� Apr. 26, 2009 - Fiddler on the roof and highschool bathrooms
Man, I'm not gonna lie, I think high school bathrooms are revoltingly gross. I was in one today and.... Well, at least the doors were still on the stalls.
And why was I at a high school? We just saw a production of fiddler on the roof that was amazing. Yente was halairious. I must say I never thought a high scool play could be so profesionally done, but really, that was amazing--- the kid who played Perchick couldn't sing a note though, he tried anyhow.
But, I must say I was rather impressed. And of course the Yente made the whole thing especially fantastic. She was the best actor by a landslide in my opinion.
I realized I never wrote about my sorry car search saga. I had a car too. I bought it, and 3 days later, someone failed to yield at a stop sign, crashed into it, and totaled it. So now I'm on the car search again. Actually my brother took me to an auto action yesterday, and we bid on a 2000 chevy cavilier , and won the bid at 1000 dollars even. However, I won't know if the bank will release it for that amount until tomorrow. Let me say though, it is an awesome looking little car. Its black, 2 door, very sporty looking, and well.... I'm keeping my fingers crossed and praying that the sale will go through and I can be done searching. I must say I know more about cars than I thought I ever would want to know now. Searching has been quite the experience though.
I will let you all know if I get the car or not, and if I do will have plenty of pictures!
Cara
Yes, I have an honest excuse why I have been neglecting you all of late. And I would have written if I hadn't been so tired. I got a job! as a receptionist, and I work pretty late hours, especially on Tues. I don't get home till around 7:30, and by then I'm pretty bushed. However, this week I have off,as the Dr. and his wife are in Florida for the week for some teaching seminars and stuff.So I slept in today... Well, I woke upwhile ago, and then laid in bed, cause I didn't have to get up. So I'm still clad in my pjs.
Tomorrow, weather willing we are going hiking! and my pal Ingrid may be coming! which I'm completely excited about, as the last time I saw Ingrid was.. well a long time ago, and that was only briefly.
So if y'all are lucky, I may have some pictures to show later in the week (and with Ingrid around, they're bound to be well... interesting :) )
This weekend is the Breakout conference! I'm really excited about it, it was so much fun last year. We had our last worship rehearsle on Saturday, and I'm thinking its going to be pretty awesome.
Ok, I'm hungry, Usually I've eaten breakfast about 3 hours ago....
And Hopefully there will be pics to come.
Well, toodle loo!
Cara
� Feb. 25, 2009 - A few pictures for your enjoyment
I thought I would share this picture with all of you. This was taken back in October. Christina and I were singing at an outdoor wedding, as well as helping set stuff up, so we had to be there early.
So rather than wear my heals in the cold weather the whole time, I brought these slip on shoes thinking "No one is going to see me with these and my dress on...." well, it was rather cold, and we had everything set up, so we decided to make a little trip to Arabica to get something to warm us up. So we get there, and we wonder in, taking our time... Then I looked down. I was still wearing my plaid shoes with my striped dress. I'm hoping no one noticed, as I'm sure I looked rather like a clown :)
This picture was taken in September, and we were hiking with my grandma, aunt and cousins. Well, my mother is slightly afraid ( ok, really afraid) of heights . And none of us kids are. so to "calm" my poor mothers nerves as we went "dangerously" close to the edge ( it was really a good 5 or 6 feet) of the drop off, Christina decided to get a "railing". Which is, as you see a long stick.
We have another picture of them somewhere and they're all leaning over there "railing".
And this is the last picture, which was taken at my Graduation party back in August. I guess Christina (who made this sign) wanted to be sure everyone knew where the bathroom was, so she made this little sign. Notice how it says "No Loitering" lol.
ok, I have lots of stuff to do, good bye!
I'm afraid I have shamefully ignored you all lately. I apologize though.
However, I can't really say that anything has happened much worth writing about.
I guess I'll start with the beginning of this week, on Sunday.
On Sunday Christina and I were on the worship team for the second time, and worship went amazing!
Then our youth Pastor preached on healing, cause our regular pastor is currently in India.
Then after church we went for a very belated ( almost 6 month) trip out to eat for my sisters brithday. When we turn sixteen, my dad takes us and some of our friends out to eat. So dad took me, Christina ( obviously, as it was her birthday, or rather "half" birthday we were celebrating), Andrea ( my youngest sister) and our friend Calia, and Christina's best friend Abby out to eat at China buffet. I was born in the year of the horse, and was eating green jello, and as jello has horse bi-products in it ( I don't remember how I know this) Christina was accusing me of cannobolism. lol! it we jokingly said that my whole geneology was in that little cube of green jello, and that I was going to take it home and put it on display.
Moday: on Monday I went to get a hair cut at a friend of ours house (Abby's mom did it, actually), and then Christina was talked into getting her hair cut too. My hair is shorter than its been in a long time! perhaps eventually I'll post a picture, but I don't have any on my camera or the computer yet,
Then we went to Khole's to pick out a ring for Christina's 16th birthday (yes it was real late) and I ended up getting one too! I didn't get a ring when I was 16, cause I hadn't wanted one then, and I was planning on getting a ring for my birthday this year, only it was going to be a plain one that said Woman Of God on it.
But I saw the ring I got and loved it! its got a heart shaped aquamarine on it and itty bitty diamonds, on a sliver band. It was originally $200, but by the time we got past the sales ( it was 60% off) and then an additional 20 percent off, it was afordable. Christina's ring is on a gold band with a heart shaped Paradot
(her birth stone) with itty bitty diamonds on it, and it was the exact same price as mine. So its my early birthday present that I get to wear now:)
Tuesday: I babysat to boys from my church from 6:30 A.M. to almost 6:30 p.m. They're homeschooled so I did school with them, and stuff. However by about 1 o'clock I was ready to call it a day and go home:P
Then when I got home my niece and nephew were over ( we were babysitting them so my sister and bro-on-law could go out to eat) and Brady helped me it my supper. Mainly by eating most of my re-heated chicken. And this is after he ate a ton of supper all ready:) but hey, a growing 2 year old has to have his meat.
Wednesday: yesterday was youth group, and it was my second time to teach as a small group leader, and it went well, we actually got through the entire session this time. Last week we only got about half way through it.
And today nothing is happening but a voice lesson later today. And thats about it!
Sorry for making this so insufferably long, but its hard to cram a weeks happenings into one post.
Hopefully next time I'll be more faithful and post more frequently than every couple of weeks!
Here is a video from last years BREAKOUT youth conference! the skit was halarious, the games were a blast, and the worship was awesome! in the video, I'm the singer in the middle, only you can't here us sing. but here it is!
Last night I dreamed that we had some personal trainer at our house, and she was working us all to death!
and then I woke up in the middle of night all sore, as if I really had been doing 27 push-ups... Backwards push-ups, to be exact.. I don't even know if thats possible. But anyway, I thought that was strange.
Its snowing again. By tonight we are supposed to have another eleven to seventeen inches, on top of our
about 10-12 inches right now. Its supposedly the biggest snow of the season thus far. Which I thought nothing would top what we had back towards the beginning of the month, which is when we got a foot of snow in 2 days. Now I love snow and winter, but I must tell you, I am slowly getting quite sick of it all. I'm ready for warmth, and not having to wear a jacket and gloves every time I go somewhere.
Last night was worship practice for our church. It was sorta done the non-conventional way, After getting everything set up and plugged in, and going through 1 song, we ended up sitting in the middle of the floor on the stage and singing with just a guitar. For almost 2 hours. I'm not sure what all got done, but needless to say, we will be at church early on Sunday to practice.
On Saturday we had worship practice for the city-wide worship band, and we have several new songs we are practicing. He Is Yahweh, is an amazing song, let me tell you! It gives me chills just listening to it.!
On Sunday we had a meeting for the Wednesday night worship teams that will be starting for Dinner at The Hub ( our churches new outreach, starting Feb 25) and Christina and I will be leading for that some nights.
And last night, I found out I get to be back on the Youth Group worship team! I loved it, but since I left youth group cause of graduating, I've been wishing I could still be on it. But now since I'm becoming a youth leader starting next week, I was asked to be on it again! woot woot! I'm completely excited... Of not a little
apprehensive, trying to figure out when I'll have time for all of this. Especially when I start working. I'm still praying about and looking around a little for a place to work. I would love to work at Starbucks, but the only one close to us had some... Well, its full of really shall we say... gender confused people. I'd rather not work there. Unfortunately the only other one I can think of is quite a distance away. However, they just put in a new Arabica close to where I live, and I want to put in an application there!
Except for the one I wrote. Which, my dear fellow bloggers and readers, is exactly why I wrote it.
I know I've done this before, but as I sit here with a towel wrapped around my wet head, I thought I'd do one again. Do what, you ask? Well, just a few things about me, which you may not already know, depending on who you are.
So, Since I'm rawther bored, I thought I'd tell you all a few things.
My eyes are not Blue. They are, in fact, green. Many people think my eyes are blue, but I assure you they are not. They do, however, have little flecs of blue in them, when observed closely, And they have a strange habit of looking blue and gray. Which is why people mistake them for blue at times,but if they were to ask, I would tell them I they are green.
I am taller than I look. I just look shorter because I have short legs, and so, Bonnie, yes I am taller than Julie- we have measured.
I love to drive. I love love love it, and I can't wait until I get my liscence, cause I love to drive.
A few of my favorite things are my nephew Brady saying my name (Care-ya, is more how he pronounces it) and my niece Rachel with her toothless grin, which she gives after getting her chin rubbed. Don't ask me why, but she loves getting her chin rubbed. And my niece Audrey mis-pronouncing words. And woe to the person who corrected her on how to say Breakfast. I like brefkits much better.
I really wish I had my Borders gift cards with me yesterday when we made a spur of the moment stop there, cause they're was an autographed copy of a book there by Dee Henderson, one of my favorite authors. And I didn't feel like spending money. I am a tight wad at times I admit it.
I like having new clothes and stuff, but I hate spending money on them. Thats why I love sales so much.
Shoe shopping is depressing.
Those fruit snack things I had at church yesterday while baby sitting were really gross.
I don't generally right anymore blog entries on here until after I have had at least 2 comments. Just so I know if anyone is actually reading this thing or not.
I need to go dry my hair, cause I can't go grocery shopping with mom with it up in a towel. I don't really like grocery shopping, but as I will be the one driving, I don't really mind.
Just thought I'd let you all know. In case by any strange chance you were wondering. I am not ambedextrious. And in case you were further wondering, I spelled ambedextrious incorrectly, so don't go writing any papers about it using my horrible spelling.
Okay, now that that spiel is over, I thought I'd write something of interest, as I now have stuff of interest ( or at least interesting to me, you'll have to let me know what you think.) to write about.
I am very sore. But it is an achyness resulted from much fun, so I don't really care. I went ice skating with my church yesterday, and had a marvelous time. And I didn't fall once. All though I think I have mastered the art of flailing my arms around to keep myself from falling, I had some close encounters, but amazingly managed to save myself from sprawling across the ice, which would have resulted in many more bruises.I'm sure i was a humorous sight. I still have bruises though, from my skates. Goodness, the first pair I wore hurt. I have bruises on my legs from them. But then I went and exchanged them for hockey skates, which was much better.
This is Me and Christina :
Here is the entire group, minus Pastor Josh and Abby:
And here is the ice sculpture that no one can figure out what it is:
On the Cara news front ( No I don't really have one, I just thought I'd say I did) I am now a member of our churches worship team, starting next week, Christina and I will be worked into the rotation. On Saturday Rehearsles begin with the city-wide worship band we are in ( though most of us don't even live in that particular city) for a youth conference in March called BR8KOUT. We sang there last year and had a blast! And In February, our church is starting something on Wednesdays called Dinner at the Hub, where we invite homeless and low income families to our church for a hot meal, worship, a message, and a bag of groceries as they leave. Christina and I will be helping lead worship for that as well. And I'm also going to be a youth leader for our youth group starting in a couple weeks. I really need to start training more people to do the power point for worship on Sunday mornings, cause as of yet, no one knows how to do it but me, and I've done it every Sunday ( aside from ones that I was sick and stayed home ( which was like1 or 2) and once in December, but that was only because I couldn't do it, cause I was in the production) since September doing it.
Well that is my stuff of interest that has happened. I'm really hungry and should probably go eat some breakfast. All though its really late for that. I got up this morning, read my Bible ( Ephesians 2 and Psalm 22) changed the sheets on my bed, made my bed, which, ladies and gentlemen, I have made every single day for almost a year and a half. then came down stairs to get on here and tell you all that I am not ambedextrious.
I fear I have been rather lazy on the blogging front. I simply didn't feel like posting anything, so I didn't.
I'm still not much in the mood to write anything, but I thought I would just so you know I haven't died or anything. On the contrary, I'm perfectly healthy:)
We have just had the first winter storm front, which ended on Saturday, and we got a foot of snow. The second front is due to start late tonight I think. Just so long as I can still go to my oldest sister's house to stay the night and babysit tomorrow. I love those kids. They are such characters. Lately Audrey has been really into weddings. Probably cause she was a flower girl in both of my brother's weddings. So now she is having pretend weddings and such. And Brady is starting to talk now, and sometimes we can actually figure out what he is saying too! and Rachel is just sweet and tiny and happy and likes to smile.
We are getting that dish network thing because of the antenna tv's won't work in February thing. Mom is scared we'll want to watch tv all the time, but I don't think so. Disney channel is, for lack of a better word, stupid. I've seen the shows on there while babysitting, and quite frankly, they are completely stupid. Who would want to waste there time watching something like they have on there? The only channel I'm excited about is the Home and Gardens channel! I love it when the restore the houses and stuff for selling them, and seeing the before and after pictures.
Gosh, I'm really trying to think stuff up to write. So this isn't a true blog entry, because nothing is coming naturally to write about, and I have to search into the deep chasms of my brain to dig something out worth writing about, and so far to no avail. Usually I think about what I write and how I write it several days before I write anything, thus creating a more interesting post for you all to read. I'm afraid this one is sorely in need of something exciting, and I have nothing to offer you, so I apologize.
Well, g'bye!
Hello. I figured I have ignored you all to long, and should right and let you know that have not forgotten you, nor fallen under some great catastrophic blanket of unfortunate events. I'm doing perfectly fine. I've just been not in the mood to blog.
I thought I'd share some about my trip to Mozambique Africa.
Never have I seen so much joy and sadness at the same time. There are things that I've seen which made me laugh, and cry. I have seen babies crying because they are so malnourished they were bloated, and I have seen little children who live at the garbage dump, laughing and full of joy, and clamoring to get your attention to hold them, or swing them around in circles. I have seen a little boy named Faustino, who ran away from his home to live on the streets, cause his parents beat him. His only posessions were they oversized clothes he was wearing, and a broken pink backpack that had a sheet in it. I cried my eyes out cause my heart ached so much for such a little boy, who couldn't have been more then 7. He didn't even have shoes, only a pair of socks that were much to large for him. His clothes were ragged, and full of holes, and he clutched his little bag close to himself so that none of the bigger boys would take it.
I have held babies in my arms, who are now healthy, but were close to dying when they were brought to the center. Like Sina, who came to the center at 5 weeks old, weighing 3 pounds. So sick, with AIDS as many of the babies are. Now about 2 years later, she is miraculously healed from H.I.V. and is ruling the roost in the baby house. and Joao, a little boy who is a bundle of energy and fun, who was incredibly sick when he came, and had a feeding tube in his nose.
There was also Thabo, aged about 7 years old, who was litteraly skin stretched over bone, and nothing else. He was a sweet little boy, weighing maybe 20 pounds. He was brought to the center by the police, because he had AIDS, his family ignored him, and while they lived in a nice house with electricity, he lived outside on the porch, occasionaly they fed him, but not often. In October ( I think), Thabo went home to be with Jesus.
But I also saw Paulo, who is just now learning to feed himself. He is about 8 or 9 years old, and my 3 year old niece is bigger than him. I saw him stand up all by himself for the very first time. A family at our church sent leg braces for him. Now Paulo can pull himself up to standing.
And with the joy mixed with Sadness, there is Carmina, a very happy and strong little girl, who is around 6 and can't walk on her own. They think that when she was a baby she had menengitis and hadn't been treated until to late. she has practically no fine motor skills, and can't feed herself with a spoon. And she can't talk either, but she sure nose what " Carmina esto muito bonita!" ( Carmina is very pretty)means, and she got a huge smile whenever I told her that.
And all of the little kids in the baby house called me Mana Ana, and my sister Mana Cara. they thought it was halairious when I said " Nao! Meu Nome Mana Cara! Mana Ana esto minia` irma`!" I don't know which was funnier, my trying to speak Portuguese, or them laughing hystarically when I pretended to cry.
And also the girls tried to teach me Portuguese. While I definately know what cabasa, boca, lingua and narish means, I'm afraid I wasn't the best student. So, in turn, I taught them some Pig Latin, The only language besides English I am fluent at.
I cried when I had to leave, and spent most of the last flight home trying not burst into tears, cause I wasn't ready to come home yet. I hope to go back to Africa soon, cause it was so amazing!!!
Now my sister is yelling at me to get off, so good bye! I pray that 2009 will be a wonderful year for us all!
Cara
In spite of the freezing rain and icy roads, I thought I would post a completely non-winter picture.
It took me forever to get this picture. Every time I would snap a picture, it would have flown off.
But here it is, and I'm planning on entering in the fair next year.
So we have been buried up to our elbows in Christmas cookies. Yesterday we made the cut- out cookies
and peanut blossoms, and today we need to make more snickerdoodles. The day before yesterday we made christmas tree cookies, which are almond flavored and green! and the day before that I was at my sisters house, helping my niece and nephew decorate cookies, and then when they were down for a nap, Christina and I cut out baked and decorated gingerbread men for my sister Bonnie. And the day before that we made our own ginger bread men and ladies and mittens.
Tomorrow we have dress rehearsels for the Christmas program, which we are doing on Sunday. Its supposed to run from 9 to about 12, but knowing Joseph ( the man who is putting this all together) we'll be there till 2. Last Saturday we had a practice with 2 of the sections of the performance, and it was supposed to be from 9 to 11. Well, we didn't leave until after 1 o'clock. Hopefully it won't be like one year where we were at church from 8:30 in the morning until 6:30 in the evening. That was a little too long in my opinion.
I want to take a nap. I'm tired. I kept waking up last night, and only dozed off on and on since about 4 in morning.
This may be the only post before Christmas, as we will be pretty busy. Maybe on Tuesday I'll be able to write something, assuming I have something interesting to write about in the first place.
Well, Cheers!
� Dec. 14, 2008 - There are no right of ways with shopping carts.
I actually think that shopping cart steering could be more hard, and perilous to ones health then actually driving a motorized vehicle. Why? well, especially when around Christmas time, you are in a store jam packed with people pushing shopping carts around, it is pretty much utter chaos. I almost got hit several times by people who weren't watching when coming out of isles. I think that store owners should put stop signs and yield signs through out the store during busy shopping seasons, to help keep down shopping cart fatilities. And then have an extra 10 cent tax on all purchases to be paid by any violator to the shopping cart law. I tell you, know one simply lets you pass them in stores.
I taught Children's Church again today, and I had Vicki and Claudia again. They were much better behaved then last time, but you don't know what they are gonna say next! I was asking the kids questions about what they like to learn in church, and Claudia said
" I like to learn about Jesus, and how he went into a volcano, and fell in the lava, the hot hot lava, and thats how he died for us..." Trying to keep a strait face was virtually impossible. I don't know where she came up with that one, but apparently thats what Vicki thinks happened too, as she was explaining to me the same thing a little bit later.
Ok, I'm done, and I'm almost done Christmas shopping, and I'm broke.
Good bye all! and make sure you have no shopping cart maniacs using you for target practice in stores! Just in case, you might want to bring some portable rear view mirrors and and a bike horn.
Ahh... As I sit here and type this I am blissfully sipping on a Starbucks mocha frappiciono ( not the stuff in the jar either, this is the real deal) wearing my new shoes and am nice and toasty warm. So yes, I am content.
Today has been slightly crazy, with us running all over creation shopping.
First we went to the bank, then to church to pick up my sister Andrea who was staying the night there with her young girls G.E.M. bible study group. Then we went to taco bell, and then left cause nothing looked good, so we went across the parking lot to burger king. Now let me tell you, we rarely get fast food. I think the last time I had fast food besides today was back in October. So it is a treat to go eat junk Then we went to TJ Max. but couldn't find anything... And I lost my cell phone there. I bought one of those prepay only cell phones, and rarely use it. But after searching through the garbage can outside the store that we threw our burger king bags into( slightly embarressing), mom called my number and we found it in the store.Then when mom went into one of the most boring stores on the planet ( Office Max) Christina and Andrea and I went to famous footwear to look for some shoes, couldn't find anything, so we went to payless which is right next door ( this is a strip mall, so all of these stores are pretty much right next to each other) and immediately found what we were looking for, plus it was buy one get one half off of anything, so we each got a pair of shoes, and then I paid, and Christina paid me half of what I paid... So we each ended up saving 5 bucks. Then mom went to the other most boring store on the planet (Staples)
Andrea Christina and I went into the music store, and drooled ( almost littiraly) over the most gorgeaus accoustic electric guitar I think I have ever seen. It was a dark blue sunburst with lighter blue inside.. and only $170. My buy it was beautiful... unfortunately, it was only on sale for that price today, and even more unfortunate, it was the only one they had. Oh well, its nice to dream a little. Then we all went to Target, I got socks, mom got Christina something that she wanted for Christmas, and then we went to the starbucks inside target, then we came home.
Well ,I hope I haven't bored you all with this... Goodbye!
This picture is of me and my best friend Naomi at her sister's wedding. Naomi and I had a lot of fun today.
First we went to the mall cause she had to get a ring cleaned, and then we wandered around for a little bit.
Then we went to walmart to get candy and some other stuff, as well as pop from the vending machines outside, then after dropping the stuff on the car, we went to Panera and ate lunch ( chicken chipotle sandwhich is excellent, in case you were wondering) Then we wandered around Old Navy and Bed Bath and Beyond cause we had time to kill. Then we went back to the car, stuffed the afore mentioned candy and pop into our purses and went to go see Madagascar 2, which was halairious.
Then when that was over, she came over to my house, and we played guitar in my room ( I'm teaching her how to play) and then we ate supper, washed a ton of dishes, and then she left. She is on Winter Break from college ( In Montana) so we haven't been able to do anything for a while. It was lots of fun though!
I'm sorry that the video on my last post wouldn't work. And I was so excited for you all to see it to
I don't know why it wouldn't work, I even tried re-posting it, but, alas, to no avail.
Anyway, I was teaching Children's Church last Sunday, and thought I 'd share what some of the 3 to 5 year olds were saying. Sometimes It was hard to not crack up laughing your head off, but I suppose being the teacher, you must try to hold onto some dignity, and pray that the kids don't think you are going crazy ( all though the behavior of 2 little girls made me want to rip my hair out)
Ok, when we first started, since I didn't know all of the kids names, I had them tell us what there names were.
It went something like this with to little girls:
Claudia: I'm Claudia and this is Vicki
Vicki: Hey! I want to tell my name!
Me: Ok, go ahead and tell us your name then.
Vicki: I'm Vicki, and I cut my hair ALL BY MYSELF!!!
Me trying not to crack up as I observed the strange looking ponytail: Well, (snicker) I'm not sure (choking on a laugh) If that was a very good idea Vicki...
Vicki: and look, I got a cut on my finger...
She shove her hand across the table so I could see her barely noticible little tiny cut.
Me: Oh, well it looks like it is healing nicely.
Claudia: And look, Sid bit my finger!
Me: Uh huh...
Then everyones sleeves or pant legs were rolled up trying to show me their latest wounds.
Me: Ok, ok everyone, we'll look at eachothers booboos later...
I was told to teach about Thanksgiving and since that is this week, so I asked the kids if they knew what it was about...
Claudia: Its when Santa Clause comes down the chimney and gives us presents!!!!
Me: Uh, no, thats Christmas. Anyone else know what it is?
Elijah: we eat pie on Thanksgiving.
Me: uh huh, Carmen, doing you know what its about.
Carmen just smiles and shrugs (he is about 3 years old and is absolutely adorable)
Then since no one actually knew, I read them the story about William Bradford and the first Thanksgiving.
A little bit later, we passed out pieces of paper and the kids drew what they were thankful for.
Audrey (my niece): How do you draw chocolate?
Eli: Like this!" and proceeded to draw on Audrey's paper
Me: Eli, draw on your own paper!
Then later the kids lined up to show us there picture, and what was on them.
Eli: I dwawed a pictow of my house, and some wain!!!
Audrey: I drew Chocolate!
Claudia: I drawed Sid, and pie!!!
Carmen: I drew turkey! 2 turkeys!
Vicki: I made a pictow of santa clause!
Chloe: I drew angels!
Brooklynn: I drew Jesus!
Later, as the kids are eating there snack.
Chloe: I'm gonna marry Eli when I grow up, but he has to ask me first.
Eli: I'm not mawwying you! I'm gonna mawwy Kwista!
Me: Eli, its not good to marry your sister.
Eli: Why?
Chloe: cause its against the law!!
Me: Uh, its says in the Bible that it isn't good to marry your sister.
Elijah: Oh yeah? I'm gonna marry my eyeball!
Eli: you can't mawwy youw eyeball!
Elijah: Then I'm gonna marry my hair!
Me thinking: Isn't it almost time for the parents to come get the kids yet?
Then I had to break up constant battles between Claudia and Vicki (sisters), and needless to say I was thankful when the parents finally came.
I don't mind teaching, its just that I'd rather not have both Claudia and Vicki both in the same class at the same time... When they are by thereselves, they are fine, but when together, they nearly constantly are disrupting the class...
Well, Thats all I can remember, so I'll write more some other time..
P.S. I am the proud aunt of Rachel Anne, born November 14, 2008, weighing 6# 9 oz. and 20 inches long.
She was 3 weeks early, but is very healthy, and much loved by all, including her adoring older brother and sister!!
� Nov. 21, 2008 - Mozambique, Africa. Iris ministries video
This video was taken about a week and a half before I went to Africa. It is amazing to see so many familiar faces. The little boy, Thabo, that you will see, was about 7 years old, and weighed no more than 20 lbs. He came to the airport with my sister and another missionary to pick my dad and I up. He died a couple months ago, but was such a blessing to those who knew him. Also, its so neat to see all those babies, knowing that I held and played with all of them. What isn't shown much of, is the city dump, where hundreds of people live. If I can find it, there is a video with a little girl that ran up to me and tried climbing onto the truck before I even was able to climb out, wanting to be held, and I actually found her in one of the videos I watched. If I can find it, I will post it! NOTE: Before watching this video, you may want to scroll down to the bottom of this page, and turn the music ipod player thing off, so you can hear whats going on in the video.
� Nov. 10, 2008 - The battle: Cara vs. the running hyper puppies
I was sick yesterday, so I stayed home from church...My parents went to my gramma's church right after our church for something, so I was home alone almost all day. Anyway, my brother Dan came over in the afternoon, with his two puppies, Katy and Georgia. I had laryngitis, so remember, I couldn't speak above a whisper...
The beginning of the battle:
It was around 1 o' clock, and I had finally gotten something to eat, as my throat wasn't as sore, and it wouldn't hurt to eat something. So I heated up a bowl of home made chicken noodle soup, and had just settled on the couch and eaten a bite of soup when my brother opened the door...In came running Katy and Georgia, tripping over each other and yapping playfully, and jumping on me, thus jumping into my bowl of soup. ARhg.That was round one... the puppies won, and I had to go dump my soup.
Round 2. Daniel was outside fixing the brakes on his wife's car, so I was inside with the puppies. I hear a sort of crunching noise, and look behind a chair to see Georgia with some small plastic object (as in thumb tack size) I grab her and try to take it away, but she swallowed it before I could get it out. Slightly exasperated, I sit back down...In comes Katy, chewing on some other object. a towel I believe. I whisper to her to drop it, and she misunderstood my demand to make her put it down, and thought that I w anted her on my lap. So she hopped on my lap and began licking my face happily. As I'm trying to shove her off, Georgia sees the fun and jumps on me and tries licking my face too. I finally shove them off, and the run into the kitchen... a few seconds later, they come running back into the living room playing tug of war with my brothers hat. I whisper to them to stop, and grab it away.. The go back into the kitchen...A moment later I hear a hissing sound, and go into the kitchen to see what was the problem... Georgia found Snaggle, our cat. Snaggle is a big cat, only a little smaller than the puppies. Katy for the most part left snaggle alone, but of course Georgia had to see what this great hissing beast was, and pretty much drove snaggle nuts.. after stopping the hissing and barking war several times, I got fed up, and shoved the dogs out the door.
Round 2, I won.
about 15 minutes later my brother Dan says, "hey Cara, I'm gonna leave the dogs in here for 5 minutes, I have to go test Julie's car to make sure it works.." so I was stuck chasing after the puppies, pulling things out of there mouths, breaking up more hissing/barking wars, and stuff of the sort. Finally Dan came back, got the puppies and left... So I went to re-heat another bowl of soup... I get it warmed up, I settle back on the couch, take a bite and... the door opens, and Dan has returned with the running hyper puppies. Why he came back I don't know, but he was able to stop them before they jumped into my bowl again, and he held onto them, and got them to go right to sleep... It was after 2;30 when I finally finished eating. they stayed in the liiving room after that, and a little later my brother Seth came home with a pizza, and Dan was able to keep them from jumping alll over us, and they were very well behaved little imps after that.
but they are so cute... and Katie curled right up and fell asleep on me... and You can't resist holding a sleeping puppy. its almost like holding a sleeping baby...
Well, I can't say who won. I'd say we came to a truce and signed a peace treaty, and were happy after that.
Well, that was my adventurous day with the puppies!
Right now we need to pray for our country as people head out to vote! pray that people don't vote on the "idea" of a presidential candidate, but rather for what they believe, how experienced they are, and definately for the good of our country! I cast my vote for McCain this morning, and was third in line at the polls!
Continue praying for our leaders, even if Obama gets elected ( hopefully not), pray that wise decisions are made, and that our country will become a stronger nation!
P.s. I didn't get elected president last night :) there was hardly anyone at our meeting though. Out of our 50+ members, only about 18 were there. Plus my two little brothers weren't there, and I probably would have gotten it if they were there! I am however, the Vice President!, and since our president wasn't there (she is to old for 4H now), yesterday I was the "president" cause our old vice president became the stand in president for the entire year. So That was nice, especially cause I finally got to bang the gavel! haha!
It has been 2 weeks ago today that my sister Anna went back to Africa, and it seems that just now life has been settling down to the normal pace. We haven't had to run non-stop for the past week, which has been lovely. We have had many more quiet evenings home, and its just been nice...Of course we are going through a little wave of illness in the family. Light cases of the flu. I think I've got it now. Yuck. But other than that, all is going well in our household. Things are going to be g etting crazier as this week progresses, and we draw nearer to Thanksgiving and Christmas though. Dance practice starts back up tomorrow night. I like being in our dance group and everything, its just the weekly drives up to church (when dance starts we have a minimum of 3 trips there) which wouldn't be so bad, except it takes close to a half hour to get there, and by the time we get back home we are hungry tired, and wound up and to slap happy for own good. I must say we sleep good those nights though.
This year however, I'm the only one in my family who needs to start going up to dance practice for a little bit, cause the first part of the program the dancer teacher only needs 3 girls, and I'm one of them:)
Tonight is a 4-H meeting...I just finished printing up my notes, as I am the secretary of our club... Tonight, however, is my last day as secretary. It is election night, and although I kind of like being our secretary, it'll be nice to not have to scribble down everything thats being said, then later trying to decipher what on earth I wrote, and put them in some sort of order.Todays notes were easy though as last meeting we focused on awards, so I just had to write down who won what. My parents won a glass candy jar that is engraved, that was handed out to some of the parents for there support and help through out the year, and Joel, Christina and I each won a top 10 4-Her plaque. I was surprised that the actually narrowed it down to 10 members this year... Usually our top 10 are really top 15 cause our club has a lot of members.
But since this is my last year in 4-h, I plan on running for president! hopefully I'll get it... I'm not sure who else will be running for anything though. But we'll see. For right now, I need to go put on socks cause my toes are cold, and take something to get rid of this head ache, so I'll let you all know if I got elected or not!
Probably not tomorrow though. Cause first I have to go vote (woot! McCain Palin are getting my support this year!!!) then I have a voice lesson, then I have dance practice.... But I find time I'll let you all know!
� Oct. 29, 2008 - URGENT PRAYER REQUEST FOR INDIA!
There is some major persecution going on in India right now, so please keep the Christians in your prayers!
Here is the email we got concerning the events. Its long, but please read it all!
This is is a request for prayer for YWAM missionaries and their
churches in Orissa , India . The request came from Mable Hurst, an associate
of HCJB Global. Please read and make this a matter of urgent prayer.
Dear beloved sponsors and friends of Good News India .
We have never seen anything like this. We knew that Orissa was the
most resistant and hostile State in India as far as the Gospel is concerned.
And we brushed off the con tinuous threats and harassment we faced as we went
about His work. But none of our staff imagined that they would see this kind
of carnage.... And it seems to be totally under the radar of the Western Media
....
Let me explain.... A militant Hindu priest and 4 of his attendants,
who were zealously going around the villages of Orissa and 'reconverting'
people back to Hinduism, were gunned down by unknown assailants in Central
Orissa last weekend.
Immediately the Christians were blamed. The cry rose up...'Kill the
Christians!'
And the horror began.... In the past 4 days, we have first hand
witness to hundreds of churches being blown up or burned and many, many dozens
of Christian tribals have been slaughtered. For no other reason than they bear
the name of Christ.
Night and day I have been in touch with our Good News India Directors
spread across 14 Dream Centers in Orissa... they are right in the middle of
all this chaos.
In Tihidi, just after the police came to offer protection, a group of
70 blood-thirsty militants came to kill our staff and destroy the home. They
were not allowed to get in, but they did a lot of damage to our Dream Center
by throwing rocks and bricks and smashing our gate, etc. They have promised
to come back and 'finish the job.' Our kids and staff are locked inside and
have stayed that way with doors
and windows shut for the past 3 days. It has been a time of
desperately calling on the Lord in prayer.
More police have come to offer protection. In Kalahandi, the police
and some local sympathizers got to our dream center and gave our staff and
kids about 3 minu tes notice to vacate. No one ha d time to even grab a change
of clothes or any personal belonging. As they fled, the blood thirsty mob came
to kill everyone in the building. We would have had a mass funeral there, but
for His grace. In Phulbani, the mob came looking for Christian homes and
missions. The local Hindu people, our neighbors turned them away by saying
that there were no Christians in this area. So they left. We had favor. The
same thing happened in Balasore.
All our dream centers are under lock down with the kids and staff
huddled inside and police outside. The fanatics are circling outside waiting
for a chance to kill. Others were not so fortunate. In a nearby Catholic
orphanage, the mob allowed the kids to leave and locked up a Priest
and a computer teacher in the house and burned them to death. Many believers
have been killed and hacked into pieces and left on the
road.... even women and children. At another orphanage run by another
organization, when this began, the Director and his wife jumped on their
motorbike and simply fled, leaving all the children and staff behind. Every
one of our GNI directors that I have s poken to said: 'We stay with our
kids.... we live together or die together, but we will never abandon what God
has called us to do.' More than 5000 Christian families have had their homes
burned or destroyed. They have fled into the jungles and are living in great
fear waiting for the authorities to bring about peace. But so far, no peace is
foreseen.
This will continue for another 10 days.... supposedly the 14 day
mourning period for the slain Hindu priest. Many more Christians will die and
their houses destroyed. Many more churches will be smashed down. The Federal
government is trying to restore order and perhaps things will calm down. We
ask for your prayers. Only the Hand of God can calm this storm. None of us
know the meaning of persecution. B ut now our kids and staff know what that
means. So many of our kids coming from Hindu backgrounds are confused and
totally bewildered at what is happening around them. So many of their
guardians have fled into the jungles and ar e unable to come and get them
during these trying times. Through all this, I am more determined than ever
to continue with our goal: the transformation of a community by transforming
its children. Orissa will be saved... that is our heart's cry. If we can take
these thousands of throw-away children and help them to become disciples of
Jesus, they will transform an entire region. It is a long term goal, but it is
strategic thinking in terms of the Great Commission.
What can you do? First, please uphold all this in fervent prayer.
Second, pass this e-mail on to as many friends as you can. We must get the
word out and increase our prayer base for this is spiritual warfare at its
most ba sic meaning. We are literally fighting the devil in order to live for
His Kingdom. The next 10 days are crucial. We pray for peace and calm to
pervade across Orissa.
Thank you for taking the time to read this. Please pass it on and help
us to get as many people to partner with us on this cutting edge effort to
fulfill His mandate: Go and make disciples of all nations....
I'm an 18 year old recently home schooled graduate. I am a born again Christian and strive to honor God with my life.
I enjoy singing, and playing various musical instruments.
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Then we went to TJ Max. but couldn't find anything... And I lost my cell phone there. I bought one of those prepay only cell phones, and rarely use it. But after searching through the garbage can outside the store that we threw our burger king bags into( slightly embarressing), mom called my number and we found it in the store.Then when mom went into one of the most boring stores on the planet ( Office Max) Christina and Andrea and I went to famous footwear to look for some shoes, couldn't find anything, so we went to payless which is right next door ( this is a strip mall, so all of these stores are pretty much right next to each other) and immediately found what we were looking for, plus it was buy one get one half off of anything, so we each got a pair of shoes, and then I paid, and Christina paid me half of what I paid... So we each ended up saving 5 bucks. Then mom went to the other most boring store on the planet (Staples)
