About: Laughing Penguins!!! ^_^

So... this is about the cutest thing I've ever seen! (Well... maybe not THE cutest, but it's pretty darn adorable!)

I love penguins. I love laughing. WHAT then, could POSSIBLY be better than a laughing penguin?!? ^_^

About: Evolution.

I love Evolution.
Especially when as related to the Stone Family Band!

This first piece, Rock of Ages, was the first video recording that was done of any of our performances.

This next song is a SFB original titled Maiden Voyage.

I love just watching these two videos and comparing how everyone's changed in the last 2 years! :^D

Enjoy!

Just Short and Sweet...

This is just a short and sweet blurb that I posted on my facebook on Sunday... Thought I'd share it here as well... Be encouraged.

"Everything happens for a reason. God allows everything. I DO NOT believe that means, though, that God CAUSES everything to happen. People create hurt. God allowed sin into the world and to allow people to hurt others. God is perfectly holy, just and sinless, therefore; He can NOT sin. What a mighty God we serve!"

On another note... Just got back from Colorado with my sister... What FUN we had! ^_^
Check her blog for pics soon!!

About: Preparing to be a Help Meet- Pure Thoughts

"Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 3:13-14)

Pure Thoughts

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"She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness" (Proverbs 31:26)

It is human nature to climb on someone's back if you are drowning. People, especially girls who are frustrated with their lives, have a tendancy to want to bring others down. They rationalize to themselves that they are just telling what happened, just being honest, and so forth. This need to bring others down will follow you into your marriage, job and life, for there will always be those whom you will decide need "telling on." It is a death trap of Satan's. Not their death trap; yours.

Only when a girl learns to control her need to tear down, when she lets people go unmolested by her "truthful" information, will she begin to grow as a person. Every argument, evey misunderstanding, every hurt feeling--every black depression stems from someone "supposing" another meant evil toward them, used them, thought offensively toward tthem, or whatever else the mind contrives. Imagine being free from all these misapprehensions! You can be free.

"A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit" (Proverbs 15:4)

The word perverseness mans unreasonableness. Everyone thinks they are reasonable and that the one they hold in distain is unreasonable. If you have conflict with someone, chances are you are unreasonable at least half the time. If you have some irritation, scorn, or conflict with more than one person, then chances are you are the culprit in most of those relationships. No matter how sweet you think you are, it is you who lacks a wholesome tongue.

Some families, even some communities of people, seem to have a hereditary predisposition to bitterness and strife. Those raised in such an atmosphere come to accept jealousy, suspicion and evil thinking as the norm. They just assume that everyone is critical of them. Believe it or not, there is another world where people love one another and there are no feelings of bitterness toward anyone, where one never imagines that another is thinking ill of them, a world of daily peace and contentment.

"Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ" (II Corinthians 10:5)
Right now, as a single young woman, ask God to give you the wisdom to clear your soul of this plague of negative thoughts. . . Fill your soul with the beauty of a good thought-life. Expect good from people. Get busy serving others--not just your friends, but anyone who has a need. You may get treated unfairly (but probably not) and in the meantime your soul will be free to soar.

The Psalmist sung out in chapter 15, "LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart. He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbor, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor."


By Debi Pearl

About: Disney Princesses! ^_^

Last weekend I had the pleasure of going to see Tangled with several friends! To honor the occasion of a new Disney Princess movie... we obviously had a Disney Princess Party! Mind you, I don't believe there was a single female there under 12... ^_^ Yes... we had fun ;)

Anyway, we all got to choose Princesses we wanted to be, or just dressed up real pretty.

I chose Briar Rose from Sleeping Beauty... She was always my favorite!

"Once Upon A Dream"

I had a time of it, I tell ya what!!

But eventually got it!

Not exact, but close enough that people would look and say...

"You're Briar Rose!" Yeah... it was fun.

Who knew an old black tank top flipped upside down and cut up could make the perfect Briar Rose bodice?

Who knew that when I bought those shoes that match my skin almost that I would need them to have the appearance of bare feet at the mall *ick*

Who knew when mom got those little birdies from the Dollar Store that I'd need them to complete the outfit?

Not I!

All in all, it was a fabulous time had by all! The movie was great, we had a splendiferous time all together going to see a child's movie, and the cupcakes were "to die foah!"

Thank you, Amanda for hosting this wonderful evening!

Ciao y'all, till later!

-Emily