First post on the 'new blog'... and how we set it up.

Well, a couple weeks ago, Bri decided to sit down and export my blog to Blogger, in hopes that I would have a new site 'tomorrow'. Well, actually, that night. Yes, that night we had a new... problem. It was not loading the posts! So... we left that night, after having to restart it three times! When we got up it was, finally!... nothing! So, we had Mommy look at it. And, five minutes later, she found our problem. We were trying to export WordPress on Blogger! So, once she fixed that problem (changed the file to a Blogger file), we set out to design it! That took a while, but we finally have a up and running blog! Yeah! I love the background we found, just what I wanted, :). We got from Plumrose Lane, as the little button thing-y says, haha. The lady who runs it has some really pretty stuff up there, so you are ever in need... haha, ;P!

Update on "Claymation"...

I promise that I am working on the "Claymation' video... but it's taken a while, I was working on it before I put the last post up! Bri has been helping me... we had it done... and then...

We went back to watch it and...

THERE WERE NO PICTURES!!!

Needless to say... it is not done yet...

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

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

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

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!

Tuesday update (a day late!)...

Well, we've been pretty much just getting better today... Relaxing, just doing normal things, nothing OUT of ordinary. We watched 'TIME CHANGER', and Bri made my day by suggesting that we have Hershey's  Caramel Kisses that I've been wanting for a LONG time, about since August, maybe September :) Thanks Bri! :) And thank you Mommy and Daddy, for buying it :)!!!

Well...

We're sick. At least, the little ones (Bethi and younger) are... just them for now... we've been trading it off and on. I got it first, I think I gave it to everybody else as an early Christmas gift. : O! Heehee : - ). At least the rest  ( expect maybe Mommy ) are getting over it! Please pray for Mommy.

Now on to the bright side of things! We started decorating for Christmas last Thursday! Also, I was eating some taffy from the candy store that we went to when we went on our trip in October (I'll have to tell about that in another post- I'm kinda behind in posts, and it's the busiest time of year, uh, also the most eventful ; D - getting off topic, haha!) and while eating it I lost a tooth, that we didn't know was lose! It's odd, really, the ways you can lose teeth! On my second birthday, Bri lost her first tooth, just eating a taco! One time we were making Christmas candy, and, while we were making chocolate pretzels, I went into the bathroom, and almost immediately , Bri came knocking on the door, "Tori! Tori! I need in there!" She had lost a tooth eating a pretzel!    

All who tried to comment and couldn't, you can now, the comment forum is now fixed!

I'll be posting again soon!                Bye, have a blessed week! :)