Suggestions

Well, I was thinking about an official name for my blog and maybe a description (the description would be where the JMJ is.).  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  I wasn't planning to keep the blog title I have now.  I just had to think of something quick so I could get the blog going.    So yeah, if you have any suggestions, please feel free to share! 

Apple Picking in the Rain

What a delightful experience it was to go apple picking in the rain today!  Around 11:30am, my family and I left the house to go apple picking.  It was all bright and sunny when we left.  As we got closer to the apple orchard, it began to get cloudier, and eventually is started to downpour.  Well, the rain started to slow down when we got to the apple orchard, so we decided to go pick some (about 38 pounds to be exact).  After about 10 minutes of apple picking, it started to downpour again, but instead of running wild to the van, we ran wild picking some more apples.  What fun!  After we payed, we snacked on apples and tried to dry off as we drove home.     

Night Parties!

My idea of a night party is sitting 'round a fire (in a metal barrel XD) roasting marshmallows and making delicious, hot, smores, spending hours talking about lots of random stuff, listening to music and dancing to Sleigh Ride (the one sung by Relient K XD), going on walks at 10:30pm and walking past a Japanese sushi bar that is open and closed at the same time, and then going back home to the computer to play with google translate, google earth, this Lifespan Calculator (http://media.nmfn.com/tnetwork/lifespan/), and to look up ways to trick your college room mates.  Truly, last night was an amazing night spent with awesome friends. 

Scenic Pictures

Today, I thought I'd share some scenic pictures!  I love taking pictures even though I'm not very good.  My camera is also pretty bad.  It would be amazing to be a photographer! 

I thought the one picture with the palm tree and what looks like a pink bubble looks awesome.  Couldn't do that again if I tried.

Hope you like them!

Prolife Bands

Hello!   Today, I thought I'd share with you all a link to a list of ProLife Bands.  Here is the link: http://therockforlife.wordpress.com/music/bands-who-support-life/  I haven't heard of all these bands, but it's nice to know that there are a lot of bands out there that support life! 

I'll also share with you the link to the list of bands who advocate abortion.
  http://therockforlife.wordpress.com/music/bands-who-advocate-abortion/  I'm disappointed to see bands that play music that I listen to on this list.  Please keep them in your prayers.

Thank you Rock For Life for providing these lists!

Chicken update:  We are checking the chicken coop and the chicken run for eggs more frequently.  That's the only thing we can do to keep them from eating their eggs right now.   Well, my sister put golf balls in the chicken run.  Doing that is suppose to make the chickens use to seeing egg-like objects and lose interest in them.  Hopefully that will work.  Today, we got three eggs, one of which was crushed and eaten.  The shell of the crushed egg was weak, so we need to make sure that they are getting more calcium.  There are probably three layers now.

Oh Those Chickens...

Well, I think at least two of our chickens are laying eggs now.   They've laid a total of 5 eggs so far.  We've only got three of them though...  The chickens ate the other two!   So yeah...we've been trying to think up ways to keep them from eating their own eggs.  We thought of filling an emptied egg with mustard.  We kind of tried it, only we spread mustard on the inside of half an egg shell and placed it in the "chicken coop" with the shell facing upward and surrounded by hay so it would look more like a whole egg.   Well, it's probably not going to keep them from wanting to eat more of their eggs because they apparently enjoyed eating it.  I'm sure we'll figure something out eventually.

Just An Awesome Saturday

Well, today my family and I went to a ProLife Race!  It was an awesome experience.  I didn't run.  Maybe I will next year, or at least volunteer.  Two of my younger sisters, my dad, and some good friends of ours, all ran in the race.  They did very well!  They all placed in their own age categories!  I also met up with some friends I hadn't seen in a while.  The race was very well organized.  Some good songs were played (like "Live Like You're Dying" by Kris Allen, "Lean On Me"  by...well...I'm not sure who sang that version...so many different artists sing that song, and a couple other good random songs).

Well going to this race has rekindled my desire to be more involved in ProLife activities.  I use to be pretty involved, but after a while school and side jobs prevented me from being very active.  I've prayed in front of abortion mills, and volunteered at ProLife pregnancy centers before and would really like to start doing those things again. 

Well, when we all got back from the race, I did my Saturday chores (I know...fun, fun right?) and then walked down town, where I briefly checked out the Library, a consignment shop, and then walked to Church for an hour.  And in between all these activities I got to see my Aunt, Uncle, a cute little cousin!

So yeah, today was a fun filled day. 

Our First Egg!

Today, I woke up to one of my sister's exclaiming "We have an Egg!!!" 

So finally, after a little more than 4 months, we have...well...one egg...  Our other 4 chickens better hurry up and start laying! 

We don't know which chicken laid the egg, but here is a picture of one of them. 

and here is a picture of the egg! 

and here are a couple pictures of our chickens when they were chicks.

Enjoy the pictures!

Merry Christmas in July!!!!

I can't believe that we are more than half way through 2011!  God bless you all and have a Merry Christmas in July!!!  And keep cool as best you can!

...and listen to Christmas music today!

These are only some of my favorites. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFzMPUSPSXc

This one is a Rock one  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45wmyMgyZuY&feature=related

This version is so calming  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY4J8yBf6vg

Enjoy!

What an Awesome Day!

Sorry about not posting often.   Life has been crazy, in an awesome way!  Long trips on the weekends, work on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and emailing like crazy (oh how I love to email friends!)  There's also the weekday tasks that keep me pretty busy...like trying to keep my room neat.  Well, today was a fun day indeed!  I spent pretty much the whole day with a good friend!  We visited lots and lots of very nice shops!  We looked at formal dresses, purses...you know...girl stuff.   We also looked at some really funny birthday/greeting cards!  Some were hilarious!  Some were so cute too!  Card shopping can be so fun! (you gotta be careful though...there's a lotta undesirable ones out there...)  We went out for lunch and had sweet potato fries with a special tango dip!  They were so yummy!  After lunch and checking out some more shops, we went out for ice cream!  The people serving us were so friendly and gave us tastes of the ice cream we wanted to try.  They also gave us two different flavors of ice cream on one cone.  I got dark chocolate and black coffee!  So good!  After that, we went to my friend's house and watched some great youtube videos!  Yes indeedy, it was a perfect day!

(Wow!  That was one of my longer posts! XD  I'm still determined to keep up with this blog!!!)