Hey there...

Well, I must say that I am very grateful that today is cooler. I don't know about the rest of you, but I LOVE cool days, with sun and some clouds. (Okay, so today there are more than Some clouds.) ;)

Today I will be going to visit my grandparents, having lunch and swimming in the pool across the street. Mary Joy is really excited to swim. I think that my cousins will be there too, but I'm not sure.

One of my favorite songs is Hosanna by Christy Nockels. I'm listening to it right now! Look it up!

My sad sack of a dog is mopey right now because no one will play with her. Love That Dog!

I get to go to camp in a few weeks!!!! I am super excited to get up there. Lizzy went over the Fourth of July while I was in Philly. I can't wait!

I don't have anything else to talk about, so see ya!

Kaye

Trout Lake

Hey there Y'all!

I just wanted to say hey.

And talk about an amazing Christian camp in northern Minnesota called Trout Lake Camp. They are an awesome camp that really strives to draw kids and adults alike closer to the Lord. I personally have worked up there and love love love it. This year will be my 6th summer up there. I actually accepted Christ at Trout Lake.

I won't ramble on and on about it. If you would like to know more, please check out there website or call me.

http://www.troutlakecamp.org/

I've got to go get ready for a get together. See ya!

Kaye Ann

Hey there everyone!

I just returned from a great weekend of fun and play with my family and friends at the Laura Ingalls Wilder pageant and such in southern Minnesota. What Fun! I had a great time exploring the great sites that are around that area. We visited the sod house and Walnut Grove. That was a blast. I really enjoyed the sod house because it showed you really well how they lived back then on the prairie. The Jeffers Petroglyphs were fun as well. It was really awesome to see all the writings and initials from the late 1800's. I also loved that they think that Laura and Mary played on these rocks where the Petroglyphs were while they were traveling.

My dad is trying to replace the door closer on one of our doors. He is very happy to have returned the more expensive one and get one that cost him only $13.

This is slightly random, but have you heard of the movie Fireproof? It is an amazing movie about fireproofing your marriage. I really liked it, and the man who played the main role of Caleb who is also a strong Christian and speaker, Kirk Cameron, did an amazing job. I wonder if it was hard for him to be mean in the beginning scenes. Anywho, here's the movie website. I encourage you to check it out. http://www.fireproofthemovie.com/

Alright. See Ya!!

Kaye Ann Silver

I'm Back!

Hey there Everyone! I have just returned from Philadelphia and I had an absolute blast!

Here are some of my favorite pictures:

(This is really what they look like, not just an optical illusion)

Hey there y'all! (as they say in Philly)

I made it! I had the most amazing time in Philadelphia! God totally worked through us this last week in more ways than I have time to list. Here's the blog site of where we were at: http://philadelphia.myadventures.org/ There are a lot of cool testimonies on there about our week in Philly. We are Cross of Glory Baptist Church.

I had such a fun time! If you would like more info on the trip or to see more pictures, let me know! I would love to share about our time down in Philadelphia.

In Christ,

Kaye Ann

For those of you who can't read it, this is the verse:

"I am convinced that neither death nor life,  neither angels or demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

-Paul, Romans 8:38-39

Philadelphia

Hello there to all of you who read my blog.

On Friday morning, I will be leaving for Philadelphia, PA. 

I am going on a missions trip with a group from my church.

There are 20 people total going from my church.

We will be in Philadelphia for about a week serving those in need in the inner city for Christ mainly through a VBS and community gatherings.

Please pray that we would have unity as a group, patience, and peace. 

(Also, pray that we would survive the l-o-n-g car ride to and from Philadelphia). :) 

To God be the Glory,

Kaye Ann Silver

Untitled

Hello there and a happy Wednesday to you!

I am sitting here listening to the sounds of construction as our neighbors basically double the size of their house. The house will be absolutely gorgeous when it's finished. I can't wait to see what it looks like. I can tell that they want it done, and soon because lately they've been working from 7 am to 9 or even 10 in the evening. 

My sister Mary Joy just got her hair cut short. She looks a lot like the American Girl doll named Kit. I really like her with cute short hair. Lizzy May didn't want to get her hair cut. A few more inches and she'll be sitting on her hair! WOW!

Well, tonight I have a meeting that runs kind of late. That's alright though. I am excited any way.

This is kind of random, but when I was little, my grandparents bought me a Blue Spruce tree that is the same age as me. I was a worried about it last year because we were hit with a really nasty hail storm and the tree didn't look so good. The top was broken off of it. I was worried it wouldn't make it. But I was happily wrong. My tree looks great. The only sign of damage is the somewhat V shaped top that grew in place of the one that was broken off. I will tie them together and the tree should grow just fine.

Farewell!

Kaye Ann

My Cool Idea

Hello again. I thought of something to write about, so I will. I am going to write letters to a few authors that I really enjoy and see how many responses I get back. Wouldn't it be cool to have a notebook full of letters sent to you by authors? I think so. (That's another thing- I LOVE NOTEBOOKS!! Staples is really not good for me because I could walk in and drop a lot of money on notebooks and pens and all sorts of office stuff.) I will start by trying to get addresses for all the authors and then see where it goes from there. Here are some authors I will be writing to: Jeannette Ingold Joan Bauer Lauraine Snelling Bryan Davis Patricia Reilly Giff I have already written to Christopher Paolini. If you want to see that post, go to the list and you'll find it under They Really Do Respond. God bless and have a great day! Kaye Ann

Today

Hello there to all...

Today has been wonderful. We were at our church this morning and then at home. I am going to be on a missions trip starting Friday, so today I finished up a few things that I needed done. Then it was time for a walk around the pond in our neighborhood with my dog and blogging to you all.

It is a gorgeous 65 degrees, slightly windy, and very comfortable. My favorite weather!

I am trying to redo my room this year. So far all I've done is started to strip wall paper. When I finish with that, I'll paint the top half of my room a dark sunny yellow and the bottom half a deep red. These colors were chosen because they match my new desk and wood loft. FUN!

I really don't know what else to say, so I will say farewell.

"Farewell!"

Kaye Ann

More Pictures...

Here are a few more photos from my family's road trip:

My whole family was really fascinated that the bridge could lift to let boats in. We are thinking about going back next year when it isn't ice storming so that we can see some boats come in and out. We were going to drive over the bridge, but decided against it. We had a blast!

Kaye Ann, Mary Joy, and Lizzy May

Cool Architecture

As I was browsing through my pictures of when my family and I took a road trip to Duluth, Minnesota, and I found this really cool picture that I forgot I had. Check it out:

Isn't that cool? I really liked how this building looked with the windows. It was raining ice (ice storm) while we were up there, which I guess didn't phase the locals. I heard that in Duluth, there are loads of ice storms every year. Yikes. Glad I don't live way up there!

In Christ,

Kaye Ann

Water Street

This is a book that I just finished reading by Patricia Reilly Giff. It is absolutely wonderful and I think that anyone would enjoy it. The information about the book at the end of this post was taken directly from Patricia Reilly Giff's website.

Enjoy!

Kaye Ann

 Water Stree

Juvenile Fiction Wendy Lamb Books | Hardcover | September 2006 | $ 15.95 | 978-0-385-73068-6 (0-385-73068-3)

About the Book

Brooklyn, 1875: Bird Mallon lives on Water Street where you can see the huge towers of the bridge to Manhattan being built. Bird wants nothing more in life than to be brave enough to be a healer, like her mother, Nory, to help her sister Annie find love, and to convince her brother, Hughie, to stop fighting for money with his street gang. And of course, she wishes that a girl would move into the empty apartment upstairs so that she can have a new friend close by.

But Thomas Neary and his Pop move in upstairs. Thomas who writes about his life in his journal--his father who spends each night at the Tavern down the street, the mother he wishes he had, and the Mallon family downstairs that he desperately wants to be a part of. Thomas, who has a secret that only Bird suspects, and who turns out to be the best friend Bird could ever have.