Flash from the Past

Who are these babies : ) ?

Sadie & Daniel Franklin, Benny Miller, Peter & Markie Discher at Daniel's sixth birthday party. My how they have all grown up to be such fine young ladies and gentlemen.

My Soapbox

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...

Have the people running this country ever read the Constitution?

Our government has NO RIGHT

• to stop a student from thanking Jesus for her academic success or
• to forbid a coach from praying with his team or
• to force anyone to act against their conscience (a woman has a right to choose to have an abortion, but a medical professional does not have the right to choose not to perform an abortion?!)

This brings me to the Hippocratic Oath, which originally stated...

"I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan; and similarly I will not give a woman a pessary to cause an abortion."

According to Wikipedia, the Hippocratic Oath has been altered or "in an attempt to legitimize abortion, cultural and social forces have induced many American medical schools to abandon the Hippocratic Oath as part of graduation ceremonies."

I realize that this is a family blog that exists for the purpose of posting the day to day activities of our family, but I have just about had it with the constant attacks on Christians in this country and I just needed to get this off my chest. I realize we may actually be coming to the end of the age, but I also realize that "calling evil good and good evil" is almost as old as time.

"But as a woman rebelleth against her husband: so have ye rebelled against me, O house of Israel, saith the Lord. ... For my people is foolish, they have not known me: they are foolish children, and have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do well they have no knowledge." (Jeremiah 3:20; 4:22) (1599 Geneva Bible)

We must know for ourselves what is in our Constitution. Did you know that it is "UNCONSTITUTIONAL" for our government to prohibit the free exercise of religion? It is time we stopped letting the minority rule. Why is it alright to censor free Christian speech because it might offend someone, but not alright to censor vulgarity even if it offends someone?

I leave you with this thought...

"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their RIGHT, it is their DUTY, to THROW OFF such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

The Declaration of Independence

The seemingly never ending time travels

As I wrote earlier, my parents were here to visit us right after Christmas. My dad is a professional Santa Claus and they both worked the Santa set in Houston, TX this past season. We decided to invite some of our new friends to bring their children and/or grandchildren over for a visit with Santa. It was a nice excuse to have a little party while we were between flocks.

My dad with Dustin, one of our new friends

I finally had a reason to use the three tier serving tray my mom gave me a few years back!

homemade cookies

Not quite a Bell or Discher spread, but nice ; )

Suzie Bell's famous Coffee Frappe

Believe it or not I actually own three punch bowls and this was the first time I ever had need of one ; )

Sadie has become quite the baker. She is now required to keep both cookie jars filled under penalty of having to put up with whining from her biggest fans (Daddy & Mama).

heads or...

tails?

Traveling Back in Time - Part IV

Christmas - Part II

In our fourth trip back in time we find ourselves still enjoying Christmas. Patrick and I were quite consumed with the chicken houses (they went to market two days after Christmas). Since we hadn’t used our own Christmas decorations the past two years, we were quite anxious to use them this year. We had arranged the living room and accessed the decorations, but had not found time to put them up. We came in one day to find that the children had decorated without us. It was a pleasant surprise. They also surprised us by putting on a Christmas program. I have had a bit of a time trying to upload the video of the program. I'll try again later.

This is my old Christmas tree from college. Sandy, can you believe I still have it?

Our tree skirt with the children's hand prints painted on it is always fun to look at each year. My how they have grown ; )

Patrick built this stable when I was pregnant with Sadie. I remember discussing baby names as he worked on it.

being silly

Traveling Back in Time - Part III

Part III - Christmas Part I

My parents (aka Mimi & Drandad) came up to visit us just after Christmas. We finished our first flock the day they arrived. They stayed for almost two weeks and were a huge help in getting ready for our second flock (that arrived the day before they left).

Emilie hugging Drandad

Mimi found several wonderful denim skirts for Sadie in Texas

Daniel got a John Deere pocket watch

Emilie got a princess costume for Christmas from Mimi & Drandad

brother & sister dancing

Sadie fixed Emilie's hair to suit her new princess dress

Traveling Back in Time - Part II

In our second trip back in time, we find ourselves celebrating Thanksgiving. It was so nice to have all of our own things around us this Thanksgiving. The last two years were celebrated at my parents' house while they were in New York.

Daniel & Emilie helping with the crescent rolls

We had smoked turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, green beans, sweet potato casserole, crescent rolls & cranberry salad.

The table looked so nice, set with the dishes I inherited from Grammie (my mom's mother)

The children did such a beautiful job of setting the table

sweet potato & pecan pie

Maya, enjoying her Thanksgiving treat!

Father & daughter

our beautiful young lady

little rascals - they clean up real nice ; )

Sadie made sure to get every one's picture, even me

Traveling Back in Time

I am going to attempt to get caught up on my posting. This can only be done by traveling back in time. Our first stop will be just a few days before Thanksgiving when Patrick and the kids painted the girls room. Sadie was the official photographer for this job. I usually find myself as the photographer when honey do jobs are being performed, but as you will see later, I was busy performing another task.

A self portrait

Getting instructions

Everyone got involved and had a great time

Very important work is being done here. If you recall, we had just started our first flock a few weeks before and I was exhausted!

Sadie and Emilie chose blue for their new room. It really turned out nice.