DUCKS!!!

Our ducks, Rapunzel and Flynn. Sorry some of them are crooked, but I love these ducks!!!!!

Family love

I am so very blessed. I live in a family that just loves each other! There is no hate or jealousy for more than a minute. How I know my family loves me? It's the little things.  staying home with us when our parents are gone so they can have time alone, buying you toe socks because they know you are looking for a certain color and they find them! making cakes for birthdays, cooking dinner every night, the list goes on and on and on and on etc etc etc etc.

You read that and I am sure you can agree that my family loves me. I am  also sure that you can think of similar things that just show, how blessed you are.

Sheep

Whats the first word that comes to your mind when you think of sheep? For most people its dumb. I should know whether they are or not since I raise them and actually they are amazingly smart...for sheep. They know who feeds them, where the food comes from, they know our voices and they know their names. Pretty smart eh? But still dumb. They forget about the food unless they have their faces buried in it.

In the Bible God calls us his sheep. I see sheep and I think how cute! Boy are they dumb. Think God thinks the same thing? Although He probably doesn't call us dumb because He is God but still. Get the picture?
 "We all like sheep have gone astray" Its true. Sheep don't take instructions very well. Herding sheep can be like herding cats. You get them where you want them, they stay for about 2 seconds, then they are off again. That's us. We disobey God, but He "herds" us back to where we need to be, but then we are off again. Coincidence you say that God made sheep that way? I think not!

Home

Is a blessing. Its wonderful to have a place to call home. To have friends. I read a saying

  "FRIENDS are there when you need them
  SISTERS are there whether you need them or not
  BROTHERS are there to cheer you
 PARENTS are the ones who understand
HOME is where they all are."

Home, is it a building with a bed? Or the family within? There is no place where I could be happier then at home. Lolo MT is my home. With my family. All 30 something of them. :)

                                       My home. The people, the animals, the outdoors. All part of my home.

Thank you Jesus for blessing me with a home to call my own.

Below are lyrics to a song called "This is Home" By Switchfoot. One of my favorite songs.

I've got my memories
Always
Inside of me
But I can't go back
Back to how it was
I believe you now
I've come too far
No I can't go back
Back to how it was
Created for a place
I've never known

Chorus:
This is home
Now I'm finally
Where I belong
Where I belong
Yeah, this is home
I've been searching
For a place of my own
Now I've found it
Maybe this is home
Yeah, this is home

Belief over misery
I've seen the enemy
And I won't go back

Back to how it was
And I got my heart
Set on
What happens next
I got my eyes wide
It's not over yet
We are miracles
And we're not alone

(Chorus)

And now after all
My searching
After all my questions
I'm gonna call it home
I got a brand new mindset
I can finally see
The sunset
I'm gonna call it home

(Chorus)

Now I know
Yeah, this is home

I've come too far
And I won't go back
Yeah, this is home

Let it begin!

Today is the first of our Christmas celebrations. Today we go to the City Life center to celebrate Christmas with our Grandma Nan and Grandpa Ed.
After that we have a home school family square dance. So excited!
 This week we have no school!!!! YAY!!!! Only sad part means no youth group or dance class. Thankfully it starts again first week of January!
January...yikes. A whole new year will begin. That's intimidating. At the beginning of each year you start to think what you did...what you would change...whats going to happen in the next year. At least you get to stay up till midnight. SSSHHH!!! Don't tell the kids!
 
 Back to the celebrations this week.
 Christmas Eve is Friday. Only 4 days away. Christmas Eve we go to Jakers. But thats another story.

Anywho better get ready for Nan and Eds! Merry Christmas!

Santa, present, Chirstmas time!

We all know Santa isn't real, but isn't it fun to pretend? To pretend that on Christmas Eve Santa is getting ready to bring presents and climb down all the chimneys? Even if he isn't real, its still fun.
On Christmas Eve I go to a restaurant with my family paid by my Nana then we go to church. After that is home to Nana's to put on some new pj's and do a program. Then we play games and settle in for the night. The next morning the kids are not aloud to go downstairs until the adults are all ready. Then you better watch out! The kids are coming to town!
  That is our Christmas tradition. Everyone has a different one. Everyone thinks that no other could be funner than there own. Everyone is content. Unless the kids are thinking they need more. But otherwise, what could be better?

  Christmas. Beautiful, fun, exciting what else could make it any better? Just one thing. Remembering and celebrating Jesus Christs birth.

Happy Early Birthday Jesus!

  

Just don't take the girl

Johnnys daddy was taking him fishing. When he was 8
Years old.
Have you ever heard that song? It talks about how
At first Johnny was going a fishing. A little girl came
And Johnnys daddy said they have to take her. Johnny says
Take her but johnny says any one but her. 15 years later the
Girl is dying and still Johnny prays to take him, just don't take thE
Girl.
I want to find a husband who's prayer would be that. That he would
Just love me that much.