Bible Drill

This year Will and I are doing Bible drill, this will be our second year doing Bible drill. I did ok last year, I made it past the church drill and went to the associational drill, but I did not make it past associational. It was my first year and I didn't know exactly what to expect, but this year I do! so maybe I will do better.
Here are some of the verses:


Quotation verses


Genesis 1:27 
So God created man in his own image in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.


Exodus 20:13-16
Thou shalt not kill.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Thou shalt not steal.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.


1 Chronicles 16:8
Give thanks unto the Lord, call upon his name, make known his deed among the people.


Bible answers verses


Who knows my heart?
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Psalm 139:23-24


What good is wisdom?
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
Proverbs 3:13


What should I seek?
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Matthew 6:33


Key passage


Love the Lord
Deuteronomy 6:1-10


A Prayer for Forgiveness
Psalm 51


The Virtuous Woman
Proverbs 31:10-31


These are the verses that I have memorized so far, I'll add more later.
Bye


Amy

The Keepers Group


                                                                          Cookie Swap

Vida Jo and a baby



Amy and baby

Mom ( donna) and baby

Caitlyn

izzy and baby

Emmalyn!

katie and baby

the group

the boys

Amber, Emmalyn, and Katie

cookies



katie, me and cookies



happy baby

Amy
P.s. The babies are twins, I just can't tell the difference yet.

I am not easily distracted. I ... Hey. Look. Yarn!

Well, we haven't blogged in a while, so I will go ahead and tell ya'll some things that have gone on 'round here.

Lessee...

Momma and Daddy are on a cruise this week. (They left us poor unfortunate souls at Granny's....*sticks bottom lip out for emphasis*) They left from Charleston, SC to head to Nassau, Freeport, and will soon be in Key West. They will be back on Friday, Lord willing. I pray that they are having a wonderful, completely child-free week.

Now on to us that are back at Granny's...We are having a great time sleeping-in and staying up late. We have gone out everyday, and Granny has bought each of us at least one item of clothing. Thank you Granny!

Amy has been crocheting her fingers away. She has been working on a baby afghan, dish cloths, and tonight she made a cute little bag to use in her purse. And if she isn't crocheting, she is reading.


Amy and her baggie :)

Will has been reading, or....playing with LEGOS! Today he got to skip the shopping and instead went over to our cousins' home to have a Nerf war. He had a blast!

Granny has been cross-stitching, lookin at magazines, or (so graciously) doing laundry. Again, Thank you Granny! :)

And me? Well, I have been trying to keep these other three in line! I'm just kidding. I have been reading, crocheting or talking to Bryant.

We have been having light-hearted teasing and conversations with plenty of giggles.

From the home front...James called this evening to tell us that the puppies found a new toy. Yarn!!!! From what I've been told they got under Dad's side table and found some of Amy's yarn that had fallen. That just added to the giggles.

That is the jist of what has happened the past couple of days. I pray that all ya'll have a wonderful week. I also thank you for visiting our blog. God Bless!

~Kathryn

Pin Drop

At a time when our president and other politicians tend to apologize for our country's prior actions, here's a refresher on how some of our former patriots handled negative comments about our country.

 

These  are good

JFK'S
Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France in the early 60's when
DeGaulle decided to pull out of NATO.  DeGaulle said he wanted all US  
military out of France as soon as possible.



Rusk responded,
"Does that include those who are buried here?"

DeGaulle
did not respond.

You
could have heard a pin drop.



~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

When in England ,
at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the
Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of
'empire building' by George Bush.

He answered by saying,
"Over the years, the United States has sent many of
its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom
beyond our borders.  The only amount of land we have ever asked for
in return is enough to bury those that did not
return."

You
could have heard a pin drop.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


There was a conference in France
where a number of international engineers
were taking part, including French and American.  During a break,
one of the French engineers came back into the room saying, "Have you
heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft
carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims.  What does he
intend to do, bomb them?"

A Boeing engineer
stood up and replied quietly:  "Our carriers have three
hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are
nuclear powered and can supply emergency  electrical power to
shore facilities; they have three  cafeterias with the capacity to
feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand
gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a
dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and
from their flight deck.  We have eleven such ships;
how many does France have?"


You
could have heard a pin drop.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


A U.S. Navy Admiral
was attending a naval conference that included
Admirals from the U.S., English, Canadian, Australian and French
Navies  At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a large
group of officers that included personnel from most of those countries.
Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks but a
French admiral suddenly complained that, whereas Europeans learn many
languages, Americans learn only English. He then asked, "Why is it that
we always have to speak English in these conferences rather than
speaking French?"

Without hesitating,
the American Admiral replied, "Maybe it's because the
Brit's, Canadians, Aussie's and Americans arranged it so you wouldn't
have to speak German."

You
could have heard a pin drop.


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


AND
THIS STORY FITS RIGHT IN WITH THE ABOVE...

Robert Whiting,
an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane.
At French Customs, he took a few minutes to locate his passport
in his carry on.

"You
have been to France before, monsieur?" the customs officer asked
sarcastically.

Mr. Whiting
admitted that he had been to France  
previously.

"Then
you should know enough to have your passport ready."

The American said,
"The last time I was here, I didn't have to show it."

"Impossible.
Americans always have to show their passports on arrival in France !"

The American senior
gave the Frenchman a long hard look.  Then he
quietly explained, ''Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in
1944 to help liberate this country, I couldn't find a single Frenchmen
to show a passport to."

You
could have heard a pin drop.


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I got this in an e-mail from my mom this morning, I thought it was awesome.

Katie

Making vs. Buying

This morning I was given the assignment to blog....

I didn't know what to blog about, so I asked Dad for a suggestion, and he said to blog about making gifts instead of buying them.

Well, I think that a handmade gift is more special than something that was just puchased and wrapped, and it comes from the heart. It is made specifically for the person it is given to. It takes more thought, preperation, and work, than going out, seeing something that you think they would like and purchasing it. Plus, if they don't like what you bought them, they can return it, but if they don't like what you made them, they just have to suck it up and like it anyways.

 :)

I personally appreciate a handmade gift much more than something that was most likely made in China. I know that the person who made it for me loves me and they want me to have something that they made, specifically for me, with their own hands, and not some big machine in a foreign land.

Made in China

                                                                    

                                                                                 

Hand Made

Which would you rather be given?

~Kathryn

(P.s. I'm sorry about the repitition, and my grammer skills are lacking. And it is not because I'm a homeschooler, I'm just not good at it at all!)

The puppies

                                                                                 Chip

                                                                          chip

                                                 chip and Licorice

                                                                   Licorice

                                                                 Licorice

                                                                         Hershey

                                                                           chip

                                                                             Hershey

                                                                             chip

                                                                           chip

                                                                           Licorice