Living History Timeline. It was awesome. So many people from different time periods. So much fun to dress up and portray a person from history.

The person I portrayed was Irena Sendler. She was a Polish social worker during WW2 who saved 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto.

Having fun with the camera.

Friends

Queen Esther

My friend was portraying Corrie Ten Boom when she was older. I was on crutches because my character (Irena Sendler) was tortured in prison and they broke her legs and feet and she never walked without crutches ever again.

A dear friend of ours. We pick her up every Sunday to go to church with us.

 Here are a few photos of some of the characters people portrayed.....

Maria Antoinette

My six year old little friend wanted to take a photo. The young man in the background was portraying Oscar Micheaux.

Harriet Tubman

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Fanny Hayes

( This beautiful little girl was born with no arms, one leg, and no jaw. But she is the happiest little girl)

Mary Elisabeth Bowser

We had about 30 kids who participated in the program. It was wonderful evening!

Good friends are like stars....

2008

2009

2012

My best friends-sisters. We have known each other since we were little. Holly and Laura are actually "real" sisters. I'm the oldest (19), Holly comes next (18), and last but not least Laura (16). But in height I'm the shortest, then Laura is next and then Holly is the tallest. It looks like in the last picture that Laura is shorter than me but Laura was slouching (tsk tsk, Laura). I'm the runt of the litter. :)
Holly is the photographer (her blog), Laura is the artist-fashion designer (her blog), and I'm the musician-vintage fashion girl.
Our "quote" we like is: "Good friends are like stars...You don't always see them., but you always know they are there"
We love to go shopping, traveling, eating at Panera Bread, going on walks, looking at the stars ^^, eating at McDonalds, pile up on a couch and just talk. 

2012

I thank God that HE has blessed me with such true, faithful, fabulous friends. I love you girls like crazy! <3>

Yo-yo Ma came to my area for a one night performance and my mawmaw and I were able to go!! It was an amazing night! He is such a talented cellist! So much fun to watch him perform. After the performance I went backstage and "who-do-thunk" he was coming down the stairs behind me and I was able to get his autograph! Woot!! If you don't know who Yo-yo Ma is.....go look him up!!

I had a fantastic time when I visited some German friends for nine days who live in ABQ, New Mexico. They are friends with a German couple that brought their balloon to the Hot Air Balloon Fiesta. It's the world's largest hot air balloon festival. I was blessed to be able to be on the chase crew with my friends for the German balloon.

6:00am

It was 30 degrees in the mornings but it warmed up later in the day.

Looking into the balloon.

I was on the chase crew for this balloon.

Our balloon is shaped like a German apple cider jug.

Up,up and away!

View from when I went up in the German balloon.

The best way to start your day, is to read the Holy Bible.

(8) "Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things." (9) "What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me---practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you."

                                Philippians 4:8-9

Our trip to Washington state and Victoria,Canada.

While in WA we went with my Aunt, Uncle, cousins, and brother to the famous hamburger joint called "Fat Smitty's." It was really good!

Family time

At Fat Smitty's you can decorate a dollar bill and pin it to the wall. Every month they donate the dollar bills to a charity.  This was my dollar bill :)

 

On the beautiful scenic route to see the Pacific ocean.

At the Pacific! It was 55 degrees, drizzly rain, and really windy!! It was beUtiful!

Sitting on the front porch listening to the waves crashing on the beach and sipping my wonderful coffee. *happy sigh*

They have amazing flowers in WA!

On the way back to WA from visiting Victoria,Canada. That is Victoria behind us. To the left is my Aunt who we were visiting in WA. My Uncle and cousins were not able to go with us to Canada.  It was sooo beautiful there!

Me in front of the The Empress. A big fancy historical hotel. :)     

We didn't know that it was Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee! This has only happened twice in history.  Can you guess who was the first Queen to have a Diamond Jubilee?

 

 

 

   

Wonderful little Port Townsend!

As you can see the town is very close to the water.

My daddy and I waiting for my mom and Aunt.

In Seattle we got to visit my brother! :)

I took this photo from the plane on the way back home. This is Mount Rainer. Isn't it gorgeous??

Save Me - Written by (me) Scarlett Burnham

Dear mommy, can you hear me cry? I'm in your tummy and I'm about to die.

Please mommy, please save me. Please don't murder me. I am living in your tummy, and I wanna see your face.

Heard you and daddy talkin about me yesterday. You were saying you didn't want to have any more children today.

But please mommy, please save me, please don't murder me. I am living in your tummy, and I wanna see your face.

Suddenly last night God spoke to you in a dream. And He said please don't kill this baby. It wants to see your face.

So please mommy, please save me, please don't murder me. I am living in your tummy, and I wanna see your face.

And the next day you told daddy that you didn't want to kill me, but that you to keep me.

Thank you mommy, you saved me, now I can't wait to see you and daddy's faces.
And there's one more thing I'd like to tell you is that...

I love you.

This is what has been happening in my life!

I am a proud aunt of a beautiful little girl! Her name is Mary Grace.

In July I was blessed to be able to lead small groups at the Bright Light's Conferences in Kansas and Texas. I met many wonderful and precious girls along the way. I learned so much in those two weeks! For more info about Bright Light's visit --- http://tomorrowsforefathers.com/

I was blessed to be able to go and help our friends the White family for a week! They have eight children and five foster children. Here is a photo of me with nine of the kids. It was such a wonderful experience! I learned so much! The momma has blog which is --- http://www.celebratingmotherhoodeveryday.com/  Please check it out!

I was able to visit out friends the Crawford family who lost their home in a tornado last year. They recently built a new home where there old home once stood. Their story is an amazing one! Check out their family blog --- http://www.generationcedar.com/main// and Bria's blog --- http://integritasdomus.blogspot.com//  The picture above is Bria and I, the oldest child of the Crawford family.

I only got to meet this precious girl once last year and we were able to meet again while I was in her area. It took me forty minutes to find the Starbucks we were to meet! We both were in great need of a Starbucks coffee!

How sad that this is what our world has come to.

Excerpt from The New Foxe's Book of Martyrs

China,1977

In Kiangsi, China, two Christian girls, Chiu-Chin-Hsiu and Ho-Hsiu-Tzu, their pastor,________(name withheld), were sentenced to death. As on many such occasions in Church history, the persecutors mocked and scorned them for being so foolish as to die for an unseen God. Then they promised the pastor that if he would shoot the girls they would release him. He accepted.
        The girls waited patiently in their prison cells for the moment of their execution. They prayed quietly together. Soon guards came for them and led them out. A fellow prisoner who watched the execution through the barred window of his prison cell. said that their faces were pale but beautiful beyond belief, infinitely sad but sweet. They were placed against a wall, and their pastor was brought forward by two guards. They placed him close in front of the girls and put a pistol into his hand.
        The girls whispered to each other, then bowed respectfully to their pastor. One of them said:


        Before being shot by you, we wish to thank you heartily for what you have meant to us. You baptized us, you taught us the way of eternal life, you gave us holy communion with the same hand in which you now have a gun. May God reward you for all that you have done for us. You also taught us that Christians are sometimes weak and commit terrible sins, but they can be forgiven again. When you regret what you are about to do to us, do not despair like Judas, but repent like Peter. God bless you, and remember that our last thought of you was not one of indignation against your failure. Everyone passes through hours of darkness. We die with gratitude.

 
       They bowed again to their pastor, closed their eyes, and stood silently waiting. The pastor had obviously hardened his heart --- he raised the pistol and shot them. No sooner had they fallen to the ground, then the Communist guards put him against the wall for immediate execution. As they shot him, no one heard words of repentance, only the sound of screaming.