Living Books from Plants and Pillars: Should Girls Read Ballantyne and Henty? Part One

Living Books from Plants and Pillars: Should Girls Read Ballantyne and Henty? Part One:


A great series we are re-posting on girls and adventure.

Filmmaking Day

Okay, for my Filmmaking post, I will give you an update on the Plants and Pillars Film Festival.  Here are 10 random facts about the Plants and Pillars Film Festival.   READ MORE HERE

1. As of right now, I have about 21 serious entrants and 5 more "hope to enter" people
2. The deadline for DVD submission is this Thursday. 
3. The festival is a month from today
4. All my siblings have submitted their movie
5. I have not... why?
6. My movie seems to be corrupted .  More on that later.
7. The Festival is going to be TONS of fun!!!
8. I have four out of state entrants
9. There is still time to submit something, we would love to have you!
10. I thank the Lord everyday for the chance to do this!

Winner of the Poll

Well, the results of the poll on the side of the blog were very interesting!!!

What Should We Post More On?

Here are the results... I guess I had better get to work!!! :)

1. With an 8% vote Filmmaking won first place!
2. The "F"s came in Second!  Friends and Fellowship tied with Funny!
3. Family Life
4. Storm Recovery
5. Animals and Thoughtful tied for Fifth Place

Hmmm.... y'all are a fun loving, filmmaking, funny crowd who would prefer not think or be around animals?

Haha!!!

Posts will come soon!

Another fun day of filming!

No, Rachel wasn't graduating... she was filming.

The courtroom scene of Centuries Apart!!!

People

People are like pickles. 

The sweet

The sour

And the Jalapenos

Can you guess which of my siblings made this observation?

Cajun Benefit Dinner

Katrina Victims Giving Back hosted a Benefit Dinner for Shoal Creek.  Those of us with out chicken pox attended!!! :)

It was so much fun to see everyone and enjoy the fellowship.

Enjoy!

Photo Credit: Bria C. 

Daddy

Last year, the Wissmann Family decided that when a birthday rolled around they would post one of the birthday person's strongest qualities. For an example visit their blog!!! Bethany and my Daddy have the same birthday!

So, we will begin on July 10th (of a year we aren't going to mention) when the start of our family had his first start!!! Our Daddy was born!!!

Happy Birthday Daddy!!!

Lighthearted or Cheerful

Proverbs 17:22 ~ A cheerful heart is good medicine.

Love, Jessica and family

Please Vote

Everyone, please vote on the poll on the side of the blog. I want to know what y'all want to read about.

And yes, I am about to tell you what Rachel is doing.

Centuries Apart

This is a sneak peek of the movie that will be "released" in three weeks!!!

Rachel is Graduating!!!

Okay, not really!!! Does anyone have any guesses on what she IS doing?

Does Apple Make You A Better Christian - repost

Disclaimer: I don't want anyone to take this the wrong way. We mean this as a joke so please read as such!!!

There have been times when certain individuals have made fun of me and my love for Apple products. In my interactions with this individual, who happens to be pastor I work with, I have chosen not to retaliate. Why? Because I know one, simple, profound truth: Apple products actually make you a better Christian.

Is this really possible, you ask? Yes it is. It’s more than possible, it’s true. Here’s just a few reasons why:

Apple Products Don’t Tempt You to Anger and Despair

You’ve been working on an important presentation for the last hour, furiously typing away on your PC. Suddenly, without any provocation from you, a mysterious error message appears on the screen. Due to you pressing the enter key too many times, your computer must now shutdown and erase all the work you’ve done over the last hour. You want to scream. Then you do. You momentarily contemplate hurling your laptop out the window. You’re angry at the world, then at your computer, then at Bill Gates. Then you sink into a pit of despair as you realize that you must recreate what you just lost.

Apple helps you flee from temptation.

Apple Products Are An Evangelism Tool

You’re sitting in a coffee shop, sipping on a latte, when you see a hip looking guy a few tables over reading a Bible and writing in a Moleskine journal. You can tell that he’s puzzled, and you ask him if he understands what he’s reading. “No I don’t,” he says. “Can you help me?” You grab your backpack and sit down at his table. He tells you that he’s reading in John 1, and you say that you’ll pull it up on your Bible software. You pull out your Dell laptop and place it on the table in front of you. The hip guy looks at you, then looks at your computer, then says, “You know what, I think I’ll just keep reading myself. Thanks.”

Apple helps you be missional.

Apple Products Reflect God’s Creativity

Take a moment and look at that HP laptop sitting on your desk. What words come to mind? Behemoth? Clunky? The size of battleship? A clear result of God’s curse upon humanity? Uglier than a wookie? Now look at your iPod. Sleek. Beautiful. Possibly unaffected by the fall.

Apple helps you see God’s creativity.

Apple Products Give You More Time For Prayer

How do Christian PC users spend approximately two-thirds of their days? Booting and rebooting their computers. They would pray but their prayer list was on their computer, which just locked up. And caught fire. Time to reboot.

Apple furthers your devotional life.

Apple Products Are Biblical

Let me connect the dots for you. How did Eve sin? She ate fruit. What is Apple’s logo? An apple with a bite out of it. Coincidence? I think not. Clearly, Apple is seeking to do some culture making and restore what was lost in the fall. They are redeeming the apple.

Are you seeing my point? If you want to grow, go get an Apple product.

Taken From: The Blazing Center

Mathemagic

I am not a big fan of posting utube movies, but this is something you HAVE to watch. We got the whole family up here and we have watched it about 5 times total. Absolutely amazing.

BTW, it is totally clean so you don't have to worry. :)

You Know You Are From A Large Family If....

I ran across these and they were so funny and true that I had to post them.

As she said,  I know it is long, but it is worth it.  I have bolded the ones that rang the closest to home for me!

You know you're from a big family if:
-There are pictures of your family in matching outfits
-You write your name on the bottom of your socks
-You go to the bathroom just to get some "alone time"
-You never say "I'm bored"
-You have valuble negotiating skills and have honed them from a very young age
-You know that just because someone says your sibling's name, it doesn't mean they're not talking to you
-You find creative ways to hide things you want to keep for yourself
-You've seen your mother walking laps around your property so she can get a few minutes of peace & quiet
-You shake your head in disbelief when you hear someone say they've never changed a diaper
-One sibling is getting on your nerves it's okay because you can just go hang out with a different one
-Strangers think that big sister is actually mom
-If you want some ice cream, you don't wait around to get some, because tomorrow it will be gone
-You wouldn't trade the fact that you have the opportunity to make a bunch of best friends that are stuck with you for life!
-You can make a pb & j sandwich in 10 seconds flat
-You go somewhere with another family, and people think it's a youth group - Note: or if you go anywhere period!
-Whenever your family goes out to eat the waiters always have to put tables together for you and when they do it is always in the back corner of the restaurant so as to keep your stereotypically rude family away from their other customers
-People continually comment that you could have a whole basketball team, or even better a baseball team
-Your mom is trying to say someone's name and she's already gone through 6 sibs' names, she probably is trying tor remember yours
-You don’t have a picture of your whole family because every time you get one taken another kid shows up
-You run out of the room when your parents look at you and say someone elses name becuase you know it means you will have to do a job when they remember your name
-You are proficient in cleaning up broken glass and ceramic and you can tell from the sound it made when it crashed whether the item dropped is fine, cracked, or broken
-You can hear a cry and tell whether the child is hurt, angry, sad or throwing a temper tantrum within 3 seconds
-You're walking around a store with little siblings and people assume they're your kids

-People compliment your parents on "how well behaved their children are...just didn't expect that with such a large group"
-You know what the "thirty second rule" is and it's importance
-You can't eat at McDonalds without breaking a fifty dollar bill
-Your family can't fit in a mini-van

-Instead of learning from your own mistakes, you learn from your siblings'
-You are the shyist person in the world, but the loudest in your family
-Other people "don't understand how your mom does it"

-Your family has paid enough overdue fines to fund the building of a new library
-Picky eaters are not tolerated because mom simply does not have the time to prepare different foods for one child
-You go looking to purchase a new appliance and the capacity is the only feature that really matters Note: for us it is the automatic ice maker!
-Everything under the sun is discussed for an hour straight around the dinner table because everyone has to put their two bits in
-You go off to college prepared to savor your independence and get so lonely for your siblings that you have to come home Note: This happens at the grocery store too!
-Your brother leans over your shoulder and corrects your grammar and spelling while you type on this site. (grrr!)
-You smile when people ask how many kids you have because you know when you answer they will repeat the number even more loudly to help themselves hear it
-You can proudly declare you are doing your part to curb human depopulation
-You go to get your picture made and the first thing the photographer says is "no, seriously"
-The invention of the wide-angled lense made your family portrait possible.
-Your mom at one point purchased different colored hangers so she could easily sort the hang-up laundy but eventually had to stop because Wal-Mart only had seven different colors to choose from
-Getting from one side of your living room to the other requires skillfully making it through an obstacle course of toys, coloring books (plus the spilled crayons), school books, extra chairs dragged in from other rooms, and small children
-You've been asked over and over if you're Mormon, Catholic or homeschooled
-You take your driver's license test in a 15 passenger van
-You move away from home, and every time you cook a meal it takes you a week to finish the leftovers
-People are constantly asking you if you are a daycare provider
-You think it is normal to grocery shop at Sam's Club

-It takes a full day to change everyones wardrobe from one season to the next and process all of the hand-me-downs
-You have your own "reserved" pew at church every Sunday
-You shared a room with no less than three people for most of your childhood
-Massive lego wars were an unforgettable part of growing up
-You don't have to go online to get a good six-man table of poker going
-You have to squeeze four people in a row of seats in your van that was only designed to hold three
-You have brothers on four different sports teams at the same time
-Your dad won't buy a snowblower because he knows he has an unlimited supply of expendable labor to shovel the driveway instead
-You're 28 and you still have a few siblings under 6th grade
-You're closer in age to your mother than you are to your youngest brother

Enjoy!

Attitude is Everything

There once was  a woman who woke up one morning,
looked in  the mirror,
and noticed she had only three  hairs on her head.
'Well,' she said, 'I  think I'll braid my hair today.'
So she did and she  had a wonderful day.

The next day she  woke up,
looked in the mirror
and saw that  she had only two hairs on her head.
'H-M-M,'  she said,
'I think I'll part my hair down  the middle today.'
So she did and she had a  grand day.

The next day she  woke up,
looked in the mirror and noticed 
that she had only one hair on her head. 
'Well,' she said, 'today I'm going
to  wear my hair in a pony tail.'
So she did, and  she had a fun, fun day. 

The next day she  woke up,
looked in the mirror and noticed 
that there wasn't a single hair on her head. 
'YAY!' she exclaimed.
'I don't have to  fix my hair today!'

Attitude is  everything.

To Be A Daddy

To be a Daddy, is to be a special man. A man set apart by God to raise children.

To raise sons to be men of God.
To raise daughters to be women of God.

To be an example to your sons on the proper care and love of a wife.
How to be a husband and father.

To pray for your children, even when they don't know you do.
To love your children, even though they don't always deserve it.
To guide your children, even when the road is hard and you can't see in front of you.

To bring laughter, hope, love, caring, and sensitivity into a house.

To love the woman who raises your children 24/7.

This is who a Daddy is. A man set apart by God.

I want to wish my Daddy Happy Father's Day today.

But, I also want to remember Mr. Lee who was a wonderful Godly Father as well.

Happy Father's Day!

Another fun day of filming!

Okay, Fine... We Faked It!!!!

Yes, Rachel looks really professional right now - filming her voice-over. The headset, the microphone, the script.

Not really.

We faked it!!!! Our sound is not A-OK if we use the microphone, so we use the camera. But we wanted to look like we know what we are doing... so we faked it!!!

Sorry! :)

Has Anyone Seen My Glasses?

Filming with Three Sweet Girls

The Sweet Simplicity of Lemonade and Animal Crackers

Sunshine, Pools, Cool Water, Lemonade, Animal Crackers, Smiles, and Play Time