A Hillbilly Good Time

A few years ago my husband built a "potato gun".  This consists of PVC pipe and a BBQ ignitor thingy.  The ammo...potatoes, the eh, gun powder....Aqua Net hairspray, yes they still make it, you know as well as I do old ladies don't like change and the stuff holds.

 Simply shove a potato in the end you want it to come out, spray the hairspray in the other end, screw on the lid and hit the button.  KaWow!  Out comes the potato, everyone cheers and we do it again.  This is actually quite the powerful weapon, we've put a hole in our burn barrel.  Why?  For fun, of course!  And whenever someone comes over, either a friend of one of the boys' or a local youth pastor, it doesn't seem to matter, the potato "cannon" shows itself.  Cameron recently came upon some new ammo....walnuts, we have a couple walnut trees in our yard, they work great and they're freeeeeee, even better, and probably more dangerous.  Christian timed several shots straight up in the air and they all came in around 11 seconds before hitting the ground.  Pretty impressive, huh?  Oh, it's just a little something real people do for fun or from boredom, either way the menfolk in my family love it and that's good enough for me.

Football is more than the cookies

Warsaw High School football is a big deal.  I have been attending games since 1988...yes, for over 20 years.  I have witnessed teenage boys cry over a heart breaking loss and rejoice over winning a State Championship.  WHS football is legendary.  Coach Morrow is in the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame for coaching.  I have seen him yell at players and break down and bawl talking about Jesus.  I've sung the National Anthem there and so has Christian with the Madrigal Singers.  I recalled when he was little and we were at an away game getting ready to walk across a parking lot, I reached for his hand and he looked up at me matter-of-factly and said, "Mom! I am in Kindergarten!"  The boys didn't watch too much of the games then, they mostly played in the grass with other children, having their own football game.  The crowds that gather are large, they fill up the bleachers and stand and watch next to the field halfway around the track.  WHS football is one of our favorite pasttimes. 



 Tonight was Homecoming!  The booster club sells brown bag specials with your choice of brats, hot dogs, or burgers along with a bag of chips, soda or water, and a homemade cookie.  Yummy!  We are always at the games early, I mean early, we have our spot, top row of the bleachers close to the speaker where we set up our bleacher seats and where I lay out my blanket to save seats for James' parents.  The speaker is loud, way too loud before the game starts.  They play the same songs they played when I was in high school..."Welcome to the Jungle", "Hells Bells".  I do not like these songs anymore!  But we endure it for the love of the game.  Madrigal Singers sang the National Anthem tonight, I could clearly hear Christian (that's so cool), and it sounded great!


Christian singing, he's the one in the white t-shirt

 

The players storming the field, ripping through the "Beat the Mustangs Banner"

They're holding hands.....aw, sweet

The game was good, we won 40 - 30.  The season hasn't been like most, our record is 3 - 3, there have been some injuries and other mishaps but we are still hopeful for the playoffs. 

I took this before our last home game.

"Crazy Love"

I just finished the book "Crazy Love" by Francis Chan.  I don't even quite know where to begin so I'll just tell you to read it youself, this book is like a loooonnngggg sermon full of conviction and so challenging to change what the majority of christians are doing in their day to day.  I bawled reading this, God has been working on me for a while, probably for the last year....He has been showing me things, things He wants me to change in my life, how He wants me to do more and love more.  I encourage anyone and everyone to read this, it will make an impact. 

"What will people say about your life in heaven?  Will people speak of God's work and glory through you?  And even more important, how will you answer the King when He says, "What did you do with what I gave you?" - Francis Chan, Crazy Love

More Movie Reviews

This movie, "The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry", was a real surprise and joy.  A must see for everyone...it has all the good stuff in it that we, as human beings, need.  A somewhat cheesy at times flick but also with some comic relief.  This movie teaches forgiveness, what it means to love your enemies, and most of all it shares the gospel.  I was once again reminded how I am not doing enough for the kingdom's sake.  This is also based on a true story...you know, my fave!  Give it a try!

"To Save a Life", this is a true to life teenage movie.  We took our youth group to see this in the theater last winter.  There are partying scenes and more and it really depicted what kids see everyday.  This film really touched my oldest son, made him more aware of how much he needed to reach out to kids in his own high school so they wouldn't feel like outcasts, so they would have a friend, and ultimately so they could find Christ.  I would recommend that youth watch this but that someone, youth leader or parent, have a dialogue about it after viewing.  We talked about it on the bus on the way home.  I have seen youth bible studies packaged for this movie in Christian book stores.

Snot Fest 2010

I declare September "Snot Fest 2010"!!!  It started with Christian, he was hacking and coughing, sniffing and snotting.  Ewwwww, yuck, gross!  It traveled only briefly to Cameron, FAKER, oh, he coughed a little...anywho, I encountered the mucous monster last week.  James followed shortly after, for some reason it affected me by attacking my voice, it's scratchy and deep.  I feel better but I still don't sound like myself.  James spent the whole weekend calling me "Charles" and "Frank", it's been said I could sing like Johnny Cash.  I don't know about that but I am singing a special at church on October 3rd so I gotta recover by then!