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A Very Happy and Blessed New Year!

Blessings!

   Well, 2009 is finally here! God is so good! Our past year has been filled with wonderful adventures, trials and tribulations, blessings and abundance:) All of which have shown us God's powerful presence here in our lives.

   With 2008 behind us we are face with new adventures, trials, tribulations, blessings and abundance of a different sort and I can't wait to find out what they will be and to learn where I will grow next:)

   I pray that each of you is having a very blessed first day of your new year!

God be with thee!

Sister Lori

Good-Bye 2008

Well, it is the last day of 2008.  Wow, it is always amazing to me how quickly time passes.  I snuggle with my kids and I am amazed that they are so big! 

So, as I reflect on my year, I am richly blessed and touched by each of you.  I have been blogging for nearly a year and have met so many amazing people.  Your lives have touched me and help mold me in new ways.

Have a blessed Year!

Flossie

Building a Greenhouse

Volcanoes!!!

We use "The Story of the World" as our springboard for History.  We are using book 4.  Today we learned about Krakatoa Volcanoe and it's eruption.  We then researched and learned more about volcanoes.

Check out some videos:

Volcanoes 101 - http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/environment/environment-natural-disasters/volcanoes/volcanoes-101.html?fs=environment.nationalgeographic.com

There are 12 different videos that you can watch.

Different type of volcanoes and how they work - http://egsc.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/teachers-packets/volcanoes/poster/poster.html

More info:  http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/Krakatau.html

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Building your own Volcano ( from Story of World, book 4 - pg 38)

Materials

• A piece of Cardboard (about 12x12 inches)
• A paper towel roll
• a re-sealable plastic bag
• tape
• newspaper
• aluminum foil
• 1/3 vinegar, use a few drops red food coloring also
• 3Tbsp. baking soda

Directions

1. Tape paper towel in center of cardboard
2. drop plastic bag into tube and cover tube
3. Crumble sheets of newspaper to look like rocks.  Create a mountain
4. You can cover the nespaper balls with aluminum (we didn't have aluminum :)
5. You can paint the aluminum as an option :)

Photos:                                                                       .

Dear Reader

     We had a wonderful Christmas. I will try to get our Family picture put on the blog next post. I am sorry I have disappeared from the blog, but now I am back.

     My father was suppose to have surgery to have a rib removed on the 22nd, but it had to be put off. Though annoying, at least he did not have to spend Christmas in the hospital.

     My sister, Keri, and her two sons will be coming for the New Year, so we are getting ready for them. Not easy in a house that has three big dogs, two rabbits, a cat and a Guinea Pig that are always under foot!

    Well, I need to get going. Sorry that this is a really poorly written and choppy post, but I really do need to end.

~Mary-Ann~

Hey

Have a Blessed Day! My sister had a really small wedding after church.

Blessings,

Alyssa

Good Afternoon

Just wanted to see how you all were doing. I slept in this morning ate me some lunch and went to the dollar General to get me and my brother some new wash cloths and bought some laundry soap incase my mothers homemade laundry soap ran out before all our laundry got finished.

Have a Blessed Day!

Blessings,

Alyssa

Good Evening

Good Evening!

I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and enjoyed spending time with your loved ones. I know I sure did we go to my great uncles house every Christmas Eve It is a tradition in my family  then since we moved in this house back in 2003 my grandparents come over in the morning to have a nice breakfast with us and open presents. we all used to go over there but my grandparents just dont have the energy anymore like they used to then Christmas Day Afternoon we go over to my other grandparents house and Christmas night we go over to my uncles house.... I Got me a really nice good quality digital camera from my parents. I LOVE IT!!! I apologize for not blogging but my time has been consumed with family and school and work. I will try to be a more faithful blogger in the new year.

Hope you all had a very Merry Christmas, and have a happy new year New Year Eve we are going to have food and fellowship at my church and New Years Day we are going to Lake Park Georgia to their outlet malls there

Blessings,

Alyssa

The Boy Without A Name

   Long, long ago there was a boy who worked at an inn. We know not his name; but we will tell you a story about him. He was the boy-of-all-work. It was his task to look after the cattle, and to do odd jobs at the inn. There came a time when thee was a great stir at this inn, for the little town was full of pilgrims, and the inn was overcrowded. A number of folk wanted lodgings, and they sought for them, and found them not. Amongst these was a tired woman and a man with a troubled look. The stable boy heard them pleading with the landlord. The landlord was kind but firm, and said, "I should like to take you into the inn, but it is quite impossible. I have already turned many away." The man and the woman pleaded, but to no avail. The lad of the inn heard the eager request and the firm refusal, and his heart was strangely stirred. He slipped away from them and said to himself, "They will find their way to the stable. I will make it sweet and clean for them." So he ran speedily and made everything as tidy as possible, and put clean, fresh, sweet-smelling hay in the manger, and then went back to the inn, for there was much work for him to do there.

   Some time after he slipped out of hte inn and beheld a strange light in the wind-swept shed. There he saw the two tired pilgrims, and, O wonder of wonders, a babe ~ lying in a manger in the warm, fresh, sweet-smelling hay. All was clean, tidy and homely, and the man and the woman and the child looked so happy. The boy was so merry and said, "I put the hay there on which the baby sleeps. No one knows; it is better when nobody knows." Back again he ran to his work, and whistled for sheer joy as he bustled about, answering the quick calls of the many people at the inn. Night fell ~ a clear night, full of stars. The boy slipped out of the inn and ran to the stable. He said, "I should just like one more peep before I go to sleep." Amazement fell upon him. There were, O wonder of wonders, shepherds kneeling, and they were all gazing with joyous astonishment at the babe lying in the manger. They spoke of the heavenly light, of the song of angels, of tidings of great joy to all people. No one noticed the boy of he inn, for he hid himself in the darkness. But he saw all, and as he lay down to rest he said, "I placed the hay there for the wonderful child. No one knows; it is better when nobody knows."

   The next day the boy of the inn was busy ~ all the world seemed calling for him, for the inn was crowded, and the pilgrims needed so many things. He had no time during the day to go to the manger, but as he ran to and fro on his errand he saw the vision of a babe, lying on clean, fresh, sweet-smelling hay. He was so glad that he had brought the hay, that he had placed it in the manger, and that the child slept sweetly in this soft bed. He longed to see the babe again, but not until night was he able. Then swiftly he ran, and, O wonder of wonders, he saw kingly pilgrims, swarthy of face, kneeling in lowly adoration before the manger. They talked of a star they had seen in the East, of long journeys over burning sands, and of the wondrous joy which was theirs in worshipping the babe. They brought forth beautiful gifts ~ gold, frankincense and myrrh ~ and these, they said, were gifts for the babe. The strange light in the stable made the precious jewels flash with heavenly splendour. The little boy kneeled in the shadows, and worshipped and rejoiced, and said, "What beautiful gifts!...but mine was first, for I came before the shepherds and the distant travellers, and tidied the stable, and brought the present of clean, fresh, sweet-smelling hay. I am glad that I was the first to bring a gift, and that love led me to make a warm bed for the kingly babe. No one knows, it is better when nobody knows." And no man or woman or child would ever have known had not an angel told me this Christmas-tide the story; but even he did not mention the name of hte dear boy, but always called him "the boy without a name."

I pray you enjoy this as much as we have over the years:)

Would that I would strive to be a "boy without a name".:)

God be with thee!

Sister Lori