GLASSES!!!
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Picture overload!
Not much snow left around here!
I took this last Saturday when we went outside to play; there’s even less now!
I wasn’t going to get my camera out that time, but…
…the guys started filling up this tub…
…and making snowcastles!
And doesn’t this deserve a picture?
Here’s a couple pictures of them working on it:
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Earlier that day we dropped Dad and Spencer off at the new building our church is renovating (to help take out the old sprinkler-system), and then the rest of us went to the zoo.
We saw an IMax and then went to the Aquarium… we went there on my birthday one year, and I spent two hours in there happy as a cricket. Me and fish! 🙂
Thank you for reading all this and looking at ALL these pictures! Do you guys like it best when there’s more text or pictures in my posts?
Happy Saturday, and happy Valentine’s Day!
P.S. Do you any of you have a favorite animal/animals to see at the zoo?
P.P.S. My computer says snowcastles (^see above ^) isn’t a word. In my humble okay not-so-humble opinion, if sandcastles is a word, snowcastles is to. And in case you were wondering: I’ve been making up words for a long time… I used to make them up to put in poetry because I needed a word that rhymed. I refrain from doing that now, so that others will understand my poems–which is the point. 🙂
Happy Valentine’s Day!
“My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command.”
-John 15:12-14
(Emphasis mine, of course 🙂 )
Another Old Favorite
I was gone for eight hours yesterday, and had a BLAST!
I went to a play of “Little Women” with some friends…
(at the Omaha Community Playhouse, believe it or not!)
…and then went to “Noodles & Co.” for lunch!
The play was good–not as good as the book, but is anything? I mean, the book is always better than the movie or play. right? Well, maybe that’s just me. I’m a bookworm–though you guys probably figured that one out already! 🙂
They dramatized it a lot, made it a musical, left things out, and scrunched it all together–like putting the Jo-Meets-Apollyon-chapter part being about Meg and Jo’s first ball, not the theater, kind of thing; and John and Laurie proposing before Mrs. March came home.
That bothered me a little; but if you included everything in the book, the play would be like twenty-four hours long something insane like that!
And the music was good touch! The only problem was that you I (at any rate) can’t memorize songs the first time I hear them, and I have no way to listen to them again, so I can’t sing them. Tragic, is it not?
It was almost as emotional as the book too: I spent the whole after-intermission-half trying not to cry! Good actors, and a good story.
Good singers too–incredibly good! One of the songs (actually one of my favorites) really reminded me of “Let It Go”–it had the same powerful piano-music; without so much of the hopeful and liberated feelings. Jo sings it right after she refuses Laurie’s proposal, and I was like “oh my word! I’ve totally felt like that before!”
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Us “bigs” finished off the day with a rousing game of “Bang!”
Dad got out chips and salsa. We all enjoyed the chips, but one of us doesn’t hold with salsa (okay, okay: it’s me).
Love these people! 🙂
“God winds you up, and you go till He stops you” (514).
-“Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott 🙂
More than “slightly” late!
The patiently-awaited pictures of our Christmas tree:
I realized this year what a neat stocking this was! Thank you, Aunt Kelly!
I am REALLY enjoying my camera! Here’s a couple random pictures I took around Christmas-time:
P.S. You guys should totally read this. It’s from the blog I linked to on Thanksgiving. Sobering (and convicting), but oh-so-good!
Happy Monday!
Which means tomorrow is. . . ! ! !
🙂
Randomness
Four random things about my life:
* We made smoothie-Popsicles this week:
* And Mom, Michael, and Lucy made pizza:
It tasted sooo good!
* The writing’s been going slow lately, as I’ve been reading more. I just checked out two books from the library: “Beowulf” translated by J.R.R. Tolkien and “The Princess and the Goblin” by George MacDonald.
* “Searching For His Name” is coming along though…
…slowly but surely and in little hops–a paragraph at a time maybe–but coming along nonetheless!
When I get done writing this, I’m hoping to start a story that I’m writing just to put on my blog!
Happy Friday!
Today
Foot-prints
Shadows
We’ve still got snow!
It’s in the 40’s today, but the snow hasn’t melted yet, so some of us went outside in our boots and hoodies, and played in the snow without our gloves on. Just because we could!
We have a hard little worker over here…
…who labored very hard to un-shovel our front steps…
…and our driveway! How kind of him. 🙂
Wish I had a better picture of those boots!
Does it get much cuter?!
Making snowcastles.
This one “breaked” when someone tried to move it.
This little princess got a wagon-ride to the mailbox…
And, to her great delight, found something there for her!
Everything white, everything blue. Just. be.cause.
And by the way, I love my camera!
Zoomed out:
Zoomed in:
No kidding!
Spring is coming…
…just maybe not very soon! It’s only February, after all, and why should Spring come early?
“Do you want to come along?” he asked Puddle. “We could start with some place warm and wild.” Puddle preferred to stay home. I love snow, he thought.
-“Toot & Puddle” by Holly Hobbie
Tigger and Pooh
When every time you watch “My Friends: Tigger and Pooh” you’re three-year-old says in an it’s-a-good-day-all-of-a-sudden voice: “They’re singing in ENGLISH!” you know you must truly have a Chinese sister! 🙂
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Yes, we found it in English. Two episodes on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARc0zBrj6cc
I feel inclined to apologize about the low quality because we just bought the crazy, super clear, expensive, version. 🙂
A very creative mama set out to meet some requests for costumes the other day:
And, of course, we had to make a bouncing machine.
I finally know what’s it’s like to have your little siblings go crazy about a movie! 🙂
Though, actually right now it’s “Cinderella.” Yes, both of them. Little brother cried when it was over because he wanted to keep watching. I love ya, Michael!
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We went outside to play in the snow again yesterday and made a dozen little snowmen because a big one wouldn’t hold together with the “kind” of snow we got this time! 🙂 Mom made hot cocoa again! She’s wonderful!
Winter Wonderland
Here are a few pictures I got of the snow! It was so pretty when it started falling: great big, peaceful flakes drifting down. I took some pictures, but you can’t see the snowflakes. 🙁
It wasn’t sticking very well, and I was hoping so desperately it would get real deep…
Wish granted!
Look how deep that drifted up!
Just look at that! I love how this turned out! Couldn’t this so totally be Narnia or something?
You know me: off in raptures again.
Happy February!
P.S. Come back tomorrow: I’ve got something exciting to post! 🙂 Hint: I know I’ve talked to some of you about it already, but maybe not all of you. Don’t forget to check in!
Thank You!!!
I actually got 26 comments on my last post! That might be a record! Thank you for your in-put!
Most people said that they liked hearing about China, Michael and Lucy–which is what I post about the most anyway, I think. Someone said they liked the quotes I post; and I got votes for my tags “Adventure,” “Middle Earth,” and “Frozen.”
Thank you all for your help, I’ll keep this in mind as I post in the future! In the meantime, I received a request recently for a quote from “Searching For His Name”; and, as I’m never tired of dumping things I wrote on people, I thought I’d give you all a whole list of quotes from things I’ve written. Here goes:
This shows that the King… (though a very wise king) did not have much experience with dragons: for all of them are greedy and none of them are likely to go away when they know there is something left to get if they stay (8).
-“The Captured Princess Series: The Great Battle” 2013
In it he now kept the dark, eastern sword… this sword was strong and deadly, and Joshua had decided not to use it for practice or for play-fights (31).
-“The Ebony Sword” 2013
(This is one of my favorites of all the things I’ve written.)
And I just finished writing one of my favorite parts of my work-in-progress:
They all had their hair down now; and it was flecked with shimmering pin-points of white, like snowflakes on a black mitten or stars in a dark sky (103).
-“Searching For His Name” 2015
Sorry, guys; I know this is kinda’ girlie. The whole book’s not like that. Honestly. Just read these!
Hmm… 2013 must’ve been a good year for writing! I started S.F.H.N. that year too! 🙂
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We got a TON of snow last night. All seven (SEVEN!!! Whoot whoot!) of us went out this morning to play in it; and Mom made hot chocolate when we came inside! It tasted SO good! 🙂 You can see pictures here, and though I didn’t get any of us outside, I’m hoping to post some I took of the snow soon!
Random: have any of you noticed that when we say this morning (see above, which is why I thought of it) we say it like “thi’ smorning” not this_morning. Weird.
Yes, that’s the kinda’ thing I think about. Call me crazy.