Our Boat!!!

My grandparents Friends gave us a small paddle boat that they didn't use any more.
We had to clean it , scrape barnacles off , and put on a coat of bottom paint but it was worth it we got to ride in it for the first time yesterday and it was really fun. I'm the captain , Joshua is the helmsman, and Mike is a passenger. The boat is about 6'-8' long and about a' wide and is pretty easy to paddle once you get the hang of it, but the first time out of the slip we went in a lot of circles, but overall we had fun.

Mobile Christmas and Holiday Parade

Some of "our "people and Johnny Rotten the white German Shepard mix

The city of Mobile's float

SPCA dogs

Some of the SPCA's people and dogs in the parade

Some more of "our" dogs and people in the parade

One of the dance groups getting ready

The Davidson band getting ready for the parade

Me in the "Whisker Wagon"

Victoria in the "Whisker Wagon"

Victoria and Nautea the dog she walked in the parade

It's the most wonderful (and busy) time of the year!

Well I have been busy. I had my Christmas cantata on Sunday and have had to baby-sit my
siblings for my mom and dads Christmas parties. Well I am going to the Mobile annual "Christmas and Holiday Parade" tomorrow and hope to get some good pics. (I do solemnly pledge and promise to post my pictures if I get them) HAHAHOHO:) And I have a pet adoption tomorrow. SO I am and have been very busy but I will try to post more often.

Happy Holidays Happy Holidays Why Can't We Say Merry Christmas Any More???

Because "some one" might get offended. Isn't it ridicules every thing is about Christmas but
you can't say Merry Christmas EVERY THING is Happy Holidays, Holiday Parties, Holiday decor, ect. It makes me want to scream why can't we celebrate the REASON FOR THE SEASON, God's one and only son becoming human being born as a baby living a real life and then dying to save us from our sins. But alas hardly any one talks about THAT no it's Santa and Rudolph and Frosty and all the other caricatures and people saying Happy Holidays. Pardon my ranting but this gets under my skin and I hope it gets under yours to. I t has gotten so bad that some colleges are now forbidding students to decorate their dorms for Christmas, and have canceled their Christmas card competitions and other "Christmasy" things so that the invisible "someone" (that has not complained about any thing) will not get offended. Please try to say Merry Christmas when ever you can and maybe if enough of us do then we can show that people in general are not offended if somebody tells them to have a Merry Christmas. By the way Merry Christmas and through out all the shopping and parties, and other festivities try to remember The Reason For The Season.
I hope you all have a safe and blessed Christmas and New Year.

My My My So Busy!!!!

The time has flown! We have been painting our house and I have been really busy.(I have said that in sevral posts and it's true) Well I have also had other things that I have been doing.
First my puppy got the dreaded parvo virus and had worms :( but the vet gave her some shots for the parvo and it cleared up and then I gave her the deworming pill so she is getting better. :)
Also I am now a volunteer at one of our local animal shelters so I have been busy with adoptions.
Well that's it for now. I will try to post more latter.

We Have a Turtle!!!

We have a turtle. Joshua caught it at the park yesterday and since we had a tank Mom
let him keep it. The turtle is pretty small and has some of the prettiest markings
I have ever seen. I will try and get pics and post them later.

SEC Championship Here We Come!!!!!!

Alabama beat LSU today 27-21 in OT. Making them now 10 and 0. :) They will now play in the
SEC championship and if they win that will most likely play in the national championship. This would be the first time Alabama was in the national championship since 1993 when they beat the Miami Hurricanes.

Christmas Cantata !!

Well I am going to sing in a Christmas Cantata with my grandparent's church choir.
The songs that we are singing are soo pretty, and they are telling the whole Christmas story in song. I have been going to practice on Wednesdays and yesterday I was able to hit some VERY high notes that I have not been able to hit before.:) (I would try and my voice would crack) :(
Any way I am really happy and can't wait 'till the actual Cantata.:p

Reformation Night

On Friday night we whent to a reformation party. It was a lot of fun. I scrapbloged the pics so here is the scrapblog.

DRILL HERE DRILL NOW!!!!!!!

I just put a song on my play list that should be played across America
called Dill here drill now. It is really good. Hope you like it.
God bless the USA

Projects! Projects! Projects!

I have been doing soo many projects.
First we are painting our whole house.
Second I am crocheting baby booties and a blanket
for some friends baby.
And thirdly we are going to a reformation night on Friday so I am
making costumes for every one but Dad. (who never dresses up:[)
So there is the list of projects that I have been and will be working on:)

Great Video!!!

My grandmother sent this to me it is soo cool.

Alva's first fish!

Yesterday Alva caught her first fish. It was a 18" cat fish that weighed about 4 labs.
I can't wait to post pics it was soo funny, she caught it on a brim hook baited with bread and
her tiny pink fishing rod. In the pics she and her friends are holding their noses because of the smell. My grandmother took the pics on her camera so I have to wait until she emails them to me.
It will be worth the wait they are hilarious :)

More Scrapblogging

I did another ScrapBlog to day.
It is on the civil war reenactment that we went to in
May and it is 5 pages long. You can see it if you click on the dog one and
then click on my other ScrapBlogs. Hope you enjoy it:)

I Have A Scrapblog

I am using Scrapblog now and it is really fun this is my first page but I hope to do more.
I love scrap booking so Scrapblog is perfect.

Driving!!!!

Today my aunt took me to an empty parking lot and let me drive!!!! :) It was really fun and it was the first time I had really driven. We worked on basics like right and left turns and breaking

without jerking. So hopefully I will pass my permit test the first time I take it.

Fun night

Last night we had a "Camp out" at my aunt and uncle's house.
I used quotation marks because our "camp" was in the back yard.
We had a lot of fun. My uncle cooked hotdogs on the grill and then we roasted marshmellos over a fire. I think that there was a totle of 11 kids.
There was a girls tent and a boys tent. Our tent got set-up ontop of an
ant hill:( owowow. but over all we had fun.

Bama Still Unbeaten

Alabama beat Georgia last night 41-31!
I know that does not look like much but at half time Bama was up
31-0, so Georgia made a really good come back in the second half.
We are still unbeaten.

Why I have not posted lately

Once again I have gotten to busy to post. Oh well:) But I have been helping my dad
with some business things and as always I have school work so I don't have a lot of
free computer time to blog. Oh and I found a cool website were you can sign-up and have a
virtual online horse and equestrian center all for free so I now "have" a horse, and a good bit of my time goes there because just like a real horse you have to feed, and water, and groom your horse. The website is called Howrse and if you sign-up please put my user name Ms. trainer in
the sponsor blank. here is a link www.howrse.com

Bama Rules!

Alabama whupped Arkansas yesterday 49 to 14. Auburn on the other hand LOST
to LSU 23 to 21. So far it looks like Bama is going to have a good season. ROLL TIDE!

Kombocha

This past week I made kombocha. I had never made kombocha before and it was fun! Kate gave me one of her SCOBYs to start making the kombocha with because every time you brew a batch the "mother" SCOBY grows a "baby" and they just keep multiplying. Kombocha is supposed to be very healthy and it seems to have helped my allergies and tastes good to. My mom and I like our kumbocha sweet so we only let it sit for 7 days, but you can leave it for longer if you like it sour, or tart.

Crimson Tide #1

Roll Tide Roll! I have changed my template again as you
can see and it's all about BAMA.
I love ALABAMA football!
So form now through the end of football season
every Saturday afternoon will be spent watching,
or listening to Crimson Tide football. GO BAMA!

Global Warming

I found the funniest video about "Global Waring".
I have it down at the bottom of the page. In the video two guys sing about
how much better the world would be with global warming. and it is hilarious

School Work

I have a TON of school work. Besides normal school subjects I am taking 2 languages.
But it is fun I work for about 2 1/2 - 3 hours a day and get all my school done. The languages that I
am learning are Latin and German. I am using Latina Christiana books and CD for Latin, and
Live Mocha for German. I highly recommend live mocha it is an on-line language program similar
to Rosetta Stone but the great thing is that it is free. But you must be 13 or older to use it.

Bass Pro Shops

Today we went to the new Bass Pro Shops in Daphne. It is REALLY cool. The whole store
looks like a hunting loge and there are stuffed animals everywhere, there is a big fish tank
and one of the biggest cat fish I have ever seen. The store has all kinds of hunting , fishing and outdoor gear that is actually not that expensive, there are also lots of hunting and fishing nick knacks and decorations. There is also a restaurant in the store but we did not go there.

Phelps Makes History!

Last night Michael Phelps won his 8th gold medal to surpass Mark Spitz's
record of 7 medals in one Olympics. The U.S men's team won gold in the men's 4x100m medley relay with Phelps swimming the butterfly leg, and Jason Lezac
again swimming the anchor leg for gold.

7 Golds for Phelps!

On Friday night Michael Phelps won his seventh gold medal of these games
in the men's 100m fly. He beat the Russian swimmer by .01 of a second. Phelps has now tided
American Mark Spitz 7 golds from the 1972 Olympics, he is trying for 8 golds in one Olympics.
It has never been done. He already has 13 career golds, the most ever. Go Phelps.

Busy Busy Busy

Well I have not posted in awhile because I have been really busy.
I had been blogging at night when the little kids were in bed, but this week
we have been watching the Olympics and I just have not had time to blog. But the Olympics have been really good, if you have not watched them I found
videos of the events on nbcolympics.com. I highly recommend that you watch the men's 4x100 relay video. We watched the relay live (I think) and it was phenomenal, the U.S. won but only by a point second or two. I won't tell you the rest so that if you go watch it I won't have spoiled it for you.

My Dogs

This is my puppy Mia.

A silly picture of Buck.

Josh's dog Buck.

A really cute pic of Mimi

Bucky boy.

And another Mia pic.

These are some pics of my dogs we only have two but I took a lot of pics. We had such a hard time getting Buck to pose for us, ha ha but Mia did really well and posed for me several times.

Cute Game

Josh showed me this game a little wile ago. It is called "Mutt Maker" and in the game you
get to create your own breed of dog by clicking and dragging parts from other breeds and then you can register it. here is the link.
http://animal.discovery.com/pet-planet/mutt-maker/mutt-maker.html

Logic

This is a funny video that miss cori had found for us to watch in logic today.

Olympics

With the Olympics starting in a few days I was trying to find
information on the sports and athletes and found this really cool website, were you can read bios of the athletes and get and get info on the sports. for any one who is interested here a link to the site:

http://www.nbcolympics.com/

Four days without dad

Today dad left for a business conference in Dallas. He will be gone for four long days.
I guess that we are a bit spoiled because dad hardly ever has to leave so when he does have to
go is seems like a long time before he comes home, though my mom tries to make the time go faster by doing fun things we still really miss dad.

Birds Nest

Today the boys were playing outside and found a birds nest!
We think that the baby birds are probably mocking birds because we saw the mother and she looks like a mocking bird. I got a few pictures so I hope that you can see the nest in them.

Happy Birthday Alva

Happy Birthday Alva.
Today is Alva's 5th birthday.
We are having a special dinner that she
chose and my dad got cupcakes and ice cream so I will try and get some pics.

What I have been doing

Well it has been about a week since I last posted, so I will tell you what I have
been doing. Last Saturday I made 21 jars of pickles! We don't know how
they taste yet because pickles have to cure so I'm hoping that they are
good.( This is the first time that I have made pickles by my self.) Then this
pasted week I have been working on a paint by numbers that my parents gave me for christmas two years ago. I had allready started it but had not finished.
The painting is three horses at a stream the picture on the box is really
pretty and I think that when I am done it will look nice. I am really trying to
finish the painting because when I first got it I repainted my room to match
it and the room has now been done for about a year and a half and the insperation for it is about 3/4 of the way done. Any way I allso found a really cool blog with FREE templates (the link on my side bar will bring you to it)
so I changed my template. Well from now on I am going to try to keep up with my blogging this is a lot of typing and my fingers are geting tired!

I CAN DRIVE!

Even though I am not yet 15 I found out today that legally I can
learn to drive! My Uncle and I talked to a Police officer and he said that I can
even legally drive on the road for short periods of time, but that I shouldn't
because if some one was recklessly driving and hit me I could some how be at fault because I don't have my permit, so I should drive on private property.

Worth Dying For Concert

On Sunday we went to the "Worth Dying For" concert in Jackson MS.
It was allot of fun. Since it was a three hour drive we had to leave
at about 2:30p.m to get to the concert at 6:00p.m, and then we had a three hour drive home, I did not get home until 1:15a.m! So we had a really fun time and we got to get our picture taken with the band!

Here is a link to their website: www.worthdyingfor.com

Co-op class

We had a co-op class at our house today.
We did logic and public specking, for logic we did some
exercises from "The thinking tool box" and for public
specking every one had to do a presentation or any thing
that you might preform in public. I played 'The Star Spangled Banner"on the
piano.

Beach and 4th pics

Here are some of the pics that I took at the beach and on the fourth.

The Beach

We went to the beach yesterday with my cousin.
it was fun we got to swim and we had lunch, and then
went and met some friends at their hotel and went swimming
some, more but we had to get out of the water because we saw allot of
jelly fish and Laural got stung. So we went swimming in the pool instead. I got allot of pic's and I will try to post them latter.

Essay contest

Alva has been asking me to post about how much
I like horses so I decided that I would have an essay
contest and the subject wold be horses. Any one who
wants to enter just has to rite an essay about horses and then
e-mail it to me at megankathleen94@gmail.com. All entry's need to
be entered by July 31st. I will pick the winner and post the winning entry.

Fun Night

Last night we got to see some
good friends of my grandparents
who we have not seen in over two years.
It was fun we had dinner at uncle John and aunt Kerry's
house and then (my favorite part) we did karaoke.
There were so many people that my uncle started calling
it "Flanagan Idle" so my mom went home and got a prize.
We had a really fun time my aunt and I sang a duet to "Our Song"
by Taylor Swift, my dad and josh sang "Five O'clock some where"
and we all sang allot more songs that I wont post because it would take to long.
Any way unfortunately I did not win my aunt won and I was first runner up.
My grandmother got tons of pics I will try and get some and post them.

Bay Bears

Last night we went to the Bay Bears
Game at the Hank. My grandparents came
with us and we had a great time. The Bay Bears won,
and since it was Friday it was fire works night!
Well we decided to watch the fire works
on Bay Bear mountain, nothing wrong with
that except that to get to the mountain
you have to walk over an area were the
water slide had been drained, and I did not see all the
wet grass in time and I stepped in the mud but did not get
a lot of mud in my shoes. Then there was more wet grass
because of all the rain, and I almost fell in that because I did not see it and started to slip thankfully I did not fall down but I got a ton of
mud and grass in my shoes nasty yuck gross disgusting.
Then I had to walk all the way to the car in them, even
more gross then stepping in the mud because they stank and where
squishy. But the fireworks where really good. So we had a fun night
overall.

Americas Junior Miss

My mom and I went to a reception
for a few of the Junior Misses from 2007
at the Ben main library in down town
Mobile. It was really neat the
girls all spoke and talked about what
their favorite book had been when
they were younger and the Americas
Junior Miss pageant. Then there were
refreshments in another room and you could
get the girls autographs, I got Miss Alabama's and
Miss South Carolina's.

Blueberry Cobbler

I know that I've posted a lot
about blueberries lately but
That's what I am doing.
On Tuesday I made a
Blueberry cobbler using
the recipe from Eden's Blog
It was delicious. You really
should try it.

Blueberry pics

Here some of the pics that we took with our sign.

Miss Sibylla's

We went to miss Sibylla's house on

Wednesday night, and stayed

'til Saturday night. We had sooo much

fun. Our friends the Winkleys were there

and we went swimming and blueberry picking together

and then sold the blueberries. It was fun

Blueberries

We went blueberry picking the other day

and in an hour and a half we picked 19 pounds!

We only had to pay one dollar a pound

so we went back to miss Sibylla's house

and sold them for Two dollars and fifty cents a pound.

we made about forty dollars but we had

to pay miss Sibylla back for the berries

and then split the remainder between

seven kids. So we did not get a lot of

money.

Running

I am trying to train to run a5k
by November. I hope that I can
stick to it and run the race.It will
be the longest race that I have ever
run.

Farewell Webers

Today was the Weber's last Sunday
with us they will be moving to Nashville
on Thursday we will miss them. Today is also
Fathers day so happy Fathers day dad.

Joshua's Blog

Joshua has a blog!
check it out in a few
days because I don't
think he has posted yet.

Glory Road

We watched an amazing movie
last night called Glory Road!
The movie is based on the
true story of the Texas
Western University basket ball team.
In 1966 Don Haskins is hired to coach the
Texas Western basket ball team and since
he has very little money for recruiting nobody wants to
come play for him. Then he finds some very talented
black kids and they accept the scholarship's that he
has. To find out what happens to the team in that
turbulent time you have to watch the movie. I would rate it with 5 stars.

Happy Birthday!!

To day is Daniel's birthday!!!
He is 3years old.
I think we are going to
do something for his
birthday and I will try to
get pictures to post. Happy Birthday Daniel!

Magee Farms Pictures

Here are the re-enactment pictures.

Trade Show

I went to a trade show
at the mug yesterday
with my dad. It was cool.
I got to walk around and
see some of the other tables.
There were two people there
who sold jewelry, and I saw
the prettiest ear rings!
They were pink stones set
in silver and they were dangle
ear rings.

Yummy Lemon Pepper Chicken

This is a really good Crock Pot
recipe.

Ingredients:
1 whole chicken
4 Tbsp butter
2 Tbsp lemon juice
salt and pepper
2cups of water

Put chicken in crock pot and put butter, lemon juice,
salt, and pepper on top pour water around the chicken,
and cook on high for 4 hours or low for 8 hours. serves about 7 or 8.

Quilting

I am starting a quilt!
My goal is to make a
hand quilted baby doll
quilt and sell it on e-bay.
I will try to post a piture
when it is done.

Fishing

We went fishing earlier with
Travis And Conner. There is a
little creek near our house
that we go to. Travis caut two
little bass. Every one else just
cast, got hot, and did not catch
any thing.

Aunt Kerry's House

My parents went out to dinner
last night for their anniversary,
and we got to spend the night
with Aunt Kerry and Ryan.
It was nice. The kids watched
a movie and I started to piece
my quilt.

High School

We started school again yesterday!
Ya I'm in high school now!
Joshua is in 5th grade,
Michael is in 2nd,
and Alva will start K-5
after her birthday.

Butterscotch Clusters

This is a cookie recipe that I
got from my Grandmother.

1 pkg.butterscotch morsels
1 cup peanuts
1cup Chow Mein noodles

Melt morsels in double boiler,remove from
heat. Quickly mix in peanuts and noodles and
scoopon to wax paper. let cool

Anniversary

To- day is my parents 18th
wedding anniervsary. Happy
anniversary Mom and Dad!

Chcolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake

Here is a really good recipe that I came across.
Ingedients:
1-1/2 cups crushed chocolate sandwich cookie crumbs
1/4 cup butter, melted
2 (8oz.) pkgs.cream cheese softened
1 cup sugar 1 cup sour cream 3 eggs 1 tsp. vanilla
1/4 cup butter, softened
1/4 cup brown sugar
2 Tbsp. water
1tsp.vanilla
1/2 cup flour 1 cup mini semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup sour cream
1Tbsp.sugar
1tsp. vanilla
Preparation:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix crumbs and 1/4 cup melted butter in medium bowl and press in bottom and 1/2"up sides of a 9" springform pan.

In large bowl ,combine cream cheese and 1 cup sugar .Beat until smooth. Add1 cup sour cream ,eggs,and1tsp. vanilla and beat until well blended. Pour onto crust. In small bowl, combine 1/4 cup butter, brown sugar, 1/4 cup sugar and beat until combined. Add water, 1tsp. vanilla and beat well. Stir in flour and mini chocolate chips until combined. Drop this cookie dough in
1 Tbsp. portions evenly over cheese cake surface. Gently push dough beneath
the surface of the batter.

Bake in a 350 degree oven about 30-40 minutes until cheese cake jiggles slightly when pushed. While cake is baking combine 1 cup sour cream ,1 tsp.
sugar and 1tsp. vanilla in a small bowl and spread this topping over the hot cheese cake when it comes out of the oven. Let cake cool on wire rack, then chill in refrigerator. 4-6 hours until cold. serves 12

Awesome

Yesterday we went swimming at
our friends house.It was sooo fun!Alex's
Dad had built a trellis on the back of their house.
The trellis was 7 or 8 feet high. Then Travis nailed
a piece of plywood to it.When they got the pool they
put it by the trellis. So we climbed up a ladder
on to the plywood and jumped in to the pool. It was awesome.

Pictures

Iam going to try and post some
re-enactment pictures soon.

Magee Farms Re-enactment

A couple of weeks ago I went to a
Civil War Re-enactment at Magee farm.
It was great! There was a battle at
2:00pm and then a dance
at 7:00pm for everyone in period attire. If anyone is interested the web site is
www.historicmageefarm.com