WW III

World War 3 has now started...and to think that it all started with an innocent "practical joke": taping uno cards to the ceiling.

My parents had to run errands yesterday morning. We (Kaniel, Nathaniel, Sarah, Josiah) decided that we would be funny and tape UNO cards to the ceiling! What's the big deal with that? Well...nothing. :D But Kaniel said "Its my second to last day so...why not?" So they began to tape UNO cards to the ceiling!

Hey, but that was innocent enough...if I would have known...

                                       

They made sure to cover their tracks..

                                    

They placed the blame on innocent others:

We haven't received all the news...and we are still unsure of all the casualities!! Whenever I recieve more news I will let ya'll....I promise more will follow!

Until then...

~Allana

Quick update!

Everything went ok!! My Mom is not out of recovery yet, but she seems to be doing fine! Charity Faith weighed 6 1/2 lbs when she was born. I wasn't given lots of details (Dad made the phone call) but he said she was a chubby cute little girl!! Which has to mean that she is healthy!!! Thank you for all your prayers...and please continue to keep us in your prayers!! I love and appreciate you all!!

Urgent Prayer Request!

Please be in lots of prayer for my Mom who is going to be undergoing an emergency c-section this morning at 7:00. Many of you know that because of complications with her pregnancy she has been on bedrest for the last 2 months or so...this morning when taking the baby's heartbeat....my Mom noticed a gradual decline. They called her Dr. (who thankfully lives across the street) and she said: Get to the hospital, we need to do a c-section!!! So please be in prayer for my Mom and for Charity Faith, the little girl who has yet to be born.

Our church website!!

Can't believe that I haven't posted this link before. You guys don't even want to know the worst part...LOL...I had only been on one time before YESTERDAY!!! Anyways...this is our church web!!

http://thepentecostalsofhonduras.com/


Check it out!!!

Chaos.

When trying lately to describe the state of my life...this is the first word that comes to mind. Chaos. Utter and absoloute Chaos. I wonder when it all happened. Where did it all come from? Did my life suddenly become the big Chaos target? But then I stop and think, it's not a bad Chaos. It is just the kind that keeps you busy. It is not even REALLY chaos...it is what a normal Mom lives through each and every day. Yet, somehow...watching my Mom pull her hair out over it, wasn't the same as experiencing it myself. What might you be talking about you ask? Its simple...

It is the kind of Chaos that greets you as you walk in the door each morning, roughly around seven o'clock, when you get home from EARLY mornig prayer.

"Allana!!!" Lydia(3) screams while hugging my legs, "Can you get me some juice?" *I knew she wasn't THAT excited about me being home*
"What's for breakfast?" This comes from Josiah (6), and of course is said before you even make it in the door.

"Probably eggs and bacon" I say. The pout on his face tells me he is not happy about this, so I try something else. "You can always have cereal (which consists of the whole wheat 'healthy' kind)" Now, of course, he is looking way more "excited" but at least the eggs start to sound a little better.

I decided that since nobody besides Josiah has asked for breakfast yet that I would run and clean up my room real quick. As I am cleaning up, someody calls my name, and upon entering the kitchen I find out that it is actually my Dad who is wondering where his breakfast is. I begin to run around trying to throw something edible together, while Dad begins to list a LOOOOONG list of errand he has to run today. Now I am really freaking out and trying to figure out WHAT I am going to do, when I hear a big "whap, whap...OW!!!!" coming from the boys room. While hoping that the eggs don't burn...I run to see what in the world is going on.  I get to the room and Nathaniel (13) is bent over about to start crying while Mr. Adopted Boy (20) is lookig at the rag he holds in his hands as if it is a alien. Right when I come into the room...before he really sees me he says, "Did that REALLY hurt?".

Now I want to start laughing so bad, I pull a straight face and try to get on to Mr. A-B and tell him to 'stop or I will make him sit on his bed'. To this he smartly responds...well I ain't going to tell you what he said...but what can I do to a 20 yrs old boy.

This has all happened during a short period of time...and it is ONLY 10:30...which reminds me that the eggs are probably burning and Dad really needs to get on the road. So I run back into the kitchen and JUST ABOUT have a cow because the eggs really are burning and it's actually 10:45.

After that, things continue in the same Chaos throughout the day. But it seems to fall into a routine. Chaos in a routine???? I know...but it seems to be that way. Oh, of course there are still moments when I want to explode, sit down and cry, or grab some kid and twist his neck off. And then, of course, there are times, like when you take your Mom her food, and she tells you that she only wants half a sandwich. So you take it back to the kitchen cut it in half, place the fork on the plate for the potatoe salad. Then about 30 mins later Dad comes into the living room after you have just got done making your food to tell you that you never took Mom her food and she is shaking in there...has been for the last hour and...but the rest you don't even hear. You are running to your Mom's room...get half way there, and realize that you forgot her plate...again!! So she finally get her food, while you are apologizing profusely, and she is tellin you it is ok...when you know its really not. But those moments make you think, I really can't do this.

In closing I think that each and one of you should go give your Mom a BIG hug and just say, "THANK YOU MOM FOR ALL YOU DO". She may think you are completely wierd. OR you might be a live-at-home-mom that now thinks I am completely crazy. But understand that I have a new appreciation for you and for my Mom.


THANKS MOM!!!!

~Allana

Upgrading!!!

I also wanted to let you know that I will be upgrading...or improving my blog! So keep updated...and leave comments!!! PLEASE!!!!!!

~Allana

Just wanted to say a quick i'msorry you have to say it like that so that it looks like I really said it fast. LOL Oh...and I am sorry because of the VALENTINES (achum...) post, coming a day after! Anyways...I know you will forgive me....or you will live with it! Anyways...

~Allana

Happy Valentine's Day!

Hey everybody,

Just wanted to say a BIG Happy Valentines Day. I taught Sunday School again today, and we talked about....LOVE!!! (What else?? :D) We talked about how love is more than just a word, it is an action. We need to not only SAY that we love someone...but we need to ACT like we love that person. So on this Valentine's Day, I just wanted to say I LOVE ALL YOU MY FRIENDS....and whenever you need me to act like it...well you will either have to come here or...I can always dedicate a post to you!!!! :D LOL  Have a great day!!!


~Allana

Fw: The Stranger!!!

The Stranger  This is very interesting and not the ending I had expected!!!!    A few years after I was born, my Dad met a stranger who was new to our small Texas town.  From the beginning, Dad was fascinated with this enchanting newcomer and soon invited him to live with our family.  The stranger was quickly accepted and was around from then on.    As I grew up, I never questioned his place in my family.  In my young mind, he had a special niche.  My parents were complementary instructors: Mom taught me good from evil, and Dad taught me to obey.  But the stranger...he was our storyteller.  He would keep us spellbound for hours on end with Adventures, mysteries and comedies.   If I wanted to know anything about politics, history or science, he always knew the answers about the past, understood the present and even seemed able to predict the future!  He took my family to the first major league ball game.  He made me laugh, and he made me cry.  The stranger never stopped   Talking, but Dad didn't seem to mind.   Sometimes, Mom would get up quietly while the rest of us were shushing each other to listen to what he had to say, and she would go to the kitchen for peace and quiet. (I wonder now if she ever prayed for the stranger to leave.)   Dad ruled our household with certain moral convictions, but the stranger never felt obligated to honor them..  Profanity, for example, was not allowed in our home... Not from us, our friends or any visitors.  Our longtime visitor, however, got away with four-letter words that burned my ears and made my dad squirm and my mother blush.  My Dad didn't permit the liberal use of alcohol.  But the stranger encouraged us to try it on a regular Basis.  He made cigarettes look cool, cigars manly and pipes distinguished.   He talked freely (much too freely!) about sex.  His comments were sometimes blatant, sometimes suggestive, and generally embarrassing.   I now know that my early concepts about relationships were influenced   strongly by the stranger.  Time after time, he opposed the values of my parents, yet he was seldom rebuked... And NEVER asked to leave.   More than fifty years have passed since the stranger moved in with our family.  He has blended right in and is not nearly as fascinating as he was at first.  Still, if you could walk into my parents' den today, you would still find him sitting over in his corner, waiting for someone to listen to him talk and watch him draw his pictures. His name?.... ... ..     We just call him 'TV.'  (Note: This should be required reading for every household in America !)

Kreativ Award

Hey!! I got nominated for the KREATIVE AWARD by Mary Ginty! If you guys haven't checked out her blog you REALLY need to! She is too awesome you guys. And if you are bored...then that is the perfect way to bust it (After boredem buster of course :D) !!! Ok so about me....*raises eyebrow*...um...:

1. I want a big truck. Like those big Duleys or F250s or something! And it has to be bright RED! And I still don't get WHY people think that that is a problem. Personally I believe that if you DON'T want one of those trucks then you are a...yeah...anyways!!! LOL JK

2. I am actually 21 years old! Gotcha! Actually a lot of people believe me when I tell them that! It is kinda funny people will be like: "So...how old are you?" and with a completely straight face I say: "21". The funny part is that most of them believe me (for the first 10 minutes...hey but thats something!! :D)!!

3. I'm engaged. Yep you read that right...I am engaged and I am dead serious!!! (I told you I was 21!!) Oh by the way...some of you might know him...Jesus Christ??? Anyways he is WAAAYYYY too awesome and I am not trading him for anything or anybody in the world!!!

4. I have friends all over the world. Yep thats right: Honduras, Belize, Usa, Mexico, even one in France!!! The coolest part is that if you are reading this you are probably one of them!!

5. I used to take violen lessons. I was taking them in the States and had to stop when we came back to Honduras. I was very dissapointed that I wasn't able to keep them up down here, and slooooowly but SURELY I stopped  practicing and put it away. I still have it somewhere.

6. I am running out of things to say. Now actually if you didn't know that...you are pretty blind because all the signs were there. But at least you know it now!!!

I am going to stop there because I can't think of much else to put.

Now I get to nominate 7 new people (I don't know if I even know that many more people with blogs...LOL :D). This is what YOU have to do (if you get nominated):


1.Thank the person that nominated you for the award. Make sure and copy the little picture thingy that says Kreativ Blogger.

2. Link to the person that nominated you. (Mary Frances for me)

3. List 7 things people may not no about you.

4. Then nominate AT LEAST 7 other bloggers for the award. Post a link to THEIR blog and leave a comment on there telling them they have been nominated.

Here are the new nominees:

1. Peculiar Treasures

2. Classic Mary Moments

3. Thirteen Wishes

4. Hassas Photography

5. Ginty Images

6. Boredem Buster

7...I am running out of ideas!! Anyways!! Go get it you guys!!

I'm here!!

I made it to Florida safely with my Dad (and that's saying something)! I have enjoyed my time so far. It WAS a little awkward last night because I didn't really know anybody but...my best friend will be here today so I THINK I can make it!!! (Of course having Vanessa here could be as bad or worse than NOT having her here.) LOL *Vanessa that was a joke! Calm down. Go find somewhere to blow of some steam!!
PLEASE!*  Sorry about that!! Anyways...as I was saying...I have had a great time so far and there really is only one problem on the horizon....I seem to have a couple of "secret" admirers!! Ahh...So annoying!! So I will try to keep you posted!!

Florida here I come!!!

I am at the airport...ready to fly out tommorrow!! I am VERY excited you guys! I will try to keep you updated about this trip, my mom (for those of you that know), and of course...MY NEW BIG BRO!!! LOL *inside joke* anyways...!!! Just stay in touch!

~Allana

Follow up on last post!

He's on Facebook ya'll!!! (This is a follow up on my last post.)

Introducing...

MY NEW BIG BROTHER!!! That's right we have adopted a 20 yr old boy into the family. And to say the least we are all...umm...adjusting?? (I am not even sure that's the right word...but...) It is a big adjustment. Totally different than having a newborn baby in the house (Oh, and that's coming up too! LOL) In trying to describe him, or give you a mental picture of him...I find myself at a loss for words. (Not that is annoying, imature *wink wink*, or...ok...WHO AM I KIDDING, but...) In trying to find something good to say about him I guess THAT is where my words run out! LOL But I will try:

As Nathaniel would say: "Tall, handsome, muscular."  *raises eyebrow* That might describe the OUTSIDE...  :D Actually...in all honesty...so far...though I hate to admit it...and its going to be hard to say...but...actually...he hasn't been that bad. There I said it...its over...that really wasn't that bad, huh Allana?? Well... 

But I wanted ya'll to understand why I was originally at a loss for words...SO I included a couple of pictures. Ya'll let me know what you think! Make sure and leave a comment!

What do you think????

~Allana

P.S.  MOST of what I said was a joke :D...MOST!!

Uh...I'm back!!! ;)

Hey you guys! I apologize sincerely for the lack of blogging. I have been very busy (even though I that is not an excuse). I think I haven't posted since LAST YEAR!! (Which really wasn't too far back...but...) So I thought I would post a little note today and tell you not to give up because new posts are coming soon. Don't worry!! Some upcoming posts are:

Christmas pics (I know...that's a little old now...)
Youth Retreat details
My new brother (Adopted of course)
and more...

So stay in tune for the latest and I will try to catch everybody up.

~Allana

Urgent Prayer Request!

Please be in prayer for one of our assistent pastors and his family: Bro.& Sis. Guevara. Because of very ugly circumstances both her gandmother and father died in the last 42 hours. Urgent prayer is needed for their safety and comfort for her family. We appreciate all your prayers and support! God bless!

Happy 2010!!!

Ok ya'll! I know that I've not been very faithful to my bloggin' but it WAS the Holidays. That is no excuse of course...and I am going to try to pick it up.

I did want wish everybody a HAPPY NEW YEAR! I can't believe we are already in 2010! I think that 2009 was one of the fastest years, or maybe I should say THE fastest year, of my life. And it is probably been one of the most incredible for me! Soooooo many things have happened that have left me with my mouth wide open. I guess I really have all of this to blame on God so: THANK YOU JESUS FOR YOUR LOVING KINDNESS!!!

Hope that everyone is doing well and that I hear from you soon! God Bless and

Happy New Year!!!

Moment of humor...

"Need a laugh? Or do you know somebody that does? Then check it out, spread it around. If you get a laugh-send that laugh to someone else.... http://momentofhumor.blogspot.com/ Go check it out, and don't forget to drop a comment or note! Have a good day! :D"

Big News!!

I am pretty sure that everybody knew my mom was pregnant, right?? Well, today Mom went in for the BIG ultrasound...but before we left the house we took a vote on what everybody thought it was. It was a unanimous BOY!!! I wanted a girl but I voted that it would be a Boy (peer pressure I think). I was a little disappointed to say the least. But I just wanted to post and confirm...that...it was a....









WAIT..................



We were wrong...
It is going to be a GIRL!!! (and boy was I like...haha...I told you soo!!!)

LOL...I just thought that I would let everybody (that didn't get my email) know!!


P.S. One thing...my mom has always been to tell what it is...and this time she couldn't...LOL...so we HOPE that is really IS a Girl!! :D

Flowers from a guy!

I think that I pretty much sent everybody the pics from my birthday party, but I don't think I ever told ya'll how it went. Well it went really well, and I got several presents all of which I liked...one of them was...

My first flowers from a Guy!

I am not kidding!!!!

So it went something like this: I hadn't really invited him to the party, but I had told his Mom about it...and I mean this IS Honduras...so I knew they would be there. My party was the next day and he showed up...he and another guy (both of them were friends of mine) and his Mom (who is a good friend of mine) and they brought this gorgous bouquet of flowers (yes they both brought the bouquet)...

Now I never said that I was a great photographer (even though pictures of people usually come out pretty good). But they were really pretty and you can't tell because this was like 3 days after they gave me the bouquet (SORRY!!!!).

My Dad was not here for my birthday party he was in the States, when he got back...somebody let it leak that I had got flowers from a guy...and boy....he finally calmed down after a little while...but...anyways!

OH and one more thing...(don't tell me Dad)...

They were both 6 years old! :)