From off the Face of the Earth

VERSE OF THE DAY: Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14

BOOK OF THE DAY: When God Writes Your Love Story by Eric and Leslie Ludy

That is in Colorado. Hellooooo! Internet hasn't worked upstairs, so I'm sitting on a beanbag Grandma gave Lane with the lappy listening to Air 1 on the radio. Yes really Nan, Littleton DOESN'T GET IT!!! Kinda sad, but good thing you can listen online!!! Bad quality, but hey. So here's what I've been doing:

There is not ONE SINGLE MORE THING that is gonna fit in our bus!!! Seriously, it is CRAMMED from top to bottom! So we went to Texas and hung out with Nana, Grandpa, Gram, Pawpaw, and Grandma. Funfunfun!! I went shopping with Louie and Nana to an awesome place and got some COOL CLOTHES!!! Waha! I think EVERYBODY loves new clothes!!(Thanks Nana and Gram!:D) So then we went to a Christian Bookstore and Grandpa got me a new book because he knew I had to have them!!!!!!! WHOA-HO!!! (Thanks Grandpa!:D) I got When God Writes Your Love Story by Eric and Leslie Ludy (Hi Britter! I finally got it:P) I freaked out as usual when I get a new book. In fact I read it in the car (which as my best friends know I CAN NOT do) and I finished it way before we got to CO!!! So we slept in Grandpa's guesthouse, which is totally GREAT!!! I think it's my favorite guesthouse, even better than this one we're in right now, but I'll get to that. We big kids stayed up at night with Dad and watched the PIRATES of the CARIBBEAN. Funfunfun! It was Mom's b-day while we were there, and we had white cake AND chocolate cake! I don't think she wants me to say how old she is....:P

Then we went to Grandma and Grandpa Tagg's place and saw them and Aunt Mich and Uncle S and Mace and Potato. Mace got big as in bigger than Dad (barely though). Funfunfun for the hours we stayed. Joey had to stay there. I wonder how he's doin...

And we got to CO after Bird threw many lovely fits. So now we're in a three story, three bedroom student housing unit apartment thing. Quite nice! Girls get a room, boys get a room, and Parents & Babies get a room. I've figured out if I had the option of having my own room or sharing with Lane and Lou I would share. There are more +s than -s of sharing a room. It's real fun to read, and listen to the radio, and tell stories, and talk all night! And we have our areas nobody's allowed to touch. So full kitchen and washer/dryer and all that jazz is cool. Sticks has a scrimmage tonight. {Bird just came and kissed the lappy:P} Okiday, I don't think anything else is happening... Oh by the way, pray for my Captain Spy Cousin he just got 9 TEETH pulled!!!!! Gotta be much no good especially at 9 or 10 years old. Yuck I say. Well I may not post as often, but...I dunno. I might. But see yall...sometime!!!

Packing Up!

VERSE OF THE DAY: For the LORD God is our sun and our shield. He gives us grace and glory. The LORD will withhold no good thing from those who do what is right. Psalm 84:11

Movie of the Day: FACING THE GIANTS (I got it yesterday!)

Dad's coming back in just a few hours!!!!!!!! Whoo-hoo!!! Been packing up my junk today. I hope we're allowed to check out books at some library in CO because I'm not taking WOMAN IN WHITE with me. It's not in travelling condition. So while I'm there I'm bookless. I think books are pretty high in my list of things that I need, not just want. I mean, whaddaya NEED ya know, besides your God, your family, your food, and a lifetime supply of books you like!!! So here's the plan:

1. We go to Texas on Thursday. We stay there for....a good smidgen of a bit visiting Grandparents and such and dropping off Jo the Dog. Funfunfun! (They have goats Emy!:P)


2. We set out for Colorado whenever we set out for Colorado:) and drive all day praying Princess Bird survives it again!


3. We're there!!! Whoopee! We stay there for a long time (until sometime before August 1)


4. We drive back. Small chance Bird makes it back without a 5-hour-long symphony this time, but hey, ya know all it takes is a knock out dart!!! (kidding, it takes five sleeves of saltine crackers!) And ya can't blame her, I mean she's too little to engage in interesting conversation or watch a movie or draw a picture or anything!

So I need to go eat. But later maybe I'll tell you about some yesterday and today fun. God Bless!

Life is Good (eternal life is better!):P

VERSE OF THE DAY: You guide me with your counsel, leading me to a glorious destiny. Psalm 73:24

BOOK OF THE DAY: Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Wrastled with the lawnmower and mowed the front even though it sounds like its about to die the whole time! Mr. Walker says it time to get a new one. Amen I say!!! It rained before I could do the back, but I moved this flowerpot thing back there, and there was a SNAKE!!!! Thank heaven it was raining and I didn't have to be out there!!!!!!

We have been making a bunch of bows and arrows. They shoot really good! Now we all have one! The boys share one though since they're all the same size. We need to get some more of those wood rods you see in the pictures - except LONG ones!!! My bow's about as big as I am and can take a pretty long arrow. Here's some pics I took yesterday....

The Joshua focus

This is Louie's bow

This one's mine!

Mayfee with the boys' bow. He can shoot, but only if you're helping and he gets lucky;) Then it goes a long way! Speaking of said miniature man, he's got some sort of cough thing. It's not all the time, he's his same spunky self, and nobody else has caught it (clueless shrug). I think it's because this drunk germ got in and is not really functioning properly (and I guess we're happy about that!) The germ did really nail it last night though, because the little guy coughed so hard he puked all over the floor! Eeeeeeew. After he did it though he didn't seem to think twice about it, just told Lane quite naturally that "he had a lot of spit, so he spit and it was a big one!" That kid is hilarious. All of em are actually. He slept with me last night (it was Friday after all) and I wasn't very happy that he woke up a gazillion times to whine and cry or cough or talk about things. Usually just a pat on the back or a "Go to sleep Mayfee" fixes it. I WAS happy when he woke me up to say he needed to go to the bathroom even though he had a diaper on! He was still clean and dry in the morning! *Good boy*
We had cinnamon rolls for breakfast this morning. Yum! And we're gonna have pizza for dinner tonight...Yum! Dad's coming home in 3 more sleeps!!! *Life is good*

Girlfriend Fun

Verse of the Day:
This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent His Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.
1 John 4:10


Movie of the Day:
Pride & Prejudice Nan and Emy came today and we watched Pride & Prejudice. Funfunfun!!!!!!!!!! We talked through the whole movie (*DUH*) about....nothing? Teehee! They are awesome! I think I'm the most intelligent of them two....:P We've got to do dat again in some other form! Emy brought the chronicles of her embarrassing moments at camp! They were funny!!!:D:D:D:D:D:D

By the way, I am going to CO again! For the month of July. Comment my blog a lot you people cuz we won't be able to email!!!! We're having school there and all!!!!!!!! Well, I'm going to soccer with Sticks, so I need to go eat. Seeyous!

Posting

I feel I should post, though there's nothing in particular to post about. Lets see, Mom went to a garage sale and got a couple of patio tables and chairs. Louie, Sticks, and Lane have been painting them I think they're gonna finish that today.

I'm borrowing a book called WOMAN IN WHITE. It's not bad! Not bad as in I remember where I am while I'm reading it, but I still get the story. It's kinda mysterious in a way that makes your eyebrows go up a couple centimeters, then down as low as they can go.

Ummm...Oh, Nan and Emy are comin over Tuesday to carry out our scheme!!! That means we're gonna watch the new Pride and Prejudice (the best one)! Funfunfun!!!

Speaking of movies, my Facing the Giants one ran off from it's home in Mom's DVD player. We have no clue where an unwronged, round, shiny thing with a hole in the middle could've gone to. I'm offering up a reward for it to scheming siblings. So...it may be found. Things are mysteriously disappearing only to be found when you're not really looking for them. My camera did it once and I was transmorgified, but it was behind a couch pillow later. Huh I say! Ready for some drama....."WHY? (sob) FACING THE GIANTS WAS THE BEST (I THINK)!!! (sniff) O unfaithful DVD, we shall mourn your departure and eagerly await the day when you return to us as the prodigal son did, repentant and remorseful! We shall not give up our most desperate search for thee!" Teehee!!!!!! Rather untrue, everybody's at their leisure right now! Besides, LOTR is best anyway!

I babysat last night for Nellie and Willy. (Does that sound ironic to you?:P) They're really good though most of the time!

We went to church this morning and everybody was good (including Bro. Dale!). Just had a bean burrito for lunch and...here I am now. With Froggy. He smiles a lot now!

I guess I'll post about Scheme Day if nothing happens between then and now.

Seeyalater!

Meggy T

Happy First Day of Summer!!!

Bring on the heat - as long as it doesn't come near ME!!! Heat is one thing I am NOT gonna miss about living in AR. But Dad said it was 96 degrees in CO yesterday, but it's not humid or anything. Not much going on. Wingycousins came over today and we had some fun. I lost to Moff Jerrjerrod at Age of Empires though...ahem. Oh well. One of these days... I technically won at STAR WARS TRIVIA with him and the Captain but...kinda not. I know I just posted about fun with Wingycousins and you guys are probably going, "Yeah, yeah. Something else interesting please?" but not a lot has been happening worthy of internet recognition.

Oh yeah! Here's something! Lane and Sticks work for one of our neighbors who is out of town right now and she let us use her pool! Cool huh? I haven't used it, I'm not a huge swim fan. You throw me in the water and it'll be the quickest way to kill me short of shooting me in the head or stabbing me through...some of yall might want to know that:P Wrastled with the lawnmower again today. It won...I'm just BEAT today!!!!!!!! By humans AND machines!!!!

Have a Laid Back Summer!!!

Mayfee's so cute! He likes swimming too! It looks like a picture from a greeting card or something.

Dad's coming home for the 4th and Mom's birthday! Cain't wait!!! Sticks is then leaving with him again with maybe Laney to go to CO for more rockin soccer. Dad's coaching the SWOOSH 3 vs 3 team. Hooray! I wish he could film it or something.

I'm reading in the Samuels some stuff about King David. He's my favorite!!! His parts are pretty much my favorite parts. I'm done with him, but I'm probably gonna go back and the best parts. I skippy-dip through all the books I read. Mom teases me because once I know the characters in a story, I go to the end and see what happens. Then once I know I read the rest of the book. I read the last part of ERAGON today. If it's not a good movie it IS a good book!!

Make God laugh today!!!

Meggy T

Fun with Wingycousins!

We got to go to the cousins' house for a family weekly get-together thing they were doing. It was neat that they asked us because we aren't technically cousins! But it was really cool, we got to meet some of their real cousins. There was JD and he was real nice, we all got along great right away. There was Aust and Dyl, who were 4 and 2, and Jess, Jman, and Mayfee really enjoyed them. They were great! All the little boys had an awesome time finding little frogs and such. I wasn't that escatated when Just snuck up on me with one of those though! (He WILL be some kind of comedian one day!) We also met their Nana and Pawpaw, and their aunt and uncle who were all super-duper nice and great! We ate a bunch of sloppy joes, then played some whiffle-ball. It was really funny, Mrs. W separated everybody into teams so the ages would be right and it was all Taggs vs Wingycousins except for me and Drallen! So I was with the Wingycousins and the adults on our team were Wingyaunt and Mrs. W. Mom and Mr. W were on the Tagg team. It was really fun, and Wingys won!!! Yipee! Sticks was sliding into bases and such. He was the fastest one out there! Mayfee was even hitting the ball! Mr. W would say, "All right, look out everybody! Here's the big hitter!!!" He was grinning like a coon and ran the bases when he was supposed to. Princess Bird didn't like the idea of playing and cried some. She always wanted Mom to hold her and when she left it was either me, Lane, or Mrs. W. Another funny thing - she would kiss all the Wingy cousins but she wouldn't touch JD! She just looked at him with an "I don't know you, back off!" look and shook her head! She did like cookies and ice cream though!!!

When we got home that night we had a battle with a huge moth that was trying to take over our bedroom! We won though!!!(I think it was that one that we saw in the garage Dad) It was about the size of a big butterfly.

We went to McDonald's with everybody today because we were showing the house. I was petrified of that yucky place! If it were up to me, everybody that touched that play stuff would take a shower at home!!!:P I think it's Dad's fault I'm like that. He doesn't like germs and taught me in his ways!!!:P When we get back, we find that the people were running late and they didn't even come!!!!!!!!! They still want to do it today, but wherever we go - NOT McDONALD'S!!!!

I've been playing 3rd AGE on the XBOX and reading ERAGON today. Any good book I haven't read ideas? I'm out of books.

Have a Beeyoutiful Day!

Meggy T

I'M GETTING A CAR!!!!!!!!!!

Grandpa Gary and Mrs. Andie have an old car they're going to give me!!!!!!!!! HOOOOOOORAAAAAAAY!!!! They are just great!!!! I've never seen it, but Mom says it's ugly, Sticks says it's awesome looking and it's "crayon blue". I'm not that sure what that is, maybe the color of this font. And Grandpa Gary says it's indestructible! I bet Dad's happy that I'm gonna have my own so I won't take his preeeety car!!!!! I'll post some pictures once I get it. Now I'm gonna have to learn how to DRIVE!!!!

Season's Greetings!!!

That means it's HOT!! I have to go inside on a sunny day or I'll get wet!!! It's really sticky!!!!

I babysat all day today, and I babysit all day tomorrow. Not much going on. Sticks bought us girlys the LITTLE WOMEN movie today. Whoohoo! We're going to the TAGG END CINEMA at 2:00pm tomorrow! (Hey Sarah, our house is TAGG END so yalls house should be HOBBITON) Siblings went swimming, Bird nearly dove off the counter, and I met a weird clicking, bouncing bug today. It was weird, it was like a skinny beetle, that wouldn't crawl, it just made a click and bounced aimlessly into the air, looking like if you put a normal beetle into a frying pan, I guess hoping that that bounce took him closer to wherever he wanted to get to! Anybody know what that is? Here's a good song. Have you heard it? It's really catchy:

Britt Nicole - You

From the album: Say It

I’ve been looking for love in another’s eyes

Searching for water, but I come up dry

Thought that I could find Happiness in the world’s applause

Peace of mind in a worthy cause

Take me back, take me back

Got to trust in the simple truth

Got to trust all I really need is

(Chorus)

You

I’m coming back to You

The only thing I know worth living for

Will You take this heart and make it more like

You

I give it back to You

It’s obvious no one could love me more

I’m Yours

I’m coming, coming back,

yeah I’m coming, coming back

To joy that speaks to my deepest need

To arms never far out of reach

Yeah, how Your love it

Calls to me when I loose my way

Holds me close when I feel afraid

Take me back, take me back

Got to trust that I’m save and sound

Got to trust that it all comes down to

You

(Chorus)

So no more getting caught in the middle

No more waiting for what is unsure

Back to Your love so true and so simple

Don’t understate it or complicate it

It’s so simple, yeah, it’s so simple

(Chorus)

I am Back!!!!!!!

I do like Lakewood. It is real nice with mountains and trees and stuff. The traffic's not bad and it kinda feels like here. Except enhanced I guess if ya know what I mean. We drove by the BRONCOS stadium pretty much every day, and that was pretty cool! Sticks got to see the RAPIDS stadium while he was there. The drive there was not bad. Bird didn't like it, but she lived! She just waddled up and said, "Hi Maheey!" I think she's happy to be back. Anyways, we got to stay at the student housing apartment thing for CCU for FREE! It was really cool, it had 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a full kitchen, 3 floors, and a washer and dryer. Sticks's team, SWOOSH, ROCKS THE BOAT!!!!!! They won their tourney and Sticks got like...3 assists or so. He's made new friends that he really likes, the coach is great, and the team is WAY better than Express. Watching the first game just made me miss Express because Sticks wasn't the only good player, I didn't know any of these new guys, and they knew what they were doing. It's kinda fun to watch it click with players and see how they apply the practice drills to the game and such, but SWOOSH could play SOCCER. REAL soccer. It was good to see some of that though, and I warmed up around the second game, and it was great fun! Here's the link to the pics...
http://www.thetaggs.smugmug.com/gallery/2990038#162776982
It starts with Sticks's kiss to the crowd when he gets his medal, but if you want to see the other game pics go back to the other pages.

The cheer:
Riley: "What sound does a toilet make?"
Team: "SWOOSH!"

Bird almost DID NOT survive the drive back though! She screamed and screamed. Poor lil thang! Poor US! But she quit when she found out that crying really didn't have a point and it wasn't fixing anything. It about rained all the way to AR! Good to be back though, except Dad didn't get to come:(

Please Pray

My Grandma H (my mom's mom that is) was diagnosed with breast cancer while we were on the trip. Cancer is just no good. I'm reading up on all these kids that have it and then it's somebody in MY family!!! We don't know a lot right now, but please pray!

I'll post about my trip later. I'm back by the way!

Going to Colorado

I'm leaving the blogger world for awhile. I am going to Colorado to see Dad and see Sticks play in his first tournament with SWOOSH. I am gonna have to learn all those guys' names so I can yell better! Mom told me that Sticks is getting on good with the coach's son. I can still not click that Sticks will not play for EXPRESS anymore. Maybe this will help me. I still think, "Hey! When he comes back he'll be in time to play in Dawg Daze!" But no. I hope all goes well. So anyway, Grandma T is coming and will drive - yes DRIVE - us to...Billy's place I guess. That's where Dad is....I think. I'll shall be back Wednesday next (13th)...I think! Don't listen to me, I don't know anything!!!!!:P So, faretheewell! Pray muches for everything!

Oh, by the way, I was flipping through Daughters of Destiny today. That's how I read when I'm out of books, just look at all my books that I've already read. Anyhow, I was reading about a brave settler lady and her husband. Indians came at their door and somehow managed to shoot something through the door, bust it open and fling tomahawks, or otherwise manage to give the husband a good knockout. When they started crawling in the door through the hole they had made, the lady got a big axe and smashed that one's head, then pulled him through into the room. His slow friend decided to try his luck and got a thwack too. Two got smart and left a friend at the door and tried a different way in. But they were too noisy at the chimney and the lady ran over to the feather bed, ripped it open and threw the feathers on the little fire. Preety soon two injuns come tumbling down and she bashes their heads (fire doesn't do the trick fast enough, ya know). Well that one friend by the door poked his head in to see what was going on, but when she swung at him she missed his head and just got his cheek. The Indian ran home and told his friends how a ferocious white woman was killing all the Indians who were fighting her gallantly, and how only he had been skilled enough to fight his way through with only a cut on the cheek!

The book is actually much more descriptive and violent than me. Oh well, I thought that was pretty brave and I could just SEE it happening! That's almost like Gimli, ya know? Haha!

High School Fellowship & Open House

So we had high school fellowship. Mrs. Andie came and talked about her trip to Tanzania and that was really neat!!! She had a cool slideshow of pictures she took. The only thing to mar the fun was that lots of my friends weren't there:( Now the rest of them that were there are gone to at church camp except Britter (wait, is Cole gone? I dunno. If she's not she's will be soon!). It was still fun as fun can be without you guys though!!!

We did an Open House last Sunday. We went out and got snowcones and hung out at the circle park. Nobody really came, we're not having any more of those! Here's some pics I took out there though!

Whee!

It's what happens after a blue snowcone!

The Bird Mal walking the Dog Jo who isn't aware that he's being walked

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

Piano Party

Lane and I went to the piano party today. It was funfunfun! The little kids play musical chairs, and the big kids play musical BINGO. This time we spiced it up with big kid sports of Musical BINGO, Mexican Musical Chairs, Mafia!!! This was the funnest one so far, despite getting nailed repeatedly in the dry bean fight that took place after musical BINGO, and later a slobbery dog tennis ball!:P More fun since I got to stay late and hang out (Cole came over, so that hit the spot!) I wish all the rest of my friends would come and take piano with Mrs. Mary!

We found out that Sticks made the B team. But that is excellent since A,B,C,D,& E teams are available!!! He is now staying in CO for a couple of weeks or so. Good for him and Dad...bad for us! Dad probably likes him more than us right now!!! We are also having an open house on Sunday. Woohoo!

Bye-bye Sticks

Sticks went to Colorado yesterday. He's trying out for the Colorado RUSH soccer club(http://www.coloradorush.com/frameset.php) Ya'll probably don't care a smidgen for that link!:P I really hope he makes the team. The A team. He really rocks, so he probably will. It's boring without Sticks. Well, boringer. More boring. I don't know when he's coming back...It looks like he has highlights in this picture. It looks good, I told him to get them while he was at Emo's. He looked at me like I was from Mars then laughed like it was really funny. *Oh well*

Nice day today. I got the FACING THE GIANTS soundtrack in the mail. Funfunfun! Did school, umm... that's about it! Froggy is REALLY getting thick! Now we call him "Fat Frog"! He smiles now, it's cute. They (as in everybody else) went swimming today. They're crazy, the water is C-c-c-cOLD!!! I tried it for a whole 7 minutes this year!!! I read about how King Saul disobeyed and brought back King Agag and the animals when he was supposed to kill the whole place. So God left him, pretty much. Poor guy. It WAS what happened when you did that. Good thing not anymore!

Dad ~ How's house-hunting?

Sticks ~ Hey, what up? Nothing new goin on

Emy ~ Scheming is underway, yet at a slight pause ask me about it.

Sarah ~ Got to tell you some things at high school fellowship - you'll be there right?

Sunshine Princess ~ Yes, I have seen the ReturnoftheKing one many times. I like the FellowshipoftheRing better, because Frodo's more jolly and everybody's together and loves each other. That was a superb thing in the book too! How's HUNTED going? I am excited about it!:P

Everybody Else ~ Hello! How are you? Do I know you?

Comment me. Like Saul said when Samuel came to get him in trouble, "The Lord Bless You!" (I think that's translated, "Be nice to me! Puhleeeeeez?")

Pray for Elijah

Elijah Talley , whose link is below on the side, has just relapsed with neuroblastoma, which is some kind of cancer that I hope I never have to know the meaning of. He is J-man's age and was cancer-free for awhile. I really feel for him and his family. It took me very by surprise. Pray for him MUCH!!! Ya know those rubber bracelets with words on them? He's got yellow ones that say PRAY FOR ELIJAH on them; let me know if you want one.
I REALLY encourage you to check these kid's caringbridge sites. They need lots of prayers and it's almost like knowing them once you check on them every day and let them know you're praying for them. Palmer said that she loved it when people told her that and it made her feel better. They help each other too and ask for prayers for other kids on their websites. They all need prayers, I've got a list of links and you can tease a few more off of their websites. Chase Wellenberger down there has the most I think, and has them all in quite convenient categories: WARRIORS (kids fighting cancer), CHAMPIONS (cancer-free patients), and ANGELS (kids who have gone to be with Jesus on account of cancer). One of the worst things for me to see is a Champion moving to the Warrior's list, or anyone moving to the Angel's list. Once you get to know them and pray for them it makes your day to see somebody new in the Champion's list - and it makes a different kind of day when you have their page up all day refreshing it while a parent posts continually during the 5-year-old's last earthly hours and you finally close it because there's nothing more. Both of which have happened here. They need you to pray for them - make a friend and support a kid...or 2...or 5...or 10!
Pray A Lot! ~Meggy T

Surprise!

Last night I went to Lavender's surprise party. Twas fun! She was surprised! Sad though, because that might be the last time I see her:( We played a musical chairs game, a guess-who-you-are game, and THEY played Jalapeno Pepper Poppers. Eeek! I took pictures. Britter is good at that game, she just stood there with jalapenos in her mouth! Cole wasn't bad either...

When I got home, all the big kidz watched Lord of the Rings. The first one. The BEST one! Sticks konked out after the cave troll, but at least he was in his bed! Lane and I just left Louie snoozing on the couch when we hit the sack.

This morning we watched Joel Osteen. Really good! It was about not stressing out when you can't see God working in your life. Fits the occasion I think... Later we watch FBC. We record that and watch the good part and skip the songs! Heheh! Started Jeff Allen on BANANAS, but now he's paused until after lunch I guess. There's the bell now! Yum! Bye!

Fun Time at Emy's

Yesterday we got to go to Emy's house to play!!! Funfunfun! First all the boys and babies got out too so they could see all the goats and chickens and horses and...the mouse:P They took off after a bit and we Taggirls just hung out with the Emysistergirls all day. We talked, did the deathcrawl, goofed around with animals, and Me, Emy, and her Nan watched Facing the Giants. Fun Stuff!! Now we've got a scheme going....has to do with me....and my house...and Crazy Kay...and Sarah. We'll see how it works. Here's me and said Crazy Kay last year...

Tonight in JO'S BOYS, Tommy Bangs is going to be engaged. I can't wait to see the girl's faces when they find out that they DIDN'T guess correctly!!! They always try to guess who gets married to who. Hardly ever get it right, Louisa May Alcott always surprises people!!! Well, well. Nothing really happened today. Did school. Sticks say that he has a headache. Better go. Bird has a stinky diaper!

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.

Some Things I Do

It is a Sunday without Dad:( Better than Saturday though! We had zucchini bread for breakfast, watched church on TV and peoples are playing outside. I am reading JO'S BOYS out loud to the girls at night. Lovely book! I've read it before, but it's new every time. Now when I'm not reading it to them I'm skipping around in it finding out everything that happens again!! I'm also not very good at keeping things to myself once I find somebody who knows what I'm talking about. Sooooo... Louie now knows some things. I started it by telling her that John Brooke dies, chapters before it actually happened when we were reading LITTLE MEN, now she's pushing for information about who Tommy Bangs ends up marrying and how. I say...no. She IS a good interrogator...or am I just a stinky secret keeper? I flip through every book I read to find out what happens first or as I'm going along. Nothing can surprise me that way! I hate surprises.

Oh, while I was flipping today Zekey was sleeping on my bed. He was really cute:) Until he woke up and started to squall of course!!! Whenever I'm multi-tasking and watching him is involved he falls asleep. On my chest usually! I like to watch Facing the Giants on Mommy's bed that way - he does too! Really! That's the best way to watch a movie because it makes you feel happy:D

Ummm... What else? Nothin? Oh, the BIONICLE show! Of course!!! For those of you who don't know what a BIONICLE is, they look like this:

Little boys build them in all different colors, shapes, and sizes. We have many. The idea for the show came when Jess was sad because he couldn't go out to snowcones when everybody else was. This kid DOES NOT know how to play by himself. He mourned, and the idea of BIONICLES didn't even cheer him up. I told him to build some really good ones anyway and that we would have a BIONICLE show. The eyes got big and, in wonder of what a BIONICLE show was, he ran off and came back later with 3 many-legged plastic creations. I dragged a couple of boxes over and put a blanket over them. He made up a story, had to work on speaking loud enough and hiding his head, as it often popped up to twist the arm in the right direction. He decorated a bunch of little ticket's, lined up chairs in rows, and I made a BIONICLE SHOW sign...then everybody came back. He stood with the tickets and a little cup and watched the pennies go in and the chairs fill up. We were sold out!!:P I thought he was gonna get behind there and make up an entirely new story, but he actually got it almost word for word! It went, "Once upon a time there was a BIONICLE. (Said creature came up and walked along the stage) He was just taking a walk, then another BIONICLE said, "I will fight you!" (BIONICLE with a deep scary voice comes up) "I will beat you!" BASH! BAM! (Clashing and fighting. the second BIONICLE falls) "HA, HA, HA!" says the BIONICLE. Then ANOTHER one comes to fight! (Enter BIONICLE) BASH! BAM! (more fighting and the third BIONICLE falls. The audience cheers) But....(he gets back up) "I'm not dead!" (Fighting. Third BIONICLE falls - dead this time.) Now THIS! (A blue lightning gun finishes off the foe) "Now I'm gonna SIT on em!" (Proceeds to do so and draws a laugh from an amused audience) The end. Applause, applause. He remembered to come out and bow to the people even though we only practiced that once! He was pretty happy and made everybody give their tickets back.

Baby Bubble Bath

Remember the bubble bath pictures we did with Bird? Now Zekey's the sudsy one! Is he adorable or WHAT???

Big Eyes!

Compare the above and below

Do they look alike? I can't tell! Maybe in the eyes...

I'm gonna go make Sarah's mom's oatmeal cookies for tea! Yumyumyum!

Fun Time

Aloha!

Went to the Wingmen's house today. Ready.... drum roll...Jrallen BEAT me!!!!!!! *Gasp!* He has Age of the Empires and I dunno how to play, but not like he would give me any time to figure it out - brought in the boats (he knows I hate boats) and the calvary to thrash me when I was building the little buildings you have to build. Thrashed me in about twenty minutes! I forgive him for this one though, he needed to beat me at something before he had a heart attack:P Haha! Dad used to play that game I remember...but I don't remember how to play, as it was long, long ago. How long Dad? Then we all played Capture the Hat with JT's hat until he hid it and we were too lazy to go in and find it! We switched to swordfighting. It started Wingmen vs. Taggs, but we switched up within the first 5 minutes. Broke the other guard on The Prophetess. Should fix those I guess. Sticks, Jakey, and Stonewall were on whoever's team was losing, then losers would be winners as the number of their men rapidly increased by around 150%. Ate lunch, went home. Funfunfun!

When we got back, we fired up the pool and attempted swim. We got in for ten minutes, froze to death, got out, and laid on the grass to get tan for a long time. It's not that hot out. Now I'm really hungry!!!! Did my hair a new way too. Like it!

Time for dinner almost! Hoooray!!!

Meggy T

Dad Home:D, Happy Mother's Day:) and Bye Bye Soccer Buddies:(

DAD IS HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!! Whoopee!!!! And Happy Mother's Day to all!!!!!
Yesterday Dad took Sticks to his last soccer game with EXPRESS 96. He played good and scored "The second best goal in his career". A nice hard chip over the goalie's head straight into the back of the net. We lost, but it was actually the older EXPRESS team. All just friends. Well, it was the LAST game with those guys so Coach told them to give Sticks a hug or a kiss cuz he was done. Dad got a bunch of friend pictures with them. I was actually pretty sad. Sticks has grown up with a lot of those guys-enemies or friends as rec allowed. Most of them were more like fun business partners to Sticks than friends, but we're gonna miss em. The most ridiculous boys ever, God love em:P Here's the pics:

(Left to Right)Dyl, Code, Kev, Sticks, Mav, Serg, Trev, Rono, Ev, Logana, Dallas, and CC

Then Dad says, "Alright, everybody touch his head!" Bottom row starts hollering "I can't reach!" while the ones that did get ahold of it yell, "Aaaaeew! It's wet!":D (Look at Mav's face! If you zoom in you can probably see the pictures better)

Sticks with Logana. Before Colorado these two planned to be on a pro team together. Maybe they still can be....

Sticks and Code. These 2 were always enemies in rec since they were 4, but on EXPRESS - best buddies!

The 2 Ronaldos: Sergiano and Christiano! Serg fairly recently joined EXPRESS and Sticks likes him a lot!

Sticks and our (big) goalie, Stickyfingers. Sticks AND Dyl and actually moving (it's nice that SOMEBODY else is in the same boat!). This is the "Flee Arkansas!!!! Everybody hates us!!!!" picture!lol

Hope these guys do well without my Dominator there to win for them! They are losing Sticks, Mav the Traitorious, and Stickyfingers our only goalie. I hope some more guys come to help them out! Bye EXPRESS 96! We'll miss you! Win Games! Do well!

Lil sis's Blog!

Lane got a blog too!!! Check it out on the FRIENDS links! We are showing the house to a homeschooling family today. Whoohoo! 1 more sleep until Dad comes back!!! Ya know, if feels weird to say "Dad's coming back for a visit" or to write a letter to your own Dad!:)

PS - How come nobody's commenting besides MnM and Dad? Sarah? Britter? Brother? Lana?

"I thought you fell off the face of the earth" - Tobymac

Brain

Went to ACT test place today and I think I left my brain there. I've wheedled it back about to half of where it's supposed to be. The test is hard and we have much homework to do. 2 essays, math test, and a science test. TJ described it as a tube that goes from your book to your brain and vacuums out the latter. Not a far cry!
Life is alright now though. I made myself a bagel egg sandwich for dinner. Yum! Mom told me to watch Andy Griffith - something that requires NO brains! Twas a good plan too! Showing your brain that you don't need it REALLY makes it edge back. We showed the house to some new people today. Whoohoo!
This is the font that Sarah's bro said to use when you write a script. And I am! It's got many many lame lines in it! Oh, well. I'll probably correct THAT script for years and years then eventually get somebody else to correct it and find the lameness for me! Whoever did ERAGON should've done that. "Into the sky, to win or die!" Taha! What is that?! Cheesy, cheesy, cheesy. Oh another cheesy thing while I'm right here. In FACING THE GIANTS when the whole Giants team busts through the banner at the state championship game, the banner says: "SUPPORT THE GIANTS"! That is just funny. Turns out Alex Kendrick just told that team to whip up a banner and that, my friends, is what happens when you leave a set of high school football-loving boys to their own devices lol!
My test scores came in yesterday. I did alright. Not as good as I was last year though. The brain slips away slowly but surely. I guess you just don't have it during your teenage years and then get it again as an adult. Maybe I'm wrong though. Is that right Dad? Or do you never get them back? Lady's mom said you get them back around 40, but I think Mom has brain! God protect your Brain!

Fun Cousins on a Rainy Day

A nice rainy day. The Wingmen came over and played a bit. Beat Jerrjerrod at Red Alert 2. Funfunfun! Sticks showed The Just all his old coins and The Just was newly christened The Salesman b/cuz he had an old coin book that showed you how much everything was worth. Lemme tell ya, Stonewall is GOOD at Battlefront!!! Shocked me unpleasantly. We broke into Jerrjerrod's sourdough bread when they left. It was yum! Nothing much besides that has been going on. Tomorrow we start full swing school. ACT Testing as well. That math is hard. Somebody is interested in our house and we're supposed to hear something today. We've been packing a lot too. And Dad's been looking for houses. Moving is hard work!

You're Blindly Deathcrawling, but very happy, friend,

Meggy T ("I ain't done. I'm just restin a second")

Bottoms Up!

Yesterday night Lane made some pizza for dinner. Mom was cutting the vegetable one (hot by the way) and the crust was a little hard. Before ya know it...SLIP! Top side down on the floor. She said, "Oooooookay" Lane got big eyes, I laughed, and Jess said, "can I pick out the olives?" We left it there until it cooled and then we got Joey to come and clean it up. He didn't do a great job. He's cute though! See?

Earlier I spun Bird around on the computer chair. Being dizzy is a new thing that she didn't like. She yelped and grabbed on to me until she could run around again!!! Haha! We're not doing that anymore!

A Good Song

This one has been playing on Air 1. Not many words, but AWESOME words!

Phil Wickham - Divine Romance

From the album Phil Wickham

The fullness of

Your grace is here with me

The richness of

Your beauty's all I see

The brightness of

Your glory has arrived

In Your presence God,

I'm completely satisfied

Chorus:

For You I sing I dance

Rejoice in this divine romance

Lift my heart and my hands

To show my love,

to show my love

A deep deep flood,

an Ocean flows from You

Of deep deep love,

yeah it's filling up the room

Your innocent blood,

has washed my guilty life

In Your presence God

I'm completely satisfied

New Blog!

Sarah and I have started a team blog for teenage girls! www.girlsofgodthewebsite.blogspot.com Go check it out! I gotta go.

Used Up

I used up every bit of my temper trying to write an Eragon Review for the newspaper. Working ALL DAY to start and finish that paper by the way. Hard story to write and the computer kept deleting parts of it!! Then Mom said it was too many words. There was nothing I could do to make it better, it's a long loser movie that takes up to many words to explain. Then of course the printer malfunctions, we almost run out of printing paper (found some in Dad's printer), and...the printer just malfunctioned again, and Sticks just came and said it did it again. Boy oh boy. Britter and Brother better be back from Surrender, I need some cheering up QUICK before I fall apart or explode or something!!! Comment quick and alot! Dad especially. I am about done.

The History of Bath and No Dad

Tonight I gave Bird and Mayfee a bath. As I was scrubbing Mayf's hair I remembered when he was a little guy and would cry when I dumped water all over his hair. Couple of years ago. He's a big guy now! *Sniff, sniff* From there I thought back further to when I was doing Jess and he would suck on the washrag and when J-dude was so happy when he took his first shower all by himself. Remember giving Lou-lou showers and baths of all things!!! She's all big and not the same baby now. She used to be scared of the water. Lastly when I used to take baths with Laney and we stayed in playing for a LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time. Then ya know the steam fogs up the mirror and we'd draw pictures in it. Didn't think things like that would be memories of foreverago at that time! Wonder what I'm gonna remember from right now? I am probably boring ya'll out. Here's a picture of a bath!

Bird Again!!!!!!!!!!!! She just has so many cute pictures cuz she can't help but be pretty!!!!!!!!!!

Dad left to go work at CCU yesterday. Seems like a loooong time ago! SAAAAAAAAAD!!!!! We are hoping to sell the house soon so we can join him in CO. I wonder about the people who are going to buy are house. What are they doing and what's the hold-up! Ronaldo's being a good man while Dad's gone. He got us all lunch and snowcones today! We also filmed some more movie today. The ALIEN part!!!!! He scared ME!!! He's got all these eyes. And eyes on his eyeLIDS soooooo....he's never blinking. The closed eye stare is creeeeeeepy!!!!!!!! He doesn't speak English so he has SUBTITLES!!!!!!!! Cool huh? He said after we watched it, "Ok I'm freakin myself out!" You Britter and Brother people will like it!!!!! Have a nice day! Meggy T

The Deathcrawl - Blindfolded!

Get into a crawling position. Have somebody lay their body on your back and have them hold on to you so that they are riding on your back. Now lift your knees off the ground so that you are on your hands and toes. Go. Start crawling.
You know it - the DEATHCRAWL from the movie FACING THE GIANTS. Brock is told to crawl like that to the fifty yard line on the football field. Umm, yeah sure. Then, here's the big part - he is blindfolded. He doesn't think he can, but he is going to try his best. Brock gets going pretty good, but as he goes on he gets tired.
"It hurts!"
His coach is right beside him. "Keep driving! You're doing good! Keep driving!"
"It burns!"
"It's all heart!"
"I can't do it!"
"You can! Don't quit! Don't quit!"
After a long hard drive he finally takes the last step. There his coach removes the blindfold.
"Look up Brock. You're in the End Zone."
As I watched that scene for the hundredth time I was shown something. God is our coach. The deathcrawl is hard, but God tells us to do it. BUT....He blindfolds you. You don't see his plan or where you are. Brock couldn't see how far he had crawled. If he had, he would've quit at the fifty yard line. But since he didn't know he kept on giving his best. If you saw where you were after you're at a certain point you would say, "Ok, this is far enough." But God blindfolds you to his plan.You don't know what he's doing so you have to give your best and keep driving. When you're done walking through the valley you see what a perfect plan he had for you all along. And I don't know about you, but sometimes it takes God quite a bit of yelling to get through to me and get me to keep going! You'd think He'd have a sore throat by now with me myself, not counting the other people He has to yell at!
I hope all that made a little sense. It's a lot easier to think than to write ya know what I mean? *Oh well* Hope you got something!

Trip To Texas To Tow a Trailer

A trailer with a boat on it. A bass boat to be exact. It was given to my Dad by my Grandma H. So yesterday we embarked on a family trip to go pick it up - Zekey, Bird and all!
PLAN A: Drive to Grandma and Pawpaw's. A 4 hour trip. Pick up the Boat, Eat Lunch and have Fun. Go to Grandpa and Nana's next. Eat Dinner and have Fun. Drive Home. Another 4 hour trip.
We set about to carry out PLAN A. No other plans. It's just Lah-dee-dah fun! Nice drive to Grandma and Pawpaw's with good quiet babies. We pick up the boat and eat lunch and have fun in the golf cart. So far the plan is going nicely huh? Then we drive to Grandpa and Nana's. Nobody is hungry but we have fun with grandparents and met a little goat (Hi Emy!) We say goodbye and start to drive home. Good plan huh? Worked well? Nnno. It is still light out when we need to pull over and change a tire. OK we're good now. We drive some more. When POW! The tire burst into oblivion!!!! What excitement! So Dad and Sticks got out and changed the tire again. Now we are out of spares. The tires still aren't in good shape sooooo...
PLAN B: Pray that these Tires will Last Until we can get to a Wal-Mart or something to change them Trailer Tires. Plug Ears because Bird is Not Happy.
It is late now and we drive quite a good bit out of our way to find a Wal-Mart. Boys are asleep and it is way past Bird's bedtime but she won't sleep. Just cry. Dark, dark, dark outside. Wait...wait, a light! A BIG light! Either a football game or a Wal-Mart... a Wal-Mart it is!!!!!! Dad goes out for tires. We wait a long time. Dad comes back and says they do not have tires. Bird does not have diapers. We're giggling and having fun and being sarcastic about this mess. An adventure for everyone...except Poor Bird.
PLAN C: We leave the boat at the Police Station and go home. Dad will come back to get the boat and take care of it in the morning by himself.
We drive to the Police Station. Dad goes out and negotiates with the Police. We wait in the car. Dad comes back and says we can leave it there but the police aren't responsible for watching it or anything. We have no lock for it. We debate about the next plan. Lane says,"I think we should just leave it here and go home and if that thing gets stolen it won't be much loss to us!" Big laugh. But no. It getting stolen is not an option.
PLAN D: We go back to Grandma's for the night. Dad and Pawpaw will take care of the tires.
That's where I said "Uhhh...Ok" because of our numbers and my Bird. Zekey can sleep in his seat but Bird has never slept out of a crib before. And she has no diapers and NO WAY she can go through the night with out wetting anything! Also we packed NOTHING. From no pajamies to no toothbrushes. So far we have managed to drive around for 4 hours, but never get out of the state! In fact, it only takes us 1 1/2 hours to get back to where we started!:P It is late I go to sleep. When I wake up the tire has burst again and...Pawpaw to the rescue!!! We go back and the boys sleep on the floor in the living room. I lay Bird down there too, and she was tired she didn't even move. Oh, and we just left the diaper she had on on. Dad slept on the couch in the living room and the other big kids slept on the recliners. I got to sleep in the bed with Mom and Babyboy.
Now it is morning. Turns out Dad DID have some trouble with Bird. She started crawling around in the middle of the night (or morning as it was) so she slept with him. We had some yummy breakfast and the boat is fixed up.
PLAN E: We Drive Home with the Boat.
We say goodbye and start to drive home. Dad says, "I don't think this boat is supposed to go to Arkansas." Grandma and Grandpa had also said a lot about the unsafeness of the boat and made us go,"Ooohhhh..." So Mom says,"Let's save 4 little boys' lives" sooo....
PLAN F: We go to Grandpa and Nana's and give them the Boat.
We do. But Grandpa pays us for it. AND he said when he fixes his other boat or something he'll drive it to CO for us! Oh My!!!
PLAN G: Drive Home.
Mission accomplished today. Fun all in all though there were some intense moments! Thank heaven for good Grandparents huh?!:) And we lived happily ever after until the little boys' soccer games got canceled because of rain. Haha!!! God giggled at us today. And yesterday. I am glad He's got a sense of humor!!!!!!!!!:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

More Bird and Some Zekeo

Dad went out and took some pictures of Bird being mad outside. I know I just posted some of her, but I could not resist!

The usual: "Aaaa...Noooooo...Miiisssseeerrrry!" (kidding people:P)

I LOOOVE THIS ONE!!! She is soooo adorable is she not?

"Sniff, sniff. I think I'm OK now".

Then later we set stuff up to shoot Lil Zekeo.

I'd post more pics but this uploader is taking forever for some reason and I've got Bird on my hip. She says, wwwwwwqeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeexw3eeyyj yhbv cccv b nkjhjdegg

Bye!

The Bird

Here's the rest of those sibling posts! There's naught to tell about Zekeo now but I will once he gets a lil bigger!

Bird - She is a crazy thing! If she were an animal she would be a bird, the way she stumbles and flutters along the ground like some baby bird that can't get off the ground. She also has this chirp that kinda sounds like "mmm?" that means, "can I do this?", "can you do this for me?", or "Gimmie what I want!":P She opens her mouth to beg for other people's food, but her own that is the same thing doesn't taste that good I guess. She says, "Mama", "Daddy", "Cacka?" (cracker) , "Kookah" (cookie), and before she can say any of our names she says "Jo". *Sigh* She soooooooo pretty and has all this sweet dark hair. I fix it every morning when I take her to get dressed and clean up in the morning. Here's some pictures!

Baby Zekey is Here!!!

Welcome to Baby Zekey Tagg! He was born on the 14th and a

whoppin 8.5 lbs!!! So cute!!!

See pictures!

www.thetaggs.smugmug.com/gallery/2713242#P-3-15

My Little Brothers

Here's some more sib stuff! I'll probably get to doing other friends too.

J-MAN - Overall a sweet guy and eager to please people. He's got my favorite kind of smile , the kind where the eyes are pushed up into little crescents ya know? I think it's pretty and it makes me smile whenever somebody who has that smile smiles. I wish I did. It's powerful!:P Anyway, He has a passion to get soccer balls in the back of that net no matter what it takes him. He cries when somebody scores on him and it was his fault. Sticks is his model and if Sticks likes it, J-dude likes it. He works out with Sticks and plays soccer with him and all sorts of things. He loves macaroni & cheese! If he were an animal he'd be a dolphin. Very intelligent, mild-mannered, easily trained fellow. He accepted Christ this year and hasn't forgotten it if ya know what I mean!

Jess - He is the wild hair of Tagg End! The one ya just can't get into place! He's a little extremely sociable scatterbrain and can't take out a trash without making rounds of the house or trips to the bathroom 2 or 3 times! Lou's the same way. He has the biggest eyes of about anyone in Arkansas!!!!! He has funny little fat lips. He looks like a puppy - he has that facial expression and when he was smaller when you held him it felt like you were holding a puppy! He's strong and is very good at monkey bars. He doesn't have the natural gift of soccer skills that Tagg boys HAVE to have, but he just started playing on the GREEN MACHINE TEAM. He's doing pretty good! He could swing himself, ride a two-wheeler bike, and swim at the age of 3. He has a strong little will and he potty-trained himself just because J-dude was doing it and he decided he didn't want to wear diapers anymore. So BAM. Done. No sweat.

Mayfee - He's a little 2. It's his birthday tomorrow though. He has the same trait as Lulu about going with the flow and just having fun with whatever anybody else if having fun with. His blankey is red and white and he's not as much attached to it as the other boys were to theirs. He's visibly tan. OK I've gotta go. Eragon's on. Ill tell you how that is.

~Ariana Evenstar Taylor

My Crazy Bros and Sises

I felt like posting about my sibs 2day.

LANE - She is absolutely opposite from me in almost every way. We do like the same books and I don't think we have ever disagreed about a book. Not to easy to get her all mad, but when she gets mad it's over a little thing and leaves you confused. She's easy to get pushed in the right direction though. She will only be crazy and goofy if somebody else does first and she has to know the people she's around VERY well. That's why nobody except her family has seen her freak. Her free time is spent in boy's games, such as wrestling, soccer, or video games but that's not bad and I can't argue because I am the same way. Boys stay children longer than girls stay children. Boy sports will keep you happy and younger for longer! She also crochets. She's the only one in our family that does that.

STICKS - A very tricky and deceptive fellow. Not in a bad way, he just shows you never to be deceived by appearances. Most of the time he's a very decent mild-mannered sort of fellow, but he has got the wildest demeanor, God love him. He's got the kookiest things going through his head and it comes out with an all new clownish sense of humor. For all that to come out he has to be having a good time, be with people he knows well, and no adults allowed. Mom's never even seen it I don't think unless she pokes her head out the door when me and him are on a walk or something. Dad's seen it though when he's having a good time. Some people he's around have never seen his weird side and some people see nothing but. He's always crazy at soccer and he's good at that ball game too! J-man thinks he the big Deal! He likes to get on Laura's nerves but most of the time she doesn't mind. It's all his fault about our boy recreational activities. We play with him, then find out that is fun and now we're messed up! He doesn't like to read a lot, but he likes AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, the NARNIA books, and the GA Henty books. Books are what we don't agree on too much. He likes it when I tell him stories about what happens in STAR WARS books.

Lu-lu - She is crazy ALL THE TIME!!! It's her serious side people need to know her well to see. It mostly comes out in our room at night when we're talking about something serious....which is about once a month!:P She likes being a girl, but no one can escape Sticks's influence of boy play. I don't really get what goes on in her head! I don't think she quite knows either yet! She likes to listen to books I read aloud and the MOODY books. She kinda just goes with the flow and follows along with whatever we're having fun with! When we skip parts in movies so we can get it done she wants do do it at the good part! She dances worship dance and is pretty strong. She likes monkey bars much. She's got a tongue crib that makes her talk kinda funny sometimes! SCARY!!!:P

I'll post about the boys later!!!

Moving!

OK, I am posting. Don't have much to say besides what everybody already knew - we are moving to Colorado. I'll try to keep up with this thing and you guys will have to comment and e-mail and write me all the time!!! I'll comment and e-mail and write ya'll all the time too, don't worry! Babysat and did school today. Ronaldo had a birthday. 11 now! I'm calling him "sticks" this year. I am a nick-name queen!!!:P Oh, also went on a photoshoot yesterday!

Sarah - So how did that whole idea for HUNTED end up on film? I think we ALMOST started talking about that one time!

Lady - I fixed it!!:P

Britter and Brother - I told Lana you wanted Call to Battle magazine.

Nemys - Uhhh...Hey!

The Dream

I dreamed the best dream last night. It could be the most powerful christian movie ever I think! Problem is I don't remember most of it. Just the plot. What I remember is that it was about a girl about my age and she's mad at her dad and her mom doesn't care about her and the only person she really thinks she loves is her big brother. Her parents actually end up getting divorced sometime in the dream and she lives with him. So anyhow she's sad and all, she lost all her friends when she tried to truly talk with them about what she was feeling, bad stuff happening all around her, she never sees her brother because he's always out of town, etc. But there's this mysterious older guy that always shows up and talks to her and guides her and tells her about Jesus, the only one who can make life complete. She starts believing him, but it only really pops out at her when her brother gets hit by a car. Then she accepts Christ and prays for her brother. Turns out she never sees the mysterious guy again until he comes back for her and the rest of God's children. Hard to explain but really neat! I was crying through the dream if that's possible. The thing about dreams is you know exactly what going on while you're dreaming them and when you wake up you realize that that it really didn't make any sense and you can't explain it to anybody! Arg. Mom doesn't like dreams. Do ya'll? I need to dream that dream again and remember more of it this time!!!:) When I'm at the point where I can make movies with car wrecks and tornadoes and grown-up, real, actors, that'll be probably the first one I make. I don't wanna compromise this one!

Everything I wrote up there probably doesn't make any sense at all. Oh well. It's still on my mind and I wanted to write it.

~Ariana Taylor~

Back from the other side of the USA!!!

FUNFUNFUN!!!!!!!!!!!!! I ski like I'm from Arkansas!!!:P Falling's not bad the getting up is the hard part! I'll probably talk more about it later. Here's some pics! The guys you don't recognize are my cousins. The big guy's Mason and the little guy's the one and only Tatertot. http://thetaggs.smugmug.com/gallery/2580455#135949186

The Explaination

Yesterday we were celebrating Lane's birthday b/cuz we'll be in Colorado on her real birthday. So we made her a treasure hunt thing with clues to find her presents. THOSE letters are the notes to play on the piano to play HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU. That was the last clue, the presents were hidden around the piano. She couldn't figure it out so we said, "try playing em". She got it after awhile but that was the hardest hunt we ever thought up! We played BUMP after dinner. That is THE most annoying game ever!!!! Better than most board games, but I'm just not a board game player.

2, maybe 1 day(s) until we go skiing!!!!!!!!!!! FUNFUNFUN!!!

Ronaldo is at a soccer game right now, and this time I stayed at home and Mom went to the game. I just called her and we're winning 1 to 0! Hooray! They had to be at the fields at 7:30 this morning! We usually do TERRIBLE at early morning games. Lets hope everyone else does too!!! We're lookin good this year we started the season off strong. I know I already said that, but it's true! I'm making a soccer movie as the season gets on, I hope it works out. This will be the hardest movie I've ever made and I have to learn how to do music with it a such. Last game I tried to get some footage of Express getting beat and playing bad but I COULDN'T!!!! They were doing great, God love em! I love soccer. I'm coaching Jess's team this year. Should be interesting - fun too! I've got him, 2 little siblings of players on Ronaldo's team, and some other kids I have yet to meet. Hope we're no 1 seed of U-5. J-man was. I don't think he sees any reason to give that up this season!!! They all rock. Ok enough about soccer!:P

http://fssoccer.net

Ari

I'll Explain Later

8 - CCDCFE,
CCDCGF,
CCCAFED,
CCBGAG!

Lazy Day...

Ronaldo, the boys, and Dad went to ODP today. I played RED ALERT 2, read a book, and taught my little sisters how to swordfight. Maybe THAT was a mistake!:P Littlegirl is here opening and closing drawers. About one more month till we have a baby boy! Some friends of ours just had one and made me all jealous! Littlegirl just took off and is crying now because I won't let her up the stairs...so I just came back from cuddling her. *Sigh* She's spoiled. Not walking yet.
We had our first soccer tournament of the season yesterday in...Russellville? Well we won both games!!!! WHOOPEEEEEE!!!! Ronaldo scored fourice I think! That's not a real word, you say it Four Times. A little bit boring... but yeah we went out there and froze all day. But it was OK because WE WON! It would NOT be cool if we drove all the way out there and froze and lost! Well anyway we had a good startoff!!!
Who's reading through the Bible this year? Our church has this paper you can get that tells you what to read every day so you can read through the Bible in a year. But I'm not doing that this year. This year I don't wanna feel like "Oh I have to read it because it's on the schedule!" I wanna look at some other versions. NKJ is pretty cool. I have NIV. Beauty and the Pig study is in 2 days. Who started? I'm finished! I feel very ON TIME. I think the males are home. Better get off Dad's computer before he sees me!!! (I'm kidding:P:P:P)

I need to clear something up. I talked with Sarah but here's to everybody else. You probably read that "Update on me post" about 2 posts down about the babysitting and such. My dad told me it looked like I was talking behind other people behind their backs, and just worrying about babysitting for the money, and just overall not sounding like a girl who professes to worship Christ. I am sorry I wrote it that way. I did not mean to do that and when he told me at first I didn't really get it but when I put myself in the reader's shoes it did not sound nice at ALL! So sorry! My point was do your best in whatever circumstance. Turned out as a mistake. *Sigh* Yall know that message anyway! New one: Don't talk naughty about other people! I should probably stick with not talking about other people AT ALL till I get better at that sort of thing. *Sigh again*. I shall try to remember to watch for things from now on but if you notice I DON'T.... TELL ME SO! Dad told me because he figured I'd wanna know what what I said sounds like so I could get right with yall and God. Feel free to do it too! Lord knows I need it! Like that WORD Bekah said I should change because it sounded like a naughty word. Didn't know the word and needed to know. Not the word, but to change it! I probably post a lot of ...questionable things I don't know about. What are friends - and comments and e-mails - for? I'll probably delete that post. Maybe keep it to remind me... Basic message: I posted a bad post. I am sorry about it. Talking about other people mean is not good!

Lots of Luv!

Meggy T