Scripture

You are not to do as we do here today, everyone doing as they see fit, since you have not yet reached the resting place and the inheritance the lord your God is giving you. Deuteronomy 12: 8-9

I was reading in Deuteronomy today and came across this verse. It made me think of the way we, including myself, think a lot of times today. We do things and reason with ourselves that we have the right to do it. So many times we forget to think if God wants us to act or think in that way. I know I need to remember to think about His will more than my own. It is hard when the whole world thinks that way.

This is just a thought I had today. Tell me your thoughts on this scripture.

Sweet sounds

We just put Heidi to bed and she is giving a concert in her room. :) The sweet thing about it is that she was just singing "You're the one, you're the only one. Lord, the people praise you, Lord the people praise you!" She was even doing the repeats. :) then she started singing "So be careful little ears what you hear."

I love that she is learning these songs and that is a sweet sound to this Mama's ears!

That's What I Get For Asking

Earlier when Heidi woke up I was in her room talking to her and randomly she said, "You can't go in the bathroom with the pee pee all over." I had no idea what she was talking about so I asked, "What are you talking about?" She answered without blinking an eye, "Pee pee."

I guess that's what I get for asking, right?

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Snickers

I started this post at the end of March, after hearing the news about our beloved four-legged friend, Snickers. As you can tell from my blog, I haven't been that great with keeping up with it. However, I still want to share some things about Snickers and her quirkiness that I will miss.

It didn't take long for Snickers to attach herself to Clint. She loved him so much, and he loved her!

Snickers' exciting adventure to Plauen! A friend invited us all to his art studio and wanted Snickers to come along. she was very nervous and rode most of the way on Karen's lap.

Snickers got really excited about the potato launcher. The boys would use the leftover fireworks and put it in a pipe and put potatoes in there to shoot out. Silly boys...

Getting ready for the launch!

The anticipation!

Traditional day after Christmas walk in the woods at the Wasserschloss. Snickers loved going on walks.

Aren't we cute? Snickers even had a Christmas ribbon on. :)

Snickers on her rug. She was supposed to stay on that rug and not come into the dining room.

She of course loved to curl up and sleep.

She was a sweet dog and loved attention.

When we grilled outside she would sniff every inch of the ground around the grill and table in hopes of finding crumbs. I'm pretty sure she licked up a lot of dirt.

Did someone say food?!

Remember how she was supposed to stay on her rug? Yeah, this is usually what it looked like.... she was touching the rug with her backside, does that count? :)

Getting some special Thankgiving dinner!

On a walk at the Wasserschloss

Snickers taking Dustin, Karen's nephew, on a walk. :)

Snickers was a card shark, bet you didn't know! :)

I'm pretty sure Snickers either just licked Clint or she was about to in this picture.

Cuddles

Chilling

Snickers decided she liked Clint's gym bag and we found her laying on it more than once.

Christmas morning, Snickers got to open her stocking.

Treats!

When Heidi was born, Snickers was very jealous for a long time. Eventually she came around and they became good buddies. :)

Snickers got very excited to go to the May Day parade... maybe a little too excited.

Sometimes Snickers would make little burrow under the bushes.

Our last walk with Snickers in November 2010

Snickers loved playing in the snow

Look at her patiently waiting for her picture to be taken. :)

Heidi loved Snickers too!

Friends forever

Courtney's Book!

In celebration of the publication of her first book, Colors of Deception, Courtney Cantrell is giving some copies away! Over the next two weeks, she'll be collecting entries for a contest.  Her two favorites will each win a free, signed paperback.

In Colors of Deception, cute college sophomore Holly Idaho discovers that a demon in stalking her.  Over the course of the story, Holly realizes that this demon has a rabid and morbid fascination with the music of rock band INXS.

Why INXS?  You'd have to ask the demon.  ; )

According to this demon's favorite band, we all have "the devil inside."  But maybe this devil prefers a different kind of music?

Maybe you think a demon should prefer Country & Western. Or might demons just sing the Blues?  Perhaps they go for the classics like Black Sabbath.

Maybe they're insidious and love The Girl from Ipanema.

So here is Courtney's challenge to you:  In one hundred words or less, tell her what music you think demons listen to and why.

Be scary, be humorous, be ridiculous, or be whatever you want to be. Courtney's two completely arbitrary favorite entries will each receive:

   
• a signed copy of Color of Deception,
   
• a mention on http://courtcan.com/writing/win-a-free-book/">Courtney's blog,
   
• and the winning entry posted on http://courtcan.com/writing/win-a-free-book/">Courtney's blog.

Courtney will probably post some other non-winning entries she thinks are clever as well.

Submit your entries http://courtcan.com/home/">here, in Courtney's email form.  The contest ends at midnight, Central Standard Time [UTC-06:00], April 26th.  Thanks for playing -- and happy writing!

Quotes of the day from Heidi

It's only 7:43 a.m. and I already have two great quotes from Heidi. We left the house at 4:30 a.m. to get to the airport for our 6:00 flight. In case you ever wondered... It doesn't matter how early it is, Heidi always seems to be full of energy and ready to entertain.

On the flight from OKC to DFW, Heidi looked out the window and saw the lights of Dallas and said, "Wow, is that Christmas?!" "No sweetie, that is the city!". :)

Then a lady was talking to her and asked her name and she said, "My name is Heidi! This is Clint and this is April!" Ha ha ha! I've never heard her introduce us like that before. She is so goofy. She then proceeded to entertain several people until we boarded. :) She is definitely not shy.

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Happy Wednesday

I guess Heidi is getting into the creative name game. This morning she was asking me what one of her stuffed animal friends was called and I said she could name it anything she wanted. She thought for a minute and said, "It's called Happy Wednesday!"


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Heria

Don't worry if you don't understand the title of this post. It's a Heidi original. Today she was playing with some toy dogs... There seems to be a theme lately. :) One of the dogs goes with her Fancy Nancy doll and it has a name tag that says "Frenchy." she asked me what the other dog's name was and I told her she could name her anything she wanted to. She looked at it for a minute and said, "Heria, is that her favorite name?" I said, "Sure!". :) I have to say that is a pretty unique name. It's pronounced her-ee-uh. :)


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