THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER

I recieved this as an e-mail. i know i sent it on to some of yall! but i had to post it on here to! i think its so funny, yet sad. because its pretty much how it is. :\ but read it! you'll like it!


Two Different Versions--Two Different Morals

OLD VERSION -- The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer longbuilding his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold. --MORAL OF THE STORY-- Be responsible for yourself

MODERN VERSION -- The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving. CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, his poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.' ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome." Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake. President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight. Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share. Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper. The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who now terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood.The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it. --MORAL OF THE STORY-- Be careful how you vote in 2010.

Debate/Speech Tournement!

well! im back! the Topeka qualifying speech and debate tournament was a supper awesome, stressful, fun, emotionally draining, exciting, tirering, amazing tournament! i'll post a few pictures, some debate humor, and the break down of my tourney, and of course the end results!

Break down! like i posted earlier, my dad made us drive down on Tuesday afternoon. so wednesday was quite boring. :\ we had nothing to do, didnt have to check in untill like 5, and we had to check OUT of our hotell at 11. so we meandered around town, hit some thrift stores, and ended up at the library! (i spent a great deal of gathering information from ralph moody concerning the Somersault trick, of flipping off your horse!) ok so anyway! yeah that was all boring! but wednesday night we got to our guest housing! thankfully! so thankfully at a good friends (Dakota H) i was able to get in time for the last part of milking, and then feeding all the baby goats! while we were petting all the baby goats i started to notice white things flying across the barn.............. SNOW BALLS!!!!!!!!! heading strait towards me!!!! --yeiks--- that turned into a totally wicked awesome snow ball fight! - a special big thanks to Waytte for supplying Dakota, and I with snow balls so that we could fight back! :)

Thursday bright and early debate, and speeches all day long! it was a lot of fun! i enjoyed it so much! but the real fun started when we got back to Dakotas! a game of chess!!!!!!!! Dakota and i were quite poor players! we both had our legal counselors! lol Dakota & Shane against Waytte and my self! actually. i received a lot of help from Shane to! :) the chess game brought on great fits of laughter, as we were making dumb moves, copycatting eachother, and held staring contests! (shane you get better at not laughing during a stare down, and i'll get better at chess!) im sure we irritated cody to since he was studying! and we were quite noisy! lol :)

the debate humor is simply this. at the end of a debate tourney everyone is so tired, that a group of kids will come out of a debate round and stare at funny/cute little kids pictures on the wall and comment/laugh over it for 15 minutes!!! --sigh-- is that sad or what?

RESULTS! every round was so much fun! and there was tons of great competitors. i learned SOOO much! but here are my results! i made it to the semifinal round of debate! (which was narrowed down to 4 people) and overall i got 3rd place LD Debater! it was quite an amazing experience! i also received awards for semifinalist apologetic speaker, 4th place with my persuasive on the 2nd amendment, and 7th place overall speaker (in debate) so yep! i cant wait until regionals!!!!

now heres some pictures!

Awards!!!

Card Games! always a part of debate tournements! Kemps. just learned it! (you are almost always gaurenteed to learn a new card game at tounreys. in fact! i learned 2!!)

speaking. (sorry yall! our camera was taking really fuzzy pictures)

this was my welcome home reception!!!!!!! imagine as i walk into my house like a dead zombie, after being gone for 4 days, and im greeted by my bros, my dad, my wonderful horsey, my dog Dix, and my bunny!!!!! it TOTALLY made my WHOLE day! walking into my house and seeing my horse was WAY better than recieving any metal/award! (btw look at sapphires face!!! it looks like she's smiling!!! she was just SOOO happy to see me! and I her! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥)

Third Annual Under the Dome Qualifier

hey yall! yep this is where im heading! my first qualifying speech/debate tourney!!! I originally wasnt supposed to leave untill tomorrow afternoon (wednesday) but here in NE were supposed to get a ton of sleeting ice. so my dad told us to drive up to Topeka (KS) today (tuesday) im competing in 4 speech categories and LD debate (persuasive, original oratory, Apologetics, & Impromptue) so after i get back (the tourney goes from Wednesday through Saturday) i'll post pictures and all that good stuff! im supper excited and also nervous! im still working on polishing up the memorization of my persuasive!! yeiks! ok! so i got to run! theres still a million things to do here before we leave! ttyl!

~koda~ (}-~-{)

oh! BTW! just to let my dear friends know, so you shant have to worry about me! there is little danger of me slipping into one of my "cowgirl depressions" while i am in the city. because a good friend (Dakota H) has invited my mom and i to stay with her family at her farm! so the chances are GREATLY reduced! -slim-to-none- almost! aint that great! it is just SOOO hard for my to be "locked" up in the city for 3-4 days strait! that as some of you know. a cowgirl depression can be quite dangerous to my health. so yep! ttyl

!Kodas life update!

Okey dokey! been a little while since iv posted, and theres a few things that i need to update yall on! so here goes! enjoy the pictures and information!

~Bunny Boo~ (aka Ranger) he died about a month ago! (yeah i know! im just getting around to posting it!) he was an awesome funny bunny :P (hey im a poet and i didnt even know it!) Ranger had such a cute personallity! :'( but he is gone, and over the Christmas Season my little cousin sent me home with a new bunny! Lafyatte is a black bunny and SOOO funny!? let me share this cute thing about him. so he lays his ears down along his back. and when you rub one side of his nose, his one ear sticks up, and when you rub the
other side, his other ear sticks up!!! its hilarious! :P so heres a picture of him!

~Friday evening~ (sharon! im posting these pictures to make you happy! lol and i love to post them to!? but i know you love them) some of you may not really care! but i enjoyed these picts! so here they are. the 8th and 9th we were going to go to an all nighter youth ralley. my parents decided that Tanner could drive Brandon and I up, and we could stay part of the time, and then come home around 1. (instead of 6 in the morning) so we make the trip up to fremont. and guess what. they cancled it! yeah nice we heard about it! >:( oh well! we still had a great time with the martins, and decided to go bowling at 8 in the evening instead of 2 in the morning! so heres a few picts from the bowling alley! we had a great time!

Rebels have Radars :)

Coolage :0


<3 Friends <3

Brothers :\ they always manage to get into the pictures :0

~Monday afternoon~ Nebraksa had a HUGE heat wave!!!! yall might not believe this, but we actually touched THIRTY DEGREES!!!!!!!!!!! our whole family was doing the boogy-woogy around the house! (well i guess that wasnt for yall to know! :) but we were SOOOO excited that it reached 30!!! considering that last Friday night it was -40 degrees here! im sure yall can see that we were excited! i was actually able to ride my sweet horsey! <3>

i also started a bright Lights group with Kelsi Martin! (if any of you have heard of it, or read any of Sarah malleys books) our first meeting was monday night, and it went supprisingly well! im praying that God will bring more girls, and that it would be a ministry that truely glorifys the Lord!
~tuesday!~ new change to me!!!! >see pict<

they do supprisingly make a huge difference! its feels really weird to take them off! although im still not sure if im really excited about wearing them all over the place (of which i will) its a pretty big change!

~quite a while ago~ these pictures were from new years day! lol (again! yeah im totally behind! ;) but i just thought id post them while i was at it! :)

Sledding off of the barn roof! =totally wicked awesome= :)

Tanner is such a great driver! when pulling the sled! he goes fast and hits ramps, and makes the sled slide around when he hits the brakes and turnes! its awesome! :)

getting pulled behind the 4-wheeler!!! that is always SOOO much fun!!

Meditating with my lil cousin! :) hehe!

Doggies! :) <3 hehe! they enjoyed going up and down the barn roof to!!!

ok! well theres a pretty decent post! and lots of picts!!!

(}-~-{) Koda (}-~-{)

Holiday Baking

O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. Psalms 34:8

the past week i was doing tons of baking for all our neighbors and friends! so my mom grabed a few pictures of the whole bread baking process and im finally getting around to posting it! hope you enjoy the pictures!! i made a dozen loaves of bread, and 6 dozen rolls! (4 dozen pecan, and 2 dozen cinnamon) Mixing the dough!

kneading the bread,

cutting into 6 loaves! haha! with my big awesome bread knife!

ta-da!!!

and wallah!

now im rolling out the rolls!

sprinkling the cinnamon and sugar

rolling it up...

and there it is! all those yummy rolls! (both the big pans had 2 dozen in them (each) and the small pans were a dozen)

there they are! all gooy, and sticky! loaded with tons of sugar!

i really enjoy baking! and am thankful for the wonderful oppertunities i have to prepare to become the wife and mother God wants me to be!

i got Taged

ok! so i got Tagged by Ashley! so thanks for taggin me ashley! this was a lot of fun!!!

Here are the rules:
1, Do quick post about the person that tagged you saying thanks
2, Answer the 10 questions
3, Follow 3 new blogs and list them.
4, Tag 6 people
5, Challenge one person to do something fun or crazy



Here are the 10 questions:

1: Have you ever been to a rodeo? TOTALLY!!!

2: Have you ever tried to ride a cow? oh yeah!

3: Have you ever milked a cow or goat? yeperoo

4: Have you ever been to a Demolition Derby? sure have!

5: What is your favorite Country song? Me and God

b: Who's the artist? Josh Turner

6: Do you like to hunt? of course!!!

7: Have you ever cooked your breakfast over an open fire in your backyard? yeah quite a few times!

8: Have you ever thought that the muck was shallow and when you stepped in it, you sank knee deep? yeah! totally shocking aint it! then you try to pull out of it, and you boot slips off, then its just down hill from there!

9: What is the hardest thing you have ever done? hum. there have been several things that have been very hard to do. but one that came to my mind at the moment, was when we had to cut open our nanny goat that strangled herself to see if her kid was still alive. our whole family was bawling while we were doing it. it was so sad!

10: (The question is optional) What's one of your most embarrassing moments?
well. i participate in NCFCA Speech and debate, and at one of the tournements (a qualifying one) i was getting ready to do Apologetics. so i have my box full of cards, i walk into the room, (i was carrying my box ontop of my bible and there were many spectatores in the room) well. yall might already be guessing what happened. ... i get a few feet in the room, and in slow motion, my card box falls to the floor. hundreds upon HUNDREDS of cards are scattered all over the room. and it was VERY embarrassing! let me tell you! it took about 5 minutes to crawl all over the room to pick up my cards. so then i continue on to draw my topic and sit down at the table for my prep time. ... well... needless to say. my cards were NOT useful in that round. they were all so mixed up! i wasnt able to find ANY of the cards that i needed! i was so frustrated! so i prayed! and ended up giving my 5 minute speech with no cards! :) one of the judges gave me first place! lol man my face was so red!



I Tag:

Sharon, Brooke, Merrill, Bekah, Mrs Martin, Forever Fan

I challenge Brooke to do the 5th thing listed on my post "how to get your self kicked outta walmart)

I started Following:
1, Feminine Farm Girl
2, Family Circle Farm
3, Cowgirl for Jesus