Happy Seventh Birthday, Andrew!

I am very excited to see how the Lord will use you in this next year! You are such a sweet gentleman to all of us, and such a good big brother to the little ones, it has been a blessing to see how you are willing to help, :)

I love you, Happy Birthday!

'It Is Well With My Soul'

IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL
When peace like a river attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea-billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say,
“It is well, it is well with my soul.”

It is well with my soul,
It is well, it is well with my soul.

Though Satan should buffet, tho’ trials should come,
Let this blest assurance control,
That Christ has regarded my helpless estate,
And hath shed His own blood for my soul.

It is well with my soul,
It is well, it is well with my soul.

My sin—O, the bliss of this glorious thought,
My sin—not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to the cross and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!

 It is well with my soul,
It is well, it is well with my soul.

And, Lord, haste the day when the faith shall be sight,
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll,
The trump shall resound and the Lord shall descend,
“Even so”—it is well with my soul. 

 It is well with my soul,
It is well, it is well with my soul.

 Horatio Gates Spafford (1828–1888)

Abbi-Girl's Frogs...

Tonight we all went for a walk around the neighborhood.
Not too far down the road there is a playground. Almost all the time we were there, Abbi was watching for frogs, because last time we had went, she had found one, and had been very excited about it. (It was really a toad.) As we were starting to leave, Abbi says: "I found one! I found one!"
She picked it and put it in a shell she had found, using her hand as a 'lid'. She was told that she could take it to the house, but that she couldn't take it inside.
Before we were even half-way home, she found yet a another frog, picked it up and added it to her 'collection'. (She also found two more, but could not fit them in her shell.). She said "My talent is being a Frog-Catcher Girl!"
When we got home she was trying to persuade us to let her keep it in the house. She said "I could ask Mommy to go out every minute, and give it bugs, and then we could keep it outside!" She was told to put it in the yard by the creek.
She went to put them there, but when she got back, she asked again if she could have them. Daddy again told that we have no 'froggie food', and she said; "Well, we could just call the Gramma that has fishes, and ask her to send us some froggie food!"
She really, really, really, wants a frog.
Emmi, however, wants...
A Gopher.

Another Little Laughables Post... As You Can See, We Laugh Alot :)

This one is from quite awhile ago...

Bri and I were staying up with Mommy for an Ice Cream night, and suddenly we hear Bethi knocking on the door.
Bethi: "I just wanted to tell you... I'm done."
All: *Start to laugh hysterically*
Mommy: "With?"
Bethi: "You know..."
Mommy: "Noo, I don't... With what?"
Bethi: "I have no idea... ummm..."

And this is not the first time she has talked in her sleep!

When she was four Bri and I hear: "Aye, aye, skipper. Bye, bye, skipper... Don't touch my window..."

And earlier this year: "I'll be there in a minute."
Bri said: "What?!"
"Just talking to Grandma..."

On the 12th, it was Bri's birthday... Emmi and Mommy went to the store the day before, to get some things for it. Emmi got in the car and said; "I know what I'm going to get Bri! Angry Bird stuff!" Well, as they were walking in to the store, Emmi said "I see Angry bird fruit snacks! We'll get those!!!"

At one point she forgot that she had got her anything and said that she would have to give her a kangaroo that Gramma had given her. When we reminded her, she was very excited to give them to her and Bri loved Emmi's thoughtfulness, :).

Yesterday I hear Andrew: "Who removed my birthday from the calendar?!" (It was a tile calendar that has a birthday cake tile that you put in instead of the date that the person's birthday is on.) 

Yesterday Bethi was making muffins, when we hear: "Ummmmm... were we supposed to grind the wheat? It didn't say... but I just put it in... without grinding it first..." (Of course I have never done things like this before. Why, no, I have never buttered the back of my hands while cooking! Why would you ask such a thing? And I have never ruined two batches of  chocolate chip cookies in a row by putting the wet ingredients in with the dry before I was supposed to. Never! would I do such a thing!)

Okay.

I confess.

I have.

And worse. 

I am ashamed.  

Happy Sixteenth Birthday, Bri!!!

Happy Sixteenth Birthday, I love you! You have been a huge blessing in my life, I'm so glad God allowed me to be your sister!!!

'And Can It Be?'

AND CAN IT BE

And can it be that I should gain
An interest in the Savior’s blood?
Died He for me, who caused His pain?
For me, who Him to death pursued?

Amazing love! how can it be
That Thou, my Lord, shouldst die for me?

He left His Father’s throne above,
So free, so infinite His grace!
Emptied Himself of all but love,
And bled for Adam’s helpless race!
‘Tis mercy all, immense and free,
For, O my God, it found out me.

‘Tis mystery all! th’ Immortal dies!
Who can explore His strange design?
In vain the firstborn seraph tries
To sound the depths of love divine.
‘Tis mercy all! let earth adore;
Let angel minds inquire no more.

Long my imprisoned spirit lay
Fast bound in sin and nature’s night.
Thine eye diffused a quickening ray;
I woke—the dungeon flamed with light!
My chains fell off, my heart was free,
I rose, went forth, and followed Thee.

No condemnation now I dread;
Jesus, and all in Him is mine;
Alive in Him, my living Head,
And clothed in righteousness divine,
Bold I approach th’ eternal throne,
And claim the crown, through Christ my own.

                                                    ~Charles Wesley (1707–1788)~

I thought I Would Just Put This Up Real Quick...

Read Through The Bible In Six Months
Mommy and I have been doing this, Bri is doing it with a friend, and Bethi has been doing a year long one.