Char Bear

The one who's responsible for my random laughter in public
I'll think of a memory we share, and can't help but grin about that certain subject.

Stanhope community hardly ever sees us apart from one another
If someone does they looked puzzled, and never fail to ask about the other.

The friend who never stops listening to me when I'm down
The only person who can make me smile when I feel I will permanently frown.

I swear, the craziest and scariest things can be happening to me
But she still makes me laugh so hard, until it hurts and I feel so free!

I never thought I'd ever find a friend I'd call my best forever
But God knew differently, and blessed me with a friend who will love me through whatever.

You'd think we were sisters, but even that doesn't fit our friendship
All I know is that we definitely have an awesome, one of a kind kinship.

We've had so many adventures together, from running away from creeps to falling in ponds and sledding.
I didn't even have to tell her that she'd be my first pick to be Maid of Honor at my wedding.

Been through a lot, and had the blessing of living next to one another for five years, to now see you move away
But I can tell you one thing Char, No matter how far you go,You will always be my Best Friend Forever no matter what others may say.

Love ya Char Bear!!! <3 ~Morgan

November 10th

"The Lord hath prepared His throne in the heavens; and His kingdom ruleth over all." Psalm 103:19

In my will for you there is much still to be learned. The horizons of your mind are still too narrow and confined. Your heart must become larger and freer if you are to follow My plan for you. I have allowed you to see some of the vastness of My creation and to see the results of my patent process in creation. Let these images challenge the smallness and pettiness that is natural to you. Come out of the rigid narrowness of your nature and indulge yourself in the greatness of Mine.

My plans for you are not yet fulfilled. Embrace each day with a new enthusiasm and hope. Fight against fear and negative outlook that lurks beneath the surface of your most positive days. My kingdom WILL come and My will SHALL prevail-so live and pray with a new confidence. This is sop pleasing in My sight-and more pleasing by far than cringing, fearful prayer that doubts My fatherly care!

The Barn

Wow. Okay now, really interesting exhausting weekend. I had a basketball tournament and stayed at my friend/teammate's house for two and a half days...which was a blast. And hung out at two gyms for the most part of every day. Had three games, we won the first and lost the next two. But didn't do bad, seeing as how it was our very first games of the season, playing together as a new team. I had so much fun, and remember laughing at myself and how badly I wanted the basketball the whole time I was on the court playing. I wanted to get the rebound, and then pass it. haha I did not wanna dribble it anywhere, I wanted it, then wanted to hand it to another teammate. All in all we learned a lot, grew closer together as a team and had fun. At least I know I did.


After one of our games, we were sitting in the gym waiting for our next game in the Y. And were rating different Athletes that walked by. We saw a lot of different people....60 year old men in purple spandex...20 year old dudes in Tye Dye Speedos....other than these types of people there were quite a bit of 8 ratings. We all had different styles we liked better of course, which made the whole thing really funny as we were sitting on the floor against the wall leaving our friend (Who isn't on the team and we missed like crazy) funny voicemails of us singing to her.

I called my mom to give her updates on what was going on, since she couldn't be there with me, and after my phone call outside I went back in and couldn't find my friends. So I went around the basketball court while the other girls were playing and tried to dodge a guys camera while he was recording to get by. His friend in the bright blue shirt laughed and told me I was fine. I found Mr. Herbert and asked him where Amanda and Erckle were and found out they were back on the side I came from! So I turned back and had to pass the camera AGAIN. I just ran by this time, and the blue shirt dude yelled something at me trying to strike up a conversation and I just laughed and kept walking cause I wasn't sure what he said...it was loud. I finally found my friends. After the games, us three went around picking up trash from the bleachers to help out Mr. Herbert and some random boys were playing basketball on the open court. We finished picking up trash, and the blue shirt guy came running over at me with a basketball and dribbled it around as I stood there. He dribbled it back to his friends as he asked me to play "one on one" with him. Me and my friends just kinda stood there like what the hck...and I turned around to see Mr. Herbert towering over me with the funniest look on his face. and he goes...."I can't leave you for ONE MINUTE!" LOL The guy left us alone after that. Plus we avoided him....that helped.

After our last game, I had to get dressed up for ater, because Mr. Herbert was going to drop me off at a country club, wedding reception where my dad was playing (Band job). So I had to wear a little black dress and heels. I felt outta place in the gym wearing something other than sweats or shorts. Amanda helped me get ready, and her little brother asked, "Why does Morgan have to wear a dress to the barn?" Amanda was like, "Barn? What are you talking about?" Jason looked puzzeled and said, "You know, the country club....the barn thing. Isn't it like a barn raising, fried chicken kinda thing?" hahahaha I only wished it was...

I get to the country club and make my way to the stage and sat beside it not knowing what to do. Everyone looked so dressed up and were drinking alcoholic drinks, dancing...they all looked really rich too. I thought I was gonna do something stupid before the night was up and humiliate myself. I was super hungry, cause I hadn't eaten lunch or dinner after the game. As soon as they got their first break I went up to my dad and brother to talk to them. Bobby left and came back with three chocolate truffles and a huge fudge brownie. I love my brother. I was trying to eat slowly, as much as I wanted to cram it all in my mouth....and it was really rich. But everywhere I looked I saw people staring at me. I felt awkward. This big older fat man, came up to me and my dad slurring something about wanting them to play a song as he uttered the F bomb a few times. Getting ticked for no reason. He looked over at me and was like, "Well who are you baby?" And got close to me....I backed up like whoaaaaaaa alcohol breath....creeper. He said something disrespectful or rude about thinking my dad and I were together, my dad told him I was his daughter and his eyes got big and he slurred something else I'm probably glad I couldn't understand, as he walked off....my dad goes yeah, stay away from her. Note to self for the night. Avoid drunk old fat man with the round red face.

I got to hang out with my "uncle" Chuck's girlfriend, who is very awesome. I love her. She made me laugh constantly and has so much energy. She wanted to move closer to the stage to see them play (We were sitting next to the sound man) So we walked over to an empty table and I sat down hoping I wasn't taking someone's spot. A couple minutes later...an older man and his wife come over and sit next to me. The man told us not to leave and his wife looked teed off. She left with her phone I guess to make a phone call. The 60 year old man scooted closer to me...seeming to just be friendly. He asked miss Becky a few questions. She told him we were with the band and he got excited. He put his arm on my shoulder and asked me who my father was, I pointed him out and the man grinned and asked, "the one with the sax?" I said, "Yes sir!" The man looked shocked and was like yes sir? No...no no. I was thinking ummm yeah, I'm gonna call you sire if you are 40 years older than me. His hand slipped down my arm which made me jerk. I though well maybe he wasn't paying attention and his arm just slipped. Welll.....he asked another dumb question, this time I smelled ALCOHOL like wild and his hand went on my knee. I stood up yelling over the music I was getting my purse and whispered to miss Becky I wasn't coming back to the table. She followed me and agreed.

I was trying to squeeze through two tables to get to my chair at the sound board and a 40 year old man with two glasses of liquor was blocking my way. I made a move insinuating I needed to get by, and he started trying to bump with me with the music. I thought, Are you serious. Really? Come on. I slipped by as fast as I could holding my breath and hoping we would not make any sort of contact with eachother. I made it to my safe chair. After all this creepiness, the band took a break and played the Cupid shuffle, I got miss Becky to get on the dance floor with me and we had a blast. A drunk man that kept slurring kept dancing right behind me and I kept moving away from him through the whole song, about to lose it with these disgusting old pervs. After that song a lot of people stopped dancing but we stayed up there and broke it down...laughing the whole time. I pulled my dad up with us which made it even more fun. Then one of the last slow songs my daddy put his sax down, walked over to me and asked me to dance. =) He shared with me how his dad was such a good dancer, how easy he was to follow and his eyes got watery and he choked up a bit. People kept staring at us, and he led me over to a young couple and asked if they could tell I was his daughter. The woman stared at me for a minute shocked then had the biggest grin ever, plastered on her face. She was like she looks JUST like you, just prettier without a beard. haha

This part of the night made up for all the creepiness, lack of food, and exhaustion the weekend brought me. I love my daddy. <3 He is a lot of my security and someone I always look up to in tough situations. God is always my number one hero. But my dad definitely comes second. =)

Hello Everyone!

I hope you all are having a beautiful week! The weather is gorgeous, now that the rain is gone and the sun is peeking through. I am thankful for rain, rain is very necessary...but I love the sunshine as well.
God is Awesome. He never leaves my side...who am I that the King of Kings would care for me so? He never stops revealing things to me and picking me up when I have fallen, and am hurting. The God of Grace and Mercy. Love and understanding. My Teacher and my Savior. Oh what a God I serve! He has set me free from death! Depression, Jealousy, Envy, Vengeance....Every dark deathly chain, He has broken the bonds with his precious blood. I don't have to be captive of any sort of deception! I may have to fight it, but His hands are always there to give me the strength to persevere through His Truth.


Psalm 3:3-6
But You, O LORD, are a shield for me, My glory and the One who lifts up my head. I cried to the LORD with my voice, And He heard me from His holy hill. I lay down and slept; I awoke, for the LORD sustained me. I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people. Who have set themselves against me all around.

Psalm 5:11-12
But let all those rejoice who put their trust in You; Let them ever shout for joy, because You defend them; Let those also who love Your name Be joyful in You. For You, O LORD, will bless the righteous; With favor You will surround him as with a shield.

Psalm 18:1-3,28,35
I will love You, O LORD, my strength. The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; My God, my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies.

For You will light my lamp; The LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.You have also given me the shield of Your salvation; Your right hand has held me up, Your gentleness has made me great.

Thank You

The other night, I was at home with my three little siblings while my adorable parents went out to the fair for the day. Bobby was home, but his friend and him were workin' on our garage and stuff the whole day. It was pretty busy! I was running around TRYING to remember the laundry (Just recently started helping out with that haha), prepare and clean up meals, bake a cake for my friend, keep peace around the children...and work out for basketball season when time allowed, throughout the day.

Needless to say, I felt a mess and discombobulated. Trying to work out what time I needed to do what, so I wouldn't lose what was left of my mind. Every time a child would come in and complain about what the other child was or wasn't doing, would make me wanna tell them to just go outside and enjoy life 'til it actually gets hard. Bobby came in as I was hard at work and goes, "That's right woman. Work in the kitchen." Of course he was joking, and I giggled...with a slight glare out of the corner of my eye thinking you have no idea.

My best friend ended up coming over, Char Bear, and helped me alot. She always makes me laugh, no matter what is going on in my life. I mean LAUGH til you are crying. As we were laughing about who knows what...could have been the fact we were lookin out the window for 10 minutes watching a cute guy rake leaves without realizing it...All of a sudden I smell smoke coming from the oven. I remembered how my cake batter had made it's way to the bottom of the oven earlier...and I forgot to clean it out. Dang it. I ran to the oven and opened it. A cloud of smoke puffed out into Char's face, as she leaned closer to see what was in the oven. She backed up coughing and swatting at the smoke as I quickly pulled the homemade pizza out of the smolderingness. I yelled at her to open the door before the fire alarm went off in the house, so she ran to open the back door. I found a metal thingamabob to scrape the charred batter off the racks onto a cookie sheet...slowly trying not to lose my eyebrows. As Charity opened the door and began to come to help me, my cat flew inside. My dad hates it when my cat gets inside, he is allergic and just doesn't like indoor pets. all my friends know this. So Char goes running through the house calling for my cat in the highest of pitched voices, being dead serious. As I am performing surgery on a flaming hot oven rack, getting a tomato read face and watering eyes. I got some of the black cake out and it plopped to the floor, I squealed and tried to pick it up before it burned a hole into the fake tile...and as I burned my fingers, outta the corner of my eye, I see Charity run by me like 5 times trying to catch my stubborn "child" Of a cat. Still calling, "Kitty!" In the pitch of a little girl's scream. Instead of crying, I dropped to the floor laughing.
We eventually got my cat out of the house with a pepperoni, and the cake batter was thrown into a bush outside, still orange and coal like, by Char....who then came in saying it probably wasn't such a hot idea considering the bush was not wet. Bobby came in claiming that him and his friend could smell something burning from the garage...and told me it better not be their dinner. I'll have you know, the pizza came out fine. =)


Even though the day was sorta stressful, there is such a joy deep inside to be able to do what I do. To know my parents can have the day to enjoy one another and have fun. To be in my sibling's lives while I still can, instead of constantly off doing things with my peers. At the end of the day I was just beaming. Pictures of the day were going through my mind as I was attempting to get the youngins ready for bed. I thought of how all the stress was vanished, and the day was accomplished. I could relax the rest of the night. I tucked in Amon and Amber, kissed them both, and then sat down on Amber's bed as she said her prayers. I had done this before plenty of times, but I guess I was too busy to really listen to every word she prayed, which was priceless...

"Thank you God for mommy, daddy, Bobby, Morgan, Naten, Amber, and Amon. For Amon's grandma in Addis Abbaba, for my family in Addis Abbaba. Thank you that you give them clothes, food, work, and family. Thank you for keeping Daddy and Bobby safe from work. Thank you that Mommy and daddy will come home safely. in Jesus name, amen."

Do you realize, this girl never asked for anything? She thanked God for everything. She thanked God ahead of time for providing the needs to live. Why can't we have such faith in God? She knows He will take care of us all! There was no need to ask for food and clothes...work. She knew God already had that for His children. We who are taught of His promises, so many times in our lives, should do the same.

I learned a lot in one day...which was absolutely amazing. But I'm hoping today isn't as exciting. =) LOL Be blessed everyone! And be thankful. <3

"Somewhere over the rainbow..."

Aren't these pics BEAUTIMOUS?!??! I took them on the way home from Ohio. So this is somewhere in West VA. I actually saw the end of the rainbow. Sadly, there was no pot of gold. But the beauty of it made up for that disappointment. =) God can create such awesome things!

OCTOBER IS HEREEEE!

"The ancient law departs
And all it's terrors cease;
For Jesus makes with faithful hearts
A covenant of peace.

The light of Light divine,
True brightness undefiled,
He bears for us the shame of sin,
A holy, spotless Child.

Today the Name is thine,
At which we bend the knee;
They call The Jesus, Child divine!
Our Jesus deign to be." ~ Sebastian Besnault 1736


I thought this was a good poem =)

Can you believe it's October already?!?!?! I LOVE OCTOBER!!! Crisp fall air...beautiful differently colored leaves. You can wear JEANS and a cute hoodie. Oh yes. My favorite. =D