Happy National LOTR Day or Hobbit Day

Yay! Today it is Frodo and Bilbo's birthday! Therefore, making it National Hobbit Day or National Lord of the Rings Day. In celebration, I suggest you eat lembas bread, have seven meals, or have an all day LOTR movie marathon. :) We had the movie marathon with my dad's awesome extended edition of Lord of the Rings! The extended scenes are so funny! And this week is Tolkien week! And this month is Tolkien Month! This is the awesomest month EVER!!!!!! 

New Username!

My username has changed from Lissie to my new nickname, Flick! Thanks to my awesome Scottish friends for the idea! :) 

Outreach to the Homeless

Our church did an outreach to the poor and homeless people of Greenville. We have been collecting supplies to make "Blessing bags" for the past month.

Blessing bags are Ziploc Bags with travel sized toiletries, toothpaste, toothbrushes, deodorant, rain ponchos, cereal bars, and any other snacks. We went to Cripple Creek with all of the kids of our church, various adults, and Marcia, who runs the outreach project.

Our church gave out chili dogs, chips and coleslaw for lunch.

The amazing grill. :)

Bethany!

Rebecca and Caelan were picking flowers/weeds for everyone! :)

The kids used the weeds and little flowers they picked to make bouquets and gave them to some of the homeless people who were standing around. One lady started  crying and said it was the first time anyone had given her flowers.  She said those flowers were as precious to her as if they had been dozens of roses.

Arwen and Charlotte picked flowers too!

After Cripple Creek, we went under highway 183 to visit "Tent City." Tent City is a whole village of about a dozen tents where homeless people live. We gave the rest of our hotdogs to them, handed out blessing bags, and prayed with them.

It was really sad to see all of those people living off of basically nothing. They washed in a creek, and I don't know what they ate if they did eat. Some of the people didn't even live there. They were on their way to New Orleans. They rode on freight trains and hoped they didn't get caught. It made me feel very grateful for the house I live in, air conditioning, and indoor plumbing.

The kids were drawing in the dry, loose, dust.

There were a couple dogs there too.

After all of the outreaches, we went over to our friend's house and had a big back-to-school party with all the kids in our church, my 6 cousins (all siblings), and some kids that I didn't even know. Doughnuts, Chocolate Chip Pizza, a big inflatable waterside, and chicken chasing made our day complete!

Happy 9th Birthday to E-man!!!

  Happy Birthday to E-man! Happy Birthday to E-man! Happy Birthday to E-man! Happy Birthday to E-man! The lyrics to the happy birthday song are really hard to type... it just looks like saying "Happy Birthday to E-man" over and over. But anyways....

This is his cake. It's really tall, really, big, and really hard to build. It took forever. E-man and Mr. D built it all by themselves. 

Now, skipping until after supper (which was fry-everything-you-can-think-of-night) we brought our E-man's big present. 

Isn't it big?? It was really light though!

He had to look really closely to see anything. But then he saw it, an orange piece of paper, no bigger than an apple. it was the first clue to a treasure hunt that Mr. D and I set up earlier. And the crazy running through the house began!

There was a present in the dryer,

Mr. D's desk,

The dresser,

The freezer,

The bathroom cabinet, 

My old doll house,

Under the couch,

In the pantry, and so many other places. 

He had to find 7 Narnia books, 2 Calvin and Hobbes books, and LORD OF THE RINGS LEGOS!!!!!!

It was the set called "The Uruk-Kai Army." It has Eomer, the closest thing I can get to my favorite character, Eowyn. 

After all the presents, we had cake. The gumdrop-and-toothpick sculpture sort of collapsed. But, the cake was still good! Mmmmm! Texas Sheet Cake!! My brothers ALWAYS have that cake. :)

My Ultimate Happiness!

Isn't it AWESOME,  BREATHTAKING, BEAUTIFUL, GRAND, MAGNIFICENT, MIND-BLOWING, STUNNING, STUPENDOUS,STUPEFYING, WONDERFUL AND WONDROUS?!?!??!?!!!!!! (Yeah, I've been overdosing Thesaurus.com, haven't I!) 

It includes,

Boromir,

Gimli,

Legolas (Notice the cool hair! It's so smooth!),

Pippin,

A big cave troll,

Dead Balin,

Orc 1#

Orc 2#,

And random dead dwarf.

I love it! After MONTHS of long, hard, saving.... we have it!! :)  Now, for the Orc Forge.....