Happy Valentines Day!!

Hello everyone!!  I just wanted to wish you a Happy Valentines Day!  Sorry I haven't posted much lately.  What's been going on in your world?  Mine has been crazy!! 
I'll tell you the story in a later post this week. : ) 

Speaking of stories... how are you liking "Katie's Journey"?   I'm just curious if you guys like it or not. : )  Please read it if you haven't yet.  : )

I'm sorry... that was a kind of a random post! LOL!: )

 

                                                                   Talk to you later

~ Mallory : )

 



Great Givaway!!

Hey! I wanted to tell you all about this giveaway on this other website.  Sorry... it ends tonight... too late, huh? : /
 If you want to enter, just either post this on your blog  and/or website, or subscribe by e-mail.  There are many others that you'll see on there.
 The website is written by young ladies that have committed themselves to the Lord and being a stay-at-home daughters.  This is a really cool site, and I hope you guys like it. : )
Here's the link to the giveaway : http://shiningstarsmagazine.com/2013/01/book-review-and-giveaway-chucking-college-by-melanie-ellison/
                                                                                 Thanks!

             Mallory

News

So I have some good news and some bad news...  which one shall I tell you first?  I think I'll tell the bad new first... remember the home school civil war ball that our family attended last January?  Well the ball would have been on the 28th of this month, but we went to buy tickets after Christmas, and the lady had to cancel it. 
 : (   We were SO sad! 
So... ready for the good news?  Well my sister Erin decided that we should host one ourselves on April 13th (the day before my sister's 22nd birthday : D ). It actually will be at the same location as the other one. It's a ball for just home schooled students, home school graduates, and family.  If you are interested, we have a blog set up, and I'll link it at the end of the post.  All ages welcome! 
Please let all of your friends know about this!  We would greatly appreciate it if you would put this poster everywhere you can think of! Thank you! We would love to see you there! : )

  We believe that this event will be a wonderful time to spend with like-minded families to make wonderful memories! : ) 

 Here's the link for the blog:  http://thecivilwarball.blogspot.com/

Our e-mail address is:  thecivilwarball@yahoo.com

We are also on Facebook!

 

~ Mallory Beth

P.S. There is also a ball in Yale, OK on February 23.  This ball is free, which is always great!  Our family went to this last year, and it was pretty fun.  Although it is not home school families only, there are some home school people attending.  

Let us know if you have any questions!  : D

 

Chapter 2

I just wanted to quickly let you all know that I have FINALLY finished Chapter 2 of "Katie's Journey"! : ) Sorry that it took so long to post, and I hope you like it.  I had little bit more trouble with this one... and I will adment... this isn't my strongest writing skills. : ( 
But I do want to tell you that if you get a little lost in the plot of this chapter, I'm puting little hints here and there later, so that you can kind of guess what Katie is struggling with through out the whole book.  Thanks for reading!
                                                How has your week been so far?  I hope it's been great! : )
                                                                           Your sister in Christ,
                                                                                  ~  Mallory

New Year's Snow!

Happy New Year!!  I can't believe it's 2013 already!  Well this morning I woke up to flurries of snow... it was really pretty!  I thought I'd share the pictures with you.  : )  Erin went out this morning and took some pictures for me, so that I could put these on here. : )

This is a small tree that we have in our front yard lightly covered with snow.

 Our back porch

Erin's car

 

 

                                        This is Daddy's shed in our back yard, by our garden

Bricks around our flowerbed in our front yard



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Eventhough we enjoyed the snow while it fell, it didn't stay too long.: (   Some of it has stuck around a little bit longer, but a lot of it has already melted.  : /  I'm sad... but hopefully it will come again, before the weather becomes warmer. 

I also realized that this is my one year anniversity of my blog today!  You guys have made 2012 AWSOME... eventhough I havn't been all that comitted to posting often enough. ; )

But I have made it one of my New Year's revolutions to be more comitted to you all.  So I will try to keep this promise the best that I can. : )

I can't wait to see what the Lord will do in 2013!  I guess we'll have to wait and see! ;  )

                                                                           Have a great day!

                                                                                    ~ Mallory





Katie's Journey Page/Merry Chirstmas!

Hello everyone! I just wanted to announce that I am going to be adding Katie's Journey to a different page, so that you can look at it with out having to search for it. : )  I am trying to work on Chapter 2, but I've had a little bit of a brain block... so you only have to wait a little bit longer! Haha! : )
 I'm sorry that I didn't post on Christmas, but our family came down from Michigan, and I didn't have time. : /    But I guess it's never too late to wish you all a Merry Christmas!! : )  How was your Christmas and what do you usually do for your holiday? 
                                             Have a wonderful rest of the day, and I'll talk to you next year!  ; )
                                                                                   ~ Mallory

Busy Busy Busy!!!

I haven't posted in a while, but I have been really busy!  It seems that it's impossible to slow down lately, and I know that my family isn't the only one.  Why is it that the world says that homeschooled people aren't socialized, though it seems to us that we're running none-stop? : /
  ... I'm not sure...
 I promise to post more after everything calms down! 

I do have a couple questions for all of you. First, what did you think of the election?  You've sort of heard what I thought, but I'm curious what you think.  : )
Second, do you think it's a good idea if the 20 states decide to succeed from the Union and start our own conservative government?  Some people are afraid that it will start a civil war... what do you think? : )
If you haven't read an article about it, here's a link to a Yahoo! post. Click here to view it.
( I couldn't find one off of a conservative website, so I had to link this one. )

Those of you who are just seeing my blog for the first time, feel free to say what you feel!

I'm sorry for my sort of "political" post, but I hope you like it.  : )



~ Mallory

Defeated!

I don't know what to say.......   I think that Romney deserved to win. I prayed that it would be so.  But unfortunately America chose Obama.  I have no idea what sort of damage our president will bring to our country, but I know that God knows best, and He'll take care of His people.  All we can do is pray that the Lord will open his eyes in these next four years.
All we can do is pray....  : )

First Chuch Of God Centennial Celebraiton! September 30-31

 

 

Hello! It's been a few days since I've posted, but I've finally found time to post. This last weekend has been REALLY busy at our church lately getting ready for our centennial celebration!  Here's the events we attended this weekend:

 

On Saturday night, we had a singing in our sanctuary.  All of the old pastors from the years past came back, and sang a few songs for us. 

This is half of the Centennial Choir

 

This is our old youth pastor, Michal Mattocks.  His family has gone through some really hard times a few years ago.  He became really sick, and they didn't know what it was, until two years ago.  They have two sweet boys now, and live in Colorado. We see the family every once in a while, and we love them very much!

 

 This is our current pastor, Andrew Rebein.

 

 

The man on the left is an old pastor, Brother Gable.  He became the pastor a little while after we started attending there.  He is a very sweet man, and really funny! 

 

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Then on Sunday, we had one combined service that morning.  Then that night, we had a big celebration out on our new church property.

Daddy lounging in a chair while listening to the Downing Family playing some gospel music. They played wonderful bluegrass gospel music! 

The Downing Family

We took  our friend's little son, Keegan, that night.  Isn't he handsome? : )

 

He loved playing on the playtoy that looked like Noah's Ark

 

 

We stopped the swing so we could get a better shot.

The church bought a bunch of glow sticks, and Keegan loved them!  

We ended the great evening with a beauiful firework show.

The funniest thing happened that night when the fireworks started.  I've never seen a baby fall asleep during fireworks! 

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Even though it was a great evening, I still know that we won't have many more left... 

We are visiting more and more churches lately, and I'm still having hesitating thoughts about this.  I don't know about you, but Satan has been attacking our friends and family a lot lately. 

 If you didn't read my last post about our church, click here.

 

Please keep praying for our family.  I would really appreciate it! : )

Also keep praying for the leaders of our church.  That the Lord will open thier eyes, and turn it  all around!

 

Thank you again for the listening ear!

~Mallory : )

 

 

Polls Are Open!

Hey!  Good news!  My poll is now re-open, and I also have a new one that I have put on there. There will be more polls in the future... I'll just have to find out what to put on them. Ha ha! : )

I do have a question for you guys  who have polls on their own blogs though.  When I went to add another answer to the new poll, it just wouldn't let me click on it, and so that's why there's only two answers to choose from.  Any suggestions?

But please feel free to vote! 

Thanks! 

 Mallory

Could It Be?







Just wondering.....



 

Could these two small leaves that I found, be the first signs of Fall?  I hope so! : ) 

Fall is my favorite season for me, to admire God's creation. What's your favorite season of the year?  : ) 

 

 

Is it just me, or is this huge spider a little scary? We've found two of these in our backyard now! The other one is a little bit more large than this one.  

See the more white part of the web? If you look a little closer, it looks like writing, like in Charlot's Web! Cool, right?

OK... I'm done rambling for now! Ha ha! : )

Have a nice Sunday tomorrow!

 

 

2nd Annual Homeschool Civil War Ball

My family and I went to a homeschool Civil War Ball in Sand Springs, Arkansas. It was so much fun, and I can't wait for it next year! : ) It's in January, which is perfect weather. But... I'll give a link to thier website, and they also have a flyer to hand out.
Here's the link: http://civilwarballoklahoma.com/
I hope some of you can come out! I'd love to meet you!
Here's the link to last years pictures. ( if you haven't seen them ) http://thefaithcorner.blogspot.com/2012/03/homeschool-civil-war-ball-pictures.html

~ Mallory : )

Crazy Busy!!

I can't believe that the last time that I posted was on my birthday! I feel really bad, but we have been so busy lately. 
This has been our schedule lately... Monday... school, Tuesday... Homeschool band in Tulsa, Wednesday... Dance all day in Tulsa ( I'll tell you more about that later ),  Thursday... Daddy's day off, and now band has now moved back to town, and but not least, Friday... catch up on school as much as possible! I know... that was kind of a run-on sentence, but I didn't know how to get all that in separate sentences. Ha ha! : )

How was your summer? I hope it was eventful.

My sister Erin and I, also had a craft show last  weekend. It was in Prairie Grove, Arkansas, and it's called the Clothesline Fair. So we have been really busy with that. We actually went there early Friday, and set up our inventory. The craft show was Saturday through Monday, and a little tiring.  But it turned out very well! :  )
Also please pray for my family. We have been going to our home church for almost 16 years, and unfortunately we are in the early stages of finding a new one.  The church has gotten more and more liberal in the last 5 or 6 years.  It's a really long story of how we came to feel this way. But the gist of it is, they're getting so secretive, and impersonal. The sermons are very watered down, and there have been a lot of hurt feelings with the pastor. Again... it's a long story, but I would really appreciate your prayers! : )  I've selfishly been in denial for a long time, but I finally realized ( after a long tearful prayer ) that God is in control, and if He wants us to move somewhere else, than we should obey... it's just difficult.
On a happier subject, I've started dance back a few weeks ago, but I'm at one in Tulsa this year. A family we know through homescool and 4-H, go there, so that's cool that I actually know someone! :  ) It's a Christian based studio, and overall,  a lot more technique than I have ever had! I love it so far, and hope it will continue to be a positive experience.

Well.... I just have to say... I didn't mean to be so negative about my church. I respect a lot of people there, and that's why it's so hard for me to leave when it;s time. It's just been really heavy on my mind lately, and I felt like I needed to share my thoughts with someone!

Thanks for  listening! : )
 ~ Mallory

Sweet 16!!!!

Finally!! I'm 16 today!! I am going on a trip with some friends of ours today through Thursday. We're going to Branson, MO. Just wanted to let you know that I won't be posting for a few days, and I'll tell you more when we get back
Pray that we have a safe trip up there, and on the way back!!

 Thanks!

~Mallory

Happy 4th!

Happy late 4th of July!  I was going to say it Wednesday, but we had a couple of  family friends over, and I never had time to post it! : )  But Daddy had an extra day off, and so he thought we should have a last moment pool party.  We had a wonderful time celebrating our country's birthday! 

What did you do for your holiday?  :  )

Hope it was a great one!!!