Reality Quote

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

~The Late Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931 to 2005 former pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, TN.

Judah Plays Piano

Judah is the budding musician in the Strang family! He continually jumps back and forth from playing the violin to playing the piano. In this movie he ended up being caught on film playing the piano (last time it was violin!) with big "Bub-Ba"! Just in case you were wondering (or could hear above Judah's musical masterpiece)... Jordan is playing Do You Believe by Justin Booher. Enjoy the video!

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Bethany

A Valentine Note For Your Brother...

What a blessing to have three sweet sisters to teach you how to make valentines. Here is the "Valentine Making Tutorial" that the girls made for Jordan since he would rather take care of chickens than make them valentines! Note that his Mother gets a lovely Valentine from him each and every year!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Click on the computer drawing to see the instructions up close!

An Evening of Fellowship and Fun!

We had the pleasure to have the Knifong and Ashmore families come to our house for dinner. We had a great time together! (And we got some great pictures too!)

All the Fathers and Mothers talking together.

Ben wanted me to take a picture of him. This was his pose!
It's time for a good game of "Cat Calls Dog"! (At least that's what we think the game is called!) So watch the action unfold!

Troy (who's animal was a donkey) is making a dash to tag another animal.

Ava (the Chicken) ready to tag the Cat (Shiloh) or the Dog (Jordan). Dog is trying desperately to "point the finger" at someone else or in other words Cat!

Yes, there was a Cat and Dog fight going on! And much to the delight of the Cat, she triumphed!

Me (Mouse) striving desperately to call another animal's name. Whew! I made it that time...

Mouse and Rabbit (Jamie Lyn) are in the line of fire! No, I didn't make it this time.

Brie Ella (in the middle) our goat and Eden our horse (on the far right).

Jamie Lyn played her violin while every sang some worship songs together.

I had the pleasure of being Jamie Lyn's piano accompaniment. It was a lot of fun. Good job Jamie Lyn!
Everyone singing.
Us four Strang children are learning to sing in four-part harmony. This is a picture of us singing together!

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Bethany

Quick update on Judah

Greetings Everyone!!

We thank you all for your prayers for our Judah! He does have pneumonia in the left lobe of his lung but it is not that bad and we are very grateful to the Lord for that! We ve kept him quiet (interesting trying to keep a 2 year old quiet) and have been blessing him with lots of healthy food and lots of good rest. He is looking better and his breathing is much better! Thank You, Jesus!! We will be back to blogging soon!

God be with you all!

Please Pray.

Saturday/ 11:32 PM~ Praise the Lord! Judah was not admitted into the hospital... He had a chest x-ray--no update on that yet. Mommy, Jordan, and Judah are coming home now! <Psalm 23>. Thank you for your prayers.

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Saturday/ 10:00 PM~ The doctors say the croup is gone and he may have Pneumonia. The doctors have ordered a chest x-ray.
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Saturday/ 8:03 PM~ Judah came down with the croup three days ago. Due to flaring nostrils and wheezing.
Mommy and Jordan have taken Judah to the hospital (Emmanuel Hospital). Please pray that he will not be admitted into the hospital and that he will have a quick recovery!
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Thank you so much,
Us Sisters

Remember Emmanuel means: "God with us"!

White Elephant at the Wells House!

Every year the Wells have a white elephant where everyone exchanges funny gifts. Here are the pictures from the day!

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Everyone having those last-minute-before-you-leave conversations together!

Here are the Patricks, Knifongs, Wells, and us children together.

Back row L-R: Jackson W. Carol P. Jordan S. Judah S. Shiloh S. Annie P. Janet P. Bethany S. Karina W. Tabitha W.

Front row L-R:Grace P. Joseph P. Hogen K. Eden S. Jamie Lyn K. Brie Ella K.

Coffee anyone?

Judah the cute-boy!

Eden posing for a picture. (Notice the chocolate on her lips...? Hmmmm what has she been eating?)

Here is what Eden (and Brie Ella for that matter) were eating!!! Roca! Yum!

Phillip and Carol together.

Shiloh and Bethany (can you see me?).

Jaime Lyn. I like the wistful look on her face.

Judah opening his white elephant gift!

Phillip with his big wooden hammer. I think he is trying to take his nose off!

Phillip watching all the action.

Victor the bright-eyed, bushy-tailed camera man!

Our white elephant tradition is to always play spoons. We've done it for the last three years!
Here is everyone getting set up to play the game.

This was our favorite picture. Special thanks to Phillip "Bip" and Joseph for this shot!!

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