Caption #1

While, it was a very hard decision to pick which caption would win for "Caption This #1" I finally decided on  the following. All of your captions were great, however congratulations Calamity Rene! In the next few days I will try to post picture #2. Thank you all who participated and I hope that you enjoy the pictures to come! God bless you all!

Dream: Oh, yeah, like I really care if you have the Carrot Stick in your hand. Nope, not gonna back up.
Sister: Awww come on! Parelli said this should work!!!

In the Sight of the Lord

Today my dad did a blog post that challenged me and could effect every reader. It is really thought provoking if you take your time reading it.

Who is your audience? In other words, who are you seeking affirmation from, acknowledgment, or to please? Is what you are doing "pleasing in the sight of the Lord"? May you all be blessed!

Click HERE to visit the post.

Caption This #1!

Hi Everyone!
Recently a blog that I really enjoy has started something that called "Caption This". I asked if I could use the idea and she said yes. It works like this: every other week (maybe a little sooner or later) I post a picture and in the comments, you put what you would caption it! It could be funny, serious, just whatever you want! Then at the end of one week (on average), I will pick my favorite caption and post it with the picture. Then the following week, I will post a different picture. And so on and so forth. I hope that you guys have fun! Just post your caption in the comments and sometime this week I will pick my favorite one!

Here is the first "Caption This" picture!

What is Dream and my sister thinking?

The Leibster Award

I have been awarded the Leibster Award! A big thank you to Jesseca Dawn (www.akansaswind.blogspot.com) and Calamity Rene (http://wildinwashington.blogspot.com/)! 

Here are the rules to the "game":

a. Acknowledge the blog that nominated you: Alrighty. Check.

b. Answer the 11 questions the nominating blogger created: Done.

Here are the questions from Jesseca, followed by the answers (I'll answer Calamity's at the end):

1. What is your favorite season?

Winter for sure!

2. What do you enjoy doing most during that season?

Well, my birthday, and Christmas, and being with my family while it's cool and we can have our wood stove burning.

3.Do you play any instruments? If so, which ones?

No, but I am learning keyboard.

4. What is your favorite style of music?

I enjoy contemporary Christian.

5.Who is your favorite author?

My Grandpa—Randall Reinstedt

and Susan Marlow

or Lauraine Snelling

or Martha Finley

or Jerry Jenkins and Chris Fabry

or Dandi Dally Mackall

6.If you could do anything you wanted, what would you choose to do?

Hmm, probably go on a back-country trip on some horses.

7. What is your favorite animal?

HORSES!

8. What is your favorite thing to do around a campfire?

I'm not sure. I guess just hang out with my family.

9.Who do you most enjoy spending time with?

My family for sure.

10.What is your favorite riddle?

I don't really have one. But IF I had to pick one, I would say this: A woman lives on the seventh floor of an apartment building. Every morning she gets in the elevators and goes to the level one, goes to work, but when she comes home, she presses the button for the fifth floor, and then walks up the rest of the stairs to her room. Why doesn't she just hit the seventh story button when she is going home?

(You guys can guess and I will post the answer later. )

11. What is your favorite radio drama? (If you listen to any)

Jonathan Park, or Adventures in Oddysey.

These questions were from Jesseca Dawn. At the end of this post I will answers the other questions form Calamity Rene.

List 11 bloggers with less than 200 followers that deserve some recognition. Here it goes:

Calamity Rene: wildinwashington.blogspot.com

Jesseca Dawn: akansaswind.blogspot.com

Erick Reinstedt: erickreinstedt.blogspot.com

I can't come up with any more. Sorry!

Write 11 questions for them to answer.

1. What do you like to do most?

2. How many siblings do you have?

3. What pets do you have?

4. What church do you attend?

5. How many followers do you have?

6. What is your favorite color?

7. What is your favorite joke?

8. What is your favorite animal?

9. What is your dream profession?

10. Where is your dream to live?

11. If you could go to any time period, when would it be?

Notify them they've been nominated. I will do that right now. If any of you want to, I'd love for you to answer these questions as well!

The qustions from Calamity Rene:

1. You just got awarded a million dollars. What are you going to do with it?

Good question. Well some I would tithe, some of it would go to missionaries, etc, some of it would be to travel, part of it for a horse ranch and lots of horses, and some just for whatever.

2. What time period would you travel to if you could?

I'm not sure. Probably the time of Jesus.

3. If you had to pick one, who would you pick as your favorite fictional character of all time?

Eeeeek! I can't pick! Well, I would have to think about that!

4. Who is your favorite Bible character?

You sure pick good questions! Mmmmm, Jesus of course. But other than him, I really like David.

5. What's your favorite book series?

Another hard one! Most likely Circle C Adventures and the High Hurdles or Winnie the Horse Gentler.

6. Who's your favorite author?

See Jesseca's questions

7. Do you have a favorite movie?

Not yet. But some I like are “Healed by Grace”, “Secretariat”, and the Narnia and Star Wars

8. What's your favorite past time?

I SUPPOSE riding!!!

9. What do you want to do when you get older?

Ooooooo. Someone who works with horses and kids. Also a mom and wife.

10. What's your favorite wild animal?

I like polar bears, wild horses (hehehe. Does that count? :-D), and dolphins.

11. If you could ask God one question, what would it be?

Yet another difficult one. The hardest of all...probably something about the end times. But I'm not sure.

Jesseca Dawn and Calamity Rene: Thank you. If you could, just even in a comment answer the questions I asked, I would love to get to know you more. If you want to do it in a post that is fine too!

The New Testament!

Hallelujah! I'm so excited! About a year and a half ago, I started reading through the New Testament. I slowly chugged along for about a year until Christmastime when I really buckled down. At that time I was in the Gospel of John. Just this morning, I finished Revelation! Reading through the gospels, I was blessed to learn more detail about the life of Jesus and how much he endured on the cross to save us from our sin. It was truly amazing to read through what Paul was writing to all the churches while he was in prison and how he persevered. Revelation was a bit confusing. It was a bit foreign to me but at the same time it was amazing to read about the end times and the future. This left such a confused impression on me that I had a weird dream last night about the end times.

This morning I had six chapters left and I was planning on reading three this morning and two tomorrow but when I was done with the first three I was so excited for finishing that I just read the remaining three chapters. I want to encourage everyone who is reading this to read the Bible, or even just the New Testament at first, all the way. It is really worth it and it can be done no matter your age.

Old Testament and rereading the New Testament, here I come!

Prayers for Camp

Hi everyone! Sorry I haven't been posting consistently, but since summer vacation (when we visited our relatives), starting school, etc. I have just been too busy. I still have many posts that I wish to do, such as on our first day of school and camp next week, so hopefully I will be able to find some time to do some more posts. I really appreciate comments, they help me feel like someone is still reading my blog even though I don't post consistently so if you have time, they would be greatly appreciated. Thank you to those who do comment!

Here is a short post just asking for your prayers. Next week my sister and I are going to a camp by Lake Lopez that is all week long. It's the same camp that I posted about last year, (see Off to Camp!) called LIFE Camp. The LIFE stands for Living In Faith Effectively. This will be my fourth year at this particular camp but each year they have a different theme. This year it will be the armor of God. I would be ever so grateful for each and every one of your prayers not just for my sister and me but for all the other children as well. Please pray for safety, fun, and for growing closer to God. Specific prayers for me would be that I don't get nervous answering questions or speaking up because of what people may think of me. So if you could pray for me then THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

God bless you all!