What's Been Happening...

Hello! Just thought I'd try to fill you in a little on what's happening with me! :)

Well, last Thursday morning, my four-member family left on a two-day-one-night camping trip - something we haven't done in AGES! We had an extremely enjoyable time, sitting and reading, swimming, hiking, playing UNO, and just visiting, knowing there was nothing 'pressing' that was demanding our time, and nowhere we had to go. We took our new tent (we've only slept in it twice before, and both of those times were in our backyard, which doesn't count ;) ), and Dad made hamburgers and hotdogs on the little grill provided at the camp site (yea, I know, we cheated) and we roasted marshmallows over a campfire. All in all, we really enjoyed the two days.

Next week (beginning Monday) is Vacation Bible School at church, and Trissy and I have been over there every day this week (except today) helping Lindy and her mom decorate Oliver's classroom. Yes, Oliver is one of the teachers - he's got the kindergarten age group. He's had to work most of the week though, and couldn't work on the room himself, so he was really grateful for the help. We've had alot of fun, but we're about ready for it to be finished! We are really praying for the Lord to get glory out of this VBS. We've been praying for the kids that will attend, and even for adults that might be affected as well.

I made tacos for lunch today, and they turned out pretty good, even if I do say so myself ;). I'm not much of a cook, so that's always 'iffy' - how the meal will turn out, that is. :)

I'm supposed to start a summer class Monday. It's online though, so that is a REAL blessing! I won't have to drive to the college that way, and I might still have a chance at some of the summer trips going on around here. There is a camp in June (I might have mentioned it before) run by some people who go way back with my folks. They used to be missionaries together, and now some of the kids are great friends with Trissy and me. I am so praying I can go to that camp! The Bible teaching is so good, and it's a great challenge - plus I get to see friends (family, almost) who I only get to fellowship with once or twice a year.
Speaking of these friends-who-are-almost-like-family, one of these friends' mother is expecting a baby any day now. Her parents have been wanting more children for years now (she has two sisters), and they've lost about five. This one was supposed to come Tuesday, and she promised to send me a postcard as soon as he got here. I should have gotten it by now, and I'm getting afraid something went wrong. Please pray for this!

Well, I've got to run - So long for now! :)

Catch Up...

Ok, yeah, I know I haven't posted in a LONG time, but you have to understand that I can't spend all my time on the computer ;)! Anyway, with finals in school, and finishing that up, then trying to get at least somewhat caught up on my 'other' life, I just have not had the opportunity to blog for several weeks, as I'm sure you've noticed (my visitor counter tells me you have been faithfully visiting - I'm sorry I haven't had anything fresh for you in so long!). I don't think I've even looked at another blog in about four weeks or so, except for just a short, unsatisfactory glance. So I appologize for the lack of comments on the blogs I usually follow regularly - I hope to do some back-reading, to try to catch up on what's been going on with y'all during my month-long 'blog silence'.



So, what's been going on with me lately? Well, (in a nutshell) of course besides finishing up school, I've been doing alot of picking-up-clutter, vacuuming, yard/garden work, feeding animals, doing dishes, and just in general trying to catch up on all my chores that have been, out of necessity, sadly neglected and/or left on Trissy's and Mom's shoulders while I scrambled with finals and end-of-semester assignments. I've also had the privalege of starting a book (for pleasure, this time - not a textbook!), spending evenings with Dad, Mom, Trissy, and my grandparents instead of studying, being outside, putting in a couple of extra days at work (saving for a camera), being available when my family needed an extra hand with something, planning a baby quilt for a friend, getting in bed before 2:00 AM, and other little pleasures of ordinary, every-day existance that, I regret to say, I took slightly for granted before I aquired a second life and identity called, 'college student'.



So that's it in a nutshell. I'll try to begin posting again in more detail as I get the chance.



I never filled y'all in on the chicks we were supposed to have hatch. Well, out of the dozen-and-a-half, only seven broke the shell. Of those, five actually hatched. And one of those is crippled. But he/it has certainly taught me lessons on patience, perseverance, compassion, responsibility, and determination. It flaps it's wings and kicks with one leg and scoots on it's stomach instead of walking, but it is slowly learning how to get around. The other four are big enough that they are already out in the chicken pen with the big chickens, but this little guy is still up here at the house in a cardboard box, and I feed and water it every couple of hours or so. Since it has such little control over it's fine-motor mobility, I have to hold it so it can reach into the little cup of feed or water, and it pecks and drinks that way. Alot of people would/do think it's an awful lot of trouble to go to for just one crippled chick. Why not just go ahead and put it out of it's misery, and save myself alot of time and trouble as well? But here's the thing: It seems like a principle - I/we prayed that it would live, when it first hatched and it seemed like there was no way it could survive. And the Lord caused it to live and even thrive, except for it's crippledness. Also, I feel like the Lord is using it to teach me lessons in character like the list I mentioned above. He doesn't just throw us away when we're hurting does He? And a parent (at least, a Godly one) doesn't give up, when they have a hurt or handicapped child! Of course not! So, as I try to help it along, I'm praying the Lord will teach me lessons in the situation, and I'm still holding out hope that eventually the chick will become independent and I will be rewarded for all my efforts.

Well, that is all the time I have for tonight. Lord willing, I will be able to update y'all on some of the other things that have been happening to me ;) , hopfully soon, but if not, please bear with me and rest assured, I do plan to come back! :)

May the Lord work mightily in your lives! 'Til we meet again -

SOLI DEO GLORIA!

-Kyrie<><

A 'Real' Saturday

Well, today was something of a 'real' Saturday here. Used to (mainly before I started college), on Saturdays the four of us would either work on little projects we had going, read, do things together, work outside, or other sorts of 'just-for-fun' type enterprises. We haven't gotten to do that in a while, but today, we did! Dad's been working hard getting our little garden in, and today the rest of us got out there and finished it up. So except for some Sunflowers, butternut squash, and a couple of sweet potato plants we're experimenting with (two Mom bought sprouted, and we saved the slices with the sprouts, put them in water, and when they are about 9 ins. tall, we want to plant them and see how they do!), our garden is in!

We've got yellow squash, tomatoes, bell peppers, corn, potatoes, beets, radishes, turnip greens, spinach, asparagus, green beans, pumpkins, okra, and seems like something else too, but I'm not remembering it at the moment. We only have a row or two of each though, so it sounds like more than it really is :). We just wanted a little of the stuff we really like, and we also wanted to try some new things this year.

Here's how it looks now that everything's planted. The little building in the back is our chicken coop.

This is a little potato we found as we were digging to plant something else! I guess he got skipped last year when we dug them - Mom says we can eat it anyway ;)



Well, I'm going to run for now. It's been a long, fun day :) !

Mystery Picture

I must appologize for my lateness in posting the answer to the mystery picture! I havn't had much of a chance to blog since that post, and when I have had a chance, I've forgotten about it! Shame on me, I know, but here I am finally getting around to letting y'all know what it was. Grace, Hannah, and Cora, you were all close, in that you guessed it was looking up through the roof of a building that had no top. I am going to say you all "got it", because one would had to have been to this particular building to know what it was specifically. It is the "Illinois Memorial" in Vicksburg Millitary Park. Here is a picture of it from the outside:


(I got the above picture off of the park's website)

Once some of my family visited Vicksburg, and some of them wanted to tour the national park. I thought the open top of this building provided a neat subject, so I snapped the "mystery picture" standing inside, looking up! :)



Once again, I appologize for the delay!
Hope you all enjoyed it (the mystery picture, I mean, not the delay ;D LOL) !

Happy Birthday Cora!

Sorry this is a little late :/

"You brighten my day with your kind words,
you increase the flowers along my road.
You've helped to cheer me when I'm down,
thank you for being my friend!"

A wonderful Happy Birthday to my friend Cora!

"32nd Street Blog Parade"

I found out about this from Lindsay's blog, and decided to join in!
Click on the button above to learn more.

Deciding on the answers was really hard on some of these questions! I could have multiple answers for several of them! I hope you enjoy it, and maybe learn a little more about me!

1. What's your favorite time of the day, and why?

Definitly evening! The time right after the sun goes down, but before it is "dark". This time is so beautiful - it always seems so almost unreal, like another world. I often feel like I could start running and never stop

2. If health wasn't an issue, what food could you live off of?

That one's a little harder. One choice would be homemade biscuits and gravy, like you have during a true Country Breakfast!

3. If you could have one wish granted (besides wishing for more wishes), what would it be?

Any wish? Then that one would be easy: I'd wish that all the people who do not know Jesus Christ as Savior would see their need of Him, be saved, and give their lives for His service.

4. What's one thing that you get teased about a lot?

Talking with my hands! That's one of the "jokes" among the folks I spend alot of time with at church - that if my hands were tied, I wouldn't be able to talk!

5. If you could choose one movie, book, or TV show to spend your life in, which would you pick? What type of character would you be?

Now this is a HARD question!!! I guess it would be a toss-up between the books The Chronicles of Narnia, Johnny Tremain, The Scottish Chiefs, Tree of Freedom, and Little Men! I would be courageous, resourceful, reliable, and very involved in the events of history as they happened. (We're wishing, remember - I can dream big! :D)

6. If you could have one talent that you don't already have, what would it be?

I've got to think on that one. It's not hard as far as choices, but hard to come up with one at all - if it's something I haven't tried, I might already have it and just not know about it, and then my wish would be wasted! ;D

7. If money were no object, where would you go on vacation?

Scotland or Ireland!

8. If you were an awesome singer, which genre would you sing?

Southern Gospel or (Godly) Celtic

9. If you could have a $10,000 shopping spree to one store, what would it be?

Another hard one... Does an entire website count? Then either ebay or (probably more likely) Etsy!

10. If you could live in any point in time, when would it be?

Really hard one! Umm... Probably Medival, or during the American Revolution, or the 1800's in America.

11. If every outfit in your wardrobe had to be one color, what would it be?

Blue. My favorite color is red, but that would get a little worn out after just a few days. Blue is my second favorite, and is very versatile! There are hundreds of shades of blue!

12. If you were one of the seven dwarves, which one would you be?
(Doc, Grumpy, Sneezy, Sleepy, Bashful, Happy, or Dopey)

I'm not a big fan of Snow White... I honestly don't know them well enough to know which I am more like.
Doc, I suppose.

13. What's the last album you listened to?

Entire album, or song off an album? The last song was "When We Pray" from the CD of that title - The Meyers Family, listened to one side of a record last night: "He Pilots My Ship" - The Joyful Tones Trio... Not sure when was the last time I listend to an entire one all the way through from start to finish. :]

14. What's something we'd be surprised to know about you?

Surprised? Hmm... Ok: I've only gotten pulled over by a policeman once, and it was not for speeding, but for going too slow! It was one night after I'd spent a pretty exhausting day at the college and I got out on the highway coming back, and I guess I was so tired that I wasn't paying attention to my speed. I'm a very conservative driver anyway, but this time I was only going 40 in a 65 mph zone. I guess he just wanted to make sure I wasn't "on" anything, if you get my drift. He cautioned me that it was probably not safe to go that slow, and let me go. But I thought, "How ironic! All these crazy people doing 80 and 90, and I'm the one that gets stopped!" Anyhow, it didn't hurt me other than my pride :]

Well, I'm going to go for now. The day is drawing to a close, and I must go :).

SOLI DEO GLORIA!

-Kyrie<><

Odds And Ends, And Recent Happenings

Ok, this post is just sort of random stuff that's been happening in my life lately, and I thought I'd share it...

This is just something small that happened about a week ago, that reminded me that the Lord just likes to make us smile sometimes!
I have a keychain that a friend gave me for my birthday years ago, but it is probably my most treasured possession next to my Bible. It is a sturdy little metal cross with ivy engraved on it, and the words, "With God, all things are possible." I was getting ready for bed the other night about a week ago, and thinking about some things I'd like to see happen, but that seemed almost impossible. I flipped back the covers to crawl in, and there was that keychain, in the bed! "With God, all things are possible" My mind immediately jumped... maybe it would happen! Then, almost as soon as I thought that, this verse popped into my head, "...I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. ..." Of course, this is the Apostle Paul addressing the Athenians on Mars' Hill, but the timing was just so perfect, that it made me laugh out loud! I believe the Lord truly does have a sense of humor!

I've been working on a crocheted shawl for about two weeks now, and finally finished it Sunday! It didn't quite turn out how I thought it would, but it works, and was fun to make! Here are a couple of pictures of it:

Thanks to my friend W. for "modeling"!
If you want to try it yourself, click HERE for the pattern. Just a warning though, if you want the triangle to be very deep, you've got to make the beginning chain longer. I have a friend who made one out of the same yarn as the pattern calls for (I made mine out of maroon acrylic), and hers turned out BEAUTIFUL! She even wears it to church over a black top, and it looks so elegant!

Well, in about twenty hours my grandparents, Mom, Trissy, and I will be headed on a six-hour car ride to attend the wedding of one of my cousins! Trissy is going to be the 'bride's assistant", and I'm a photographer! Not the main one (I'm not THAT good LOL), but she (the bride, our cousin) liked some of the just personal pictures I've taken at other cousin's weddings, and she wants me to be sort of a 'candid photographer'. I'm really looking forward to it! The wedding's Saturday afternoon, we'll be staying for church Sunday, and come back on Monday. I hope it's not too hectic, 'cause I have classes early Tuesday morning! Oh, well, it'll all work out. :)

This past Saturday we (Dad, Mom, Trissy and me) went to an evangelism study being started at the church. Justice and another man in the church have been 'trained' to teach the material, and it's designed to teach how to share your faith in a non-confrontational but thought-provoking and loving way. Saturday was the all-day introduction, and now classes will be every Wednesday night starting Mar. 4th. My family, Oliver, Landon, two older ladies in the church, and Ashlyn ( I haven't told about her yet, but I'll try to soon) are the ones who are taking this class. I'm hoping it'll help me share my faith in college. We'll see how it goes.

Tonight's college Bible study, and I'm (of course ;) ) looking forward to that little boost. I still haven't told about last week, and it was about the best one we've had so far, I think. It was so good. Maybe I'll get a chance to tell about it, but with the trip and everything, I may not.

One last thing I thought some of you might enjoy: Hannah Paige is having a photography contest on her blog! The theme is "Color". I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of entries she has! Click HERE to find out more, or to enter!
I'm going to accomplish two things here at once :) This is my entry in her contest, and it's also a mystery picture:




Several of my blogging friends have done mystery pictures, and they have been alot of fun, so I thought maybe I'd try one! You have until next Thursday (a week!) to guess, mainly because I probably won't have much blogging time between now and
then :[ ...

Ok, I'm at the college and class is about t0 start, so I'd better go. Maybe I can come back later today :)

In the mean time, have a wonderful day, and Keep looking Up!

-Kyrie<><

A One-Word-Answer Tag

I got this tag from Hannah's blog and thought it looked so fun that I decided to do it too :D !

RULE: USING ONLY ONE WORD - Not as easy as you might think- answer the following questions.

Where is your cell phone? Uhh...

Your mother? house

Your father? driving

Your favorite thing? Lord

Your dream last night? DUMB!

Your favorite drink? water

What room are you in? class

Your hobby? LOTS!

Your fear? failure

Where do you want to be in 6 years? Heaven

(if the world continues much longer on the wicked path it's on, I don't think I would want to be living here then... I rather go on Home!)

Where were you last night? house

Something that you aren't? pretty!

Wish list item? honor

Last thing you did? blinked ;D

What are you wearing? clothes...

TV? sometimes

Name one of your pets: Doodle (hen)

Good Friends? BLESSED

Your life? people

Your mood? ok

Missing someone? yes

Drinking? no

(I don't really understand this question, I guess it means am I drinking anything right now...)

Your car? Chevrolet!

Something you're not wearing? turban

*mischievous grin*

Outside? cloudy

Your favorite store? consignment

Your favorite color? red

When is the last time you cried? January

Where do you go to over and over? church

My favorite place to eat? (probably) house

Favorite place I'd like to be at right now? friends'

Thanks Hannah! That was fun!

If you are wearing denim, I TAG YOU!! If you want to do this tag, PLEASE DO!!

; D

Then please comment and let me know if you are going to to this tag - that way I can read yours!

Have fun!

The Model Museum

Uncle David and his family came down Monday, but I had't really gotten to enjoy their visit because of school. So yesterday since I didn't have classes, instead of the kids doing school school, we made it a 'fieldtrip day', and spent the day together! It was so much fun! A few months ago, Mom had read in our local power company paper about this man who was 90-something, and for most of his life had had this hobby of making models - airplanes, cars and trucks, ships, spaceships, tanks, trains... you name it! In the 50s, 60s, and 70s when the plastic model kits were really popular, he really had fun with it, and by the time of the article, had put together a total of almost 4,000 models!! For a long time, he had wanted a place to display all his projects, and so about a year ago as a surprise, his sons converted an office building one of them owned into a small museum - lining each wall from floor to ceiling with shelves, and having a separate room for each 'category' of model! It is open for public viewing in the afternoons, and for small groups in the mornings.
So yesterday we all (Mom's parents, Mom, Uncle David and Aunt Winny, Trissy, me, and the two cousins) piled into two cars for the drive down there to visit this little 'museum'.
It was amazing!! The place was floor to ceiling models! The son who had first had the idea for the museum was there to meet us, and kindly took quite a lot of time showing us around, telling stories about his father, the models, and interesting historical facts about the actual machines they were modeled from. We spent only a couple of hours in there, but you could literally spend days looking at everything, asking questions, and it was a 'collector' photographer's dream!
As most of you know, my camera is dying :""( but I was able to get a few picture, poor quality though they be. Hopefully I will be able to post some of them soon, just so you can get an idea of what it was like. We hope to go back soon when Dad isn't working, and can be with us!
When we left the museum, we went and ate out ( ! ) (we hardly ever eat at a resturant!) at the Golden Corral (any of you ever been there? It was our first time) and had a delicious and leisurely lunch, enjoying being together and just breathing freely for a time - away from our individual and hectic schedules. It was so nice!
After that we came back and spent the afternoon at "the grandparents' house" until time to leave for church. It was such a relaxing, fun, refreshing day! Isn't it great how the Lord knows just how much to let you go through, and then He will send you a little 'lift' just to help you keep going? He is good!

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Feb. 3, 2010

"It's a... Classic Car Convention?"

Here are some of the car pictures from the Model Museum. There are other models I'll try to post later.

Sorry about the poor quality, but... *rolls eyes* my camera...

At least I got some! ;)