Caleb's Birthday

Today is Caleb's 15th birthday! This morning we had a scrumptious breakfast of ham, omelets, fruit, and caramel rolls (but Caleb got pancakes instead since he's allergic to wheat). On our birthdays we always get to pick our favorite foods for breakfast and supper. YUM! For supper we had a Mexican casserole, coleslaw, and watermelon. Caleb's dessert of choice is Special K bars, which are Rice Crispy bars but with chocolate on top.
Caleb got some pretty neat gifts, including a black powder horn, a wolf slingshot from Alaska (pictured below) and a machete. This afternoon he shot off his muzzle loader that he had bought several weeks ago. I've posted some pictures of him loading and shooting it.

Here are some of his favorite things (thanks to the Wissmann family for the idea!):

Food -- pancakes
Activity -- hunting and shooting guns
Fruit -- apples
Restaurant -- Golden Corral
Bible Character -- Caleb
Dessert -- ice cream with peanut butter cups
Color -- black
Music group -- Triple L Band
Sport - football
Snack - cereal
Place to stay - anywhere
Drink - apple cider
Vegetable - carrots

The Fourth Man

Are You Walkin'

Here's a video of our family singing at a gospel bluegrass festival. Hopefully I'll be posting a couple more soon!

Last Weekend

Hey everybody, here's an update on what we've been doing lately.

This past Saturday my family and I went to a Heritage Festival about an hour or so from our house. We left around 8 in the morning and stopped at several garage sales along the way. When we arrived at 10:00am, a couple of my younger siblings went right to a three legged race, and we enjoyed walking around looking at all the different buildings. There was a general store, an exhibit building, an old house or two, and a LOT of rendezvous tents set up all over the place. It's fun seeing people dressed up in old-fashioned clothing. I like doing that myself occasionally (mostly just around the house)! My 14-year-old brother, Caleb, had brought his muzzle loader with, and he had a blast shooting it off in the gun range. He learned a lot from the guys there.

We spent the rest of the early afternoon eating lunch, looking around, and watching some bands play (we weren't overly impressed with any of them, though). Later, we went to the campground and went swimming and canoeing in the lake, and also in the pool they had there. It was a hot day!! We spent the rest of the evening eating supper, putting up our tent, riding bikes, and roasting marshmellows over the fire as it got dark!

The next day we packed up and went back to the festival. There was some preaching and singing outside so we went right over to that. I REALLY like what the preacher had to say! He said that we are the church, not the building we meet in. He also talked about how things have changed over the last couple hundred years, both good and bad. I liked it when he mentioned the persecuted church in China. Did you know that a few days ago some Americans flew to China with over 300 Bibles to hand out when they got there, and the authorities took them all away? Read the article here. Also, here is a great website to look at if you want to learn more about the persecuted church: www.persecution.com.

Late Sunday morning we left the festival, visited some friends, and then came home. Actually, we stopped at KFC on the way home. Mmmmm!! We don't go out to eat very often (it can get really expensive for 7 people, not to mention rather unhealthy as well!) so it was a delicious treat. :-)

Well, I guess I'll sign off for now. I hope to post a movie of our family singing soon!!

Hannah

The Hartley Family

Simple Grace video

This is pretty neat - three people and three intsruments, but each person playing a part of two instruments at the same time! (if that doesn't make sense, just watch!)

Triple L Band movie 2

Triple L Band movie 1

Family Music Festival

Last weekend we went to the Lake Itasca Family Music Festival and had a great time! We really enjoyed listening to the bands. Here's a link to the website that tells about the Festival: http://www.familybluegrass.com/. Some of our favorites were: The Johnson Family, The Hartley Family, and The Triple L Band.

Saturday at the festival was cloudy, and later in the evening it started looking like it was going to rain. After a little while it started to sprinkle, then as it started coming down harder they announced that we were going to take a break until it passed over. So I went under one of the tents (just some blue tarp over some wood) where a couple of the bands were selling CD's. It started getting quite windy and raining harder. All of a sudden a big gust of wind came up and the whole tent collapsed . . . and a long 2x4 piece of wood fell on my head! I was shocked but alright. There were a lot of people under the tent but only one other guy and I were hit. Several people asked, "Are you okay?!" We were both fine, just a little bruised. Thankfully no one was hurt worse!

Here's some pictures from our time there. I'll add some movies later, even thought the quality isn't that good since I was using just my camera, and it was hard to keep it steady. Hope you enjoy them!

Anna and I (a new friend I met) under the tarp I wrote about, before it collapsed. I'm a little scrunched down in this picture!

The Triple L Band

The Johnson Family

My New Blog!

Hello everybody!

I'm so excited to have my own blog now! I hope to be able to write in it at least once a week and post lots of pictures and some movies!

Here's a little bit about myself for those of you who don't know me - my name is Hannah and I am 17 years old (almost 18). I graduated from our home school in 2007. I enjoy playing and listening to music, writing, photography, reading and more! I live with my mom, dad, and four younger siblings on a 10 acre hobby farm. We have chickens, dogs, cats and a large garden. We are a homeschooling, conservative Christian family and we enjoy playing gospel bluegrass together.

Here's my theme verse:

2 Peter 3:18 "But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen."

I'll be posting more in the next few days!

Hannah