Update...sort of...

Hey everyone, sorry that I haven't posted in almost two months! We are having a very busy summer so my posts have been awhile. I will slowly start updating you on all that has happened over the past several weeks, having a family of fourteen stay with us for 2 days, our homeschool convention, my grandparents visit from Louisianna, my week at camp, etc...

So if you want some old news check back often during these next few days! Maybe by September I can tell you what happened this week! Just kidding! :)

Finally it worked!

After a lot of work and several different ideas, we finally have Danny Spy and the Four-Thirty Kid on the Amateur Productions blog (there is a link on the right side of the page that will take you there). We hope you enjoy it!

We are in the writing stage of our next drama. If you would like to be kept informed of new dramas, send and e-mail to radioshorts@gmail.com and ask to be added to our mailing list.

Thanks for your patience!

I'm Back!

Well, I'm back! These last few weeks have been very busy and it would be impossible to tell you all that has gone on! Here is a little update though.

Last month our family went to the cemetary to clean and put new flowers on my sister and brother's grave site.

Although I never had the chance to meet them here, I look forward to seeing Charity and Daniel someday in heaven.

"As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him. " Psalm 18:30

On Wednesday, June 29, I traveled to NBBI for their Spring Bible Conference. I went with the Deans to help them with the children's program during the evening services. The rest of the family came up Thursday and stayed for the day. After the morning services we went and visited the Everett's. They were good friends with Mom and Dad when they were attending Bible School at NBBI and have been like grandparents to me and my siblings. We used to stay with them whenever we visited NBBI.

The Everett's Home

The Everett's

Visiting with Nana Everett

After visiting with the Everett's we visited one other friend in the area and then took a drive to do see some familiar places like...

...the Church where Mom and Dad attended the first year they were married...

...and the longest covered bridge in the world!

One thousand, two hundred and eighty-two feet, if you were wondering! :)

Andrew entering the bridge

Inside the bridge

After visiting the bridge we returned to NBBI, had supper and then got ready for the first children's program that evening. Dad, Mom, Josh and Tim left after the evening service and returned home leaving Rosanna, Nathanael, Andrew and I at NBBI until Sunday afternoon. Here are just a few photos of the rest of that weekend.

Mrs. Dean with one of her puppets

Teaching songs

Rosanna and Nathanel doing a quiz

I had a great time visiting with people during breaks as well. It all went by so fast.

Last Friday we planned a Ladies Tea for some of the older ladies in our church. Most of them are unable to be out and about much anymore.

They enjoyed being able to see each other again and had a wonderful tea/lunch.

It was wonderful to see the smiles on their faces.

The younger ladies who helped put the tea together.

As for other things that I have been up to...

Rosanna and I have recently moved out of the room we were staying in and into the camper so that Dad can work on some rooms in our house.

I have been very busy gardening for a couple of hours in the afternoon about 3-4 days a week. The older couple that I am helping have a lot of gardens so I think I will be working there for most of the summer.

Well, I'd better wind this post up. It feels so good to be blogging again! Thanks for your patience!

Sorry!

Hi,

Sorry that I have not posted in a while. These last few weeks have been very busy for our family. I will post some pictures and updates soon, but I just wanted to let you know that I still exist!

Living in Truth...

On Saturday, Mom, Rosanna and I, as well as three ladies from our church went to a Ladies Seminar at a nearby church.

Rosanna with Aggie & Agnes from our church.

During the breaks between sessions, I was able to talk with some other young ladies who came.

Mariah & Maggie (the youngest little lady at the seminar).

After a delicious lunch we were served a common desert in an uncommon way, canned cakes.

Yes, I did say CANNED cakes! They are made with a normal cake batter and then baked in canning jars and sealed up as soon as they came out of the oven. They tasted really great and they stay fresh longer because they are sealed up. In fact the lady that made them had them done a week before the seminar and they tasted as though they were made that day! We are going to try them again at home sometime, so that the boys can try them.

Enjoying the cakes, Yummy!

(Yes, mine is already gone and I am watching Mom enjoy hers!)

Everyone was given an apron when we left. Mom, Rosanna and I found three that matched, what fun!

The sessions were very encouraging and challenging at the same time. The theme this year was, "Living in Truth." Mrs. Kinney who taught the session read from parts of Lies Women Believe, a book by Nancy Leigh Demoss. Ever since the garden of Eden, Satan has been trying to decieve women with lies about God, sin, priorities, marriage and family, emotions, ect... Knowing the truth found in God's word is the only way to be set free from the bondage these lies have put us in.

"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
John 8:32

Happy Easter...Belated

Sorry that I haven't posted anything this last week, I have been very busy finishing up my Easter dress. Here are some pictures of Rosanna, Jensen & I with our Easter dresses.

ELISABETH

ROSANNA

JENSEN

FRIENDS

SISTERS

I made a sunflower cake to take to our churches Easter breakfast. It has been awhile since I made a cake so I enjoyed doing it.

Peeps Sunflower Cake:

Ingredients:
1 package (18-1/4 ounces) yellow cake mix
2 cans (16 ounces each) chocolate frosting
19 yellow chick Peeps candies
1-1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Directions:

Prepare and bake cake according to package directions, using two greased and waxed paper-lined 9-in. round baking pans. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely; carefully remove waxed paper.

Level tops of cakes. Spread frosting between layers and over the top and sides of cake. Without separating Peeps and curving slightly to fit, arrange chicks around edge of cake for sunflower petals. For sunflower seeds, arrange chocolate chips in center of cake.

Me playing the piano before the services

Hallelujah, What A Saviour!

Man of Sorrows! what a name

For the Son of God who came

Ruined sinners to reclaim.

Hallelujah! What a Savior!

Bearing shame and scoffing rude,

In my place condemned He stood;

Sealed my pardon with His blood.

Hallelujah! What a Savior!

Guilty, vile, and helpless we;

Spotless Lamb of God was He;

“Full atonement!” can it be?

Hallelujah! What a Savior!

Lifted up was He to die;

“It is finished!” was His cry;

Now in Heav’n exalted high.

Hallelujah! What a Savior!

When He comes, our glorious King,

All His ransomed home to bring,

Then anew His song we’ll sing:

Hallelujah! What a Saviour!

HE IS RISEN!

Sew much fun

On Friday and Saturday, Rosanna and I had a sewing sleepover with a younger friend from our church to make Easter dresses for next Sunday. This is my first big sewing project, although I have helped my Mom and sister do a few other things.

Here are some pictures from our sleepover. Some of them did not come out that well, because of the lights and my camera's flash acting up...oh, well!

Jensen's material...

my material in my favorite colour....

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and Rosanna's material (blue of course!).

Cutting out Jensen's dress.

This is Jensen's first time making a dress and she was watching Rosanna's every move hoping that she didn't make a mistake.

Oh, the fun of learning to sew....

...and of scraps!

Nathanael fixed Jensen's sewing machine for her,

and then he and Andrew presented her with this outrageous bill...

NATHANAEL R. BROWN

APPLIANCE REPAIR LTD...

Statement of services rendered

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Service charge: $20.00

Time at $50/hr: $52.34

Overtime Compensation: $15.75

Liability Insurance Fee: $47.25

Static Electricity Exposure Fee: $ 32.17

Parts Charge: $0.99

Tool Charge: $8.00

Billing Fees: $20.42

Compensations & Royalties: $106.21

SUB TOTAL: $303.13

TAX: 15% = $45.46

TOTAL: $348.59

Round it off to an even $350.00?


....to which Jensen replied, "Well guys, it was very nice of you
to fix my machine for me, how about I use this extra material

and make each of you a pillow case!"

(the guys left rather quickly by the way :)

Around 11:30 set up our camp in the living room,
and had some much needed sleep!

Mom was up early, and woke us up by taking pictures of us,
She was a little too chipper for 7:00 in the morning!

Time to get back to work!

Jensen getting the hang of the sewing machine.

Jensen and Mom took a break from the dress and made a hat to go with it.

Cutting out my dress.

Well, we did not get everything done, but we had a great time. I have been working on my dress, and Jensen will be back on Thursday and Friday to finish up hers. Will post more pictures when everything is completed.