Wesley's first Splinter

It's only fair that I should tell you about Wesley(J-man's alias name)'s first splinter incident. He came in, screaming and crying to me and holding his finger out to me. He had a little sharp stick stuck in the top layer of his little skin. Funny looking. Both ends stuck out the sides. I told him to calm down and got the tweezers. "WHAT ARE DOSE??????!!!!!!"
"Tweezers. They'll get it out for you."
"Is it gonna hurt?"
"A little bit maybe but you gotta be brave!"
"But - I just don't want to die. That is what I do not want to do!" *Oh the drama...*
"I promise you are not gonna die about this. Not a big deal. Just be tough!" He did toughen up and stopped crying by the time we found Mom and asked HER to get it out. "OK. Close your eyes....there. Got it." Not a hurt. Not a tear. He went to get ready to go back outside and I resumed my position in the schoolroom. Only to be interrupted by the little 3-year-old J-dude screaming and crying to me. "Not another one!" It wasn't. He had been sitting in the deck corner in a subdued little pile crying about Joshua's accident. Obviously neither of them had ever seen anything like it. He got to look at the remains of the accident and everybody went back outside and lived happily ever after until Mayfee threw a fit and hurt himself two minutes later. Things are normal around here:)

I have done the superhero test and I am... dadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadada - CHING! GREEN LANTERN!!!!! Not that cool because I dunno who he is or what his power is or anything! Somebody help me! Brando, my brother is a lot like you....he's Robin too LOL! I am 66% Robin. Only 50% Hulk that's for Bekah. I'm only half like you girl!:P Wesley is the mild mannered Superman. But we all guessed it. It fits him so well! Take the test here: http://www.thesuperheroquiz.com God Bless beloved readers!!! Meggy T

An Update on Me

Just finished school. Sitting in my room typing on the Lappy-Pie. Just got up and closed the door because I am listening to the Facing the Giants soundtrack on the Internet. Might wake up the boys. It doesn't play the whole thing of the songs. But it sure beats buying it! :P Right now its on the deathcrawl music. Coooooool! I like the Brock Kelley guy. And the black JT coach. Still have my hat on from babysitting due to naughty hair. All-girl high school fellowship tonight! OK this not whole song thing is getting annoying. Hey get a taste of what I'm listening to while you read this @http://facingthegiants.com/dvdsoundtrack.php .
Anyhow babysitting. The family I babysat for today have 2 boys that are 3 and...something months old. Just angel boys! I only have the baby right now and he sleeps most of the time. Anyway I get like 7 bucks an hour for sitting around, and they have a clean house, the mom's super nice, she picks me up and takes me back, and they have a HUGE tv! That's the life people!:) Anyway, so I babysit over there like I'm babysitting with the president looking over my shoulder as you can imagine. Now lets go the opposite. I also babysit for another family that have a little boy who is the new meaning of torture. They always leave dishes for me to do, I am scared TO DEATH of the mom, My mom has to drop me off and pick me up, and I get 3 or 4 dollars an hour for hard labor. NOT very cool. Well I babysit over there like the devil's looking over my shoulder with pity in his eyes or something ya know what I mean? Some kind of martyr or something. Well so I do what I have to do and yesterday while little Eas is yelling up my ear and I am pretending I don't know who he is I was thinkin, "I do NOT have to do this good. They don't pay like they want good service. I do not have to do this at all." My parents think that too. But God said to me, "I had men who were older than 3 years old screamin at me with swords and scary weapons in their hands." Kinda like that. Not really. The point is He said He wanted me to babysit like He- and the president were looking over my shoulder. So I had to change my attitude while I defeated that miniature nightmare of a wildman:P I wonder if Jesus had to watch that little dude He would ignore him or give him the"rod of correction?"LOL!
BIG NEWS!!!!!!!!!!! WE ARE GOING TO SKI IN COLORADO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 4 big kids and Dad. Gonna be big fun!!!

Oh here's the link you wanted Britter: http://thetaggs.smugmug.com
Truly Yours, Ariana (my new Kaylie and Sarah appointed alias name. Cool stuff huh?)

Family Funfunfun!!!

My Korean Grandma and Great-Grandma came this week. Funfunfun! Grandma got me a curling iron for valentine's day!!! She also brought a tripod I'm gonna use for my video camera!!! Whoohoo!!! You wanna hear something funny? SHE GIVES HER FISH A BATH!!! I'm nought keeding!!! After she cleans the tank she takes her beta and runs him underwater scrubbing him! I mean, everybody knows ya don't put a dirty fish in a clean tank right?:P Halmony (great-grandma) is awesome! She speaks like no English but she understands it. She went to Ronaldo's soccer practice and fell over backward in the miniature lawn-chair thing....and got up laughing hysterically!! She's uh....almost 100 years old! Quick as a cat! Don't let her fool ya!:P Speaking of Ronaldo his alias name is currently Wedge. He wanted something that sounded less suspicious...Heheh. I'll probably forget and use Ronaldo. So for those of you who were confused with Ronaldo and STILL don't know what I'm talking about...tough luck!!:P My alias name is Ivy for now. Wedge gave it to me. Tell me if you think up something better.
By the way, the Colts rock! Have to say I freaked out preety bad when that guy first TOUCHED the ball and took it ALL THE WAY DOWNFIELD to the end zone. Can I get an Uh-huh? Anyone.....no? Dad? IvyMeggyJesusChick

SUPERBOWL XLI - GO COLTS!!!!!!!!

Peyton Manning

Go COLTS is all I can say!!!! Superbowl fun!!! Christian has 45 push-ups on the colts and 10 on the bears, the last one made for the sake of the rest of us having someone to bet against!!! I have 5 seeing as that's the most I can do! Everyone that knows what football is at Tagg End is for Indianapolis!!!!! Funny thing is both coaches are friends and Christians! Funfunfun!

We rented FACING THE GIANTS the other day. Awsome show!!! Comment me! How many push-ups are YOU willing to bet on who?

Meggy T

My Hair Is Off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WINTER.....The picture worked!

Yup. We braved the snow and ice and now it's short!!!! I like It!!!Not highlighted yet. No Britter, you can not see a picture you have to see it in person!!!! Brooka remembered doing your hair. Emy hasn't seen yours OR mine yet!!!!!! Short stuff Girl!!! We meet Friday people - if the weather's not bad. It's snowing big!!! The roads got most of it though. The police were out directing traffic and people were in ditches and all sorts of bad stuff! Hope it goes into the yards so people can come to high school fellowship!!! Ya'll getting snow? Been playing with what I have left of my hair. I can actually DO something with it now! Funfunfun!

Jesus loves you!

Meggy T

Hanging out

House-cleaned today. Just made some no-bake cookies that Britter gave me the recipie for yesterday. Yumyumyum!!! We're gonna have them for tea. Now I'm not really doing anything. It's all settled... 2:00 tomorrow at JC Penney's my hair is coming off at the hands of Brooka:P Wheehee! I hope I'll like it. I know I probably won't at first it takes me awhile to get used to it!!! I'll cry probably even!

Real fun and true Newsboys song:

Newsboys - Wherever We Go From the album GO
Wherever we go, bluebirds sing And the flowers bloom And the grass gets green It’s a curious thing But it’s just our thing

Wherever we go, the bees behave In the treetops, squirrels smile and wave It’s a curious thing And it’s humbling

Where we go, little glow-worms glow Little roadrunners run ahead. Gonna tell their friends Little mice, little men Get ‘em all excited All invited

Chorus:

Hands up Holler back here Let’s throw this party in gear We brought the welcome mat. Wherever we go, that’s where the party’s at. Hands up Holler back now We don’t claim any know-how. We’re giving God all that. Wherever we go, that’s where the party’s at

Wherever we go, the dumb get wise And the crime rates drop And the markets rise It’s a curious thing But it’s just our thing

Bullies make nice, crooks repent And the ozone layer shows improvement It’s a curious thing And it’s humbling

Wherever we’re led All the Living Dead Wanna leave their Zombie Mob. It’s a touching scene when they all come clean God help us, we just love our job!

(Chorus)

Another Meltal-mouth!!!

Lane got BRACES TODAY!!!!!!!! Just the top. Red and pink for Valentine's Day just like I did! They were kinda sore tonight at dinner so we made her fruit into a smoothie. Yummy! That made everybody else want one too so the blender was humming and boys were slurping and everybody was talking while YOU were eating a nice, quiet, normal dinner with your family lol!:P Making a wooden sword right now. Big and pretty cool. Painted half the blade silver today. How's school going? Not bad here! It's settled: I am going probably on Friday to get my hair cut like Britter's at JC Penny. Kinda scary losing all that hair so quick! Mom's gonna highlight it in red after that. She did Laura's and Mrs. Jodie's the other day and it turned out pretty good! Almost done reading ROSE IN BLOOM. Like it lots! Anyone read it? Read 8 COUSINS then you should! Reading UNDER THE LILACS out loud. So funny and cute! Anyone read MR. POPPER'S PENGUINS? Sounds 2nd grade I know but Mom says it's actually pretty funny! Think we'll read that one next.

Something cool to do with sibs is have like a crack in the dresser or something that paper fits in and call it your mailbox. All of us girls have one now. Haven't gotten mail yet we just set it up yesterday. Weather has been kinder of late. Farethewell! Rambley Me.

The Case for a CREATOR part 1

Our Pastor has started this awesome series called "the Case for a Creator". It's a thing on Creation vs. Evolution I'm gonna give ya notes on. He acually started 2 weeks ago, but I'm getting around to putting it on here. It'll probably happen again sometime!

PART 1: "Creation: It's Foundational"

The Bible has Foundations

First is the doctrine of Creation
Second is the doctrine of Resurrection
What happens if these 2 doctrines fail?
If man just "happened" then:
There is no Creator
There is no eternal home
Death is the end of all things
There is no moral absolutes
There is no accountability to a higher authority
Life has no meaning
(Not very pleasant thoughts huh.)

The Alternative to the Creation Account is Darwinism or Evolution

The goal is to destroy in the heart's of men the concept of creation
This is a major goal of the enemy
Man is relieved of the idea that he is under any ultimate authority
Man is relieved of the idea that he is under any ultimate accountability
Man becomes a creature of chance rather than being created in the image of God (So we're just nobodys and this life is it?)
Absolute truth and absolute moral standards are erased
We see the effects of this in our culture today on every hand
It is the basis of a divided culture over so many issues
This issue is the root issue of our time

Indoctrination of Culture

Look closely
It is woven into the fabric of much of our secular education
Not just in biology or sciences
It even effects the way we interpret history, and makes revisions of history
Our children are under the influence and so are we
Media, enertainment and basic culture are inundated with the idea of evolution (Tell me about it)
The most damging ideologies and movements of the 20th century can be traced to Darwinism
The dots can be connected to Marx and even foundational ideas in Hitler's ideology

The Current Condition of our Time

Generally, people still believe that human life is special
People still hold to basic Biblical morality
That love is a virtue
That service and kindness is better than cold blooded domination
But to whatever degree our secular society holds to these things, it does so without spiritual foundation
Today, even many in the church seem to be too intimidated and embarrassed to defend the Biblical account
The church is confused by the mutitude of "authoritative voices" who insist the Bible is either allegory or mistaken
Some are reduced to accommodating the world with a theistic evolutionary position

It's Just a Theory

Naturalism'd formula for the orgin of the universe is: NOBODY + NOTHING=EVERYTHING (that brought a laugh)
What about the big bang?
What was the cause of the big bang?
What went BANG?
Where di the bang substance come from?
How did order come out of chaos? ( Have you ever wrecked your house SO bad everything was where it goes?)
How did beauty and design come out of random chance?
How did life come out of non-life and death?
Who designed the many complex organisms?
Who designed the sophisticated eco-systems?
Where did intelligence come from?
Does the universe have an impersonal intelligence of it's own?
Where di the Laws of nature come from?
These are all basic unanswered questions that are quickly swept aside
The naturalist has an array of insurmountable problems to explain

Naturalism and Modern Culture

Thanks to evolution naturalism is now the dominant religion
Naturalism has replaced Christianity as the main religion of the western world
Evolution is the central doctrine of this religion
*It is religion because it is based on faith
*The idea that natural causes can account for the orgin of all life and order has never been and never will be proven (Amen to that!)
*Science deals with what can be observed and reproduced by experimentation
*The orgin of life can neither be observed or reproduced in the lab
*Belief in evolution is sheer faith (Takes more faith to believe everything "happened" than to believe in an all-powerful Creator!)
*But modern naturalism is extremely evangelistic is the propagation of evolution


I'll post the other one later. Time for tea and I have hand cramps!:P Meggy T

Shopped yesterday. Funfunfun! Afterwards Dad & Lane met us for Andy's concert @ Sweet Bay. Funfunfun too! He's good!

Been thinking..."what was I created for?" If you were to die right now what would you have accomplished in your life? Don't think I'm dying anytime soon because if I did there would not have been a whole lot of reason for God to go and create another person for what I did. OK that did NOT make sense! Point of the last sentence was I don't think I've done anything spectacular. Or maybe I have and don't know it. So if I die tomorrow just know I'm asking God what His idea was in putting me on earth!

Little side note I've been meaning to put but pretty late. If you don't care about football skip this part. Brett Favre is gone forever.Weeping and sadness! After playing as #4 QB for the Green Bay Packers for........somthingteen years! How shall the man ever be replaced? Who's gonna be my favorite player now? Ah well. I guess the age of Peyton Manning has arrived!:P Whoever my favorite is it's their age - whether they stink or not! How come my favorite team doesn't do so good? The teams I don't like end up being STARS! I mean what's with the Steelers anyway? Enough of this.

May God richly bless you and protect your favorite Quarterbacks from the vile serpent RETIREMENT!!!:P

Meggy T

Like the Picture?

It is me on my new throne on Christmas Day. Dad set it up last night. Turns out I tried to put a little banner thing on it and apparently put it in the wrong spot. And.....it messed everything up! Dads are handy! Haven't posted in awhile.
As of right now I cannot get to anyone's xanga. I hope to soon! Keep commenting people! Was gonna party with Britter but she got sick! Rats! Are you better yet? Went to Book Study at the Wingmen's instead. Still fun! Can't wait until the next high school fellowship! Should be even more fun!
I am currently reading a book all girls have GOT to read! AUTHENTIC BEAUTY by Leslie Ludy. Got it for my b-day along with I KISSED DATING GOODBYE by Joshua Harris I think. Haven't started that one yet. Glad its Saturday. Wet and Rainy and Nice. No school. Ahhhhh... To whoever's idea it was to have two rest days I think it is great idea. I bet everybody loves their Saturdays!!! Speaking of great ideas, I think somebody should invent an everything pot. So you don't have to wash 2 dozen different ones. Ya know, microwaveable, ovenable, stoveable, etc. (Meggy language):P
I go! Be Blessed

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!

Just as we get used to writing "06" we have to write "07"! Wingmen came over last night and we ate better than we did on Christmas! Meatballs and Hot Wings and veggies and chips and dips. Can't forget brownies! We ate and talked then we all played Apples to Apples and JA won. Pretty fun anyway!:P We talked the Dads into playing Lord of the Rings Trivia with us. Mr. Wingman & Dad were on a team, JT and Ronaldo were on a team, Lane and I were on a team, and JA was on a team. His own team. Think he liked that. So we have the Dads, The boys, the ladies, and the JA. The Dads were saying that they weren't very good but after they took 5 minutes to answer each question they got most of them right! But the boys were the first ones to acually get a FOR THE WIN question! Dad was saying, "I'd be so funny if they won!" But they got their question wrong. Should've seen JT's face!:D Ladies got one next and I dunno what happened. It was an easy one too and we missed it! Then the Dads got theirs and got the easiest one of all and they got it. Yelling and dancing and jumping and escatcy! I'm glad JA just didn't win and he was glad I didn't. So the games go on! They left aroud 11 and we watched Ice Age The Meltdown for the rest of the time. Funfunfun! It's another year closer until Jesus comes back! Comment me!

PS - Just thinking. Can gnats see germs? I mean us to a gnat has gotta be somewhere around the same as a gnat to a germ. Comment me on THAT!

Meggy T

Lots o COOL TOYS!!!!!!

Hope all had a MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!

Mom & Dad always set out one big present that is your "Santa" present unwrappped. So we go upstairs and I see MP3 players for the big kids and a bunch of Darth Vader masks for the little guys!!! Freak outy fun! Then I catch sight of another present labeled "everyone!" XBOX GAMES!!! Whoo hah! I did notice the laptop computer sitting on the piano bench but the screen saver that said "for all the T kids" hadn't come up yet. BIG WOW when we found out!!! My first present was some pajamies from MomNDad. The soft kind! One time I got these pajamies that were so scratchy I gave em to Yenal......Then she and Ronaldo brought up a pink fuzzy whaddaretheycalled...the little circle kind....mind blank.....oh well.....chair. And lemme tell ya what that is a SWEET CHAIR!!! I can sit in it and read and not feel like I need to move to the bed!!! And On with the rest of the presents.....Lu gave me fuzzy purple socks and some charms, J-dude got me a wood M that he painted, Yenal gave me one star wars book of a trilogy - the last one! Haha! We set it right though, I get the other two for my b-day. Movin right along.....MomNDad gave me BOOOOOOKS!!! Beeeyoootiful Books! I have had no books for the LONGEST TIME!!!!!!!! I got like 4 Louisa My Alcott books: Little Men, Eight cousins, Rose in Bloom, and I think there's another one I can't remember. And I got ERAGON. Started Star wars, Little Men, and Eragon. All strike me as pretty good if not awsome. (Bekah, read ERAGON so we can debate about it!:P)That reading was done while listening to a new PRIDE & PREJUDICE soundtrack. Funfunfun!

We had just gotten back from an awsome time in TX to visit Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle S, Aunt MD, and 3 FuhReeky, amazingly fun cousins. A just awsome holiday time!

Cool New Stuff!

Greetings One and Everyone!!!

Dad put the trim in our bathroom on and he's working on the door so it'll acually shut all the way!!! Way Cool!!! On topa that, the delivery guy came and put in our brand new WHIRLPOOL washer & Dryer! Coowool! And they're frontloaders so we can watch it wash and dry and all! The first load was a big show. We've got a picture I don't think it's on here yet. Lets see if we put the Texas pics on.....Nope. Will be soon though he's got the gallery all ready. Now that we're on the subject of new stuff and Texas, we came home with a computer!!! It was gonna be in our room but that didn't happen, and then it was gonna be in Ronaldo's room but that didn't happen, then Dad decided he liked it and he wanted it sooooooo....it's on the floor right behind me LOL:P

Been getting Christmas presents, hanging out, and listening to my new STAR WARS TRILOGY soundtracks.

Comment me and see some of you 2morrow!

Meggy T

Fun in Texas!

Hello all! Just got back yesterday from TX. Went to see Grandpa and Nana first and fed their catfish (Wild catfish too. They'd just come right up! Ya like to eat catfish? Go there. JK! Haha) and played with their horses and opened presents and talked and all that fun jazz! I think I ate enough food for everyone reading this!!:P:P:P:P Anyhow, then we drove over to Grandma and Pawpaw's place and watched him feed his horses and opened presents and talked and ate and took a lot of pictures and all THAT fun jazz! Got to watch the first PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN while I was there. ALL hilarious! Savvy? :P I think Mom wants the computer. So long yall!

Brian Littral

Well I typed this whole Awsome song out myself but it got cut off in the post or ..........something.

For just a moment
I wish I could have been there
To see Your first step, hear Your first word
Tell me, did You ever fall and scrape Your knee
Did You know Your wounds would one day heal the world?

For just one moment
I wish I could have seen You growing
Learning the ways of a carpenter�s son
Just a little boy gazing at the stars
Did You remember creating every one?

If You passed by, would I have seen a child or a King?
Would I have known?

Chorus:
I wish I could have been there
My only wish is to see You face to face
Wish I could have been there
Just to see You, Jesus, face to face

For just a moment
I wish I could have been there
When You left Your footprints upon the waves
To walk along beside You and never look away
Just Your whisper and the wind and sea obey

To see You feed the people
To feel Your healing in Your touch

Chorus:

To hear You pray in the garden alone
Laying down Your will with each tear
To see You walk that lonely road
Willing to die for me
And in that moment
I know I should have been there
You took my cross and gave Your life

And You live again
Wish I could have been there
My only wish is to see You rise again
Wish I could have been there
My only wish is to see You, Jesus, face to face
Someday I�ll be there, I�m gonna be there
I�ll see Your face, Your mercy, Your grace
Someday, someday
I�m gonna see You, Jesus
Face to face

GOD IS GOOD!
Meggy T

SNOW & Good Songs

SNOW
Like Mayfee said to Dad: "It NOWED outzide!!!!!" We got around a whole.... half-inch. But we had enough to freak out about and play in!!!:P Ronaldo and I teamed up against Laney and Laura to play some capture the flag AKA the water bottle and grill cleaner . We had a pretty good snowball-making factory going on on deck. Got to peg them girls lots of times!:P Joshua was the lookout and had some fun yelling, "CA-CAAAAAAA! They're coming!" when nessecary(sp). We won that. Used the leftover snowballs on each other. Ronaldo whisked LMT's hat clean off her head during THAT mess. It was pretty funny!

Good Songs
There's alot of good christian rock out there. Listening to Air 1 today (www.air1.com)
and here are some lines of some songs that made me think of God's awsomeness. Lets see...
There's that new Jeremy Camp song that has that cool part:"the only thing worth holding on to is holding onto me."
And the DELIROUS? song Inside, Outside that goes: "You're all over me, Your banner is over me. I give it all 'cause You still captivate me, facinate me."
Jimmy Needham: "I'm going your way even though I cannot see in front of me"
TobyMac: "I was made to love you.

IT'S A BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yup. We found out yesterday that we're having another one of those cute-adorable little rascally thingys that make all kinds of different noises! Wooha! I kinda wanted a girl so baby Maljorie would have somebody to play with. I think she'll still have a lot of fun with this little guy! Please comment me and tell me some boy bible names you like. We don't know. We kinda like ELIJAH. But with the last name hooked on the end there it sort of sounds weird. I like Ethan. Ethan's neat. Sooooooo......Whaddayathink?

Meggy T

The Christmas Tree is Up!!!

It was up on Thanksgiving Day! Clear the way for Christmas!!! I'll put the link for the pictures of THAT up once they're on the internet. Don't have much to say. Hello Friends! Hey there relatives! Dunno who all reads this. Comment me BritterCritter! Comment me....uh.....Mom! Like Nemy's sister said it's eisier to post when I'm not talking to myself! Gotta go unload the dishwasher.

Meggy T

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING ALL!

COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS!!!

Turkey's cooking and we've got cool pies. I'm hungry already.

Mom's either in the kitchen or watching food network and Dad, Grandpa, and Ronaldo are playing WORLD CUP SOCCER on the XBOX. Funfunfun!

Meggy T

Maljorie's Birthday

Yesterday Baby Girl turned 1! She's so cyuuuuuute! Didn't make too much of a mess with the cake though. Too bad. See the pics here: http://www.thetaggs.smugmug.com/gallery/2161908/1

Check out all the traditional eating shots and looking dumb shots! Make sure to go to the last page and look at the bubble bath pictures. So ADORABLE!!!:)

Let me think of some things she does:

She can clap her hands

She says "cracker" and various other things

She can sign some words

She crawls all over and pulls up on the coffee tables

She eats everything except eggs!

And she's funny all the time