Bad Bad Bad blogger but a Good Good Good Christmas and Happy Happy Happy New Year.

Ok, I admit it, I stink at blogging, but even worse, I stink at taking pictures. So all of my posts are dull and dreary. Seriously, I used to(before I had a blog), just scroll through all of the blogs and just look at the pictures. To me, that was the life of the blog. So now, if you do not want to read the following, you can go. However, if you should like to read what I have to say, dull and lifeless as it may be, I will appreciate it. So, while I wait for you to make your decisions, I shall sit in a corner and cry, because I have nothing good to say. :-(

Ok, for those of you who stayed:
Thank you Thank you Thank you!

Ok, I have had an interesting Christmas and New Years.
For Christmas,

The Smith Family, (young and old), came to our house for Christmas. It was the best Christmas ever! We always say it after Christmas, but I seriously think that this IS the best Christmas EVER! I had a great time getting to know Lydia, and I had an awesome time with the rest of the cousins. I got many great presents, but the best one was being able to spend time with the people that I never get to see.

 New Years:

Was really fun too. We went down to Alex City for a Watch Night Service. It was my first one. First, We fellowshipped, then had singing, then dad preached a sermon. Then we had prayer, then we ate, then had more fellowship, prayed in the "New Year," and then more fellowship. It was a ton of fun and I really enjoyed it.

 

SO, as I look back over the past year, I remember all of the things, good and bad, that happened to me this past year. And I say, that I loved, hmmmm, almost every minute of it. And I can't wait to see what God has in store fore me in 2014.

 

GOD BLESS YOU!

~Katie~

Oh Yeah!

One more thing! I know it sounds silly, but pray for my fish. His name is Julius. I think He has fin rot, which is a lack of copper and iron in the body. He is really sick. PLEASE PRAY! and then go back and read the post that I posted about five minutes ago....

nothing to say.... nothing to say

got to blog, nothing to blog. little dilemma there. But hmmmmmmm. Nothing to say....nothing to say. Hard to believe that I, KATIE HORNE would have NOTHING to say to blogland. Dad, Sam and I have been listening to Christmas music. Mom is getting really irritated. Scrooge. Joe is the one that she should be irritated at. I sure am getting irritated. Germ FREAK! He will just stand there(or sit there) with his hands far away from him because of GERMS! They are around! He cannot stop them! and he certainly cannot just stand somewhere and wait for them to go away. Because. They. Won't. Go. Away. I wish he could get that through his thick skull. And then with all of his other problamos, He Is Convinced that he is going to grow up to be a super genius. Grrrr. He is not a super genius and he will never be a super genius. But He Is Convinced. (see moseyjoe.blogspot.com: THE HORNE GAZETTE). Oh well. I guess that is it. It was a lousy post, but thanks for reading anyway. It is better when I wait a month and then I have a lot to talk about. But I just wasted about 10 minutes of my day. And yours. Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha! Somehow I don't feel evil. hmmmmmmm

Stupid Boots and other things

Stupid Stupid Stupid Stupid Stupid STUPID BOOTS!!! I still like them and everything, but they hurt like murder, especially when you go shopping and are walking around ALL DAY LONG and didn't bring a change of shoes. That is what happened to me on a Tuesday a couple of weeks ago. The Boys had gone up to TN to spend a week with Grandma. So Me, Mom, and Dad were alone to enjoy life without noise, chaos, hassle, spankings, etc. We decided that we would spend a couple of hours ( notice the bold word and the underlined sentence) out in Hoover. My understanding was lunch and TWO stores. NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! After Olive Garden we went to Justice, Lego Store, Ross, Sears, Macy's, Rack Room Shoes, World Market, 2nd N Charles, AND Christmas Tree Shops. ( That is only what I remember). >:-( After that (nice) little outing, I could not walk more than a few steps, ( which I guess is just as well, because after that Mom and I sat down and watched two movies) which I might add for clarification we NEVER do. It is seldom that we watch even one movie, maybe once a week. But, with the stressful little heathens gone, we felt like we were in happy vacation mode. :-) But with that said, let me continue on with my list of things to write about. 1: Youth Retreat! Woo-Hoo! My first Youth Retreat, it was the best Youth Retreat I have ever been to. It was a learning experience for not only my spiritual life, but just life in general. (If you want the details, speak to me face to face and alone.) Brandon Keel is our Alabama Youth Director and he did a great job! Sis. Mary Shelton from TN was the guest speaker and it was sooooooooooooooo good to have her, her son, and Sis. Red there too. Sis. Kimmi, Bro. Brandon's wife did a class on modesty for the girls. It was straight and to the point, THIS is not modest, but THIS is. She did a fantastic job and said it in a way that it was not hurtful, but also Biblical. 2. After the boys got home the next thing on the list was Sam's # 10 Birthday. WOW. Did I say 10? I did. Hmmm. He got: Legos, (of course), a cowboy rope, and Matt Dillon sign(from Grandma), I got him the new Lego Minifigure: THE ELF(which goes so well with his Santa Claus)

Which comes with a present and a teddy bear.

UNTIL NOW: there has been nothing much going on, but tonight we have Band Meeting, so I had better shut up, and finish getting ready.

 

~Katie~

I'm sooooooooooo happy and here's the reason why:

You can't see it that good in the pictures.....but here is a pair of my brand new HIGH-HEELED boots!!!!!!! Can you see why I'm happy? See, Mom said that I could never wear heels until I was 12, and so since February, we have been on the lookout for cute, not-so-high-heeled shoes, and until just the other day, we have been unsuccessful in this mission. On Friday and Saturday we went to a bunch of yard sales and we were lucky this time by finding rich people, their daughter-in-law(I think) bought these boots and only wore them once or twice before putting them in the yard sale. There were actually two pair....a black pair(as shown above) and an identical set the color of brown. I got them for a REALLY good deal for what the boots are worth.

 

 

OK, that behind us, I have a lot to catch up on. Hmmmmm.... let's see. OK....

Ah, yes. The first thing on the list is Tannehill. Ok about a month ago we went on a little visit to a National Park a few miles from where we live called Tannehill. It was a Civil War site where they made iron ammo and weapons. Some places there were actually used as a battle field. Many funny memories rest in our family of Tannehill(does this sound familiar Sis. Kimmi?) The park is a big one and has many festivals and such there from time to time. On this particular trip, it was SUPPOSED to be an "Iron Pour" where they show how blacksmiths melted iron to make the ammo and stuff. Also there are little log cabins that you can go into and in those little cabins there are people that show you how to make things that Civil War people needed back in the day:

 

THIS IS THE KNIFE MAKER'S SHOP. THE MAN HAD AN ANVIL AND A MINI SLEDGE-HAMMER. WHAT HE DID WAS HE HAMMERED OUT A NAIL ON THE ANVIL WITH THE HAMMER MAKING THE NAIL FLAT. THEN HE SANDED, ETCHED, AND DECORATED THE "KNIFE." HE ALSO MADE LITTLE SHEATHS MADE OUT OF AN OLD LEATHER JACKET, THEN DECORATED THE SHEATHS WITH SHARPIE MARKERS:

 THE FINISHED PRODUCT:

 THE INSTRUMENT MAKER'S SHOP: THIS GUY WAS SOOOO COOL! HE MADE THESE THINGS: THE PSALTRY. IF YOU RECALL IN THE BIBLE, DAVID PLAYED THE PSALTRY. THIS IS WHAT IS KNOWN AS A BOWED PSALTRY. ABOUT A WEEK AFTER WE WENT THERE, DAD WENT BACK AND BOUGHT ONE FOR HIMSELF. IT IS HIS "BABY," HE LOVES THAT THING!!!!!

 WE TOOK THE TRAIN TO THE OTHER SIDE OF TANNEHILL: JOE HATED IT!!!!

 MOM AND I SAT TOGETHER:

AND DAD AND SAM SAT A FEW SEATS BACK. SAM DOES EXIST BY THE WAY, AND I DID GET A PICTURE OF THEM BUT SAM WOULDN'T LET ME POST IT EVEN THOUGH HIS FACE WAS COVERED UP BY HIS COWBOY HAT. BOYS!

 

Well, I guess that is it. Thanks for reading!!!!!!

 

~Katie~ <3

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badbadbadbadbadbadbad blogger. uggh. Busybusy. uggh. Been both, and I don't like myself for it. I am just going to post some pictures from the Assembly this time:

 Brother Byers...:-P

 I miss the people from Hatch NM a lot, I was glad to see Bro. Luis

 He really got into it..

 Beautiful Parade of Nations, I have a lot of really good pictures.

 I LOVED his message, he did a really good job:-)

 Love this picture!

 And these..........

 This picture is soooooooooooooooooooooo cute!!!!

 This was sooooooo cool!

The Children's Assembly Program was a laugh riot because Joe had his sailor's hat up-side-sown. Dope! :-)



Well, I guess that is it right now talk 2 u later!

~Katie~

Family Camp

I am a bad blogger. But now I have something to blog about. I do not have any pictures because my camera is broken. But I will write about our Family/Youth Camp.

Wednesday: Laura and Elizabeth Dickinson needed a ride to camp, so Mom and I took them early because Mom needed to go the Staff Meeting. Dad and the boys would come later. Since we were following the Ridlespurges the whole way there, Katie Farr rode in our van with us. On the way, we stopped at Hardees(or Carl's Jr. depending on where you come from) and got Frisco burgers. We finally got to camp and played games while the Staff were meeting in the cafeteria. There was pool, Ping-Pong, 4-square, air-hockey, and a lot of other games. When the Staff Meeting was over, Mom drove us to the cabin to unpack. We were at a new campground this year, and the Girls Cabin was a big building with a long hallway down the middle, and the separate rooms to either side of the hallway. We found our cabin and unpacked everything and then went to the main building for dinner and church, which were both very good. The food there is SO great!!!! We had spaghetti that night and it was fantastic! The service was really awesome too.

Thursday: People in our cabin were Me, Madison Cox, Kayla Wallace, Kaleigh Brooks, and Elizabeth Dickinson. Again the food was good. We went through our day without hardly a problem. Swimming time was so fun. We got an extra 15 minutes because we won the cleanest cabin.

Friday was much like Thursday, again we won the cleanest cabin. But we felt sorry for the little girls ages 6-9 because they wanted the cleanest cabin so bad. So we went to the Dean and tried to give them our extra swim time. The Dean said that since we were so nice, and they did such a good job with cleaning their cabin that we could both have the extra fifteen minutes. :-)

Saturday: Won the cleanest cabin again, along with the little girls too. Mom, Mitchell and I did a prank on the Dean's car. We covered it( I mean covered it) in post-it notes. Luckily, she found it and was able to get all of the sticky-notes off of it before it began to rain. It was very funny, though Mom and I expected to be expected to have done this. :-)

Sunday. Had a good last service and said good-bye to everyone. I slept all the way home and most of the afternoon. Still exhausted though. It will take a few days to get into normal routine again, because I slept in till 10:40 and only woke up because I had a phone-call coming in. Bummer. Think of all the precious hours I could have slept! Oh-well.

~Katie~

Saturday: Our