Square Dancing and Football: A Direct Result of MPD

VERSE OF THE DAY: Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better. Colossians 1:10

Listening to Air1 and holding EzT. Just got back from a gym day. We square danced, yeah. It wasn't as humiliating as I expected actually. There was one part that was like Pride and Prejudice dancing. It would've been ten times more fun if I knew more people there. But as of today, I have changed the number of coloradigan girl's I am aquainted with from 1 to 2! Whoa!

Beautiful Love. I am in a state of saying the first random thing that pops into my head right now.

Game last night I didn't get to watch cuz we didn't get the channel. It was:

FAVRE, THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND

VS.

romo the small and insignificant pick-thrower.

Whoodayathink won? Them stinky cowboys. Why?.......... They hurt Favre!!!!!!!! In the arm!!!!!!! This graying quarterback holds all the records, he's played for somethinteen years, made the Hall of Fame, and they HURT him! Evil in the air!!! He fell on it I believe. Here he is after the injury sitting on the sidelines watching his team fall into the depths of defeat.
I sure hope this isn't season-ending. They could make it to the Big Bowl!

Played Battle for Middle Earth 2 with Dad till 12:30 last night. He won. Barely. I coulda had him if it weren't for those dead-guy armies!!!!! May play JA tonight. I'll see what he thinks. But this game won't count on our record because this is the first time and I'll lose. Whaddayatink Drallen?

What will people think if they hear that I'm a Jesus Freak?

What will people do if find that it's true?

I don't really care if they label me a Jesus Freak.

There ain't no disguising the truth.

There's somethin funny about that Bird...

VERSE OF THE DAY: Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross, and follow me.” Matthew 16:24

Here's some funny things about my roommate, Mallybird:

• She says the funniest things
• She's smart. She remembers where I put things and tells me so. She counts to about 8, then spits out random numbers
• She's 2! That's a story all in itself!
• She's the prettiest little fairy queen you'll ever see!
• She always wants me to hold her hand while we're in bed. When I think she's asleep and I slowly pull away, she wakes right up and snatches my hand back.
• She LOVES to read books! Even whatever I'm reading at the moment. "Honey Bird, you don't really want to listen to The Simarillion do you?:P)
• Every morning she says, "Read Bible?" With a little chirp.
• Every question ends with an extremely high chirp. ("Rea-EEEED?)
• She loves the song, "I've got the joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart"! If you sing it, she'll throw in little high giggly "Wheeeere?"s. When she tries to sing the joyjoyjoy part, she spits everywhere. Heehee!
• Her hair is really bunny rabbity and smooth. The bottom layer is curly and the top layer is straight!
• She knows what is mine and what's hers. Yeah, iPod's Meggy's. We've been over that one a couple of times.
• Her job in the kitchen is throwing away the dirty napkins. You have to lift her up, but she likes doing it.
• She's Meggy's girl!
• She likes pink
• She picks out the band she likes in her hair every morning. She loves to help in the daily search for the "green comb". (how does that thing get lost every morning?)
• Kisses make everything better
• She doesn't let me call her barely anything besides "Mallory", "Bird", or "Angel". Anything else is greeted with the response: "It's MALLORY!"
• Her dollies are: Dolly, Jane, Blue-baby, Emma, Sunflower, Timmy, and That-One. (yes she named it) I am the babies's slave. I'm told they want to get on the bed, then off the bed, then different clothes, then just Jane wants on the bed, etc. She does NOT do it herself!
• Shoes are fun!
• Potty chair is against the law
• She falls out of bed quite a bit, but is too sleepy to cry much
• She says EVERYTHING she wants to!
• She doesn't get in trouble alot

Now she wants me to read the Baby Bop Counting Book and I said I would, so. She's great and cute!

Mally's Birthday

VERSE OF THE DAY: I love all who love me. Those who search will surely find me. Proverbs 8:17

Mal is two!!!!!!!!!! Here are some pictures of her "Boofday"!

Pretty in Pink!

Strawberry cake

Giggles with Mommy!

Busy Birthday Bird!

Yum!

She can't blow candles out very well

Prologue of my what happens after LOTR book.

The first draft, keep in mind. It will be better eventually.

Eldarion, king of Gondor rode for his very life under a black sky. Men everywhere were seemingly in a trance, making their way slowly toward the dark castle of Minas Tirith. The king had tried to stop them, but they would not be detained or seemed to notice any of his warnings. But it was what was coming out of the city that worried him more. Orcs that were not tortured elves, but tortured men pursed him hotly and at breakneck speed.
Eldarion was afraid.
Thunder rolled almost constantly as he reached the little town of Osgiliath. More men were walking out, transfixed toward the city, all at the same pace. Their eyes did not move from the city nor did they speak, despite the pleading of their hysterical wives and children who had no power to stop them. Indeed, no one did.
Lightning struck.
The town was in confusion. The king rode in, looking about wildly. No one seemed to notice him through the wailing of the women and the screaming because of the approaching ocs.
Wind Blew.
A old woman opened her door and saw him. "Great King! Come inside! We will hide you!" Eldarion lept off his horse and it fled in fear. The king ran into the dwelling and the woman locked the door, and proceeded to close all the curtains. Her husband stood near, his sword drawn. Their son clung to his father, an eight year old lad with wide, jet-black eyes. "I put you all in danger! The orcs want me!"
"Say nothing of it, Your Highness. We are put in danger either way." The woman beckoned him to a secret door in the floorboards. Eldarion leaped in. He heard Orcs in the village. He heard grunts, smashing of glass, doors being splintered, and people screaming in terror.
They were being slain.
The King pushed the trapdoor open in anger and quickly climbed out. "My Lord!" The woman loudly whispered. "No! You will be killed!"
"It is my life they want! Not those of my people!" he ran to the door. The young boy poked his head fearfully out from under the bed only to unintentionally haunt Eldarion with his deep, frightened eyes. Before the king could turn the doorknob, he heard the boy cry, "Father? Father no!" and emerge from hiding to grab the old man's cloak. The man was walking toward the black city, eyes staring straight ahead. The woman tried also to hinder him, but orcs were upon the house. The woman pushed her son into the trapdoor while her husband walked out of the house. She ran to follow him. "No!" the King called, but it was too late. The orcs slew her. He gritted his teeth and prepared to charge into the pack of orcs, but he felt his foot being grasped. Two surprisingly strong hands jerked him into the hatch and locked the door.
Thunder rolled.

So there ya have it. What happens next.... not telling.

Life this Week

VERSE OF THE DAY: Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world. John 16:33

Mace, Potato, Lane, Sticks, and I went to this youth thing called COLA WARS at our church. Man, it was rough!!!! We had a game called "Crack the 6-pack" where 6 people hooked arms sitting down and six other people tried to rip them apart. There was hair-pulling and somebody really came down on my wrist with their foot. Ow! There was one point where Sticks and Tate (who were the smallest ones there) were being dragged ten yards away from the others, about four feet off the ground by a few big guys. They were sticking together like a mouse and a sticky trap and the big guys didn't pull them apart! It was funny, but I thought they were gonna get dropped on their heads. Then there was a game where there were two tubes and each team had to fight for them and bring them back to their line. Killed my nail and bled a bit, but I didn't notice till the games were over. Bet I got blood on the shirt of the girl I was hanging on to in the horse game. Some people held on to each other's waist's in a line and the other team had to jump up on you to try to make you fall. I didn't fall, and I didn't really jump on the other team either, but Mace was over there getting some elbow in the head:P Then I think that's it for the fun games. We went inside and had some pizza then! Funfunfun! I think it would've been a lot Funfunfunner if I knew people there.

Yesterday Imo, Mangnay, Grandma, Aunt Mich, Chlo-chlo, Twinkletoes, Lane, Lucy, Mom and I went to a fundraiser tea at the oldest hotel in CO. It was a really pretty building!! There was a couple of Nutcracker dances and a magic show. We thought the tea was at 12pm but then we find it was at 2pm. So we had to wait a bit. But it was pretty fun!

All of us before the tea

So that's what's up. My computer won't turn on. Tis quite annoying to me! I'm on Dad's. Hi Dad! Can you fix my computer?

Brickbreaker Bonus

VERSE OF THE DAY: "What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?" Mark 8:36

Wrote this for CtB. My e-mail's being weird, so I'm stickin it up here!

Think BRICKBREAKER. It goes under many names: VORTEX, BREAK-THRU, etc. But it is all the same thing: BrickBreaker. Are you a brickbreaker junkie? There are two kinds: the Proud-to-Proclaim-it junkies and the I-would-deny-it-three-times-before-the-rooster-crowed junkies. About one in a million brickbreakers would admit to being such! For the sake of this article, I will reluctantly admit that I am able to enjoy a VORTEX game under the blankets on my iPod any night. This popular accessory game comes on about any phone, iPod, or computer around, and people always like games that don't require any directions! Simple. Move your little paddle thing on the bottom to bounce the ball back where all the bricks await. Break them all and move on to the next level. Yea! Even better though, are the little bonuses that fall from bricks you destroy. Catch them with your paddle and you can stretch it, get more lives, more balls, extra points, or even a fireball or some rockets! Wow! How much better can it get! But this has probably happened to all of us. You see a bonus coming down. What is it? What is it... it's a rocket bonus! You definitely NEED that! But it's still pretty close to the top and your ball bounces back towards you. You hit it back up and keep your eyes on that bonus. It's coming down on the right side. Haha! Yo get in position to catch it. But wait! Your ball! It's coming down on the left side! There's no stopping it for a minute. Brickbreaker encourages quick thinking. You think in a split second that you can wait for the bonus, then whip back insanely fast to catch your ball. Always a good plan despite the fact that it works about 1% of the time. You've got the bonus! But the ball was coming too fast. You try to get the paddle over there as planned, but it's too late. You lose the ball, and the most despised words in America show on your screen. GAME OVER. Shoot! Either you're thinking, "Well, next time I'll just let the bonus go" or "Man! Need to practice getting back there faster!"

Where am I going with this reminder of numerous bad experiences, you ask? This is a miniature example of Mark 8:36. "What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?" I talked about brickbreaker because I thought about this verse then and it's a fun topic:) But how about we go a little deeper? Think the band SWITCHFOOT. Jon Foreman, Tim Foreman, Chad Butler, you know the guys. The name Switchfoot is a surfing term. When you switch your feet, you are taking a new stance in the other direction, not like everybody else. They wanted their music to open new doors in Christian Rock. So they released some good early albums like THE LEGEND OF CHIN and LEARNING TO BREATHE. They played their music undauntedly in bars and witnessed in all kinds of places shouting Jesus loud. They were special. Later they got four of their songs included in the 2002 movie, A Walk to Remember. So they got more recognized and it led to the album BEAUTIFUL LETDOWN. Despite the fame and idolized people, they still made music for the Lord. Then came the Disney Channel. The YouTube popularity. The people loving them. It led to an albums that has been described as their darkest. It led to more albums that had less and less of God in them, and more and more of what the fans wanted. They went from singing for God, to singing for popularity, money, people, themselves, and who knows what else. They still say they have their good intentions, but the truth is that their focus is gone. They don't like being called a Christian band. As said in the book The Day of Small Beginnings, "if we conform to the patterns of this world - the stage shows, the roadies, the contracts, the promos, the secular studio musicians, - it's bound to have an affect on us. It's inevitable. You can't do business like the world system and not be slowly submerged into it - justified by the lyrics, condemned by the reality." They gained popularity, money, fans, and fame. The world. But they lost their soul. They can justify their actions all day long, but when they stand before Jesus are they going to be confident that they carried out his plan and had done exactly what he wanted with their band?

Now I'm not dissing Switchfoot. I've cried many tears for them. They're backsliding and don't know where they could be sliding. There ball is escaping, brickbreakerly speaking. Sometimes we should just skip the bonus and keep on bouncing our ball God's way and not lose the path. Don't let your game be over.

"I don't wanna gain the whole world, and lose my soul." ~ Tobymac

Veteran's Day

VERSE OF THE DAY: "Look! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in, and we will share a meal together as friends." Revelation 3:20

Do you pray for our troops? How often do you forget? Think about if it was you or one of your family members. Watch this video and tell all your friends to remember our soldiers.

VERSE OF THE DAY: We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. Romans 5:3

Figured I needed to post again. Sticks and his SWOOSH had a soccer game today and won 1 -0. Even with a really bad ref! On a really bad field! With a pretty good opponent! So now he's at RED ROBIN with the rest of them drinking the best strawberry lemonade in the whole world. Can I get an Uh-huh?

This is some pictures of what I did to the boys. They are REALLLLLLY cute! Savvy?

Notice Mayfee's famous eyebrow! Everybody loves it! He is so COCKY for a 3yo!

The cutest buccaneer you'll ever meet!

Swashbuckling sweet!

Evil Jack Stare-o

A few days later Zekey took a bath in the sink. Here's some pics of that!

He's such a big boy!

Giggles!

Whenever we pour water on his head he sticks his tongue out!

Cutie pie!

A long, loud, tremulous, drawn-out, Luke Skywalker, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"

VERSE OF THE DAY: The LORD doesn't see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart. 1 Samuel 16:7

VS.

MANNING THE MAN & his COLTS! vs. Brady the small and insignificant & his patriots

Ok, ok, maybe not small and insignificant Pats. But can you believe they had the stuff to beat the invincible? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Oh, Manning, how could you have let them bat that ball away from you and so win the game??? WHY??? How do you plan to win the Superbowl now? Why did yall let me down like this? Sniff sniff.

Ok, here's the plan of action: The Pats play the Bills and Bills win (you hush! Stop saying "yeah right"!). Then we're even and the Colts can go win the big game! Sounds good. But we MAY still make it to the Big Bowl even if the Bills DON'T win! HeeHEE! That sounds good too! Oh, well. There may be another chance=( And the Pats have been putting some gut into this season. I suppose they are honorable foes. Not like... the BEARS or sumthin.

(Actual Photos from Game)

Job McCully

Please pay attention everyone! This little guy's lungs do not work on their own and the doctors have come to the end of what they can do. Job has had cancer and about everything else under the sun. He has been fighting battles since he was four and now he's about ten. He, his parents, and his sister are now waiting for God to do something amazing and keeping in this fight. Please pray for a miracle in Job's body. If you feel for him and his family, copy and paste this onto your own blog to really get prayers moving. They are powerful and God knows what's going on down here, even if we can't see a way out. Here is his website: http://www.caringbridge.org/ar/job/

Click here to watch the video of his journey on Windows Media Player. Testimonial (revised 2006)

Thank you for reading.
Meggy

Pictures!

VERSE OF THE DAY: By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. 2 Peter 1:3

Here's some pictures from our snow day!

Our house!

Me

angel

Evil Intent

snowballs away!

Hi from Colorado!!!