Monday, July 20, 2009

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I hit the ground running






I know that I have not blogged for a week, but I have been gone and have been unable to blog. I have been gone at New Life Island where I worked for a week. I will be going back in a week to work some more. I really enjoyed helping out. I am very tired. I got up early and went to bed late. This is the same camp that I went to as a camper and now I am a volunteer. I came back and hit the ground running although I still do not know what I was running on when I got back. On Saturday we went to national park and had a picnic. My Pop-pop met us there. W e had a good time. We played soccer, Frisbee and sat and watched the air planes. We had a good time. And I really enjoyed my time at camp. I hope that you had a great week as well.



Saturday, July 11, 2009

Mini Golf


Wonder Woman and Superman are away having a romantic weekend with out the kids. We, the kids are spending the weekend at Nana and Pop-pop's house. On Friday we went to the lake. We had a really great time. However, I forgot my camara! Saturday we went Mini golfing. It was great and we had a lot of fun not to mention all of the pictures that I took. We all had a great time, but we all wanted Wonder Woman and Superman to come home.










Pickles, Blanching, Freezing




I love having a garden. I like working on it. I also like picking stuff, and I also like to preserve the produce that I pick from the garden. This past Thursday night I picked cucumbers, green beans, parsley, and basil. My mom and I made a jar of pickles. We also blanched that green beans for three minutes and then put them in to ice water for three minutes and then we drained them and put them into freezer bags and froze them. After that came the very time consuming task of picking herbs, washing herbs, drying herbs with a paper towel, taking the leaves off of the steams, chopping the herbs, and then putting them in ice cube trays and freezing them. I enjoyed doing all of it. I just hope that everything turns out the way that I planned.



Buddy and His bathroom cleaning Method





Buddy takes cleaning the bathroom very seriously! Buddy sometimes gets a little carried away and sees the bathroom as a real enemy. I can't say that it is my best friend, but buddy dresses for battle when he cleans the bathroom. Before entering the battle field he practices his ninja moves. Yes the ninja in the bright blue shirt and khaki shorts with a plunger in his hands. He is a major threat to all germs living in the bathroom. He takes no prisoners! Buddy has some wild ideas, but he is still the best brother in the world.



Truth for Troops




Little Sis, Buddy, and Sweet Pea are on a mission to raise money to buy bibles for troops using an organization called truth for troops.They decided that they would raise money by selling lemonade on our corner in front of our house. They did a really great job making signs and selling the lemonade. They raised enough money so far to buy 8 bibles. They did a really great job and I am very proud of them. You can get involved too. To read more about truth for Troops click here.



Tuesday, July 7, 2009

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God uses Teenagers


This post is longer than a normally do. However, I have thought about dong a post on this topic for a while because it is something that I am passionate about. Please read on and leave a comment to let me know what you think. One of my favorite people in the Bible is King Josiah. We find the story of his life two times in the Bible. The first place is 2 Kings 22-23 and the second place is 2 Chronicles 34-35.

2 Kings 22:1-2 says, "Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozzkath. And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left."


We are not Josiah. When I was eight years old I was not made Queen. But what I really want to show you is in 2 Chronicles 34:2-3 "And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the wooden images. The carved images and the molded images."

When Josiah was 16 years old he chosen in his heart that he was going to follow God. Josiah had no godly role model to follow. His grandfather was King Manasseh. 2 Chronicles 33:2 says this about King Manasseh "But he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel." It does not get better for Josiah's father Amon. 2 Chronicles 33:22 says this about King Amon, :But he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done; for Amon sacrificed to all the carved images which his father Manasseh had made, and served them."

I am fortunate to have a godly father and mother. In the end it is our decision to either follow God or walk away and ignore it. If we choose to follow God before we can make any impact we must seek God just like Josiah did. When he was 16 years old he chose to seek God and follow Him. By age 20 he was leading the entire nation of Judah back to God. He destroyed the idols. At age 22 he had the temple restored. It took a long time to bring revival to the nation that had been swimming in sin for a long time. When they were restoring the temple Hilkiah found the book of the Law. When Josiah herd the words form the book of the Law he tore his clothes. He knew that his fathers had not followed the Law and how far Judah had fallen. He had the Law read to the people. 2Chronicles 34:33 says, "Thus Josiah removed all the abominations from all the country that belonged to the children of Israel, and made all who were present in Israel diligently serve the LORD their God. All his days they did not depart from following the LORD God of their fathers." Josiah changed an entire nation. But the revival of the nation started when Josiah chose to seek God when he was 16 years old. I am 15 years old. God used Josiah. God can use me and God can use you no matter what age you are when we seek God.



Monday, July 6, 2009

42 Years Ago

42 years ago the best woman in the world was born. She is my mom. To me she is Wonder Woman. I love her and I know that she loves me. I am so glad that I can be her daughter and I am proud to call her my mom. I love her very much!

4th of July!



So this past weekend was the 4th of July. I was very tired, but we had a good time. We went to the Parade and then went to my grandparents house to pick green beans and then we went to Sonic. We came home and I took a much needed nap. We ate slow cooked rips by Superman for dinner. Later that night we hit Shop Right for Ice Cream on the way to Fire Works which we watched from a parking lot at a shopping center. O' Well, we really enjoyed our night. I hope that you had a great time this past weekend too!

NLI

What has taken much of my time during the last couple of days is being at New Life Island. It is a great Christian camp that I am volunteering at for a couple of weeks this summer. Only camp can make cleaning bathrooms and making food for over a 100 people sound OK. Although I am gone for a week at a time I really do enjoy being there. I have no pictures for this post of the Island. Maybe next time I am up there I will take pictures and post them, but for now trust me when I say that it is a great place.

BushKill falls

A lot has happened since Buddy and his feet washing method. Everything has been moving so quickly that I have not been able to share, that or I have not been around my computer, or because I am so tired. Last Tuesday I went with my youth group to Bushkill falls. It was cool, but it took way to long to get there and it was raining the whole time that we were there. I got some good pictures and some not so good as always. You can see all of my pictures by clicking here. Little Sis came with me on this trip well because Little sis is growing up and is now in Youth Group! So I have some nice pictures of her at the falls. Here are some pictures.
The Falls
Little Sis
Halfcup ( Me)
Little Sis
A flower

A nice picture ( I think!)
The falls


that is all for now. I hope that you enjoyed the pictures and excused my brief sabbatical from the blog world!