Thirteen

Thirteen years ago, we welcomed a little boy to our home.  He was so little! Soon after, we took this adorable little boy to the transmitter site where Daddy worked. While there, one of the workers took Mark and blessed him. With Mark raised high in the air, God was thanked for this new little boy.  Then God was asked to lead and guide Mark to grow up knowing who He was.

I am so thankful for this little boy, who is growing to be a man. I continue to pray that, the desires of Mark’s heart is to follow and obey God all the days of his life. I pray for his willingness to live the truth and make Biblical choices.  I pray for his life to continue to be a light that shines brightly!

Happy Birthday Mark!  Daddy and I love you very much! 🙂

Australian Bacon & Egg Pie

We made Australian Bacon and Egg pie yesterday. It is good! They eat it for lunch or dinner.

We made it because we are learning about Australia in geography this month. If you make it, it is more like a sandwich then a pie, because it is not sweet. You can eat it with forks, but we used our fingers to finish it for lunch today.

I think it would have tasted better with some more spices.

If any one knows any good Australian recipes please let me know! Andrea made some cookies, and will have it on her blog soon! Check it out 🙂 Megan said they were YUMMY!

Serves our whole family plus extra for lunch (Serves 8-10)
  • 2 sheets puff pastry (one package)
  • 1 onion, diced
  • 1/2 pound bacon, cooked and drained
  • ¾ cup cheddar cheese
  • 1 tomato cubed
  • 6 – 8 eggs
  • Pepper to taste
  • Optional: Add favorite “omelet” ingredients if desired, delete others you don’t like.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease a pie pan and line with one sheet of puff pastry. Don’t forget like we did, it might stick 🙂

Place onion and bacon over pastry, add tomatoes and cheese. Crack whole eggs over, keeping yolk intact if possible. Season with pepper (already salty enough with bacon and cheese!)

Cover with remaining sheet of pastry, trim edges. Cook in pre-heated oven for 40 – 45 minutes or until golden brown.

Cut the trimmings into strips and bake till golden brown. They would be good with cinnamon sugar sprinkled on top.

Serve with a large salad.

It’s a girl!!!!!

The first baby alpaca was born at the farm across the street today! 

It is a girl!

The baby’s mom is Ebony.  She does not have a name yet.  She is so cute; almost all legs and neck! All of these pictures are of her at about an hour old!

She was walking when we saw her first. We did not see her being born :(.  I went to work today and the baby alpaca most have been born a few minutes earlier, because the rest of the alpacas had gone inside. When they came out, they were acting like they did not know there was a baby out there. We had gone over to see it and the other alpacas were eating. I fed the goats and then ran home to tell Momma. When we came back, all the rest of the alpacas had gone outside to say hello to the baby. Momma alpaca would not let them get to close!

When we put Ebony and her baby in a stall so they could have mommy and baby time, Ebony started humming and baby alpaca started to  hum. Then Black Beauty, Ebony’s other daughter, started humming. The Ebony started humming again.

I hope to get to see the next one born. I hope to have my camera too! The baby is going to be an aunt sometime this month.

A baby alpaca is called a cria. They weigh about 20 pounds at birth (about what Megan weighs now).  It takes them about 15 minutes to learn to walk. The baby alpaca walks better than Megan does now.

Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday dear ___________, Happy birthday to you!!!!!  🙂

Rock Hounds

We went to the Upper Peninsula on vacation last month!

It was fun! We went to Copper Harbor. It is a small town. It was so small there was no cellphone signal!

There were loooots and looots of rocks up there. We went looking for copper, green stones and other fun rocks! We found some copper and maybe green stone at a mine dump. We also found agates and other colorful and some almost perfectly round rocks by Lake Superior.

The Cliff Mine is a dead mine and they made a pile of the stuff they do not need. If you are up there, you can go there and look for neat rocks and artifacts. Momma went up there looking for copper when she was little. I found lots of neat rocks. We think some of it is Greenstone. I found three rusty nails, one broken. I also found one “thing”. If anyone knows what it is part of,  please let me know 🙂 . While there, Adrian was looking in the water. He found some polished rose quartz,  he held it up high and shouted, “I found a diamond!”

 

Do you know what the "thing" on the right is?

We had fun!

Collecting Rocks
Unknown Author

I think that there shall never be an ignoramus just like me
Who roams the hills throughout the day
To pick up rocks that do not pay,
For there’s one thing I’ve been told
I take the rocks and leave the gold

O’er deserts wild or mountains blue
I search for rocks of varied hue.
A hundred pounds or more I pack,

Greenstone, copper, agates, Petoskey Stones, fossils and other fun stones

With blistered feet and aching back.
And after this is said and done
I cannot name a single one.
I pick up rocks where ‘ere I go
The reasons why, I do not know
For rocks are found by fools like me
Where God intended them to be.

 

Summer jobs

I have two jobs this year.  One is mowing a lawn for a neighbor. I might do that once every other week.

I like the other job better. It is helping some other neighbors with their alpacas and goats. It is fun!  They have six alpacas and two baby alpacas–their names are Chewbacca and Princes Leia. I feed them and sometimes clean their area. Once a month I help do a major cleaning and help with their shots.

The  neighbors got two Great Perinees puppies yesterday to help guard the alpacas! Both the dogs are ankle biter size. One dog’s name is Lisa, the other is Lucy.  They look almost the exactly the same! I will help teach the dogs where they can go and where they can’t go. They were born on an alpaca farm so they watched their mom do what they are supposed to learn.

I think the alpacas are more intimating then the fuzz ball dogs!

I like my jobs! I like getting to know my neighbors better too. 🙂

4-H Surprise

This year for 4-H I chose to do a molded candle. We made one out of a Pringle’s jar but I did not like that one because it was not different.

I really wanted to do a egg candle. We cut a hole out of a blown egg, put the wick through the top of the egg and then I poured the wax with the shell upside down. I kept the wax white because I hoped it would look like a real hardboiled egg. We let it cool. Then I filled it up the rest of the way because the wax sank. I took the shell off the candle. I dipped it in wax so that it was smoother and pushed the bottom down on a hot pan so it was flat. Oma found me the perfect egg cup to display it.

I liked the egg a LOT better than the Pringle’s one. Mom said when she dropped off the candle, the checker inners, asked if we had been in Germany because they have that kind of egg there. Mom thought they liked it.

On the first day of the fair, we got a call from Auntie Lilly. She said that Momma would be a proud Momma, but she would not tell how well we did. On Sunday, my 4-H Leader said “Congratulations!” but would not tell how well I did, since I did not know yet. We went to the fair after church and saw that I got a Champion Ribbon! That is the highest I can get because candles do not go to State Fair. My candle was chosen as the best by the judges! When we got the paper saying how well I did, the judge asked “I wonder how many egg shells that took?” Momma said that she was told by my leader the egg was perfect!

My goal for next year is to do better on my pictures. I earned honors this year, but would like to do better.

Camp Song to Annoy Your Parents

This is a repeat after me song, so you say what I say and you do what I do 🙂

Tarzan,
Swinging on a rubber band,
Smashed into a frying pan,
Now Tarzans got a tan.

I hope it doesn’t peel
Like a banana! (Beat your chest)

Jane,
Flying in an aeroplane.
Crashed into a traffic lane,
Oh, that hurt! (high squeaky voice)
Now Jane has a pain,
Now Tarzan has a tan.

I hope it doesn’t peel
Like a banana! (Beat your chest)

Cheeta,
Was dancing to the beata,
Crashed into the streeta,
Now Cheeta is Velveta,
And Janes has a pain,
Now Tarzan has a tan.

I hope it doesn’t peel
Like a banana! (Beat your chest)

The Leap

At camp, the Junior Highers got to do THE LEAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was fun. To do it you

  1. got in the harness
  2. prayed with your councilor
  3. climbed
  4. and climbed
  5. and climbed
  6. and climbed
  7. got on to the platform
  8. and jumped!!!!
  9. If we wanted to, we could try to hit the red ball.

As I was climbing, I wished I had chosen the shorter Leap. When I got to the top, I was still wishing that. As soon as I got to the ground after jumping, I was glad that I did the big one.  Since the small ones were not so tall, they would not have been so much fun. I wish I could do it again. I would have gone for the ball!

 

4-H Projects

This year I did

FIVE

projects for 4-H!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I did

  • one candle
  • two posters
  • two Salon prints!

Here are some pictures so you know what to look for.