Summer '09 = Summer of Loooovee ;)

I am still in a slight state of shock that school is already here and summer is just about to slip away without us noticing. What happened? The Past 3 months have been an amazing time of wonderful-ness, and I'm not quite ready to give up that warm, happy, feel-good glow. I am going to miss the sound of the cicadas outside my window. I am going to miss the watermelon. I am going to miss driving with the windows down with the wind whipping back my hair. *Sigh* I am one big sentimental mess, and I have come to a conclusion.

I have been mis-placed.

I am supposed to live in Florida........

.........where the sunsets look like this. Every. Freakin'. Night.

I am torn, though. Mexico is pretty amazing, too.

But then I think about awesome places in Kansas, like the Sharp farm...

And trampolines.....

...and fireworks in big open fields...

...and firework SHOWS...

......and playing baseball.....

.....and the huge, open Prairie sky.....

........and wildflowers (how I love them).........

.........and cute horses......

..........and balloons tied up in trees for the 4th of July.......

........and I wonder......

If Kansas isn't really such a bad place after all. :)

Another Novel

Yes, I have been at work again on yet another "novel" of mine. I have many, you know, though I never have the heart to finish them. I feel rather disloyal to my characters if I finish a book. So there is no guarantee this one will be finished in 2009 like my spiffy little "trailor" says. I just made that for fun. :) But yeah, I find the fact that Robert E. Lee and George Washington were related (by marriage) fascinating. And sadly, my brain will run away with something like that and add a whole bunch of "what ifs...?" to it and voila, I start a new book. :)

So yes. This is what I have been up to lately. :)

Sneak Peak... :-)

For those of you who have no idea what this is...

Us and the H's filmed a movie about two years ago called "Blubber Boy." A few weeks ago, on sudden inspiration, we decided to create a sequel. Posted here are the bloopers. And before you watch them, there are a few things you should know...

1. The...er...gaseous...noises, are fake. Ben - in his maleness - added them in after the filming. He just happened to place them quite...well. Don't feel bad if you are female and you laugh. I did.

2. Where there are the "censored" beeping noises, the only thing Josh is saying is, well, beep. Literally. I think he said "darn" once. I hope this doesn't offend anyone.

That being said...Enjoy!

Pride and Predjudice Music Video (Made by me=D)

Yes, I know, this is sort of random but I just had to post it. It was seriously so much fun to make! I'm addicted now and will be making more in the future. ;) I wish I could've uploaded it from YouTube - the picture quality is much better than the blogger videos - but oh well *shrug*.

See ya'll when I see ya! ~ Elisabeth

What I've Been Up To

Yesterday morning was Emily Beecher's baby shower... The food was very yummy. =)

It's incredible how many young couples we have in our church now! God is really blessing us! Espescially with 4 babies on the way! (2 - the Clay twins - have already arrived. Can't wait to see them!)


After I got home I went outside in the backyard and did a photoshoot with Abby. Here's what I got:

And then, in the evening, we had our annual pancake breakfast - which actually turned out to be supper. I remember last year, when it was actually breakfast ;), everyone came over in the morning...then some of them walked home, while some of the kids stayed all afternoon...then they came back over for supper. And the time before that was the time when Ben didn't know how to use the homeade whipped cream dispenser and shot his dad all the way at the other end of the table with whipped cream. It was all over his glasses and the window. lol!

So here is a random little video of our evening...

The creepy Chineese sounding music at the end I did not add in the background. Uncle David (lol) really likes it for some reason, and Emily was dancing to it...it was quite interesting. Espescially when William decided to join in (sadly, I have no video of that. He absolutely forbade it.)

P.S. C.J. Mahaney has finally entered bloggerdom! Check it out here for his thoughts on the Super Bowl.

Looking Back on 2007, Slideshow #3

Looking Back on 2007, Slideshow#2

I had trouble picking the pictures out for this one - too many good ones! LOL! What a year. :)
These gals are some of my dearest friends. What's more, they're my sisters in the Lord. In the outside world, we probably would not "naturally" be drawn together - what a variety of personalities and intrests! - but we have common ground. Jesus died on the cross for our sins so that we all might have life in His name. That is the most important common ground of all!




I love you ladies!!

Looking Back on 2007, Slideshow #1

As I was sorting through all my pictures from last year, I realized that all the one of us and our "extended family" [the H's, in case you didn't know. ;)] needed their own slideshow, there were so many! This is just the first of several slideshows I [hope] to post, depending on how Blogger and I get along. ;)
Enjoy!