Lampeter Fair..........

Tonight was the opening night for the Lampeter Fair. I still feel like a newbie at this fair. I never went to it growing up. I only went to the New Holland Fair. But I've been going to the Lampeter Fair since my kids have been in school. It's a great fair for sure. Edwin and I and the kids headed over to the fair. Actually Bri and Bella were supposed to be in the parade but the weather put a nix on that so they didn't get to march. But the weather cleared and we stayed for the night. Right away when we got there we all split up. The girls went one way, Edwin and Rico went another and I was on my own. Ya see I wanted to take my time and look at all the things people entered especially the harvest stuff. I was looking at the soybeans, tobacco and the hay as well as the pumpkins and the rabbits and so on and on. I really enjoy also looking at the vegetables that were entered. I really am a country girl. Things that have to do with farming just really appeal to me. I ran into Edwin and Rico a little later and we all went to check out the cow situation. Cows have beautiful eyes. Then I caught up with two of my super d duper friends, Gina and Carol. We all sat and watched the fair queen competion. The competition got to long and we called it a night before we say the crowning. We'll probably head back over to the fair again Thursday cause the girls didn't get there fill yet and we didn't eat anything from the fair yet either. We got to at least get fries or something. So head on over to the fair it's where good memories are made and where you can get lots of freebies.

K-water at it again........

Check out the link. Max Kinderwater is going to Temple Universtiy. He's a freshmen there. He's also on the soccer team. Any of you that know Max know that he's a very good soccer player. His picture was in the newspaper alot over his years at MT playing on his high school team. And now here he goes again. Check out the article.

hey ya all.........

I had a great day today. Started out with a beautiful morning. I got up and made omelets for the family. They turned out very tasty. I filled them with zucchini, onions, garlic, green peppers and cheddar cheese. Served it along side with bacon and toast. After breakfast Edwin and I sat out on the porch swing. It was so nice cause since it's a holiday there was not much traffic on our road so it was some what quiet. Then we started working. After all it's labor day and don't you work on labor day? Anyway Edwin and I got a lot of things done today which felt good. And just so it wasn't all work and no play we did go to the ball diamond down the street and played ball with Edwin's brother and his family as well as one of his sisters and some of her family. It was kind of hot but it was fun. Edwin's brother and fam came back to our house for dinner. Now I'm tired and WHAT I have to go to work tomorrow. I kind of forgot about that. Oh well. Bri has her first cross country meet tomorrow. She had her chicken and pasta tonight which is what her coach said she should eat the day before a race. So she's good to go. Sorry no pics of anything we did I didn't even think about the camera. Hey does that mean I'm not addicted to my blog?

who's sixteen........

 
 
 
August 26 which is tomorrow Rico will be turning 16. How in the world did that happen that he is going to be that old.
You know the saying "where does the time go?" Sixteen years just flew by. Not sure what we are going to do tomorrow for Rico's birthday. I know we will definitely watch the Steeler/Eagle matchup cause Rico loves the EAGLES. That's my boy!!
Rico is a hard one to buy gifts for so we usually just take him out and let him pick what he would like (with in reason).
Burger King is his favorite place to eat so we will probably end up there at some point. If you would like to pray for Rico you can pray that he will have more of an understanding of who Jesus is and what he did for him on the cross. I'm not sure what comprehension he has of church and why we go and prayer and all that goes along with following God. And you could pray that he will speak more words and communicate better his thoughts and feelings with us. Thanks! The pictures were taken this year at the Eagles training camp.

makeup review...........

The last time I bought mascara I bought Revlon 3D Extreme. My rating is a C-
Not worth the money or effort. No 3D effect here on my eyes that's for sure.

Yesterday I bought Loreal Volume Shocking Mascara. I only used it once mind you. But I think it is a really great mascara. It's a two part system. One side has a white primer that you apply first and then you flip it over and apply the actual mascara. The white side has a really great fluffy brush. And the mascara side has a brush like a comb. I really like how when you pull out the brush it really takes off the excess mascara. It made my lashes look longer. For now I will give this mascara a B+. This grade might go higher as I use it more. I'll let you know.

I bought lipstick as well. In recent months I've gotten away from wearing lipstick and just have been wearing lip balm or a gloss. But lipstick is making a come back.
And let me tell you girls lipstick pulls your whole look together. Anyway I bought Revlon Renewist. This lipstick has a really nice feel too it. I do not like to feel like I have lipstick on. This Renewist glides on and feels light. It's a matte look but not to matte where your lips look dehydrated. This lipstick has a moisture core in the middle of it that definitely hydrates. I give this lipstick a B+.

Not the Eagles.......

 

 

This past Saturday night I had the opportunity to go with my husband to a Steelers game at the Redskins. We had a fun time together and it was a cool experience to be at the Redskins Stadium. It wasn't the greatest game but it was a close one and the Steelers scraped one out at the very end and won.

yellowed leaves...............

Confession of sin is a good thing. It's not something that I have often done but last caregroup I felt compelled to confess to my ladies at caregroup of one of my struggles which is regular quiet time. Thank you ladies my friends for listening to me that night. Even though I haven't experienced an overwhelming desire to spend countless hours in fellowship with God it has helped me to make it a point to put time with God on the agenda. I've been lazy but it's time to stop. I was reminded of what God can do in your life when you look to his word regularly when I was looking at my flowers. I have flower bags that hang on the back porch of our house. In the beginning when I put them there they looked nice and fresh and started growing and then got to the point where you couldn't see the bag very much just a nice bunch of flowers providing much delight to the eye. But as time went on they started to deteriorate. There started to be gaps in places and you could see the bag again and leaves started to turn yellow as well as beetles started to feast on the flowers. I couldn't figure out the yellow leaves I tried watering more and watering less. Finally I thought I need to fertilize these beauties. So I did I miracle growed and then added some long term fertilizer to them and wow what a difference in just a few days they are looking beautiful once again. The Holy Spirit brought me that thought. When I allow God to fertilize me when I look to the word to sustain me and encourage me it will produce good growth with in me. It will be life to me. God extended his mercy to me once again. Hallelujah what a Savior.

There is a great new version of "What a Savior" for your downloading pleasure at this website.
http://worshipmatters.blogs.com:80/bobkauflin/2007/06/what-a-savior-m.html
Check it out it's a good one.

4 generations........

 
 

Buddies.........

 
 
Elijah and Rico are good buddies they like to hang out together. The pic of them in the car I think was right after I heard the horn blowing in our car Edwin went to investigate and found these two. Rico was pointing at Elijah blaming him for blowing the horn but I think it was the other way around.

Jazelyn's birthday.....

 

 

Jazelyn turned 1 year old Aug. 4th. Erika and Hector had a birthday party for her at Lancaster County Park.

pride....

I have to tell you all a humbling but funny story. I needed sunglasses so Rico and I headed to Marshall's. I found a pair bought them and headed out to the car. Of course I wanted to wear them right away so I took the sticky label off of the side. This took me awhile but I was determined and eventually got the label off. But then I realized I have no way to get the plastic ring that has the big price tag on that stores always strategically place right in the middle of the sunglasses so that when you try them on you can never truly see what you look like. I didn't have Edwin with me whose teeth can just chomp right through that plastic. Last time I tried that I chipped my tooth so no way was I going to attempt to dislocate the ring. So I just tore off the label and thought oh well I'm just going home no one will see the big ole plastic thing in the middle of my sunglasses and off I went. Meanwhile I decided to treat Rico to his fave place "Burger King". I drive up to the window and I notice the lady looking at me a little longer then normal as if what I thought was her admiring how my new sunglasses looked on me. Of course in my mind I'm thinking oh yeah I must look pretty cool in my new shades. I get the food and the change and drive off. As I'm driving off I a steal a little look in my rear view mirror to assure myself once again that I "look good" in my sunglasses. That's when I started to laugh cause I forgot that the plastic thingy was still hanging in the middle of my shades. Bam! humbled just like that. The lady was probably thinking doesn't that lady realize she has the plastic thingy hanging on her glasses. Or maybe she was thinking.."did she steal those glasses". God is good to remind us that we need to be humble in all things.

Matthew 23:12
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

dinner........

 
 
As you can see I'm making up for lost time here with my posting. I think with this one I'm all up to date.
Last night we had Erika and Hector and the kids over for dinner. I made Chinese at Hector's request. Didn't turn out the greatest I thought but everyone seemed to like it anyway. After dinner we all went outside and played a game called Taps.
Jazelyn and Elijah got so dirty outside that we gave them a bath before they left. Jazelyn is a handful she is what you would call high maintenance. We topped the evening off with cheese cake and icecream.

Binns Park........

My husband is such a good grandfather or should I say Abuelo. He loves to be with our grandkids. We had them overnight this past Sat. Edwin took the kids to see his mom and then after that took them to Binns Park to the fountain and here's the pictures from that. Edwin and Bella took these pictures. Our gkids are so cute it's just fun to watch them.

icecream contest.........

Since Turkey Hill was sponsoring this event there was of course icecream there. Bella wanted to enter the icecream eating contest. First prize was an IPod, second place a signed Dawkins jersey, and third was a signed football by Takeo Spikes. All the kids who entered looked older, bigger, and were boys. But that didn't phase Bella she sat in the mix with everyone and prepared herself mentally for the challenge. The challenge was to eat as much icecream as you could in 3 minutes I think it was. The timer started and they were off eating. We are cheering her on and she's doing great really holding her own. I'm waffling back and forth between yeah go Bella go eat eat eat I want you to win the IPod to oh girl don't eat all that icecream it's not good for you and then back again ohhh it's just little cups of icecream come on move it Bella you got to eat more. Anyway Bella came in third she did great. She ate 9 cups of icecream so she got the football. It's pretty cool. Three cheers for Bella. Oh and sorry about the first two pics I know I already showed you them but they got in the slideshow by mistake and I didn't know how to take them out.

Turkey Hill........

 
 

So a couple weeks ago Edwin and his brother and sisters volunteered to help run a food stand for an event sponsored by Turkey Hill. They manned the food stand while Edwin's other sister and his mom made the food back at there resturant. That was same day as the evangelism seminar so I wasn't able to help. I did come later in the day and it looked like everyone was having a great time. People were commenting on how great the food was and how professional the stand was. As you can see in the one picture Rico was having a good time sitting behind the stand watching a video on the little DVD player. He was happy.

nuttin much..........

I know it's been awhile since I've posted. There isn't much really to say. Lazy days of summer. Not much happening at the Miranda household. It's been nice though I'm thoroughly enjoying not working at the cafeteria for the summer. Our vacations are finished no more vacation days left for Edwin. Maybe we'll get to the beach yet for a day. Rico has extended school year. That means that for about 6 times a teacher comes over once a week and tutors Rico so he doesn't lose some of the skills he learned and have to play catch up when school starts again in the fall. I must say though Rico has never really had a problem with that. He has a good memory. But it's good for him to have the tutoring we are glad for it. Orientation is coming up for Noah next week at M.U. He also started going to the young adults caregroup and he's liking it. Girls are still doing basketball. And that's about it. Sorry for the uneventful post. But uneventful is good at times. =)

All Star Game.........

 

 

 

Our family my dad, and my two sisters went to the All Star Barnstormer game last night. It's always fun to be at the Clipper. We were glad the rain stopped to get the game in. But in the top of the 8th it started to pour and the put the tarp on the field. They eventually called the game. The South was behind which was the team the Barnstormers were on so we lost. All the mascosts from the teams represented were there some of them were cute but none were as good as Cylo.
When we came into the Clipper there was a Gold man as you can see in the picture. He was a live statue. He was so cool looking. At the end the rain let up enough to put off the scheduled fire works and that's how the evening ended.

the picnic

For the second year in a row the first Sunday after the 4th of July my mom's side of the family and her sisters side of the family get together for a baseball picnic.
Our families grew up beside each other as kids and we spent a lot of time at the ball field down the road from where I lived. My Aunt provides the main part of the meal and we all bring a side dish. We have some rousing games of ball and eat throughout the day ending up with a hot dog roast at night. It's a great time reliving our child hood and teaching our kids the fun of playing ball together. We all enjoy it. Even though it was a hot day there was a great breeze throughout the day and my Aunt and Uncle have a great shade tree in the back to sit under. Edwin did a funny thing. Way back in the day of the beginning of what is now Crossway church. We used to have a church baseball team with uniforms and everything. I used to be the score keeper. It was a lot of fun watching our guys play. Well, my hubby can still fit in his uniform and he came out to play with it on. We all had a great laugh over that. It was a little bit tighter around the belly but other then that he was looking good. Funniest and most surprising moment of the day was when the kids had a water battle fight. In the midst of it my Aunt Fannie when inside the house and came out with her personal super soaker water gun and started blasting the kids including her own sons who were just sitting minding there own business. It was so funny and out of character. Great memories.

Annual baseball picnic......

a little blue........

I'm not feeling so good. Summer cold as they call it I guess. Edwin has it and so now I have it. Tummy feels icky, I feel tired and something doesn't feel right with my nose and throat. Anyway this is nothing compared to the heartache and pain the Haughery's are going through. I know we are all praying for them. God is in control and I'm thankful for that and his grace is sufficient.