Isaac Brock

• Born on October 6, 1769 in Saint Peter Port, Guernsey to John and Elizabeth Brock
• He never got married
• He served in the British Army from 1785-1812
• His rank in the army was a major-general
• He fought in the French Revolutionary War and the War of 1812
• He was also a Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (Ontario) from 1811-1812
• He died on  October 13, 1812 in Queenston, Upper Canada
• He was voted #28 on the television show The Greatest Canadian
• Brockville and Brock in Ontario, Brock in Saskatchewan, General Isaac Brock Parkway on Highway 405 and Brock University in St. Catharines in Ontario are named after him. Schools named after him are in Winnipeg (Manitoba), Toronto, London, Windsor, Hamilton, and Guelph Ontario.

Faithful Fridays~Obedience

Faithful Fridays is a day where christians can share there faith, a song, a bible verse, a bible study that you are working through or anything that God has put on your heart to share. You can go to Joy's blog Doodle Bug to get the rules and picture.

Last night at youth, the youth pastor was talking about how to obey God.

You have commanded your precepts
    to be kept diligently.
Psalm 119:4

The word precept means rule - instruction - regulation - law - lesson and the word diligently means constantly. So the verse means God has commanded His rules and we are to keep them all the time. We are also suppose to obey Him....

• Not Partially, But Fully

Which means choosing some rules to obey and not others. But we are to obey everything God says and not choose what we want to obey. Because God didn't say that we could just choose, He said obey everything I say.

• Not Doubtfully, But Confidently

Which means being not sure if you should do what God says. It is like when you are going to go swimming and you put your toes in water to see if it is cold. And if it is you are not sure if you should go in or not. But you have to trust God that He knows what is best for you and go all in.

• Not Reluctantly, But Readily

Which means being like I really don't want to do it, well not right now. But being just so excited to do it and jump up and do it right away.

• Not Carelessly, But Carefully

It is when you are not sure if something is right or wrong so you don't know what to do. The best thing to do is just not do it and be safe than do it and disobey God.

• Not Coldly, But Earnestly

You can't obey grumpily and not willing to do it but you have to obey happy and with a pure heart.

• Not Sporadically, But Regularly

You can't obey now and then. You have to obey God 24/7. You have to obey God of whatever He says to do, when He says it, however He says it has to be done.

I know that no one can obey God like this but we have to strive to obey God everyday just like the things above.



 

Wacky Wednesdays~Things You Find In Your Fridge

 

Wacky Wednesdays is a day for bloggers to share something funny like a song, a joke, something that someone said, a story or just whatever is funny. The rules are if you want to do Wacky Wednesdays that you have to follow me and comment saying that you are doing it.

The other morning I was going into are fridge to get butter for my toast. Well I opened it and reached for the butter when I saw a TV controler in there with peanut butter on it! I didn't know where it came from at first but then I remembered that Ben accidently dropped his toast on it the night before and we put it in the fridge so that the peanut butter would get hard so that we could just peel it off. But I was tired so I didn't remember right then.

Yadkin

Now this was a long time ago but it is still very interesting.  On July 15 in the morning I just woke and I was just going to start getting dressed when it sounded like wind was blowing on my door. But then I heard someone say Becky. I was like what on earth then I said "What is it" then I heard my dad say "There is a baby donkey"! I ran out of there like a lightning bolt I SO EXCITED! It was raining all night and still raining that morning so the baby was all wet. When I got out there, there he was with his tongue sticking out I thought but then I dad said something was wrong with his lip.

 



After a while of trying to figure it out what was wrong with his mouth my mom e-mailed that picture above to our friend that has lots of horses to see if she knew. She thought it might have been a PROLAPSED lip.  Meaning, some kind of trauma during birth caused the lip to swell up. Then her and her husband came that evening to see if she was right and sure enough she was. She had seen this when cows give birth and prolapse.  She had also seen an old farmer treat this condition by rubbing the prolapsed area with sugar to get the swelling down, then putting the body back in the right places.

So we got her some sugar and warm water (The water was needed because his lip was dry) and she rubbed it on and put his lip back into place and it was almost all healed. His swelling still needed to go down a little more but it would happen soon enough.

In this picture you can see that it is still kind of swelled but....

 

His lip is fine now!

 

Our donkay Molly who had him was pregnant with him for 13 1/2 mounths! We knew she was pregnant but we weren't sure when she was going to have the baby, so we were very happy she finally had him!

It took a long time to name him but my brothers and me decided to name him Yadkin after the river in North Carolina that Daniel Boone lived near for a little while.

Yadkin was our first just gray donkey. All of the others were different colours so it was cool to finally have a just gray baby donkey! I am trying to teach him tricks but I don't think he knows any yet.



Lawrence Sullivan Ross



 

• Born on September 27, 1838 in Bentonsport, Iowa to Shapley and Catherine Ross. He was the 4th child.
• He married Elizabeth Tinsley on May 28, 1861
• They had 8 children Mervin 1866, Lawrence JR. 1868, Florine 1870, Harvey 1873, Frank 1875, Elizabeth 1878, James 1880, and Neville 1882
• He was a sheriff from 1873-1875 in McLennan County, Texas
• He joined the Texas Rangers in 1860, first serving as a lieutenant and later a captain
• Him and his company of rangers rescued Cynthia Ann Parker from the Comanches 24 years after she was captured
• He was the Governor of Texas from 1887-1891. His lieutenant was Thomas Wheeler. He was preceded by John Ireland and succeeded by Jim Hogg
• He died on January 3, 1898 in Brazos County, Texas



 

  

You Know You Live In Alberta When....

• "Vacation" means going to Calgary or Edmonton for the weekend
• You often switch from "Heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
• You design your kids Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
•  If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and
  road construction
• Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor and combine crew on the highway
• Your school classes were cancelled because of cold, but only when it was -40 or colder. I might be home schooled but that is very true for kids that go to school
• You find -20 degrees “a little chilly”
• .You have never owned a vehicle that did not have cracks in the windshield
• You get claustrophobic when you’re in a “big city” like Red Deer and their traffic is “just awful, you wouldn’t believe it”
• You actually understand these jokes



Faithful Fridays~VBS

Faithful Fridays is a day where christians can share there faith, a song, a bible verse, a bible study that you are working through or anything that God has put on your heart to share. You can go to Joy's blog Doodle Bug to get the rules and picture.

Our church had it's VBS on the last week of July and it was a blast! Quite a few people and I helped decorate the church for about a month. It was a LOT of work but really fun! My mom and I got the 8-9 year old class. She was the leader and I was the helper.

The VBS this year was all about how we are all in a Battle for Truth. It is a war between two kingdoms, the good kingdom (Heaven) which is ruled by God and the evil kingdom (Hell) which is ruled by Satan. And everyday we learnt  that we have to put on the full Armor of God.

 Put on the whole Armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Ephesians 6:11

Which is...

• The belt of truth and the breastplate of righteousness

 Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
Ephesians 6:14

• The shoes of peace

and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
Ephesians 6:15

• The shield of faith

above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.
Ephesians 6:16

• The helmet of salvation and last of all the sword of the Spirit

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
Ephesians 6:17


 There was a very clear salvation message and many kids went to talk with our pastor about salvation.
I think for the whole VBS week we had just under 100 kids. And most of them were either 8-9!

Me showing off the stage I helped make. You can't see it that well but it is up there. And if you are wondering about my hat it was crazy hat day so that was the best I could come up with.

 

I would love to show more pictures but they are not downloaded on the computer so I am very sorry about that!