MERRY  CHRISTMAS!

Please Pray For SC

Heavy rains have washed away roads and buildings and left people in S.C. without drinkable water. Please pray for people whose houses have been flooded.

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Pictures I Did On The Computer

Here are some very bad drawings that I did on the computer which is not as easy as drawing with a pencil.

Butterfly 

The Colors of Fall

Ladybug

Cat-fish in the dark

Magnifying Glass 

Paint Train

Train Tracks

Pirate Ship 

Unfinished Clock          

Boy holding a present behind hind his back and Christmas tree through foggy window

I hope you like them.

Happy Birthday Tori

Today Tori turned Fabulous Fourteen. She is the second oldest and the most introverted person in our family. She is also sweet, kind, and generess, as well as very sacastik and creppy sometimes.I am blessed to have her in my life. Tori has a blog that you can visit by clicking right here and a blog for here art right here.                      

A little something that Tori tought me to do.

Happy Birthday Bri

My oldest sister, Bri, turned 18 today. I am glad that I have known her these ten years. She is a sweet, caring, Christian and a friend to all. To learn more about Bri visit her blog here.

Happy Birthday.We love you!

"...The darkness has blinded his eyes."

A couple month's ago I was reading my Bible and I came across this verse... 
"But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes." ~1 John 2:11
I've always wondered what that meant and I thought it meant that they couldn't see spiritual things until we went to TN "Lost Sea Adventures". "Lost Sea Adventures" is a cave where you can learn about caves and go on a boat ride around a lake in it. While we were their our guide turned off the lights and told us that if you stayed in that much darkness for two weeks you would go blind. This verse means that walking in that kind darkness so long that they went blind.

Geo

On Sunday (August the Second) we went on a picnic at Sunday park and did some Geo-caching. One of the Geo-caches was a fake one that Daddy had hid there. It was a baby bottle Mommy had got while she was shopping a while ago with a piece of paper announcing baby number 9 due March 15th. On the way home we nicknamed the baby Geo because we were Geo-caching when we found out. Please leave your favorite names in the comments below.      

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

HAPPY SEVENTH BIRTHDAY ABBI !

Yesterday our delightful, colorful little Abbi turned 7 :).
Abbi was the first one of us to be born at home and I'm glad that mommy switched to home birth because it's great to know if mommy and the baby are doing fine :). I hope you have a great birthday :).

Abbi spending her 4th birthday at the zoo.

Princess Abbi :)  
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ABBI
I LOVE YOU!

Happy Late Birthday!

Happy Birthday Daddy and Mommy :)

We all love you so much.

"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”

I think you two really live by this the way I wan't to live.
I love you SOOOOOOOO Much! Happy Birthday! 

My Poem

My sister, Tori, told me that I should try writing poems, and when I showed Mommy she told me I should post it on my blog, so here's the one I wrote... 

A Few of My Favorite Things 
By Bethi

I love horses, leaves, and trees,

and I love little bumble bees.

I love Babies, blankets, and rings,
and I love lots of little things.

These are a few of my favorite things,

and don't forget that I love...

BEANS!!!

I hope you loved it :) 

  

Happy Birthday, Peter!

Peter is a cute, lovable, sweet little now 3 year old.  He loves Baymax, cookies, dolphins, drawing, his *Bubby*, puzzles and pizza with chocolate cake (which he is having for supper tonight).

I love you, Peter. 

"The Hundred Dresses" By Eleanor Estes

"The Hundred Dresses"

"The Hundred Dresses" has been a favorite of mine for about three years, and it's a story based on some thing that really happened to Eleanor Estes. Her daughter writes...
"Years ago, I asked my mother why she had written the story. She told me about a classmate in her elementary school who been taunted because she wore the same dress to school everyday, and because her Polish name was unusual and difficult for many to pronounce...
My mother never forgot the little girl who had been so badly treated. She herself knew what it was like to be poor as a child, to always be cold in winter, to wear clothes passed down to her by her sister. But was this a reason to be teased? Was it right to play with the feelings of one who was different?"
The story is about Wanda Petronski who wears the same faded blue dress to school everyday and she lives up on Boggins Heights with her brother, Jake, and her father.
The dresses game was invented in October. That was the day Cecile got a new dress and there was a crowd around her. She was a toe dancer, and today was the day for her dancing lesson. Wanda and her brother Jake were going to school together and Wanda went and joined the crowd. There were two girls who's names were Peggy and Maddie. It was Peggy who started the dresses game, because Wanda came up to her and said, "I got a hundred dresses at home.".
After that chapter we come to the drawing contest. All the boys draw boats and the girls draw dresses. Everyone thought that Peggy was going to win but when they got to the class at room thirteen they were amazed to see a hundred pictures all lined up, and all of them were made by Wanda Petronski. She had moved to the city and left her one hundred dresses for the contest and won. At Christmas time Miss Mason, the teacher, got a letter from Wanda that said:
"Dear Miss Mason:
How are you and room thirteen? Please tell the girls that they can keep those hundred dresses because in my new house I have a hundred new ones all lined up in my closet. I'd like that girl Peggy to have the green dress with the red trim and her friend to have the blue one for Christmas. I miss that school and my new teacher does not equalize with you. Merry Christmas to you and everybody.
                                         Yours truly, Wanda Petronski".

My favorite part was where Wanda forgives Peggy and Maddie. I read this book again and again, and I hope you will to.