Another Update

My Christmas.....
Was fun... even if no snow. :) You see me and my family are snow birds!

I got some beautiful clothes from Eddie Bauer, "Joyfully at Home" by Jasmine B. , A FLYpen (It records what you write!), Doll clothes (Yes I'm a little girl at heart.), A 20 dollar giftcard and some other things...

We had dinner at my cousins which was Yummy! Now I'm back at my grandparents house with my twelve cousins... ALL homeschooled! So exciting... Them playing the wii and me and my cousin, Nick, who is around my age. We are dicussing our roleplaying ideas.

My forum- Oakfield. Is going alright..but very few people have joined. We had a, are having, a role play going on called the "Charleston's Christmas Ball" and another called "The Whittington's Christmas Party". They will go on till Newyears Day.

I've not been my self lately.... I think its because I haven't had a hour alone with God for the past three weeks! Normally when I suddenly have that energy just to worship God or just want to pray I go to my room or I go outside and sing... pray, worship, etc. Haven't been able to do that... with staying at condos and Grandparents houses. So that has thrown me off key!

Sorry for just the updates lately.

With all hope and happyness,
Kassidy

Christmas!

Friends,
I hope all of your thanksgivings went well! Mine was fun, me and my sisters had a baking day before Thanksgiving day. I made popcorn balls, my sister Kenzie, who is 14, made a chocolate pound cake! Katie my youngest sister, who is twelve, made gingerbread. It was all very yummy!

One of the best parts of getting together is that twelve, out of thirteen, are homeschooled. :)

My plans for this Christmas is going to florida to visit family. Also I am attemping to make everyone in my family something for Christmas!

So many things to do this Christmas....so little time. :)

I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas!

Happy Birthday Jesus,
Kassidy ~

A Morning...What I've been up to~

Dear Friends,
You have probably been wondering where your friend has been. Well I am in VA now. Came up to throw a surprise party for my Aunts 30th birthday and to help baby sit my cousins while their parents went on a little trip for their anniversary. My cousin Joseph is adorable and so is my cousin Liberty...just the other day me and Liberty, who is six, we were debating whether or not she was a big girl. Which was quite a conversation! And my cousin Joseph informed me that "Hugs are boring and Kisses are Fun" My reply "So I should kiss your cheek more often?" Him "Yes." he says this while turning his cheek to me so I can kiss it. He's a cute little mess!

Friends last night I watched the 2009 verison of "EMMA". Splendid movie! So good.

This is a little thing that I learned form "EMMA":

"Love is a hard thing to grasp and understand. Even if the one thing you love the most is with you your whole life. Love is only something that you can wait for, till the proper moment comes for it to bloom. If you rush it you will give the bud of the flower that hardly knows what flower it posses. If you give it to late then it could be missed forever. But! The perfect time is when the rose just blooms, when the smell first rises an when the soft, gentle petals turn into a wondrous beauty. But, only then will a almost perfect love sprout. Thats when love prevails and conquers all. Thats when the door to heaven, death, can't close but, stands open for that forever bond. Love can be prosperous and laborous but, its worth is a life time."

Pictures from my trip!

These pictures were us getting ready for the disability event. We had to put together 700 bags of candy and 700 bags of soap for operation Christmas child boxes. That weekend I was helping with the face painting which was fun.

Kassidy

A Death~

Dear Friends,
Our family dog died yesterday. Got hit by a school bus! Atleast he died what he loved doing chasing buses or any sort of car. My brother and youngest sister are taking it pretty hard. My younger sister saw the whole thing! Coleton, my brother, is sad. Our dog, Cody, was like a brother to him.

Please pray for us and the up coming months. Its funny how death hardly seems real and life seems dead sometimes. An odd thought I know but, its true.

In Christ,
Kassie

Leaving...

Dearest Readers,
I am leaving for the beach tomorrow and won't be back till monday morning. I hope you won't miss me too much.. ;) I will hopefully get some pictures...Also I will be doing a study for girls on my blog, I will post about it when I return!

In Christ,
Kassie

My Birthday-Day!

So I thought I would share some photos about my fun and beautiful birthday-day :)

A vintage shop we went to had a huge book room....but not fill with vintage books. Yes I know VERY disappointing.
The tea room we went to was so pretty and fun! Me with my sisters and cousin Hannah and Mom and my cousin Hannah's mom..my Aunt. :)
I had some yummy potato soup...Mmmmm.

I had some delicious spice tea. Yum!

The tea cup I had the privilege of using...Isn't it lovely!

A birthday tea set..adorable!

My sister Katie trying on a hat, a cute hat.

Now this picture is a picture I hope one day could be a reality in my own room...I love it! The pink the green..the vintage rose paintings on the walls the floral quilted bed spread and pillows. All of it I loved..but maybe the green a shade lighter. :D

In just the next couple of days I will be having my blessing ceremony.. I have already received a gift for my hope chest..I still have not seen the gift or the hope chest, I will be getting the chest on the day of my blessing ceremony. My sisters and cousin Hannah are actually practicing the "Sabbath Prayer" for a dance at the ceremony...I have not seen that either. All of these things, from the purity ring to the hope chest will all be given to me on the great blessed day of my pass into womanhood. I'm so excited but yet something in me is realizing what is happening...I will no longer a child prancing throe fields with wondering of the future..I will me a young women walking the ground of God and knowing the responsibility's of tomorrow.

~Child verses Womanhood~

For I am a child today and a woman tomorrow.

My past child ways will soon be pushed aside for the present age of womanhood and the mystery of new ability's of this new season.

Life as a child was of foolish wandering and of selfish childhood ways but, now that I am transferring, now that I have learned.

I cross the line not being called a child again but being called a women and crossing that fine line.

I see the the virtue, and the calling of everything a women should be and at this fine line is where I decide to to be everything a women should be or everything she should not.

This new season is new and I hardly know what to do for childhood is all I have ever known, which step to take is a new question, which thing to do is a new activity.

But THIS is where the study and learning of womanhood begins.

Loving God~

Yesterday me and my cousin and Aunt went to church...hard lesson for me and hard word's from my Aunt on the lesson taught.

My mom gave me a word in a recent situation that came up and basically just spoke blessing and encouragement over me and in the way I'm growing in the Lord! <3 I cryed on that phone call...(Love you, Mom!)

Then today I read this and this hit me right at the heart....Miss Jasmine Baucham wrote a post on "God gives us Answers..via Ten booms."


"Corrie," he began instead, "do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain.
"There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill the love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or, Corrie, we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.

The whole post is about learning to love others in God's love! Which has definitely been hard for me...for I have learned the human way of love and the lie of its natural to be and act on this saying "Its okay not to love that person as long as you like them and are friendly to her/him." I did not know how much I received that till I read Jasmine's post. For God says to love others as you love your self...but the thing we miss in those verses is..love that person through God's love not human...human love will never succeed in the type of way you are trying to love in...it will only bring the opposite.

I have tried to love in God's way..but it has never worked for me...because I was still using the dynamics of Human love. You can never love in God's way if you do not know what true love looks like. It is not roses and cards or mushy names...or the buying of gifts.

True love is unselfish with no pride or selfish desire of own interest, it is a work of dealings that you do for another...but not by the way of Gifts but by the way of looking at that person's heart and reaching out and speaking to them throe the words of God.

True love does not alter when one ignores you or when one hates you it pushes through and fights to the end of that thought that says "He hates you! No reason to love him, no reason, no reason at all." you do have a reason to love that person..for the same reason as to walk away..the person who can't stand you is the one who needs love most! Christ centered love...everlasting-ever fulfilling-Love! God had no reason to love us, he could of left Us to be thrown to the wolfs...to the pit of Hell. But instead he took mortal souls and sinful beings and decide to love us, who, by any other could not truly love us. God died for love...he died for his bride. A bride that came from the dirty streets, the other side of the tracks, he fell in love with her, even though he was a prince who was spotless...Satan saw the hidden jewel in the dirty soul of the bride and decide to take her for his own...but God saw this bride and so did Jesus and Jesus feel in love with the bride and died for her as the price of getting her back! Are we willing to die for our brother in that unconditional love? To look past the sin?

These are my thoughts...right out of my heart.

May God bless the sinful bride that he dressed in jewels.

Kassidy

A Day Out~

I'm turning sixteen next Tuesday and if you know my family we are doing something big in honor of how I've grown in God and maturity. For my sixteenth birthday we are doing a pass into womanhood banquet with classical music, formal dress, and yummy gourmet food! So there were a couple things needed for this great day..such as gloves and a hair piece. So where is the best place for gloves? a vintage store, of course. :) So me and my aunt and cousins, who are also homeschooled, went off to a cute little street with cute little stores, called Carytown.

On the way, we watched "Return of the Daughters" in my cousins van. That movie is a big encourgment to me!

When we got to Carytown...I couldn't remember the name of my favorite vintage store. So we decided to walk around and look to see if we could find it. Well we ended up stopping in a different vintage shop.

Old pictures in the shop. Are they not interesting?

Hannah, my cousin, looking at old fashioned dresses. They had very pretty and some not so pretty dresses.

My three year old cousin Joseph just loved this hat!

Hannah...really would of liked to have this hat to go with a dress she has but, she did not end up getting it. Isn't it pretty?

We found my favorite vintage store! Which by the way it's called Bygones. It has the prettiest things.

We found the gloves...they are a lot prettier in person. :)

My cousin Jack decided to try on a hat. he quoted "This picture looks just how they looked in the oldin' days"

My little cousin Joseph put another hat on, a flat cap, well he loves the movie "The Greatest Game Ever Played" (Its a good movie, about a boy becoming an amazing golfer!) So he was so excited he got to wear a hat like Frances (the main character). He said "Mommy, Mommy! Look I wearing Frances's hat!" He was so proud and happy about that hat. Joseph LOVE's old movies, well the classics. Like "Pride and Prejudice" which he calls Mr. Darcy and "The Greatest Game Ever Played" which he calls Frances and a couple more. Unfortunately I was not able to get a picture of him in the hat but here is a picture of Frances.

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So that was carytown..then we got lunch at a pizza place. Which was yummy!

After that we took a drive through the country and stopped at a civil war battle field. Which was fun. Then we came back and me and my cousin Hannah washed the dishes and vacuumed. Then me and my cousin went with my dad to go look at cars and then went out for some tasty BBQ. Then we decided to go to an ice skating rink to just see what was going on. :) An then we went back to Hannah's house to play the wii which I never do...This was a every couple months thing for me. Well we played a couple rounds of a mini golf game an then me and my dad went back to where we were staying...

Adventures at Midnight~

Well, we went to unlock the door at my Aunt and Uncle's and well the dead bolt was locked, my dad does not have a key for that one, so then we decided to call my aunt and uncle who we were staying with. Well that didn't work so.... we decide to call my other Aunt and Uncle which are the parent's to the cousins I told you about. Me and dad thought we would run up to a gas station to get a drink of water and to take a bathroom break..it is now 2:00 am still no one is answering the phone. So we go back over to my other Aunt and Uncle's and we knocked on the door.."banged" on the windows. Well they answered the door and we were able to get some sleep and not sleep in a hotel room!

Well, I hope you all have a blessed day.

Kassidy

Planning our single years.

Dearest sisters in Christ,
I was listening to Generations with Vision radio broadcast and they were talking about family legacy. Well, Mr. Kevin Swanson said something that really opened my eyes.

"Jesus was on earth for 3 years and he didn't go to congress to get out the word he did it throe relationships."

At this point in the conversation they were talking about the family and making that your legacy, making that your standpoint to get out the word of Christ. Building up nations, with relationships of your children! How true is that?... The next thing they went into was preparing your self for that future helpmeet and getting the bigger picture of starting a family into your head.

Well, this got me to thinking. If Jesus came to earth knowing he only had 3 years, why, out of all places and types of atmosphere did he chose a family type?...I mean if you really think about it he treated his disciples like family going from place to place. He, God/Jesus, didn't go to take over the Roman empire or anything like that. He went to disciple and to build relationships and throe that he brought the word of God to the world. Throe a family type circle!

Girls, Ladies, God only had 3 years to build up that family circle. How many years do we have?...A couple of months ago a question poped in my head.

"If my prince came today would I be ready?"

I knew that answer right away. Nope. (period) We as girls visualize and dream of the day when Prince Charming will come and sweep us on our feet but, we never stop and think of the question above.

As I listened to the broadcast and the "only 3 years" kept coming to my brain. I thought what if God only gave me 3 years to prepare, how would I spend those years? How would I prepare? What are the secret dynamics of being a helpmeet, mother and the running operator of the home? What skills are the most important and what skills, what type of preparedness would be the most helpful to my future husband?...As I thought about these questions I decided to make a list of skills that I knew would be important.

Also I am asking all the godly homemaking moms I know about what skills that they have learned and are the most helpful... Also I'm going to be asking some dads I know, what skill that your wife has is the most helpful?

Girls we need to plan out what we want to learn so when that door opens for you to be a helpmeet, you will know that your single years were spent wisely and that you have all the skills you need to raise up a mighty family for God.

Here are a couple of basic things to learn:

Money Management (This is VERY important! No skipping this one. Big no, no.)

Cooking (We all have to eat)

Baking (Now what man does not like a homemade cake? I know my daddy does! ;))

All the rules of cleaning (I'm still learning this one too)

How to clean (Its one thing to know the rules, Learning is whole other matter entirely)

Plan! (This will come in handy, trust me!)

Order (I've learned that a great place to learn this, is in your room)

The Bible (cover to cover honey, cover to cover ;) If we are going to be helping raise up godly kids we might want to know the basics)

Letting things Go (We need to learn this now that way when the mail gets piled up, we will just be able to say "To the dump with you!")

This is just some....I have a long list! You see I need help picking out the most important ones. :)

Let's not waste these years...let's learn! Let's PREPARE!!!

In Christ,
Kassidy

Young Women~

~Young women of God. ~

Let everyday, you do EVERYTHING unto him.

Let all your choices be wise.

Let all your words be with grace.

Let your attitude always be Humble.

Let your actions show your Gods wonderful word.

Feel Love and act love because your God is Love.

Don't be lazy, Do things that will inspire your everyday living.

Work everyday in good spirits because God does.

Look on your work and be proud of it,Because... God is proud of you for doing it!
Now, serve your Father on earth.

For when you do so, you also serve your Heavenly Father.

Also help your Fathers helper (your Mother), For when you do you help everyone in the home And you serve your heavenly Father as well.

But do this with Love, Honor and respect.

These are part of our roles as young women as we grow into womenhood.
~Kassidy Ruth Mullins Burke~