YEAH!!

Mom and Dad have decided if we're going to move or not. The answer is... NO! Yeah!!!! I am so happy, as is my sister, and I think everyone is happy the decision is made.

seagull slideshow

Mandy throwing away our good bread

Mandy wanted to see the seagulls up close, but then they got a little too close! lol

at virginia beach

I'm in the motel room at virginia beach. It's the first time we've had a room with a beach view. I'm not going swimming. The pool is only 4ft deep. :( We had pizza last night. We had a whole pizza leftover so that's what we're going to have for breakfast or maybe lunch. There's a pizza place across the street from the motel so we just walked there. I have school today but I don't know if I'll be able to do it depending on what mom and dad decide. Well at least monday is a holiday so I'll have time to catch up then. We're leaving sometime Sunday, hopefully be back in time for fall festival. We should be. ttyl

official poll statement

so the poll is closed now.

5 people voted swimming
3 people voted skiing

Hey guess what! I like swimming too! You can even do it all year round (well, if you have an indoor pool).

Check out the new poll: Favorite time of the Day

random stuff in my life

My life is pretty random right now. So tomorrow we're leaving for Virginia Beach. Can't wait to go swimming! (in the hotel swimming pool of course!! haha tricked you!!) hehehe anyways.

So there's this house, another house. It's a bit bigger then the one we're renting right now. And it's got more land. And it's cheaper. and it's "nicer"... all around... so if they let us, if they say yes, we are going to... well my parents are going to rent it so you know what that means... ANOTHER MOVE

yikes.

(I don't like moving) And another thing. They don't allow pets. I don't want to give my rabbit and dog away. But it's looking like we might have to... :(

Diamond Park

MURFREESBORO, Ark. - Chad Johnson has found about 80 diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Park, but on Monday he nearly threw away his largest find yet. A cube-shaped rock plucked out of his sifters turned out to be a 4.38-carat, tea-colored diamond.

Johnson, 36, made the dig Saturday at the park and left his equipment in a locker. When he came back Monday morning, he made the discovery.

Crater of Diamonds State Park, which opened in 1972, is the world's only diamond-producing site open to the public, and visitors can keep the gems they unearth. The largest diamond found at the park was the 16.37-carat Amarillo Starlight, a white diamond found in 1975.

Johnson's find is the second-largest diamond uncovered at the park this year. In June, a Louisiana man found a 4.8-carat stone. More than 700 diamonds have been found there this year.

Since moving to Arkansas from Iowa in February, Johnson said, he was living off money made by selling diamonds. He only recently took a job at a convenience store, partly because he "got tired of selling diamonds to make ends meet."

Park officials declined to speculate how much money Johnson could get for the diamond. Johnson suggested he expects much more than what he is used to getting.

"If someone offers me that much money, it's theirs," Johnson said.



I would love to go to that park!

Diamonds and Graphite

Did you know that diamonds and graphite are made out of the same chemical, carbon? How then are they so different? Graphite is used in Pencils, and diamonds, well, we all know how valueable diamonds are.

Diamond is the hardest mineral known to man, Graphite is one of the softest.
Diamond is an excellent electrical insulator, Graphite is a good conductor of electricity.
Diamond is the ultimate abrasive, Graphite is a very good lubricant.
Diamond is usually transparent, Graphite is opaque.
Diamond crystallizes in the Isometric system and graphite crystallizes in the hexagonal system.

Okay, most of that is probably all Greek to you, if you haven't heard of words such as "opaque" and "cobalent bonding". But it basically means that they are made out of the same element, carbon, but their atoms are bonded together in a different structure.

Graphite Diamond

Okay, now you might think I'm weird, but I like to take objects lessons from everything, even my earth science schoolwork! So, what I got out of this is we are all made out of the same element, human flesh. But we can use what God has given us to become something useful for him. We might have talents (carbon) that allow us to become a diamond. Or you might have different qualties and gifts that allow you to become a different gem, maybe a quartz. Your job is to do your best with whatever gifts God has given you... no matter if you're a diamond, or graphite, or a quartz or a pearl, you're all beautiful in God's eyes, and you have the ability to do wonderful things for his glory.

Loves Comes Softly

I have 3 of the Loves Comes Softly movies:

Love Comes Softly

Love's Long Journey

Love's Enduring Promise

And I'm planning on getting the two newest ones:

Love's Abiding Joy

Love's Unending Legacy



Click here for a review: http://www.pluggedinonline.com/movies/movies/a0002914.cfm

My dad won a free trip to Virginia Beach. We'll be gone from the 8th-10th. I'll be taking my laptop with me to try and fit in some schoolwork. Don't know how well that will work. We'll be staying at a place called Dolphin Inn.

Nov 5, which is next Monday, is the last Day of the first nine weeks of school. I have managed to keep all my grades pretty good. My school's grade book has gone wacky so I don't know my exact grade, but I should by Monday, the day when everything is SUPPOSED to be graded, but PAcyber school has been having SO many tech problems, it's very annoying sometimes. Sometimes it won't even let me go in to do my homework! oh well... at least it does today...

I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but I don't like Science class, not one bit. Algebra class is okay, but challenging. English is lots of fun though. And Civics (government) that's pretty fun too. Maybe my grades will reflect my dedication... lol... we'll see.

A true friend is someone who knows you're a good egg even if you're a little cracked

These egg shells were cut with a high intensity precision Laser Beam. This gives a very good idea of what can be achieved with a Laser Beam. From this can be surmised what laser surgery performed on one's eye is all about. Is it any wonder how one's vision can be improved in just a few moments? Science is sometimes wonderful, and it's still on the frontier of gaining new knowledge.

Watermelon carvings

I got these pics in an email forward today and thought they were so cool.


the horse is my favorite! :) there are more... but I didn't want to post too many pics.

So Cute!

Did you ever feel like the ducking who just didn't fit in? Just know you're always beautiful in God's eyes.

Big Full Moon

This is from a space website CLICK HERE
Thanks for forwarding this to me mom.

Left: A big, bright perigee Moon. Right: A lesser apogee Moon.

Tonight's full Moon is the biggest full Moon of 2007. It's no illusion. Some full Moons are genuinely larger than others and this one is a whopper. Why? Read the answer below.

The Moon's orbit is an ellipse with one side 30,000 miles closer to Earth than the other. The full Moon of Oct. 25-26 is located on the near side, making it appear as much as 14% bigger and 30% brighter than lesser full Moons we've seen earlier in 2007.

In the language of astronomy, the two ends of the Moon's orbit are called "apogee" and "perigee." Apogee is the farthest point, perigee the nearest: diagram. This week's full Moon is a "perigee Moon" with extra-high "perigean tides."

The Moon is 14% bigger, but can you actually tell the difference? It's not so easy. There are no rulers floating in the sky to measure lunar diameters. A fun experiment: Take a friend outside Thursday night and ask if they notice anything unusual about the Moon. Explain perigee after they answer.

So small - Carrie Underwood

And yes, that is me.

dead fish

My/our (mostly my sister's) betta fish died today. He was pretty old. He wasn't too special, just an ordanary fish who ate fish food and swam all day, and got mad at his reflection in the mirror. Well my mom came in our room and was like "what smells so bad in here?" He was a small fish and he is in the far corner, so I didn't notice. Anyway now he's traveling down the water slide in the bathroom. And that's that.

I wrote your name

Only in Texas

Shelter in the Storm

I've been reading the book "Shelter in the Storm." I just want to share a little of what I read this morning.
page 46
As your conscience has been quickened by the Holy Spirit, you have seen something of the evil of sin, of its power, its guilt, its woe; and you look upon it with abhorrence. You feel that sin has seperated you from God, that you are in bondage to the power of evil. The more you struggle to escape, the more you realize your helplessness. Your motives are impure; your heart is unclean. You see that your life has been filled with selfishness and sin. You long to be forgiven, to be cleanesed, to be free. Harmony with God, likeness to Him, what can you do to obtain it?

It is peace that you need- Heaven's forgiveness and peace and love in the soul. Money cannot buy it, intellect cannot procure it, winsdom cannot attain it; you can never hope, by your own efforts to secure it. But God offers it to you as a gift "without money and without price" (Isaiah 55:1). It is yours if you will just reach out your hand and grasp it. The Lord says "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." Isaiah 1:18 "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit also will I give you." Ezekiel 36:26

You have confessed you sins, and in your heart put them away. You have resolved to give yourself to God. Now go to him, and ask that he will wash away your sins and give you a new heart. Then believe that he does this because he has promised. This is the lesson which Jesus taught while He was on earth, that the gift God promises us we must believe we do recieve , and it is ours. Jesus healed the people of their diseses when they had faith in his power; he helped them in the things which they could see, thus inspiring them with confidence in Him concerning the things which they could not see - leading them to believe in his power to forgive sins. This He plainly stated in the healing of the man with pasly: "That ye may know the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins. Then he said to the sick of the palsy, Arise, take up they bed and go unto thine house." Matthew 9:6 So also John the evangelist says, speaking of the miracles of Christ, "These are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name." John 20:31