Are You Happy?

You should be! Sit down today and list all the things that make you happy, things you are thankful for!

Will someone look at you today and think "wow! I want what THEY have!" when that is Christ Jesus!?

A Biblical promise - you will be happy when you are who and what God wants you to be!

And, consider seven happy people of the Bible
(hat tip to Pastor Don - the "bestest" pastor in the world! *wink*)

1. the one whose sins are forgiven (Prov 28.14, Job 5.17)
2. the one who delights in the Word instead of the world (Ps 119.16, Prov 3.13, Ps 1.1)
3. the one who keeps God's commandments (1 John 3.22, Ps 29.18, John 13.17)
4. the one who dwells in the house of the Lord (Ps8 4.4, Ps 144.5)
5. the one who waits upon the Lord (is 40.31)
6. the one who trusts in the Lord (Ps 84.12, Ps 128.2, Pr 14.21)
7. the one who endures (James 5.11, James 1.2)

So, is your strength in the joy of the Lord??

Wanna see a miracle?

I got PROOF! LOL

Remember my church elder who fell off the roof?

Remember this post a week later...he immediately clung to his belief in God and said "All Ahead Full"

This is the man who broke THREE vertebrae and damaged his spinal cord...the man who couldn't move anything below his waist...and yet told the hospital staff: "...we better get working. In 6 weeks, I'm WALKING out of here!"

It has been 18 weeks and look at this! (Short but so so SO sweet!)

Acts 8:7: "...and many who were paralyzed and lame were healed."

PRAISE HIM!

DaHubby's toy part two

Yea, his new camera takes video too...not hours and hours but longer than the 30 seconds our old one did. To keep this page from bogging down when it loads, look here and here for two *really* cute videos of primarily Pojke.

YEA!

Debbie's back!!!!

She's afraid she has no friends left in blogland. If you know of Debbie, please, please, PLEASE stop by and say WELCOME BACK!!!

Yooper humor

With apologies to Anita for this simplistic explanation (*wink*), ya know about the to-do where Quebec has wanted to secede from Canada because they seem to feel their language and culture and history makes them a unit in its own right? So, they have the appearance of the "country-within-a-country"?

Well, those from Michigan's Upper Peninsula seem to feel much the same compared to us "trolls" born "below the (Mackinac) bridge" in the Lower Peninsula. Yoopers figure trolls are just "tourists" to the U.P. and many trolls think the Yoopers are Michigan's equivalent of "hillbillies".

With that explanation and keeping in mind the rich Scandinavian traditions and history of the U.P., this joke is from an unknown source so it is definitely not our work but DaHubby told this joke last night to his parents (they're all Yoopers) and my mother-in-law about split her side! LOL

After having dug to a depth of 30 feet last year, New York scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.

Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, California scientists dug to a depth of 60 feet, and shortly after, headlines in the LA Times newspaper read: 'California archaeologists have found traces of 200 year old copper wire and have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers.'

One week later, the 'Mining Journal', a local newspaper in Marquette, MI reported the following:

'After digging as deep as 90 feet in a rocky field near Negaunee, Ole Johnson, a self-taught archaeologist and Swedish logger, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Ole has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, the U.P. had already gone wireless.'

A little late...Week Seven: Exercise Accountability Challenge

OK, I'm really feeling like a lame duck leader here (LOL) but I hope this is still helping those of you that kept with your commitment to exercise.

While I've not got back on track yet, Lisa informed me that she had a wonderfully productive week for exercise and I'm praising God with her for it!

Those of you still chugging along, I would LOVE to honor your dedication and hard work by listing your minutes on the ticker...so how did you do this week?

Daddy's Got A New Toy

The photog bug bit DaHubby hard years ago. He's hauled a large backpack full of camera gear around his annual treks into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness while his "canoe-mates" have taken fishing gear! LOL

Last fall and pre-Dave Ramsey, he just HAD to have a new camera that took AA batteries (can't do recharageables in the middle of the wilderness with no power) for his last trip. Well, that one somehow met its match.

When DaHubby and Flicka went on a daddy-daughter date last Friday night, DaHubby whipped out that camera which he is ALWAYS carrying to take some adoring shots of his beloved girl...only to find that the LCD screen on the back as broken rendering the camera useless.

While we would normally suspect that the Vikings had something to do with that, DaHubby and I also have a history of occasionally not being as careful with our tools and gear as we should be. We figure this camera came to an unnatural end one day in DaHubby's briefcase which gets bumped around pretty harshly.

Anyway, with our federal tax return recently burning a hole in our pockets awaiting its trip to Lowes and the dentist's bank account, DaHubby wanted to discuss a replacement. Now, I can use discipline and tell my babies "no" to just about anything...but DaHubby? Never! LOL He just simply works too hard for us! LOL Plus, our Dave Ramsey re-training has made him nearly as frugal and penny-pinching as me! So, I was less worried about him being extravagant.

So, after much research and web-surfing, DaHubby settled on a mid-ranged price replacement which takes significantly better pics than the old one.

He's been like a kid at Christmas taking pics and videos of EVERYTHING and these are two of my new favorites: