Agape

2011-01-19T14:54:00.002-05:00

Well it seems the media is in a frenzy again. This time it's over some things the newly elected govenor of Alabama said. He apparently said that only Christians were his brothers and sisters but that he wwould like everyone to be so. I haven't heard the actual speech but I don't think he meant that in the way the media and non Christians are taking it. In the Bible fellow Christians are referred to over and over as our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ because Christ is our spiritual father. Unbellievers don't have Christ as their father therefor they aren't our brothers and sisters. It doesn't symbolize any hatred or ill will towards non Christians. As believers we want everyone to believe and come to know the joy of Christ in their life. I think this was why he said he wished everyone could be his brothers and sisters. I admit I don't know the man or his full beliefs but I understand his sentiment and maybe if the media and action groups understood Christianity a little bit better they wouldn't make such a fuss over nothing :(

As for Mary...............go ahead marry us off! Mik needs all the encouragement he can get!!!! lol
Erika I didn't even know you were pregnant! How awesome!

SSSNNNOOOWWW!!!

2011-01-11T14:54:00.003-05:00

It's snowing............again :( That's all it's done since December and I'm getting depressed:( Life stops in the mountains when it snows and there is nothing to do but stay on this dang computer........................and so here I am again, tryin to blog. my posts may be short (if you want the long post, check out mik's blog, he's the writer!) but I am gonna stick with it this time. There is no church at Jackson Valley tonight because of the snow but at least now I get to watch UK beat the crap outta Auburn tonight! hehe

2009-01-28T17:17:00.002-05:00

ok, so I'm not a great writer and my only visitors seem to be Mik and Erica. oh well...........lol
Seems like I have to write about Mik's suprising visit Sunday. He got up at 3 in the morning and drove 6 hours to meet me at church in Mckee..............sigh.............I love him :)He has a perfect account of our day at his blog http://alohamik.blogspot.com/ so I won't repeat, but it meant so much for me to see him. He is in the busiest part of his year and we haven't been able to chat as often or as long as we want. I have some insecurities about why an able- bodied man 6 hours away wants me around but his visits always confirm that he is just as in love as I am, para siempre ;)

a small ray of sunshine :)

2009-01-19T18:26:00.004-05:00

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww that picture makes me feel better :) These cold ugly winter days are starting to get to me. Mik was gonna come in for a short visit Saturday but of course Siberia (my name for Toledo or anywhere north of Lexington) got snowed in again. It iced and snowed a skiff here to. Ugh nasty stuff. Anyway I'm hoping to get some UK tickets so Mik can experience Rupp Arena. But that may not happen till mid Febuary, we'll see................

2009-01-07T17:17:00.002-05:00

So........... here I go again with this blog. I seem to have trouble being very committed to it but with january and febuary, my two most hated months, staring at me, I figured why not? I'm not a huge writer but I do want to stay in touch with Erica more and also I like to post pictures every now and then. I updated my profile a bit with some new likes :)Some things will never change like my love for Chtist and my love for my Mik. I call Mik my "Edward" and if you've read the Twilight books you know what I mean. The perfect male, almost anyway ;)True to form blogger won't upload my picture! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

My gift from God

2007-11-07T13:38:00.000-05:00

So I suck at blogging :( I have no excuses other than laziness and being in love. Speaking of which........ Mik has been down the last two weekends. I loved it! :) When he is here I am my happiest... he is a gift to me from God.

Whitney and Josh's wedding

2007-09-09T13:53:00.000-04:00

Well it's been a while but here I am again ;) I'm usually pretty busy chatting with Mik but hockey started back this weekend and Mik is on the road with the Cherokee. He calls and broadcasts their games. :( Oh well........he's a hard worker :) He was here last weekend and it was wonderful! I am completely in love and I can't believe how he has blessed my life.

In other news.....I went to a wedding last night. The first wedding in our renovated church. It was the most beautiful wedding I had ever seen. They had crushed hydrangas covering the stage with candles everywhere. Very elegant. I look at weddings in a strange new light these days.

bored..............

2007-08-19T15:26:00.000-04:00

Well it's been almost the entire month of August since my last post. lol I just suck at it, I'm sorry.

Right now I'm just bored. I'm waiting for Mik to come online but he has been run to death looking after his sisters right now so I may have to wait until after church tonight before I talk to him. I think I'm addicted!

Birthday boy

2007-07-31T18:34:00.000-04:00

Finally I got the long awaited pictures of me and Mik from his birthday weekend :) I am still in love with this man! He is so kind and caring and a bit of a goofball as you can tell ;) but I like him that way. lol I miss him so much but Lord willing I'll get to have another weekend with him around Labor Day :)

"His Eye is on the Sparrow"

2007-07-30T18:32:00.000-04:00

I will post again as soon as I get some pictures of me and my Mik that are coming soon (long story) but in the meantime enjoy Amber singing...............

Wildcat Fan Quiz

2007-07-25T20:50:00.000-04:00

I copied this off of www.kentuckysportsradio.com because I thought it was hilarious. lol

Friends,

As we close in upon the start of the college football season, which inevitably will lead us into the college basketball season, today's Need-to-Know Wednesday focuses upon something you need to know more than anything else — yourself.

Socrates once said the unexamined life is not worth living, which is why today NTKW brings you the almighty series of questions and answers by which all Kentucky fandom will one day be known. And it shall be called the official Wildcat Fan Quiz. So take a moment, get your morning coffee, test your mettle with the seven questions below — and find out just what kind of Kentucky sports fan you are.

Question 1: Kentucky's football team is playing a mid-season game against Middle Tennessee State. The weather on this day is a constant torrential downpour, so:
a.) I put on my poncho and head out to Commonwealth Stadium. Because let's face it, rain is part of football season — and it's important to support the team.
b.) I stay at home. This weather is murder on my knee. Plus I'm likely to catch my death of cold out there. I'm not going to sit in the rain like some yahoo.
c.) I take a fifth of SoCo and spend the whole first half belly-sliding in the mud outside the stadium before throwing up onto the grill and passing out in the fetal position on the front step of the Gerontology Center.
d.) I use the rainy day to level up my magic skills, intermittently taking a break to check the score and IM my girlfriend, who I've never met face to face.

Question 2: My favorite team era of Kentucky Basketball is:
a.) The Unforgettables. You have to love a bunch of homegrown Kentucky boys who stuck with a program they love and fought as hard as they could to accomplish their boyhood hopes and dreams.
b.) Rupp's Runts. Now those were the days. Classic players, memorable championships and minority-free basketball.
c.) Team Turmoil. Maybe they didn't get the job done, but those guys knew how to party. Great dudes. Seriously. I had class with a couple of those dudes. They were supercool.
d.) 1994-1996. Center Mark Pope was both a scholar and an athlete, which showed me at a young age that it's cool to be smart. And also that you can read books and basketball players will maybe still hang out with you.

Question 3: When Duke's Christian Laettner hit his infamous shot to defeat Kentucky in 1992, I:
a.) Hung my head sadly, knowing the season was over and feeling bad for both the team and the many fans across the state whose hopes had been dashed.
b.) Told those sissies to suck it up, because I didn't run through a hail of bullets in WWII to recover a friend's leg so they could cry over a damn basketball game.
c.) Drank a pint of Everclear and punched my grandma in the face because she said Laettner "looked like a nice boy."
d.) Cheered because the blue team won. Then I realized the other team won.

Question 4: When Tubby Smith won his first Championship in 1998, I:
a.) Could not have been more happy for Smith and his team and implemented a "Wear Your UK Blue" day at the insurance office I manage.
b.) Acknowledged a job well done, watched the Murder She Wrote episode my wife and I had been recording in the other room, bought a commemorative videotape down at the Kroger, and went to bed.
c.) Gave out high fives while my girlfriend totally flashed her boobs on top of the Lynagh's sign during the celebration on Euclid. Then I fell and hit my head on a fire hydrant and knocked myself out and someone peed on me.
d.) Got together with friends to play Risk, bought a twelve-pack of Mountain Dew and got CRAZY while we watched Keith's copy of The Last Starfighter.

Question 5: My official stance on the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced basketball film Glory Road is that I:
a.) Prefer not to watch it. Though I understand the magnitude of the accomplishments detailed in the film, I feel as if it villainizes the University of Kentucky and have no interest in supporting that portrait of the team.
b.) Think Montgomery Clift should have played Rupp. They don't make stars like that anymore.
c.) Isn't John Voight in that? Dude, remember him in Anaconda? That movie is so awesome. Let's get hammered and watch Anaconda. Want to?
d.) It's no The Last Starfighter.

Question 6: When I go to a Kentucky Wildcat Men's Basketball game, I:
a.) Love to take my young son. I think it's important he know how special this team is to the state in which he's growing up.
b.) Am not going to stand up and you can't make me. Now can someone tell me why that giant cat is wearing a basketball jersey and a hat? That's just ridiculous.
c.) Spend most of the day doing upside-down margaritas and most of the game shirtless, telling my friends how one time I almost got a BJ from that girl three rows down. Yeah the red-haired one. No, I'm serious. I was this close but her fat friend made her leave the party.
d.) Think there should be more Last Starfighter clips integrated into the opening sequence.

Question 7: The following statement sums up my feelings for University of Kentucky Athletics:
a.) Its fan base will never die.
b.) I'm cold.
c.) Do you think I could talk Stacy into a threesome?
d.) More people should give The Last Starfighter another chance.

NOW TALLY YOUR SCORE! Award yourself points for the following answers.
a - 4 points
b - 3 points
c - 2 points
d - 1 point

IF YOU SCORED:
22-28 points - You're the classic Kentucky fan. Die-hard and supportive with a love of the team that you hold dear.
15-21 points - I'm sorry that you will only be able to enjoy Kentucky sports for a short while longer, as you likely will be dead soon. Please elect that your season tickets be entered back into the pool to give someone else a chance.
7-14 points - You totally rock. College is the best, isn't it? I hope we stay friends forever, man. I love you. You're like my best friend I've ever had. You wanna go to Waffle House? I mean it. You guys are the best. I don't feel good.
1-6 points - 11010110110111010110. 10101101011011011010100101101!

Thankful to God

2007-07-16T14:27:00.000-04:00

ok........ I for one thought I would never say this........... but I have fallen in love..........big time. lol This weekend was the man I have been crazy about birthday and he drove 12 hours both ways to spend it with me :)He is so kind and so good to me. He really treats me like a princess and then acts like he's the lucky one because I love him. He is the strongest Christian man I have ever met. He is just just everything I ever dreamed of. It takes someone special to overlook my limitations I know. I quess that's why I never realy imagined a future for myself outside of what I already had. I figured no one would choose a life of uncertainty with me but now............I am being awakened to new possibilities.

How Great is our God

2007-07-09T19:35:00.000-04:00

2007-07-07T17:09:00.000-04:00

I haven't posted in forever and I feel like I should say why...............I have a certain someone in my life now :) Most of my computer time is spent chatting with him :)because he lives away from here. That may sound gaggy I'm sure but love is strange. I am trying to not spend too much time with my nose in the net otherwise as I do have a life. I will still post as often as I find time so check back.

In the meantime I went to St. Augustine Florida so here are a few pics.........

MBC music

2007-06-18T13:17:00.000-04:00

So I'm finally updating. lol I've just been in a haze lately, a good haze;)

So anyway Mark, our sounnd guy at church is putting our singing on youtube. The one here is Lindsey Hays,mom, and Amber Thacker. there are a couple more up right now. Just click on on http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=MBCSoundGuy

just a short update because I'm happy :)

2007-06-08T18:37:00.000-04:00

I am so excited and looking forward to Sunday and vacation but Sunday first ;)Mik is coming down Sunday :) That makes me happy. :) I swear I'm not usually this giddy.

most of my friends :)

2007-06-02T14:08:00.000-04:00

I've been out of touch for a while but hopefully I can post more often now. I am happy right now :) but I am in a peculiar place to me anyways.

Last weekend Haley came to our church and did her dramatic representation of Ana Mac Clarke. That's her in the 40's army getup with me and Misti.

And then last night the girls I hung with in highschool had a.........thing lol at the cabin. We talked about bras, gyno visits, mamograms, the end of the world, bad marriages, and Shea, her family owning 3 gas stations, told us all why gas is so high. In the pics it is Shea, Brandy, Ronnie, me, and April and Misti (depending on the pic) Christi and Stacy weren't there.

Papaw Bingham 1912-2007

2007-05-22T12:27:00.000-04:00

Papaw died this morning. I'm not really grieving because he was old and sick and he wasn't going to get any better. He always had a zest for living and he tried as long as he could but once he finally made up his mind to go, he went quick.

This was a pic of him in 97 or 98, before he got sick.

McKee moments

2007-05-20T15:32:00.000-04:00

Well Black Monday it was for some things I guess but Dad got a clean bill of health and then Wednesday UK stole Patrick Patterson out from under Florida and Duke's nose so yeah......... it was good ;) Incidently UK now has the #7 ranked recruiting class in the county!

Tonight was so funny. Dad had to work up at the vo-tech school for the church's Doyle Lawson concert thing so me, mom and Virgie went down or up I guess to McKee to eat. We went to Buelah's and it was like Mckee nightlife lol. I knew Buelah's had singing on Saturday nights but that place was jumpin for over 50 year olds in McKee. And I, a 30 year old was there lol. The singing was............... good if your 60 and speak hillbilly. No really it was gospel and the ones there were loving it so that was great. The joint was packed and all I could think was .......if mik could see this he'd die lol :) It was a McKee moment! After eating we went to the highschool and stalked the prom-goers. Ahhh Jackson county :)

Black Monday

2007-05-15T17:20:00.000-04:00

Welp Catspause and kentuckysportsradio.com are calling yesterday Black Monday :( Since Billy Clyde made the scene he has worked nonstop on bringing in some talent for next year paticurely big men because we have a team full of pretty good guards. Yesterday we had 2 scholarships and 4 prospects. Jai Lucus signed with non other than Florida yesterday............which is fine by me becauase he's a 5'9 guard and we have better guards lined up for next year. So we were down to 3 with 2 scholarships still available. Next I hear Hamga, 6'11 center, commits to UNLV. Nobody saw that one coming. He was thought to be a UK lock. By nightfall they say Sanchez, another forward, has commited to Arkansas. By this time I'm like "what the heck is going on?" Now we're down to 1 player, Patterson, who will announce tomorrow. He is the best of the four but we're definately not going to fill both scholarships :( And Patterson is iffy. At lasst count he was leaning UK but Jai Lucas, little weasel, says he would be trying to get Patterson to come play with him at FL. Dang it! We need him. Otherwise we got all guards, a freshmaan 3 star forward and a slower than molasses in state center who might have played 3 minutes in his college career. We'll see what happens tomorrow........

Everyone pray for mik's sister right now too. She is diabetic too. She is not doing good at all right now.

God of Wonders

2007-05-12T12:20:00.000-04:00

Yeah it's later than Thursday I know but I'm gone all day and then by the time I return emails my fingers are so tired.

As most of you knew the doctors told dad Monday that he pretty much had cancer of the tongue. They took two biopsys and told us they would be back Thursday. We were so down :( and dad was so pitiful. He said he used his voice for everything, his job, singing, at JV, and if they took his tongue out................well it would be devastating. And then what if it had spread?

Everybody knows how important mom and dad are to me. Misti Bond has told me before that it's like she was married to her dad. Not in a physical sense but she loved him that much and that's me too. And I knew her dad had died eventhough he was a great man of God and everyone prayed for his healing. But that's all we have is prayer. Sometimes in life you realize that.

So we prayed......hard. everytime I thought about it I prayed which was all the time. Others were too and I thank you so much. God heard the prayers of His Beloved and granted us mercy because the biopsy was benign. No cancer :) It was an ulcerated something caused by his blood pressure medicine. Praise God he delivered us again!

I mentioned a dream God sent me Sunday night right before any of this happened. It went like this.........it starts out me, mom and dad were on vacation at this house on the ocean/beach. These tsunami waves start coming and there were a lot of different ones and they were spread throughout the dream. At first we were able to stay in the house and the water would surround the house and come up on the windows but it didn't touch us. Then mom and dad were out on the beach taking pictures when I saw the water going out. I knew it was coming so I hollered at them to come so we could get away. Mom comes running but daddy as always wants to see the danger so he's stays til the tsunami is in sight. Thee things were so scary. They were as tall as skyscrapers.He gets back and we run to a shelter, always the same one and no water ever got in there and we knew it wouldn't.
This whole scenario must have happened 10 times or more except for mom and dad on the beach. That only happened once.
The last tsuami was huge but again we went to the shelter and were fine but when came out the house we wer staying out was destroyed and we heard someone say 300,000 people were dead. So now we decided it was time we went home.......together :)

At the Cross.........

2007-05-08T16:38:00.000-04:00

Well...... what to say :( I am more burdened right now than in a long time. I know sundae and mik know what I'm taking about but everybody else will have to wait until Thursday. Be in prayer that God would show his mighty power in me, mom and dad's lives, Ask for mercy and healing.

I am feeling better today than yesterday. God has been giving me scripture and he even gave me a spiritual dream Sunday night before I knew anything. I didn't recognize it at first but now I can see it so clear. Mom saw a butterfly today fly over her as she sat in the hammock praying. You all probably don't understand that but lets just say it's a symbol of a promise from God to her.

I am still troubled but He is making me able to bear it.

Baptist's.................yawn

2007-04-30T14:59:00.003-04:00

I figure I would go ahead and post since tthis week is going to be really busy for me. Our church is having revival services through Wednesday so I'm sure to be stressed. I went to both services yesterday. The singing was great and the guy preaching is good. He preaches the Word.........mostly lol but he's a little too proud to be a Baptist for my liking. In fact yesterday morning he offended me and I can only imagine wwhat others, who have other denominational backgrounds, thought. He said............."A man asked me once what I would be if I wasn't a Baptist. I said, can I be honest sir? Nothing!" And then he proceeded to go on about how great we were. Whatever dude. The only reason I affiliate myself is it's either Baptist or Holiness around here :( But really people...........I thought we were past this. Actually our church is but this evangelist dude wasn't :(

Does Anybody Hear Her?

2007-04-28T14:11:00.000-04:00

because I'm reading "Lifestories" one of the best books ever...............

boring week.......

2007-04-24T11:28:00.000-04:00

Well it's a boring week but last week was eventful so I guess I needed the downtime. Dad is going to Illinois next week with some other Jackson Energy people for a training thing so me and mom will have the place to ourselves for three days. I'm trying to convince her we should go to Lexington for a day ;) Maybe we'll see Billy Clyde. hehe Speaking of which they say Kentucky is signing Legion within the next day or two. At least we got one All American even if he is another shooting guard :(

mik, thank you so much for those songs and stuff you gave me! I love them and you even included some Phil Collins. hmmmmmmmmmmm someone's been reading my myspace ;)

2007-04-18T16:47:00.000-04:00

I know...it's been awhile but that's because my friend Mik from Toledo, Ohio has been here visiting since Sunday :) It's such a big city where I live and all that we had tons to do............lol............Actually we didn't do much but talk but it was so great getting to know him better :) He is a sweet, precious man! He did get to come to church at McKee and at JV on Tuesday. Oh yeah and he had the privledge of staying in that 5 star cabin you see in one of the pics. lol Anyway it's so great to know there are men like him in the world :)

I'm here :)

2007-04-12T18:15:00.000-04:00

No, I've not quit blogging. I'm just really busy or lazy. Take your pick :)JV has been pretty challenging lately but I can't go into it here but the things that happen there are sad :(

Sundae, mik is coming up Sunday. He will be at church Sunday morning. I have some good singing set up so you all should come if you can :) Mik will be here Monday and Tuesday too so if not Sunday come visit another day.

Mickie Demoss, the girls UK bball coach resigned. Sarah Elliot, a JCHS alum, plays for UK and she said Mickie was always complaining how the UK men's coach was payed 2 mil and she got 375,000 a year. I guess when they hired Gillespie at 2.3 that was the final straw. But nobody gets payed 2 mil in women's bball unless it's Pat Summitt so..........

pep rally

2007-04-07T13:57:00.000-04:00

Billy!

2007-04-07T11:47:00.000-04:00

Billy, Billy, Billy. I am so pleased with this hire :) The more I hear the more I like. He is more like the fan base than any coach we've ever had, obsessed,, a bit nuerotic, tireless recruiter. It's a great match. I like him better than Donovan mainly because he really wanted to be here and really seemed honored by it all. The stupid Courier Journal ( don't even get me started) asked him what it felt like to be second choice. He said "Second choice? As long as I was in the top 7 or 8 would be good to me." Yeah, that's right Billy!! Kick em back tto Louisville where they belong. Haven't they got any news to report on their own team? :(

In other news.........yesterday I went with mom, Lindsey and Amber to Randy Hayes' studio to record some songs for the church cd. The people who sing in our church are making a cd. It was Blue's idea and he is paying for most of it and then they are going to sell it to pay off the building at Rocky Hill. It will be great! We've got great singers in our church, Yesterday was amazing! Amber is a pro and combine her with mom and Lindsey..............dang. Amber did some stuff by herself. Lindsey is going to later. I got to listen to them all day! It was such a blessing :) And that's how I spent Good Friday :)

Billy watch over

2007-04-05T15:55:00.000-04:00

Well...........that was quick. Tell me this why did he keep us guessing yesterday when obviously he had his mind made up yesterday if not days ago? Iam waiting for the live streaming video of the press conference but soon after I hear the words from his mouth I'm gone! Time to think..............right:(

Donovan watch day 2

2007-04-04T19:58:00.000-04:00

BD was at a press conference at Marshall university today. First question asked of course was about UK. Donovan refused to answer. He ended the press conference saying he had to get back, "I have a lot of thinking to do." EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He's thinking!!! Reportedly the offer is 4 mil a year. The highest pay for a college bball coach.

Billy Watch

2007-04-03T16:46:00.001-04:00

I'm still here and still on Billy watch. He's still not saying much. I don't even know if the offer's been made yet. I wish they would hurry cause the other candidates are getting gone. Friday is the big celebration day in Florida and I expect he will know by then. If it's Florida he will proclaim his never ending allegience to the Gators yuck :(or he'll keep on hedging and he'll be a Wildcat by Saturday :)Ugh...............I just about couldn't watch last night. Joaquim Noah irritates me to no end!

Billy Watch

2007-04-03T16:46:00.000-04:00

Spring is here :)

2007-03-31T17:11:00.000-04:00

All Billy, all the time.

2007-03-31T13:29:00.000-04:00

Well nothing new going on. This week has gone fast and has been weird. Maybe it's stupid, actually I'm sure it is but it's like the whole state is holding it's breath hoping they get the announcement BD is coming. Me, I'm not as confident as I was :( Turns out dad was feeding me rumors from the good ole boys at Jackson Energy. BD's wife is not from Lexington.. She's from Long Island and they did buy a horse farm...............IN OCALA!The only reason he would come to UK is if he wants a new challenge or he listened to Rick back in the 90's go on about Camelot. I did see some UK fan on a message board say that it was in BD's contract at Florida that he wasn't to be let out of his coaching job there unless it was for the UK job. Yeah ok, somebody's on drugs. :( I dunno if it's better for us that Florida win or lose today. Whatever gets him here.

My patience is tested

2007-03-28T16:29:00.000-04:00

Whew, the boys at JV were wild last night. Most of it went really well until twwo of them went to the bathroom( something I don't think they should be allowed to do cause they just do it to get out of class and roam. But I'm not the teacher so.....)Anyhoo first one then the other one wanted to go. They were gone forever and I wondered what they had got into. They finally come back licking huge ice cream cones! The little kids teachers had brought ice cream for their class outside and evidently the boys had went OUTSIDE to get them some and then come back in class with it to make all the other boys jealous. It worked and it was totally useless after that. It took the teacher 10 minutes to get them quite enough to say a 3 second prayer. I am a stickler for respectfulness and behavior so it was a challenge for me.

More coach talk

2007-03-27T13:53:00.000-04:00

I know this basketball talk may be boring to some of you but it is what I'm obsessed with this week so endulge me ;) 2 things.............

A snippet in the Lex Hearld about Pitino.........

Most notably, Louisville Coach Rick Pitino, who turned a probation-saddled UK program into a national champion in the 1990s, ruled out a second coming as Wildcat coach.

"I would never, ever leave (Louisville) to go to another college because they're my family," Pitino said at U of L's end-of-season news conference yesterday.

Pitino guided Louisville to a 24-10 record and second-place finish in the Big East this season.

Pitino has acknowledged the mistake of leaving Kentucky in 1997 for the Boston Celtics. But he playfully said that at age 54 he was "too old to leave" Louisville.

"It's a great job. I had eight years of Camelot, I've said that," he said. "It's the Roman Empire of college basketball."

I hate he ruled out coming but loved his quotes :)

I heard this second hand. I didn't actually read his quotes so take it with a grain of salt. Digger Phelps.....grrrr (sorry mik, I know he was a Notre Dame coach but he could be shot dead if he crossed th KY border) Anyways Digger had a writing on the internet where he wrote UK might as well go ahead and hire Travis Ford because that was as good as we were gonna get. No higher up coaches were going to come and no second tier ones either.
He about needs a good tail kickin but oh well..........he hates us and what else is new? No love lost ;)

Papaw and Billy the Kid

2007-03-26T18:26:00.000-04:00

where to start? I'll start with papaw. I know mik and sundae know a lot already so I'll skip the background.Papaw's niece died over the weekend and he took a fit wanting to come home, on Russell anyways.I think he wanted to go to Effie's funeral and he just got mad. They had made him take a bath too which always makes him moody. Me and mom went down today though and he was ok. He was still wanting to go to that funeral but mom talked him out of it. The man seriously does not know how bad off he is. He has multiple myloma so bad his bones can break at any time, his immune system is nothing from the MM, he aspirates into his lungs everytime he eats and drinks, he can't walk from a broke hip, and he has some incontinence. The only thing keeping him from getting pneumonia(Sp) right now is the breathing treatments they give him four times a day. Sometimes I think the medical system has become so advanced it hinders old people from dieing when it's their time to go. I know the Lord is in control but man's free choice is tere too.

On a positive note...............Top 5 reasons Donovan comes to UK(for sundae)

5 - His daughter is the #1 US equestrian rider in her age group. Please, where is the best place in the world for that? LEXINGTON

4 - He didn't resign his contact with Florida last year.

3 - I just saw him on ESPN, he won't say yay or nay cause all he's thinking about is the tourney. Yeah right Billy the Kid, you keep telling yourself that.

2 He bought a horse farm in Lexington back in January. ;)

1 - Kentucky, Duke, UNC It doesn't go any higher in college bball.

I hate pink but it looked summery

2007-03-25T15:26:00.000-04:00

Just when I think I'm out they pull me back in. lol So anyhoo a lot has happened. I am diabetic now (sucks to no end), we had to put my papaw in a nursing home cause he broke his hip, UK is coachless at the moment. Any of these I could go on about all day but after upgrading to Google it's about time for me to head back to church so tomoorrow I guess :) mik........I do this for you and sundae. I love y'all that much ;)

Moving to myspace

2006-10-10T12:17:00.000-04:00

well guys I've relocated for the time being. I don't know how many of you if any have a myspace account but that is where I am now, mainly because it had some very cool features and it's so easy to upload video and music. I hope you guys will come visit and add me to your friends if you have an account. I may be back to blogspot someday but right now I'm loving myspace :)I love all you guys and I'll still be around :)

Come visit me!

Monique and Louis' waltz

2006-10-04T12:44:00.000-04:00

Oh My gosh! You guys who didn't watch Dancing With the Stars last night have got to see this! The waltz is usually a very boring dance for me but Monique and Louis' waltz last night was the most beautiful touching thing. I swear I think they are really in love ;)I'm not sure why they didn't get higher scores but they did dance first and I've noticed the judges scoring the first couple out every week lower :( There is a link below if you want to watch it. Click on it and scroll down one post and click on their pic. The player may freeze occaisionally but hang with it.

Monique and Louis' waltz

Which pic do you like best?

2006-10-03T14:12:00.000-04:00

My dad's company is having an employee and family photo contest and I'm thinking of entering. The theme this year is fences. I am going to try and upload my favorites so hopefully you can see them above. They were all taken on my papaw's farm in Blackwater, Kentucky. Let me know which one you guys like best :)

Don't forget to watch Dancing With the Stars tonight and vote for Monique and Louis! You can vote online at abc.com tonight or up until noon tomorrow :)

2006-09-29T12:13:00.000-04:00

Long time no see. I am sorry, I just hate sitting here racking my brain when I really have nothing to say. I could talk about my love of Dancing With th Stars right now but nobody watchs but sundae and her love of Mario is a bit much for me. Sorry sundae lol.

Anyways mom went to Virgie's first ballgame and took the pics.The darker red haired girl is my cousin Dana with her fraternal(Sp.) twin Kaylee behind her and the taller little girl is Lacey who goes to Mckee baptist with us. They are a lot of pics so look below for more :)

2006-09-29T12:09:00.000-04:00

Lacey :)

2006-09-29T12:05:00.000-04:00

sisters Cassandra and Carla from JV were there.

2006-09-29T11:48:00.000-04:00

Virgie :)

TV is back!

2006-09-22T14:24:00.000-04:00

Absolutely nothing is happening here so once again I find myself obsessed with TV :(

First of all, Dancing With the Stars............With all the great dancing male stars like Mario and Joey it will be hard for a woman to win. I say that because all you women rather dial a hundred times for a hottie like Mario than for an awesome girl dancing star like Monique (in the pic) I didn't know who she was at first but she was dancing with Louis Van Amstel (remember Lisa Rinna last time?)so that's all I needed to know ;)eriously though did you know that when she was 5 she was in a bad car accident and the doctors said she would never walk again? Now watch her dance! She rocks and y' know..........Louis doesn't suck either ;)I have this theory. I think they are really falling in love.awwwwwwwwwwww I'm just a shipper at heart :) So Tuesday night vote for Monique and Louis for me!

Boston Legal was funny but it was a little ranchier than usual :( I can stand some things but Denny and the Shirly Shmit-ho doll was a little much :(

Now for CSI. Did anyone watch or were you brainwashed by Grey's Anatomy? haha just kidding It seems CSI isn't going down without a fight. They had more personal stuff going on than I've seen in 6 seasons combined. All the Grissom and Sara sweetness. sigh.........it was great. Catherine drama alert! Usually I would be mad. It's hard to tell who is more of a drama queen, her or Horatio Caine on CSI Miami :( But oh well I've got my Grissom and Sara affair so what do I care? For those who don't kknow Catherine was drugged and raped. Two questions...........where in the heck was Nick? and Does Catherine really believe her self rape kit is gonna hold up in court? You'd think she'd know better.

OT Nat, what are you naming the dog? Are you still coming home on Oct. 1st?

Good time:)

2006-09-18T18:30:00.000-04:00

We had a great time Friday night even if I am getting too old for this kind of thing. It took me two days to get back to normal. Of course there were other things affecting me too :( ah..........don't ya just love being a female sometimes. Anyways there were no peter cakes (thank goodness!) We just sat and talked mainly, me, Misti and Amber until 3:30 in the morning. Lyndsey and Elizabeth wussed out early. lol Elizabeth grossed us out with tales of her gynocology(Sp.) internship. I would love to repeat them here but...uh yeah...........better not :)

Two whole hours of Deal or No Deal tonight! I'm swooning already! :)

Ah those were the days.........revisited

2006-09-13T17:18:00.000-04:00

Back in the day when I was 19 or 20 me and some younger chicas from church and a stray cousin or two lol would camp out in my cabin behind our house. It was fun. We sinned quite a bit in that cabin looking back. lol You know gossip, smoking cigarettes, nothing major but just girl stuff. We even had this one girl from church a bridal shower out there complete with an "it's peter time" cake, suckers shaped like........well you know, and not to mention a beforehand trip to Fantasyworld where like a good little girl I lost my driver's liscense in the back room. Ah yes.............it was bad times :( Which is why I think I've lost my mind because I am camping Friday night! Lindsey ( the sister of the girl we had the bridal shower for, yes she was at Fantasyworld too lol)came up to me at church and was like we need to camp. I was like huh, everyone's married or............divorced. lol She didn't care so I guess we're camping with some new one's and some old one's so we'll see how it goes. Hopefully we're all over the peter cakes but I wouldn't swear by it.

Changing a light bulb

2006-09-09T14:25:00.000-04:00

miss 1999 has the coolest things so here is something funny she had on her blog. btw miss 1999 you should go to the Casting Crowns concert in Sevierville, TN on Decemeber 330th. I am going :)

Changing a Lightbulb...
How many Christians does it take to change a light bulb?

Charismatic : Only 1
Hands are already in the air.

Pentecostal : 10
One to change the bulb, and nine to pray against the spirit of
darkness.

Presbyterians : None
Lights will go on and off at predestined times.

Roman Catholic : None
Candles only.

Baptists : At least 15.
One to change the light bulb, and three committees to approve the
change and decide who brings the potato salad and fried chicken .

Episcopalians: 3
One to call the electrician, one to mix the drinks and one to talk
about how much better the old one was.

Mormons : 5
One man to change the bulb, and four wives to tell him how to do
it.

Unitarians :
We choose not to make a statement either in favor of or against the
need for a light bulb. However, if in your own journey you have found that
light bulbs work for you, you are invited to write a poem or compose a
modern dance about your light bulb for the next Sunday service, in
which we will explore a number of light bulb traditions, including
incandescent, fluorescent, 3-way, long-life and tinted, all of which are equally
valid paths to luminescence.

Methodists : Undetermined
Whether your light is bright, dull, or completely out, you are
loved. You can be a light bulb, turnip bulb, or tulip bulb. Bring a bulb of
your choice to the Sunday lighting service and a covered dish to pass.

Nazarene : 6
One woman to replace the bulb while five men review church lighting policy.

Lutherans: None
Lutherans don't believe in change.

Amish :
What's a light bulb?

2006-09-06T14:27:00.000-04:00

I BORRIED ;) this from miss 1999. Enjoy, and share your answers with me if you want :)

1) If you could change your name, would you? If so, to what?
Yes. Candi is synopsis with dumb as a rock or porn star so maybe.........Sarah or Max

2) What is one thing you'd change about yourself if you could? Um miss 1999 your answer could definately apply to me ;) but physically I want/need good health more than anything.........in my mind anyways.

3) What's one thing you wouldn't change about yourself?
My faith in God.

4) What's the best decision you ever made in your life?
to give my heart to Christ

5) If you could have dinner with 5 people (living or dead) who would they be?

Jesus Christ
Steve and Teri Erwin
(these next two are not for the reason you may think)
Simon Cowell
Howie Mandel
Paul the aposle

6) What's one thing you HAVE to do before you die?
Stay in one of those cute little huts on the ocean in Tahiti - yeah me too miss1999

7) What's the best vacation you ever took?
Venice, Florida 2004 :)

8) What's the best advice your mom ever gave you?
never talk to stangers

9) What is your biggest phobia?
running out of deoderant or not having enough on. lol

10) Who is the hottest (as in sexy) actor in Hollywood?
giving my bald man fetish.................does Howie Mandel qualify as an actor?

11) For $100 would you pull the wings off of a butterfly?
sure but mom would probably beat me :(.

12) Do you have a living will or would you sign one?
no but yeah I guess.

Dog boots and scary Scientologists

2006-09-06T13:35:00.000-04:00

Despite my busyness I'm actually struggling for something to post about. I did go shopping last week, yay! I had been in withdrawal. Everybody has laughed at my boots I bought at J.Crew(in the pic) Yeah.........that's dogs on them :( I love them and on me they look fantastic! lol

I had an experience a few days ago that I'm still not over yet. It's amazing how you think you know people and then all of the sudden something happens and your shocked. I dunno...........I can't talk about it here. It just really blindsided me.

I'm thinking about going to Wednesday night bible study tonight, something I rarely do since I started to go to JV every tuesday night. Ron, our pastor, has been doing a study on false religions. Tonight is Scientology. All I can think of now is a half naked Will Ferrell running around a race track screaming for Tom Cruise and his witchcraft religion to come save him. lol Cruisey boy does kinda put me in mind of the antichrist. hehe

Still here..........

2006-09-05T17:22:00.000-04:00

I'm sorry to not be updating. Once again it's got busy around here and I've got to go to JV here in a minute. Hopefully tomorrow I can post a real entry but I just thought I would check in so you would know I was still alive. lol
Hi Nat Wolfe! Thanks for stopping by :)

Visitors

2006-08-30T19:02:00.000-04:00

whew......Virgie AND Daniel were just here.Virgie called mom right after school and wanted to come up until church time. She hadn't been here in forever so mom said yes. We met her mom at the Deer View mart and Daniel is with her too. I'm thinking uh-oh, this is gonna be ugly. Virgie gets in and Daniel gets all pitiful and goes. "can I come too? I promise I'll be good." Mom was in the middle of making supper so she really couldn't watch him and trust me Daniel has to be watched. So she said no but it was really sad. He started crying quitely and so we end up taking him. I watched them in the pool and tried to keep them from killing each other. Really people who know Daniel would be suprised by how good he is away from the other boys at JV. Aside from an incident with the water hose and Virgie running down the road to the neighbors we survived and oh yeah Daniel talked me out of one of my starfish in my room........but it's just a dang starfish. What was I doing with it besides nothing.

Welcome Holly :)

2006-08-29T16:59:00.000-04:00

Hey everyone! If you get time go visit my friend Holly's blog. She is new and I'm sure she would love a visit. She goes to my church and works at JV too :)

Holly

Fluff and reality

2006-08-28T17:38:00.000-04:00

Ok first off......the picture! "sigh".........I love him :) Between Howie Mandel and Simon Cowell last night on the Emmy's this girl was in heaven ;)

Ok enough with the fluff. I have a prayer need. Pray for Virgie. Some of you know her through my postings. She is like a little sister to me. I am terribly burdened for her as of late. Last night she said the teacher at school had them write a paper on their best friend and tell why they were their best friend. She wrote about me! I could cry cause I can see where she's headed and it scares me :(

Haunted Houses?

2006-08-26T11:55:00.000-04:00

I posted last night but I thought about what I posted and deleted it. It wasn't offensive to anyone who reads my blog but it was just more information about a situation at JV than people around here need to know because I know there are a few people here who read or have read my blog.

Anyway after reading miss 1999's blog yesterday I decided to post this pic. This is my papaw Bingham's house. He is 94 and still lives here alone. In fact if you look you can see him standing on the porch/steps. He is sick and almost blind but he wants to stay in his home so as long as he can we let him. Now as for the house, nope it's not haunted even though papaw's father, who was evil, and his mother died in it. But I spent most of the days of my childhood there, mom lived there and my mamaw, who was a big believer in ghosts, said she never saw or heard anything. Lately though papaw did see something he says although I think it was a dream because his eyes are so bad he can't see me if I'm in the room. He says he was asleep on the couch and when he awoke his little sister, Nancy, was standing in the doorway. He spoke to her but she ran away. Nancy died of some fever as a child. Papaw claims it's a sign of death for him to have seen her. I dunno but he is 94.

The house is over 100 years old and was built by papaw's evil dad who only had 1 arm. They called him 1 armed Billy.

thinking back

2006-08-22T15:57:00.000-04:00

I went to Richmond and Berea with some friends from highschool Saturday. We went to this cute little coffee shop in Berea. I was thinking the other how so much has changed. Not just with us but with our class of 95. Three of us girls in the pic have kids, six of us are married, and two have major health problems well...actually three. Three other guy friends from school commited suicide or ODed on drugs. It's sometimes sad looking back. It makes me wish we could have stayed there forever :(

Mckee Baptist (for Urka :)

2006-08-19T13:21:00.000-04:00

whew ok, I hope this works this time :(

Yay! It did! I wrote blogger and apparently I had some add-ons to my browser it didn't like. I didn't even realize I had any new add-ons but it was that active X crap!

Oh well this is my church post-renovation. I wish I had a pre-renovation pic. It was bad! lol

I'm going tonight with some highschool friends to Berea. Hopefully I'll get some pics :)

Help

2006-08-18T18:43:00.000-04:00

I have been trying for 3 days now to post pictures.Blogger acts fine and even says my image is uploaded yet when I publish my blog it's not there. I had Hello but it stopped connecting and I couldn't figure out why so I got rid of it. I re-downlowded it today but it still wouldn't connect. So......I have absolutely no way to post pics of any kind which is my main enjoyment with having a blog in the first place :( Can anyone help me?

Video mess up

2006-08-17T19:19:00.000-04:00

I just found out that the video some of you downloaded was messed up. Mark burned the file he got from yousendit.com and it was really bad. lol None of the pics were timed to the music like I made it and it ended too soon. I dunno what happened but I didn't want you guys to think I suck that bad at makeing videos. lol I think I'm going to have to buy an external dvd burner to make it work.

I am going to try and upload that pic of the inside of our church again but if you don't see it you can throw things at blogger :)

Newly rennovated Mckee Baptist

2006-08-16T19:34:00.000-04:00

grrrrrrrrrrrrr! I've had the worst time trying to get this one measly pic uploaded. I hope it worked this time. Sometimes blogger is a piece of crap :( Anyhoo.......... is my church :) It wasn't always this pretty as urka can attest to. lol

OK I dunno what's going on but I'm tired of fooling with it so maybe tomorrow............

Jackson Valley video

2006-08-12T19:12:00.000-04:00

At least riccie wants to see it so being the ham I am I must oblige. lol Ignore the message at the link. I sent it there for a guy to make copies. I think anyone who downloads it will enjoy it :)

Jackson Valley

2006-08-12T13:00:00.000-04:00

Thanks everyone for your prayers and well wishes :) I can't really say my mood has improved although I'm ok. I'm just kinda cranky. lol I've got an even worse ebay situation to deal with now but it's too much to go into on here. Let's just say I'm looking at a $230 loss if things don't work out :( After all this I have decided that I am done with ebay. It's too easy to get taken advantage of.

Mamaw came home Friday which has been an experience to say the least. lol Many things that are both funny and sad have happened and I wish I could write them here but I can't because like terri said on my last post you have to be careful sometimes with what you write so as not to offend. She is doing better but she is requireing a lot of help and.............poor papaw..........ah well.......

I have the jackson valley video finished. If anyone wants to see it let me know and I will post a link where you can download it.

2006-08-07T14:28:00.000-04:00

I've decided I'm not very good at writing down all my innermost feelings. lol It just seems as if lately posting on my blog is such a chore. Not that I ever posted my innermost thoughts and feelings anyway but..........oh well. It may just be that things have been crazy lately. I started out a week and a half ago putting a bunch of stuff on ebay so I could buy an Old Navy gift card to get this girl at JV some school clothes. I love to shop for anybody so it was gonna be fun for me too. But then some chick from Puerto Rico no less, bought something at a fairly high price even though in my listing I plainly say no international shipping. But I figured, what the heck if she will pay the shipping I'll send it. To make a long story short it was some dude's wife in Puerto Rico playing around on his ebay account. She didn'teven speak English! Ok so that was a bust :( I'll never see a drop of that money. Because of all that I had to borrow $43 off my dad's paypal, albeit briefly, to pay for the gift card. After I bought the gift card I tried to get the guy to email me the account # but I didn't hear anything from him for 2 days which makes me nervous. Apparently the card is being shipped. Uh huh, we'll see I guess :( At any rate school starts this Thursday so I had to go to Wal-mart and get the girl's stuff which is ok I guess but I had my heart set on getting her some really cool stuff at Old Navy.
And last Thusday my mamaw had another heart attack. It's been less than a year since her first one. The doctor said she was one of the 5% who don't respond well to stints because her arteries were a mess again. She had to have triple bypass surgery Saturday. She is doing well physically so hopefully she'll be able to come home soon. Anyhoo that's just scratching the surface of my week..........

whom shall I send?

2006-08-03T20:34:00.000-04:00

My friend Natalie is leaving Sunday for San Francisco. She is going to seminary there to be an international missionary. I am going to miss her but we all knew this was coming for awhile now. I admire her :)

whom shall I send, who will go for Me, to the ends of the earth, who will rise up for the King.........

lazy updater

2006-07-27T19:32:00.000-04:00

I am sorry to be so lazy about updating. I am working on a video for JV and also some other JV related stuff. I hope to have it finished by next week. Does anyone know how I could put the video on my blog? That would be so great :)I am trying to hock some clothes on ebay for my other JV project so if you wear an 8 check me out ;) My id is jacksoncoky.

a smelly dead cat

2006-07-21T16:55:00.000-04:00

Well Hello is not connecting. It says the UI has failed to initialize and that I should reinstall. So I guess I will unless someone has any other ideas.

We came back from vacation to find a dead cat in the backyard. Well sorta anyways.There been this stray cat who has been trying to steal my cat, Annie's, food for 6 months now. Mom says she saw it when we came home Sunday and it looked fine. Then Tuesday night mom started complaining she smelled something in the backyard. We've been in a heatwave lately so by Wednesday night it was obvious something was dead.Dad is a wuss when it comes to smells so when mom finally discovered it over in the shrubs Thursday morning he avoided it like the plague. Mom had to get it out of there and dispose of it! Bunch of wussy men. I tell ya it's a good thing I'm not married. lol

ann - My thoughts are drawn constantly to your family in Israel. Are they ok in all of the fighting?

2006-07-17T17:58:00.000-04:00

Vacation pics. This pic was took from the road above the house. Everytime we popped over the top of the hill the view would take our breath.

2006-07-17T17:54:00.000-04:00

the house again. The view was the best thing about the whole vacation.

2006-07-17T17:52:00.000-04:00

mom and teresa -sundae don't tell her you saw a swimsuit pic of her on my blog. lol

2006-07-17T17:49:00.000-04:00

yeah riccie I know how you feel about cherries so I'm sorry. There are some more.........interesting.......cherry pics but Liz would kill me if I posted them. lol

2006-07-17T17:44:00.000-04:00

Me and Liz on the porch

2006-07-17T17:42:00.000-04:00

Teresa and Tony on the pontoon

2006-07-17T17:40:00.000-04:00

Daddy, the 52 year old man he is, decided he would give Big Bertha a try. hehe

home again, home again

2006-07-16T19:18:00.000-04:00

well..............I'm back. I can't say it was fantastic. The view definately was! but by Thursday I was ready to come home mainly because we didn't have a big boat to get out on the water everyday. My dad and Tony borrowed a little bass tracker to fish off of but that was too small for all 6 of us. We did rent a pontoon Wednesday and that was a blast! Tuesday we went shopping in Knoxville but after Wednesday us girls were left to sun ourselves on the carport while the men fished :( So next year it's back to Venice Florida baby!!
In our daytime boredum we did have some funny convos. Liz is a hoot. She named our beer guzzleing (I swear they had one in hand every time you seen them)landlord and his neighbor Crotch and Crawl. (She's seen "Son in Law" one time too many lol) We also had fun with cherries and did a hilarious mock swimsuit photoshoot. Hilarious cause it was US in swimsuits! lol

2006-07-08T16:05:00.000-04:00

That's our house and view for a week starting tomorrow...........I think. The dog started barfing and daddy's exspensive lawnmower, of which he was so proud, blew up (the engine) so it's sad times around here. Anyhoo, see you guys on the 17th! Have a good week :)

too much visiting goin' on

2006-07-06T17:52:00.000-04:00

lord.............. I'm sitting hear wondering if we're gonna get gone on vacation without another Virgie visit first. We leave Sunday for a week on a lake but Virgie doesn't know that yet. If she did she'd be begging to go and you have to draw the line somewhere. We go with Teresa, Tony, and Liz and we can't just bring in someone else to their vacation. She was here Tuesday and Wednesday and now she's been calling all day wanting to come back. Her mom is going to Booneville to her mom's house and Virgie doesn't want to go so...........she wants to stay here and bring her friend Courtney..............ya right :(That would be a 3 night affair because her mom takes her clothes to wash which can take 2 days. Mom and dad have already told her no......this time anyway. I love her and Courtney and all the kids but yo............you gotta have some downtime y'know.

2006-07-05T17:55:00.000-04:00

Mommy and Virgie

2006-07-05T17:54:00.000-04:00

flowers

2006-07-05T17:52:00.000-04:00

more flowers

2006-07-05T17:50:00.000-04:00

Thelma has the most beautiful flower garden.

2006-07-05T17:44:00.000-04:00

Virgie and Tyler, my cousin, in his gocart. Virgie was like "he's cute" lol If only she could end up with a nice boy like Tyler.

2006-07-05T17:40:00.000-04:00

Me and Liz :)

2006-07-05T17:38:00.000-04:00

The cookout was across the field at my great great aunts house

2006-07-05T17:35:00.000-04:00

Bisquit on the 4th

2006-07-05T17:34:00.000-04:00

The women :)

2006-07-05T17:16:00.000-04:00

Not a 4th pic but oh well :)......... Misti, Haley and me

July 4th

2006-07-04T15:43:00.000-04:00

Ok I said yesterday that I would post a song speaking to America's morality issues and it does but ahh...............what the heck it's how I feel and I'm sorry if it offends. I like this paticular band because they say what they feel and whats true and aren't concerned with being so politically correct all the time.

Tomorrow maybe I'll have some pictures of the family/friends cookout we're having tonight :)

Artist: Casting Crowns
Album: Lifesong
Track: While You Were Sleeping

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Oh little town of Bethlehem
Looks like another silent night
Above your deep and dreamless sleep
A giant star lights up the sky
And while you're lying in the dark
There shines an everlasting light
For the King has left His throne
And is sleeping in a manger tonight, tonight

Oh Bethlehem, what you have missed while you were sleeping
For God became a man
And stepped into your world today
Oh Bethlehem, you will go down in history
As a city with no room for its King
While you were sleeping
While you were sleeping

Oh little town of Jerusalem
Looks like another silent night
The Father gave His only Son
The Way, the Truth, the Life had come
But there was no room for Him in the world He came to save

Jerusalem, what you have missed while you were sleeping
The Savior of the world is dying on your cross today
Jerusalem, you will go down in history
As a city with no room for its King
While you were sleeping
While you were sleeping

United States of America
Looks like another silent night
As we're sung to sleep by philosophies
That save the trees and kill the children
And while we're lying in the dark
There's a shout heard 'cross the eastern sky
For the Bridegroom has returned
And has carried His bride away in the night, in the night

America, what will we miss while we are sleeping
Will Jesus come again
And leave us slumbering where we lay
America, will we go down in history
As a nation with no room for its King
Will we be sleeping
Will we be sleeping

United States of America
Looks like another silent night

Independance Day?

2006-07-03T19:51:00.000-04:00

So it's almost July 4th and while I am so grateful to have been born and bred in this country I often find myself saddened at what America is becoming Morality is definately one thing ( and I have a song for it tomorrow :) but another is our inability to produce our make anything anymore. Everything I pick up says made in China, Korea or even Bangledash (Bangladesh???) It makes me wonder just what are we exporting? Farmers can't make money anymore, not the small farmer anyway. My uncle farms and if his wife didn't have a pretty good job too they'd never make it. So I wonder is it all just going to come crashing down on us someday? We have all gotten so smart in America yet most of us can't even grow our own food. It's something to think about.

Rain On The Scarecrow
John Cougar Mellencamp

Scarecrow on a wooden cross Blackbird in the barn
Four hundred empty acres that used to be my farm
I grew up like my daddy did My grandpa cleared this land
When I was five I walked the fence while grandpa held my hand
Rain on the scarecrow Blood on the plow
This land fed a nation This land made me proud
And Son I'm just sorry there's no legacy for you now
Rain on the scarecrow Blood on the plow
Rain on the scarecrow Blood on the plow
The crops we grew last summer weren't enough to pay the loans
Couldn't buy the seed to plant this spring and the Farmers Bank foreclosed
Called my old friend Schepman up to auction off the land
He said John it's just my job and I hope you understand
Hey calling it your job ol' hoss sure don't make it right
But if you want me to I'll say a prayer for your soul tonight
And grandma's on the front porch swing with a Bible in her hand
Sometimes I hear her singing "Take me to the Promised Land"
When you take away a man's dignity he can't work his fields and cows
There'll be blood on the scarecrow Blood on the plow
Blood on the scarecrow Blood on the plow
Well there's ninety-seven crosses planted in the courthouse yard
Ninety-seven families who lost ninety-seven farms
I think about my grandpa and my neighbors and my name
And some nights I feel like dyin' Like that scarecrow in the rain
Rain on the scarecrow Blood on the plow
This land fed a nation This land made me proud
And Son I'm just sorry they're just memories for you now
Rain on the scarecrow Blood on the plow
Rain on the scarecrow Blood on the plow
Rain on the scarecrow Blood on the plow
This land fed a nation This land made me proud
And Son I'm just sorry they're just memories for you now
Rain on the scarecrow Blood on the plow
Rain on the scarecrow Blood on the plow

2006-07-02T14:26:00.000-04:00

I finally got the camara situation worked out so prepare for random pics. lol This is the group from northern Kentucky who worked at JV all week.

2006-07-02T14:22:00.000-04:00

Linda, Nina, and their mother Clara at JV this week. I'm not sure who the little boys are. They're new.

2006-07-02T14:17:00.000-04:00

My house :)

2006-07-02T14:15:00.000-04:00

The pond behind my house.

Babies are good as long as they're Urka's lol

2006-06-28T20:37:00.000-04:00

So I was getting ready to go to Jackson Valley this evening (a church from northern Kentucky is having a service there all week) and Erica aka Urka calls from Texas. I didn't get to the phone in time but I saw the caller id and I figured it must be important so I called her back. It was important. She's pregnant! I'm so excited for her. I just wished she lived here so we could have baby showers and stuff! She said she might come visit sometime before it's do so......that'll have to do. Give her a visit and find out how she told her husband. Click on Urka's Musings in my links :)
I started a low carb diet today and wouldn't you know it................I got a major craving for a DQ Dilly Bar, which is so stupid. I never crave ice cream. I don't even like it that much. But yeah.........I'm weak..........I ate one. I'm such a ninny :( My only slight joy was the fact that on the package it said "made from low fat ice cream" Yeah right :(

Mountain of God

2006-06-26T19:13:00.000-04:00

by Third Day

Thought that I was all alone
Broken and afraid
But You were there with me
Yes, You were there with me

And I didn’t even know
That I had lost my way
But You were there with me
Yes, You were there with me

‘Til You opened up my eyes
I never knew
That I couldn’t ever make it
Without You

Even though the journey’s long
And I know the road is hard
Well, the One who’s gone before me
He will help me carry on
After all that I’ve been through
Now I realize the truth
That I must go through the valley
To stand upon the mountain of God

As I travel on the road
That You have lead me down
You are here with me
Yes, You are here with me
I have need for nothing more
Oh, now that I have found
That You are here with me
Yes, You are here with me

I confess from time to time
I lose my way
But You are always there
To bring me back again

Sometimes I think of where it is I’ve come from
And the things I’ve left behind
But of all I’ve had, what I possessed
Nothing can quite compare
With what’s in front of me
With what’s in front of me

2006-06-24T11:52:00.000-04:00

Yes Virgie is out of the hospital and back to herself although the docter said it would take awhile for the knot on her neck to go away completely. Next week there is no JV for us. A church from Northern Kentucky is coming down and they're gonna be doing backyard bible school everyday, all week. It's good cause I think we all need a break.
Well the new digital camara crapped out. All the sudden for no apparent reason it started taking blurry pictures. Not just every now and then either but every single picture. I should have known better than to buy an off-brand because it looked cute. It's going back to Wal-mart today. If my mind don't change I'm getting a Minolta Konica SLR 6MP on ebay. They got one new for $245 or they did if someone didn't buy it already;)

2006-06-21T15:06:00.000-04:00

Woohoo! The Miami Heat and my man Pat Riley won the NBA Finals :)

Virgie's in the hospital

2006-06-20T14:30:00.000-04:00

I apologize, yet again for not being around much. Virgie had a knot swell up on her last week. Mom saw it last Tuesday night at JV and thought she was coming down with the mumps. She told Virgie's mom and her mom took her to a clinic in Mckee called White House Clinic. They didn't have anything to diagnose it there so they took a sample, don't ask me how, and sent it off saying they wouldn't get it back until tomorrow. Backwoods medicine at it's best folks :( Anyhoo by Sunday she came to church and the knot under her ear had extended down her neck and had her face swollen. She said that she wasn't feeling well and mom thought she felt a little hot. To make a long story short mom ended up taking Virgie and her mom to the hospital in Richmond. A lot of other crap happened in between but I can't really broadcast it on the net. The idiots in Richmond (they're almost as bad as White House Clinic)said that she didn't have a fever or an infection and that they didn't know what the heck was wrong. It took them 5 hours to come to this conclusion by the way. So....... they send them to Central Baptist in Lexington where the doctor had her diagnosed with an absessed lymph node in 15 minutes. I swear......if you want anything done save yourself time and just "git r done" in Lexington. (lol sorry. The redneck in me reared it's ugly head) So Virgie has to stay in the hospital for a few days and get some strong antibiotics. She hates it and won't eat the hospital food. We went down there yesterday and took her some chicken strips and me, being the shopper I am, took her some Abercrombie Kids camo crop pants. lol She may come home tomorrow. I hope so because it is hard on her mom with no husband only a parasite bf and I'll stop with that cause I could say a lot more about him. Anyways say a prayer for Virgie and her mom :)

2006-06-16T19:52:00.000-04:00

I've been snapping pictures like a mad woman. This was taken from my mamaw and papaw's back porch.