Behold The Creativity Of The King

Have you ever wondered how much learning your brain can take? Ugh. I'm at that point. I am not exaggerating when I say that it feels like God's teaching me about a million things all at once. How to love people, being confident in Him, doing what you were made to do despite the people that discourage you, His joy, warfare etc.etc.. So my immediate human reaction is to just sit there dumbstruck and just say "I can't handle all of this". That's always what I did when I would get overwhelmed with math, just shut down. I would get so overwhelmed I couldn't process the information. But I (thankfully) have caught myself. Just be patient, and quiet. Yes, quiet. Sit in peace. Just listen. Read the Word. And talk to other Christians. Quite a few things that have swirled around in my head has been confirmed by a scripture in a FB status, a twitter update, a text. It's pretty incredible. But I'm still having trouble, I want to learn SO bad! It feels like I'm not moving fast enough. But yes, I know, all in due time. It's like God's giving me a taste of what's to come.. And man! I want some more! So in the mean time, I keep reading, praying, praising.. It's awesome :)

Also, I've been feeling like I should either start a Bible study, or join one. It's like, in a war, you don't get trained individually, you, as a group, learn together. You get exercise (spiritually in this case) as a group. You support each other, you listen, talk, learn from people. But I guess I will just wait until something is presented.

On a different note: Spring is almost here!!!



My guys :)



First thing they do when they go down to the field...



Singing

Well, as people who know me know... I do sing a lot.. But for some reason it was a lot of fun listening to them try to get me to...

Florida

Florida. Sunshine. Eighty degrees. Horses. Ahhhhh.

Today may be my last day in Florida. Then again, maybe not... :) Here's some pics from this week!

My cousin Paul and I.

My Knight being beastly.

Hey! It's a palm tree!

Bryan=Awesome

A 25 inch hot dog... And he went for dessert.

Me cooling Gwen out.

Never a dull moment.

Oh life has been... Interesting.

Last night I was over at Katrinas for the 4-H judging team meeting. So we were sitting there, and I noticed she had a scanner. Like a police scanner to where you can hear truckers... Or anyone who has a scanner! So every time it would beep, I'd stick my head next to it to hear what they were saying.. Well after awhile I hear " Possible chimney fire on N. Lick Creek Road. I thought to myself "There's only like 4 people on the north side of that road, I wonder who it is..." Then I hear a squawk, and  "Address: 6621" My face turned all red and I looked at everyone and said "that's my house!" So I texted mom "Hey, uh, what's up?" She was pretty surprised I knew about it before she actually told me. So anyway, we're all okay, they said it was a contained floo fire. Mom said it smelled like burnt rubber. So when the firemen came in, they thought it was actually a skunk! So being the little detective that she is, mom noticed that Phoebe (our German Shepherd) smelled like death warmed over. But it was the same smell as the fireplace! So here's our new theory. Phoebe messed with a skunk over by the muck pile, it sprayed it's lovely scent, then dad brought the wood up to the porch that night. So when the wood got warmed up in the fireplace, the skunk oil started to stink... And the whole house with it. So we still don't know if it was actually a fire or not. Oh well.

So after that crappy day, today mom and I went to Target to get food for this weekend (my brother is coming into town). And she surprised me by buying me a new camera for my birthday/trip to Florida! I am pretty much in love with the thing... Here's some pictures that I took with it while mom was in various stores :) (Note: Most of these were taken either from inside the car, or out a window.. Pretty dang good if you ask me!)

If I ever write a book on newspaper box thingy's, this would be the cover picture  :)

Taken from inside the car out the windshield. It's so clear!

No, I don't have some weird ladder fetish.. I was playing with the focus :)

Playing with the focus once again...

Oh Fudge!

You would think this was a guy's post.

Car's. Poker. Food. *Burp*

Had a great weekend with our friends Jessica, and Heather.

While waiting for mom while she was in Hobby Lobby, we spotted this: Oh, how beautiful. We all got out and took pictures on our cell phones, and on our camera. Then promptly ran back to the truck just in case the owner came back out and saw us drooling over it. Might not be appreciated.

So this past week Hannah finished draft one of her novel. Quite exciting! I'm on page 49, and got stuck there because I was tired of reading. But I'm sure she's going to get on me about reading more today. Anyway, Jessica got a couple pages in. And then we decided to play poker or some other horrendous activity.

Oh yes, the typical teenage-girl-in-store picture. Yes, Heather (Right) ran over to the hat's and was like "We need a picture!" So of course, being the designated picture taker that I am.... She spotted the umbrella and started to open it, then she remembered it is bad luck to open an umbrella inside. Oh well, now we just have a random half hearted umbrella in the picture. Add's to the whimsy.

Oh, and we played poker. A lot. Well, Euchre, which really isn't poker. But card's nevertheless. We introduced mom and dad to the game KEMPS. Which was quite entertaining. Dad was crazy good! He and Jess's cue thing was eye contact. EYE CONTACT! That is totally not fair. I mean, you sorta get the idea someones trying to get their partner to see, but you're waiting on something a little more than eye contact. Anyway, Hannah and I beat them once, then they creamed us. Oh well.

I would also include pictures of the bowling, but as all bowling pictures.. They suck. They're all blurry, and makes us look like we have three sets of teeth and 4 eyes. Not very attractive. 

Adieu! (I hope that mean's "bye" in some language, not "spinach" or something)

Olivia's 1'st Birthday!

The weirdest feeling-

So after a full day of work, I went to Nashville to get some dinner. Parked in the Subway parking lot, locked the truck and walked to the door, and realised that I left my keys in the truck. Crap. So I reach for my phone to call mom, and realise that I left it in there. I did, though, have my credit card. So I walked over the the high school because I knew the family was watching a play over there, but the play was already over! So I saw the janitor out dumping something in the dumpster, and asked to borrow her phone. Got an answering machine, so I walked back towards Soup to nuts where I knew they were going to be eating dinner. Well, it was closed, so I tromped back to Subway, (Dad driving past me along the way. determined to at least get my yummy sandwich. And what do ya know... I knew the girl working at the counter! So I asked to borrow her phone, and finally got ahold of mom. They FINALLY came to my aid.

Well, the weird feeling was.. How alone I felt. I mean, couldn't call anyone, didn't know anyone around, obviously didn't have a way of transportation. It was weird! So. Lesson learned. Keep a spare key somewhere outside of your car. And always take your phone in everywhere with you!

Chocolate and more chocolate

Today was the chocolate walk! And boy, am I tired! And honestly, I don't really want to talk about it. I mean, it was fun,  but not something i'd want to do tomorrow or anything...

Well, the good news is that I am almost half way through Nablopomo! Woohoo! Maybe something entertaining will come up to write about even!

So I suppose I am going to turn this post into putting my random thoughts on.. Paper? Is that what you call the computer screen?

One word: RAIN! All these people in Nashville were covering their heads with paper when it started sprinkling.. Me? I didn't put my hood up, left my hair loose and walked around in the rain! That's me :)

Isin't it funny how certain tastes or smells bring back memories? For instance, i'm sitting here eating blue Jello. Now this brings back a memory of an Easter quite a few years ago where mom made mini jello eggs with blue jello. But the memory is that someone made me laugh so hard I baiscally inhaled a mini egg and had blue jello coming out of my nose. Hannah still laughs at me about that one ;)

And for some reason the smell of bleach ALWAYS makes me think of a daycare that I used to be in. But I mean, I was like 2 or three at the time. So I don't know how I can possibly remember that! But everytime, I can.

Do you have certain things that bring back memories?