Flush!

Came home from the office a few days ago and this is what was sitting on my front step! A toilet with a purple seat and purple tank lid. The sign on it says, "Let's Flush Cancer Down the Toilet." The instructions taped to the seat lid told us that for a $10 donation to Relay for Life the toilet would be removed. For $20 we could choose to send the toilet to someone else. For $30 we could send it to someone else and guarantee that it never comes back to us.

By the way we did "lift the lid," just to see ... and neatly place within the bowl was a bouquet of purple flowers.

Creation Museum

Well since it's raining and I have the time I thought I would update the blog. This past spring break we took the kids (and the Sheppard kids) over to Lawrenceburg, Indiana. We stayed with Leanne's Aunt Becky and Uncle Bill and we visited the Creation Museum just outside Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Creation Museum is a museum which promotes the belief that life is more than mere random chance and supports that belief with archeological evidence and intellectual reasoning. It's quite amazing to hear creationism thoughts such as purposeful creation, a young earth, dinosaurs and man coexisting, etc ...

We were told that a tourist package had been created that included tickets to the Creation Museum as well as the Cincinnati Zoo. When the zoo got wind of this they demanded that they be excluded from the package. They did not want any association with the Creation Museum because of the contradictory teachings the museum supports. Wow! I wonder who is more "close-minded?" It's interesting to me that if you are an "animal lover" and support nature wholeheartedly .... why would you be threatened by creationism? What makes an "animal" more special? Would it be that they just happened into existence and are nothing more than a random combination of DNA ... or would it be that God uniquely created them with care, intentionally, and with a purpose? So goes for you and I.

Anyway here are a few pictures.

Just Add Water

Jessica just finished her first year on the swim team. Leanne and I were both extremely proud of her for trying something new. She seemed to enjoy it although she was a bit overwhelmed being so busy with practice and swim meets.

She competed with some of the relay races. Individually she competed in the 50 meter freestyle, the 100 meter freestyle, and the 100 meter breast stroke. She improved with every meet and actually took second place once for one of the freestyle events.

The team t-shirt said "Instant Athlete" on the front ... then the back said ... "Just add water." I'll try to post a picture of it later.

Next up ... She starts volleyball after spring break.

L8R

From JessiKate: Kate's Beat The Winter Blahs Party

Kate talking = abc Jessica Talking = abc
O.k. People! SO Kate is over at my house and we didn't have ANYTHING else to do, so she asked her Dad if she could update the blog. Yeah What she said. SO Kate had a Party a few weeks ago and invited how many people Kate? I had 7 friends(not counting myself) and two adults(my mom, Amy, and Leanne). Mom and Amy Drove ALL eight kids to and from Indianapolis. Talk about full house!HA HA HA! Any way when we FINALLY got there we were ALL ready for a potty break! And off we went to the Not young but Old Spaghetti Factory! Very good food! And we hardly had to wait at all! But Emilee Farly thought we did! She kept getting our hopes up every time we saw someone with a food dish walk by. Thanks a lot Emilee! Yeah And when you are STARVING Doesn't help to have some one keep saying " Our Food is Here" "Our food Is here" Then We went back to the hotel for some water fun! When we were done we had a big surprise we got to decorate AWESOME flip- flops! It was sooooo Much fun!

Here are the three water slides at Caribean Cove!

After a GREAT breakfast at the hotel buffet we took a pic on the stairs

Here is me and Kate on this floaty snake thing-a -ma -bobbers


I'm going to let Jess explain this one. Thanks! Okay so there was this statue and .....well... it needed clothing. Sooo........


This One is for you Kate. O.K. so they brought Ketchup for our breakfast (I don't Know what for) and it had the best label ever! GO COLTS!!!!!!!! Ya' hear that Keith!

Well Now we have to go babysit Two Amazing kids. See ya'll soon!!!

From Jessica: I'm Lion-O

All right! Two "From Jessica" posts in one week! This ROX! Any way ...... so on facebook Dawn sent my dad this Ipod quiz thing-a-ma-bobbers and I just had to get in on the fun (since Dad won't let me have my own facebook (darn!) ) Oh by the way I don't have an Ipod so I played the game with my MP3 player. It works with them too. So here are the rules.

1.Put you Ipod (MP3 player) on shuffle (random)
2.read the question on the computer screen(for example no. 1 on this quiz is "If someone asks is this okay? You say...)
3 .look at the screen on your Ipod (MP3 Player) and see what the title of the first song is
4. The song title is the answer to the question on the computer screen
5. ENJOY!

Here is mine from when I tried

1. IF SOMEONE ASKS IS THIS OKAY? YOU SAY …
pop princess – the click 5

2. WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
You Led Me –Barlowgirl

3. WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Never Alone–Barlowgirl

4. HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
“Mirror–Barlowgirl

5. WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Stand in the Rain [Symphonic Mix]–Superchick ( Great My life's purpose is to stand in the rain . Who wants to do that?)

6. WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Superstar –barlowgirl

7. WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
I Learned From You–Billy Ray Cyrus

8. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
The Other Side of me– Hannah Montana

9. WHAT IS 2+2?
It happened At 4 corners– AIO (Hey, it has the 4 part right)

10. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
More–PureNRG

11. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
“ She’s no You–Jesse McCartney (Just a Little creepy)

12. WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Girls Can Change the World–PureNRG (sooooo True)

13. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Surrender–Barlowgirl

14. WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Just Like You --Hannah Montana

15. WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe–C.S. Lewis (Audible)

16. WHAT DID YOU (OR WILL YOU) DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
This Is the Life --Hannah Montana

17. WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
The Best of Both Worlds–Hannah Montana (seems very fitting?????? )

18. WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Pumping Up The Party– Hannah Montana (soo True, But What is it with the Hannah Montana songs?)

19. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
Inside Out–PureNrg

20. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
She Walked Away– Barlowgirl

21. WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU?
Harder Than the First Time–Barlowgirl

22. HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Who Said – Hannah Montana (Yeah Who said I’m gonna die)

23. WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
13– The Rubyz (I’m not even 13 yet )

24. WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
Average Girl – Barlowgirl (Yeah Ha HA HA ha Who Wants to be average )

25. WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
Ain’t no Mountain High Enough– PureNRG

26. WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
Horton Hears A who–Dr. Seuss (Audible)

27. WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
We Got da Beat– The Rubyz (Yeah, It’s reaaly creepy whe you can’t spell “the” right)

28. DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
Staring at the Sun–The Rubyz

29. IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Any Which Way–PureNRG

30. WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
Like-PureNRG

31. WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
I’m Lion-O Relient K