HILARIOUS!!

The Riddle (can you get it right ?)

    If this were NASA, it would be "" HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM."

  >>          Barack Obama met with the Queen of England.
>>
>>            He asked her, "Your Majesty, how do you run such an efficient
government?
>>            Are there any tips you can give to me?"
>>
>>            "Well," said the Queen, "the most important thing is to
surround yourself
>>            with intelligent people."
>>
>>            Obama frowned, and then asked, "But how do I know the people
around me  are really intelligent?"
>>
>>            The Queen took a sip of tea. "Oh, that's easy; you just ask
them to answer
>>            an intelligent riddle."
>>
>>            The Queen pushed a button on her intercom. "Please send Tony
Blair in
>>            here, would you?"
>>
>>            Tony Blair walked into the room and said, "Yes, Your
Majesty?"
>>
>>            The Queen smiled and said, "Answer me this please, Tony, your
mother and
>>            father have a child. It is not your brother and it is not
your sister
>>            Who is it?"
>>
>>            Without pausing for a moment, Tony Blair answered, "That
would be me."
>>
>>            "Yes! Very good," said the Queen.
>>
>>            Obama went back home to ask Joe Biden , his vice presidential
choice the
>>            same question. "Joe, answer this for me. Your mother and your
father have a child. It's not your brother and it's not your sister. Who is
it?"
>>
>>            "I'm not sure," said Biden "Let me get back to you on that
one...."
>>
>>            He went to his advisors and asked every one, but none could
give him an answer.
>>
>>            Finally, he ran into Sarah Palin out eating one night. Biden
asked,
>>            "Sarah, can you answer this for me? Your mother and father
have a child and it's not your brother or your sister.
>>            Who is it?"
>>
>>            Sarah Palin answered back, "That's easy, it's me!"
>>
>>            Biden smiled, and said, "Thanks!" Then, he went back to speak
with Obama.
>>
>>            "Say, I did some research and I have the answer to that
riddle. It's Sarah Palin!"
>>
>>            Obama got up, stomped over to Biden, and angrily yelled into
his face,
>>            "No! You idiot! It's Tony Blair!"
>>
>>            .AND THAT IS PRECISELY WHAT'S GOING ON WITH OUR FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT IN WASHINGTON , D.C

So when we went to the homeschool conference in Denver we also went to a Best Buy. There we got an iPad. :D I am going to use it this fall to do my schoolwork so I can go with Dad and help ranch. Anyway, there's this really cool app called doodle buddy and i used it to make this. I thought it was pretty cool. :)

Norm Wakefield

Well, we're at a homeschool conference in Denver, CO, and I really liked this message. I'm not sure how many of my followers homeschool, but I think we can all profit from what he says. Most of it at least. Tell me what you think!


Norm Wakefield - Reality Check: It ain't about you! 

Philippians -all of 1,2, & 3!-   >Phil. 2:29&30<

Reality Check! It's all about Jesus! It's not about you!  

When people argue, one or more of them have the mindset that this is about me.

Is Christ rippling through us? is God working in you?Philippians 2:1 if He is, you will have experienced these things.

Phil. 1:27 only means only! We should do everything with a focus of Christ. The purpose homeschooling should be Jesus Christ.

The one purpose of the church is to glorify Jesus Christ.

There is a beast in you that wants to control your life. To be selfish. To be God. Don't let him! We will never live in a manner worthy of the gospel if we are living for ourselves. 

If homeschooling is about us, we will not reach out to a lost and dying world. satan knows that. So he tryes to distract us. Phil. 2:3 

We need to wake up and think, how can I help my mom? My siblings. My dad. My family. We need to be servants like Jesus was. 

**The Antichrist is a beast within us that wants to control our lives.**

**The mark of the beast isnt a real physical mark. It's evils working in you to contol your thought and actions. You think in your head and act with your hands.** Then how are we not allowed to buy and sell??

Jesus was consumed with Gods interests:
1. He emptied himself.
2. He humbled Himself to serve.
3. He willingly bore our sins.

The gospel mindset:
1. Empty yourself.
2. Humble Self to serve.
3. Willingly bear the sins of others. *7x70* 

Timothys example. Philippians 2:19-22
Teens- If you're not living for the interests of your mom and dad, it's just religious talk. Wake up!

Living in a manner worthy of the gospel is how to know Jesus. Living in a manner worthy of the gospel results in life! 

If you are a real Christian, you want people to see Christ rippling though you.You want them to see the gospel inside of you.

Reality Check!
1. Do you realize the power of your life?
2. Are you a participant in the gospel?
3. Are you living worthy of the gospel? Phil. 1:27
4. Have you realized that living for self is anti-Christ?
5. Do you have a gospel mindset?
6. Are you obeying the gospel?
7. Will you be an example?

The UN-gospel mindset: 
Self-preservation
Self-ambition
Self-actualization
Self-significance
Self-acceptance
Self-protection 

Put your iTouches on silent! Lol! :D

** I'm not sure I agree with this, but he said it. 

HeyHey and Baby Ryder

Hey, Guys! Sorry I haven't been posting near as much as I should. I've been really busy working for my grandmother. She is a fireworks distributor and needs some help pricing, packing, and carrying boxes. I also help my dad with our cows, and I do chores for the Goat Lady when she is gone. Point being, I've been really busy and I will try to post more often. Thanks all! :)

I admit, this is a absolutely horrible picture because I had to take it on my phone. I have a touch screen one that calls people when you put it in your pocket. I want a new slide keyboard or maybe a phone with a folding keyboard. But not a touch! I digress. Anyway, I just thought this picture was so cute I had to show it to you. That's a balloon in his shirt and I did that at church this Sunday. Hehehehe!! ;)

Charlie bit me!!!

I LOVE this!!

Baby Ducks, Turkeys, and Chicks

So the other day Kailey got an order of chicks in the mail. Amazingly, every one of them survived the trip. We usually lose on or two. :( But not this time. As you can see, Ronan is petting one of the duckies.

The ducks were on one side of the box, and the turkeys and chicks were on the other. The big yellow ones are turkeys and the little grayish ones are chicks.

Well, since the shower in our basement doesn't work, that's where we put them. :) They get along quite nicely down there and don't bother Mom much.

The turkeys were curious little things. One even tried to peck the camera. Bad boy! (Well, I think it's a boy.)

I don't know what kind of duck this is, but it's cute. I really like his speckles. :)

And there is a black duck keeping watch on the food tray. He sees a turkey invader and prepares to fight. :)

And here we have a bantam frizzle chick. I think that's what he is anyway. Bantam means he's like a mini. I think he looks very determined. For what I'm not sure. But still. LOL :)

Can't Get Away -- Rush of Fools

I LOVE this song. :)

>:( *my angry face*

Guys, look at this. This is ridiculous. Someone needs to do something. How can we allow this?!?

http://exoduscry.com/blog/nigerian-police-free-32-teens-from-baby-farm/

How can I even consider buying that candy bar when I could give the money to help free these people? Who cares about a $130 ipod? How is that ipod gonna help me in eternity? Why not help set these poor kids and women free? Why not help tell them about Jesus? They could burn in hell forever because I wanted that ipod instead of helping them. Where did I learn to be so selfish? :( I believe that when we ask God how He could allow this, He asks us the same thing.

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." ~Jim Elliot

http://exoduscry.com/

First Love

A friend of mine wrote this and I just thought it was pretty cool. :)
 
I thought my daddy was my first love,

He always seemed so tall,

But when I followed in his steps I always took a fall.

Years came and years passed,

The good times never seemed to last,

I met a boy who stole my heart,

He promised that we'd never part,

but once again love let me down,

But it was on God I started to frown.

Then Jesus took my hand,

Showed me to another land,

A place of love and endless grace,

Though I haven't seen His loving face,

Or touched the hands that took my place,

I know I'll never be alone,

And can't wait to bow to Him at His throne.

Mice and Ryder

So when we were weedin' in the garden we stumbled upon this mouse nest. We accidentally broke it and mice ran everywhere. Poor things were scared to death.

This is one of three baby mice we captured and put in a five gallon bucket. It was kinda dirty from hauling fertilizer (not from the store LOL) but the mice didn't mind.

Here is Reid, Kwi (Kailey), and Ronan inspecting their captives.

Kwi was holding one baby mouse right before we let them go. As you can see, she still has her WaTiki bands on. :) She let Ronan and Rayden pet the mouse before she let it go, but I didn't get any good pics.

There he is. Crawling back to freedom. Their mom didn't go very far, so we hope she came back for them. We didn't even see their nest until it was too late. Poor things. :(

Here is Ryder standing in Mom's flowerbed. It's kinda not working real well because the plants won't grow. But me an' Ryder are okay with that. ;) He was sitting on that rock and looking so cute.

And here is Ryder again. Yes, our playhouse is broken in half (it wasn't my fault!) but we don't use it much anyway. Ryder is the only one that has fun with it. I just had to post this because of his little face. :)

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

~Jim Elliot

Button

Hey guys! I just want to thank Farm Kid for helping me get my button and setting up some stuff for me. If you want my button, just scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the correct button. :)

Clouds and Kids

So a few days ago we went over to Nana and Papa's house. They live about 35 miles away from our place. On the way I saw these clouds and thought it would make a great picture. I think it turned out well.

And on the way I took this picture of Reid. His head sort of looks like a bubble, no? I was using the Fish Bowl effect. ;)

And here is Ronan, refusing to let me take  picture of him. Well, I did. :)

On the Way Home

Well, we were on our way out of Rapid City, South Dakota, when we found this house. It's not a great picture at all but I jus' had to show it to you anyway. :)

We took a side road that was really, really pretty. The views were awesome. Along the way we found this gift shop and decided to go in real quick. They had all kinds of cool dinosaur stuff and fossils. I found the coolest pocket knife in there. I just HAD to have it! It is camo and it has a black blade. I perfer pocket knives with thumb tabs, but this one is cool enough without it.

Somewhere along the way home we drove by this pasture that had experienced a fire not too long ago. I thought it was cool. Also notice the natural rock tower up there.

Here I was messing around with Mom's camera again. This was the Toy Camera effect.

Rayden didn't really want this to go up on the blog, but he never said it couldn't. This is the Fish Bowl effect. :D

And it was raining on the way home. I thought this one look pretty neat.

I really love this one. Toy Camera effect with a road, house, traffic sign, and clouds. What could be better?

We stopped in Nebraska to go to Cabela's but they were already closed because it was Sunday. I was okay with it cause I was sick and didn't want to roam around in there for hours feelin' queasy. So we went to a nearby lake (in the city still) and fed these ducks some bread. I was using Super Vivid here. :)

And there were some baby geese too! They had a little peninsula thing and there was a whole flock of geese out there. Again, I was on Super Vivid. LOL

And here is one more Super Vivid of the ducks. I think this one is pretty awesome too. :)

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WaTiki Waterpark

So this weekend we went to South Dakota to celebrate my great grandmother's 96th birthday. She lives in Kansas near us but her sister lives up there so we went to visit. They also have this really awesome waterpark called the WaTiki. That's Ronan (above) on the stairs to the pool.

There's Kailey and you can see Ronan in the background. Mom (finally!!) got a new camera so that's why it's black and white.

Here is Rhett in the Lazy River. It's a lot of fun and it has a really slow current. It's only a few feet deep, and Rhett loved it. He'd go around an' around over and over again. I went with him so many times I skinned my toe!!

Here is Kailey going down the SuperBowl. Man, this thing is awesome!!

I had to put this one up just 'cause of the look on her face. She was very relieved when she escaped getting flushed. lol

I call this slide the ToiletBowl because that's basically what it is! You go in, go round and round, then you get spit out. Kailey thinks it's bad and calls it the Tornado instead. Girls (sarcastic eye roll). lol

And here we have the lamp. I took this picture in the hotel room. You don't see any pics of me because Mom only had her camera working that morning, and I was sick that morning too. :( So I got left out that day, but I'm glad they had fun.

Mess Maker (MM)

This is Mess Makes, or MM for short. These aren't the best pictures, but they're all I've got. She is about a month old and a heifer calf. I bought her about a week ago.

I have named her MM because when I fed her for the first time she pulled the nipple off her bottle of milk and spilled about a quarter of it all over the place. And I don't use milk from a cow or milk from the store for her. ;) We buy bags of cream colored powder, called milk replacer, and mix it with warm water. If you guys want pics of how I make bottles, leave a comment. :)

John Deere John 3:16 -- Chris Filer

Sorry

I have just discovered, to my great dismay, that both the camera I share with my mom and my mother's camera are both unable to be used. My mom's big cannon with interchangeable lenses is broken (no thanks to Ronan). And Kwi (my sister Kailey) has "misplaced" the little canon. Thus I am left with a new bottle calf ready to be photographed, and nothin' at all to photograph her with! :( Though I will leave you with a cliffhanger. I have named my new, brown, and female bottle calf . . .(drumroll). . . MM. Can you guys guess what MM stands for? And why I call her MM? :)

Hey Hey

Hey, guys! This blog is dedicated to sharing my family's adventures and glorifyin' God. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please email me at rileywshay@hotmail.com. I'm going to try and put up a few new pages (About me, my family, the gospel, ect.) as soon as I can. Also, I am going to try and start an email list. If you wish, you can send me your email address and name and I will email you every time I make a new post. I'll let you know when I'm ready to start this. :) I hope my stories, pictures, and random stuff inspire you and bring you joy! He is risen!