Oh, never mind. My new blog is here:

www.ryannig.blogspot.com

And guess what, I ACTUALLY posted on it!!! :-P

Jess, message to you on that blog...

My Mom's new blog can be found here:

http://jeneralities.com/

Coie is here:

http://cozieblog.com/

I'm here:

http://ryannk.com/

HSB administrators, please do not delete this blog because i'd like to keep this account so I can blog sometimes and sign in to leave comments.  Thanks!

I was sitting at the table eating ice cream with Emmi and I looked up and stared straight into her eyes for about three seconds and then I said “I bet I can make you lau…” I couldn’t even finish my sentence, she had already burst into laughter. That was easy. And then we spent the next 5 minutes trying not to laugh. But we couldn’t help it. I guess it was the sugar in the ice cream.

Alrighty, I was tagged by LittleC. I’ve already done this tag, but I’ll do it again. But before I start, I’d like to say that one of the 7 things I wanted to do I DID! I got the Chris Tomlin See the Morning CD. Lol. Ok, here goes:

:::7 Things I Want To Do Before I Die:::

1.       Move to Maryville (I bet you weren’t expecting that one!)

2.       Move Closer to Church (or that one either!)

3.       Find Coie a husband

4.       Go to Coie’s unplanned wedding

5.       Go REAL rock climbing!!!!

6.       See everyone of my relatives come to Christ

7.       Hmmmm. Move to Maryville.

8.       Oh, one more, own a tan Suburban

:::7 Things I CANNOT Do:::

1. Stay away from my computer

2. HAPPILY miss Church

3. Sneeze with my eyes open (neither can you)

4. Go 2 days without one shower (unless I’m camping)

5. Walk on water

6. Live a happy life without my family

7. Hold still

:::7 Things That I Love About My Mom:::

1. She can dance

2. She laughs at all of my jokes

3. She is easily entertained

4. She helps me with guitar and piano

5. She makes me FOOD

6. She loves me

7.  She loves God

:::7 Movies I Could Watch Over And Over:::

Oh boy, this is going to be tough…

1.       um…

2.       er…

3.       uh…

4.       hmmmm

5.       Did you know that I wanna move to Maryville?

6.       Oh boy…

7.       Oh! Got one! Hoodwinked (One of my favorite lines “Keith, DARNIT. Change your name, please, it’s not scary and I’m embarrassed to say it…Boris, try that”)

Thanks Little C!

I’m listening to a Reliant K song right now. Love it. I wish I had one of their CD’s. The one with “The Best Thing” on it. That was a little random.

Gotta go. Oh, actually, nevermind, I have one more thing to say...I don’t know if you remember last year my post about riding with the C’s to Father/daughter camp in their tan Suburban and how I was talking about how much I want a tan Suburban, but they’re giving us THEIR TAN SUBURBAN!!!!!! I don’t know what to do with myself. They’re also giving it to us for FREE. What. A. Blessing! I can get my permit next year, so I’m going to get that as soon as I can and then I’ll get to drive the tan Suburban! But I want to learn on a stick, THEN I’ll drive the tan Suburban. Notice that I add that it’s tan. That is a VERY important part. I liko de color da besto. :-D

Alrighty, now I’m going to go do my math (ugh) and then I’m going to practice the piano (Yippee).  I practiced a lot while Coie and Mom were gone so that I could impress Coie with being able to play one of her favorite songs really well. I love the piano.

Oh, yeah, and we’re going to be so busy---er, at least I will be---during the next whole month, so don’t expect anything from me for a while. I have quite a schedule. I’m going to post my busy schedule later so you can see it. I LOVE being busy.

-Ryann

Written on 5/28/08

So, the week beginning that I’ve been looking forward to is now over (I hate it when that happens-just kidding). I had so much fun while I was with the Risers. Ok, where do I start? Um, ok. On Sunday, after the service and the fellowship meal I left with the Risers and we shot off to Josiah’s piano recital (that is totally up my alley). That lasted about an hour. And then we went to their house and started a game that they taught me…I forgot what it was called but it was cool. Especially because I won. :-P

We played that until we had to leave for the Small Group. We left the game on the table and when we got back we finished it. I think we went to bed somewhere around 11:30.

The conversations we had during the drive to the Butcher’s house (where the S/G is held) were very interesting and struck me as hilarious. In one of the conversations Josiah was talking about how he got a splinter and somewhere he said “Gotten” and Mr. Riser said that isn’t a word and said that it would make more sense to say that he “Got exsplinterated” he was kidding, but surely that is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard.

So we got to the S/G and, as usual, I had a wonderful time. My family wasn’t able to make it-ah, that reminds me, I want to ask my Mom why they didn’t come. Anyways, everyone kept asking me how I got there. I told them I walked. That didn’t work. So I let them know that until Tuesday I would be an IgaRiser because I was staying with them. Mrs. Williams asked jokingly if my family sold me. Yeah, they traded me for a goat.

There are a lot more interesting things that happened at the S/G, but my brain is not working. I’m so dead tired.

Ok, on to the next day. Well, first of all, I woke up totally confused “Uh, why aren’t there any chickens clucking under the window? OH SHOOT! I GOTTA MILK THE GOATS!” and then I was like “oooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhh, right. Yes! I’m not on milking duty today!” Poor Emmiko. Actually, they probably didn’t separate the goats while I was gone. So, never mind.

Anyhoo, at 7:00 I jumped in and out of the shower. And then I went into the living room and found a book by MacArthur and started reading it. I really want it. Mrs. Riser said that Mr. MacArthur signed to her. Talk about cool. He’s the 2^nd best pastor that exists (My pastor is by far the best).

This will take a while, but I need to stop and remember everything that we did yesterday. Alrighty, I’m not going to get everything, but at the moment I remember that I got a piano lesson, us kids jumped on the trampoline for a bit, we made rhubarb pie (first time I ever tried it and boy was it good! I told Dad that I had some and he goes “ew, ughugh.” while I’m there saying “It was the BEST stuff!”), organized some stuff in the kitchen, jumped on the trampoline with Mr. Riser, Johanna, and Josiah…that was really fun, at first it was just me and Mr. Riser and Johanna, so it was all red-heads on the trampoline until Josiah came along. Mr. Riser kept popping me really high…actually, it was more like I stole his bounce several times. Lol.  

Oh! And I started reading a book that Mrs. Riser is writing. It’s really really REALLY interesting. I only got through the first couple of chapters and now I’m like “Oh golly! What happens next?! I need to finish reading it!” but I think it might be a while before I can finish reading it.

We did lots of stuff yesterday. I can’t remember it all right now, though. If it suddenly hits me later I’ll blog it then, but for now I’m brain dead.

But today we rock climbed their chimney. There was one half of the chimney that was easy and the other was very hard. I think I climbed it 3 times and then I tried a 4^th time but I was too tired to make it all the way up.

The funnest part was coming down. I liked kicking off the chimney. Climbing up on the hard side was really difficult and hurt my hands. But it was really fun anyways.

Later they taught me a new board game. That was fun, too. But I came in as the first loser. :-D Mrs. Riser won.

Ok, I can’t remember anything else at the moment. I need to go to bed. But I had an awesome time. The Risers are really cool. I like them a lot. It was really fun getting to know them better. Our families are very much alike in many ways. It’s neat.

I hope to be able to go over there again. I had an awesome time. Alrighty, my eyes are watery. I REALLY need to go to bed now. I’ll transfer this word doc over to HSB later…maybe next week. Oh so tired.

Truly Brain Fried,

-Ryann  

By the way (oh, and this is an edit, I really went to bed when I finished typing that all out, I wrote that out on the 20^th and now it’s the 23^rd), most of the time I was with them I had the Reliant K song stuck in my head:

This is the Best Thing! The Best Thing That Could Be Happening!...

Love that song.

A minister passing through his church
in the middle of the day,
Decided to pause by the altar
and see who had come to pray.

Just then the back door opened,
a man came down the aisle,
The minister frowned as he saw
the man hadn't shaved in a while.

His shirt was kind a shabby
and his coat was worn and frayed,
the man knelt, he bowed his head,
Then rose and walked away.

In the days that followed,
each noon time came this chap,
each time he knelt just for a moment,
A lunch pail in his lap.

Well, the minister's suspicions grew,
with robbery a main fear,
He decided to stop the man and ask him,
'What are you doing here?'

The old man said, he worked down the road.
Lunch was half an hour.
Lunchtime was his prayer time,
For finding strength and power.

Eye Color: Greenish

Hair Color: Red

Favorite Color: green or blue

Your Grade: 9th

Your Style: Jeans and t shirt

Write with both hands? No

Whistle? Yes

Blow a bubble? Yes, I’ve also accidentally rubbed some soap over my nose while I was in the shower and then exhaled and blew a nose bubble. I made myself laugh, too.

Roll your tongue in a circle? yes

Cross your eyes? Yes but it hurts extremely bad.

Touch your tongue to your nose? Yeah, but I stopped doing that when I decided that that’s gross.

Dance? Yep. But only with a partner.

Stay up a whole night without sleep? Yes. I’ve done it once. Dad does it a 4 times a week. He has to. He has two jobs, one at night and one in the day. One time he when 48 hours literally without sleep. It was miserable for him and I hate seeing him so tired.

Speak a different language? Pig latin, Ong, a tiny bit of Spanish and I can say some words in other languages, too.

Impersonate someone? Yes, I do it really often. I probably shouldn’t though, because I usually just make fun of them. It makes my family laugh really hard.

Prank call people? When I was 9 I prank called 411. Did you know that, mom?

Make a card pyramid? Yes

Cook anything? Yes

 That was fun. Thanks LittleAntie!

Tomorrow is my favorite day of the week...SUNDAY! (just got the Tree63 song stuck in my head) And it's going to be even better because at Church we're having the fellowship meal. We're going to have it out on the lawn. I prefere it inside (so does my family) because then it's a potluck. There's more reasons, but I'll leave it at that.

Tomorrow will also be the last Small Group until Fall. I REALLY want to make it to that. And I probably wouldn't have been able to because my family wouldn't be able to make it, BUT, I'm going to the Riser's tomorrow (saved the best news for last--sort of the last) and now I'll be able to make it! Yeah, we finally worked out a date. I'll be with them Sunday, Monday, and part of Tuesday. I'm already half-way packed. I'm REALLY REALLY excited! I'll get another piano lesson while I'm there so I've been practicing a lot. I'm also going to learn some things with either knitting or crocheting...not sure which, though. I'm SO excited. Goodness. By golly. Holy cow. I'm like REALLY excited! I've never done anything like this before. If I go to someone's house I'm usually there to help them with something. But now I get something out of going to someone's house. I get to learn stuff--stuff that I REALLY want to learn! I'm going to be there for almost 3 days, so I'm not sure what we'll do the whole time. But I know that I'm going to have so much fun the entire time! If you knew their family and you were staying with them then you would be able to safely say that, too. :-D

 I still don't even really know why I'm going over there. But I tell ya, I'm excited. I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight--which is a bummer, because I'm really tired.

Oh! Speaking of sleeping (by the way, I could go on about how excited I am, but I'll stop there...for now), last night, actually, this morning, it was 5:twenty somthing and Bo came and woke me up to take care of one of my Chickens (which died just now), so I got of the top bunk and attempted to take one step and my left leg was totally stiff, I couldn't even bend my knee, and I couldn't controll my foot, so I lost my balance and fell. It was really weird. And then I got up and tried walking but I couldn't bend my knee at first. It stressed me out. I have no idea what the deal is. Why do I keep on having these issues?

In other news, Mom and Coie are leaving for the Rosetta Stone convention on Wednesday. So when I get home they're going to take off. So I won't be able to tell them about my time with the Riser's. But for their sake that's ok, I'd probably talk their ears off. I was telling Coie how excited I am about even being able to go over there and finally she was like "Did you finish all of your chores today?". lol.

I'll be babysitting the next four days and then on Saturday my Aunt and Uncle are coming over to give me a hand. They said that they're going to take us somewhere when they get here. Charley has been sending boxes with his name to our address (he told us to put them up for him and not to open them) so I'm assuming they're moving in because they've sent billions of boxes. I'm REALLY REALLY excited about them coming down. This is going to be one overly exciting week for me. Now maybe we'll be able to make it to Church because we'll have an extra driver and vehicle. :-D

Bo was going to go with mom and Coie to the convention, but he decided to stay because Charley and Jess are coming over.

Um, I have lots more to say, but my time is up.

I don't think I'll get a chance on the computer for another couple of weeks.

-Ryann

The weekend that I get to spend with the Riser’s hasn’t come around yet. We don’t even have a date set up. We did but the first date I had to post-pone because that time would no longer work because we’re having some relatives stay at our house. So we set up another time and I had to post-pone that, too, because my parents needed me to baby-sit. I feel bad for having to keep on rescheduling (holy cow, I spelled that right, I thought for sure Microsoft Word would have underlined that), but Mrs. Riser says that it’s no problem and that it’s no hassle at all. She is very nice.

Oh, and it’s not going to be a weekend. It’ll be a week beginning. On Sunday my family will leave me at Church with the Riser’s and then they’ll drive me half-way home and drop me off at Home Depot with Coie on Tuesday.

 I love this set up because now I get to stay at Church longer than we usually do (Being the pastor’s family, they stay at Church longer than we do).  I love having fellowship with the people at Church and I value every moment that I get with anyone there. You know how I’m always saying “I REALLY want to move to Maryville”? You’ve probably seen it 20 million times here on my blog. Well, our Church is in Maryville. That’s why I want to move down there so badly. But why I love our Church so much is because I’ve learned an ENORMOUS amount of stuff from the sermons and from the many godly examples set for me. I’ve grown so much closer to God ever since we’ve started coming to this Church. If you ever want to listen to a sermon (or more-after you hear a sermon, believe me, you’ll want to hear another one, and then another one, and then another one…) go to www.GraceMaryville.org Mr. Riser is going through Romans chapter 16 (he is right now but I probably won’t get around to transferring this word doc. to a computer with internet to post this for a while). Some of my favorite sermons are in Romans 12. I got several copies of the sermons and listen to the repeatedly. He packs a LOT of important Much-Need-To-Know stuff in his sermons and he talks fast and so I usually catch some extra stuff when I listen to them again. I wish I could get copies of his sermons on Romans ch.12. I’ll download all of them when we get faster internet. Oh, and I’m so very excited because they (whoever is in charge of the web-site, I think Mr. Walker is, he’s cool) put all of the sermons on the Church site! I just can’t wait for faster internet to download those! :-D

Oh boy, wow, I sure jumped from subject to subject really fast.

Well, now you know why I want to move to Maryville. :-D

Alrighty, now I’ll tell you about the last two weeks (I’m going to load this entry, most people don’t read entries that end up as long as this one will, but that’s ok because the only reason I really have this blog is to keep records and be able to read about stuff I will probably forget in 3 years). The first weekend, Mom and Coie went to Minnesota for a convention that they had to go to for their new job with Rosetta Stone. They left on Thursday and got home on Sunday.  I was so bummed because we didn’t get to go to Church that Sunday. But it’s ok because my friend saved a copy of the sermon for me…but I still missed the fellowship. So while they were gone, Dad worked literally most of the time (he has two jobs, one at night, one during the day). So I babysat my siblings all weekend and we had lots of fun after we got all our school done. We ran around the fireplace (which is a big brick thing that separates the living room from the dining room) 5000 times and then played hide-n-seek in the dark 20000 times, then we watched Mulan 35 times, and then we got ready and went to bed.  Actually, while they watched Mulan I did one of my favorite things to do (you guys can guess what that is if you want). Actually, it was more of a two-things-at-once thing. Dad also bought tub of ice cream and a bunch of candy bars and we chopped up those and mixed them with the ice cream (the way Marble Slab does it). It was really tasty. (I told Mom about this over the phone and she said that they weren’t getting much to eat up there and they’d probably lose 20 pounds and us kids would find it)

We also did a lot of recording. I am making another family video. I need a program with 4-screen to finish it, though.

And then Mom and Coie left the next Thursday and got home that Sunday. We missed Church that Sunday, too. So I’ve had two whole weeks without going to Church. Goodness. It’s hard enough waiting 6 days for Sunday. I’m so happy we’ll be able to make it to Church in two days. I sure wish we could move closer (Yes, that was off subject). We can’t make it to small group Sunday evening, though, because we’re having some great friends over and they’re going to butcher two of our goats (for free, too!).

Hmmm. There was something else I was going to say…ah, got it. I’m now writing for a magazine. The mag is called Godly Girls. I’ve only sent in one thing so far, but the magazine owner wants me to write for them regularly. I get my own column, too. I named it Living for Him. Dying for Him.

Okie doke. This is entry is long enough. I’ll be surprised if you comment and tell me (TRUTHFULLY) that you read the entire thing. :-D                                      

Dear Grandma Sharon,

When we watched Mulan it reminded me of being at your house watching it there. I thought of you the entire time I watched it. Only made me miss you more. How is Grandma Agnes and everybody else? I wish we could come out and see everyone. And go to your house and have Inn-n-Out or something (I'd say Papa Murphy's, but we're so fortunate as to have one out here by our Church now). I've also been thinking about Aunt Lilian a lot lately. I can't remember why, though. I need to get off the computer, now. I've been on long enough. ;-D I love you and I miss you very very very much (bet you did't know that :-p )

-Ryann                                          

I almost forgot my password for this blog. Good golly it's been a long while since I've blogged.  OH! Speaking of golly (that was our goat's name, Golly), all of our goats FINALLY had their babies. And now we recently found out that another one of our goat's are pregnant. I'd be a lot more excited about this, but I'm  not a goat lover. However, soon enough we'll be selling goats milk and I'll be getting paid for the milking! WOOHOO! (no, that's not a sneeze, that's a way to say "I'm excited") Speaking of getting payed, I've started my own business. I now own all of the chickens and I sell eggs $2.00 a dozen. I get a little over 105 eggs a week, and I've found enough people to sell all of those eggs to. That pays for their own feed and I get enough profit for myself, so I'm satasfied. :-D I know how to butcher chickens on my own, so I can also sell chicken (Haven't gotten that far yet). On Tuesday I had to butcher 2 chickens for dinner because mom wanted to make something but we didn't have chicken. Tomorrow I have to butcher 3 more. I don't really like butchering chickens. It's a pretty nasty job. I especially hate it when the flies find the chicken and the 'Unwanted For Cooking"  pile. They drive me nuts. One thing that I really don't like is eating the chicken. I'm the only one in the family that doesn't like eating my chickens (or the eggs). So I do all that butchering and don't eat ANY of it. But sometimes I have to. I get really lucky if Mom doesn't have me eat everything on my plate. So far I haven't had to eat either John or Mark. Poor fellas. I'm that way about the goats milk, too. I do the milking but I HATE HATE HATE the milk. Why does it have to be this way? Maybe I should stop being so picky. Oh, one more thing, we may be butchering one or two of our goats this Sunday (no, not as a sacrifice). I am SO happy happy happy. I told you I wasn't a goat lover. But hopefully I don't have to eat any of it. Maybe I can skip dinner for the next 5 years...

I have more to say, but I don't have time to type it all out right now...maybe I will next year...:-P

-Ryann

Hello Everyone!

I was just taking a break from my school when I decided to come here and post something. My life has recently changed drastically. I posted about them in my last two blogs and if you haven't read them then please spare a few minutes and do. My Papa is visiting and I can tell he's in a lot of pain and sometimes it comes off on us. It is so much easier for me to be happy knowing she's in Heaven and way better off than here. Even if it causes us pain.

This morning I read a verse from the Bible and I remembered that it was spoken on in Ministry meeting by a visitor but it means so much more to me now so I thought I'd share it with you.

"Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." - Psalm 30:5

This verse is so inspirational and helps us all through the hard times. Let us never forget that God is always near and promises never to leave us.

I hope you all have had a great week  and I'm looking forward to the weekend ahead.

-Edit-written on April 1^st posted today…

On Sunday night we (Me, Coie, Mom, and Emmi) went to our Small Group. I am usually asked help watch the younger kids while the adults have the bible study. But this time my friend said she didn’t need any help. So I went inside and participated in the bible study, which was about prayer. It was very interesting to me. Mr. Riser mentioned a book on prayer that costs $300 dollars and has 1500 pages! I forgot who wrote it. I wish I could get that book (rather, borrow it).

After the bible study, I went over to Mrs. Riser (who had gotten my attention and waved for me to come over to her) and she said “Ok, don’t explode” I think she told me that 2-3 times. I said “Ok” wondering what she meant by that. And she said that she wanted me to come over to her house and spend a weekend with her. Even though she made that clear, it didn’t quite click for me right away (I was pretty slow that evening).

 And finally I put it together that she knew that I would be very excited and I’d explode with excitement. I really like the Riser family and am always excited to see them, so I’m especially excited to get to spend a weekend with them. She told me not to get too excited because I probably won’t go over there for a while. As much as I felt like I would, I didn’t explode. She said that she wanted to teach me some stuff about crocheting and/or knitting (which I’m especially excited about, I’ve been wanting to learn more stuff about crocheting & knitting). I thought about this for a little while wondering why she wanted me to come over. And finally I went to her and asked her and she said “Because I love you!” (I told my dad about this convo. and he goes “Aw, that’s cute”--his often and expected reply about something sweet, nice, kind, etc.). I feel totally special.

I’m so excited about this. When she invited me I wasn’t so sure if it would happen. But Mrs. Riser went and talked to my Mom about having me over and Mom said I can come over-that’s when I got overly excited. I’ve been giddy all day today and was all day yesterday. I just can't wait for this weekend to come along!

Oh, speaking of yesterday, me, Dad, Coie and Bo went up to Cumberland Gap (40-50 miles from here) to help Miss Tina, a lady that Dad works with, move to Morristown. She only had 3 other people helping her. About an hour after we got there and just about finished loading the uhaul, Coie had to leave for work. So she took her car and left. Me, Dad, and Bo got to drive the Uhaul down to Morristown (where Mom would come and pick us up) and helped unload (I haven’t ridden in a big truck since I was 10, it was pretty fun and brought back a ton of memories. I miss going with my Dad to work). When we finished, Mom picked us up and while we were driving down the neighborhood street we saw a man in a car parked next to a lady probably in her late 40’s, who was lying on the road. It looked really suspicious, so we called 911. While we were waiting for the police and ambulance (who someone else also called for) to come, Mom got out of the car and asked her if she was OK (Oh, by the way, the man was gone by now). She told Mom to go get her cigarettes. Mom asked her if she thought anything was broken and the lady again told her to go get her cigarettes. When the lady heard the ambulance she got right up and left. So Mom talked to the police about it and then we left quickly because Dad had to go to an appointment. And Miss Tina, who noticed the ambulance and police 4 doors down from hers and went to go see what the matter was and also saw us leaving, called Dad and let him know that the lady was just having a fit because she didn’t have any cigarettes! (Oh, by the way, the man in the car was the person who had later called the ambulance; I don’t know why he was parked so close to her, though). Ah, yes, one more thing about this…Today my Dad’s phone (which is used as an alarm clock) rang. So I hit a button meaning to turn off what I thought was the alarm, but was actually someone calling. I heard someone say “Hello?” and I thought “Oh, shoot” and quite embarrassed I answered it. The voice on the other side said “hello this is so-n-so from the Morristown police department” “Uh, one moment please!” and I hung up. I’m pretty sure that he was just calling about the whole thing yesterday. He didn’t call back. That was pretty embarrassing.

On another note, here’s a funny story about today:

 My 4yo brother came running in the house saying “I need to get a shirt on!” And I said “Ok, then go get one” without looking at him. And then he came to the kitchen (where I was) and said while putting on his shirt “I gotta worm” that got my attention pretty quick “You got a what-what?” and while he stretched it out he said “A worm.” “James, that’s gross. Take that outside.” I think that worm was the same on that he found under the rocks 5 hours ago. I had gone outside to check on him and when he saw me he went “Hey, look, I got a worm!”

Me “Uh, that’s great!” (trying to sound excited for his ‘amazing’ find) “Go give it to the chickens.”

Him “Um, no thanks. I wanna keep it”

Me “alright. What are you going to do with it?”

James “I don’t know”

Me “What did you name it?” (assuming that he had)

James (after a thoughtful moment) “Simba”

We haven’t seen Lion King for years and know nobody with that name. How in the world did he come up with that?

I don’t know why, but he has some sort of fascination with worms and loves them. His favorite thing to do outside is Worm-Hunt.

Ah, he just came in the house and I asked him what he did with the worm and he said “I let it go”

Me “did you give it to the chickens?”

Him “No, I let it go”

Me “HOW did you ‘let it go’?”

Him “I put a big rock on top of it and smooshed ‘em”

I was pretty sure that dry worm would survive…