Well, I've made a fool of myself once again I did something kInda absent minded and then realized what a fool I was. It had been raining for like a week straight so there wasz finally a let up and I dedcided that this would be the opportun time to take a nice long walk. So I got my MP3 out and started out I walked for about half an hour totally oblivious of the clouds moving in. Suddenly I felt a light sprokle starting and started home but it was to late and soon it was pouring rain and by pouring I mean POURING. So i'm walking along in the pouring rain completly drenched and feeling like a fool, when suddenly right in front of me this car pulls up with four young guys sitting in it and thats when my heart starts pounding. So I slowly side step them and pray with all my heart that there not going to kidnap me or somesuchness. But nothing happened and after I walked by they drove off and I kept walking I got about two minutes down the road and I realize what a comical stiuation I was in I'm walking down the road in the pouring rain completly drenched and worrying about being kidnapped. I started laughing super hard and can only imagine what a strange weirdo I looked like standing there drenched and laughing on top of it.
we were supposed to werid i just look freaked...
Aren't you all just jumping for joy i'm back alive and kicking for the event of the year......WS!!!! whew...thats was fun. Anyway just got back a week ago and have been soooooooooooooooooooo busy barely have had any time for anything but its starting to stablize out now and I'm back in normal mode now. I think that was some of the funnist six days i've had all year....gosh i miss everyone. bu hu hu!!!! It feels so weird to be back so fast I'm used to a three day drive to think and moan about allt he people you miss but this time we flew it was so quick it felt like worstock was all just a really nice dream. ha ha ha!!! Anyway I'll try and post some picks of me at WS soon so all those who did not see me can. well ta ta...
Well you all in exactly 12 days wordstock IV will be taking place...I'm SSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited but along with these wonderful events come....work. So in about four days I'll be off for a weekend of fundraising before wordstock so its TA TA for a little while until I see you all at wordstock, and if I don't see you I will wright you as soon as I get back. Love you!!!! --Tiffy.
Being in seclusion has done wonders for me and my partner in…seclusion. We have found such exciting hobbies that have never before been tested. Such as falling out windows…or pretending to at least. Let me recount to you exactly what I am talking about. It was lovely…blizzarddy morning with snow drifts pilling upon my bed artistically. Dew to the cold in our room our brains did not seem to be functioning properly…then again they never do. Suddenly I came up with the brilliant plan to get a box spring from our large barn for our artiscally snow pilled bed. Kat, who is my accomplice, refused adamantly due to the fact that her brain was working slightly more than mine, which only happens when the stars are properly aligned. Brons over took brains and we strolled out in the snow for our lovely expedition. We found our victim lying unsuspectingly beneath a mattress totally oblivious to the evil soon to befall it. We dragged and pushed and flipped and threw until we had uncovered our prey. Wahahahhahaha!!! We dragged it to the door where we pushed and shoved and finally came to the conclusion that there was no way that this box spring was going through that door. Kat promptly wanted to quit but I having my heart set on that box spring came up with the plan to drop it out the window. Kat promptly refused but I was determined so to the window that box spring went.
“It’s easy you just drop it out the window and I’ll catch it there’s nothing to it” I said. (Mind you this is a DOUBLE bed box spring made out of WOOD.)
“Oka, Here it comes…AHHHHHHH…I’m falling…WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE.” Kat yelled as she held the box spring out the window.
“HA!!!! Hold it there I’m coming up.” I yelled back laughing hysterically.
I walked up to find Kat ten feet away from the and perfectly stable though she was yelling like a you know like a someone that is like yelling. (As Victoria would say.) I quickly took control of the situation.
“Go down and catch I’ll drop it.” I said. (Keep in mind that Kat is barely four feet and the box spring is over twice her size.)
Slowly I lowered it down all the while laughing at Kats screams that I would crush her.
“AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! No you are too clum.” As her mother would say.
The ending result was she caught it and half stumbled half dragged it back to the basement all the while double over in laughter!!!
Will everyone that is going to wordstock please comment here so that I can know whose going and who I can look forward to seeing. Love you all and hope to see you!!!!
Classic "Impossible" Quotations
"I assure you that my resignation from being commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office is really of no great concern. Mankind has already achieved all of which it is capable. There will be no more inventions requiring patents."—Henry J. Ellsworth, 1844
"The telephone may be appropriate for our American cousins, but not here because we have an adequate supply of messenger boys."—British experts, 1876
"We have declined to buy the patent on Alexander Graham Bell's invention. The public cannot be trusted to master such complicated equipment."—Western Union, 1876
"That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?"—President Rutherford Hayes after making a demonstration phone call, 1877
"Orville, humans will not be able to fly for another 50 years."—Wilbur Wright, 1901
"The actual building of roads devoted to motor cars is not for the near future, in spite of many rumors to that effect."—Harper's Weekly, 1902
"You'd better learn secretarial work or else get married."—A modeling agency to Marilyn Monroe, 1944
"You ain't goin' nowhere, son. You ought to go back to drivin' a truck."— Grand Ole Opry manager Jimmy Denny to Elvis Presley, 1954
"We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out."—Decca Records officials on turning down the Beatles, 1962
"You beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time because you've grown all you are going to grow … but I'm still growing!"—Sir Edmund Hillary to Mount Everest, 1952, one year before he and his Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norgay, became the first men to scale the world's highest peak
After reading these it kind of struck a cord in me, I was looking at all these people who said to those famous people it couldn’t be done but in the end they ended up succeeding. I was just thinking of all the times that we are told by the enemy that it’s impossible, that the goal we are shooting for is too high, that the result we are trying to obtain is too hard to reach. But all to often instead of ignoring him and going on to win we allow his doubts to deter us and to stop us from obtaining our goal. But is we would just call his spade and spade and tell him to high tail it out of here cause we’re going to make it whether he likes it or not we would end up winning so many times more. I don’t know it was just something I was thinking about.
Well again I must appoligize for not updating this more ooften I am very lazy when it comes to blogging and checking mail. But well it is human to err so I shall not berate myself over it well here's my yearly updating hope you enjoy it.
P.S. I will tyr and up date this with some more recent pictures soon i'm trying to get some so hold on i'll have them coming soon.
Hello everyone,
I’m back…aren’t you glad. Ha Ha Ha!!!! I’ve been completely ignoring this blog which is extremely evil of me. Well, here’s an update of all that has been happening lately so I don’t have to write you all a big long letter.
#1. My sister had her baby….Yeah!!!! She had a girl, very healthy and late. They named her katelyn misuta and something else in the middle which I can’t remember or say. Ha Ha Ha!!!
(I do not have pictures so if you want to see them got to my link Entitled “ Timna” or “ Phil”.)
#2. My other sister found out that she was pregnant. She’s three months and getting a little stomach (which is really cute).
# 3. Joan and Tracy and there kids moved out of our home. We all miss them tons and tons. Sniffle ker sniffle!!!! They left a big empty space in our home and we finally realize just how many little things they added to our home that made it special.
#4. On the bright side we have invited another couple to join our home and they will be arriving along with their three kids on the twenty-third. YEAHHHHH!!!! We’re all very eager to see just how they are and to feel our home full again.
Well that’s about it, lots of changes and moves but its all settling down now and soon it’ll be back to normal. (Which is not cool I love change it makes things so much more refreshing.)
Happy Valentine to all you love bugs out there!!! I wish you all the love and happiness on this lovely day. Do me and Jesus a favor and give everyone at least one kiss and hug today, oka? SMOOOOCH AND HUUUUUUUUUUUG to everyone. I love you!!! ( wel maybe most of you, he he he)
Here's a few pics of the beautiful winter snow we're having here although its cold its just soooooo beautiful...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY VICTORIA!!! Sorry this is a bit late, but better late than never right. I just wanted to say that you've been a great person to work with, and I'm so glad we were able to work together all this time. I'm sorry for all the times I've been an ass, I know I'm not the easiest person to work with but thanks for sticking it out. I wish you the happiest year ahead and hope that its all that you wish and hope for and more. I love you!!! Muahhhhh!!!
Well, the departure date has been set for the leaving of my dear sister-in-law and her dear kids as well as victoria ( her sister). Its been so nice to be with them for this long, I'm surely going to miss them. sniff ker sniffty sniff!!! Don't you wish sometimes you had a rewind button, then you could rewind to all the good memories and relive them. Oh well, life will go on and thankfully I will see them again some day. sniffel sniff sniff!!! I love you all, and are going to miss you all so much!!! smooooooooooooooooch!!! Here's a pic of them...at least some of them.
Well, I certaintly have found the qoute you never appreciate the good unless you have felt the evil is so true. We have been missing our heat for all of today due to some repair work that needed to be done and when its minus thirteen degrees outside you really feel it. Any way, all that to say is that I really appreciate the days when our nice warm heater is working and our home is nice and roasty toasty. PTL!!!
Gosh, I've been so busy lately I have completly ingnored my blog...well since I totally forgot about posting on new years and wishing my one and only brother-in-law a very happy birthday I'll do it now.
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!
and....
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHIL!!! Glad you made it through another year, you're going to make a great father some day. Sorry this is so late, I completly forgot about your birhtday...hee hee!!! Well i wish you the best for the coming year.
Christmas provides a part for everyone to play:
* You can be a Mary: Be willing to be whatever God wants you to be.
* You can be a Joseph: Take God at His word even if you don't understand, and give His plan your best shot.
* You can be a shepherd: Get excited about the Good News, and tell as many people as you can.
* You can be a wise man: Worship Jesus, and give Him your most precious gifts.
* You can be a star: Reflect God's light and point the way to Jesus.
* You can be an angel: Loudly proclaim the good tidings.
*You can be the Baby Jesus: Lay down yourself to help others live.
Hugs
It's wondrous what a hug can do,
A hug can cheer you when you're blue.
A hug can say, "I love you so."Or,
"Oh, I'm sad to see you go."
A hug is, "Welcome back again!"And, "
Great to see you!" or,"Where've you been?"
A hug can soothe a small child's pain
And bring a rainbow after rain.
The hug!
There's just no doubt about it,
We scarcely could survive without it.
A hug delights and warms and charms;
It must be why God gave us arms!
Hugs are great for fathers and mothers,
Sweet for sisters, swell for brothers.A
nd chances are some favorite aunts
Love them more than potted plants.
Kittens crave them.
Puppies love them.
Heads of state are not above them.
A hug can break the language barrier,
And make the dullest day seem merrier.
No need to fret about the store of 'm,
The more you give,
The more there are of 'm.
So stretch those arms without delay
And give someone a hug today!
Yeahhhhhhhhh!!!!! Joan just had her baby a few hours ago, and its a.....( drum roll please)....A BOY!!! That's right folks its a B-O-Y boy. I'm so excited now I'm an aunt for the eigth time. Yeah, I can't wait to see it. Well Joan I love you!!! Come home soon we all want to see you and the new baby. Stay healthy I wish you the best. Muahhhhhh!!!
Well, the christmas season began with a BANG the other day. Everyone left for ten days of fundraising, witnessing, and shows. So me and about four others are left here with the kids, pets, and house. Why do I get the feeling I'm being left out??? Ha Ha Ha!!! No, its great its so quiet I'm getting tons of work done. only ten days till christmas I can't wait. Time sems to be draging on and on and on. Why is it that when you wan time to go fast its seems to slow done to really slow turtle mode and when you want it to go slow it speeds up to turbo speed. Oh well Paitience tiff life will go at its pace to matter what you do. Love you all, Merry Christmas!!!
" It was one of the worst days in my life; the washing machine broke down, the telephone kept ringing, my head ached, and the mail carrier brought a bill I had no money to pay. Almost to the breaking point, I lifted my one-year-old into his high chair, leaned my head against the chair, and began to cry. Without a word my son took his pacifier out of his mouth and stuck it in mine."
"Watch out for that...wall."
" Is that a close shave or what."
"Watch your...Head."
" That is why guys should never lay in the middle of an unmowed lawn."
When i went to City Hall to renew my dogs license, I told the clerk I wanted a licence for Sex. He said "I'd like one too."
Then I said, "But this ones a don." He said he didn't care what she looked like. Then I said, "You don't understand I've had Sex since I was nine years old."
He winked at me and siad, " You must have been quite a kid."
When I got married and went on my honey-moon, I took my dog with me. I told the hotel Clerk I wanted a room for me and my wife and a special room for Sex."
He said, "You don't need a special room for sex, as long as you pay your bill we don't care what you do."
I said, " look, you don't seem to understand, Sex keeps me awake at night."
The Clerk said, " Funny, I have the same problem."
Well, one day, I entered Sex in a contest, but before the competetion began the dog got loose and ran away. Another contestant asked me why I was just standing there looking disspointed. I told him I planned to have Sex in the contest.
He said, "Wonderful, if you sell tickets you'll clean up."
"But you don't understand," I said, "I want to have sex on TV."
He said, "They alread have that on cable, its no big deal anymore."
Well, my wife and I decided to seperate. So we went to court to fght for custody of the dog."
I said to the judge, " Your honor, I had sex before I was married."
The judge said, "The court is not a confessional, please stick to the facts."
Then I told him that after I was married Sex left me. He said, "Me too."
Well, last night Sex ran away again, I spent hours looking all over for him. A cop came up to me and said, "What are you doing in this alley at 4 am?" I said, " I'm looking for Sex."
My case comes up on Friday...
Well, I did the most stupid thing I've ever done in a long time yesterday. I was trying to "clean" my laptop of unneeded junk. So I decided in a very stupid rash decision to delete all the microsoft products off my computer. Arrrrrg!!!! Not just one or two things but every single product that I had on my computer I deleted. So all the work I had on my computer was gone...talk about stupidity. But at least it was me who did it and not some one else...cause if it had been I don't know what I would have done. Ha Ha Ha!!! Well, I think thats the last time i'll be "cleaning" my computer. GRRRRRRRRRR!!!
Me and my class at circle time. They we're learing about PG moms and the growth of the baby. Both thier moms are pregnat so they are continually referring to the babies as theirs. HE HE HE!!!!
Well, I went witnessing for yesterday with victoria ( a new diciple) and it was the first time both of us had gone out without an experienced witnesser. We were both pretty freaked at first and we were both giggling and super nervous. But then we sat down an prayed and claimed the keys...and then we both felt so much better. We won two souls ( WOOOOPIE) which we both thought was pretty good for our first time out witnessing. Of course we both ran into some problems while out but it went farily smoothly. One guy we walked up to wanted to pray but he felt it was too simlple and I was trying to tell him that the bible said you just have to have faith to go to heaven. And I said it says in the bible... and my mind totally went blank and I could not think of the verse I was trying to qoute. So I just said the somethng about having faith and not works. HE HE HE!!! Well I guess I'm not the best witnesser but its a start anyway.
Well, it looks like there isn't going to be a baby just yet. The stuborn child that it is, decided it wasn't going to come out yet...so we have to wait until its ready. Damn, that scorpio...HA HA HA!!! Well its good at least it will teach me paitience. Love you Joan, missed you!!!
I was looking for a poem online and I found this one and I really liked it so I thought I should post it for your enjoyment as well:
A Creed To Live By
Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others.
It is because we are different that each of us is special.
Don't set your goals by what other people deem important.
Only you know what is best for you.
Don't take for granted the things closest to your heart.
Cling to them as you would your life, for without them life is meaningless.
Don't let your life slip through your fingersby living in the past or for the future.
By living your life one day at a time,you live all the days of your life.
Don't give up when you still have something to give.
Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.
Don't be afraid to admit that you are less than perfect.
It is this fragile thread that binds us to each other.
Don't be afraid to encounter risks.
It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave.
Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find.
The quickest way to receive love is to give love.
The fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly;
and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.
Don't dismiss your dreams.
To be without dreams is to be without hope;
to be without hope is to be without purpose.
Don't run through life so fast that you forget not only where you've been,
but also where you're going.
Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way.
~ Nancye Sims ~
Well this baby is diffently a scorpio...hes as stuborn as anything. well, its been two days since Joan went into have the baby and it looks like its still going to take more time. the midwife says it could take anywhere from a night to a week. So please pray it happens soon as thats a long time to be waiting...and a long time to be in labor. I'll let you know when we know more. Until then keep your prayers going.
Its been 24 hours since joan left to have the baby and still no baby. the excitement is killing me, i hope we hear from them soon. This baby is taking way to long...pray. Soon I hope we will hear the good news.
Well, its four o'clock in the morning when all of a sudden a bright light shines on me i open my eyes to find my sister-in-law joan desperatly serching the beds for a certain person. Then she wakes up vicky whispers something to her and vicky jumps up like a cat who just had its tail stepped on. joan leaves and vicky grabs her pillow and turns to go I very confused now ask her whats going on and she tells me that joan is having her baby. she leaves and i turn to go back tos leep no point in waking up this early I reason. I'm just about o fall back to sleep when I hear a bang and again a light shines in brightly. I open my eyes again to find my sister banging around and whispering something about not being packed to leave. Well after a half hour of banging and jingling around she leaves and I roll around and try to get some sleep. well all of that sleepless night was worth it as now I will soon be an aunt...again. I am so excited to see the new little nephew or niece. I don't know which yet as she is still in labor but soon we will know I'll keep you posted.
My Family...My Family...I Know Its Large...My Family. Well here we are... well most of us at least except for one brother...and that's all nine of us with the diffrent add ons. Got to love em right!
Oka, well I do have a problem with taking videos to much to heart and after watching the pretty dancing trees song in the kiddie vidde to many times I got the idea into my head that I loved the pretty dancing trees (though I don't know where I ever got that idea from...).
The other day while I was outside with the kids jasmine (2) was plaing on the jungle gym in our back yard. When she wanted to get down she called to us and the other child care worker I was with (Victoria) went to get her. 
She told her to jump and she would catch her but istead of jumping jasmine just let herself fall face first forward. Of course Vicky caught her fine and we laughed and commented at how much trust she had that she would just let herself fall like that trusting completely that we would catch her. Well later on I was thinking about this and I realized that in this little act of a trusting child there was so much for me to apply to my own life. I must admit at times I try to push god around and tell him how he should do things. When he asks me to just trust him and let go I often times try to tell him that he shouldn’t expect me to do that as it would be just plain to diffcult. But he just looks at me and tells me to let go and just drop into his strong capable arms. But I look down at the waves at the things I will miss if I yeild to his will I hesitate and try to reason him out of it. But through seeing this act of simple trust from this child I wondered what it would be like to just let go when he told me to and feel that freedom of falling and being caught in the hold of my savior. Well I decide I would try and put it to practice in my own life. well the situation posed its self a few days later. The lord was again asking me to just trust his will and let go. I ran back over all the times I had struggled with this and tried to work it out on my own. And I pictured jasmine letting herself fall and being caught easely in her teachers arms. And then I pictured me standing on a very high place there was no way for me to get down and there at the bottem was jesus his arms outstreached waiting beckoning me to jump and he would catch me. For a a split second I stutterd and then I let my self go…I felt that sensation of free falling the air rushing past me and the wind wiping my hair. And then I felt myself being caught in strong arms and I felt a feeling of complete trust envelope me. Well in the days to come when I would begin to question my resolve to trust him I again remembered that beautiful feeling of being held tight in his arms and I felt so glad I had trusted like a little child and let go.
Happy Halloween to all those out there!!! Autmn will soon be ended and winter will set upon us sooner than we know it...so cheers to halloween and all that it entails. May You all have a Happy Happy Halloween!!! Muahhhhhh!!!
Well I just had to post this as the story behind it was hilarious. I was having a really bad day and it was brothers birthday so I decided to get my mind off of myself I would bake a cake (good morale…bad application). So I made it but I forgot to oil the pan and then I forgot it baking in the oven…good job tiff!!! So when I tried to take it out not only was it burnet but it was stuck. He He He!!! Well the picture above is what it came out like…not exactly the prettiest cake as you can see from my brother’s expression in the picture. But PTL it tasted fine so we enjoyed it anyway.
Autumn is here and it has shed its beautiful colors over all
the trees surrounding us. But it is going fast so I thought I should take this time to post some beautiful pictures of autumn for the weather decides to change (which it all ready has) and cast a blanket of whiteness over all the beautiful colors. Well here’s to autumn in its entire splendor…CHEERS!!!
