I’ve been updating the blog a lot over the past month, so here’s a list of the most recent posts, so that you don’t miss anything!
Bike Ride (Video)
Independence Day Celebration
Brown Belts
Men's Advance 2014
Bush Hoggin'
The Rapture!
Jeremy and Darcie's Reception and Dance
Tim and Rachel's Wedding
Jeremy and Darcie's Reception
Jeremy and Darcie's Wedding
Isaiah's Birthday
John Williams Christmas Concert
Sentimental Journey Dance Band (Video) - #FCM14
Learning the Laendler (Video)
WWII Officer's Ball (Video) #FCM14
Brewery Tour
Worship of God Conference
Christmas Morning
Ice Skating
Photos of the Bros
At the Farm...
FCM Conference 2014 - Speakers I
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Saturday, July 30, 2011
Updates
Well, I haven’t updated this blog for a couple of weeks and it is no coincidence that the last post was entitled “Crunch Time.” I’ve been spending quite a portion of my time working on the video project, but I’ve been able to spend more time getting involved in family activities.
We’ve been up to a few things, but the scorching heat has slowed us down. I‘m pretty sure it’s been weeks since we’ve had the heat index be in the double digits and we’re also very much in need of rain. There’ve been 3 rainstorms that passed through our area, but our house only got little to no rain.
All that to say that I’ll be retro-actively posting a few updates over the next few days.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
2011 Thus Far…
If this looks like a long post please remember that this s the past 61 days…I mean 59 days…in just one post. Our first two months of this year have brought so many changes it’s hard to imagine what the rest of the year will bring (and that’s including a month that was short changed a couple of days.) We’ve mainly just been dealing with health and nutrition problems that have been coming up.
Up until just a few weeks ago my Mom had been having severe health problems especially since December that would make her not able to get out of bed at all for days on end. She’s gotten some new health supplements that worked in the past and has been feeling great and full of energy for the past couple of weeks.
On January 6th, I sprained my ankle and even now am still having trouble running on it.
On January 17 Benjamin had a close call when he fell through the ice and into the deep creek a long way from home.
A few weeks later Noah broke his big toe and had to keep pressure off of it for a few weeks.
A couple of weeks later we had a family meeting about trying to incorporate some healthier food options into our diet over a few month’s time. Last Thursday I started running a fever and since then until yesterday I’ve been very sick with the flu. I had some very high fevers and coughing and have pretty much stayed in bed the entire time. It feels great to be up again, though I am very weak.
Yesterday was 6-month anniversary of my Dad’s death and we’ll be putting flowers on his grave in remembrance. It’s amazing how many things have happened since then, yet it still seems like yesterday.
Benjamin caught a beaver in his trap, but he also caught my flu and he’s been in bed all day today with a fever. Kate’s showing signs of being sick too, so Mom and Noah ran some errands today and got some extra groceries just in case the flu keeps on going around for awhile. (You’ve just got to admire how are generous family shares things with one another.)
By the way, I added a post about the Christian Archer's Dinner that you may not have noticed because it was retro-actibely posted.
Up until just a few weeks ago my Mom had been having severe health problems especially since December that would make her not able to get out of bed at all for days on end. She’s gotten some new health supplements that worked in the past and has been feeling great and full of energy for the past couple of weeks.
On January 6th, I sprained my ankle and even now am still having trouble running on it.
On January 17 Benjamin had a close call when he fell through the ice and into the deep creek a long way from home.
A few weeks later Noah broke his big toe and had to keep pressure off of it for a few weeks.
A couple of weeks later we had a family meeting about trying to incorporate some healthier food options into our diet over a few month’s time. Last Thursday I started running a fever and since then until yesterday I’ve been very sick with the flu. I had some very high fevers and coughing and have pretty much stayed in bed the entire time. It feels great to be up again, though I am very weak.
Yesterday was 6-month anniversary of my Dad’s death and we’ll be putting flowers on his grave in remembrance. It’s amazing how many things have happened since then, yet it still seems like yesterday.
Benjamin caught a beaver in his trap, but he also caught my flu and he’s been in bed all day today with a fever. Kate’s showing signs of being sick too, so Mom and Noah ran some errands today and got some extra groceries just in case the flu keeps on going around for awhile. (You’ve just got to admire how are generous family shares things with one another.)
By the way, I added a post about the Christian Archer's Dinner that you may not have noticed because it was retro-actibely posted.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
July 25, 2009
The family was tired from the work this week, so Mom took the day off-but my brothers and I sure didn’t.
We started a game of soccer, but it was really hot. Benjamin and I ended up working on a Lego movie. I usually dislike making Lego movies because I’m the post-production man and Legos don’t give you much of a head start when it comes to dialogue, sound effects and ambience. However, maybe I’ll post some of the rough drafts of our LEGO movies on this blog.
That afternoon Benjamin wanted to go down to the creek and fish. Three children of one of our neighbors also came along. A 9 year-old boy, a 7-year-old girl and a 6-year-old girl. The fishing spot that Benjamin wanted to try was about three quarters of a mile away. It’s a little difficult to get through the fields now that there are soy beans planted, but we walked along the edge of the fields and made it to the creek.
The fishing wasn’t great, but that may have been caused by our neighbor’s dog who kept on jumping and swimming in the water and probably scaring the fish away. However, Benjamin did catch one good-sized Sunfish.
I had hoped to make a GTC Outdoors episode while we were at the creek, but it would have been hard with the company. However, I did squeeze out a promise from Benjamin that during our 8 night stay on Table Rock Lake in September Benjamin would help me produce three GTC Outdoors episodes.
July 20, 2009
We got up early and after breakfast we wrote a list of projects to work on during the next six weeks before we put our house on the market. However, I’m sure that the list will be twice as long before we’re done because we continually add projects to the list.
Benjamin washed down the garage door and painted it very white-a little too white!
We washed down one of the three gables and hope to be painting it tomorrow.
Noah took apart the down spout of the guttering system and cleaned it out. It had gotten clogged up and the water wasn’t flowing away from the house last time it rained.
I recently cleared some area of our yard that had “grown up” in the past couple years. WE have a few grape vines so I had to be careful when I was cutting all of the underbrush down. There were also a whole lot of thorns so I was pretty thankful for my leather work gloves! Anyway, I dragged all of the branches and thorn-um-plants to a burn pile.
I also stripped some old caulking from a window with a screw driver and utility knife.
“Replace Porch Carpet” is on the list so I pulled off the old carpet and scraped some of the adhesive away. Benjamin & Mom washed the old carpet and put it on the deck.
We have three riding lawn mowers. Zero work. We haven’t mowed in a month (the day before we left for Boston) and although the grass isn’t too tall for tennis shoes it’s still pretty dangerous for sandals.,.
This spring we had gotten two of the tractors fixed, but a mower blade was bent on one and another one won’t even start up. We took off the mower deck and tried to bend the broken blade back in place (try saying that five times fast!!) However, we couldn’t pry it in place plus it wasn’t pliable enough to position it (alright enough with the tongue twisters.)
Tonight we went to Sears & K-Mart to pick up a new mower blade and some paint that wasn’t so white. However, the paint area had been removed and the paint areas at the other stores had already closed down.
Today we marked off:
Replace light bulb in white lamp post
Gather aluminum cans to recycle
Haul away branches
Remove caulking from Noah’s window
Wash down garage door
Paint garage door
Wash down front porch area
Wash gables I II & III
Clean gutter extensions
Clean porch carpet
Benjamin washed down the garage door and painted it very white-a little too white!
We washed down one of the three gables and hope to be painting it tomorrow.
Noah took apart the down spout of the guttering system and cleaned it out. It had gotten clogged up and the water wasn’t flowing away from the house last time it rained.
I recently cleared some area of our yard that had “grown up” in the past couple years. WE have a few grape vines so I had to be careful when I was cutting all of the underbrush down. There were also a whole lot of thorns so I was pretty thankful for my leather work gloves! Anyway, I dragged all of the branches and thorn-um-plants to a burn pile.
I also stripped some old caulking from a window with a screw driver and utility knife.
“Replace Porch Carpet” is on the list so I pulled off the old carpet and scraped some of the adhesive away. Benjamin & Mom washed the old carpet and put it on the deck.
We have three riding lawn mowers. Zero work. We haven’t mowed in a month (the day before we left for Boston) and although the grass isn’t too tall for tennis shoes it’s still pretty dangerous for sandals.,.
This spring we had gotten two of the tractors fixed, but a mower blade was bent on one and another one won’t even start up. We took off the mower deck and tried to bend the broken blade back in place (try saying that five times fast!!) However, we couldn’t pry it in place plus it wasn’t pliable enough to position it (alright enough with the tongue twisters.)
Tonight we went to Sears & K-Mart to pick up a new mower blade and some paint that wasn’t so white. However, the paint area had been removed and the paint areas at the other stores had already closed down.
Today we marked off:
Replace light bulb in white lamp post
Gather aluminum cans to recycle
Haul away branches
Remove caulking from Noah’s window
Wash down garage door
Paint garage door
Wash down front porch area
Wash gables I II & III
Clean gutter extensions
Clean porch carpet
Friday, July 17, 2009
Fun with Cousins
This week we’ve been watching our cousins almost everyday. We’ve had some fun. Their names are Paige, Eli and Brianne. On Monday we made a movie, “The Gold Shipment.” One of the many things that my brothers and I do when children come over is to attach a cart onto a back of a riding lawn mower and let the kids hop in. Usually we throw them some “Fool’s Gold” and tell them to get it past the bandits that attack them while they’re riding.
On Tuesday we went to West City Park and had some fun fishing.
On Thursday we went to our aunt’s house and went swimming.
On Tuesday we went to West City Park and had some fun fishing.
On Thursday we went to our aunt’s house and went swimming.
Reformation 500 Videos
Well it's going to take me awhile to post about the Reformation 500-we learned and did so much!
However, I'd like to share these videos with you so you can get a taste of the conference by watching the videos below:
However, I'd like to share these videos with you so you can get a taste of the conference by watching the videos below:
Becoming Charles Darwin from Douglas Phillips on Vimeo.
To watch more great videos from the Reformation 500 check out Doug Phillips & Vision Forum on Vimeo.
Flying to Boston June 27
Our grandma drove us to the airport and also took care of the house/dogs while we were gone. We made it through security (even though the entire time Kate kept on whispering that it was communistic), but we nearly had a heart attack when my Mom left the boarding passes on a table during the security fiasco. However, we got them back and headed towards our gate to fly to Detroit.
It’s always been my experience that the staff at the St. Louis Airport (Lambert International) are grumby, forbidding and downright crabby. We were watching as some TWA crew just stood around “looking official” with their plastic gloves, uniforms with numerous patches and medals and their stern official-looking faces. It’s pretty odd.
Anyway, we made it to Detroit and from Detroit to Boston although this flight was delayed due to some fog.
We picked up a rental car in Boston and checked in at our hotel in Plymouth that night.
It’s always been my experience that the staff at the St. Louis Airport (Lambert International) are grumby, forbidding and downright crabby. We were watching as some TWA crew just stood around “looking official” with their plastic gloves, uniforms with numerous patches and medals and their stern official-looking faces. It’s pretty odd.
Anyway, we made it to Detroit and from Detroit to Boston although this flight was delayed due to some fog.
We picked up a rental car in Boston and checked in at our hotel in Plymouth that night.
CHEF Conference June 23-24
We attended the Christian Home Educator Fellowship (CHEF) Conference and had a great time. Some of my favorite speakers were Doug Phillips and Dr. Voddie Baucham.
Benjamin and I also manned the Constitution Party of Missouri table in the vendor hall. We actually had a fun time watching people’s reactions to a third party!
We had the opportunity to meet Nick & Chad Burns from Pendragon: Sword of His Father.
The conference was held at the St. Charles convention center and attached to the convention center is a beautiful Embassy Suites hotel where we stayed during the conference.
Benjamin and I also manned the Constitution Party of Missouri table in the vendor hall. We actually had a fun time watching people’s reactions to a third party!
We had the opportunity to meet Nick & Chad Burns from Pendragon: Sword of His Father.
The conference was held at the St. Charles convention center and attached to the convention center is a beautiful Embassy Suites hotel where we stayed during the conference.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
We're Back From Boston!
We made back home last Monday after having a great time in Boston & Plymouth. I'll post an extremely short tale from the past week.
Saturday, June 27, 2009-We got on a plane in the afternoon and flew to Detroit and from Detroit to Boston. We picked up a rental car in Boston and drove down to Plymouth and got settled in at the hotel.
Sunday, June 28-We attended "Paul Jehle's" church called the "New Testament Church." After the special patriotic service we hopped in the car and attempted to drive to Provincetown in Cape Cod, but we didn't quite make it. Instead, we did some sightseeing and ate some Dunkin' Donuts (in some places in Boston you can count multiple Dunkin' Donuts from the corner of a block.)
Monday, June 29-We met in the lobby of the hotel for a two-day Faith Freedom Tour. We toured a host of lankmarks including: Plymouth Rock, The Jenney Grist Mill (one of my favorites), and the Forefather's Monument.
Tuesday, June 30-Toured Mayflower II and Plimoth Plantation. At the plantation we played a volleyball-like game called "Stool-Ball."
Wednesday July 1-Packed up and drove to and through Boston and checked in at Boston Park Plaza.
Thursday, July 2-Saturday, July 4-Saw many things and heard so many things I'll write about them later. :)
Sunday, July 5-Had a Sunday service with Mr. Scott Brown and finally got to rest.
Monday, July 6-Boarded a plane in the morning and arrived in St. Louis in the afternoon.
Saturday, June 27, 2009-We got on a plane in the afternoon and flew to Detroit and from Detroit to Boston. We picked up a rental car in Boston and drove down to Plymouth and got settled in at the hotel.
Sunday, June 28-We attended "Paul Jehle's" church called the "New Testament Church." After the special patriotic service we hopped in the car and attempted to drive to Provincetown in Cape Cod, but we didn't quite make it. Instead, we did some sightseeing and ate some Dunkin' Donuts (in some places in Boston you can count multiple Dunkin' Donuts from the corner of a block.)
Monday, June 29-We met in the lobby of the hotel for a two-day Faith Freedom Tour. We toured a host of lankmarks including: Plymouth Rock, The Jenney Grist Mill (one of my favorites), and the Forefather's Monument.
Tuesday, June 30-Toured Mayflower II and Plimoth Plantation. At the plantation we played a volleyball-like game called "Stool-Ball."
Wednesday July 1-Packed up and drove to and through Boston and checked in at Boston Park Plaza.
Thursday, July 2-Saturday, July 4-Saw many things and heard so many things I'll write about them later. :)
Sunday, July 5-Had a Sunday service with Mr. Scott Brown and finally got to rest.
Monday, July 6-Boarded a plane in the morning and arrived in St. Louis in the afternoon.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
An Update-CHEF Conference
Despite the fact that I haven't posted in almost a month and the last post was about eating squirrel we survived and are OK!We have been very busy for the past few weeks. On Monday we'll be leaving for the Christian Home Educators Conference in St. Charles, MO. If anybody in the area is open on Tuesday or Wednesday I highly recommend you to come.
This is not just a "homeschoolers" conference! This year has an extremely powerful line up of speakers-including Doug Phillips & Dr. Voddie Bauchaum-both on my top 5 list of favorite speakers. For more infromation goto www.CHEF-Missouri.com
If you do end up coming to the conference drop in and say hello! You should be able to find us near the Constitution Party/Essays of Freedom table.
We'll be getting back home on Thursday and on Saturday we'll be flying out to Boston for the Reformation 500 or rather the Plymouth tour. I've already made some posts on the Reformation 500, so I want say much more about it here.
Hope to see at the CHEF conference or in Boston!-J. Andrew
Monday, April 13, 2009
We Had A Good Trip!
I just wanted to let everyone know that we had a good and safe trip to Cinncinati! I'll be adding some of the pictures I took during my photography class/workshop at the Creation Museum. This weekend has been really hectic-we're not even unpacked yet! The day after arriving home, we participated in ChristianFilmmakers.org's 36-Hour Film Contest. I'll be placing the video we made on this blog sometime soon.
Until then,
J. Andrew Wong
Until then,
J. Andrew Wong
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