My favorite Psalm............ Psalm 23.

Yes, it really is! I have a second favorite but Psalm 23 is my all time favorite Psalm yet.

1 "The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want.

2 He makes me lie down in green pastures.

He leads me beside still waters.

3 He restoreth my soul.

He leads me in the paths of righteousness

for his names sake.

4 Even though I walk though the valley of the

shadow of ,

I will fear no evil,

for you art with me;

your rod and your staff,

they comfort me.

5 You prepare a table before me

in the presence of my enemies;

you anoint my head with oil;

my cup overflows.

6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me

all the days of my life,

and I will dwell in the house of the Lord

forever.

Isn't it pretty? Like I said, it's my all time favorite Psalm so I decided to share it. Well, that is it for right now, so bye!

Here's what we did on Christmas......

Well, after all of us girls going to bed at midnight, that left Mommy and Daddy working on our main present (for all of us to share) really late in the night, so they slept kind of late but we didn't mind because we were having so much fun doing the oddest things (...like we always do). :) But when they did come to get us guess what?! There was the present we share (yes, even Andrew shares it ;)!) We saw a big HOMEMADE DOLLHOUSE!  As they were talking about how they made it Daddy said "You know, the box this came in said 'Mansions in minutes' I've been working on it since before Andrew was born!".



There it is the way we saw it first. Isn't it pretty? But if you think this is pretty .........



Take a look at the inside!



Yes, we really enjoy it! Thank you, Mom & Dad!

I'll tell you what I gave everybody for Christmas now. Well, I gave Tori, Bethi, and Andrew all homemade ornaments. Tori and Bethi got books, Andrew had a homemade knit bib, Tori got a horse picture I had copied out of my horse coloring book, Mom got a CD, and Dad got his favorite picture I ever drew... one of him and Andrew dancing to "Do You Hear What I Hear" (by Todd Agnew. Later Mom asked what his favorite present was, and he answered, "Bri's".  I was glad I had made it!

It's Christmas eve!

It is Christmas eve and we have to do all the last minute things, so this one is going to be short. I just wanted to say: "Merry Christmas to one and all!". Well, that's all. Bye! :)

Its that time of year again...........

Its Christmas time again! I have all my presents ready to be wrapped and put under the Christmas tree. I'll tell you what I gave everybody after Christmas. Mom wanted me to tell on my blog, so I said I would... after Christmas. ;) You see, Mom reads my blog ;)

Guess what! Our aloe is so big that Mom put TINSEL on it! We have been making a LOT of treats lately. White and chocolate pretzels, peanut butter balls, triple treats, carmels, AND chocolate dipped chips! We also have the cinnamon rolls for breakfast and for our later meal there's ham, sweet and mashed potatoes, (also, for Dad, homemade cranberry sauce) corn, and stuffing. (I'm not sure I named it all! And don't worry about all the sweets. They're not all for Christmas, plus were giving some away!) :) Well, another day has started. We are going to be making as much of the food as we can tomorrow so we need to get everything else done today (like wrapping presents!), so I better say goodbye.

Here's what I've been doing......

A little while ago I started teaching the " Ambrielle school" as it is called :). Its pretty fun to teach too! Tori (my "student") says: "I like the stories and that it is basically homeschool." Meaning that she likes the stories I read to her and that she likes it a lot better then she would public school. Of course its not a real school but I like to pretend it is... That's part of why it's fun to teach! :)

Bethi is getting into a lot of mischief lately.... like the time she threw the star of the advent calender away :P. Where is it?!

Andrew is so cute ( I know I say it a lot, I just can't stop)! Anyway, he is already wanting to sit up!!!

"Where's Daddy?"

I got Bethi up and she said "Go see Daddy?". Me: "Daddy isn't home.". We went into mom's room and read for a very little while and then she gets down from mom's bed and wagged her fingers at me (her way of saying "come on") and she went out to the kitchen and said: Where's Daddy?". We went in mom's room again and then she went out again and started to mess with the doorknob calling " Daddy!" (Daddy's outside a lot gardening). Finally (when mom came out) she stopped it. It was so cute :)!

Tori is learning to knitt on a hat knitter I have. I know how to knitt the real way too! I can also sew.

Andrew is so cute! He love's it when I walk around with him on my shoulder :). So cute!

I'm writing a book called "TREASURE COVE" to give him sometime. Hope he likes it! But it will take awhile. I started last night and I haven't finished two pages yet! Poor lil' Lee! He might be one or two by the time the book's done!

Bethi slept in my bed for the first time last night! She woke up at 8:32. I guess she didn't sleep as much as she should have though because she was a littlecranky in the afternoon. Me and Tori are always playing horse by running up and down the hall. The funny thing is Bethi has just joined in the sport ,and we're always meeting in the hall, and before she starts running she waves to mom and "gallups" away. " Bye" she'll say then she says, "Neigh" while she runs off. :)

What I've read

Saturday I finished the biography "George Muller: The Guardian of Bristol's Orphans" by Janet & Geoff Benge. Did you know that at first he was a "common thief"? His first wife was 8 years older then him and his second wife was 21 years younger! He had a daughter and a son (his son died at 15 months) Their daughter (Lydia) was 1 year older then her brother (Elijah). Lydia died at the age of 57. And did you know that George started 4 Orphan houses and then had to... move them ALL to a new Orphan house! Then he started 4 more Orphan homes! His second wife died when they had been married 23 years. He himself died when he was 92 years old. George Muller never asked for ANYTHING AT ALL to take care of all of those orphans!

Wow that was fast!

We are home from voting already! (In fact, we've been home for over four hours!) I was thankful that it wasn't long! I was thinking that we were going to have to stand in line for two hours. Yes! I guess God is blessing us today!

Yeah!

A little more about what I like

I'm a real big lover of horses! I read all I can on them, and I want to share a few things on them and so, here it is... Did you know that baby Falabellas are only about 22" tall? That's how big Andrew was when HE was born! And I've also found out that in some lights black horses look purple! Weird right? (Oh and Falabellas are the smallest HORSE in the world!)

 Wow! I think that's all I have for you now, so  I will say... Bye!

Old adventures...........some were painful!

One was me getting stuck in my room when I was 4. ;) The house we lived in at that time was interesting. The house had hard floors for soft floors, soft floors for hard floors and many other things. Anyway, one day I got mad, slammed the door and got stuck. Mom had to pry the door (you know, take two planks out of the door) while Tori looked on. :P That wasn't too comfy! And then there was the time I cut my eyebrow by tripping into a chair because I was running in Grandpa's slippers, now I can laugh at how silly I had been. And the day I had to shout "No worries it was just a lid!", that was a day I was making muffins. Every thing was going wrong that day! I was making messes right and left! It was really funny. When I told Dad about it he said, "So, I think it's a pizza night", that made up for all the un-fun stuff that morning!

"Let's get started!"

Wow! Do you know how time flies? I do! The days especially seemed to fly while we were waiting for Andrew (you might want to know that Andrew is "Little Lee" to me, "Buddy" to Daddy, "bee-bee" to Bethi, "my little mister" to Tori, and "my little man" or "my "sonshine" to Mommy!). Anyway, Bethi keeps us busy! She's really cute (she's really busy all the time too. One time she got a marker I had left out. That wasn't so fun to clean up, I can tell you ;)!). Tori is really cute too. She's so fun to play with! I love Andrew so much! He's so cute and fun to hold! He'll smile really big and try to help sing:

"Those were my nails,

That was my crown

that pierced your hands

and your brow

those were my thorns

those were my scorns

those were my tears that fell down

and just as you said it would be

you did it all for me

Yeah, After you counted the cost

you took my shame, my blame

on my cross.

How deep is your love

that I'd hear you say:

"Father no! Forgive them

they know not what they do!""

It's so cute! The picture on the right (my (old) avatar) is Andrew and his "adoring fans" as Mom says and its true! We are a very happy family!

My first avatar, mentioned above.