Reenacting World War Two? Need reproduction paperwork? Look here!

While searching for WWI sites for reenacting (I was searching for a uniform for Josiah), I found this awesome site for WWII! It has all the paperwork that you would need if you lived in WWII as a soldier.

http://www.hardscrabblefarm.com/ww2/paper_list.htm

Enjoy!

Youth Meeting February 2011

Though not the first (January was) one, this was a very special youth meeting to my family. The reason being that we had just come back from Phoenix for a wonderful event.

At the Sandra Day O'Connor United States District Court my dad became a United States citizen!

As a celebration, my mom made a wonderful dessert with strawberry red "stripes", blueberries as the blue field...and white frosting to fill it in with all the "stars" and white "stripes". It was quite delicious! mmm! I loved the taste. It wasn't too sweet or too plain. I especially loved the strawberries!

Brother Russell read the certificate aloud so everyone could hear and know that my dad was now a citizen. :)

In addition to the Bible study that we did (Zachary W. was leader this time), we had games and a bonfire. It was rather windy outside so it made it hard to stand without my skirt blowing around. :/ But is sure was fun!

Inside the house there was Dutch Blitz, Catch a Phrase and THE PIANO!!!!!

This poor little one obviously was played out before too long. She fell asleep though there was plenty of laughter and other noise that could have awaken her.

I am so glad that we are able to get together! :) I love all of my friends! 

And I'm also glad that my dad is now Citizen Papa... :)

Do Hard Things Review

When I was 16 I would look at a book like this, sigh and say, "This looks like a boring book. I don't like reading books like this." I wish I had read this book then! It's so good!

Do Hard Things is a book that I highly recommend! It's a book to encourage teenagers to rise above this world's low expectations of us. It's a book that is full of good insight on doing hard things that will help you plan for the future. There's stories of rebelutionaries who are doing and have done hard things and are happy they are and have. I like this book because it's as if you are really talking to the authors and listening to them speak because they use wording that is easy to understand. This book is good for every teenager to read! It's so full of good, wholesome ideas! It also talks about the decay of this world's teens and of the expectations this world has of them. According to the world, teenagers are supposed to goof off and party like crazy but, really, they should be preparing for their future and working to make this world a better place to grow in.

Do Hard Things is an extremely good book and I hope every teenager who reads this post reads it! It will change your whole outlook on life and help you feel like you can do something worthwhile!

Thanksgiving Weekend 2010

This Thanksgiving we had a wonderful time!

The day before Thanksgiving my mom, sisters and I went up to Flagstaff and picked up my Grandma. :) I was so excited! When we headed up there Camp Verde was cold but it was only definite Fall weather, however, when we got to Flagstaff, it began snowing! It was so pretty! It made my mom start singing Christmas songs. hee hee!

Thanksgiving Day we had a family from church over and we ate, talked and had a little singing. The family sang a song in French for us so we sang one in Spanish for them. :) It was so fun! The little girls were all dressed as Native Americans and their little boy was too. They were cute. :)

The next day, we had two other families come up from Phoenix and we had lunch here at the house. Afterwards, we went to Montezuma Castle and Montezuma Well and hiked around and looked at books.

Today we are going to take my Grandma home. It has been so nice having her after not spending time with her in sooo long. :)

Over Too Soon!

The meetings at our church were so wonderful!!! Brother Ray is a fearless preacher...exactly my kind of preacher...and he gets so excited! I really miss Ohio now.

Saturday we went to the Wallace's house for fellowship and lunch. We arrived just in time to eat and my what good food! :) All the food was Italian...my favorite! I got to talk to my friends and got some sun to help keep me from getting sick after so many nights of staying up til one in the morning. Some of the girls from our church sang "I'm Looking for a City" on Sunday and we had lunch at a Mexican restaurant...the one everyone always goes too...Puerto Vallarta. :p

I love being with so many people! I wish we could always do that!

Our company on Friday night was the Mercado family and my uncle, Martin, and his wife, Lucy. Saturday night we had the Mercado family and Brother Danny Fraijo. I loved having company. I always do.

I would post pictures but, alas, we only have a few and they're still on the camera...

So I leave you until next time

Hold The Fort Song History

As was true of so many of Philip P. Bliss’s gospel songs, this hymn was inspired by an illustration used by Major Whittle, an officer in the American Civil War, while addressing a YMCA meeting on the text from Revelation 2:25.

Just before [Will­iam Te­cum­seh] Sher­man be­gan his fa­mous march to the sea in 1864, and while his ar­my lay camped in the neigh­bor­hood of Atlanta [Georgia] on the 5th of Oc­to­ber, the ar­my of Hood, in a care­ful­ly pre­pared move­ment, passed the right flank of Sher­man’s ar­my, gained his rear, and com­menced the de­struction of the rail­road lead­ing north, burn­ing block­houses and cap­tur­ing the small gar­ri­sons along the line. Sher­man’s ar­my was put in ra­pid mo­tion pur­su­ing Hood, to save the sup­plies and larg­er posts, the prin­ci­pal one of which was lo­cat­ed at Al­too­na Pass. Gen­er­al Corse, of Il­li­nois, was sta­tioned there with about fif­teen hun­dred men, Col­o­nel Tour­te­lotte be­ing se­cond in com­mand. A mil­lion and a half ra­tions were stored here and it was high­ly im­port­ant that the earth­works com­mand­ing the pass and pro­tect­ing the sup­plies be held. Six thou­sand men un­der com­mand of Gen­e­ral French were de­tailed by Hood to take the po­si­tion. The works were com­plete­ly sur­round­ed and sum­moned to sur­rend­er. Corse re­fused and a sharp fight com­menced. The de­fend­ers were slow­ly driv­en in­to a small fort on the crest of the hill. Ma­ny had fall­en, and the re­sult seemed to ren­der a pro­long­a­tion of the fight hop­eless. At this mo­ment an of­fi­cer caught sight of a white sig­nal flag far away across the val­ley, twen­ty miles dis­tant, up­on the top of Ken­e­saw Mount­ain. The sig­nal was an­swered, and soon the mes­sage was waved across from moun­tain to moun­tain:

“Hold the fort; I am coming. W. T. Sher­man.”

Cheers went up; every man was nerved to a full ap­pre­ci­a­tion of the po­si­tion; and un­der a mur­der­ous fire, which killed or wound­ed more than half the men in the fort—Corse him­self bei­ng shot three times through the head, and Tour­te­lotte tak­ing com­mand, though himself bad­ly wound­ed—they held the fort for three hours un­til the ad­vance guard of Sherman’s ar­my came up. French was obliged to re­treat.
The story so captivated Bliss’s interest that he could not retire that evening until he had completed both the text and the music for this gospel song. It later became a great favorite in the Moody-Sankey campaigns both in Great Britain and in the United States.

HOLD THE FORT

by Philip P. Bliss, 1838–1876

Ho, my comrades! see the signal waving in the sky!

Reinforcements now appearing, victory is nigh.

“Hold the fort, for I am coming,” Jesus signals still;
Wave the answer back to Heaven, “By Thy grace we will.”

See the mighty host advancing, Satan leading on;
Mighty ones around us falling, courage almost gone!

 

See the glorious banner waving! Hear the trumpet blow!

In our Leader’s Name we triumph over ev’ry foe.

Fierce and long the battle rages, but our help is near;

Onward comes our great Commander, cheer, my comrades, cheer!

Preparing for Guests

Well...tonight is our first of our anniversary meetings at our church and we are preparing for guests. We will be having one family and a couple over the weekend. It's been so busy around here!!! Today I made two Amish Friendship Breads and I cleaned out our trailer. Yesterday I cleaned out my room completely... :P (Sharing a room with someone is hard and messy!) To say the least, I was shocked by the amount of things I found to put away. But it all got put in order and I shampooed my carpet which was another real task. I don't think I'll do that again!

I am tired of this heat! When I had to clean out the trailer a few minutes ago, I thought I would scream! It's hard enough to be in small quarters and only three sides of a bed available to move around to make it! :p

Oh well. It'll be worth it once everyone gets here. :) I can hardly wait!