One Amazing Sunday!!!!!!!!!!

Well, last Sunday was totally awesome! Around 8 AM, all of us girls were ecstatic at the HUGE trailer coming down our little road. Dr. Sterrett's trailer is (guessing) a 12 horse and it is pulled by a semi. AMAZING!!!

We started unloading the round-pen panels, sound system, and crates of books/movies/shirts, etc. As we worked, more people showed up and things started moving along. At one point, Tyler said that there were 38 cars here!!!!

The sermon itself was great. He took a totally unhandled long yearling and within 1.5 hours was on her back trotting both ways. I think it was harder to understand what he did for those who don't understand horses, but this little filly was a jerk. At first, I actually thought, "Hmmm...I wonder if he bit off more than he can chew. He may not be able to break her?!?" But, no sweat. Again, I can't believe at the way he can handle a crazy horse and the whole time relate it to our lives. He covered so many topics in such a short time that you felt a little breathless afterwards :)

Lunch in our beautiful front yard was so fun. There was unbelievable amounts of food and desserts especially! Always a great thing to have lots of, right?!?!? We fellowshipped, talked, danced, and hung out for a little while, and then we started re-packing all the equipment into his trailer.

We had 13 EZ-Up canopies down in the arena to provide shade for everyone who was watching. There were also lots of folding chairs. So, after about 2 hours of working, we got the barn area cleaned up and sent Dr Sterrett off to his next stop. I really hope he comes back next year!!!!

The front yard was really fun to clean up....some of us started racing to clean up tables/chairs...which was fun until Jessie and Geramy almost ran over me and Brooke because they were carrying tables and racing for the gate :) It's so great to work with friends because it's just fun the whole time. Everyone pitches in and a huge amount of work gets done in a very short time period.

As it got later/darker, the boys played football for a while. David slipped on our grass and landed on his side...creating a nice bruise on the side of his leg in the shape of the knife that was in his pocket!

After that, we started playing Capture-the-Flag, but that ended abruptly. As soon as the game started, I ran as fast as I could from where I was hiding towards their flag because they didn't have anyone guarding it. Well, I tried to turn on the wet grass and my right leg slipped out from under me and I really hurt my knee. At first, I thought it was really hurt; I couldn't walk on it at all. But, then it eased up a little, and I am doing OK, but wearing a brace on it.

Needless to say, I was done with the physical activities for the night, so we built a little campfire in the driveway. We were going to do a bonfire with the tree we took out on Sat., but it got too late. For a while, us three girls, David, Noah, Josiah, and Matt all looked through the piles of dead wood for scorpions using black lights.

After about an hour of unsuccessful searching, we begged Mom and Mrs. R. into going and getting marshmallows. Some of us burned ours, and some of us made them gooey and delicious. As we all wound down, Matt and Josie pulled out their guitars and we sat around the fire and played and sang for a while. It was beautiful.

So.....the whole thing was incredible. We had quite a few people hint that we should do church at our house during the months when the weather is nice...I don't object at all! Everyone was awesome about setting up and then cleaning up. By Monday afternoon, you could have never known that 200 people were at our house 24 hours before. Thank you so much to all of you who helped so willingly. My mom was kind of hesitant to have a big group at our house just because of the clean up afterwards, but she was so pleased, and said she wouldn't mind doing it again at all. God has really blessed us with an amazing church and amazing friends.

I hope everyone else enjoyed it as much as I did, and now.....I'm still catching up on sleep, so I'm off to bed :)

G'night,
Lisa

Falling Trees, Scorpions, Wishbones.....

Well, today was a very eventful day. Trying to get ready for the Lew Sterrett presentation tomorrow, we had a couple families come help us set up the tent, shades, chairs, etc. When all that was done, Dad and some of the other guys decided to take out a huge dead cottonwood tree in our back yard. After pulling down some HUGE pieces, they got the whole tree down, and proceeded to start cleaning it up.

Here's a video of the guys pulling down part of the tree. I think they enjoyed yelling "TIIMMMBBEERRR" more than anything else :)

Then....we found the scorpions. In the bark of the tree were TONS of gigantic scorpions. (we decided it was evolution...you know, the tree evolving into scorpions) It turned into a game...the younger boys would use hatchets and strip the bark off the stumps and then when they found a scorpion, Mr. K or Geramy would grab it (they had gloves on), and then we put them all in a jar. Final count....16!! And we could have found more.

Dad: "This is heavy!!"

Geramy: "This is easy!...carrying scorpion-infested wood!"

It was fun, until Mr. R got stung. A scorpion crawled up his pants leg and stung his knee. Pandemonium broke lose as everyone ran around getting ice, Benadryl, etc. Everything turned out fine, but it made some of us put on boots and tuck our jeans into our boots so no scorpions could go up our pants! Aaahhh...I hate scorpions!!!!! They're so evil looking!

Here's a video of Dad and Mr. K breaking our "Waddell Wishbone." Yeah, we grow 'em big out here in the country!

So, I think everything is ready for tomorrow. Brooke and I had so much fun because we had so many inside jokes that we would just start laughing about and it was driving the girls crazy cause we wouldn't tell them! We got called "trouble," "cohorts," and "hard working airheads!" (The last was because we were trying to set up tables...and failing!)

It was really fun, and thanks so much to everyone who came and helped!!

Sooooooooo excited for tomorrow!

Lisa

Random Facts....

So, if you've seen my "random facts" on the right side of my blog, comment on this post and tell me some random facts about yourself!

A Summary of Our Recent Life

Well...I have tried to hold off on saying that "fall is here" until the weather actually feels like it...and it finally does! I have been running around in sweatshirts/jeans instead of t-shirts/shorts finally! I haven't pulled out my Carhartt jacket yet, though :) Still, when you're used to 109 degrees, 55 feels like freezing! Soooo, it is now "officially" fall and so I changed my blog background to something more "fallish."

I can't wait till Christmas...then I get to start putting lights up on our house. Christmas is my absolute most favorite time of year! Not so much Christmas Day as the whole month of December. We have a ton of decorations that we do our whole house in and so as soon as it gets towards the end of November, I will be posting pictures of a Christmas-y house! YAY!!!

Something exciting is going on here next Sunday (Oct 31st). A man named Lew Sterrett is going to be coming to our house to do church. We have had the opportunity multiple seems to see him and he is amazing. He is a horse trainer to the level of a Parelli, Clinton Anderson, or Chris Cox, but he is a Christian. The whole time he is working with the horse, he is comparing how the horse has to submit to it's human master in the same way our heart have to submit to our Master, Christ. The really incredible thing is that he will be working with a totally out-of-control 2 yr old, and the whole time, he is quoting Scripture, preaching, etc. When I'm working with a crazy horse, ALL my attention is on the horse...I don't know how he does it.

Anyways, our whole church will be coming to hear him, and then we will do lunch in our front yard. It should be an amazing time, and I am really excited.

As a result of him coming, we have been doing fun stuff like re-painting the front porch, fixing shade cloth at the barn, buying EZ-Up canopies, and more. Hopefully I will be able to post pictures afterwards.

A couple weeks ago, we started doing David Quine's High School Worldview Study with the R's and the K's. It is amazing! Right now, we are comparing the Judeo-Christian worldview with the Greco-Roman worldview. This means we are reading the Bible and summarizing passages from that as well as reading the Iliad (Homer) and doing the same. Wow...those Greek gods were some characters! Really messed up, let me tell ya! David is not too thrilled with the Iliad AT ALL..but then again, none of us are. Sabrina says it makes no sense, and Jessie is freaked out by the in-detail descriptions of how guys get killed. BUT..aside from all that, contrasting the two wv's is really good. All 6 of us kids are really loving it. (Except for I need to get better on summarizing!!!!....HA HA HA for those of you who know what I mean!)

After worldview, the K's usually stay for dinner which is usually pizza. Last week, we scraped all the old paint off of the front porch, so we can re-paint it. Then, after dinner, Brooke and I tried to sneak up and scare the girls (Anna, Jessie, Hope, Macie, Sabrina) who were on the front porch, but we couldn't because we were laughing too hard. I don't know why Brooke was laughing...I was laughing cause she was laughing :) Ahhh...it was late and we were crazy tired and rather delirious. And then, she and I tried to have a serious conversation back in my room, but were interrupted by the cold driving the 5 younger girls inside. No serious conversation from then on!!!

Right now, I am actually not at home. Mrs. F asked me to come do some photography at their Pilate Studio (work-out room, basically), and so I am now sitting in her office while she is finishing up stuff before she runs me home. Hadleigh & Laney are at our house with Anna & Jessie probably having the time of their life. They are sooooo cute!!!

Well, I should probably stop playing and go back to...guess what?!?!?...reading the Iliad!!! Did I mention that this study is VERY time consuming??

Lisa

Communion

So, Mrs. M wanted to sing for communion last Sunday, and she asked if Matt and I would accompany her. It went great, and here are the videos....

Grace Flows Down


In Christ Alone