November 5, 2008
Every blog I click on I expect a political post. I don’t want to disappoint anyone so here goes.
Is anyone really surprised? I can’t say that I am. Although I had hoped and prayed and hoped and prayed that the outcome would be different. Now that it’s over, we can get on with our lives! Anyone else tired of all the political commercials?
I know that we are disappointed, but this didn’t bring God by surprise. He knew exactly what was going to happen. I know He hears and answers our prayers, but this time the answer was, “No”. Now what do we do? We keep praying! We need to pray for Obama’s salvation and that he would seek God’s wisdom. I know God can change him, however, Obama would have to let Him. If he doesn’t go God’s way, we might be in for some hard times, but who said we should always have it easy? I believe this election just might be what brings us back to God.
The other thing we need to do is be respectful and make our children be respectful. My kids were horribly disappointed. In fact Shaylee said, “Let’s move to Egypt”! (I don’t know why she thinks it would be better there! 
) I explained to them that we still must respect him as the President of the United States even though we can’t respect what he stands for. I’m not trying to be super-spiritual, but I really don’t like some of the jokes going around. God allowed this man to be elected and we must accept that.
So there’s my soapbox for today!
Oh, yeah, and I’m STILL PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!!!!
October 29, 2008
* Youth Challenge
* Taking care of two sick little girls
* Play practice at school
* Cleaning other peoples houses – mine, however, is suffering!
* Sarah Palin Rally – Yeah!!
* Church revival
* Preparing a meal for students on Friday
* Entertaining for Fellowship Night
* Old Fashion Day at UBC
* Painting the girls’ room
* Painting our new shed
There’s no way I could update on everything so there ya go. That’s a little sample of what I’ve been doing.
Oh, yeah, and I turned another year older!
October 13, 2008
What bothers you the most? Coming home to:
Dirty Dishes 58%
Food left out 20%
Unmade beds 11%
Cluttered bathroom 7%
Unfolded laundry 4%
I think I would have to agree with the majority.
October 11, 2008
I figured everyone was tired of seeing our pictures so thought I better write something new. Not much happening around here (that’s “bloggable” anyway). Last night, we took a much-needed family night and took the kids to play miniature golf. We also went to Puccinis’ Smiling Teeth. Sounds weird, huh? But it was DELICIOUS! It’s a pizza place, but they have all kinds of Italian food. They have great prices and it’s very kid friendly – we ate outside. Today I’m feverishly trying to get my house ready for company coming tomorrow. And of course, I’m taking a little break. You just need those every now and then. Well, gotta go run the vacuum and hope the floors stay clean until tomorrow evening! (Yeah, right)
September 26, 2008
Sara and Jenny did this and I thought it was hilarious! I had a hard time getting our faces straight, but they’re still funny.
(I have no idea why this one is bigger than the rest!)
Tee Hee!
September 23, 2008
We are infested with crickets around here! Are they bad where you are? We’ve even had several in the house and they totally gross me out. If you smash them, well, let’s just say they are messy and I sure can’t stand to pick them up dead or alive! So I do what any wife would do and let my husband take care of them. What to do when he’s gone? It dawned on me the other day, I have a little man in the house! So I holler for Kendrick to come and get this huge cricket! He was my hero that day. He came in and started chasing it as it was hopping around the room. He finally got it and carried it outside for me with a grin on his face. He made his momma proud!
September 19, 2008
I found a new way to do dishes! I was unloading my washing machine and found this:
Man, I wish I would’ve thought of that many years ago when I didn’t have a dishwasher!
September 17, 2008
AT the WINDY lake!
September 16, 2008
We’re home from a mini-vacation with my family. We haven’t gone anywhere together for years so we thought it was time. Even though we all live in the same town, we don’t get quality time together. We had a blast. We went -what we thought would be- three hours away. Let’s see, we left Frankfort around 1:00 pm Friday and got to our destination around 8:00pm!! No, we didn’t have any problems — just 17 people to please! Potty breaks, gas stops, supper , etc. We were soooo glad to finally arrive.
I won’t go into major details since I don’t have pictures. Some things you have to see to appreciate! We went to Holiday World on Saturday. If you’ve never been there, it’s worth the trip. It’s a very nice, clean park and they have free drinks all day! Some of my family members are realizing how old they are, though. Roller Coasters aren’t quite as fun as they used to be! Actually, I think our favorite day was Sunday. We got the effects of Ike and it was quite scary, but we made many memories. We went to the lake to have church and it turned out it was too windy. We had to scream at each other to hear anything! Good thing we were there, though, because there was a man in a boat trying to come to shore and couldn’t quite make it. Jeff saw he was in trouble so ran to help him and held the boat while he went to get his truck. I don’t know how long he would have been stranded if we hadn’t been there! We had to stop on the way back to the cabin to clear the road so we could get through!
We got back to the cabin only to find that we had no power! While Dad was “preaching”, we heard this HORRIBLE sound. We all ran to the door and there it was — a tree had fallen right in front of our cabin and landed on the grill that we were getting ready to use! It was really freaky! Thank the Lord we weren’t out there when it happened. It could have easily killed one of us. (We found out later that someone it that county was killed that day by a falling tree.) Thankfully, there was another grill to use and a fire pit. Travis grilled us some delicious steaks and we fried potatoes and warmed up rolls over the fire. It was a yummy meal! It was quite interesting cleaning up and packing with no electricity, but we made it and are now home safe and sound!
See Julie’s blog for photos. And be sure to ask her about embarrassing Travis in the grocery store parking lot!
