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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Another Give Away!

This give away is being hosted by B. D. Eastman.
The book is called Darien's Rise, by Paul McCusker. It sounds really neat.

This is all about points, so it would be really awesome if all of you could go to Eastman's blog and say that you heard it first from me. ;)



Here are the rules that I got off Eastman's site:


"I will be giving away the first book in the Passages series by Paul McCusker, Darien's Rise. How do you win? This is all about traffic."

Earn Points:
5 Points: Send your friends to this blog and have them leave a comment to this post. Have them place your name in the comment so I know who to assign points to.
10 Points: Have your friends become followers of the site. Just have them sign up and let me know who sent them, when they do.
10 Points: Link to my blog from yours and then send me a link to your blog so I can check it out.
10 Points: Join the Facebook group.
15 Points: Post a link to this blog and mention it on yours.

Winner will be selected by who has the most points. Contest ends July 30th.
From Lib

Captions and more Captions!



These two are not mine, but I thought they were so funny that I had to share

-Lib and Jare

Monday, June 29, 2009

Hey!

Everybody go over to Aljeron's blog and vote for him.

=)

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Another Sunday Video

This is called, Here I Am To Worship.

Again, watch and listen to the words. Look beyond them, understand them, learn from them.




-Lib

Another Tag

Lord of the Rings vs. Narnia
Tinydancer tagged us

Gimli vs. Trumpkin?
Lib: All the way Gimli,
Jare: Gimli
Gandalf vs. Professor Cornelius?
Lib: Gandalf
Jare: Gandalf all the way
The White Witch vs. Saruman?
Lib: The White Witch trumps him
Jare: Saruman

Gandalf vs. Aslan?
Lib: That’s hard, no answer
Jare: Aslan
Aragorn vs. Aslan?
Lib: Aslan
Jare: Aragorn
Narnia vs. Middle Earth?
Lib: another hard one…middle earth has more places to go so middle earth
Jare: Middle Earth
Prince Caspian vs. Frodo?
Lib: Frodo! (Caspian=BLUH!)
Jare: Frodo
Susan vs. Arwen?
Lib: Arwen, but Susan’s war dress is the best
Jare: Arwen
Edmund vs. Merry?
Lib: in the movie I pick merry(he’s not to funny in the book), But Edmund is pretty cool too.
Jare: Edmund
Lucy vs. Pippin? Pippin.
Lib:
Jare: Pippin
Peter vs. Haldir?
Lib: Haldir(Not much of a fan of either though)
Jare: Haldir
The Dancing Lawn vs. Lothlorien?
Lib: Ummm…Lothloien
Jare: Lothlorien
Centaurs vs. elves?
Lib: Elves, But Centaurs are really cool too
Jare: Elves
Peter's sword vs. Anduril?
Lib: Peter had a sword?=P Anduril
Jare: Anduaril
Susan's magic bow and arrows vs. Legolas's bow of Galadrim?
Lib: wait a minuet! Susan’s bow was magic?!
Jare: Legolas
Wargs vs. Werewolves?
Lib: Wargs
Jare: Wargs
The Witch's castle vs. The Tower of Barad-dur?
Lib: Seeing as I have no idea as to what Barad-dur is, The Witch’s ca
Jare: The Witch’s castle
Gryphons vs. Eagles?
Lib: Grtphons!
Jare: Eagles
Uruk-hai vs. Telemarines?
Lib: Uruk-hai
Jare: Uruk-hai
Catapults vs. Oliphaunts?
Lib: Oilphaunts
Jare: Oliphaunts
Cair Paravel vs. Rivendell?
Lib: Rivendall(even if the elves there are dull)
Jare: Rivendall

Next tag

Who is your favorite artist?
Lib: Claudia Nice, and to many to count
Jare: My sister
Who is your favorite classical composer?
Lib: How should I know??
Jare: Wolf Gang *grin*
Who is your favorite singer?
Lib: Celtic Women and others
Jare: Audio Adrenaline
Do you like to write?
Lib: Sort’a
Jare: no
What genre?
Lib: fantasy, historical history, humor
Jare: nothing, hate it
What is your favorite picture book?
Lib: Anything by Jody Bergsma
Jare: I dunno
Favorite book?
Lib: Right now its either The Land Beyond the Summerland series or the Ranger's Apprentice series.
Jare: ummm…39 clues
Favorite painting?
Lib: I like Waterhouse’s and a lady’s who name has left me. She lives in Washington though.(just found out its Jody Lynn Bergsma)
Jare: one of my sister’s dragon ones
Do you compose music?
Lib: I can’t play a note
Jare: NO!
Do you write songs?
Lib: Sort’a
Jare: nope
Do you like poetry?
Lib: Its fine-Yes I love it!
Jare: not really-wait. I was a poet and I didn’t even know it. (HAHAHA)
Do you write poetry?
Lib: I’m guessing you haven’t seen any of mine, if you did you would forever hate the word ‘A Poem by Libby’. In answer…NO
Jare: nope
Favorite poet?
Lib: E. A. Guest and R. L. Stevenson
Jare: I don’t know

We will now tag,
Hannah,
Cassie, and
Aljeron


Saturday, June 27, 2009

Heroes and Heroines Part 1

First I'll do the non-fictional ones, Then I'll move on to the Fiction ones.


Cornelia Johanna Arnolda ten Boom

(more know as)Corrie Ten Boom
Corrie Ten Boom was born on April 15, 1892.
Herself and her whole family were very active in the Dutch Underground, hiding refugees, manly Jews.
Later after doing this for a while, The whole Ten Boom family was arrested on February 28, 1944. Corrie's father died just 10 days after capture.
Corries sister Nollie, brother William and nephew Peter were released a short time later. Corrie and her close sister Betsie were put into a concentration camp, were on December 16, 1944(ten mouths after capture) Betsie died.
On December 25, 1944, Christmas day Corrie was released. In the movie The Hiding Place, Ten Boom narrates the section on her release from camp, saying that she later learned that her release had been a clerical error. The women prisoners her age in the camp were killed the week following her release. She said, "God does not have problems. Only plans."
Corrie Ten Boom is one of my heroes because of her faith through all that happened to her. Corrie died on her birthday, April 15, 1986. She was 91 years old. She is a Huge inspiration to me.



Clarissa Harlowe Barton

(More widely known as) Clara Barton .Clara was born December 25, 1821. Clara was a nurse in the American Civil War, and later founded the American Red Cross.
Clare died April 12, 1912. She is an inspiration to me for her loving care for people she did not know and for her ability's to serve.





John Bunyan
John was born November 28, 1628.
He is most known for his book, Pilgrims Progress. Which most people don't know that he wrote it in prison for his daughter. He considered it a child's story.
He never thought it would change lives.

John Bunyan died August 31, 1688.





Now some fiction hero's and heroines(which I'll move on to later)!



Ned
First on my list is Ned the lab, a creation of Brain Jacques. Ned is loyal, kind, funny, brave and witty. =) He was fist named Denmark(nickname was Den), then they took Den and reversed it. He was then called Ned(which I like very much).



Aragorn



Aragorn is also one of my favorites. In the book(I've only read the first) he was of-sorts a talker. Brave, Loyal, trust-able, and was the first one to brake up a fight. He was calm and everyone look up to him(some more then others, if you get what I mean =P). In the movie he was also brave and loyal, but was more quiet and reserved. He was still trust Worthy and admired.




Ben
Ben is in a way and also not in a way Ned's owner. At times its Ned that calls the shots(did I not say that Ned and Ben can talk through their minds to each other?), while other times its all Ben.

Ben was born deaf and mute. His father died when he was very young and his mother remarried a man with 2 sons of his own. But shortly after that, his mother died and Ben(who did not have a name, for he was considered dumb) was treated like a slave to his step father and brothers. One night he ran away, but his step brothers ran after him and nearly caught him, but Ben fell into the cold sea. the left him there(it was winter) to die. But at that moment the vessel, The Flying Dutchman, with his dreaded Captain Venderdecken was sailing out. Ben grabbed hold of a rope that was trailing in the large vessel wake, and hung on for dear life. In the morning he was rescued(if you could call if that) and he was to be the cooks boy. Many weeks later Ben met Ned(at the time Ben was known as Neb, then in the middle of the book they changed it=) They were fast friends, though Ned was just a normal dog and Ben could still not talk in any way. Venderdecken was a little mad or not to right up in the attic. He wish do make it around a dangers cape during a storm. There was ice and snow, a hurricane and every weather thing you can think of. Venderdeken went on ward, never taking heed to warnings. Finally, the ship was in tatters, half his crew died from falling over board. He lashed himself to the helm and cried cruses out to God. Then a Angel came down and cursed Venderdecken. He and his men would sail the seas for eternally, never dying. But the angle had compassion on the two only innocent souls on board, Ned and Ben. He then gave them eternal life on earth and set them on the shores, and then Ben and Ned could talk together silently and Ben was no longer deaf and mute. There are 3 books in the series of the Flying Dutchman (my favorites!).

I have more, which I will finish later



-Lib

Friday, June 26, 2009

STOMP video #1

This is by far my favorite STOMP video. I hope you enjoy.

(You MUST have sound on for this!)

I know this is long but you have to see it. Its really cool =)

-Lib

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Tagging...

To some of you this may be a horror and dull thing, but I'm starting a Tag.

Rules:
Just copy this and paste and remove my answers and put your own in.
Then tag 3 people

Starting Time: 9:13 am
Name: Libby *grins*
Sisters: Keilah, Pickle
Brothers: Jare, Ben, Roo, Eej, Gusber
What are you wearing? Long shorts with a tunic over it. Plus a green shirt.
Favorite Number: 7
Favorite Drink: water or juice
Favorite Month: July
Favorite Breakfast: toast
Love someone so much who made you cry? No
Broken a bone: afraid not.
Been in a police car: same answer
Been on a boat? yes
Came close to dying: Hey! I AM slowly dyeing in a sense. =P
Been in a hot tub: Yep
Swam in the ocean: All the time
Fallen asleep in school: I’m homeschooled so yes!
Cried when someone died: Yes
Fallen off your chair: All the time!

--------------------------Who------------------------------
Who did you last yell at? My brother
Do you like filling these out? I guess
Do you like yourself? Not really

----------------------------Today did you------------------
Talk to someone you like? Sure
Get sick? No
Sing? Not yet
Miss someone? Sort’a-not really

--------------------------Last person who------------------
You talked to on the phone with? Jare
Made you cry? I don’t know-Truly!
Went to the mall with? My Mumu(last year)
Been to Europe? No
Been to Asia? No
Been to Russia? No
Been to the Bahamas? No
Been to Mexico? No
Been to Canada? 3-4 times
Been to Africa? No.

-------------------Final Questions---------------------------
What are you listening to right now? ElizabethOfMena’s playlist, Flying
Do you hate someone in your family? No
What car do you wish to have? Cars ain't a big thing for me. =)
Good singer? I enjoy singing
Indoors or outdoors? Outdoors all the way
Do you have a job? Goat Herder, Animal caretaker
Are you lonely right now? I am alone, but not lonely.

Time Finished: 9:30 am



So now I tag Calico Zak, Tinydancer, and Gabrielle

-Lib

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Difficulties, Help!

Some one help me here and tell me its just my old, run down computer that's making it so I can't see any one's followers.

I have looked at the dashboard thingy and clicked on the followers and its just blank.
.........

And so it is like on every blog I look at.

Is this just me or every one??

Not-a-very-good-with-computers-Lib

Monday, June 22, 2009

Just thought I'd tell...

All about one of my favorite drawings books.
I would like to state though that I am not a frantic dragon lover. I think they are cool and fun to draw-thats all.

But anywho, this book is by Sandra Staple and she lives in Canada.
(and sorry I wanted to make it so you could see the cover, so I took the photo from Amazon. I hope I don't hear any sirens any time soon *chews nails*)

-Libby

PS

this is here site here check it out.

More Drawings

So this one is a dragon I painted with watercolors. It was the first time doing the whole highlight/scales thing. I'm happy with it though. I did this a few weeks ago.
I sorta scared myself doing it =}

(you might have to click on it)


And to lighten the mood up I sketched these 2 ducks, I want them in my front yard. =)

(this was last year)

Now I have to be off,

TTFN

-Lib

Sunday, June 21, 2009

1st Day of Summer!

So today is the first day of summer and everybody says...Hip-Hip Hurrah!
and its fathers day too so "Happy day" to all the dads out there =)



What I look forward to in this summer:


Warm weather and green fields of wildflowers(its fine though if the grass is brown =)


Picnics and spending all my free time outdoors in the wonderful fresh air.


The sunsets, manly at the ocean.

Sleeping outside and seeing all the summer stars.


But I also very much look forwards to the firework shows that dad, Jare and I do.
Here's a poem that also reminds me of the summer

Green Grass by James Reeves (1909-1978)


Green grass is all I hear
And green grass is all I see
When though tall fields I wander
Swish-swishing to the knee.

Grass is short on the high heat
And long on the hillside.
There’s where the rabbits burrow,
And here's where I hide.

The hillside is my castle,
Its walls are the tall grass;
Over them I peer and pry
To see the people pass.

Long and far I send my gaze
Over the valleys low.
There I can see but do not hear
The wagons lumbering slow.


Horseman, footman, shepherd, dog-
Here in my castle green
I see them move though vale and village,
I see but am not seen.

Green grasses whispering round me,
All in the summer fine,
Tell me your secrets, meadow grass,
And I will tell you mine.

What are some of the things that you are looking forward to this summer?

Post about it and let your friends know

-Lib

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Book Givaway!

The Yodeling Dwarf is giving away a book!

This is a signed copy Swords of the Six by Scott Appleton. And you could win it if you go to Jacobs blog and comment!
The deadline is Friday, June 26th, at Noon Pacific time.

Go and enter!

-Lib

Friday, June 19, 2009

Championship!

We won the Championship!

and ummm... thats it.

it was 9-2
I didn't do to good at batting but I had some good catches in the outfield.
One of our players hit a home run(it hit the fence!). And B did not cha-cha down to first base when he was walked.
I'll try and upload some pictures from the game and the awards.

Thats it for now
-Jare




Thursday, June 18, 2009

We were Tagged!

Again by Calico Zak!
Thank you!

So here are the rules.
Post your favorite movie on your blog if we tag you.
Thats it!

So here is my video



And here's Jare's...



So now we are going to tag Will, Connor, and EĂ€rwen

If you would like us to tag you and we didn't, please just ask!
=)
-Lib and Jare

Playoffs!

Second game of the playoffs was last night.
It was great.
The score was 13-3 (I think).
We are going to be playing the same team today for the championship.
We are hopeful for tonight even with just 9 players. One is on vacation in Maui (no fair!) and the other is out for the season. =( And then the other was hurt in a football game all us players played the day before playoffs. I tackled him. Oops = {

If we win tonight’s game then we will be the champions, sounds fun huh?

We will post the results tomorrow.
Later


Now I know some of you may be tired of all our captions but they are SO fun to make







So now I shall challenge all ye of brave heart to accept this challenge. Make some Captions!

-Jare and Lib

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Poll Results for 2 (plus more)



So here are the results for the two polls on the sidebar.

For the PlayList one, it seems that that manly everyone perfers it on non-autostart.
We already changed that so we're covered! =)

And the other one is the header one.
...
But Jare and I have been having some (heated) discussions on that one.
It would seem that 54% want the 1st one.
this one
But I think it could look better some more on that later.

Now some fun stuff.

Here are some quizzes that the Dancers put on their blog that I enjoyed.

Here are some of them with Jare and my results.

This one was what job would you have(ya know when we are old enough=P) Here. Jare's top 3 jobs would be #1. Athlete. #2. Teacher. #3. Scientist. (The last don't really go with him) My order would be #1. Artist. #2. Carpenter. and #3. Teacher.

And this one was where would we live in Middle Earth, go Here. Both of us got the same results. Lorien.

Then there was a Star Wars one.

Jare would be Chebacca


...and I would be Darth Maul (I've never gotten that one before!)
This is what it said, 'There is no doubt you are mysterious,
intimidating, and well trained,
but are you a master or an apprentice? '

Then there was a
Indiana Jones quiz,

Jare came out as Marcus Brody *smile*




And I came out as Tu tu tum dum!
Indiana Jones!
Cool huh?


Now for the Baseball Game last night. Last nights game was the first of the playoffs. The team we played we have played 2 times before and lost both times. This time it had a different outcome. It was back and forth for a while and very tense (just ask the moms!). I went one for two. In the end we ended up winning 15-13.

We play again tonight. Then tomorrow is the championship.

-Jare and Lib(mostly Lib)

PS

please wish Jare good luck or blessings on his game =)

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

A Tag...

For everybody!

Here are the rules (that I just made up=P).
1. Make some captions (amount must be over 3 or more)
2. They must be your own! (No copying others)
3. You must link to this blog to do this tag.
4. If you want you may tag 3 people, otherwise just tag everyone in sight!
5. Must post the captions on your blog.
6. They must be readable (also please make it so that younger eyes may see them)
7. Please no grown-up language

Also, If someone finds this post, months from now. Consider yourself tagged!

So here are my captions.





Oops I just saw a typeO =/





-Lib

PS

It would be nice if you comment telling if you are doing it, that way I could see your captions!

Monday, June 15, 2009

Bring on the funnys!


So here are some captions that Jare and I made up.



This is one I made...
And here is the one that Jare thought up.






We have more...but we want to save them for slow times=)



Tell us what you think. Are they funny? Or just kinda stupid(I think the Indy one is personally=)?



We would like to know =)



-Jare and Lib

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Sunday Video

OK all, this was for last Sunday but it wouldn't work then so I'm doing it now.

Hey all, because its Sunday, I would like to put a video up that I heard last night at my church's New Song Worship Night.
First I would like to say that last night I was not really looking forward to spending 3 hours just standing around and listing to people's MP3 players and YouTube songs.
But last night was a beautiful sight. Almost everyone brought a song to share (even younger kids) and we would just worship God.



I was able to sing with my mom and sister with songs I've never sung before, no less me on mike (but I did find out that on the last song that my mike was not even plugged in. I got a laugh out of that=)!



But so any how, this is just one of the songs that touched my heart and I would encourage you to listen to the words. But not just the words. Read the words. Ponder the meaning of them.



Saturday, June 13, 2009

On the Look Out!



So I'm on a look out for Narnia based blogs for a friend.

She is a huge fan of both movies and would like to hear more about them from people that will give her the time in Narnia(I'm not much of a fan of the movies so she doesn't get it much from me).

If you know of one or are one please comment telling me.
That way I could pass it on to her.

Thank you so much.

-Lib

Drawing...

Of a Elf warrior.


(click on it to see better)


His name is Ecthelion LissĂ«sĂșl (Ee-th-A-lion) (Liss-A-Suul)


He is a story charterer that I made up. He is the expert forger in the traveling party. He hardly ever talks, he believes that silence is golden and that one should be not seen or heard at all times.


His main weapon is the bow, but he carry's a dagger in his belt for emergency's.
I could say a lot more about him but I'm sure that you would be bored out of your skulls.


TTFN


-Lib


PS


This sketch took me about half a hour to do.

Friday, June 12, 2009

Everything

First of all the game last night.
Another tense game (same team) same score, 8-7 us. back in forth for a while(kinda). We had a game 3 days ago. we got smoked! The score was something around 13-o (them).
Not our best game.
We are going to the playoffs are coming on, sorry that we didn't have pictures for this post, hopefully we will for the playoffs.

until then
-Jare

Now about the header.

I am putting up a poll to decide what header to use.
Please vote for yourselves.

Jare likes this one the best (and so do most of the guys(?)

1#


Some like this one... 2#



And here is another one

3#

And if you just want the plain one that is on right now then vote 4#

Thank you all.

-Lib

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Help!

Jare and I cannot decide on a header here.
We would like your input on this matter.

This one??



Or this one?


Here is another one.


Please comment telling which one you would like to see(if you don't like either, please say so, we want to hear what you think).

-Lib and Jare