...ever been in a fist fight with 20 plus people and only come away with one small punch  in the face?...

ummm....

.....me neither....

but.....

...ever gotten to go to the same ER twice within too short of an amount of time...

the first time paying hundreds of dollars for a butt innertube you tell yourself you will one day take to some body of water to get some of your money out of it.... 

and the second time getting a shot in the buttox?....

ok....so....monday morning...july 31st....i got to go to the Somerset ER for the second time...am i turning into a hypochondriac...who doesn't even know how to spell what i am becoming?!?! ahh!!!

all i really have to say is...

GOD ROCKS MY FAT FACE OFF!!!

His provision is absolutely totally and amazingly causing my jaw to hang wide open...

to the point that the next thing i know is there is a clear wet substance protruding from my mouth, over my limp lower lip, and down my chin....

minutes later, i realize....

it's saliva leakaging from my orifice in my face....

my cheek is wet....

my mouth muscles paralyzed....

my mind....

my heart....

know....

the truth...

or at least a tiny part of it....

that this guy I know as my Greatest and Most Betterest Friend in the whole world He has made PROVIDES for all of our needs....

and even some extra laughs along the way....

amazing He is...for trueness.

1 Timothy 5:17

who am i anyways...and what is time...and why in the world does my brain do the things it does...and how does God do what He does...and wow am i just clueless...i am...completely helplessly without a hint of hope without that stuff He provides...how do people who don't know live another second...it is way far beyond my highly intellectual musings...hehe...

some day i will have to show you guys some more photos...but for now...my butt needs a different seat...therefore...until a couple months from now probly....

run the race with perseverance....

as if to WIN the prize that is foreverlasting!!!

peace out.

oh...in case you were wondering...his  (the kitten's in the pics in the other bog) name is Maher Shalal Hash Baz (isaiah 8:1)...means "quick to the plunder swift to the spoils"...mahu for short...or Mahal ShaBaz or Muha...really whatever you wanna call him, you can...he doesn't respond to any of them anyway...

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so...jennae...i'm xangaing this to you cuz "i fear i will never see you again..." ok, not really, but...well, kinda...i'm kinda ready for you and your dude to be married already!! :) of course, i doubt i'm the only one who's ready to get that party started...and it's coming soon enough!! less than two crazy weeks! this is crazy...you're crazy!

so i know you guys (or people who are crazy enough to read on) wanted to see pictures of the greatest cat i've ever gotten to take care of like this...he shall some day  transform into the third barn cat...and ya ...ok...so...fine.... yes, he is the ONLY cat i have taken care of like this...

...but wow, i never considered myself a "cat" person...and...ya, i'm pretty sure i'm still not a cat person...BUT i will say i am a "this particular cat"-person...he and el guapo....may she rest in peace, or probably not, she's probably just resting on the side of the road still....slowly disintigrating,turning into dirt...

but what can i say.? ashes to ashes...dust to dust...God's recylcling plan....what a smart Guy...anyway, this particular cat and i share our likingness of ice cream ...that's what these are pictures of...that and he and i chillin together for chilin's sake. AND, poor guy is still without a name...but he's still got room to name himself...

anyway, enough of my intellectually stimulating thought processes. here's some photos of the manly cat....

does he look at all like marsh might have back in the day? may be? i dunno...he had the bluest eyes i ever saw a kitten have...now they are turning greenlike! he's great (attacking my toes right now! man...i sometimes would like to not be laughing there!)

so, this one's silly cuz i brought the bucket with a little dry food from the barn to see if he'd be ready to have dry food, cuz we had only been giving him milk before, and i brought the bucket in, put it down cuz i needed to take a dump, and then when i came back out, that is where i found The Cat!! inside the bucket chowin down! crazy cat!

and i'll give anyone something...exciting...who can tell me what this sign says...my brothers and Rachel (sister in law) and I had a way great time trying to figure it out while we were sitting in the Steak and Shake in good ol' Warsaw IN (one of the greatest places on earth)

oh...and just in case you were wondring...I have the greatest brothers!! God is SO GREAT!...such a blessingful blessing...sigh...

Peas (and carrots) out homey Gs! word from da crib or pull out couch or grass that will be slept upon tonight!

sigh...two of the greatest kids ever!!

sigh...do i even need to say anything?!? ...sigh...

i probably should stop sighing...cuz i'm starting to get a floating head...

hmm...good times...em and i riding at dan landis' casa...

welp, i'm out...like a phat kid in dodge ball...

just remember...

a lexicographer is a person devoted to the study of... ...lexicography...

• Theoretical lexicography is the scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing the semantic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language.

...hurray for the finding of my good friend Noah's book...the Blue Backed Speller! awe ya

...Consider it pure joy... (JAMES)

oh, and i was thinking how silly of me silly to not take this opportunity to advertise the cuteness of my neices!!

it's crazy hard to believe becca is three whole years old now...really she's actually older than 3....by a month and 9 days...sigh...

and down here, emily (the roommate of all roommates) saw this picture and said, "she's making your face"...my face...so i'm supposed to put this picture and one of me next to each other and frame it...i love them...i just want to squish them both between my two arms...and hang out with them...they are great...hmm...ok...i'm going to be done now cuz i'm supposed to be doing all sorts of important paperwork like stuff.

God is goodly good. look at them..they are both SO smily! oh man! my guts.

ok, so heather kerlin, these are from the bottom of my heart to yours....hmm....so i wonder why we say "bottom" why not the top? or why isn't it explanatory enough to just say...here ya go heather...from me to you...? anyway...the pictures from our way cold and FUN backpacking trip...

cathy and dan...do they really know where we're going?

cathy and dan (one of the past camp hebron staff people)

cathy and i warming our fingers over the candle...and yes...my good friends ben AND jerry both came for a suprise visit!!! crazy you may think but for real...how often do they get to come camping with you?!?!

but have no fear! though jerry and ben came...dental hygene was still held in the highest respect! (when you spit with your head lamp on, or in my case, with my way amazing roommate's headlamp), it looked like it was snowing or really blizzarding cuz of how the windiness would wind it all around!!

sunrise...finally!...cathy and i in our bags...

and just below is us in front of the tower of fire! so fun...

...REALLY windy up there!!! you could feel the tower shaking!!

the rising of the sun=beautimous! you could see so far!! oh! AND i saw a shooting start that night!! so awesome our God is... for positive.

so on the way back....

...there were little ponds of frozen ice skating rinks, so i decided to bless cathy and dan with my hidden profession of figure skating....until Cathy said we should skate doubles...and that's when....

the ice started cracking!!! so i ran.

and this is cathy and i at the end...and at the beginning...sort of...it's where we started AND where we finished, but the picture was taken from when we were done hiking.

the end.

so i hope you enjoyed this mini photographic show of the crazy fun time we had...again...your interceding on our behalf is/was/is greatly appreciated :)

one thing i learned is that Cathy has some pretty radically rad puffy slippers...and hand warmers are one of the greatest inventions known to...well...known to whoever knows it...and we for certain knew it that night!

Heather Kerlin...mmhmm...Heather Kerlin.

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ok, so i'm starting to feel like this xanga thing is way fun...cuz i love pictures!!

here are some way good memories ones...

oh, but first, someone told me that i should explain this picture with frosties on my face...

no...i did not stick my head in a bucket of snow...and...no i did not chop up ice cubes and glue them to my lips, hair, eye lashes, and eye brows (i just notice i have a unibrow of frosties!!! hHAH!) ...and...despite what you may think...i did not go to alaska and try to use my face as bait to fish for ...fish...

what i DID do was...

go running...

yup. you see, as a result of the numorous electrons, and the combustion of Beta Particles reacting and coreacting with the isotopic neucleus that are formed from the liquid nitrogen in the air we can annotate that the method by which such appearances occur is only absolutely and amazingly by God Himself alone!

you should try it sometime...so fun.

ok so weekend funness photos...oh wow, how i am blessed beyond my imagination by you people our God has placed in my life. you guys...i am encouraged by you like you can never know...so this word goes out to all my homey gs...i am praising Da Masta Man for you! wow.

so first, if you aren't j_z_mia you should check out her sight cuz she has a couple i don't...and personally i'm kinda sad she "edited"...i wanna see some mo! :)

randi, krik, and cathy...hurray for food!

jen, the fan, sarah, elya...lovely smiley face there :)

....awe...

chili...mmm...mm

mm...yummo....

d-d-definitely not ready for this one...even though i was the one pulling the trigger.

i love it, nae, your face makes me laugh...in this picture...not always...but, well, actually more than less...i laugh...at..or really with you. :)

and...next up is....dum dum da dum da....FIRSBEE!!!!

but these sunny skies didn't last the whole time...along came clouds of wonder...and RAIN making much mud! SHO fun!

...wow...i gotcha perdy good! hehe...up your nostril too!!! haha!

at the end of the day...or at least the firsbee playing part of the day...coldness and wetness and muddiness...did you know that when it gets like it got that day...you can slide pretty stinkin far when you lay out to catch...or not catch the frisbee :) sho fun...sho sho fun!

i hope these aren't as blurry on your comp as they are on mine....o well...

after firsbee...

games of i forgot what they called it...talk about stinky town people!! major ventalation was needed...but hurray for more funness!

so...those are the only lonely photos my silly camera took...shoulda taken more of frisbee funness...cuz wow...i am excited to play again! anyway thanks guys for coming, i was and am blessed by your friendship.

.ya man.

Hebrews 10:24-25

 "And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another--and all the more as you see the Day approaching!" (NIV)