Snow

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.... Ok.

As long as I can still travel this weekend.

I only have 1 class tomorrow, so I probably won't go since there is an 80% chance of "heavy snow". I know I should be bummed out, cause I won't get to hear "one more time for t.v." or "hello!!" from my "interesting" professor. Today I realized a couple things. Wearing heeled boots to walk around campus is a BAD idea....but hey, at least my feet didn't get wet in the ice/rain. And the second thing is that I have NO idea where my snow boots are...you know those one boots...that look like Napolean Dynamites, but I had them BEFORE that movie came out *that a friend told me about* right steph?! ;)
Tomorrow, I am going to get up and study and then hopefully, take my test online early and be able to do the rest of my homework before night and if it snows, I might just go play in it...but probably not since playing in snow by yourself isn't all that fun. But I could make like tunnels and stuff. :)
I was talking to anna this morning and we were discussing if the weather got bad what we would be able to do and not do. I got to thinking after that about how some people absolutely freak out about bad weather because of accidents and whatnot. Driving home today on the ice covered roads, would have been a lot scarier if I hadn't known that whatever happened, God was gonna take care of me. Maybe it seems a little odd to think that, but I'm kinda odd.
Maybe I'll change my name...dad.
So yeah, steph needs to get her phone fixed. And mom needs to call me when I'm NOT doing homework. I hope everyone stays safe and warm in this cold weather and has a BLessed Day serving Jesus.
God's blessings to you all.

Symptoms of studying in the Health Field

You know you're a crazy medical person when you pinch your eye while taking out your contact and instead of thinking, "Ow my eye!!" You think, "Ow, I just pinched my sclera!" ;)

It's all coming together

Welp folks, I checked my e-mail several times today and I had 2 e-mails. All day... the sad thing...they were both from Tif. Yes I love her, but wow....I'm a loser. haha

I was told by a little bird that my last blog entry was barely a post. So dad, this is for you!
--yesterday, as predicted, I over-ate. But I couldn't help it when I came in from playing frisbee football with my cousins and there was blueberry cheesecake, pecan pie, and pumpkin pie, not to mention the cranberry sauce that was in plain view (aka in the refrigerator) haha. Exercising and then eating kinda equaled everything out. Or at least that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Tonight Tif and I got our horns out (my saxophone and her trumpet) and we started playing the music that she got for Christmas last year. Sounded ok with just us, but then we turned on the background music, and it was quite clear that saxes don't belong in an orchestra. :( I shoulda considered that when I was choosing an instrument in 5th grade...

"Man I won't be able to play with the Lord of the Rings orchestra when I get to be a sophomore in college on Thanksgiving break." riiight.

After we played for a while, I attempted to learn how to play the trumpet, actually to get to the basics of just blowing air and making a noise... for a sax player (me) to learn to play a trumpet is almost impossible, actually not almost, it was impossible. :S Tif did quite well at learning the fingering for my saxophone, I think I'm just a better teacher. I guess I really don't have anything else to say right now... hope you all have a good weekend.
Love and GOD bless!

Happy Thanksgiving!

May we all keep our focus on what this holiday is about, giving thanks for everything that God has given us. I hope that all of you do not eat too much this Thanksgiving day, but as for me, I'll probably overdo it...again. ;) God bless ya'll.

home again home again

I really enjoy going home. How could I not when I get to lounge all morning with mom and (researching a paper) and then ride on a combine with my dad on Saturday afternoon while he cuts milo and be ABSOLUTELY ASTOUNDED at the WILDLIFE! ;) deer, pheasants, quail, coyote, rabbits, voles, and of course, birds. wow....it's amazing.
--Quote from Dad, "Nature hates a vaccuum, where there's a void, the wildlife will fill." You're so smart...and cool. haha
After riding with dad, I went into the house at the farm to attempt to study again, but I picked up a book, and there went studying! oops, but then Grandma came in and I laid my book down and we preceded to talk for the next hour and a half. I asked her to tell me her testimony, since I knew the general idea of it, but I wanted to know more since she grew up methodist and ended up repenting 7-9 (?) years before grandpa. It was a very interesting story. Full of having to trust God to get her over her built up mountains and how easily He made them into molehills. There's a lot to learn from our elders.
--Quote from Grandma, "You know, I always think, you never want to be a stumbling block to someone, but life's just to short to hold a grudge!"
This morning right after the kids left to go to Sunday school, I decided that I wanted to go to Sunday school as well. So I followed the kids out and was walking into the kitchen area when Kayli Stewart (2 1/2) turned around and saw me and immediately ran over and held her arms up, so when I picked her up she tells me, "I'M going to be MAWY and hold baby jesus!" She is one of the most expressive children I have ever seen, so her facial expressions were awesome. As I was sitting watching everyone practice their lines and getting into order, I looked over and saw that there were two little girls who were visitors, so I kinda self-appointed myself to be teacher and took them to find some coloring books and to read them a bible story. Let's just say, I'm not good with entertaining small children for a long period of time, so to sum it up, it pretty much was a failed attempt at "teaching" anything, but hey, they sure colored good! ;) Then I went back into watch the other kids after they had gone with their parents and at one point, Blake, Carter, and Josh are supposed to walk back up the aisles exclaiming "The Savior is born!" It sounded like they were telling someone that the laundry was done...I tried to pump them up and got "the look" from the teachers cause I got them too riled up. I have decided that I cannot win. o well. It was a great day and I really enjoy being with all the kids. After church, we had singing at the rest home, and then after that, we were heading to the grocery store and mom dad and I all saw the carload of kids and the parents walking into the store, and our brains are WAY to much alike, so I jumped out of the vehicle and climbed in their suburban while dad drove away to go fill-up with gas and mom went into the store. I told the kids I was kidnapping them and asked them where we should go, very logically, alysson (8) informed me that we should most likely go around the block so that her parents couldn't see them. Then I just said that I would take them all to Topeka with me, Staci (13) replied, "Ok, but we'll have to stop and get clothes at our house!" haha it was great. So I drove them around the block and then parked in a different spot from where they had originally been and told the kids goodbye, when I went in, I told Jenny so she wouldn't flip out and she said she would act surprised. Dad told me later that he was outside and said that Jenny was teasing her kids about driving around without them and the kids absolutely loving it! Man I love those kids... have I mentioned that? haha. anyway...moral of the story: 7 kids in one family make for great fun.
And finally, here is something completely random that I found while looking through my old saved mail files: http://users.chartertn.net/tonytemplin/FBI_eyes/
May God bless everyone's week!

How well do you know your purse???

I recieved this from my aunt, and I am following instructions to "get it out there". Not just because I was advised, but because I think all of us ladies need to be aware... this is disgusting!

Have you ever noticed gals who sit their purses on public restroom floors - that go directly to their dining tables? Happens a lot! It's not always the 'restaurant food' that causes stomach distress. Sometimes "what you don't know 'will' hurt you"! Read on...Mom got so upset when a guest came in the door and plopped their purses down on the counter where she was cooking or setting up the buffet. She always said that purses are really dirty, because of where they have been. Smart Momma!!! It's something just about every woman carries with them. While we may know what's inside our purses, do you have any idea what's on the outside? Shauna Lake put purses to the test - for bacteria - with surprising results. You may think twice about where you put your purse. Women carry purses everywhere; from the office to public restrooms to the floor of the car. Most women won't be caught without their purses, but did you ever stop to think about where your purse goes during the day? "I drive a school bus, so my purse has been on the floor of the bus a lot," says one woman. "On the floor of my car, probably in restrooms."
"I put my purse in grocery shopping carts, on the floor of bathroom stalls while changing a diaper," says another woman and of course in my home which should be clean." We decided to find out if purses harbor a lot of bacteria. We learned how to test them at Nelson Laboratories in Salt Lake , then we set out to test the average woman's purse. Most women told us they didn't stop to think about what was on the bottom of their purse. Most said they usually set their purses on top of kitchen tables and counters where food is prepared. Most of the ladies we talked to told us they wouldn't be surprised if their purses were at least a little bit dirty. It turns out purses are so surprisingly dirty, even the microbiologist who tested them was shocked. Microbiologist Amy Karren of Nelson Labs says nearly all of the purses tested were not only high in bacteria, but high in harmful kinds of bacteria. Pseudomonas can cause eye infections, staphylococcus aurous can cause serious skin infections, and salmonella and e-coli found on the purses could make people very sick. In one sampling, four of five purses tested positive for salmonella, and that's not the worst of it. "There is fecal contamination on the purses," says Amy. Leather or vinyl purses tended to be cleaner than cloth purses, and lifestyle seemed to play a role. People with kids tended to have dirtier purses than those without, with one exception. The purse of one single woman who frequented nightclubs had one of the worst contaminations of all. "Some type of feces, or even possibly vomit or something like that," says Amy. So the moral of this story - your purse won't kill you, but it does has the potential to make you very sick if you keep it on places where you eat. Use hooks to hang your purse at home and in restrooms, and don't put it on your desk, a restaurant table, or on your kitchen countertop. Experts say you should think of your purse the same way you would a pair of shoes. "If you think about putting a pair of shoes onto your countertops, that's the same thing you're doing when you put your purse on the countertops" - your purse has gone where every individual before you has spat, coughed, urinated, emptied bowels, etc! Do you really want to bring that home with you? The microbiologists at Nelson also said cleaning a purse will help. Wash cloth purses and use leather cleaner to clean the bottom of leather purses.

I will never again sit my purse on a bathroom floor OR on my counter...you can count on that!

Ink Odd Wheat Rust

This is on the back of our Christian Challenge t-shirts. Anyone anyone??? Say it fast and mumble it, I want to see how long it takes people. It didn't take me too long, but I think it's kinda fun.
So I was listening to the radio the other day and since it's KLOVE they always have positive and encouraging stories. As this story started I thought, "I think I've heard this same story told a million different times." But I had to eat my own thoughts...?...yeah.
-- A little boy asked his mom what she wanted for her birthday, she replied that she would love a pocket book. The little boy knew that he did not have enough money to buy her a gift, so he took his favorite story book and cut the pocket out of his favorite shirt and gave it to his mom for her birthday. The mother, after recieving the gift, said, "You ruined a perfectly good shirt, and stalked out of the room leaving the gift where it was." The little boy was crushed.
(Just so you all know, I don't think I got the first part of this story right, but I couldn't remember it, but I really wanted to post it....)
This story absolutely broke my heart. I had to think how many times God is basically slapped in the face when someone He offers His amazing gift too ignores it. Steph & Mom, I'm sorry if you guys cried at this story. I didn't mean to bring death and trauma in... ;)
On a lighter note, I think I have to agree with Lindsay, Kenton got the ball rolling.
Congrats Tyler and Alexis!!!! :) May God bless you both for trusting Him so completely! (pretty amazing how marriage by faith works, huh T?)
welp, I really don't have much else to say tonight, but in the words of steph:
"May your life never be likened to a burned peep and may your chocolate never taste like mayo!" (don't quote me on that quote...cause I probably got it wrong...but Steph will correct me if I'm wrong...won't you steph?!) :)

List

Here's some things that I've done lately:

1. Made fires in our fireplace
2. Drank Hot Chocolate
3. Listened to Christmas music
4. Cleaned my entire room (thanks for getting me in the cleaning mood lin...gosh)
5. FINALLY got my picture board together
6. Scared the daylights out of Anna (a couple times)
7. Plotted with lin what all we are going to do to our house for Christmas
8. Got excited when I saw the list for Kiowa Caroling
9. Acted shocked when I saw a random person on campus and laughed my head off as they looked at me like I was retarded (hey I have to amuse myself some way)
10. Laughed my head off in church tonight with tif and anna when I sang the alto line a measure to early on "Jesus, Rose of Sharon" by myself. oops
11. Realized that no matter what issues I face, God talks to me through His word and gives me hope for another day.
12. Argued with Maggi about when we were going to put up our Christmas tree. (1 day before Thanksgiving)
13. And finally....I know this is going to be a shocker... I studied. :)

Hope you all are having a great week. May God bless you!

The Word of God

"Lord let us learn it, that we may live it." Justin Koch - Sunday Oct. 22, 2006

Lately, I have started doing something that seems to be very helpful for me in spending more time in the Word. I received an e-mail that challenges you to use your Bible like you would your cell phone. What if we turned around every time we forgot it because we couldn't go a day without it? What if we checked our Bible as many times as we check our cell phones (for me that's a lot! Cause it makes me feel cool when I have missed calls...weird I know). After getting that e-mail, I got invited to do something about changing that. Stick a Bible in your bag (I just use the one they handed out at the beginning of school that has the New Testament and Psalms and Proverbs in it. Every time you check your cell phone, read a scripture. (I think the intial plan was to just read a verse, but why not read what's surrounding that verse, if you have time.) Anyway, I'm not telling about this to make myself look "spiritual" or anything like that. I just want to let you all know how much it has helped. God can speak to me so much easier when I actually am reading what He has to say. Some scriptures that I have read before will take on a completely different meaning when I apply them to what is going in my day at that time. I didn't intend to post about this, but it just kinda spilled out.

And I just wanted to say Congratulations so Kenton Snyder and Heidi Heimer! (Not that they'll read this...) but I was pretty excited when I heard the news that God has brought them together! :) God bless you both.

Ok...one more thing and I'm done....
Q: What do you get when you cross Noah's ark and a bug?
A: Arctic
Gotta love laffy taffy! :)