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 ©AmandaDixon2009 I Miss Him!This past week has been extremely hard for me. I lost my Great Grandpa, who I was very very close to. I can honestly say that he was THE best grandpa I've ever had. I am so thankful for the last 5 years of being able to grow closer to him, of course, it wasn't as long as I wanted, but I am very glad I had them. It was wonderful! It was wonderful to grow as close to him as I did.Over the past 5 years, he really opened up to me about his WWII experiences which he hadn't shared them at all before. When I presented him the Armed Service album I made for him at his 65th anniversary, he was moved to tears. I knew that all the efforts and the sleepless night I spent on it was so worth it! Getting to know him was truly a blessing to me. I pray it was to him also. Since I did that for him and grew closer to him through it, I have a very important place in my heart for the armed service men. When we took him to the cemetery, they gave him a beautiful military salute with Taps and a 21 Gun Salute. I bawled through the whole thing. Knowing that his service was important to him, and that was so very important to me because of him. It was very hard to sit through for me. Sitting in his funeral service remembering all the times we had together, the tears just flowed. We would color when I was younger and as I grew up, we would sit on his front porch and play cards. He taught me to play rummy, war, slap jack, and more. One of the last times he played cards he was 87 and got down on the floor with the Littles to play go fish with them. It wasn't easy for him to crawl on the floor but he showed his love to his family by doing it. He truly was a family man. That was all he was worried about: his family. He made it known that his family was all that was important to him. I truly miss him. I miss his hugs. I miss his smile. I miss his playing cards. I now found myself crying when I pray because he is no longer on my list and it reminds me he is gone. I just miss him! But he lived a full and meaningful life. A life devoted to his family. I praise God that Grandpa knew our Savior and that I have the hope to once again see him on Resurrection Day. It hurts and its hard to have to wait for that day, but I know that the day is drawing close. OH, what a glorious day that will be! Isaiah 25:8 Revelation 21Love you, Grandpa! Please continue to pray for us and also my Great Grandma who is by herself now, and also for my Uncle Keith. It's been hard for them too. ©AmandaDixon2009 I stole this tag from somewhere!!! = )This is a tag for how girly I am...WHAT YOU HAVE:
[] Unicorns[x I think so!! ] You own over 10 bottles of nail polish [] You own a designer purse [] You own perfume that cost over $60 []You had/have fake nails [] You have more body/hair products than you can use [] Your pet is a chihuahua/Pomeranian/Yorks [I wish!] You have clothes/shoes/accessories for your pet [x] You have enough clothes to cover an entire refugee camp. Probably!! [x] You have enough pictures to create your own wallpaper. (probably) [x part of it's pink!] A pink comforter, carpeting, walls or sheets Total: 4 DO YOU: [] Spend more time at the mall than you do at home/work? That would be cool!! [] Have a hair color that is not natural [x] Have "blond moments" [x]Buy stuff because it's awesome and then never wear it  [] Constantly keep your phone at your side (If I had one!) [x] Dance around in your room when nobody else is home (and sing!) [] Have a name for your car [] Know what celebrity is dating who and who broke up this week [] Refuse to go out in public without makeup [] Prefer to be called "princess" Total: 3 DO YOU ADORE: [x] Makeup [] Glitter [x] The Color Pink [x] Jewelry [] Mirrors [] Chick flicks [x] Shoes [x] Rainbows [x] Disney Movies [] Candles [x] Flowers [x] Stuffed Animals [x] Purses Total: 9 DO YOU SHOP AT: [] Coach [] Forever 21 [] Victoria's Secret [] Guess [x] Claires [] Express [] Delias [] Hollister [] American Eagle [] Abercrombie & Fitch [] Aeropostale Total: 1 DO YOU SAY: [x] Whatever [x] Oh my gosh/goodness [] Hun [] Fugly [] That's hot [] Dunzo [] Darling [] Psh [] Cutie [] Hottie [] Skank [] Totally [] For Sure [] Fabulous Total: 2 Do You Read: [] Cosmopolitan [] Glamour [] Marie Claire [] Elle Girl [] Teen Vogue [] People [] Us Weekly [] Star [] Self [] PerezHilton.com [] Dlisted.com [] 17online.com [x] people.com Does the magazine count? [] usmagazine.com [] popsugar.com [] Pink Is The New Blog.com Total: 1 o You Love These: [] Legally Blonde [] Elizabethtown [] Mean Girls [] Now & Then [] The Notebook [] A Walk to Remember [] Sweet Home Alabama [] Where the Heart is [] Just my luck [] John Tucker Must Die [] Center stage [] Bring it On [] How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days [] Mona Lisa Smile []My Girl Total: 0 o you really enjoy... [] America's Next Top Model [] Project Runway [] Desperate Housewives [] The Simple Life [] 8th & Ocean [] Grey's Anatomy
[]The O.C. [] Laguna Beach/The Hills [] Nip/Tuck [] Gilmore Girls [] Degrassi TOTAL: 0 COUNT UP HOW MANY YOU CHECKED. MULTIPLY IT BY 2
That's your girly percentage. 40% THAT'S IT?? Oh, well....... i'm not a tom boy though!!! Anyone Can do it!!! Swimmerbug Shameless Plug Yes, this is a shameless plug on behalf of my familia...I'm sure y'all have heard that the Home School Blog Awards are going on... if not... they are. :) Well I would like to present to you where my votes are going...My familia: In the Best Homeschool Mom Blog, I'm voting for Walking Therein In the Best Teen Girl Blog, I'm voting for A Pondering Heart In the Best Teen Group Blog, I'm voting for Feelin' Feminine In the Best Teen Guy Blog, I'm voting for On The Road To Manhood In the Best Homemaking or Recipes Blog, I'm voting for A City on a Hill In the Best Family or Group Blog, I'm voting for Gleaning the Harvest In the Best Blog Design, I'm voting for Gleaning the Harvest  In the Best “Live-What-You-Believe” Homeschool Blog, I'm voting for A Dusty Frame In the Best Variety, I'm voting for Penny Raine In the Best Nitty-Gritty Homeschool Blog, I'm voting for Heart of Wisdom In the Best Crafts, Plans & Projects Blog, I'm voting for Seven Sisters In the Best Eclectic Homeschooling, I'm voting for Delightful Learning In the Best Thrifty Homeschooler, I'm voting for Money Saving Mom In the Best NEW Homeschool Blog, I'm voting for Delightful Learning In the Best Geographical Blog, I'm voting for For the Time Has Come (Costa Rica) In the Funniest Homeschool Blog, I'm voting for I would sooo appreciate if you would take 5min or so of your time to go vote for these choices. The voting ends at midnight on November 21st which is Saturday, so hurry over! And that is my shameless plug. :D Thanks y'all! ©AmandaDixon2009 Wordless Wednesday: Remembering...Great Grandpa Walters
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 Great Grandpa and Grandma on their 65th Wedding Anniversary 2006 Please keep our family in your prayers today and tomorrow as we go to Grandpa's viewing and funeral. It's gonna be REALLY hard for us. :( ©AmandaDixon2009 PollPlease do it!! Thnx!Swimmerbug A SKUNK!! (Part I)People who remembered my birthday (other than my family, obviously):Kaitlin Maggie, my 13-year-old cousin Emily D Tess (she sent me a very enthusiastic email!) Madrigal Family – they called and sang to me. I admit I teared up. Molly – she called. So sweet. Lori Ann – she chatted me. Still feeling rotten but wrote me anyway. I smiled. Ms. Beth. So sweet! Wow! So I just had the most radical and probably the most fun birthday party I’ve ever had in my life! (Pretty impressive, huh?) So for a long time I’d wondered what to do on my birthday because I wanted to do something special and I always do the same thing (sleepover). I talked with Katie some and Dad some and just couldn’t decide. However, after a conversation with Courtney, the idea that had been hibernating at the back of my mind for a few days finally came to fruition: we went camping!! Yessiree, it was just the five – then four – of us facing the Great Outdoors. Courtney, Emily, Madison, Melissa and I hit the woods with only our very old and slightly rotten camper and the bare necessities (Muddy Buddies, to be specific). I picked up Madison and John, then dropped John and Andrew off at home. I'd left my pillow (duh) at the house and also the cuppers court, so Jo came running out with them as we whizzed into the driveway and we stuffed them into the trunk. Then it was down 65 for not very long to get Courtney. I realized as soon as we got to the light at CofO that I'd forgotten to tell Courtney that she didn't need to wait at the nursing home, so I drove through there looking for her but she wasn't there so I drove back to her house. Nobody there. Hmmm. Just as I was about to knock on the door I heard a honk and Ryan backed Mrs. B's car down the driveway with Courtney sitting in the front seat laughing at me. We loaded Courtney's stuff in the trunk, along with several logs of firewood the Browns were donating to the cause. They didn't really fit very well but we got them in there eventually, thanks to Courtney's expert packing skills. When Courtney, Madison and I got out to the State Park to scope out the campgrounds, we were pleased to find the place mostly deserted. We drove around for a while, and finally by process of elimination settled on a site in part one of campground one, in the middle of the circle and near to the bathrooms (we all decided this should be a priority). We were then supposed to deposit "significant personal belongings" on the site, which we did - in the form of all of our bags and sleeping bags. There could be no doubt that that site was reserved. :) We went to the campground office to register our site and the lady there asked us if we were college students from CofO. We found this to be amusing. It was also amusing the way she would shove the cash drawer back in as soon as it popped out (which it tended to do rather frequently). Once we were registered we went back to the campground with little to do. Dad was supposed to get there at 1:30 with the camper to back it up and plug it in, but until then we didn't have a game plan. Melissa was supposed to arrive around 2 and Emily was expected from her violin lesson around 2:30. We had some time to kill so we played Swap, which kind of falls flat with three people, and pretty much sat around and looked at each other, eating Muddy Buddies, until Melissa and then Dad and Mr. Brown arrived (the latter were almost 45 minutes late!). Dad backed the camper in, plugged in the electricity - which we didn't end up using - and set up the propane. He and Mr. Dave also unloaded the bikes, leveled the camper and then unhitched the camper from the van - after some debate. Mr. Dave prayed, Dad gave final words of wisdom ("turn off the propane at night, don't leave the campsite by yourself after dark, and have fun!"), and we were alone. It didn't take us long to get the camper set up - there were five of us hard-working girls, after all - and during that time I realized how very decrepit our camper is and how much we need a new one. The nice thing about going camping for only one night with the girls was that we didn't have a lot of junk. We had clothes, food, and a few games - and that was it. Didn't have to set up the awning, didn't have to pump up the inner tubes (i.e. NO SHOP VAC), didn't even need the clothesline! Incredible. After we got everything set up and lightened the Muddy Buddies bin a little bit we set off on an adventurous hike that would have proved to be rather boring were it not for the companionship. We took pictures by a sewer drain, a big cool rock, and various other places that begged for Kodak moments. Madison and Courtney got into a splashing/mud war down by the edge of the lake. It was a simply beautiful afternoon - about 65 with sunny blue skies and fluffy white clouds - but the trail left something to be desired so we soon decided to head back to the campsite for a rousing game of... Dutch Blitz! :) Emily hadn't played before but caught on pretty quick. Everyone else had played and each of us were fairly vicious. Madison ended up with the crown of victory and we didn't drop even one card between the slats on the picnic table! By this time it was about four or four thirty and we decided that, since we had no idea how long it was going to take us, we should probably get started on building the fire. Melissa had to leave at 6:30 to be at work (Peter Pan) by 7. And so began the grand fire-making excursion in which we proved that the menfolks' distrust in our wilderness skills was unfounded. Sort of. Dad laughed as he was setting up when I told him I'd forgotten to pack an axe. We had a hatchet, though, so I figured we'd be fine... until we got the hatchet out. It was about as sharp as a butter knife. We had several large pieces of wood that we wanted to chop up but I pretty much ditched the thought when I saw how dull the hatchet was. Not Melissa. She was determined to chop up this particular log. She outfitted herself with an oversized pair of sunglasses to use as safety goggles and got right to work. Courtney and I worked on the fire to the melodic sounds of Melissa thumping away on that log. Courtney actually was very good as nursing the fire along. We used a lot of fire-starter logs (well, only one whole log for the whole trip, but it seemed like a lot to me) and burned a LOT of leaves. The ladder to the old tree house burned relatively well once we got the fire going. It was super hard to find kindling under all the leaves but Madison mastered that technique quickly. :) It probably took us about half an hour - maybe a little less - to really get the fire going but once it was going it was definitely a respectable fire. We stuck the chicken in Dad's little clamp griller thing, dumped some hot sauce on it - we didn't have a brush - and put it on the grill above the fire. We warmed up the potatoes and opened up the - still cold - cans of pineapple. As the chicken cooked it got darker and darker - the sky, that is, not the chicken - until we had to use a flashlight to see whether or not it was pink. We grilled a pound of kielbasa - the leftovers of which I'm going to eat tonight - and set it all on the table. It was definitely a feast fit for a king - or several princesses - and we were very proud of it. Plus it was yummy. :) Hot and Tasty! What we did yesterday.......This is what we did yesterday afternoon on a beautiful fall day.We went hiking in the Smokey's with my Grandparents. The Smokey's are only about 45 minutes away! It was a very easy trail that we went on and there are small waterfalls on one side of the trail.
One waterfall  Here is another  This is me looking at one  Here is an up close pic of one  We passed quite a few horseback riders (Sorry it's blury!)  That's it!! We were running out of batteries so we couldn't take to may pics!! Bye!! SWIMMERBUG { Last Page } { Page 1 of 5 } { Next Page } |
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