Happy first day of SUMMER!

What is Summer for you?

For me, Summer is...

1. Crafting!

Anybody else that agrees should check out this great giveaway! I want one of these things!!!

Painted this family crest for Papa R's father's day present. Amateur, but he loved it and my sweet guy says I should go into business :) He makes me smile.

2. Cooking!

Made these for memorial day! Yellow cupcakes cut in half with a brownie in the middle. Throw some white and yellow frosting inside for mustard and mayonnaise, coat the tops lightly with sugar water and sprinkle crushed oats on the tops. So funny and SO YUMMY!

3. Siblings!

So much fun to watch swimming, get snowcones, play bionicles, or in this case go to best buy at test some Bose headphones :) All that fun stuff I can't do very much while I'm in school!

4. VBS!

We already had one VBS at Immanuel Baptist Church and it was a BLAST! I did music. Love these kiddies!!! I'm trying to post a video, but blogger is technical difficulty-ing me...ARG! One more VBS to go, at Fellowship Bible Church! Bring your kids, it will be a blast!

5. Man time!

Having spare time to spend with my Ethan is an awesome Summer thing! We like to go shopping, and walking, and cooking, and writing, and sword training, and talking, and eating, and date nights, and the list goes on!

So that's a taste of Summer for me. Anybody care to post on Summer for you? I'd love to see!

If ya gots one, if ya expectin one, or if ya wants one...

Behold! I was checking out my friend Brittney's blog, and stole this list that she stole apparently from somewhere on the Internet :) I thought it inspirational in my attempts at wifely preparation for the future.

BUT before I get into that, I must state an interesting thing that the LORD has showed me recently. You know those times when you are a tad off in your spiritual walk, and you need to jerk yourself back, get right with Him, and ask Him for His guiding hand? In those off-kilter times, I am also off-kilter in my relationship with my man.

Why?

God gave my the love that I have in my heart for Efum. When I am not loving my heavenly God like I should, how can I expect to be able to love my earthly man like I should?

Just a thought in the middle of a post that wasn't supposed to be about that. Just another reason that I shall never be a popular blogger.

ANYWAY. The list...

Eighteen Ways to be a Blessing to your Husband

1. Ask your Husband, "What are your goals for this week?"
2. Ask your Husband, "How can I help you accomplish your goals?"
3. Ask, "Is there anything that I can do to make it easier for you?"
4. Be organized with your housekeeping. Then your husband will be free to do his work.
5. Save energy for him everyday.
6. Put him first over children, parents, friends, jobs, ladies Bible studies, etc.
7. Willingly and cheerfully rearrange your schedule for him when necessary.
8. Talk to him in a positive light to others. Don't slander him at all, even if what you are saying is true.
9. Do whatever you can to help him succeed and accomplish his goals (Ex: run errands for him, pray for him, organize your day to be available to help him w/projects).
10. Consider his work (job, goals, hobbies, etc.) as more important than your own.
11. Think of specific ways that you can help his accomplish his goals (Ex: keep careful record of money spent in budget, take care in recording telephone messages, etc).
12. Consider things that you are involved in. How do they bless your husband? Ask him.
13. Be warm and gracious towards his family.
14. Do and say things that build him up.
15. Dress and apply your makeup in an attractive manner that is pleasing to your husband.
16. When your husband sins, reprove him gently, always give him hope and pointing him to the Lord.
17. Encourage him to use his spiritual gifts.
18. Submit to your husband's leading.

This gives me some ideas for new goals for this new week! Also, these steps would be fun to make prayer cards with--finding corresponding verses and fun stuff like that. Maybe it should be a project, cuz I like projects. Speaking of, check out this give-away by my big sis Bekah! She made a set of prayer cards that are cool beans and they could be all yours! Or all mine! Or somebody else's! Get in on it, hurry up!

I should blog more, because I never think I have anything to blog about until I actually get down to it--then suddenly there's a lot! :P But for now, I will leave you all with a picture of a couple of my favoritest fellas.

Aren't they delicious?

Snack anyone?

The other day we all needed some good lunchbox fodder in order to properly enjoy JahJah and Jesse's soccer game, and I found this fun recipe! It was tagged by many miniatures (and olders) as... "the awesomest popcorn", "best thing ever", etc. SOOooooooooOOooo now everybody has to make it.

Ingredients:

5 quarts of popped popcorn (NOTE: I didn't know how much popcorn that was, so I just threw 1 cup into the popper that my man biked over and let me borrow :P)

1/2 Cup melted butter

2 Tbs Parmesan cheese (I didn't have any, so I'm labeling it as optional ;D)

1 Tbs parsley flakes

1 tsp garlic salt

1 tsp chili powder

4 to 6 drops of your favorite hot sauce

Put the popcorn in a big bowl, mix everything else up, drizzle it over, toss it around and there ya have it! I ended up tweaking a lot...it didn't seem like enough "sauce", and I 1 1/2x-ed the sauce part if that makes sense. Tweak it up however you want and it's super easy! And great for lunchboxes I might add.

Happy Easter my friends. Chew on this song for a year or two.

Wonderful, merciful Savior

Precious Redeemer and Friend.

Who would've thought that a lamb could

Rescue the souls of men?

Oh, You rescue the souls of men.

Counselor, Comforter, Keeper

Spirit we long to embrace,

You offer hope when our hearts have

Hopelessly lost the way.

Oh, we've hopelessly lost the way.

You are the One that we praise.

You are the One we adore.

You give the healing and grace our

Hearts always hunger for.

Oh, our hearts always hunger for.

Almighty Infinite Father.

Faithfully loving your own,

Here in our weakness you find us

Falling before Your throne.

Oh, we're falling before Your throne.

You are the One that we praise.

You are the One we adore.

You give the healing and grace our

Hearts always hunger for.

Oh, our hearts always hunger for.

A first anniversary...

With the LORD, college, and a man this year I learned more than I ever would have guessed. Not more as in quantity of the usual. Not more of what I'm used to, like being accustomed to cheerios and then getting more in the bowl to swallow than the usual. I mean more as in instead of getting cheerios, I got some fruit loops, some frosted mini wheats, AND some lucky charms--a plethora of various material all in one shabang that I never really even considered learning. This year was the first year of my WHOLE LIFE to not be a homeschool student. This was my first year to drive myself places. This was my first year to be "older" than people. This was my first year to be working and talking to people who aren't in my homeschool group or church every single day. This was my first year for a lot of outreach ministry. And this was my first year to be courted by a dashing fella. It's this dashing fella I'm here to talk about. Basically, if you don't already know, he is my knight--everything I ever dreamed about. He's got the most beautiful smile. He's got a big imagination. He's a very hard worker. Oh, and his hands can do everything--he can do taekwondo, he can cook, he can clean, he can hack firewood, he can CNA people, he can play piano, and harmonica, and what can he NOT do? He's always out wanting to use them and I'm glad he's in a field where he can make money by working with them someday soon. He dresses pretty well and he likes looking good, so he takes my fashion advice ;P He's got strong defense mechanisms. For the most part, he's a very healthy eater (and is trying to help me out with my not-so-stellar habits in that area...I'm working on it). He's naturally good at what I have to work at. He calls me names--in a good way :) He brings me presents. He helps me with school. He reads to me at night. He teaches me martial arts. He teaches me songs. He teaches me to listen to Jesus. He teaches me about being a light. Of course though, that's not just him--he and the LORD team up and teach me things together for the most part :) Of course he's a human. He's got sins, he's got habits, he's got the same problems everyone else has in this world. He's not perfect. But he's perfect for me.

I love you sweetie! Happy first anniversary. I love you again!

Trashion Fashion

When you go to...

This school

in...

this room

with...

this guy as a teacher, then youre bound to make stuff like...

this

and this

and even some of that.

But now...

(wait for it...........)

Something bizzare is in the works with the 3D design students.

Stuff like...

this

and this

and...that?

Confused? You should be.

Ladies and gentlemen...

Prepare for the show of sheer amazingness at 2nd Street Live.

Trashion Fashion.

Check back for further updates.

Maybe.

~*Stuffs What Girly Girls Like*~

As of lately, simple objects that girly girls in general think are just awesome have been called to my attention. I thought this would be a good place to make a quick list. Now I realize I (mostly) speak for myself, and I am NOT talking about things girls like to DO, like walk in the park or go swimming...this list is of physical objects that sissy females generally appreciate. Ladies, do comment and further my list! :) Gentlemen (if any of you read this blog), you may find this useful one day, maybe ;)

• PINK!!!
• Candles that smell pretty
• Body spray and perfume stuff
• Chocolate
• Girl Movies (you all know what I mean)
• Nail Polish
• Tea/Coffee (check with your girl before you take my word on that one for sure)
• Shoes
• Clothes in general
• Frilly bath products
• New makeup
• Jewelry (this is usually a big one)
• Lip gloss (mostly chapstick with me ;D)
• Books (especially Jane Austen!)
• Hot chocolate
• Vintage/just cute Teacups
• Any cute cup really
• Any cute dishes
• Teapots
• Cute notebooks
• Cutesy cookies
• Music
• Hair stuff
• Gum
• Fanciful wallet/purse
• Mail
• Shopping money :)

Well...that's all this girly girl can think of right now. Add on ladies! :D

I Dreamed a Dream...:/

I had a dream that she came back.

That it was a total surprise, after I prayed for weeks to find her.

I dreamed that we found out where she lived

and I dreamed that she had missed me too.

(Which is prolly not the case in real life and that she prolly can't tell the difference but not the point and makes no difference anyway.)

And then I was sad when I woke up and she was gone again.

Then for some reason some cute little things she said were repeated and chuckled over by my man.

And I stumbled upon a picture of her accidentally.

So I'm still praying

And trusting God to know what's best for her.

And me.

Cuz I want her back a lot.

And I don't want Sha-sha and Len and N to disappear like this too.

I miss her a lot.

Me today...

Feeling...physically not great, but will be better tomorrow.

Praying...for my little Jbaby who has surgery tomorrow to get his tonsils and adenoids outta there.

Praying too...for my Geneva.

Praying also...for my mom.

Task just completed: chocolate chip cookies that were supposed to be raisin and now confuse me.

Task about to be done: Bible time!

Task not done (on purpose): English homework! BECAUSE I DID NOT HAVE TO!!!!!!!!!! :D

Thinking about...calling my BUD.

Thankful for...art in the universe.

Thinking also about...Valentine's Day.

Wishing that...my BUD did not hafta work on said Valentine's Day.

Reading...Hyperbole and a Half :D

Looking at...Pics from my big sissy.

Dreading...Art History test because I have no clue what to expect.

Happy because...school was out today and will be tomorrow also.

Sadder because...I miss my BUD.

Smelling...nothing.

Gonna buy...the new RED album, a present for my Jbaby, Glycerin and essential oils.

And also Fancy the half clown.

The end! :)

Oh what a wonderful Christmas!!!!

First was the trip to Texas to see the Grandparents! :D Lots of cooking, and eating, and paper flying, and hugging, and all those things that make people happy! A short, but fun weekend! Here's some pics...

My new watch from Grandmother! (and the only present I have a handy picture of)

Bunch of kids and presents from awesome family

Grandma Vivian and Gram

Fun!

Then came Lane and my trip to Branson with the Rs and the Fs!!! We went to Silver Dollar City (!!!) the first day and shopped around at the outlets the second day before heading home. It was SOOOOOOOO much fun, especially since we'd never been there before. I'm not even gonna try to tell you about it all, so here's some pics!

Efum and Hoss goofing around...this is the mild picture ;)

Caesar in the giant rocking chair in SDC

Me and Efum and a marshmellow yum thingy we got :)

These guys were in our hotel! It was all castley :)

Lane in the giant chair

Well, these pics are being a pain, so that's all I'll post :) But on to actual Christmas day...it was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!! I got one of those sole-skates to take to school :) I'll def have to practice with it. Also I got CHAPSTICK!!!!!! :) And velveeta!!!!! And a yum cinnabon candle!!!!! And a silver bracelet!!!!! And this...

from my honey man :) so pretty.

And here's some vids showing some other fun stuff that happened in Tagg land...

Cup and Ball Tournament

Wheels! :D

Well, so basically in a nutshell, that was our Christmas :) Took me forever to find those vids, so I think I'm gonna go now and name all my videos what they actually are :P Bye people!

Never have I wanted to keep a child more.

This is me and my 'Niva. She's one of my AWANA kiddies. I can kind of call them all mine, since I've taught/helped in all their classes (cept Shawn, but I had him in VBS, so). But this one is WAAAAAAY mine! She is such a cutie cuddlebug! About Birdie's age and always ready to do what's next. One thing I love about her is that she's VERY observant--when someone drops a book, she runs from wherever she is to go pick it up. Once when the little guy spilled milk and I was cleaning it up she came from another table with some paper towels! She's the sweetest thing ever and I wish I could take her to live with me someday :)

Over half a year!

On December 13th, I will have been with my Honey for 8 months. Not sure how to describe those months...Amazing? Wonderful? Beautiful? Tough? Interesting? I think all of them. In honor of this most momentous occaision, I decided to post a list of some of the things I've learned over these past 8 months or so.

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  Having someone that does not mind when you sit and cry for no reason is something that everyone should have. I happen to have it in my guy :)


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  My way of thinking is the exact opposite of his way of thinking.


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  Sometimes it's best to just say "I'm sorry, I love you baby" even if it was not my fault and I have nothing to be sorry for.


• 
  
  Tea covers over a multitude of sins.


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  Snacks half an hour after dinner should not be viewed as uncommon.


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  When he's tired, he rubs his eyes and gets REALLY cranky just like a little baby :)


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  When he's snappy cuz he's tired, don't take it personally--he won't remember it in the morning.


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  Being called sweetie names isn't so gross after all.


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  All it takes it one little sentence of his to make me go, "Whoa. That's what you were trying to say LORD. I get it."


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  Don't touch the car door handle.

And that's just a tiny bit of the practical sort of things :)

Lovely day

Why a lovely day?

• Wonderful church in the morning
• Miami victory at lunch
• Youth night at church in the afternoon
• Went out with my Efum and my Laner and my Caesarbrother to Goodson's
• Nix Goodson's. It's closed on Sundays.
• Went out with my Efum and my Laner and my Caesarbrother to Taco Mayo
• Nix Taco Mayo. It's scary and gross. We went out :P
• Went out with my Efum and my Laner and my Caesarbrother to Arbys :)
• Rented hoodwinked at watched it with many loved ones in pajamis.
• Lovely Bible study
• "The Power of Success"... GREAT book so far.
• And now? Sketching some sea turtles for homework and watching the highly anticipated and heavily recorded Manning Bowl.

Thank you Jesus for Sundays!!!

Sitting in class at a huge Mac waiting for Mr. Sir to get here.

Yup, that's what's up. Digital Imaging class and then 2D Design later! My funnest classes, though they go really long. I've nothing really to say...school has been great, homework has been fun, my professors are all crazy. Yesterday I was emotionally out-of-wack and really tired so God said, "Aw, Meg it's not the end of the world. Know why? It's free ice cream day at school!" YAY!!!! And then I was happy. God really knows when to pull out that ice cream huh? 

Um...oh, guess what happened last night? I was fooling around with my homework trying to make it all extra artsy looking and THAT apparently altered the space-time continuum and make all the clocks go suddenly to 11:00pm! So, that's what happened last night if you're wondering why it suddenly flicked from 9 to 11. Well, 3 minutes till class is supposed to start. I'd better post up and get ready to see Mr. Dr Seuss-tee-shirt-with-a-sports-coat-over-it-with-jeans-and-cons. That's what Mr. Sir likes to wear :)

First Day of School!

Like, in my whole life. Seeing as we never had a Summer break from school while I was homeschooling, this was my first first day of school...college level. UAFS baby. The day started off purty good--before I left the house that is. Once I got there I circled around a zillion different parking lots for literally 20 minutes (at least). I finally found something, so we can all praise the good LORD that I'm not STILL out there driving around with ear steam fogging up my windshield. But, I was already late. So I call my mom that I found a parking place and whine for a bit, getting madder by the second. By the time I called...

this handsome fella, I was screaming mad and had no clue where I was (since I had parked approximately 19 miles away from school). But luckily for this mess of a princess, the knight was nearby to find me and dash to the rescue, accompanied by his trusty sense of direction! I stopped by bawling and he showed me that I was in the same state as the college after all, then went riding off into the sunset (AKA math class).

All good right? Not quite. When I actually got into a building I realized....I was wearing my prescription sunglasses and had left my real glasses in my car back in Mississippi! Great. So I spent that class time either blind as a bat, or in a dark room when I had to read the slides up on the wall. Oh boy. The teacher from that class made us all take as much toilet paper as we would need for a three day camping trip and then tell something about ourselves for each square we pulled. I still have it cuz we didn't get to my turn, but I did learn someone very useful to stay away from based off the information they gave...yikes.

Then I get out and ok, I need my real glasses for serious. So, knight in shining armor comes dashing in once again to show me where I parked my car while I looked about and hoped I could remember in a couple hours.

Then off to drawing class. Purty fun! But there are no chairs, so it was kinda awkward. But I did meet two girls who shared my major and had some of the same classes as me. Both freshman. One I met and kinda hooked up with at student orientation and she's real sweet, and the other seems nice too.

Then I went and found my car (yes, for real), got nice and lost, then went home. I think it's just mandatory that I take a scenic, roundabout way and then go home, since I find a different route every time. Oh well.

I got some homework done when I got home, and got all ready for my first second day of school. Which is...tomorrow. Must go to bed! Byebye now!

My Favorite Day of the Week!

Ah, how I love Sunday! Saturdays are fun, but Sunday is just the best. The LORD likes it too :)

We start the day getting up and getting dressed for church. I like this because I actually enjoy the church clothes I own this summer. Lots of colors to mix and match. We load up the instruments and head to Fellowship Bible Church for worship practice. Everyone soon starts showing up and there is an always excellent service. We head home for lunch with our R boys and spend the rest of the day just hanging out. Maybe playing frisbee golf, maybe watching sports, maybe writing a book, just resting and relaxing and thinking. Then around 5ish, our R parents swing by and grab Lane and I to go to First Baptist Church for the evening service. Always a wonderful service, with a great message. Bro. Dale is such an amazing teacher. When that's done we all head over to Marketplace for our "Sunday night date" :) This is also the time when Mom and Dad are having their Sunday night date at home. This is always a great time, especially when the admirable employee Typo L comes to be our server! We yammer and eat and generally have a lovely time... how about some pics?

Me and my Honey

The Lane and Caesar side of the table

Pretty laugh

A smile and a chicken...thing.

Cheese!

And now, ladies and gents, shower I must. We did the Legs and Back program on P90X with Ab Ripper X. PAIN AND SWEAT!

Farethewell! Comment! Do not grow weary in doing good! Have an excellent Monday!

Looky here how sweet my man is!

This was my latest surprise <3 Check out the black ribbon all Phantom of the Opera style! :D

My vase always has a rose in it, he does such a good job keeping his woman all fly-around-in-the-air-ish :) I love that guy.

Check it Out!

Guess what?

This awesome guy (AKA my love) now has a blog! Not that he's posted on it or anything, but I was wanting something to do in bed... :P But he DID say he would use it :)

http://www.ramblingsofablackbelt.blogspot.com/

Not feeling great today...

So I decided to post on here :) Let's see...what have I been doing...

Had a fantastico time with my R family this weekend! We moved furniture from the farm, played with some fellow clowns, fun stuff such as that. On Sunday nights Efum and I have "date night" :) We go to church with the R parents, Caesar and Lane, then we usually go to Marketplace to eat. It's super fun, I can't imagine what fun an ACTUAL date would be without other people :) Not dating casually gives one a LOT more to look forward to in marriage. Anyway, this time we went to El Chico in the mall with Lukey in tow. The mall was closed by the time we got done and the security guard said we couldn't walk around. Can you imagine what kind of job it would be to just walk around an EMPTY mall when it was closed and MAYBE meet some kids who happened to be there that you could kick out? Terribly boring I'd say.

I've been drivin around by myself. Cool stuff. Makes me feel like a grown up or something :P

I made a pillowcase dress for the Bird! I felt sooooooooo like Mrs. Tracy or something! :D

I made a top for Lou out of the other pillowcase, but there's no picture :)

So there was an attempt at an actual post ;) What yall think?

New Look

What yall think? Maybe I'll get on here and post some more :D IF I get comments, I might be better persuaded ;) This new page option thing on blogger looks pretty cool. I may check into it.

For now, I leave you with a picture...

Me and my man. Sweeeeeeeeet huh? :)

Bye for now folks :) Comment ;)