which is pretty cool, cuz I've never made anything this big before. Ooh, and I learned how to knit! Yay it's so fun. Weird and different, but pretty fun.
Aaw we got rid of Buddy today. Very sad very sad.
Well, I'm gonna git... will post something more interesting soon I'm sure. ;)

A new beginning...

2008-08-13T16:43:00.000-07:00

Obnoxious, huh?? All those posts, gone! But anyway... Here it is. Gotta find some pictures to post.