Winner!!!

Hey all! Congratulations to the Winner of Nicole O'Dell's two teen books, Magna and Making Waves, who is....(drum roll, please)... KarenK! Karen, you'll need to email me your mailing address, and I'll get it to Nicole.
Sorry that this is late. Yesterday was slightly hectic, being Mother's Day and all. Happy Mother's Day to all mothers! I hope that, despite my not getting this posted, you had an excellent day yesterday.


Is anyone excited about this week or next week? Or even tomorrow? Boy, I'm about to bounce off of the walls waiting for next week! Me, my sister, and our three brothers are going on a three to five day camping trip--pioneer style! That means that the only electronics that we can bring are small flashlights, cameras, and alphies. Which means that we aren't going to be on the computers, and that also means that I won't be posting on here... and my automatic posting thingamajig doesn't post when I want it to. But I will be keeping a trail log, and when I can get back on the computer, sometime on the afternoon of Saturday the 22nd, I'll post that on here, along with lots of pictures! Hopefully I won't get a chance to take a picture of a tent that a deer didn't see...
I've got my fingers crossed that it doesn't rain this Saturday and Sunday, to give the ground a bit of time to dry out, because it is supposed to be dreary and rain all week. The corn in the fields around us is growing fast and needs the rain, so I suppose that I'm thankful for it. But that doesn't mean that I don't find it annoying sometimes...like when the ground is almost dry enough to mow the grass before it becomes a jungle and it rains again, or the deer trails are almost hard and they become a squishy, mushy mess. =) Okay, no more talking about rain, before it actually starts raining again!
Has anyone cooked with a dutch oven? We are going to pull the old dutch oven down from the barn loft, and we'll be using that on the camping trip, which should be quite an experience! Just cooking any meal outdoors that isn't hot dogs will be different.
We will be going out on the morning of Monday the 17th, right after breakfast, and staying until, at the very least, through Wednesday night. But we can stay out there until Saturday morning if we want to.

I'm going to go figure out what I am going to pack and start packing it, so if I forget anything, I'll have a whole week to remember it. =) Have an awesome, beautiful, amazing, wonderful week!!

Winner!!

Congratulations to Anonymous, aka Sunny, on winning Yesterday's Promise, by Vanessa Miller! Sunny, you'll need to email me with your mailing address. I'm pretty sure that you know my email, but if you don't, just let me know.

So is anyone enjoying the beautiful weather? Reading any good books? Writing any? I know that I sure am. I sat out in the sun a week ago doing some bead-work for at least a couple of hours, several days in a row, and I got sunburned! Boy was I sore! But now it's faded into a tan, which has just made me even darker then I was before.

I can hardly wait for tomorrow, because my grandparents from Arizona are coming! =) We are all soo excited! We don't get to see them more then twice a year, so this week, get ready for this, none of us kids have school! heehee, we get to take the whole week off and spend it with Grammy and Pappy. =) That is one of the things that I enjoy the most about being homeschooled. But here is another surprise for you...I am going to work ahead on some things, while they are here, like Science and History. Not Math. I just finished doing the last lesson in Algebra 1/2. Shhh, don't tell mom that I'm working ahead! ;) lol, but she is probably reading this right now, so it won't do any good to say it. Oh well. A person can try. =)

Congratulations again to Sunny on winning Yesterday's Promise, by Vanessa Miller.

First Winner!!!

Joanne Sher is the winner of Fools Rush In by Janice Thompson.

Joanne, please send me your mailing address by emailing me at faith4u7(at)gmail(dot)com


So who is enjoying the snow?? Anybody? I know I am, although I'm hoping very hard that it doesn't snow more... otherwise our churchs' adult and youth roller skating party may be canceled. Does anybody love roller skating besides me? I even found a pair of skates, and you can ask my mom, Patty, or Peej, who blogs over at Patterings, whenever the roller skating party comes up, you can always find me practicing on my skates.
If you've gone roller skating before, you know that until you learn how, you often fall and hurt yourself. But what do you do? You get right back up and keep on trying until you can skate without falling, right? And boy, the first few times that I skated, I was so sore! But as I skated more, I got better, and now I only fall once in a while.

Our walk with Christ is just like learning to roller skate. At the beginning, you fall all the time, but as you work at it more, you get better at it, until you don't fall as much. But sometimes you still fall, no matter how good you get. And no matter how good we are in our walk with Christ, we still wind up falling once in a while. But we pick ourselves up, dust the dirt off of us, and keep on going.

So keep on getting up, dusting yourself off, and keep on going!! You can do it!