Summer dayzs...

I guess I'm not too busy to write poems...hehe

Quiet in a closet a little boy hides
his Daddy will beat him
if he cries.
Drink, yelling, pain
to him that means “Dad”
He doesn’t know that his true Father
has this boy’s name on the palm of His hand.
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He turns eighteen,
finally free
To get away from the pain and the hurt
but what his father showed,
is all that he knows,
and he turns to the world for support
His best friends use him
break him, then lose him
yet he’s denied, the right to cry
that would show he’s not man
and still he ignores
the love of the Lord
who’s holding out his hand
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He’s settled down,
has a high paying job and a family
but even though
his wallet’s full
his heart is still empty.
He will not try
to open his eyes
to the love that the Father holds out
it was not part of his life success plan
to be carved on the palm of God’s hand.
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His wife has died,
He doesn’t know his own kids
Only now at the end of his life,
does he see what he’s missed
and as he cries,
God opens his eyes
to see his missing part
Down on his knees
for mercy he pleads
and God gives him a new heart
so he finishes life a different man
with his name on the palm of God’s hand.

post on nothing

Hello everybody.

I know I should be postnig again, so I am, but It's not really gonna be interesting.

I'm really busy right now cuz my Aunt is here from Washington, and we're doing a lot of stuff with her, and because I have some cramming to do, school-wise. :-)

So just so you all know I won't be posting a whole lot for the next couple weeks, though I will still be online enough...

Not to mention I really have no idea what to post... :-)

This is kinda interesting...

You Have A Type B+ Personality

You're a pro at going with the flowYou love to kick back and take in everything life has to offerA total joy to be around, people crave your stability. While you're totally laid back, you can have bouts of hyperactivity.Get into a project you love, and you won't stop until it's doneYou're passionate - just selective about your passions

http://www.blogthings.com/doyouhaveatypeapersonalityquiz/

Do You Have a Type A Personality?

Alberts confession and stuff.

Hey all, Heidi here, officially posting. Happy??
We had our year end program on Friday night, which went well except for a few minor gliches with the slide show and of course some piano mistakes on my part. Chris Miriam and Deanna I loved your guy's songs... and you did an awesome job. And it was good to see you there Marie, and I'm sooo sorry nobody was at church in the afternoon... I would have mentioned it but we weren't sure yet if we were going.
Which brings me to what I'm going to post about. Albert's Confession of Faith.
First of all I want to say that it's totally awesome that you did it Albert, I thank God sooo much that all my friends have the faith that he confessed, it's SUCH a huge thing to me.
'Neways, Saturday night Liz and I went and crashed Jess's party, which thankfully was kinda over anyway and then slept overnight at VV's with Rebecca and Care. Then we woke up way too early and went to Wellandport! We got to church like 45 minutes before it started...lol
After church we all (Aunt Elsa, Uncle Art, us girls, Egberts, and Bierstakers) went to the Sikkens house.
They had like a ton of awesome food there... Oh you guys, Albert Baked Cookies!!!!
And we even ate them! And lived! Just kidding, they were awesome Alb, chewy chocolate chip are the best...I think we all ate too many.
We had lunch, hung out, did (or attempted to do ) a crossword puzzle... played air hockey and pinball downstairs, and just had fun together. Oh, and we (Care and I ) played Alberts awesome InsanAquarium Game on his cellphone. You like feed the fish and everything!! lol I stunk at it. :-)
Then we went outside and saw Alberts famous Jetta!! It was sitting the garage, covered in like an inch of dust all around (see Jess's blog eventually for pics) which we had fun writing all over, it was a beautiful rusty Grey, and has at least half a million kilometres on it (correct me if I'm wrong Alb, it might have been more)
Now I know why He says his sunflower is a piece of Garbage! :-) It looks like it will be pretty awesome once he fixes it up and get sa n new engine and stuff.
Anywho and anyhow, It was a totally awesome day, and thanks so much for having us Albert.
Now I'm gonna go to Deanna's for lik the rest of the week, (not quite) So I'll see you guys around!

Beautiful

Here is one more poem for you guys. :-) It's pretty long, but it's one of my better ones I think.
I'm actually trying to write music for it... but we'll see how that goes.:-)

Made like our God,
A beautiful perfection,
Believed the lies,
That broke, and ruined me.
A wretched heart,
No hope of salvation,
Until I gave it
to the Man from Galilee.
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and said, please
Take it
Break it
Change it
Rearrange it,
My heart, on this cross
of Calvery...
Mold it
Build it
Hold it
And fill it
then give it back to me...
Beautiful
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Sometimes it hurts,
this awesome transformation,
Sometimes the pain,
is more than I can bear,
But than I think,
of Jesus Christ's redemption,
I see a cross,
I see a Savior there!
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and He's
Taking
Breaking
Changing
Rearranging
My heart, on His cross,
of Calvery...
Molding
Building
Holding
and Filling,
and giving it to me...
Oh Jesus now I see
I'll live my life to be
Beautiful
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Because You
Took
Broke
Changed
Rearranged,
My life, on Your cross,
of Calvery...
And You
Molded
Built
Held
Filled
Until I can stand before my King
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Beautiful

They told me to post this...

BULLETIN ANNOUNCEMENT SUNDAY MAY 21 2006

JAMES ARNOTT NURSING HOME: Noontide service will be held today with Mr. A. VanVuuren leading. Mr. Heidi Luimes plays the piano.


Who wrote that bulletin, lol! You don't want to know how many people commented on it...

Would you rather...

Ok that last post was a little weird so here's a new one.

WHAT WOULD YOU RATHER DO--like right now.

Some more "Deep thoughts"

These things are so lame they're kinda funny.
When you're riding in a time machine way far into the future, don't stick your elbow out the window, or it'll turn into a fossil.
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Why do people in ship mutinies always ask for "better treatment"? I'd ask for a pinball machine, because with all that rocking back and forth you'd probably be able to get a lot of free games.
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I bet when the neanderthal kids would make a snowman, someone would always end up saying, "Don't forget the thick, heavy brows." Then they would all get embarrassed because they remembered they had the big hunky brows too, and they'd get mad and eat the snowman.
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I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they chose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas.
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I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don't want anybody walking in and lying down in the crash stuff, then, when somebody comes up, act like they just woke up and go, "What was THAT?!"
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Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition.
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If you ever teach a yodeling class, probably the hardest thing is to keep the students from just trying to yodel right off. You see, we build to that.
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If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.
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When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear.
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Children need encouragement. If a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way he develops a good, lucky feeling.
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If you're robbing a bank and you're pants fall down, I think it's okay to laugh and to let the hostages laugh too, because, come on, life is funny.
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I think a good product would be "Baby Duck Hat". It's a fake baby duck, which you strap on top of your head. Then you go swimming underwater until you find a mommy duck and her babies, and you join them. Then, all of a sudden, you stand up out of the water and roar like Godzilla. Man, those ducks really take off! Also, Baby Duck Hat is good for parties.
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Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it "dull" that Jesse James once got bitten on the forehead by an ant, and at first it didn't seem like anything, but then the bite got worse and worse, so he went to a doctor in town, and the secretary told him to wait, so he sat down and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and then finally he got to see the doctor, and the doctor put some salve on it? You call that dull?

Start

Why are they here
What are they doing?
Nobody knows,
if they're coming or going.
Grace given to us,
God working through us,
Hope for the cause,
Starting with us.
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We've got to
Tell the world
Change the world
Show the world what's true,
We've got to
pass it on,
living strong,
weve got to
start with me and you.
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Higher
Longer
Greater
Stronger
Start with me and you.

How smart are you??

PREFACE: IN THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS FIELD YOU MUST BE ABLE TO DISTINGUISH COLORS WITH-IN MULTI -CONDUCTOR CABLES. THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT COLORED WIRES CONTAINED IN A SINGLE CABLE. BELOW, YOU WILL FIND WORDS WRITTEN IN DIFFERENT COLORS. AS QUICKLY AS YOU CAN, READ ALOUD THE COLOR THAT EACH WORD IS WRITTEN IN.....NOT THE ACTUAL WORD THAT'S WRITTEN.


GREEN YELLOW BLUE ORANGE WHITE RED GREEN BLUE ORANGE YELLOW WHITE GREEN RED BLUE WHITE GREEN ORANGE YELLOW ORANGE BLUE GREEN RED WHITE YELLOW RED BLUE YELLOW ORANGE RED WHITE

ACTUALLY, THIS TEST IS CHECKING YOUR BRAINS ABILITY TO SEPARATE THE LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS AND RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS. THE PROBLEM IS THAT THE LEFT SIDE OF YOUR BRAIN IS TRYING TO TELL YOU TO READ THE WORD, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME, THE RIGHT SIDE OF YOUR BRAIN IS TRYING TO TELL YOU TO IDENTIFY THE COLOR!!!

OCHEC

Hey! I'm posting again! (I wonder how many of my posts have started out this way...)
OCHEC was awesome this year, I haven't decide which of the past two was the best.. I liked the speakers and speeches better last year but the group and hanging out this year waas amazing.
I would say my favorite part was our official hangout, "the roof" That was so fun... it's amazing how weird people can be when they're in the right mood... :-) I wonder where our "emerald" is now, lol
What was all yours?
Dr. Humphrey Speech was definetly the best, that was sooo awesome man! SO LOUD!! we all plugged our ears the second time and we still jumped, lol
hmmm... what else was there... um, there was the musical presentation friday night, which was ok, the piano playing was amazing, but I didn't care for the singing.
Than we went home, and Miriam and I giggled hysterically the first half of the way home, everything was just so funny... we would tell eachother lame jokes and then just howl at them, while Chris and Liz were just sitting there looking at us like we were from mars... and then slept the rest of the way, and then woke up the next morning perfect zombies... and of course they had to do Joe Boot just then... you (I) cannot concentrate on that guy!!
Oh, and the "art" :-) two huge rusty stars on top of eachother that we were sitting on (on the roof) and the security guys came and told us not to sit on "the art" lol what next.... reminds me of Dr. Phillip's (or was it Snavely...?) description of modern art in new york... :-D "All you need to do is stick a feather in your mouth, then barf on the canvas, and then stand back and say "ooh, it's aht, beee-uuu-tee-ful aht..."
I laughed so hard...
Oh man we did so many interesting things.. but I forget half of them right now...
Oh yeah, btw Andrew, you do know we were totally kidding about the excersise thing eh? I mean you're like so chubby man! :-)
And sliding down the escalator banister...:-) I really wanted to do that but I didn't cuz the adults were all standing at the bottom waiting for us.
And then we went home and crashed. The End.

Andrew's Party

Ok, I don't really know what to say about the party since Melissa pretty much covered it all, but it was totally awesome Andrew thanks so much for inviting us!
That card was so cool... though I didn't get to see much of the inside or anything... not that it matters.
And um, I have a confession to make that is gonna make some people pretty mad, so prepare yourselves.
I was one of the dirty double crossers who stole the flags.
I was kinda bored cuz all I was doing was running across the line, getitng put in jail etc. etc.
It was a lot of fun doing it but I would not have if I knew people were gonna be mad. And sorry to you guys who were just about to win... I think everybody knows you would've totally creamed us. I was wondering what you three were doing out there in the woods.
The hike was awesome... though Devisser's barbed wire doesn't like me. Actually it only gave me a little cut but it bled so much everyboyd (especially Sarah) thought i was like about to die or something, lol I should've like swooned... I would've gotten lot's of attention lol. Which I don't want.
The volleyball game was cool too, especially at the end when the thing actually started going over... after we stopped useing the rules, lol. Man that volleyball killed! I guess cuz it was wet.
Ok, I don't know what else to say, and I'm pretty sure as soon as I post it I'll think of something. :-)
Oh, btw, did anyone notice I actually used all my capital letters on this post?? lol I'm so proud of myself.

w00t!

ALBERT'S GOT A BLOG!!

oh yeah!

but he's only keeping it for a week so we better get over there and change his mind!

http://alberthenrykurt.blogspot.com/

weird...

ok, i'm finally posting again people...what kind of a bug do you think this is??
weird eh??













just for lack of something better to post...

party time!

last week tuesday we put on a surprise party for ben and aaron, which i'm sure you all know, and it was a huge success, i think everybody had a lot of fun. though it was really tooo bad you couldn't make it andrew...
check liz and jess's blogs for pictures, since they posted on it already i will try and talk about the things they didn't mention.
the best game was probably the broken telephone charades, which was totally hilarious, and we have a very good copy on video if anybody wants it. i have to say tim and sarah you guys win that one for the best imitations. sarah's was just really good and tim's was sooooo funny!
there was also a banana game, which was alot of fun, especially watching people eat their banana's. :-) go katie!
adnt eh oddball mixer was awesome! that was a lot of fun... though it took forever to start.. thanks sarah for entertaining us with your cheeseburger song. :-)
and then balloon one, which was great but man you wouldn't believe how many balloons we had to blow up for that! (don't worry, we brushed our teeth beofre hand so nobody passed out popping them :-)
we had fun doing it though... man you know how hard it is to laugh when you're blowing up balloons... it usually end up coming out of your nose. lol which can be rather disastrous.
anyway back to the actual party.... thanks so much to everyone who put money into the gifts which were awesome if i do say so myself... and sorry we totally forgot about cake.
that's about it and i'll try to start posting a bit more regularly on here!

ok here is a poem THAT I DID NOT WRITE. (i wish) It is a song that i heard a very long time ago so i will try to remember it.

I felt sometimes i didn't have
a story I could share,
I wasn't rescued from a past,
destroyed by dark despair,
but with Jesus I have memories,
of the times that we've been through,
and I wouldn't trade on moment,
of growing up with You.

I came to love You early
came to know You young,
You touched my heart dear Jesus,
when my life had just begun,
I gave you my tomorrows,
and a childish heart of sin,
and You've saved me from a lifetime,
of what I might have been.

I remember how You touched me,
but I can't explain it all,
how a choice that's so important,
could be made by one so small
I'd just bring to You my questions,
and what You've said to do I've done,
and I think You for the blessings,
and coming to You young!

I came to love You early,
came to know You young,
You touched my heart, dear Jesus,
When my life had just begun,
I gave You my tomorrows,
and a childish heart of sin,
and You've saved me from a lifetime,
of what I might have been.

Yes You saved me from a lifetime,
of what I might have been.

I just think that's an awesome song, and so true!

Heidi <><

SPRING!!

ok, there aren't quite flowers blooming yet, but it's getting there!! sorry to all you snowboarders who want winter to stay forever! :-)

mission

ok, i know i post way too many of these, but i just wrote another poem, and since i have nothing else to do with it i'm gonna post it.

A beautiful life, on the brink of despair,
drugs, sex, you name it, this guy’s been there
but if there’s no truth, no wrong and no right,
where is the hope? the point to his life?
so he leaves them a note, tears running through it,
says “sorry everybody, but I got to do this..”
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and we could have shown him, erased his doubt,
there is hope in our Savior, and His grace reaches out!
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But how will they know if nobody tells them?
of Jesus love, and the chance that He’s given
you have to get up out of your padded pew,
and pass on the blessing God’s given to you.
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There was a little girl, in your neighborhood,
who could have changed the world, and yet she never would,
because of all those voices, saying “it’s your choice”
she never got to see the light or hear her mothers voice,
but instead she lays in pieces, just another victim,
of the awful cruelty, of our country’s “freedom”
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But where were our voices through all the doubt?
Christ could have saved her, His grace reaches out!
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But how will they know if nobody tells them?
of Jesus love, and the chance that He’s given
you have to get up out of your padded pew,
and pass on the blessing God’s given to you.

ta da!

ok everybody... i'm gonna post again!!

this weekend was a whole lot of fun! thanks so much all you bowmanvillers!
i guess i'll start from the very beginning....

well, albert emailed at 2 and said he was gonna leave from egberts in about 15 minutes, but he'd still call, so we sat around waiting for hime until around 3 when he called to say that he was leaving, so we got on the road around 3:30. wasn't that interesting?? :-)

we had a good car ride, fighting over what music to listen to, driving around looking for a place that jeremy wanted to drop something off at but didn't even know what looked like...(we finally just gave that up) and stopping at wendy's for a frosty which i promptly dripped all over my pants. :-) anyway, we arrived at amanda's house at around 5, where everybody was getting worried that we would show up at all, and sat around for awhile talking, and went out and saw their horses. (!!!!!!!!!) until it was time to go to their church's talent night. sarah and james showed off their amazing skills at making airplanes, LOL... sorry james but sarah creamed you! sarah, did you even know he was gonna put them on the tables at the school? that was funny!

as i was saying... the talent night was very good, and afterwards we all went over to melissa's place to watch napoleon dynamite, which by the way is like a very stupid movie.... :-) sorry to all you people who are like in love with it... it does have some moderately funny parts i will admit under great pressure. but it was very annoying to hear everybody quote it 24/7...:-) i forgive you guys.

of course i had to spill root beer all over my pants too... i was having a bit of a bad day. :-)

then all the guys and amanda left for her house around midnight, and the rest of us went downstairs and talked, or in my case sat around like a zombie, and then went to bed a little too late...:-)

next morning we had a very good breakfast, (thanks mrs. zegers!) which apperntly we didn't eat enough of, and then after a little more sitting around went over to amanda's, where we watched raise your voice, (good movie!!) while the boys shopped and kept calling for no particular reason, and then of course came back right at the best part and made so much noise we couldn't hear it. :-)

then we had lunch, and went outside to do some target shooting, (cool!) and of course loked at the horses again...:-) after which we went to melissa's, picked up the skates, and went skating for an hour! that was awesome. and the rided back was awesome too, we rode in the back of mr. zegers construction van, cuz he'd picked up the van. a little hard to keep your balance!

well, everybody went to melissa's after that, and we sat downstairs and watched jer and albert play a very interesting/amusing game of pool, and then care and i played the worlds most pathetic game of pool... i knew i was bad but wow! and then beth and i played a game of ping pong over the pool table, which kinda turned into a contest to see who could bounce the ping pong ball of their paddle the longest... lol rebecca won, but they were all waaay ahead of me.

after that we had some hamburgers, which were really good.... can't beat bbq... makes me think of summer...

beth rebecca and care left pretty early, after we were looking up directions, and ended up loking up all of our houses/churches/schools on satellite... lol then the rest of us watched the beginning of a pathetic hockey game, and part of gone fishing, which i totally didn't understand, since we were all talking through it anyway.

then we went home! and crashed! and tried to stay awake in church the next day! thankfully my dad has very good sermons, lol!

well, that's the end of my very very long post.... thanks everybody for a great weekend!

:-P

LOOK BEHIND YOU!!!

snow valley!!

ok, i guess i should post on yesterday, the long awaited snow valley, now over. annoying how things have such a way of being over eh?
but it was an awesome day!
after waiting in line twice for my blue stripe, (yeah, i did bad the first time) i got it, and hit the slopes!
the terrain park and the 4-man lift weren't open for a while, so that was too bad, but they did re-open, and i did a rail! i was so proud of myself, even though it was only like a little-baby rail. i didn't do the half pipe, cuz apparently it was really icy.

the big dissapointment for me was missing like all but the last bit of the t-shirt runs, since i somehow lost you guys right before we were gonna do it, and then couldn't find you again. but thank you for doing one more when we found eachother!! that was awesome!! and i hope you arm chin and knees are doing better now melissa!

oh, and btw people, never put your lift tickt on your mitten, i did and i lost it twice, and the second time for good. nobody noticed i didn't have it though, so that was good.
hmm.. what else is there to say... i skiied with like a whole bunch of different people, which was cool...
oh, and you guys is till don't know what i tabletop is... i think it's my fate...

afterwards most of us went to the kiezebrinks for supper, which was really nice except mr. kiezebrink had to make a little comment in front of everybody about me and face plants... :-$

we ate, watc.hed finding nemo/slept, and then went outside to finishing the snowball fight we started on the 12th. a little more even this time!! but of course we still creamed the guys.

then we went home, and crashed, and that's about. all there is to say!

i would start a countdown to next year but that might take awhile.

Take the 100 acre quiz!

i know a some of you have already seen this, but i'm posting it again cuz it's really cute.

let me know what you get!

http://www.half-asleep.com/pooh/interact/quiz/

posting...

hey everybody, i think it's time to post again. my life right now is not very interesting because melissa is gone,

:-( so there's not a whole lot of blogging going on... and today i was going to go down to bowmanville with albert jess and liz and everyboyd else who is there, but alberts car broke down so it didn't work. :-( i hope you guys have tons of fun! and i hope your car gets "better" soon albert!

hmm.. what is up with me... well last night we had a father daughter night with our ks group, so that was cool... we were supposed to come matching or co-ordinated, and we had quite a tough time with that. Dad wasn't too exited about dying his hair red so we just ended up white shirts, jeans, and red carnations in our hair/onn his shirt. we played lots of games, like smarties pictionary where each couple would have a bag of smarties and one of them would have to make a picture with them and the other guess, and the first couple who guessed it won. that was fun. then we had to have a race eating them all, which all the smart people chickened out on.

:-) i don't want to eat another smartie for a loooong time!

anyway, we played some more games, and got pictures taken, right after i spilled coffee all over my shirt, and had a great time. anyway...

ONLY 1 WEEK AND 6 DAYS UNTIL SNOW VALLEY!!!

it's gonna be awesome... especially since like everybody is gonna be there...

i'm starting to have second thoughts about that rail melissa, i have never done one in my life, and last time was the only time i even did a jump! so you ahve to at least let me practice a couple of times. without anyone watching. :-)

so what has everybody been doing lately?

here are a couple interesting questions:

Why do you have to "put your two cents in"...but it's only a "penny for your thoughts?" Where's that extra penny going to?

How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?

Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?

Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, "I think I'll squeeze these dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out!"

Or watch a white thing come out a chicken behind and think, "that ought to taste good."

Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the carpool lane?

If the professor on Gilligan's island can make a radio out of a coconut, why can't he fix a hole in a boat?

Is Disneyland the only people trap operated by a mouse?

Do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?

Did you just try singing the two songs above?

Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him for a car ride; he sticks his head out the window?

have a great day everyone!

Gentle Giants

The Whale Shark

Someday I want to swim with one of these...

Worlds biggest fish, but it eats only plankton and small fish!

Isn't it huge???

Some think it was the big fish that swallowed Jonah... interesting...

Anyway, just thought they were cool pics....

Here is the pic of it's man-eating mouth.

ok, here's the not-so-man-eating one.

The family ski trip-- from a chicken soup book.

Maybe I’ve been spending too much time watching the x-files or something, but I’m trying to think how I would describe skiing to extraterrestrials.
Aliens: Take us t your leader.
Me: Can’t right now, we’re going skiing.
Aliens: what is skiing?
Me: well, first you go to the top of this really, really high mountain that’s covered with this cold, slippery stuff called snow. The you strap these skinny little sticks on your feet, and try to go straight down in a standing position without killing yourself. And if you survive, you stand in a long line for the opportunity to do it again.
Aliens: Goodbye.
Me: where are you going?
Aliens. In search of intelligent life.

It was crowded in the rental shop. Plus, with the temperature only twenty degrees outside, everyone was dressed like the Pillsbury Dough Boy—only in shades of mauve and lime green.
“Maybe we should have rented equipment back in town,” my wife suggested.
“No way,” I said. “Remember last time? they gave me two left ski’s and two right boots. All day long I kept running into myself. Besides, now that I’m more experienced, I need more sophisticated stuff.”
“You and I never got off the bunny slope,” she said. “The kids were the only ones who advanced.”
“Well sure, but with better equipment I’ll be skiing circles around everyone out there.”
“That’s what I’m afraid of.” she said.
A young man approached us, wearing a ski hat pulled down to his eyebrows.
“Are you like into radical carving or do you get off by just dropping in and tucking?”
I hesitated.
“He kinda ski’s all over the place,” my wife told him.
“Oh, right, vary the terrain, challenge the brain. Cool. Got just the right set-up for you.”
He handed me a set of ski’s that looked like they might have been made by NASA.
“Progressive force bindings with environmental friction control, and ultra-fast racing skis with deep side cuts and a beta torsion core. You’ll fly with these babies.”
He turned to my wife. She glanced at me and my new racing outfit. “I just want something for the other parent who can’t afford to be out of work on crutches for 6 weeks,” she told him.
To me, the worst part of skiing is getting from the ski lodge to the chairs. There’s always a slope, and it’s always slippery. Usually, after 30 minutes or so, I find I have actually lost ground and am now standing in the parking lot.
Apparently, the 1200 dollar skis helped, because in just minutes, we safely made it to the bunny slope and got in line with all the other 5-year olds.
That’s when the rest of the family came barreling up, skidding to a stop right in front of us. I watched them for a second, smiled, then immediately fell down, taking the entire waiting line with me.
“Wow. Cool skis,” Jon said. “But this is the wrong lift, You want that lift over there.”
I followed the path of the chair lift up the mountain until it became a speck that disappeared into the thick clouds.
“You’re not… scared, are you?” asked Patrick.
“Of course not. it’s just that these skis may not be fast enough to ski up there on…”
“Black Death Run.”
"Right, Black Death Run."
My wife opted for coffee instead of sheer terror, leaving me as parent-in-charge.
Next thing I knew, we were standing somewhere that even mountain goats wouldn’t go.
I immediately issued a warning to the others.
“Don’t get to close to the edge of that cliff,” I shouted. “follow me.”
“This isn’t a cliff,” Christy said. “this is the trail. The cliff is over there somewhere…Dude?”
I’ve often wondered what my last words would be. I figured maybe something like “I did it for God and country,” or “I’m sorry I have but one life to give.”
As it turns out my last words contain only vowels, as in,
“Yiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeooooooooooooooooooo..”
I’m not exactly sure what happened over the next few minutes. I remember a lot of white, some muted voices, and being poked by a number of sharp objects all over my body. Fox Mulder of the x-files would have called it an alien abduction. Maybe it was. Of course, why the aliens rolled me up like a giant snowball and dropped me off at the foot of the mountain I’ll never know.
But everyone seemed happy to see me, including the rental shop guy, who quickly removed my progressive force bindings and ultra-fast racing skis, and returned to his shop muttering something about hot-shot adults and why couldn’t they be more sensible---like teenagers.
The rest of my family arrived just as my wife handed me a cup of something that looked like coffee, but tasted like brandy.“Thanks, dear,” I said. “and you’ll be happy to know I’ve given up skiing.”
“we are too,” said Stacey.
“Really?” my wife asked.
“Yup,” added Shane. “tomorrow, we’re all going snowboarding.”
I sighed, pulled a pinecone out of my era, and downed the entire contents of the cup.

blut mountain!!

ok... where to start??

well, sunday evening melissa, jeremy, jeff and i went to the kiezebrinks. the guys and yvonne went to yp's and us girls just hung out for a while talking, taking pictures, breaking doors-oops, i wasn't gonna say that... and walking outside. then the others came home and we all went to bed and talked until way too late... and fried.
bright and early monday morning we left for blue mountain!!!

it was awesome.... it had snowed quite a bit the night before, so there was lots of powder, which was very cool, but especially in the early afternoon the weather was pretty brutal, and you couldn't see much.

we were all very dissapionted when we checked for andrew and tim the second time, and found out their car broke down and they couldn't make it. we missed you guys!! i hope your day was good anyway!?!

it was really nice skiing except the snow guns were blasting away, and since melissa and i were only wearing sunglasses at the beginning, we totaly couldn't see in some spots!

i'm afraid i have to say that yesterday was the worst i have skiied in my entire life!! i think i ended up dive bombing parts of like 75% of the hills!

for the last 3 or 4 years i have bladed, and so when all of the sudden you have like 2 feet stuck on your legs.. (no pun intended) it's alot harder to control them cuz they always cross.

which explains why on my 3rd or 4th run, i somersaulted halfway down the hill, lost my ski's, got a lip the size of a ping pong ball, broke my tooth right in half, and my cheek is really scraped up/swollen under the eye, as well as like 100 other scrapes all over my face. so needless to say, i looked like freak yesterday, and still do now, though not quite as bad. thankfully janelle had a scarf i could wrap around my face, and since my sunglasses broke and i couldn't see a thing going down the hill, jeff bought a pair of goggles and gave me the ones he was borrowing from yvonne, which was awesome. thank you jeff! when we went for lunch melissa, janelle and i had to like walk all the way to the other side to get our lunch out of the van... that wasn't very cool! but we took the shuttle back so that was better, then we all went over to the black diamond hills, which was cool especially the glades, which had like a foot of powder! we got some awesome pics of people jumping, which hopefully yvonne will post, right yvonne?? :-) btw, the lifts there are awesome! they are like 4 times as fast as snow valley, but it takes like just as long becuase the hills are like 4 times as long!! the black diamond one was the best, it didn't even slow down at the end! at 4:30, 6 exausted, frozen, happy people drove back to kiezebrinks, where i was very happy to learn that catechism had been cancelled because of the bad weather, so i was staying another night, seeing as i really did not feel like showing up there looking like frankenstiena. so we had supper, which for me was yogurt, :-) cuz my tooth was so sensitive, then sat around and vegged while jer tried to decide whether or not to drive home, and eventually made a "decide" to stay since the roads were not looking so good. so we watched a movie then went to bed, and i came home with zegers this morning. i never did see that tabletop...:-)and we missed "Story time" ... but all together it was an awesome day and i can't wait til march!!

Empty

I have been filled,

100 times before
but there's a hole in the bottom
and i'm always wanting more,

no matter what I do,

no matter what I try,

nothing ever works,
my well is running dry.
I'm feeling empty,
nothing all around the world
can fill me,
I need a drink of living water,
need the sight He gave the blind,

I feel like all I've ever loved,

is leaving me behind.

I search around

I live my life for pleasure,

I've filled my hands,

with all my worldly treasures.

They hurt, destroy me,

they'll kill me I know,

but try as I might,

I cannot let them go.

I need to be empty,

otherwise His love could never

fill me,

He's holding out His living water,

and the sight He gave the blind,

all I need to be is empty,

and I'm running out of time.

I was so full of sin,

I had no room for Jesus,

but when I let Him in,

He made me empty

He gave me white,

and took my black,

bore all my stripes,

apon His back

and now my bill,

reads "paid in full"

I held my hands out, Empty,

and He filled my heart,

with love.

this is a poem i wrote last night, it kinda needs music... but i'm not very good at that. Anybody??

:-)

snowboarding!

ALL YOU AWESOME SNOWBOARDERS!




ME:

Gluttony's revenge.

ok, everybody, under great pressure, i am going to post a poem i wrote a very very looong time ago.

emphasis on long.

it is a rather weird poem, and a touch on the gross side, but people seemed to find it funny.

i know i did!

just so i don't get a reputation, this kind of poem is very out of character for me, such a sweet, gentle, and all together just about perfect person.

emphasis on just about.

here it is!

gluttony's revenge.

the bread on the table was very old,

it was mostly covered with disgusting mold,

the rats came in three by three,

and attacked the bread mightily,

beside the bread lay an old rotten bean,

more rotten and gross than anyone’s seen,

mold on this bean had also grown,

but the rats didn’t care, this been was their own,

the rats now had food, at last, at last!

the place was quiet and nobody passed,

but because of their gluttony and because of the chill,

the rats soon lay down and forever grew still.

8-$

there is a moral to this tear-jerking story... um... don't eat too much, especially not moldy stuff, or you might die.

and don't hang out with rats.

Oh yeah!

I luv my friends!

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. --- Pam Brown

Don't walk in front of me because I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me because I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend. --- Albert Camus

Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another "What! You too? I thought that of no one but myself.” --- C.S. Lewis

A friend is a gift you give yourself. --- Baltasar Gracian

Friends are born, not made. --- Henry Brooks Adams

'Let's go and see everybody,' said Pooh. 'Because when you have been walking in the wind for miles, and you suddenly go into somebody's house, and he says, "Hallo, Pooh you're just in time for a little smackerel of something," and you are, then it's what I call a Friendly Day.’ --- Winnie the Pooh

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. --- Ralph Waldo Emerson

So ends an awesome day...

WOW!! snow valley was amazing! i don't really know where to start...
i guess i'll start at the beginning! um, i woke up! yay! and then we drove an hour to SNOW VALLEY and i went and got my boots and blades, then did the stripe test, which thankfully i got on my first run... then i skiied skiied skiied skiied! it was so great to see you guys all again... there were so many people there! my favorite parts were: goofing around and talking on the lifts, watching all you snowboarders, :-), jumping for the first time in my life and actually making some of the jumps, and going down half pipe for the first time! and of course all those cool wipeouts... :-)

oh, and i really must aplogize for my fudge people, i did try it kinda before i left but i had no idea it tasted that bad! i'll try and make it up to you sometime! :-) if you dare.... hehe i feel kinda bad about that.

also all you people i kinda neglected... miriam and deanna... i love you!

what an amazing day! i look forward to seeing everybody else's posts on it, hopefully some of you guys took pictures, i don't have a camera. :-( i also hope i'm not in any of them... lol way to go everybody!

ONLY 8 WEEKS AND 3 DAYS TIL THE NEXT TIME!!

the facts...

SINCE EVERYONE KEEPS ASKING...

REASONS WHY I AM CALLED CHIP:

1) I am a "chip" off the old block :-)
2) It rhymes with dip!
CHIP DIP- hahahahahaha.. snort

3)It's short for chipmunk! (that helps doesn't it?)

REASONS WHY I AM CALLED CHIPMUNK:

1) I chatter incessantly,

2) I like to *ahem* stuff my face... hehe...*embarrassed*

3) I have the Luimes cheeks...hehe...*embarrassed again...*

4) I hang out with a bunch of nuts!

5) I am a nut...

6) Chipmunks are cute! (no, no, that doesn't mean anything...)

AND NOW YOU KNOW!

Have a great day!

~ The Chipster ~

Words of Wisdom.

These are some deep thoughts from Jack Handey.. Enjoy!

If you ever crawl inside an old hollow log and go to sleep, and while you're in there some guys come and seal up both ends and then put it on a truck and take it to another city, boy, I don't know what to tell you.

+++++++++++++++

Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that, I'll be over here, looking through your stuff.

+++++++++++++++

If you're a cowboy and you're dragging a guy behind your horse, I bet it would really make you mad if you looked back and the guy was reading a magazine.

+++++++++++++++

Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights, even if you don't know what your rights are, or who the person is you're talking to. Then on the way out, slam the door.

+++++++++++++++

For mad scientists who keep brains in jars, here's a tip: why not add a slice of lemon to each jar, for freshness?+++++++++++++++

When I found the skull in the woods, the first thing I did was call the police. But then I got curious about it. I picked it up, and started wondering who this person was, and why he had deer horns.

+++++++++++++++

As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way.

+++++++++++++++

Maybe in order to understand mankind we have to look at that word itself. MANKIND. Basically, it's made up of two separate words "mank" and "ind." What do these words mean? It's a mystery and that's why so is mankind

+++++++++++++++

Instead of having "answers" on a math test, they should just call them "impressions," and if you got a different "impression," so what, can't we all be brothers?

+++++++++++++++

Somebody told me how frightening it was how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared.

+++++++++++++++

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

+++++++++++++++

If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let'em go, because, man, they're gone

I wonder...

Merry Christmas everyone!

Here's another poem i wrote... it's kinda long, but a fast enough read.

Enjoy your day!

Today is Christmas day,

and a story comes to mind,

how God turned man came down to earth,

to rescue all mankind.

I wonder how it would’ve been

for a girl to become a mother,

to give birth to the Son of God,

with just a stable for cover.

and how did Joseph feel,

to be like a father to the One,

who came to save and set us free,

to make His eternal sons.

Shepherds sitting with their sheep,

on the dusty ground,

what was it like to see that light?

to hear that heavenly sound?

And wise men from the east,

why did they come so far?

how did it feel to see the Child,

or to chase that shining star?

and what a bunch of hypocrites,

who had memorized The Book,

who talk the wise men where to go,

and didn’t take a look!

Wicked, wicked Herod,

did you think you would succeed?

Does God not know your jealous heart?

your selfishness and greed?

And what if I had lived those days,

how would I have been?

Would I rejoice to see my Lord?

Fall down and worship Him?

Or would I go about my work,

like every other day,

not care that Jesus Christ was born,

to show the world the way!

But wait, what difference does it make?

if I live now, not in B.C.

Christ’s message is the same right now,

for all eternity!

My life right now, it matters,

what I think and do and say,

I can worship Christ and spread the news,

or I can just go on my way.

Lord help me to live my life for You,

to love You for all of my days,

help me to know You, to show you to others,

filling my life with your praise!

It's Christmas time!

The wind is blowing,

The snow is snowing,
The fire is glowing,
The lawnmower is mowing,
the excitment is growing,
and everyone's going

with hearts full of cheer
to those far and near,
and everyone dear,
the stars are so clear,
and Frosty is here,
cuz it's that time of the year!

Our Recital!

Ok, first a bit of background people... this was not an ordinary recital in the slightest. Allow me to explain...

*Ahem* I take lessons from a girl who is part of a group of about 23 people who are called The Forget-Me-Nots. Most of this group sings together, and plays bluegrass gospel. Their singing is mainly Austrian singing, as that is where they came from, and they want to preserve their heritage. The amazing thing is, they all live in one big beautiful house! They are some of the most friendly, sincere, awesome people i know.

Ok, picture this: It's snowing like crazy, and in the middle of it is this big beautiful house, all lit up for christmas, and inside full of christmas decorations, a roaring fire, lots of candles, and the whole mood is kind of festive, lots of reds and browns, and a big wooden staircase. Very cosy. You go into a big room with lots of flowers, china, a big long couch, one gorgeuos christmas tree, all lit up, piles of chairs, all squished together, and in the middle is a baby grand piano! (man it was squished! Liz, Mir and i all got standing room.:-)

The lights go dim... except one in the front, and a whole bunch of little kids from their school come in, all wearing adorable white outfits, with silver bands around their fofheads, and sing Silent Night, in adorable off-tune voices. and then everyone else did their pieces, ending with the kindergarteners doing a 'pioneer christmas'.

Then whatever Forget-me-nots are home came and sang an Austrian slow yodel, with all the lights off except or the christmas tree, and we all ended with silent night.

Then everybody filed into the kitchen to pig out on the piles of goodies they had set up, after Miriam and I went outside to get some air. It was so hot in there! Then Miriam, Chris, Lizzie and I all sat in the other livingroom by the fire and talked, until Danny, who is basically the lead singer in their bluegrass gospel group, came and talked to us about how he is playing guitar on a cd from a famous country singer that is coming out, and how they did it and everything, which was very interesting. We're with the big time here!

Anyways, It's kind of our little tradition for them to play for us at the end, so I asked Rachel, who is Lizzie's violin teacher, to come and sing one of my favourite songs, with Danny playing his amazing guitar, and slowly out came the enormous double bass, with Rachel's Dad playing it, the auto harp and violin with my piano teacher, Annie playing them, and Marks guitar teacher Ingrid sang, and WOW!!!!!!! They sang songs until like 11:00, standing in front of the fireplace... songs that make you laugh, songs that make you cry, and every song inbetween! It was so fun though, cuz people sang along, and mark even tried guitar on one that they needed another guitar for, and he went way too slow, so He started singing like a broken record, and it was so funny! then Rachel and Annie tried, but Rachel didn't know the chords, and Annie didn't know how to strum, so they both played at the same time, and we all laughed so hard... it didn't work very well!

The Forget-me-nots are a really good group, they sound good in concert, they sound good on cd, but there is nothing like sitting in the livingroom in front of the fire and hearing them live! And what makes it so extra special is that we know them, and they love us, they are commited Christians in kind of their own way, and they are so fun to be around! He's like "yeah, if you ever need inspiration, or you just want to jam, just give me a call! that's what i'm here for!"

Anyways, that's the end of my very long post, and now you know why i said it was amazing!

We missed you Jessi and Jay!