The Road that Leads to Nowhere

My feet plod down this dusty road
The road that has no end,
For miles and miles it stretches on
And here my life I’ll spend.

What I seek I do not know
Perhaps I seek nothing at all,
Only to see the trail in front of me
And to follow its beckoning call.

What’s around the next corner?
What is around the bend?
Only the road that leads to nowhere
The road that has no end.

(I wrote this last year for school)

Unexpected Roses

This is what Dad brought home today for my mom. Ah, young love... :)

Square night

Last year Anna and I went with a group of people on a church retreat so that we could watch all the kids while the rest of the people had their meetings. We stayed with Tonika and Judith, and for the two night we were there we stayed up until 2am playing 'square' (also known as 'kemp'). And since then we have had two other square nights, it's sort of become a tradition. Saturday night was one of them.Our sweet snoopy cards. Anna and Judith having a stare-down. Anna looks like Frozone.

Tonika smiling, me frowning. Can you tell which team was winning?

Yes, Tonika and Anna won. They have won the battle, but the war is yet to be continued...

Only Because...

It isn't because I am perfect,
It isn't that I have no sin,
It's only because the light of Christ
Has cleansed me out and in.

It isn't because I have arrived
To some perfection of mankind,
It's only because of this promise:
"If you seek then you shall find."

It isn't because of my works
That Jesus has accepted me,
It's only because of His love
That He has set me free.

It isn't because I have finished
The race He's set me to run,
It's only because through His grace
That He has already won.

It isn't because He needs me
To carry out His plan,
It's only because of who He is,
And that makes me who I am.

Kiki visits

Kiki (otherwise known as Anneke) came over Thursday. Yes, that is a name of my own invention, I thought the name Anneke was too long. Don't ask me why, since my name is Abigail...but that's beside the point.
We decided to 'do' Emily's hair, and I must say it was an amazing sight. We put our entire hair basket on Emily's head.

The finished project. Isn't it amazing? For some reason she didn't want to wear it to work, I can't imagine why. I mean, after all the time we spent doing her hair...so ungrateful.

And then Anna and Kiki decided to drive around on our 4-wheeler through all of our pine trees to look for a little one to put in our room. We were driving over all these really tall weeds and got completely covered in little seeds. They think they've found the perfect tree, which was about 7 feet tall, but they want to just cut off the top. We'll see. All I know is that I'm not cleaning up any pine needles. :)

Shoe boxes

Every year our family has done a Christmas shoe box through Samaritan's Purse, but this year, Anna and I decided to do our own. It was so much fun! We did the 10-14 girl, and filled it for $25! That was the best part, we got a ton of deals. The deadline to get your boxes in is in between November 17-24. It's a really great (and fun) thing to do.

I have everything I need...

...except snow