Well Long Time No Type. =)

Hi Everyone!!! You all probably thought I fell off the face of the Earth..well not yet I'm still here.
To do a little recap on my life since....well whenever it was i last posted something. I worked all summer at an older friends house doing WHATEVER! And thats no understatement. =) They live on a little farm with a few animals, and I've done everything from feeding animals to building fence to helping build thier solar efficient shop. I also helped plant, weed, harvest, and put up her garden. Lots of hard, tiring work..but I enjoy it. (Most of the time) :-)
I'm now done for the winter. Which I'm very glad of as I now get to be at home. My parents are glad to even though my Mom still thinks I should be working only as I'm very low on cash. But thats life.
The most exciting thing that has happened to my in the last month is that I totaled my parents big 15 passenger van. Maybe exciting isn't the right word...try terrifiying, scary, unnerving, or just plain...well you see what I mean. Here's what happened...I was just running to town on an errand with my little brother Peter..I had gotten a text on my phone and was answering it (which i had done before but will never do again!!) I was on a back road and knew there was a curve coming up looked back down at my phone and next thing I knew I was going faster than I thought and Peter called out my name and I looked up and went thru the curve and hit a telephone pole. When we got out, the pole was knocked forward, and the wires were on fire..well anyways pete got a mark on the side of his face where the airbag hit him, and I just had some bad bruises and a slight whiplash. Then we found that the van was totaled and we now have a suburban. That was the most exciting thing that I can remember.
There's an update on most of my life since the spring. I'll try to keep posting as I'm home now.

Updates...

I know I haven't posted anything in..like forever. Part of that is because I am pretty busy helping Mom with Hope and the rest..another reason is because I don't really have anything interesting to post. None the less here is what I've been doing lately...
I started working some again. I work for some old family friends and they have a little farmette. So I get to help with chores, make fence, gardening, and in the fall canning what we pull out of the garden. They are also building a eco-friendly shop. It will have solar panels, which will help heat the building. it will also have straw-clay in the walls which will further help the heating and other things. Its a very interesting process and I can't even go into all of it, it is so extensive of a process.

Other than that I'm just at home helping my Mom with Hope and everything around the house..pretty big job!! My Mom is recovering well from the c-section and Hope is growing faster than I thought posible. She is very cute and I think we'll keep her and add her to the family. :)

Thats about it...I'll try to post something a little more often even if its nothing profound. :)

New Sister, Hope Namoi

Here is my new baby sis!! Hope Naomi. She very cute, isn't she?

Its A GIRL!!!!

My Mom had her Baby!!! Its a Girl, and ger name is Hope. Thats all I know now, I will post more and pictures later!!

Great truths..

Great Truths that Little Kids have Learned:
1. No matter how hard you try you can't baptize cats.
2. When your Mom is made at your Dad don't let her brush your hair.
3. If your sister hits you, don't hit her back, they always catch the second person.
4. Never ask your 3 year old brother to hold a tomato.
5. You cant trust dogs to watch your food.
6. Never sneeze when someone is cutting your hair.
7. Never hold the Dust-Buster and your cat at the same time.
8. You can't hide your broccoli in a glass of milk.
9. Don't wear Polka-Dot under wear under white shorts.

Great truths Adults have Learned:
1. Raising teenagers is like nailing jell-o to a tree.
2. Wrinkles don't hurt.
3. Families are like fudge mostly sweet with a few nuts mixed in.
4. Todays mighty oak is just yesterdays nut that held its ground.
5. Laughing is good exercise, its like jogging on the inside.
6. Middle-age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy.

I thought these were cute.

just for laughs! :)

Its my Birthday!!

I can't believe its my birthday today!! I didn't think I would make it this far. 19 WOW! I shal just have to see what the Lord has in store for me this year. My Dad asked me the other day if I thought I would where I'm at to day a year ago. Honestly no. I never thought I would have worked at two restaurants and than for a friend, doing alot of outside work. But through all of that I believe I have grown up some and became a little more sure of myself. 19..I'm a little scared! :-)

Its FREZZING!!! So I'm not going outside for anything (thats what my younger brother is for
:-) I stay in and help my Mom with the little kids school, stay in our living room, (as thats were the wood heat vent comes in and is therefore the warmest room in the house). I am working on a cross-stitch blanket. Its a very cute Suzi's Zoo pattern that I'm trying to finish before my Mom has her baby. Which is not long off, and I'm not even half done yet : / But with these bitterly cold days I've had alot of time to work on it. I'll post pictures when its completed.

I'm very thankful for a Father that likes to do wood in the fall and summer so we can keep our wood heater going. Which not only keep the heat bill down, but it definently keeps the house warmer throughout the day. With all the snow we've had, we'd be shoveling it all out of our driveway if it wasn't for a man that we found to plow. (By we I mean my Dad, and my brothers Steven and peter.)

Hope you stay warm!!

Red skies

I was reading Matthew 16 the other day and ran upon this verse: (I have to start at the beginning to get the context of it)

The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired Him that He would show them a sign from Heaven.

He answered and said unto them, "When it is evening, ye say, 'It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.'

And in the morning 'It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring.' "

Jesus goes on to call them hypocrrites, that they can discern the skies but not the signs of the times. And that there will be no sign except for the sign of Jonah.

Anyway what stuck out to me was the fact that even in Jesus' time they knew that little saying; 'Red sky in the moring saliors take warning, Red sky at night saliors delight.'

I had always known that saying was old but just the fact that is was over 2,000 years old just stuck out to me.