Our Computer!

    Early this morning, Haley opened the computer and heard a sound, click click click!  Then a message popped up.  No hard drive!  Oh no.  We found out that our hard drive had crashed, and that we had lost a year of stuff.  Right now I am posting off a computer at Staples.  Thank God they have high speed Internet!

Bible Bee!

      Lately I've been doing allot with bible bee.  At first I was falling behind, but when my dad made a deal with me, that if I got all five hundred scriptures perfect, he would take me to Canada, I quickly caught up.  I have to memorize 9 verses a day.  But today I am going to memorize 18 verses.  Pray for me that I will be able to memorize them all, for the glory of God.  Even though I am excited about being able to have a chance to go on a fishing trip, I'm doing it ultimately for the glory of God.

Tennessee!

      Last week my Dad, Vince (my brother), and me went on a vacation down in Tennessee, while our sisters were at a conference.  We stayed at our Grandpa's house, which is in Fairfield Glade.  It is in  a ideal location for people who want to go site seeing.  Every thing we saw was about ten or fifteen minutes away.  Here are some pictures that Vince and I took.

This is a view over the fourteenth hole of the golf course.

I thought that it would be a cute picture to have Vince under a ledge like this.

I figured out later that copperheads like living in places like that.

We ended up finding a copperhead a few feet away.

Grandpa and Vince under a hangover 

This is a interesting kind of moth that I found.

Can any of you tell me the name of this species.

In this picture I am leaning over a Cliff.

We brought a pop up camper.  It broke so much,

we spent all our spare time on it!

This is a cave that I found.

This rock I thought looked like a hand.

In this picture is of Vince walking across a swinging bridge.

Vince had just dropped his water bottle over the edge,

and I caught it in this photo.

Dad, Vince, and me.

This is one of falls at Burgess falls

I thought that this was a fun picture.

I walked the whole way to the falls without shoes on.  On the way I kicked a root,

I kicked it so hard that it tore my foot open.  After that I had a hard time walking.

There were a lot of water snakes down at the bottom of the falls.

We did not know what kind of snakes they were.  Do you?

This is the bigger of the two falls.

I love this picture that I took of Burgess falls.

A picture from above the falls.

These are some ledges that I thought were beside the falls.

My favorite saying

      I have been thinking about the saying:  A stitch in time saves nine.  You can apply it almost anywere in your life.

Death

      Death most people hate the word.  It reminds them of some loved one that died.  People come so close to death each day that they usually don't even think of it until someone dies.  I one came centimeters from death.  It happened like this:  I was out helping our neighbor cut down a tree.  They couldn't cut this one piece unless they got that piece of the ground.  The piece was too big to pick up, so they took their car jack and jacked that huge branch up.  There was this log on the other side, that I thought I would pick up, so I just reached under that hulk of a limb, and just as I was about to get that branch, when  the limb fell!  I could not move.  I remember seeing my Dad (who was mowing the lawn) start running towards me (I have never seen him run that fast in my life and I never will again.  At least I hope).  But he was not there in time to help.  Those two men (blubbery guys), had God himself help them lift up that log!  Some people would say that they had a big rush of adrenaline, but I belief it was god!  Later that night those same men tried to pick up that log (it was half the size it had been early), and they could not for any thing.  That night we had to go to a party, it happened to be at a doctors house.   The doctor said that if the log would have been just centimeters to the right or left, I would have either died or have been paralysed.  That's one story of somebody getting close to death.  I think it was god who saved me but most people would say, I just got "lucky".  That story most likely got you to think about death, but what do you do about it?  You must trust god with your sin.  You cry out to god and ask him to take your sin, he will.  He will give you new life.                              

Please Pray

    Just a little bit ago I read a post that had a pray request in it.  The blog owner asked for people to spread the word.  Click here to view the post.

Please Pray~ Alabama

       I'm sure you have heard about the tornado devastation down in Alabama.  From what I've heard and seen the devastation is horrible.   Last night our family was looking at pictures from the tornado.  It was amazing how big they were.  They took out whole towns.  On this website they have a couple of stories that I thought were very interesting.  I would like you to pray for the families that were devastated.