Megan Joy- Expressive

Megan is our youngest girl, she is very full of life and happy for the most of the time. She is very open about her likes and dislikes thus earning the word "expressive". Although I think her middle name is also a good one.

The picture below of Megan sleeping in a chair is very normal, she can fall asleep anywhere and everywhere. Among her napping places are the bathroom floor, front porch swing, under her bed, and in front of the computer. She is a silly thing...

Top: Megan & Candy; Above: Meg and "Susan the worm"(she didn't live long...); below: Meg at Pensacola Beach, FL

This is a very normal expression for Megan

Meg loves Tinkerbell!!!

(above)Becca and Megan decided to give each other "makeovers" one day and begged me to take pictures. (below) Another normal Megan pose.

Add-on to Luke

I had to share this hilarious video. This was the day before we left on vacation and I guess I had asked Luke what he had done that day. The result? It looks like he sat in a chigger patch! :D Something also tells me he probably wasn't allowed to use markers at that time, he's too smug.

Towards the end you can catch a glimpse of Luke's partner in crime, Chew. Chew is Luke's baby blanket and comfort item. If you ask him somedays chew is his dad, son, or brother. Chew also has special powers such as flying and has a weakness for bananas. (I told him one night when we couldn't find Chew that he had flown to the store to get some bananas. lol, aren't I awful!) Enjoy!

Lucas Andrew- Rambunctious

Lol I love the little kid to death but that word describes him perfectly. He is 5 years old and the youngest of our family. Here he is at 7 months.

Christmas excitement at age 2

One of my favorites, 3rd birthday

Luke and I doing suprised faces

I let him paint...I'm losing my mind...

His sweet cutie pie face

Dad and Luke as...um...butterflies...aliens...cupids...I have no idea

A little somethin' to brighten your day...

I love this article, it cracks me up everytime! Enjoy! :D


The Way I See It—
Let's Go to the Movies by Patrick Dunn

Here are some of the scariest phrases a guy could ever hear:

“No More Sports”
“Out of Meat”

“Craft Fair”

“Free Cat”

And the scariest of all — “Chick Flick”

Summer means summer movies, when all the best movies come out. But guys have never understood girls and movies.

Imagine this: You’re standing in front of the movie theater, one screen is showing Brain-Hungry Alien Hogs from Planet Blastoid. On the other is playing Chad: The Boy Who Finally Found Love — And Learned How to Cry.

Which one will you see?

I bet I know — and it won’t be the movie about a spaceship and angry hogs.

Guys don’t get why girls like the movies they do. Many chick flicks are filled with similar themes: romance, tears, hope, chivalry, lost love, regained love, love misplaced but found in a drawer. Guy movies include giant missile launchers, sports cars that drive through buildings, monsters without thumbs, approximately five explosions per minute — and NO pastel colors ANYWHERE.

The origin of the chick flick goes all the way back to the caveman era. Archaeologists have discovered ancient pictures carved on cave walls, which depict ancient “movie nights.” Women went to one cave and re- enacted emotionally charged melodramas, filled with dancing, singing and triumphing over adversity. Men gathered in caves and pounded each other on the head with boulders. This was considered the first action movie — and also led to the discovery of aspirin.

Girls like movies for reasons guys can’t comprehend. How many times does a great movie make a girl cry? It’s like a math equation:

Number of Tissues Used + Times Nose Blown = Quality of Movie

Here’s the guys’ version: Car Chases + Cool Stuff Exploding = See Movie Five More Times

Crying does not equal fun to a guy. The following conversation will never happen:

Justin: That movie was awesome!

Mark: Yeah, I was like a leaky faucet.

Justin: On the way home, we can listen to this Celine Dion CD.

Mark: Bring it on!

Here’s what happens inside a guy’s mind if he says yes to see the movie his girlfriend wants to see:

Brain (to guy): What?! You’re seeing Flowers in Paris?! OK then, bring your PSP, your phone, and maybe you can cram a DVD player under your shirt. Eat a bucket of popcorn and one of those giant pickles that floats in a j—. No forget that; nobody eats those. Try the nachos . . . and get me a corn dog!

So girls, keep this in mind next time a guy asks you to a movie. He won’t figure out why you pick the one you do — but he’ll bravely go. Just nudge him once if he’s eating a corn dog too loudly.

This article appeared in Brio and Beyond magazine in July 2006. Copyright © 2006 Patrick Dunn. All rights reserved. International copyright secured.

ACT

Hello Everyone!!! This morning I had the ACT. I have taken it once before so I knew what to expect this time. I think I did fairly well, but I have to wait a couple of weeks for the result.

Friday I also had Orchestra and Choir. In Choir we are working on It is Well, He Never Failed Me Yet, Exultate Usti, The Lord Bless You and Keep You, and Break Forth Oh Beauteous Heavenly Light. They are all Hymns/Spirituals yet they are fun to sing.

Orchestra music we are playing include Fantasia & Toccata, Fanfare & Frippery, 1st & 3rd Movements of St. Paul's Suite, Meditation, You are my All in All, Praise & Adoration Medley, Lord I Lift Your Name on High, and Chronicles of Narnia. In Narnia, I had to blend the Oboe 1 & 2 and flute 2, as we are low on instruments. It sounds really cool!

We are going to go shopping right now! Yippee! ttyl!

Kara

Ephesians 3:16-21
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

Spring Photos By me

Office/Craft Room

This past month we completely rearranged our house. What used to be Becca's and Megan's room is now the office craft room. Mom and Dad (with the assistance of yours truly) painted the once white walls a caramel brown color.

Mom ordered cabinets, not realizing special orders are not always assembled. Thus Mom and Dad spent several days assembling the trillions of cabinet pieces.

Emily, Dad's Little Helper.

Hard at work

Dum da da dum....The finished product!

Mom's storage

Mom's Desk

Dad's Desk