My Birthday!!

~ I'm 16 years old!!!~
Last Thursday ( Sept 10) I turned 16!!! We were in South Dakota whenever I had a wonderful birthday!! Have a great September!!

Pig in a Cornfield

Pig in a Cornfield

1/2 pound sausage
1/2 pound ground beef

2 medium onions, thinly sliced
4 medium potatoes, thinly sliced

1 can cream-style corn
1 teaspoon salt
Dash of pepper
1 can tomatoe soup, diluted with 1/2 can water


Combine meats, alternate layers of onions, potatoes, corn, meats, seasoning and soup in greased casserole. Cover and bake at 350 degrees for 30 mins. Remove cover and continue to cook until potatoes are tender and top is browned.

Tips- I liked putting in more corn and meat.

Wednesday ( August 12,2009 )

For Today ( August 12, 2009 )


Outside my window...
It is raining very hard.





I am thankful for...
My mom. She is the most wonderful lady. My favorite time with my mom is when we read together and go shopping at thrift stores.





From the kitchen...
My mom is fixing steak and onion roasted potatoes for supper tonight.





I am wearing...
A sky blue skirt .





I am creating...
A notebook for a friend.



I am reading...
I've just started reading ZVI. Its about a miraculous story of triumph over the Holocaust.




I am hoping...
That it won't rain this weekend.






I am hearing...
The rain on the metal roof and listening to Adventures in Odyssey






One of my favorite things...
Chocolate ( at this moment )






A few plans for the rest of the week...
I start back to piano, violin, and a homeschool chorus group this Friday.






Here is a picture thought I am sharing...
My little dog Roy

Civil War and WW2 books

My mom bought me all of these books at the thrift store. They are all brand new books!! I love studying war history. Especially the Civil War ( or The War Between the States) and WW2.

Dresses I bought at a thrift store!

I bought these dresses at a thrift store for a $1 each!! My mom and I love going thrift shopping!! My mom has taught me how to shop at thrift stores. You never know what you will find at a thrift store. She calls it a treasure hunt :) I have a little white shrug that I wear with this dress.

I have a white wrap that I like wearing with this dress.

Pictures from the 1861 Girls School

These are the links to my photo albums on my facebook from the girls school. Please look at the second link first! I had a blast!! It was fun, tiring, and I made lots of new friends!!




http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2028663&id=1372045013&l=0bc585043a
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2028581&id=1372045013&l=b44d619a96

So Much More

This is a quote from the book called So Much More.

If God was so kind as to let you grow up in a family, then you are not single. You have been put into an importan unit for an important purpose. To pursue singleness ( singleness meaning, being outside a family ) is to reject this gift. This is hwo God views single people: " He setteth the solitaryinto families" ( Psalm 69:6a). Being solitaryis something that God, being all-knowing and loving, and merciful, delivers His children out of. So He blesses His daughters by making singleness a non-issue for them. He puts them into families.

Many grils respond to this with, "But you don't know my family!" No, we don't, but God does. people say, "You choose your friends, but your family you're stuck with." We prefer to say,
"You choose your friends, but God chooses your family." Before the foundations of the earth, God was putting together all the members of your family, and He chose each one for a purpose, as He does everything. If you look at the family in terms of a group of souls whom God chose from all the other souls, to put together to share a life, it gives you whole new perspective into what a wonderful miracle a family is.

Underneath the back porch

Underneath the backporch on one of the posts I wrote my name, age, and date. I did this last year.

Summer Plans

This summer (in July) I'm going to an 1861 Girls School in Tennessee for a week. You dress in authentic mid- 19th century clothing all week and we learn etiquette, penmanship, art, music, dance and the social graces. In addtion we also participate in side saddle horsemanship, archery, and other sports. At the end of the week we have a small graduation followed by a formal ball to which we are escorted by members of the Jackson Cadets, a group of local young men dedicated to the study of mid-19th century history and customs.
If you would like to see more about it here's the website...www.athenaeumrectory.com
Their will be lots of pictures that I will post on my blog when I come back from it :)

I thought this was interesting

Dates Southern States Seceded from the Union

South Carolina Dec. 20, 1860
Mississippi Jan. 8, 1861
Florida Jan. 10, 1861
Alabama Jan. 11, 1861
Georgia Jan. 19, 1861
Louisiana Jan. 26, 1861
Texas Feb. 1, 1861
Virginia Apr. 17, 1861
Arkansas May. 6, 1861
North Carolina May. 20, 1861
Tennessee June. 8, 1861

11 states belonged to the Confederate States.
Kentucky and Missouri were admitted to the Confederacy.;
that accounts for the 13 stars on the Confederate Battle Flag.

Summer in a bowl!

The word watermelon in italian, french, german, spanish, and english My watermelon :)

Smore's Delight!!

I melted my marshmellows by candlelight :)

FIRE!! mwahaha

SIZZLE!!

YUM YUM YUM!!

Chocolate and graham cracker

Chocolate, graham cracker, and marshmellow

A smore!!

All gone!!

Happy Memorial Day!

Memorial Day

By Eula Gladys Lincoln

In distant field of sunny France
Where strangers come and go,
Amid the farms of Flanders where
The fragrant breezes blow,
Our soldier-dead in quiet sleep
Neath crosses row on row.

Here shrapnel shells once shrieked and burst
And took their toll of death;
The very wind, itself a foe,
Bore poison on its breath.

Above their graves the birds now sing
As round that home of yore,
When, care-free boys, they romped and played;
Those childhood days soon o'er,
The boys to brave and strong men grown,
They romped and played no more.

They put aside their childish toys,
A man's work each must do,
And when their country called for them,
To her they answered true.

"We must protect our native land:
She shall not suffer wrong
For she has reared and nurtured us,
We're men and we are strong.
We'll bid good-by to those we love;
It will not be for long.

"With aching hearts and tear-dimmed eyes
We watched them go away.
Some have returned but many sleep
In foreign lands to-day.

Where English roses bloom and fade,
In France where lilies grow,
Among the fields of Flanders, where
The scarlet poppies blow,
Our soldier-dead are not forgot
Though strangers come and go.

I want to wish all of you a safe and happy Memorial Day!