For the Birds

haha

A political enemy once accused Abraham Lincoln of being two-faced. Abe laughed and said, "Now, do you think that if I had another face I’d be wearing this one?"

Spring

Well I just got back from a nearly-4-mile walk... it was so nice, it's like spring out! I hope the warm weather lasts.
Day after tomorrow we're going to the water park!!! Yippee!!!
Well I guess not much else has been going on lately so bye 4 now...

baby bunnies!

Aren't they sooo cute!!? These are the bunnies that we are going to adopt in a few weeks. The rabbit breeder sent us the picture. They are sisters from the same litter.

How cute!!!

I googled these... I think they are just too adorable!!! Don't you?

What's Cooking?

I'm planning on starting up a new blog, that I'll be posting recipes, etc on... be sure and visit it when you can!

P.S. I also help out on a website called the Veggie Life... it's still under construction but you can visit it (see the link lists in the sidebar). We'll be adding lots more to it soon.

Mission trip possibility

I'm planning on maybe going on a mission trip to Chile this July... a lot of my friends and my older sister are also planning on going. It may not work out since it will be like almost $2000 total (counting not only the original amount which is like $600, but also the passport and plane ticket). And I'd like to save up my money that I earn for other things, like college. But I've been feeling really impressed to go. Even though it probably won't even be fun for the most part, it would be worth it in other ways. I'd like to ask for prayers that I make the right decision, and if going is it, that I will be able to raise enough funds to go. Thank you!

Comida

In a little bit I'll be going shopping for some ingredients, I'm supposed to make a Russian dish for potluck... I have decided to make potato and mushroom fritters. They're basically mushrooms and potatoes dipped in batter and deep fried. If they turn out nicely (and probably even if they don't, lol) I'll try to post the recipe and pictures.

Something I'm looking forward to even more is making a dish called Ratatouille. If you've watched the movie Ratatouille, you'll know what it is... anyway whenever I have watched the movie I get soooooo hungry!!!! Especially for the ratatouille. I easily found a good recipe online, it looks really simple. It's a vegetable stew with zucchini, yellow squash, mushrooms, eggplant, tomatoes, onion, garlic, olive oil, and I think some spices. I can't wait to get the ingredients and try it out. I'll try to post the recipe and photos of the ratatouille too.

Tuesday evening my sister and I made a chocolate cake. My mom made it for my birthday and it is just soooooo delicious!!! The recipe is called something like Rich Black moist chocolate cake... we got the from a cookbook that was put together by the people who live or lived in the little village my mom grew up in and my grandma still lives in. There are a lot of very good recipes in there... a line from the recipe said "this cake will stay moist for 7-10 days if you can keep it that long." Yeah it was quite a large cake but it was gone by this morning! It went so fast I didn't even have time to take a picture. yeah it was totally that good! Anyway I'll be posting the recipe eventually. I want to make it again asap...

Summer Job

About a week ago I applied for a summer job at Dorney Park, an amusement park close to here. I might be doing anything from working in a food stand to a gift shop cashier... I wasn't old enough for any of the ride attendant/ lifeguard jobs, although I'll probably apply for doing that another year when I am old enough. I really hope I get it. But if I don't, I'll do my best at finding other things to do with my summer.

Fishy

A few weeks ago one of my fish had babies... she died a few days afterwards and I thought all of her babies had died, but then one day I looked into the tank and saw a very mini fish being chased by one of the larger tank residents. Anyway so we took out junior and put him into an old betta tank and he (or she, can't tell yet) has been doing just fine. He's about a fourth of an inch long but you can see his tail is darker and his body is getting reddish-orange if you look close. Anyway, I hope he grows fast and that my sister's fish will give birth soon too so he can have some company. =) I found out that in 8-12 weeks he will be big enough to put back in with the other fish.

Last night my sister and Korah and I went to this thing called Junior Presentation at BMA... it was a program for the juniors at BMA... anyway it was fun, and we got to see our friend Esther who goes there. I guess it would be fun to go to BMA next school year, at least more fun than homeschooling.

Is this sad?

I've made 14 posts this month... and got just one comment. :( sometimes I find it hard to believe my site meter when it says this site's been visited 89 times this month... I think most of the visits have been by me. anyway I'll be putting up a chatbox again so just thought I'd ask whoever's reading this, let me know if you've been here and leave me a message or a comment. :D

The First Robin!!!

I saw this year's first robin today, and got pictures... here's one of them. The poor bird happened to arrive right in the middle of an ice storm. It kept slipping and sliding around on the icy branches, and I saw it try to drink the water dripping from icicles. This robin must not have heard about the groundhog's shadow, supposedly we were to have 6 more weeks of winter, if that's accurate then there's a little more than 4 weeks to go til Spring.

Today's trash

yeah we've had that horse since Brentley was a baby, but the parts for the bouncy ride part got lost so no reason to just keep it around taking up space... I thought it looked pretty funny in the trash can... kind of pitiful too, almost like it was struggling to get out of the trash can... lol

More photos from the Connowingo Dam

^^ me and Korah ^^
Alyssa sitting on a pile of rocks





Korah chillin =D





We climbed onto this structure... it was a concrete staircase just sitting on the edge of the water... don't know what it was doing there but it was cool to sit there and have the waves crash next to you but not on you...







it was made just a few days after Korah was born according to the date on it, kind of an interesting coincidence.



just laying there watching the clouds and birds blow by...
^pretty sure Alyssa took this picture^

I took all the following pics of the waves crashing against the riverbank.

Yeah I guess I kind of overdid those... but they look awesome ;)