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Merry CHRISTmas!!!

JOY TO THE WORLD
Joy to the world! the Lord is come;
Let earth receive her King;
Let ev’ry heart prepare Him room,
And heav’n and nature sing,
And heav’n and nature sing,
And heav’n, and heav’n and nature sing.

Joy to the earth! the Savior reigns;
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat, repeat the sounding joy.

No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found,
Far as the curse is found,
Far as, far as the curse is found.

He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders, wonders of His love.

Isaac Watts (1674–1748)

Merry Christmas!!!

Hey! I'm back!

To those ones among you who are faithful!

;).

Anyway, we're moving to Virgina! On the seventh we went to the area we'll be moving to and... got "lost"! (Bri has a post here) It was HILARIOUS!!! At one point Mommy was reading the map and said, then you go past this little thing... and this straight gray thing...

 

And I found them both!

Aren't I helpful?

We've been painting the house and whatnot, getting ready to get the house on the market, so we can move.

We've also donated our hair to Locks of Love. Bethi was a little shocked at first...

Merry CHRISTmas!!!

Sample: First (un-posted) post from "The Shaffer Family Bulletin"...

"Well, what do you want us to say? Goodbye. The end, farewell, for we have nothing to bulletin. 

Blog closed.

Just joking..."

Bri and I set up the blog... And played around as we tried to think of what to say...

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://theblessingofverity.com/2012/07/newsflash/

Please pray...

For loving families for  four~ year~old Marsha, and the rest of these children.

The 4th!!!

We had a great 4th!!! We did fireworks yesterday, and we loved them, but Bri's flash on her camera was torturing every one it was so bright!!!Not really I think it was that and the fireworks, ;). She got some beautiful pictures!

Happy 4th of July!

O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.

O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare of freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!

O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife.
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!

O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for halcyon skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the enameled plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till souls wax fair as earth and air
And music-hearted sea!

O beautiful for pilgrims feet,
Whose stem impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till paths be wrought through
wilds of thought
By pilgrim foot and knee!

O beautiful for glory-tale
Of liberating strife
When once and twice,
for man's avail
Men lavished precious life!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain
The banner of the free!

O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till nobler men keep once again
Thy whiter jubilee!

"America, the Beautiful"

Words by Katharine Lee Bates,

Melody by Samuel Ward

LOVE!!!

 

What Andrew found on the back porch...

Cats!!!  They came on the seventh. At first there were two kittens and than one more came. The mom was so skinny! After Daddy came home from work, he fed her some meat and raw egg. We've seen her some more since then, and she found a TON of raw meat in the trash can, and ate it :P.

Bye!

Ooze-Brick

(Yes I'm fine, and back!)
I will now commence to start to write, for your benefit, a quick way to have fun on a rainy day, even though you may think it more fun to play in the rain then do any thing else, which I don't.                   


                                                              Ooze-Brick

1/2 cup corn/tapioca starch

1/4 cup water

Mix WELL, or the starch will just be sitting there, and it won't work.

Ooze-Brick lasts for about one week. (When purple throw away! :)!)

I named it 'Ooze-Brick' because it oozes through your fingers when it is in it's liquid form, but then it becomes a solid when you squeeze it. Its original name was oobleck.

God bless!!!

THE NEWS...

THE BABY HAS ARRIVED!!! IT'S A BOY!!!

He's so cute!

You should have seen Andrew's face when he heard it was a boy! He thought it was a girl! I thought it would be a boy the whole time!

He's so cute!



See?

O.k. long post... to make up for not posting for a while :).

And long title :).

Well, we have no news of the baby yet, but, when we do, don't be surprised that I don't post for a month, or more :).

Well, here are all the posts I have started...  just haven't posted yet!!!

12/27/12
Today we went to clean the Church. And Andrew got 'lost' (hid!). He does that a lot, but Mommy didn't know, so, PANIC!!! Hee-hee... He likes to,  I guess, scare people, naughty Andrew :).

Then we go to the store. We do a little shopping, then we have a banana and a treat, 'string' cheese, and go home.

Now the little ones are at quiet time, and Bri and I, who have not really had quiet time for a long time, are having 'Big Girl' quiet time ( read: doing whatever, just we have to be quiet :).)

12/18/12
Abbi said to Bri one day: "Your just my best friend!"

Then one day, she was in trouble, and Bri said: " You need to tell Andrew your sorry."

The response:'' You are my best friend, you can’t do this to me.''

12/11/11
I think I will have to give up the Saturday thing-y I am supposed to do, because it's not working. We were at our Grandparent's house, we had a sleepover (and fun :)!).

1/10/12
Happy New Years, and I will be posting more in the future (maybe ;)!)!!! :) :) :)

Well, hi,  I hope you had a blessed year in LORD!!!

Bethi has been... reading out loud!... and... cracking Bri and I UP!!! She says  blurted: blooded,  aroma: army, Ethan: Athin, Matron, Martin  ...Bri, Bethi and I had a sewing party, in which we sewed pillow cases, which Mrs. Brenda (or, Brand A, 3~ year~ Bethi language, her prayer would be: ''Please help Mrs. Branda'' ... to which Mommy said that  Mrs. Brenda was 'Brand A' Ha-ha!!!) gave us, while we each read a chapter in 'Looking For Home" by Arleta Richardson.' She's so cute! It's not that she couldn't read the words, she just couldn't say them, :)

1/30/12
I got two teeth extracted! One broke, and when the dentist was taking it out, the one beside it came out!