Talented Student

One of my piano students surprised me with this Lego piano model he made!

The Bench--

The Piano (complete with pedal, keys, & music)--
Good Job Troy!

~Miss Shiloh Strang

My Little Cowboy...

When I go to wake up Judah from his afternoon naps I usually start singing one his favorite songs. These songs include either "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" or "Tragedy" from The Widow's Might. Recently, though, I decided to pop on his cowboy hat while he was a asleep so he woke up with it on.:) Following are a few pictures that Bethany captured of his cute expressions!

Still asleep...

Awake!
Suddenly notices that the camera is aimed at him!
He likes this kind of stuff...
I love you, Judah Philip Strang!
My Little Cowboy...

~Miss Shiloh Strang

How To Fit 5 On 1 Tractor...

Here we all are one evening on our lawn mower (which Judah calls the big tractor:))... We recently discovered how to fit all of us on it at one time! Now Jordan can take us all for quick ride after chores are over.:)

~sas

Happy Resurrection Day!

HAPPY RESURRECTION DAY!

Today is the day in which we celebrate our Lord's triumph over the grave!

LOW IN THE GRAVE HE LAY

Words & Music By: Robert Lowry

Verse 1: Low in the grave He lay, Jesus my Savior,Waiting the coming day, Jesus my Lord!

Refrain

Up from the grave He arose, With a mighty triumph o’er His foes, He arose a Victor from the dark domain, And He lives forever, with His saints to reign.He arose! He arose! Hallelujah! Christ arose!

Verse 2: Vainly they watch His bed, Jesus my Savior; Vainly they seal the dead, Jesus my Lord!

Refrain

Verse 3: Death cannot keep its Prey, Jesus my Savior; He tore the bars away, Jesus my Lord!

Refrain

THE EMPTY CROSS
The eve of Golgotha had come,

And Christ lay shrouded in the garden tomb,

Among the olives, oh, how dumb,

How sad the sun incarnadined the gloom!

The hill grew dim—the pleading cross

Reached empty arms toward the closing gate.

Jerusalem, oh, count thy loss!

Oh, hear ye! hear ye! ere it be too late!

Reached bleeding arms—but how in vain!

The murmurous multitude within the wall

Already had forgot His pain—

Tomorrow would forget the cross—and all!

They knew not Rome, before its sign,

Bending her brow bound with the nation’s threne,

Would sweep all lands from Nile to Rhine

In servitude unto the Nazarene.

Nor knew that millions would forsake

Ancestral shrines great with the glow of time,

And lifting up its token shake

Æons with thrill of love or battle’s crime.

With empty arms aloft it stood:

Ah, Scribe and Pharisee, ye builded well!

The cross emblotted with His blood

Mounts, highest hope of men, against earth’s hell!

By: Cale Young Rice, Plays and Lyrics, 1906

I hope you all had a wonderful day to celebrate the Lord's goodness to us in dieing for our sins so that we might have eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. I hope to bless you all with some pictures from today later (when I have more time), but for now you can click here for Easter 2007 and here for a great cookie recipe from Easter 2008. The beautiful graphics are by: Abigail Paul. God bless you!

He Lives!

~Miss Shiloh A. Strang

Bloopers, Secret Agents, and more!

You might be wondering what we all were doing in our "down time" during the tournament. Well we ended up doing this:

Pretended to be secret agents! But what about Eden? She was a great help (thanks Eden!) and ended up being behind the camera the majority of the time! And Judah? He was doing this:

Talking on the phone to Daddy!

And Daddy and Mommy made this all happen! Every one of us is so thankful for them!

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Bloopers!

Both Shiloh and I did Impromptu so when we were done we (or rather me) had a lot to share about our silly mistakes. So sit back and listen to the bloopers from the tournament!

Someone during a speech: "Now if I went and habitually wrote on the walls... well, I don't do that, but if I did..."

Someone during a speech: "Look, I'm running with my crutch! I can walk!"

Someone during a speech: "God is the only Supernatural human Being... um God isn't a Supernatural human Being, He's the only Supernatural... ... ... Thing!"

But for the greatest "blooper" of all we ended up waking up at 5:45 am after arriving at 1:00 am to our hotel room the night before with this: "Mommy, where are our skirts?" Yes, we actually forgot to bring them! So... ending up at the location looking like the "country-bumpkins" that we are, you can just imagine how we felt! But God provided the perfect skirts. And in all the pictures that you have seen, those are the skirts that God supplied for us! PTL!

So looking ahead to next year this is what we see:

Apologetics, Studying, Script Writing and more! But what we hope to see is you! Come and join us next year!

See you there!

~Posted by:

Bethany R. Strang

Bethany's Dramatic Speech

This is Tournament Update Part 6. And I will be posting the pictures from my dramatic speech. I did it on "Evidence Not Seen" an autobiography by Darlene Deibler Rose. It is a wonderful book and I strongly recommend it!

Enjoy the pictures!


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This is me looking at all the scripts from all the competitor's speeches. (Eden snapped this shot!)

You might remember from the second tournament post that it was asked why I looked like this! Well it was because I was making faces to the camera girls Shiloh and Eden who decided to see my speech, NOT because I was afraid!

Does this picture prove that I'm not afraid?! I do look much more relaxed! By the way, this was when I was going up to introduce myself.

In this picture it I am playing the part of an evil man (called "The Interrogator") who is in the act of drawing a sword to kill Darlene.

I'm playing The Interrogator again in this picture. He's calling out threats to Darlene and her best friend Margret.

Well that is all the pictures! I sure had a wonderful time doing this speech! I really learned a lot. (And yes, I want to compete in another dramatic next year too!)

~Posted by:

Bethany

Destined For a Duo!

With pleasure I present to you Tournament Update Part 5!

Annette (Shiloh) and I have had many attempts to produce a great duo. As you will see, we've been practicing for the last nine years! NOTE: (Don't worry any of you "turning-twelve-year-olds-and-wanting-to-do-a-duo", our first endeavours were not that stunning!)

So... sit back and watch us work!

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Attempt #1 (year 2000) Duo title: "Cowgirls and Pioneers!"

Attempt #2 (year 2004) Duo title: "Mrs. Santos!"

Attempt #3 (year 2006) Duo title: "The Ugly step-sisters "Prunella" and "Esmeralda" from Cinderella!"

Attempt #4 (year 2009) Duo title: "Treasures of the Snow".

So as you can see this is Strang/Strang over the course of nine years!

WARNING: What will darling De-De do for speech when she's 12?

Thank you so much Shiloh for doing this duo with me. I've enjoyed it so much! I love you!

~Posted by Lucien (a.k.a. Bethany)