Keeping Kool

The Elf man of my soul

This poem was written by my great-grandma Anna Johnson. I have never met her (I wasn't alive when she was) But I have some old pictures (well not the originals, just copies). She wrote quite a few poems. Here is one called...

The Elf man of my soul
There is a tricky little fellow
That lives within myself
However hard I wish or try
To keep him on his shelf
He always finds it pleasant fun
To come a-peeping forth
To dance and slide and frolic
On the strings around my heart.
He's the tricky little rascal
That can make me feel so blue
And whip the billows of my soul
To angry foaming too.
He laughs when I'm unhappy.
And cries when I am glad.
He's a tricky little fellow
Who likes to see me sad.
A.J.

Guy

"What a Guy!" ~ kmc

summer is here... and so are the ticks!

Dont tell me you've never seen a tick! If you live anywhere where it gets warm enough for bugs, they're there. They get on you, and your pets!

A School Nurse has written the info below -- good enough to share -- Andit really works!! I had a pediatrician tell me what she believes is the best way to remove a tick. This is great, because it works in those places where it's sometimes difficult to get to with tweezers: between toes, in the middle of a head full of dark hair, etc. Apply a glob of liquid soap to a cotton ball. Cover the tick with the soap-soaked cotton ball and swab it for a few seconds (15-20), the tick will come out on its own and be stuck to the cotton ball when you liftit away. This technique has worked every time I've used it (and that was frequently), and it's much less traumatic for the patient and easier for me. Unless someone is allergic to soap, I can't see that this would be damaging in any way. I even had my doctor's wife call me for advice because she had one stuck to her back and she couldn't reach it with tweezers. She used this method and immediately called me back to say,'It worked!' Please pass on. Everyone needs this helpful hint.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RUTH!!!

Yeah! You're 21 wooo hoooooooooooooo!

I wish I could give you M & Ms

And all the cool shoes you could ever want.

pretty face

Am I just another pretty face to you?
What do I mean to you?
Why do you spend time with me?
Looking into my eyes
What are you looking for?
Someone to hold?
Or am i just another pretty face...
~lyss

pictures of... the house

The house on the right is the house, and the one on the left is the rentel.

This is a picture of what will be my room... well... our room {mandy & me} Well will have to get rid of some of our stuff to fit in there, so if you need a desk or a shelf, ask mandy! haha {She has 2 desks!}

pictures of lala

cool pic

here is an awesome pic i took i wanted to share with you all.

sooo whatcha think?

Moving time!

My mom and dad made and offer on the house and it was accepted! If all goes well (loan etc...) we'll be moving in July or August! YEA!

Pen Friends Connection

Some of you may have heard of it, but maybe not! So check it out, it's another one of my blogs. The Spring Issue 2008 is on there now, so you can download it and print it out if you like. http://pen-friends-connection.blogspot.com/

two heads? really?

YES they are real! No, these are not photoshopped. These are real animals, deformed somehow [probably radiation]. Click here for more strange pictures of plants. {I have personally seen deformed dandelions lots of times.} Unfortunately, they are not a natural occurrence, and it just goes to show what a bad job we are doing of taking care of our earth. Some scientists are trying to create two headed animals! Why you ask? I don't know!

more about the house

People have been leaving me comments. yea! Korah, Of course I'll let you know what the address is when we move. Andrea, Maybe we'll grow fruit trees, but probably not. There isn't enough room for an orchard. There is a grape vine though, it's a pretty nice size.
My mom and dad have been talking to the agent, Patrick (yeah, the same name as my dad) about getting a loan. It looks like eveything is going to work out! I think God has been holding this house for us, it has been on the market for over a year! They kept lowering the price, and finally we came along. Please keep praying! Thanks!
No, I'm not making this post colorful for any particualr reason, I guess I just thought my blog needs a little more color. :)

We went to see the house

We went to see the house. It is sooooo beautiful. Like it was made for our family. I want to move there so badly! The rest of the family wants to move too. I sure hope we can, and soon. It has a bedroom downstairs, and 2 upstairs, and in the upstairs hallway two big closets, like mini bedrooms. I was saying (kind of joking) that lanaya and brent could each get a closet for a bedroom. The windows are very nice, which is good! The kitchen is very nice too. There's no basement but there are crawl spaces. The neighbours horses are friendly. We fed them some grass and clover & dandelions. The garage is pretty nice, and it has a room where we could keep the rabbits. There is a shed out back too. There is even a picnic area with a pavilion and a grill thing. We really aren't into grills, but maybe I could learn to cook on one. The garage has a nice apartment over it and is rented out. (more money) and a nice couple lives there. We didn't meet them but you can tell they're nice because they have a cat and a bird and we saw their pictures. Lol. You might think I'm funny for saying that but it's true. Well I guess I have talked enough about it. Feel free to ask questions!

dust storms

Here are some pictures of dust storms, I found them on the internet. I was learning about it in science.

going to see the new house

We're going to see the house this morning. I'm very excited.

moving time?

Please pray that my family can move to the country. I really don't like living in town, I wanna move so bad! There is this house that would be cheaper then living here and it's such a nice location, there would be space for more animals like rabbits and chickens!!! (I <3 animals) and a dog kennel across the road (not too close) and horses for neighbours! It would be just lovely! So please pray we can move there!

Korah's Graduation

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

The important this is not to stop questioning.

~Albert Einstein

Yesterday was such an exciting day.
She won a $24,000 scholarship! Congrats!
Can't wait to see you again Korah! Have fun with Ruth!

yeah, brilliant

What I do when I get bored in class.

End of School - start of summer

It's almost time for school to end, and almost time to start my job. Today I started my online training. I'm learning what to do if someone is not breathing, how to give rescue breaths. You use a barrier device when possible and not a mouth to mouth unless necessary. And I learned proper CPR technique, if the airway is blocked. You need to do CPR and rescue breaths

A stroke is a blocked artery in the brain, or it can be a ruptured vessel in the brain. I learned the signs of stroke: 1. Facial Droop 2. Slurred Speech 3. Severe Headache 4. Altered Responsiveness 5. Dizziness / visual problems 6. weakness or paralysis in one or more limbs.

I think everyone should learn CPR! I think they should teach it as a required subject in schools!

Painting the bed

It has been raining too much lately. So that's why we didn't go to the flower show. They said it wasen't going to rain until 4pm, but they had it backwards! It rained until 4oclock. Well at least it isn't raining today, so we get to go to soccer! Yesterday I decided I'd take Brent's old bed and paint it white. It's a pretty nice bed, doesn't squeak like my bed frame did. Brent and Lanaya have a bunk bed now, which is very nice. They still need a mattress for Lanaya, so I want to give her my mattress and get a full size sometime this summer. But for now I have a nice "ultra pure white" bed frame that used to be my brother's.

having fun playing around in my work
ultre pure white
took a break to go outside to take pictures of flowers, look another zinnia bud!

ALL DONE!

New Jersey Family Camp

I gained a big blessing at family camp. I made a commitment to change things in my life. The Youth Choir was lots of fun, we sang a song called "We are His gold." I had a cold still and my right ear I couldn't hear out of, but I did the best I could. Maranda and I did special music "How Great Thou Art." I forgot to bring my guitar so I used my friend Jessica's guitar.

We bought the Nebblett's CD "To live is Christ", and the song book with guitar chords "His Living Word" it has scripture songs and one of my favorite songs "The Sacrifice". Brentley and Lanaya made some new friends. My sister and I also got to see old friends and meet new people. It rained on Friday (all day long) so no freeze tag or we'd be freezing! So we play land & sea indoors. Sarah F (the girl in the picture) won a game, she was really good. No boys won, it was always a girl who won! lol We had to leave Sabbath night, and it was so sad to say goodbye. I wish we could have stayed until Sunday. Maybe next year we'll get to go to the whole thing. I really enjoyed family camp thoroughly and can't wait until next year!

Yolan & Brentley

Sarah & Lanaya

Me & Sarah

Me, Sierra & Sarah

So yeah... my weekend plans

Tomorrow we're (everyone except the pets & dad) off to New Jersey family camp. It is actually starting tonight, but we decided to wait until morning to go, since we don't live too far away anyway. That way we'll only have to stay 2 nights (less money). Then dad is going to meet us there on Sabbath. Then we're leaving there after sunset Sabbath. On Sunday we're going to a flower show with some other people from church. This has been a very busy month, being the last month of 9th grade. I'm so excited! Today I had a English test, and a math test, and Science test. Since I was sick earlier in the week (I'm feeling better today) I didn't do much school. So today is catching up and working ahead day which means, work work work. And I still have to go pack my bags. Our neighbour is coming over later to meet our rabbit Missy since she'll be looking after our pets in our absence. So I'd better close now. (please pray for safe travels and no complications).

Piece of Pennsylvania history

Did you know James Buchanan was the only Pennsylvanian president of the United States. He was also the only president who never married. He was succeeded by Abraham Lincoln. He was the 15th president of the US.

lost in time

No, I don't really know what the title of my post means, so don't ask me. It doesn't mean anything I suppose, I just wanted to have an interesting title to the post! lol

Yeah, I've been putting some weird pictures on my blog lately haven't I? So you're probably wondering what in the world is THAT picture of? Well it's a very old picture, as you can probably tell. It is illustrating a story written over 3000 years ago. It's the oldest novel ever written, the Odyssey by Homer.

And no, it has nothing to do with Focus on the Family's AIO broadcast, although that's what might pop into your head when you hear the word odyssey. Another thing connected with the name odyssey is our old blue van (it was pretty old so we sold it) it was a Honda odyssey. Now our family van is a white Toyota Sienna. But anyway I am getting way off topic! :)

So to get to the point, those brown things are cannibals, they destroy all of the ships except one which Odysseus (the hero of the story) is in. In the end only he gets home, all his men are eaten by a cyclops or sea monster or by cannibals. Odysseus almost drowns. But he is rescued by Calypso.

I would probably never have read this on my own, but I had to read it for English. It is pretty gruesome in some parts, like when they poke out the cyclops eye. But overall I thought it was a wonderful epic story.