One Tuesday Morning (and evening)

This is how the Tuesday 2 days before we left went: We started out by loading up the horses to bring to the Atwater’s for the couple of weeks during our trip. You have to understand, my horse, Dakota, HATES to load. He acts like the trailer is going to eat him, and last time it took us 2 days, a blindfold, 2 gates, and 6 people to get him to load!!! Crazy horse!!!
So Nina and I went early in the morning and didn’t feed them so we could lure them in. We walked ‘Kota around for a bit while Mom hooked up the trailer. When Mom backed the trailer in, (she’s getting good at that backing thing!) Kota heard it and got all wide eyed and shied. I thought, “Oh great. I can see how this is gonna go. We might just end up riding him the 4 or 5 miles there!” But then he calmed down and started munching on what little grass was there. He was so pretty with the wind blowing through his flaxen mane, and the sun shining down on his beautiful red/brown coat...

Backing in...

"Why do you have a halter in your hand?"

Watching Mom back in the trailer

"Bye baby."

Munching. Yum!

" Just walk up...."

And…. He said NO! So I circled him and tried again. And circled again and tried again. And again. And…. Again. You get the point. He just wasn’t doin’ it. Then someone suggested a lead chain, which we didn’t have, so I used the chain we use to keep the gate closed, and wrapped it over his nose. He reared, (yes, he literally reared. That’s how much he hates loading!) and I yanked down on the chain, and he was like, “Whoa! I don’t like that chain thingy!” He got under control, and then walked into the trailer for me! “That was easy!” I thought.

All loaded up and ready to go.

Driving

"I'll get you out boy."

The Atwater equine were like "What????"

" Walk out easy Kodes."

"Easy baby."

Mom unloaded her boy

Proud looking Chiko was very dirty! (Never get a white horse!)

Walking to show them the fence

Free (behind electric fence!)

Grazing time

"Hey, why ya leavin me hear?"

And here's Rudy, the rude little annoying fat pygmy goat!

They unloaded well and got used to the honking geese and curius turkeys. They never even tested the fence! Chiko turned out to be more frazzled by the exprience than Dakota.

So my boys are doing well and I can't wait to see them again!

Post by: Rose

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Then, after the horses were settled, we got home and scrambled like eggs to get the house in order enough to have the Miller family over for supper and fellowship. We thoroughly enjoyed their visit! Paul and Abby were a blast and the kids really liked the kittens. They have 8 kids, 12 y/o Daniel is the oldest, 5 m/o Julia is the youngest. We played Apples to Apples for a while, then just talked and had yummy dessert of brownies and ice cream! We swapped stories for a while and then, with an hour drive ahead of them, at 9:45 they said they were leaving. Then at 10:30 they said they were leaving. But... they didn't leave till 11 something!!! Bunch of partiers we are!! Ha-ha!!!

Emily "Sunshine"

The adorable stinker, Simeon

5 y/o Joey

12 y/o Daniel is over 6 feet tall. Taller than Abby!!!

Eating taco soup. Yummy!!

Post by: Rose

Fellowship w/ the Pawleys

For them living 3 miles away, we don't have the Pawleys over very often, so we had a great time! Of course, we're Baptist, so we started the evning out with a big meal of chicken catchatori, garlic bread, and salad. And for dessert there was homemade cherry and apple pies with vanilla ice cream and whipped cream (the spray kind!!!)

After the meal, we pulled out the violins, viola, and cello and drew the bows!!!!
Then, a Pawley/Sorta tradition, we sang... and sang... and laughed... and sang... and laughed some more... and sang until our voices cracked!!
Sometime after midnight, they had to leave... after a great time!!!

The meal

Mom and Aunt Lorie, alto and tenor



Lauren helping the little boys out with their timing!!

Singing is always better with a friend :)

Absters posing for the cam

2 of our tenors...

Me playing the bass line for our basses...

Our main bass, Pastor

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The End!

O Teach Me What It Meaneth!

"O Teach Me What It Meaneth"

O teach me what it meaneth,
That cross uplifted high,
With One , the Man of Sorrows,
Condemned to bleed and die!
O teach me what it cost Thee to make a sinner whole;
And teach me, Saviour,
Teach me the value of a soul!

O teach me what it meaneth ,
That sacred crimson tide,
The blood and water flowing,
From Thine own wounded side.
Teach me that if none other had sinned,
but I alone,
Yet still Thy blood,
Lord Jesus, Thine only, must atone.

O teach me what it meaneth,
Thy love beyond compare,
The love that reacheth deeper,
Than depths of selfdespair!
Yes, teach me, till there gloweth,
In this poor heart of mine.
Some feeble, pale reflection
Of that pure love of thine

O teach me what it meaneth,
For I am full of sin,
And grace alone can reach me,
And love alone can win.
O teach me, for I need Thee,
I have no help beside,
The chief of all the sinners,
For whom the Saviour died?

O Infinite Redeemer!
I bring no other plea;
Because Thou dost invite me,
I cast myself on Thee.
Because Thou dost accept me ,
I love and I adore;
Because Thy love constraineth,
I'll praise Thee ever more!

2008 Memories

"Memories from 2008"

(Rules:
1. Fill in your memories of 2008
2. Link my blog to yours
3. Tag others and comment on their blogs so they know they've been tagged)

~ My 2008 ~

1. A good book I read: Eli - a fictional story about what it would be like if Christ did NOT come yet, but came in the 21st century. It's really neat to see how the author tied in the parables and teachings of Christ into our day! {The Last Sin Eater was great too Aim!}

2.)A great film/movie I watched: One Night With The King - The story of Esther. It really makes you think about how it really was, and puts you in her Jewish shoes, going before the KING!!!

3.) A new place I visited: Ummmm - Nowhere new in '08. (Unless you count stores or something. Then I'd say Kohl's. )

4.) An inspiring Bible verse or quote I read: "Live like you are going to die tomorrow." (I couldn't pick just one verse....)

5.) A new skill I acquired: Cello playing!

6.) A lesson I learned: Learning to trust God that there are rivers in the desert. We just need to find them (before we croak!)

7.) A moment I will always remember: (1) Getting the phonecall that my dog got hit by a car twice and died. He was my buddy and constant companion. :-( (2.)Seeing my life flash before my eyes when I thought I was going to die when my horse freaked and ran straight for the road! Thankfully it is a quiet country road with few cars. I LOVE my horse Dakota. Life is never dull with him around!

Rose

We were able(as a church) to go and witness to a whole bunch of homeless lost people, we were aloud to pass out tracks, sit one on one with people, play our instruments and sing! after we were done with this we were able to pack boxes for low income families, and inside the boxes we were aloud to put our tracks in there and over 500 families would receive them. Here's some pictures!!

This was our witness...
Singing...

Instruments playing...

People witnessing....

Now the packing.

Waiting for a job...

the organizers...

Jada and Thabeh...

Potato guys....

Chit chatting, well waiting for our job to begin...

Christina and Josiah Hommes :o)

"hey don't take a picture of me"...

Amadu at work :o)

Misc pics

Making a cape
SMILE :)

Mom and her snow man

Way to long in Jo-anns, On to the third hour

Hi

Smile again

Us three.

Aaron and Levi

Bad news!!!!!

Just to let everyone know, Every single picture from the last 3 years is GONE!! So when we have time to load the pictures that we do own on the computer we will post!! Sorry its been so looooooooong but it was for a good reason. (well not exactly good) Post coming someday:):)