He ran well

Last week we traveled to my Great Grandpa's  funeral. ):
Lots of tears, lots of sadness. I loved him so much. But he ran well.

My Great Grandpa took up golfing at 70 years young and got a hole-in-one at a fascinating age! My uncle talked about him at the funeral. He talked about, as he put it, "extraordinary" things. He also gave an Irish (My Mom's Dad was full-blooded Irish.) prayer. "God saw you getting tired, a cure was not to be....."

My Great Grandpa really was great. In fact, he was awesome! He still is. And, hey, I still got him in my heart. I can't see him, but I can remember him!

Galatians 5:7

Jesus gives New Life

Please, pray for my Great Grandpa who is in the hospital. He is in I.C.U. for greater, more intense care. The Doctors think he has congestive heart failure.

Please, pray for him. He is my Mom's only Grandpa. He has outlived my Dad's Grandpas by twenty years.
I love him so much, and I don't want to lose him.
He is such a wonderful Great Grandpa and he is kind.
My little sister cried a lot this morning when my Dad told us. My Mom cried a lot yesterday, she told us, and I needed a lot of comforting as well from my Mom tonight.

I don't know what God has planned, and I am scared. This is very hard to deal with. We visited my Great Grandpa recently in the hospital when he was getting over the pneumonia and he had a bad cough.
Now, I don't know what to do. I've prayed, I've written in my journal to write out what I have thought, I've told my family members what I'm feeling. But I don't feel any better.

My big brother told me that things could end up good, but then they might not. My family is so wonderful and comforting. I need it now.

To God be the Glory.

Deer eating a tree!

Quite a while ago we were sitting at our dining room table and one of my siblings yelled, "There's a deer in our yard!"
And the deer was eating our little bush (which happens to be quite alright with our landlords). It was very normal for our landlords, but we didn't like it!

This is the only time we have seen the deer eating the bush but we have also seen it eating our small tree (the small one on the left lower corner of the photo above).

After my wonderful mom let me take a few photos of this deer, we scared it away and it high-tailed off so fast.....

 ....It didn't even stop until it was across the road and out off sight!

Flower photos

Hey everyone! I have a lot of photos that are of flowers so I wanted to put some here on my blog.
Enjoy!

I took this photo quite a while ago last year, I think!

I have a shirt the same colors as this flower too!

 

I'm a big fan of anything interesting on a camera,

 but I really like Macro mode!

My mom says I've got at least a thousand photos of flowers and stuff (and, um, that is actually sort of true in some cases!) so it doesn't matter what I show, I've still got a ton of other photos of different things!

Hope you like this post!

6:00 wake-up call on a WEEKEND!

This weekend was fantastic! On Friday we had to wake up very early so that we could get to our 'destination' on time! I had woke up at 5:52 A.M. but fell back asleep. It was about five minutes later when my Mom was waking me back up. My friend Autumn from Loving the seasons of Autumn and her family came and I got to ride with her in their car.

Upon our arrival, we opened the car door and it was pretty chilly outside! So we hurried to the building.
Y' know, why do they call it a building when it's already built?

Anyway, we got inside and we signed in for the home-school kids conference and when we were situated in our Team we sang songs, watched a skit and then we headed to the other side of the room for an obstacle course. Autumn and I were so tired (as were our siblings) that we took turns leaning on each other while we waiting in line!

After that I was introduced by another friend to a cute little six-year-old. She was so sweet, liked to talk, made sure I was standing, or sitting, next to her at all times, and loved to bounce up and down and give me high-fives as high as she could.

She was in the same Team as me, Autumn and our siblings, so she and I colored in pictures and made crafts together. I loved that she would sit next to me when we watched the skit and sang songs.
I told Autumn that "She seemed to like me a lot." She's a sweet girl.


We played a game called Captain On Deck (I love that game) and my little 6 year old friend wouldn't leave me at all! When the man called out "Three men in a boat" she was almost always somewhere in my 'boat'. The same was with the order "Man Overboard".

There were a few things in the kids conference that I didn't like but otherwise, it was worth the early wake-up!

Oh, wow! Another photo challenge!

OK, maybe this will be the last challenge I enter! Then again....Maybe not!
Well, anyway, here's one more photo challenge Aaliyah at Growing in His Image
This is the photo I'm entering:

Another Photo Challenge!

I am just as excited about this new photo challenge as the last one!
This one is from Moments in Time!
This is the photo I'm submitting:

If you want to enter this challenge or see more info about it click on the link above!