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Yoyo!!

10/30/2010

Yoyo!! :-) That means 'hello' in another language which we shall not name (particularly because I don't know what is it - typical Nicole). I'm feeling a bit wacky right now (just ask my brothers and dad...we were playing a card game and I was talking in weird voices, I almost lost in the game because I wasn't paying attention, I was making my brothers laugh because of my weirdness...does that sound wacky to you?) , so I think it's time for Wacky Wednesday Wonders. Or...Silly Saturday...uh...Wonders? :-) OK, I better just post the facts before I say something I'll regret (haha):

1. 863 coaching changes since 1956 in division 1 football (my brothers, grandpa, and dad are watching football on TV, and they had a trivia thingie that I don't understand, but here it is anyway. I may have typed it wrong.)

2. There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world!

3. Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate (hmmm...I think we need to get our priorities straight...that's a lot more chocolate than Bibles!!)

4. The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons (wow...only our amazing God could do that!).

5. OK, you probably don't want to hear this, but: the Bible is the most shop-lifted book in the world.

Think about that! The Bible is the most shop-lifted book in the world. Why? Are some people so poor they can't buy the Book that they desperately need? Do some people just steal them for the fun of it? What do you think?

It's funny how 1 Corinthians 13 is such a famous chapter in the Bible, but there's two other chapters in the New Testament that are similar and are really good, and are two of my favorites, along with 1 Cor. 13, of course. Those two chapters are Romans 12 and Colossians 3. If you go on Biblegateway.com, you can check it out in The Message verson, too.

Today we went to breakfast with Grandma and Grandpa and we met a bunch of their friends there. They do this every Saturday morning. The total of people, including us, was 13 people. Even though you're probably not interested, I had a Hawiian omelett that was SOO good. It was dee-licious. Yummy. Did I mention it was good?

I gotta get to bed now. We're going to our cousin's youth group again tomorrow morning. Well, us kids are, my parents are going to the service with my aunt. I can't wait! We went last week, and I LOVED it!! I have to admit, it was a lot better than my youth group at church that I used to go to. Anyway, that means I have to get to sleep at a decent time tonight, since it's a while over to the church. Oh, and then that night we're going trick-or-treating with my cousins and aunt. OK, now I'm really done. :-) God bless!!

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The Potter and the Clay

10/28/2010

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Today my family had the pleasure of going to the Henry Ford Museum with my grandparents. It was wonderful!! We had fun exploring all the different exhibits. Two days ago we all went to Greenfield Village, which was very interesting. One thing especially captivating there was at the peoples who formed glass - it was absolutely beautiful. Yesterday the six of us drove over to a college about an hour away to meet a guy there. We were actually on time (hurrah!), and after we had introduced everyone, he invited us to attend chapel with him, which was just about to start. We enjoyed the time there, and before we knew it, it was time for lunch. We had packed sandwiches and everything, but he insisted on treating us to a meal in the cafeteria. Afterwards the adults stayed there talking while us kids went to a room nearby that had a pool table, a ping-pong table, and several board games. There was a guy there with his friend playing pool, and he was very nice - he introduced himself and invited Nathan and Nicholas to join their game.

About an hour or two later, we left the college and headed for a 'Hands-on Museum'. It was AMAZING!!! We had so much fun there. There were so many exhibits - a harp with lasers for strings, a thing that tested up to what frequency you could hear, etc., etc., etc. :-) The frequency-tester-thingie said that humans could hear up to 20,000...um....Hertz? I don't remember. Dad could hear up to approximately 11,000, Mom could hear up to somewhere around 13,000, Nathan and I could both hear up to about 14,500, and Nicholas and Noah could hear up to around 17,000. Cool, huh? Not as cool as something else: it was a big room with a bunch of pretty big, red 'bricks' we could build with. They were foamlike but a bit sturdier and stronger. First we built a tower around Nathan, and then he burst out of it. Next Nathan and I started to build a tower around ourselves, but about halfway through we were trapped inside. :-) Mom and Nicholas helped us finish - when it was completely done it was about 7 or 8 feet tall!! It even had a ceiling, along with a small window on each of the four sides. Then Dad helped us make a door on one side for us to squeeze through, so we didn't have to knock down the whole thing. It was really nice, but about a half an hour later when we came back, someone had completely demolished it.

One more thing (my mom told me I need to make my blogs shorter, so I'm really trying): when we were at Greenfield Village a few days ago, we watched a potter forming clay on a wheel. Now, I don't know if any of you have ever seen this before, but it is very fascinating. You could probably look up a video of it on YouTube. Anyway, you all have probably read in the Bible the passage about God being the potter, and us being the clay. I now realize what an impact that must have had on the people listening to Jesus speaking. When I watched the potter form the clay, I watched how God wants to shape my life and me. And I think He's already got me a little loosened up.

Jeremiah 18:6 ""O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter does?" declares the LORD. "Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel." (If you have the time - and this isn't too long - please click on the link above. God bless.)

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Can someone just email me a list of good titles to use??? 'Cause I can't think of any. :-)

10/20/2010

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Hiya, everyone! How has your week been so far? Really, I want to know - tell me in your comment! :-)

We're staying at my mother's sister-in-law's family's vacation lake house. It's amazing!! I have my own bedroom, the boys share a room, and Mom and Dad sleep in the RV, which is outside on the driveway. Yes, you heard me right - I have my OWN bedroom! Praise the Lord!! :-) Nicholas and Dad went fishing on the lake in the paddle boats yesterday and today, and today they finally caught some fish - Nick got one and Dad got a bigger one (how appropriate), but they were both too small to keep.

This morning, at precisely 9:00 AM, I took a picture of my room, and then took a picture of the boys' room, while Noah was still snoring. Do you see a difference in the two rooms? Anything? :-)

Here are some pictures for y'all - OK, not some pictures, a lot of pictures. :-) Sorry if there are too many. Anyway, did you notice that I didn't post any pictures of the Canadian side of Niagara Falls - just the American. That's because I didn't go. Look at my mom's pictures - I'm not in any of them. I was feeling sick (actually, I was sick, of course, but I was feeling sick enough to stay in the car, lying down and forcing myself to take a bite of my sandwhich while everyone else had lunch at a picnic table outside), and since Mom had to drive back to the RV, I went with her. She dropped me off, and I just hung out in the nice, warm RV while the others froze their pancakes off outside, enjoying the beautiful view of the breathtaking Canadian Niagara Falls. Do I regret my choice? Nope. Earlier I was cold within 30 seconds of stepping outside, despite having three layers on - shirts, sweatshirt, and heavy jacket. I was ready to leave Niagara Falls before everyone else, even though it was gorgeous. I appreciated it, took pictures, and then I was done. If I hadn't been sick, I would have loved to visit the Canadian side! But I was afraid it was going to make me feel even worse, standing around the freezing, windy, occasionally wet cold. So there. :-) Right now I am feeling great, especially knowing the fact that we FINALLY got some grammar done today!!! Hallelujah!!

OK, I don't want to make this too long again - if it isn't already - so I'll go ahead with the pictures. Hope you enjoy! God bless!!

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Sick and Tired (Actually, I'm just sick - Nathan is sick and tired.)

10/15/2010

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Hiya, everyone! Yeah, I know, I haven't posted in more than a WEEK - am I crazy or what?? Sorry to leave y'all hanging - and yes, Rachel, I sound like a country girl - using the word "y'all" - and I'm proud of it! :-)

Welllll...has anyone seen the weather forecast lately? There's going to be huge storms coming through here ("strong winds and heavy rain"),starting tomorrow, so.....we're not going to Stowe, Vermont. Even though the color of the trees is at its peak. Stinkin' rain!! OK, now I'm done complaining. :-) God has His plans.

Speaking of God - and why shouldn't we be speaking of God? - I think He might be telling I need to laugh more. One of my good friends and I, in our emails to each other, were talking about laughing and laughing at each other. (We were laughing about the fact that there is a key broke off of us kids' laptop and I have to press down on this little dinky button with my pinkie finger every time I have to use it...and we were laughing about her story of pouring too much garlic on her popcorn. :-) Don't ask.) Also, on a girls' blog that I'm following - which is a famous Christian author's blog, by the way - we are taking a break from the serious stuff and sharing the stories of our embarrasing, klutzy, usually-ends-up-in-a-hilarious-injury moments. I had SO much fun reading all of the girls' klutzy moments! They ranged everywhere from a girl swallowing a quarter when she was little to a girl fainting in church. I think the funniest one I read was of one girl who was filling a large bucket of water for her horses while singing along to a song on her iPod. The horses were not impressed, and one yanked out her headphones. Thankfully she was able to get it back without damaging herself, the headphones, or the horse. Unthankfully (even though that isn't a word), she fell into the bucket of water. She ended her story with the words, "Did I mention that this was around Christmas and the water was freezing cold?"

OK, on to the pictures!! (Insert trumpeting here). I'm trying out a slideshow for the first time. Sorry it's so big - I don't know how to make it smaller. Please click on it to play. Let me know if you like it!

I hope that loads quickly on your computer - the slideshow, I mean. I started this blog last night and I am finishing it now. I was going to add some more pictures, but I'd have to get off my dad's laptop, which I'm on now, and onto the kids' laptop - because the pics are already on there - and I don't feel like doing that. I just want to type. :-)

Please be praying for health and quick healing for our family - mainly quick healing. Nathan is sick, I'm sick, and Dad is sick. Mom was already sick; she was the first one who caught it. Noah and Nicholas are still fine. My throat is so sore from draining so much. I'm about to take some Alka Seltzer Cold Plus - medicine for a cold - and that usually makes me feel better when I'm sick. It's orange flavored and it's carbonated, so it tastes like Fanta (an orange flavored soda that I rarely have but love it when I do) - yum!

If any of you read my mom's blog, she said she would be encouraging me to post my descriptive paragraph of the fire a few nights ago. More like telling me to post it. :-) Just kidding. (Oops - I just spilled my orange medicine on my white shirt; I have a drinking problem. :-) Just kidding [again] - Dad is driving the RV right now and it made me spill my medicine.) Anyway, the paragraph might not make much sense in some places since I just wrote what I thought - my random thoughts. :-) Please click on the link (Read More) at the bottom of this post to view it.

I also wanted to mention that I've been reading this book online called 'Piercing the Darkness.' Actually, after searching for a while, I finally found it free online this morning and started reading it. It's the sequel to the book 'This Present Darkness', which I believe I mentioned in a previous post. Anyway, it's really good so far. I found the book online by going to Google, clicking 'more' at the top of the page, clicking 'Books', and typing in the title of the book. The first result was the online, free book. Yay!!! :-) (Darn - I spilled my medicine on my shirt again - it's a good thing this is a PJ shirt - yes, I still have my PJ shirt on and my fuzzy socks, but I changed into a pair of jeans.)

Right now we're on our way to Niagara Falls. We're going to actually go to the Falls tomorrow, probably, and this Sunday we'll leave to see relatives in Michigan - I can't wait! We haven't seen them in a long time.

Well, I'm pretty much done with this post - I know, 'Halellujah! She's finally done!', right? :-) Just as my medicine started kicking in. Praise the Lord! :-) I probably use too many smiley faces, huh? Oh, well. God bless y'all with a safe and a great weekend!!

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Blechness!!

10/7/2010

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Hey, everyone! I hope y'all have had a good week so far.

Yesterday we pulled into our campsite here in New Jersey at about 4:30 - 5:00 PM. The drive wasn't too bad - only about two and a half hours. Our campsite, on the other hand, wasn't too good. Actually, we ended up not staying in a campsite - we just parked in the parking lot. :-) We knew, this being a State Forest/Park, that there was no hookup. But when Mom called yesterday, she found out that there was no place to dump the RV or to do laundry. Just bathrooms, and since we didn't go in those, we don't even know if they had showers. So while Mom was in the office talking to a very kind lady, Dad and Nicholas went to drive around in the car and check out the campsites. They came back with bad news: everything was muddy and uneven. Mom asked the lady if we just stay where we were in the parking lot, and she agreed.

Then we all loaded up in the car - including the veggies, chickens, and spices in the back - and drove off to our relatives' house. Before we left, Nathan and I figured out online that this was our cousin (Aunt Christy's daughter), our cousin -in-law (her husband), and our first cousin once removed (their son). Our 'first cousin once removed' is the cutest little boy EVER!!! He's about 2 years old (I'm going to call him D), and he's pretty smart for his age. His parents take real good care of him - he eats avacadoes! I don't eat avacadoes, and my mom didn't even try one until she was about 30. Anyway, we had a good time at their house - my brothers and I watched Cash Cab while the adults made dinner and watched over D. Eventually us kids turned off the TV (actually, it was a projector! Cool, huh?), went back downstairs and hung out until dinner was ready. Dinner was really good, and after convincing my mom to let us watch at least part of The Spy Next Door instead of going home, the four of us trekked back upstairs and settled down on the bed to watch the movie. We ended up watching the whole thing - well, most of it, anyway. The DVD was a little messed up and it would freeze and then skip a big part, which kind of stunk, but it only did it, like, two times. We went back down the stairs, said goodbye to everyone, and jumped back in the car for the drive back.

We found a good campground only about fifteen minutes (according to them) away from New York, so we packed up this morning and we're on our way now. It's a gorgeous day today, and I can't wait to walk around New York this afternoon. We're also going to go into the Big Apple tomorrow morning, and that's that. Of course we're going to up the Empire State Building, so we'll make sure and get some good pictures.

One more thing: yesterday night, after everyone was in bed, I got up to get some water. I took a cup out of the dish drainer and filled it up - all the way - with some water. As soon as I tasted it, I realized that it hadn't been thoroughly rinsed: it still had some soap left in it. Blechness!!

OK, now I'm done. :-) Can't wait to hear from y'all! God bless!!

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I Can't Come Up with a Cool Title Like My Mom, So This is My Title

10/4/2010

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Helloooo, everyone!! :) Hope y'all had a great weekend!! Sorry I haven't been posting very often... I was actually going to post a few days ago, and I started, but I didn't have time to finish because it was Noah's turn to go on the computer. Anyway, yesterday we had a great time at church, at lunch with out friends, and at Hershey! Like my mom mentioned, our friends' church was phenomenal!! The message was great - the pastor preached about the books of the apostle John - he introduced to the church what he was going to teach about from yesterday to Easter (with a break for Christmas): "That's LIFE!" His three points yesterday were: "Why the Gospel, John? - Getting John's Purpose", "Why 'the Word', John? - Deciphering John's Prologue", and "Why 'that's Life,' John? - Sharing John's Passion". It was really good. Oh, and what was kind of cool was that he read through John 1:1-18, and Nathan and I had memorized together John 1:1-14.

After church, we went to a place called Friendly's - similar to Denny's - with our friends for lunch. We had a good time there. As all eight of us walked out, I caught Mom's attention and quickly suggested, "Ask them about a picture - and if we can put it and their names on the blog!" Her face lit up and she said, "Oh - yeah! Let's get a picture for our blog - is it okay with you two if we put it on the blog? 'Cause, you know, some people -" She was cut off by a chorus of 'yesses', 'that's fine's', and 'over here's'. She managed to ask, "Nicole did you bring your camera?" I replied somewhat disappointedly, "Nope." My dad held up his camera phone, and Mom eagerly snatched it up, while directing us over in front of the 'Great Ice Cream!' sign. "I'll take the picture," Dad told her. "You look a whole lot better than I do!" We laughed and Mom protested, but it didn't take but a few seconds for her to hand it over and come next to us. "Say, 'that ice cream was really good'!" Dad said, and we repeated it after him. "Say, 'maybe that ice cream wasn't so good'!" Noah burst out laughing, and Dad snapped the picture, which is now on my mom's blog. Technology's wonderful, ain't it? :) BTW, that ice cream really was good.

The Chocolate Factory was fun, too. Not to be ungrateful or anything, but actually, it was a little bit of a letdown. There wasn't much there - and what was there was mostly for little kids. In my opinion, the tour at the U.S. Mint was better - not because it was money, just because it was more interesting. I think browsing in the gift shop was actually my favorite at the Chocolate Factory, even though I don't really enjoy shopping. Oh, and we didn't go to Hershey Park because it would have cost about $75 for us kids to go - Nathan, me, Noah, Nicholas, and, of course, Dad. Hey, he's a kid at heart. :)

Well, my mom is telling me I need to wrap it up - wow! It's already noon! This day has flown. I woke up at about 8 AM, rested for a while, did my quiet time outside with two jackets on (it was quieter out there - and I saw a bunny rabbit! It was so cute!), ate breakfast, did my chore, and here I am! Wow. If you've been in our RV, picture this: I'm sitting on the couch next to Dad, who is 'looking at juicers' on his phone, Noah is up on the bunk reading, and Mom's in the back on the bed with her computer, Nathan, and Nicholas. :) Nathan is totally psyched about his new bike! Nicholas is going to get his old one, because his bike got ruined when the bumper on the Tow Dolly wheel flew up and bent his bike. So it all works out.

Sorry if I bored you... I like to talk/type, can you tell? :) God bless y'all!

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Hey, peoples! :) I'm glad you found my blog - now I'm going to tell you to go to another blog! ;) This is my old blog (hence the post to the left over there), so you can go to my new blog (with Blogger) with this link: *Forgiven Mess*

A Lot about Me,
Nicole Gregory:

I am your untypical 13-year-old girl (well, I like to think of myself that way). :) I love my Savior, Jesus Christ, and I try my best to obey my awesome God. I like writing and enjoy reading even more. My favorite Christian author is Nancy Rue. My two favorite colors are teal and fuchsia. I love animals, especially dolphins, dogs, cats, and horses. My favorite Christian radio stations are JoyFM and K-Love, and some of my favorite Christian singers and bands are Francesca Battistelli, Britt Nicole, Chris Tomlin, Matthew West, J.J.Heller, Mandisa, MercyMe, Casting Crowns, Sidewalk Prophets...the list goes on and on and on. I am home-schooled and I love it! I lovespending time with the wonderful friends God has blessed me with! I love my family who I always thank God for. :) By the way, I am a TRIPLET, with three brothers, Nathan, Noah, and the youngest by a year and a half, Nicholas. God has blessed me abundantly, and I can't wait to see what He has in store! God bless!!

Awesome pic I took of Nicholas at the beach!

Here are some places that I posted from while we were on our road trip

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Yoyo!!

The Potter and the Clay

Can someone just email me a list of good titles to use??? 'Cause I can't think of any. :-)

Sick and Tired (Actually, I'm just sick - Nathan is sick and tired.)

Blechness!!

I Can't Come Up with a Cool Title Like My Mom, So This is My Title

A Lot about Me,Nicole Gregory:

Awesome pic I took of Nicholas at the beach!

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Here are some places that I posted from while we were on our road trip

A Lot about Me,
Nicole Gregory: