"Campmeeting"

On Friday we went to Faith Baptist Camp to their thanksgiving meeting. It was a really good day. Bro. Kidd did the preaching that night. It was a good message. One person got saved that night. We got home that night at about 2:00 am. I did not wake up until 11:45 Saturday. Today Momma and I went shopping for my dad's pickle addiction!! He has been carving pickles for the last week, so we finally broke down and got him some of his pickles. The weather here today is kinda yucky, it is rainy and cold with a threat of tornandos later on tonight. I don't think there will be any snow for us this year. Well there normally is none anyway. We have not done any Christmas shopping at all yet, so it will be a big time rush to get everything we need for everybody!! Have you started yet??

"Thanksgiving"

Today we did the shopping for our Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow. I am looking forward to the family being together. We will be having at my Grandparents house, which is what we do always do. I really don't have much else to say other than.........HAPPY THANKGIVING!!

I am thankful for,

My bible.

My Church.

My Salvation.

My family.

A roof over my head.

Shoes on my feet.

Food on the table.

A bed to sleep on.

Friends to talk to.

And many, many more.

Don't forget to thank God for all of his blessings!!!

God bless and happy Thanksgiving.

"Cold Weather"

Today I have been trying to keep myself warm. It has been really cold and windy here. I think our tops for today was 49*. Our house is really old and does not stay warm because it is not well insulated. We had our peak in the fall season last week, the tree were so pretty. We live near a highway that has trees up and down everywhere along the road and we have to take that road to church. I love going down that road at this time of year. I love the holidays that come at this time of year as well. We bought the turkey for our Thanksgiving meal last week. I am really excited about the cooking and baking!!! I am not sure what I am making yet, but I am sure it will more than likely be a dessert of some kind. There are a lot of Thanksgiving memorys as well. Like last year, Ronnie and my Uncle Chris decided that they would do some of the cooking!! BAD IDEA! They made a Oatmeal Orange Peel dessert.....(gag) It was really bad, everyone that took a bite had to go and wash their mouth out afterward!! It was horrible. Or the year the turkey grease caught the stove on fire. Althrough that we have had some really good times together. This Sunday we will be having our Thanksgiving dinner at the church. I am really looking forward to the time spent together with the church. I am gonna go now. I want to hear your Thanksgiving memories that you have!! No matter what they are!

THURSDAY

I am sorry that I have not put anythingon here in a while. I have been meaning to. I wanted to do a audioblog but it would not work for some odd reason. Today my dad went to another doctor just to find out that he does not have Fibromyalgia. They also said that he needs to have a bone scan done on his chest. They don't have any idea what is wrong with him. So another doctor and another opinion. Church last night was really good. Not many were there, but it was a good service. Karlee is now crawling and getting into everything!!! She is becoming more of a handful! But we love her to death. Hope everyone is having a good Thursday!

Our Tacky Day.

Saturday our church had Tacky day. We had a really great time. I won the Tackiest teen award. My dad got the Tackiest Adult. He looked really funny. I will have pictures to put on when I get the film developed. I am not sure on when that will be yet, but I hope to have it done soon. We played games, had a dessert judging contest and just had alot of fun. We had some pretty tacky looking people there Saturday. I think that my dad was the all time tackiest!!!! He looked absolutely funny!!! Well....that is about all. How is everyone and how did your weekend go?

Hot Water Heater Disaster.

Well...it all started when we came home from church last night. When we entered our driveway we saw water everywhere. Of course that brought out the question of " Where is that coming from?". We discovered when we walked into the house that the hot water heaters valve had been broke off. Of whole downstairs was about 4 tpo 5 inches under water. A lot of my brothers stuff got ruined. When our landlord came over to see what had happened........he discovered that the valve cover had been chewed off by my mom's dog Addie. There was Michelle, my mom, our landlord and I standing a different spots with brooms sweeping out the water that just kept coming back into the house. Then about 1 1/2 later our landlord remembers...OH YEAH..I have a shopvac at the house let me go and get it! While he went to get the shopvac we still kept sweeping in hopes that the water would stay out. Needless to say that did not work. After our landlord returned with the vac..my mom got to work on getting all the water up. As soon as I got up this morning I went to work with my mom on tackling Ronnie's room. That it self was a very hard and long job. Ronnie's room is in the basement, so when we got to work moving stuff to finish cleaning we discovered that my brother was living with spiders, scorpions, millipedes and a baby snake!!!! I was having a fit when I saw all the things that we found. Thankfully they all drowned in the water!!!! That was how our day yesterday and some of today went. It is all fixed now. :) Well....How is everyone else today? The weather is really cold here. I am about to freeze! Let us know what it's like where you are at!!

Peanut Butter Cookies

Hey Everyone, how is everybody doing? We had a good service last night. My Dad has been doing a study on Wednesday nights in 1 Corinthians, they have been good. Today I have been doing a study that I am working on about JW's. It is really interresting. I have also been babysitting and I made some homemade peanut butter cookies. They are really good. Here is the recipe.

Peanut Butter Cookies

1 Cup Sugar

1 Cup Peanut Butter

1 egg

Turn the oven on to 350*

Take a spoonful of the dough and roll it in your hands and form it into a ball.

Once you have done that place it on the pan and take a fork and press down on it so that it make a fluffy and flat cookie.

Makes about 1 dozen and a half.

Redneck Or Hillbilly??

Would you consider going out in your front yard using a kitchen knife and plyers to cut down a rather large bush redneck or hillbilly?? This is what my mother and I were just doing! It was one of those really prickly bushes. The one with those leaves that have like 5 little pricks on them. I have a lot of itty-bitty dots on my hands and arms. Just so you all know, we did not have the proper tools for the job so we made due with what we had on hand!!! And a kitchen knife seemed to be the pick!! Please give me your opinion, I am not sure which one we are!
Signed,
The REDNECK or The HILLBILLY

Gonna be busy!!!

I just wanted to let everybody know that on Friday I will not be able to do a post. It all starts at 7:00 am. We have to go and get Karlee, meet Robbyn at 9:00 to take Michelle to her and pick up J and Aaron, come home and get ready to leave at 10:30 for my orthodontist appointment, come home get lunches ready, go grocery shopping ( maybe ), come home get dinner, take Karlee back to her mother, meet Robbyn again to pick up Michelle and take her boys back to her and then we finally get to come home and stay home!! So needless to say, Friday is gonna be busy!!!! As far as today goes....I am feeling at bit nauseated. I think that I may have caught what is going around our church at the moment. So please pray that I will get to feeling better as today goes on. I would really hate to miss church tonight!! So...how is everybody else?

The Days Happenings

Well...today has been somewhat uneventful!! There is the usual watching of Karlee and cooking and picking things up. I have also been reading a book. It is a series by Janette Oke. They are really good books. There is a total of 6 and I am on the 4th one. It is about a girl in her late teens going to teach at a backwoods school house. While there she marries and her husband is in law enforcement, which takes him from place to place every 3 to 4 years. She finds it very hard to live the way the people around her do. She and her husband are among Indians at all times. It takes her quite a while to learn the Indian dialect in which they use. In the mean time she finds many hardships and longs for a child and her family back east. She has to keep her faith in God and remember that He is always there for her when she needs Him the most. She and her husband are more like missionaries in the areas in which they serve. I have found this book to help me understand just a bit of what a missionary goes through and makes we want to pray for them even the more. If anyone is interrested in these books you can go to www.janetteoke.com and look for the books in " The Canadian West Series"

A Good Revival.

The revival that we had last week was really good. There was no one saved, but a lot of people got a lot of help. The revival kept me from being able to put anything on here for being so busy. We had Bro. Bobby Barnes preach for us. Pray for his wife Sis. Patty, she has a lot of health issues and was not able to travel with him to our meeting. She hated not being there and we hated that she was not able to make it. What was everyones week like?? I hope it was a good for everyone!!!