Christmas!!!!!

Decided to post a Christmas post with a shout out to my non-facebooking buddies Toria and Leesie :) They never get any cool pictures because I am a jolly rotten emailer and I never post on here. This post may be a little boring to the 239,245,8

57 rest of you who've all seen these pics on fb, but I don't care about y'all. Ok, I do. All right here come the pics, forgive the quality, they're all from my phone........

Egg nog night with fam, egg nog, chex mix and Kung Fu Panda 2! And a cuddly picture.

Did a little SAVERS Christmas shopping. There's No L. Yeah, No L? Noel?

Ha!

haha.

heh.

We found a hugeginormous chocolate santa.

Our Christmas tree!

And the gingerbread house contest!

Bird's house won the "Most Like a Bloody Massacre" award. Or "Best Pile of Lava". Take your pick.
Lou's won overall! The frosting snowman did it.

Zekers won "Best Little Gumdrop Hangy-down Thingy" or something. He was pretty stoked about it though.

Mayf's won "Most Robotic". Don't you agree?

Mine won "Most Delicious Looking", but I think all that red icing just looks nasty.

Floofy hair

And a first attempt at candy cane nails.

The chillens did a wonderful singing job at the Immanuel Christmas play, so let's see if I can get this vid to upload. Maybe. We'll see what happens.

And now the actual Christmas :) Didn't get many pics of the day, but here's an idea...

Pink laptop keys cover thingy! Fun present! Looks so awesome! Problem is the silicone gets stuck up under my spacebar and I can't hit it. So I just took it off. Still figuring out what to do there...any ideas?

Formal blowdarting with Caesar. Made him this tee with what once was a black fabric sharpie from Nana. Now it writes about as well as the wrong end of a candle. But the shirt turned out better than I thought.

Looking at all the stuff!!

LOOK at this stocking!!!!!! It's from my Efum, made by Lou. Apparently they schemed and schemed about how to make it for a long time and I LOVE IT!!!!! It completely made the day.

Me and Hun on Christmas night.

A couple of Christmas Quotes:

Dad (reading a Christmas picture book): "And the cows and sheep in the stable also bowed their heads with the wise men--wait, REALLY? That's not Biblical! What are we reading????"

Bird: "Zekey, let me teach you the secret handshake!"

Zekey: "Not right now. I'm busy working on the secret elbow strike."

And here's a story of what happened to me today, the day after Christmas. I woke up and it hit me like a lightning bolt that I had not heard one of my favorite Christmas songs come on the radio AT ALL this season. HEARTBREAK!!! I communicated my woe to some family members, who all said, "YouTube it, you can still listen to it, it's not too late", but it sorta WAS. Having special Christmas songs come on the radio of their own accord for the Holidays is one of the many irreplaceable sensations of the Season. So I sucked it up and went about life until tonight at 9:24, when almost home from a movie time at Honey's, lo, IT CAME ON AIR 1!!!!! Made my day!!!! By the way isn't that such a great word, "lo"? I think we should bring it back into this day and age. Like "I tried to X out of iTunes but lo, it took like 7 minutes". So doable. Anyway in the end, I even got to listen to my song. It's the little things that let you know God has your best interest at heart. This is the stuff that makes my heart just that little bit thankfuller. Oh, you want to listen to it too you say? Here ya go. Having someone else Youtube it for you is almost like it coming on of it's own accord...

Corny? I guess yes. Do I care. Nope.

Well, this is the end of my Christmas picture post. Hope you now feel oh so updated. Now I am off to read the Word of the Birthday Savior, then maybe one of the gems that came out of that stocking, then fall asleep looking forward to Valentine's day! :D

Priceless

http://www.nfl.com/videos?videoId=09000d5d80668817

http://www.nfl.com/videos?videoId=09000d5d80389071

When you're jumping off a cliff, make sure there's a trampoline at the bottom first

After some serious soul-searching, I have reached a hard realization: I like Milky Way better than 3 Musketeers chocolate.

It is true.

I have decided thus because Milky Ways have the whipped chocolate AND caramely stuff, and the chocolate of the outside is thicker. That's the deal.

And here's a bit I thought was pretty funny:) Smile today!!!

Just for you, Toria!

Manning Summer Fun!

The DSRL

Mannings vs. Williams

Anything Peyt can do...

The most pressure Peyton Manning has ever been under

Tell me when you've watched them girl!!!:) You'll love em!

FIREPROOF

I'm pleased to announce that SHERWOOD PICTURES and PROVIDENT FILMS released the official trailer for the movie FIREPROOF on August 1st!
From the makers of FLYWHEEL and FACING THE GIANTS comes a brand new movie that hopes to strengthen marriages across the country! We in the Lakewood/Denver area (and also you in Fort Smith AR) are fortunate enough to be able to see this film in our local theaters on September 26, 2008. Be sure to go see it and support these great people! Go to http://www.fireproofthemovie.com/ for more information about this film.

PS ~ We'll be finding out the "for sure" about the baby tomorrow! I'll be sure to post then.

J-dude in General

Our usual LOTR fan set is happy to announce the addition of this funny fella!!!!! J-dude watched the TWO TOWERS with us last night, and now he's seen them all. He watched them in the inconvenient and confusing order of 3rd, 1st, then 2nd, and we decided to watch TT when he posed the question, "How do Frodo and Sam end up meeting Gollum?" Felt sorry for him - having Gollum all of a suddenly there and all. At the first sight of Theoden, it was, "Oh yeah, he dies!" Arg. Not fair that he should know that. He's been asking a lot of questions, and he thinks the 3rd is the 1st, and that Shelob was dead when they started out, and yadayadaya of general confuzation. Whose fault was this whole wrong order thing? Now we're gonna watch them CORRECTLY!!!This was his favorite part of TWO TOWERS:

Specifically when Gimli is stuck. Emypie, watch it if you wanna but I wouldn't recommend it!

Fixed Lane's old MP3 up for J-dude today with the LOTR songs he wanted. We listened to them together on my iPod and he picked them out. He gets so excited about the soundtracks!!!!! It's so awesome cuz I used to be the only one that liked them!!! He's been grinning ear to ear and singing the vocalization for "A Knife in the Dark" - his favorite! It was so much fun, we did the Narnia and Star Wars soundtracks too. He loves the battle songs and the Isengard theme!!! So cool. He's happy to have seen all the LOTR and now to have his own MP3 player! Funfunfun!

A Thought For The Day

Click on this to see it big: Funnyfunnyfunny.

Oh, and All yall friendses, you can still comment like normal on my reach for the stars lessons!!!!! Don't be sceered!!!!!!:P

But here is a video I got on my podcast. Sigh... funny show!

FIREPROOF

Provident Film and Sherwood Pictures (or, the FACING THE GIANTS people) are working up another movie and the trailer is OUT!!!!!!!!! The movie is supposed to be released August 2008 so tell me what you think!!!! More on J-dude's birthday later!

Peyton Manning's Best Commercials for Toria

VERSE OF THE DAY: But I trust in your unfailing love. I will rejoice because you have rescued me. Psalm 13:5

NFC won the pro bowl. Arrrg! But they only had Peyton in for a few minutes and that was why:) But Lifehouse played at halftime and Adrian Peterson was MVP and gave the praise where it belonged. So great! Tyree did too, during his interview for those outstanding catches in the superbowl. Despite Mike Vick and all these other scandals, there is good in these famous athletes.

Just made some brownies with Mayfee. He had a beard of chocolate licking the beaters! But he loves to make stuff. Got all my valentines done and so did Bird. Huzzah!!!!

Watched Monster House last night. Junk. But not as junky as the bridge to terabithia!*Yiick!*

Talked to Toria on the phone last week. So COOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was fun making her guess who I was:P She has NEVER seen a Peyton Manning commercial so I told her I'd put some up here for her to watch! Enjoy darlin!!!

"The Winnie the Pooh one":P

Priceless Pep Talks - Minivan

Priceless Pep Talks - Gut

Peyton Manning Mastercard Commercial

The Manning QBs

Manning Family ESPN Tour

And here's some Favre stuff!

Deanna Favre Intro

Brett Favre Mastercard Commercial

SOUNDS OF THE GAME with Brett Favre


This should be good for ya girly!

"Do you fear Death?"

Who is this? This is the legendary Davy Jones as depicted by Disney in DEAD MAN'S CHEST. I did some research for those of you who haven't seen the movie so you can know who this guy is supposed to be. Not the movie character, but what the sailor's term "Davy Jones's locker" is all about. What follows is what I have discovered:

"'Davy Jones’s Locker' is an idiom for the bottom of the sea — the resting place of drowned sailors. It is used as a euphemism for death at sea. Davy Jones is a nickname for what would be the devil of the seas... the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep."

So... devil not man. Spirit thing, as he would have to be to carve out his heart and put it in a box. There is a scene in DEAD MAN'S CHEST where five survivors of a shipwreck sit lined up before him. It is a very...eerie and spirit realmy scene. None of the captives look exactly what you call at ease, but there's one man shivering in his shoes and whimpering - quite afraid. Davy Jones kneels to his level and says in his slippery, scary, slow voice, "Do you fear death?" Through his violent shaking, the man nods. "Do you fear that dark abyss?" Jones continues. "All your deeds laid bare, all your sins punished?" The man shakes even harder and continues to nod. "I can offer you an escape." Jones says. The man stops shaking and looks up with a ray of hope. From farther down the line comes a voice that has evidently surprised the owner of the voice. "Don't listen to him!" the voice says. Davy Jones whips his head in that direction and the owner of the voice is a man who immediately looks down again. Dangling from his shaking fingers is a cross. Jones's takes two steps and grasps the neck of the one who had spoken with his crab claws . "Do you not fear death?" he says, in a tone that would make most people say anything he wanted them to. The christian man looks straight into Jones's eyes, still fearfully, and says, "I'll take my chances sir."
"To the depths with him" commands Davy Jones, and the man is hurled into the sea.
"Cruel Blackguard!" another man cries.
"Life is cruel." replies Jones harshly. "Why should the afterlife be any different?" His footsteps thud on the deck as he walks backs to the first man, saying, "I offer you a choice. Join my crew and postpone the judgement. One hundred years before the mast. Will ye serve?"
"I-I will serve."

If you don't know, this is just wrong. You cannot postpone your judgement. You know what you deserve. To put it bluntly, the fires of hell. But the afterlife doesn't have to be cruel. Jesus and only Jesus can offer an escape to all those who fear that dark abyss. What is it? Acts 16:31 states it clearly: "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved." Saved from eternal death and torture! "Oh, no!" you say. "With all the things I'VE done wrong it doesn't work like that." Oh, yes it does! No matter how many things you've done. Jesus, fully God came down to earth as a man, took all the sins anyone could ever commit and died on the cross as a sacrifice for those sins so we all could have a chance to escape death and be with Him forever in heaven. But what happened then? He rose from the grave three days later to show us that He was God and not just some guy that died! "Wait, so that's all I have to do? Believe?" YES! It's as easy as accepting the gift! Sure beats one hundred years of hard labor before the mast, huh? God offers you a choice. Do you choose life or death?

God is awesome Today!

He is!!! Well, he's awesome all the time, but he's especially awesome today. I'm just thinkin that today!!!!! Can't put my finger on exactly why, but hey!!!

Don't know if y'all noticed, but down, down, down at the very bottom of my blog there are videos set up. I change them more often than I post. Right now there is Lord of the Rings to RED music, so hurry up and watch it Nan and then tell me so I can change it!!!

Bad day for me at the Wingys yesterday. Just kidding, not really. But Moff Jerrjerrod won every game we played!!!!!!!!! He actually won fair at AGE OF EMPIRES with a respectful move. But STAR WARS TRIVIA....He won it!!!!!!!!!! I have NEVER, EVER lost at that game. I've played well over 20 times and now I lost it because he got better and I did something incredibly dumb. ARG! And now those guys expect me to direct, host, plan, and film their movie script!!! Go jump in the lake! I will though;P Heehee! I'm not that mad:) God is awesome today!!!!!!!!!

My Sense & Sensibility movie came in yesterday. It was truly new and sealed. The people didn't lie or cheat me or anything. I'm probably gonna watch it with Lucy after I clean the shower.

Our girls' bathroom is the dirtiest of all the bathrooms!!! Why??? It gets cleaned just as often as the rest of them, and we don't mistreat it or do anything that nobody else does. Mom doesn't know, Lucy doesn't know, I don't know, but it's dirty anyway. Oh the mysteries of life.

Hurry and watch that video Nan I'm ready to change!!!! I have an awesome christian comedian on hold!

God is awesome!!!!

Shopping!!!

Yes Britter I went shopping!(by the way, my new nick-name for you is Sunshine) Me and mom went to BRENDA'S - awesome place! The lady there always remembers us and cuts down the prices for us! Yay! Between BRENDA'S and THRIFT TOWN I got seven shirts (I think) and two pairs of capris. Spent about $50. Whoo-hoo! Funfunfun!

Here's some DC Talk music videos:

dc talk - day by day

dc talk - consume me

Jesus Freak - DC Talk

dc talk - my friend so long

That last one is pretty funny. I saw it at Britters on TV. Going to high school fellowship tonight! I picked which set of new clothes to wear too! I'll probably post about that too later.

God Bless!

Meggy T

Prayer Reminder Videos

Job McCully's website is linked down there this videos is about him. First he went through cancer business, and everything else that could go wrong in his lungs pretty much did. Do you pray for the kids with cancer?
Testimonial (revised 2006):

I don't think I pray for our troops enough. I need to. Watch this video and I think you'll feel the same way. Make sure the speakers are on and you can hear the music too. Do you pray for our troops?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ervaMPt4Ha0.

Got to get ready for bed soon. Tomorrow I'll probably tell you about a fun time. You'll need it after crying over these videos!!!

Pray.