SCORE!!!!

This is one of the biggest moments in my wanna-be/aspiring photographer life!! This picture just makes me think that I actually might be able to do it! ;)

AWWW!!!

Oh...and I will be posting about "Mr. Pot-head" later!! I can't believe I did that! LOL But I don't have time now so...

"Mr. Pot-head" Explained....LOL

This is Mom jumping in here.  I'm trying real hard to stop laughing...(sorry, Allana)!  Just looking back through the last few posts of this wonderfully entertaining blog...and can't stop laughing.  I was looking at pictures and reading the comments about "Mr. Pot-head" so I asked my sweet daughter (who has been raised in Honduras) if she knew what a "pothead" was.  She looks at me with her eyebrow raised and says, "No...." and as I started laughing... "OK, what did I do now?"  I explained to my beautifully innocent daughter what it meant.  So now as she is dying from embarrassment...(Allana, I know you will find this funny one day)...I would just like to say to all our wonderful friends, family and supporters....No we are not raising a bunch of POTHEADS!  ROFL  If ya'll don't hear from Allana for a few days, it's because she's still covering her head with her pillow being embarrassed.  LOVE YOU GIRL!

I love kids!!!

I love little kids!!! (That is probably why I am a Sunday School.) I just adore them! I really just can't get over kids!! These particular kids were catching a ride with us to their community which is about 30 mins away from La Ceiba (where we live). We were driving to Tocoa (which is about 1:30 away from here) where we have our services in the evening. They were a little tired...and before we had got to their stop, they were all asleep. I tried to take some pictures of them. They came out a little blurry but they were too cute so...deal with it!! :D

I haven't decided yet...

The other day Josiah said something that was totally Spanish translated to English. That means that it didn't make any sense in English, but we speak Spanish so we understood. So I asked Josiah if he was a Honduran:

"Josiah, are you Honduran?"

"Why?"

"Well, you talk like a Honduran and you act like a Honduran. You were born here in Honduras too, but your parents are Americans so..."

He just rolled his eyes and said, "I haven't decided yet!!!"

HAHAHAHAHA...Josiah, you are too cute! You let me know when you decide, ok?

Vanessa Mckillop...

You are awesome, girl!! I have been missing you extremely! I can not wait until Oct. Ok...since so many of ya'll Canadians read my blog, I have to make sure that this post lives up to ya'lls expectations!! :D If it doesn't ya'll should just skip telling her about this post!

I just wanted to let you know that you are AWESOME! I want to be just like you when I grow up!! ;) LOL You guys, she is totally awesome! She is also going to kill me when she finds out about this post I think!

So to the greatest:

I look awful in this pic...but you look good!

URG...look at my glasses...*sticks her tongue out at herself*.

Don't ask...;)

Lydia STILL asks about you!!

And let us never forget the killer-ants!!! :D (I'm sorry but that was too funny!)

Yummy cookies...

I made some yummy cookies yesterday! (No-bakes!) I took a pic. with a friend, but then she threatened me with my life not to put it on my blog...so I had to crop out Estefania. (Stephanie) I thought ya'll needed to see my side of the picture anyways. :D It is kinda scary but...deal with it!

Mr. Pot-head!!!

Already planning his next pot-castle!!! ;)

60th Post day!!

It's my 60th post!!! Since it is my 60th I had to make sure this post was about nothing. This post is has permission just to ramble. To say nothing. It is my 60th, so that is all that I have to talk about! But I mean isn't it awesome! How many of your lives would be so incredibly  different if you didn't have the HONDURAN CHIKKA!!! ;) I hope a lot of you! So here is to 60th post-day!!! Have a great one, ya'll!

Unconditional Love

Wow, I was looking back ya'll and I just realized that I have posted over 50 posts. I have only had this blog about 7 months. That definitely deserves a big WOW...I meant that literally!!! (To all you fellow bloggers: Isn't it sad that that is the biggest that the font can get?? That is SAD!!!!) :D I was looking back a couple of days ago and realizing how much my posts have changed even since I started this blog. They have changed a lot even since the first of this year. How have they changed? They just sound 'older'. It makes me realize how much God has brought me through and how much it has matured me! I am not saying that to make somebody think good or bad of me, I am saying it as a testimony. God has allowed some big thing (to me) to come my way. I thought I would buckle and break. I thought that I would never make it out alive, but here I am today blogging about how much it changed me. Not in a bad way. It didn't break and shake me, but rather it made me more like the person God wanted me to be. When I was going into the challenge it felt like nothing good would ever come out of it, but look what GOD has done. Everything that came out of it is good.

I think that it is like that a lot of time in life. God allows a challenge to come our way. He is trying us. He allow things to happen to us. We feel like we will never make it out alive. We feel like any minute we are going to go over the brink. We are so sure that the next thing that comes is going to take us down, because we just CAN'T take it no more. But suddenly in that moment of our greatest weakness, the storm calms. Life's problems resolve themselves in some miraculous way. And we are back on our feet. We look back  and we are thinking how in the world did I come out alive??? If it weren't for the memories those moments, we wouldn't even believe that we had just been through tough times. We look back and realize that through all the ugly only good has come forth. That long-term illness became a faith strengthener. The endless nights of pain and suffering have caused someone else to see the truth. The lonely moments we spent in prayer because we didn't know what else to do, actually brought healing to a cancer-ridden body. We think: Wow, God, you ARE good!

But there is something that we can't forget and we can't make go away. The scars. What about those? How do we handle those? What are we supposed to do about those? What can we find good in those old ugly scars? Just think of those as reminders of how good God has been to you. He didn't HAVE to pick you up out of your situation. He didn't HAVE to hear your cries. Oh, but Allana, he is God. Of course he is going to do that. I mean that is what Gods are for.

Wrong...  He picked us up out of the pit of sin that we were living in. You are right...He's God. So that means that he has all right just ignore us. Why should he pick up us worms? What if his hands get dirty? What if we stain his reputation? What then? But he doesn't think about that...he just loves us. Unconditional love!! So those scars are just reminders of his unconditional love...

Or at least that is my humble opinion!

Benny Craig...

See I told you I would do a post...next time don't doubt my word! JK

Just wanted to say what a great friend you have been to me! We didn't even know each other really well...and still don't sometimes. ;) We don't always stay in the best of contact (mostly my fault). But I still think that you are GREAT! I have "known" you forever...but I was always to shy to actually TALK to you. Somehow, somewhere I got over that and here we are today! I love ya girl (and I still think that you should create another blog, I will advertise it!!! Seriously!) 

Sorry...but I just couldn't resist! 

You love your family...and they seem to put up with you pretty well too!! ;)

You love yourself too, right?? JK

 

Never afraid to take a chance (mismatching socks and all...) :D

Love ya, girl!

What happens when your barber gets a phone call while cutting your hair...

Hahahahahahahahahahahah...keep in mind Dad that you DID give me permission! Love ya!

Lydia...

I just wanted to ask ya'll to be in prayer for Lydia. She was having some problems with a sore throat, so yesterday my Dad took her to the doctor's office to have her looked at. It seems to have some kind of cyst on her thyroid (or around that area). She is taking anti-biotic and the Doctor said that it should go done, but there is a big chance that it will come back. The only to get rid of it is to have an operation. 

But...I know the God that has all healing power! He can make a way where there seems to be no way. He can still work miracles and he can still make that cyst go away! It is not really life-threatening, but it would still be hard for Lydia to have to undergo surgery. Please just keep her in your prayers. Thank you!!

~Allana

Our house coming along!!

You can see things a little better now! Our house is really getting built! Awesome!! I am soo excited!

An accident??

Ok...I have proof...  Guys always say they don't want their pictures taken, but then they are always trying to get in other people's pictures. They deny it..."It was an accident"! LOL YEAH RIGHT...  So I now have proof...

Sorry guys, but that wasn't an accident!!! :D

You got to love them anyways...

RFLOL :D

Oh, and before you freak out...YES, they were playing!! :D...I mean look at Dad's face in the second pic...

The Sandwich's new friend...

I have finally discovered the secret to the "wickedly-fantabulous-awesome" sandwich (you will probably hurt yourself if you try to say that). It is hidden where you would least expect it, so it is understandable that many people overlook it. Poor unforgotten sandwich secret I am trying to finally set you free!! It is understandable that you have many times been take for something that you aren't, but that will all change now! You will now be set free to compliment all sandwiches like you were made to!! I am so excited for you...oh right...

So this is the sandwich secret of the century, you would not believe how much difference it really makes. It is incredible! I am not even sure how I found out about it, but I have and my life (or at least my sandwiches) will never be the same. This is the secret ingredient that will leave you wanting to eat sandwiches all day long. It will make your sandwich jump up and dance with joy!!! :D Can't you just see your happy sandwich now? Your sandwich's life (albeit short) will never be the same. Your sandwich will continually thank you (in the 10 seconds before you devour it). So now...after all the suspense...

Drumroll please...

Oh, wait, ya'll didn't stand up....

Ok, now the drum roll please....

We are almost there....

It's just that he forgot his nerve medicine (this is a big moment for him you know)...

He's trying ya'll, be patient...

Ok we are ready now...

One more time...drum roll, please....

*Rolling r sound* (Is that you do the drum roll sound)

Here he comes folk...

Roll out the red carpet...

:D...

Ya'll don't believe me but try it on your turkey and cheese or ham and cheese...it is incredible!!!

My wishlist!!

Hey Guys...great news!!! I found what I want for my birthday. I know...my birthday is still like 6 months away...but, well, ya'll need time to save up! The NOOK it is soo awesome! Since I know you guys love me so much...well...I thought I would give you time to save up!! LOL I am so just kidding you guys. This thing rocks but I am not asking for it! But I mean don't you think this is the coolest thing ever?? If you don't you have serious problems!!! :D Either that...or you don't like to read! It has to be one of the two!

~Allana

You know that you are an Mk when...(this will probably only be funny fellow Mks!)

You know you're an MK when: 

By Tessa Robertson

1. Sheets that smell like cigarette smoke and chlorine become normal.
2. You blow your nose on anything BUT a Kleenex tissue.
3. While on Deputation, every sentence begins with 'Remember that ONE place…?".
4. Your life's belongings can fit into a 24" duffel bag.
5. You are able to unload the car/truck, get ready for church and set up display in 20 minutes.
6. You measure a 'GOOD' church service by how much you sold off your display table.
7. You are 1 sentence ahead of your mother as she gives her 'testimony'.
8. Your father uses a maximum of 3 different scriptures in the 2 ½ years you have been on Deputation.
9. You can recite McDonald's, Taco Bell's, Burger King's, Dairy Queen's, AND Wendy's menu better than you can recite the 23rd Psalm.
10. You know the floor plan of EVERY Wal-Mart in the US AND Canada.
11. Your family can throw on your seat buckles in LESS than 5 seconds.
12. You talk with someone about their church and 'remember' EVERY John/Jane Doe that he or she mentions.
13. Half of your siblings are sitting across the church playing connect the dots while you are sitting behind your mother with another sibling playing Game-Boy while your dad is sharing his "burden".
14. You say basically the same thing @ EVERY church in the nation.
15. You start chilling when it gets to 80 degrees or below outside.
16. Dorito chips become 'nachos'.
17. You start freaking out when the price of hairspray is $6-12. (Haven't been THAT desperate yet)
18. You think a 'good' road is one with few potholes but many bumps.
19. Your greatest fear is not that of snakes and scorpions, but of power outages.
20. You start mixing the national language with your mother tongue.
21. You feel like it's Christmas every time a mail package comes.
22. You vote for Pedro @ MKA elections

Sorry I couldn't help it!! :D So for the TWO of you mks that read my blog (not including my siblings)...enjoy!

Wow...

Ya'll need to check this out! This is one of the greatest churches in the world...literally! Their spirit and dedication to God has impacted my life forever. As I was checking out their blog not long ago I was moved by this post and I would like for ya'll to check it out! Please! It won't take more than a minute of your time but it just might CHANGE YOUR LIFE!!! Family Worship Center Blog: Do you have a "Controlling Pastor"?

I'm going to take care of her...

I was doing something the other day in the kitchen, and Lydia walked into the kitchen. Now I can hear Charity in the background, she has been crying all day. So Lydia comes into the kitchen and tells Mom, "Charity is crying." You know like we didn't all know this!! :D What was funny though, was that Mom said she was going to go "take care of her". What struck me as funny was how what "taking care of her" means, varies with how old the "she" is. LOL Why???

Well if Lydia came in and said "Charity is crying" Mom would say "I am going to go take care of her". When she says that it means that she is going to go try to get her to stop crying.

But if Lydia says "Sarah is crying (or whining)" Mom will probably say the same thing, but, what she is really saying is... I am fixing to bust her bottom!!

Wow how things change as one gets older. :D LOL Anyways...that's all I got folks!