Kate The Great! (My Baby Sister)

With all the thoughts about being thankful, I realized that I never really appreciated my baby sister, well... really she is just my baby. :) I have thanked God multiple times for her, but had never really understood the fullness of her, having her I mean. She can be a real pain sometimes, but what sibling do you know that is not a pain... She is the light of my life and without her I don't know what I would do.

Now being "older," almost sixteen, I can understand what a blessing it is to have children. My Mom hardly ever would see Kate throughout the day because my sister's and I would ALWAYS have her. When she was just a INFANT we would lay pillows and blankets down in our wagon, lay her down and haul her tiny petunia around EVERYWHERE, and let me tell you she loved it. Just looking up towards the sky and smiling. She knew, I am convinced she knew, that she was apart of something fun.

She was always curious, and never wanted to be layed down, she always had to be sitting up, ALWAYS. Or, she would just start crying. I still can't believe how much Mom let us do with her. I guess she had to pretty much let her go. She was down by the lake with us, playing with our neighbour's dog's with us, pretty much doing everything and STILL being an infant. She caught on very quickly and was one of the "pack" as we say, very fast.

Now my little girl is all grown up. She has been talking up a STORM lately. Recently, put down for her nap, we hear someone yelling for help.

HHEEELLLLPPPP MEEEE III WAAANNNTT TOO GETT UPPP!!! LAAAUUREENN, RRRAAACHHH HELLLLOOOOOOOO????

We decide to get her because obviously she is not going to fall asleep, so as I walk in the room to get her up she says, "Oh, hi Sloan, I not TOO sleepy

I'm too big, sorry Sloan." :)

So there it is, my sweet baby girl and how much I love her. I cannot wait to have my own children, if I love Kate this much, I cannot even imagine how much I could love my own.

Some of my favorite sayings of Kate's.

1. This morning Dad hears Kate calling from her bed, "Can someone get the baby up please?"

2. While I'm beading, "Wow, Sloanie you do GOoOoOd beading, can I help?"

3. When she goes down for bed, "No bed, I'm watchin' a movie, fiivvee mooorrree minnuttteess.

The List could go on and on, but I think you get the idea.

Love ya' Kate the Great

♥Sloanie♥

My New Creations!!!

Well, if you can tell, I am very excited about these "Simple Flower Rings", you are CORRECT! I took me about well 2 whole days to figure out how to do this tricky pattern, but I did it and THAT my friends is what counts. Swarovski crystals, and illusion string (like fishing line) DO NOT WORK WELL TOGETHER.) What I mean is, you need lots and lots and even more lotsa' patience for this little project. **WHEW**

50 Things I am Thankful For....

1. My Lord Jesus Christ
2. My Beautiful Family
3. My Wonderful Church and Wonderful Pastor
4. My Ability To Play The Piano And Read Music
5. My Tennis Coach And Tennis
6. My House
7. To Live In A Free Country
8. My Ability To Make Jewelry
9. Sweet Tea
10. Pulled Pork Sandwiches
11. My Piano
12. My Wonderful Gram
13. My Local Bead Store
14. The Wonderful Animals God Has Put On This Earth
15. Internet
16. Swarovski Crystals
17. Etsy
18. My Sister In Christ Ann, (Love Ya' Ann)
19. DVD'S
20. Jane Austen (Just Imagine What The World Would Be Like Without JANE AUSTEN!)
21. My Own Room
22. 2 1/2 Acres Of Beautiful Land That I Live On, Including Our Lake
23. Janette Oke (I Love That Woman, And Have Almost Read Every Single One Of Her Books)
24. Printers
25. Quilts
26. Fluffy Pillows On My Bed
27. Fishing Poles
28. Kiwi, My Favorite Fruit
29 My Beautiful House
30. Ebay
31. Blogger
32. Alfredo Sauce
33. Desks
34. Showers
35. Scrunchies
36. My Sister Lauren Who Can Make You Laugh NO MATTER WHAT THE SITUATION IS
37. Friends (Hi Kels! My Other Sister In Christ)
38. Electricity
39. Air Conditioner
40. Books
41. Again, God
42. My Mom, My Hero, I Love Her More Than Life Itself And Would Do Anything For Her
43. Well, God Really Is My Hero... But Mom Comes Next
44. Rachel My Best Friend, I Strive To Be More Like Her Every Day (Patient If you Want Me To Be More Exact)
45. My Baby Sister Kate Who Is The Cutest Baby On Earth And If You Don't Believe Me Email Me And I Will Give You Directions To My House
46. My Dad Who Is The Most Humble Man Alive And I Also Strive To Be More Like Him
47. I Am Thankful To Be Alive
48. I am Thankful For Yummy Thanksgiving Food And Mom's Cookin'
49. Family Memories And Far Away Family
50. And Last But Definitily NOT Least, The Comfort Of Knowing That My Lord Jesus Will Always Be There to Help and Comfort Me Always.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!!!!!!!

The Renaissance Fair Dress!

Good Morrow my dear friends!

Well, as you all might know, there is to be a merry Carouse coming up soon!


The pictures that thou dost have of a nonpariel dress are here! Alas!



Fare thee well fine people!

Lions, and tigers, and NO BLOGGING, OH MY!

Well I officially have not blogged for months! But I am getting back into the routine of it!

This beautiful November month has been amazing.

The beautiful weather, I love this time of year, it is just getting chilly enough where you need warm clothes.

Everyone is running around outside having a ball! It is so wonderful to play tennis in this weather, especially because you don't faint, from tennis courts that are 112 degrees. So that is nice. :) :) :)

We just went to the annual craft fair and it was WONDERFUL! There were so many booths we didn't even get half way through. We had Wilton cake decorating so we could not stay for that long.

We have so many wonderful things to be looking forward to and so many thingfs to be thankful for.

The Rennaisance fair is coming up and we recieved passes for the whole weekend which was nice. We are going with some friends which should be a blast! We all dress up in clothes from the rennisance times, which for girls you KNOW has got to be FUN! I will be SURE to post pictures of the dresses!

Grandparents are coming down from California so we will be visiting with them for a while, we are going to go to a 10 acre corn field that has corn over 6 feet high! They make a path through all of those acres of corn and you start at the beggining and PRAY that you make it out. (There are no bathrooms in the maze) :) :) :)
If you get lost you have a flag you raise and the "Maze Master" comes and RESCUES YOU! Haha!

You get a prize if you finish the trivia in the maze and if you finish the maze, which we have never succesfully done. :)

Hopefully this year we will have better luck!

I hope your November has been going as well as mine!

Blessings,

Sloan <><

Brad Stine (Lazy Christians)

So my friend introduced me to this christian comedian who is SOOOooOoo funny!

Watch this WHOLE video, the very end is the best.

Bootsie The Beetle Machine (turn the volume up so you can hear him)

Sooo, I know this is crazy to post, but it is just too funny, to me anyway.

So, Bootsie is KNOWN for his AMAZING purring ability, you could drop kick him and he would start to purr. It is quite funny.

So if you turn your volume up, you can hear him purr REALLY LOUD!!!!