The Parable of the Sower Matthew 13:1-23

In this story, Jesus told about the word of God being like seed that a sower (or a farmer) threw out. It fell on many kinds of soil.
Some of the seed fell by the wayside, along the path. The birds came down and ate the seed. This is like the person who hears the message, but does not understand it. The evil one comes and takes it away.
Some seed fell on the rocky ground.The plants came up quickly, but there was not much earth so the plants dried up. This is the person who receives the word, but falls away when trouble comes.
Some seed fell on the thorny ground and the thorn bushes choked the seed. This is the person who is worried about life and wealth.
Then some of the seed fell on good ground. Those seed grew into healthy plants and produced a good crop, some a hundredfold, some sixtyfold and some thirtyfold.
"The good soil," said Jesus, " is like people who are honest. When they hear God's word, they remember it, and do what God says." These people produce a bountiful crop for the Lord.

April

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks

GO!

~Christopher Morley

Chocolate Bunnies

I am very thankful to a friend who gave us all lovely milk chocolate bunnies! They are the most wonderful invention ever....... except maybe for public libraries. I love them too :)

14 Facts about me!

1.) I have a pet dog and two birds.
2.) My favorite animal used to be an octopus, but was replaced last year by the common Grey Wolf.
3.) I love Shelfari and Facebook.
4.) I dread having to write all the facts for, like, my 50th birthday. Yipes! I'd be up all night!
5.) My favorite blog is http://buttonwillowchronicles.typepad.com/
6.) My best friend is Michaela, who is also my cousin.
7.) I watch a lot of movies, but don't really like Disney. Pixar is my favorite.
8.) I love science fiction and fantasy books.
9.) I often quote the Melendy books, by Elizabeth Enright. In fact, I quoted them so much that now, whenever my Mother hears me say, "that just reminded me.." she asks, "Does it have something to do with Elizabeth Enright?"
10.) I am constantly stubbing my toes and spraining my ankle, an am actually known as the Cunningham who always gets her feet stepped on.
11.) I loooooooooooooove to read read read!!!
12.) I am taking online classes in Latin, Arithmetic, Catechism and World Chronology at Classical Liberal Arts Academy. I pretty much only like Catechism, and I'm currently on a really hard lesson in Latin.
13.) My hobbies are writing, drawing, and cleaning.
14.) I'm taking art lessons at an art school, and I am exceeding grateful to my grandparents, who are paying for it.

Mental Note:

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Nest Eggs

Here in the fork

The brown nest is seated;

Four little eggs

The mother keeps heated.

While we stand watching her

Staring like gabies,

Safe in each egg are the

Bird's little babies.

Soon the frail eggs they shall

Chip, and upspringing

Make all the April woods

Merry with singing.

~(excerpt "Nest Eggs") Robert Louis Stevenson

Zonkey

Isn't that a cute little hybrid? His name is Zonkey :)

A Random Quote

"If the whole universe had no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe, and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."

~C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Some of my Drawings

First, a pen picture of a zebra centaur. She is supposed to be African-American, but you can't really tell. The stripes took me ages!

I have been quite obsessed with griphons lately, and this is a very quickly drawn one in crayon. As you can tell, his wings aren't finished yet, and I forgot to give him a beak. Oh, well.


A four-headed dragon I drew a couple of years ago, I was quite interested in multiple-headed dragons at that time.
Another dragon, drawn a couple of weeks ago. Pencil, crayon, and colored pencil. I call her "Cascade" as she is obviously breed "Aqua Dragon" ;)


Another dragon. My last, which was drawn on the same day as that four-headed one. Not a true dragon breed. lives underwater. I like it :)

Some of my Drawings

Sorry I haven't posted in a loooooong time.
I have no good reason :(
I'll try to make it up to you by posting a lot of pictures!

Very Popular History

Is watching more of our history.... the show Liberty's Kids! I've watched about 25 episodes already!!!! I'm pretty sure it's the new most popular TV show in the Cunningham household! (At least for the kids!)

:)

I'm happy!

Pictures (more coming soon!)

Anna Claire found it necessary to take off her shoes while splashing in some water.

Recently Allie and Ben have taken to climbing on this tiny tree. No limbs (human or otherwise) broken yet!

Our ugly black tortoise shell cat had kittens! We named them after greek goddesses, Athena and Aphrodite (larger one)!

(sorry about the lousy pictures. My camera wasn't working well without the flash!)

Here is Allie, showing off the entrance to "The Secret Garden".


Allie, Ben, and Poppy have been working in the garden a lot lately!

Here is Anna Claire, "helping" people garden.

Well, more pictures are on the way!!!

Hmmmmm...

What can I do? Hmmmmm.....

Great Book:

Read the Mysterious Benedict Society!
It's an excellent book about a group of children (Reynie, Sticky, Kate, and Constance) who must save the world from evil Dr. Curtain. This excellent book has an interesting plot and interesting, friendly (except maybe for Constance) characters. Five stars!

a C. S. Lewis veiw of Heaven

(Describing the fruit of heaven)

"What was the fruit like? Unfortuntley, no one can describe the taste. All I can say is that when compared to those fruits, the freshest grapefruit you've ever eaten was dull, the juiciest orange was dry, and the most melting pear was hard and woody, and the sweetest wild strawberry was sour. And there were no seeds or stones or wasps. If you had once eaten that fruit, then all the nicest things in this world would taste like medicines after it."

Happy Birthday-13 Facts about Me!!!

A little late-My thirteenth b-day was on March 29th, but here are 13 facts about me!!!!

1.) My favorite animal is an octopus.
2.) I love webkinz!
3.) I have 5 siblings.
4.) I have a pet rabbit named Cleopatra who has a double chin, possibly because she ate large amounts of plastic as a baby.
5.) My favorite food is ravioli!
6.) I love greek mythology. (Which explains the fact that I love the Percy Jackson series)
7.) My youngest brother and I are 12 years apart.
8.) When writing lists, I have often leave out numbers with 5 in them. (5, 15, 25, etc.)
9.) My greatest talents are reading, cleaning, and playing tennis on the Wii.
10.) My favorite blog is The Buttonwillow Chronicles.
11.) I love Target and Alltel commercials!
12.) When I go to college, I plan to get an Art Degree and Writing degree so I can become a children's author and illustrator.
13.) I love coming up with names for anything! Webkinz, dogs, horses, anything. I love to name things! (In fact, I have whole lists of cool names for everything from babies, to wolves, to the characters of books.)


Hope you learned 13 interesting things about me!

More of my Webkinz House

Sorry-only one room!


Welcome to the Peanut Diner and Club! (Owned by Lydia-a velvety elephant)

Tabbies

Do you know why there are so many tabby cats? Well, it's because the tabby coat is a dominant marking! For example, If a black cat mates a tabby cat, then all the kittens will be tabbies! It's like people's brown eyes.

And the Poll Winner is...

Birdo and Yoshi!
You voted on your favorite Mario Karts Character, now check out the new poll!