This is my mom on a swing when she was 4 years old. 

Don't you just love Spring?

  ~Annie~

                   THE SWING             

How do you like to go up in a swing,

Up in the air so blue?

Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing

Ever a child can do!

Up in the air and over the wall,

Till I can see so wide,

River and trees and cattle and all

Over the countryside--

Till I look down on the garden green,

Down on the roofs so brown-

Up in the air I go flying again,

Up in the air and down!

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Currently Listening Les Miserables (1987 Original Broadway Cast) By Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schonberg, Frances Rufelle, Colm Wilkinson see related

Happy Easter!!!  (Just a little late)  How was everyone's Easter?  Mine was very nice.   I love spending time with family & friends!

Here are some of our Easter pictures from past years.

 Question: What's your favorite holiday?

"Be still, and know that I am God!

I will be honored by every nation.

I will be honored throught the

world."

The LORD Almighty is here among us;

    the God of Israel is our fortress.

                                            Psalm 46:10-11

Keeping you all in my prayers

Blessings,

~Annie B.~ 

Currently Listening Elton John - Greatest Hits 1970-2002 By Elton John see related

Time for an update!  So, this was St. Patrick's Day at the Ring home!  Grandma's corned beef was delicious as usual!  Yay for Irish hoildays!!! 

Easter is coming!    I love the week of Easter!!!  How are you going to spend the Holiday?  I think our family is coming to my house!  Yay!!! 

How was everyone's Spring Break?  Or is it still coming?  I have some words of wisdom about 3 movies. Bridge to Terabithia...cute, but a little sad. Premonition...I should have listened to Stephen L.-- way to scary!!!   But, if you like that sort of thing it would be fine for you. Last Mimzy...nice and happy...not too sacry just sweet.

Glad Springfield was fun!  Missed ya!  I would like to see more pictures!  And hear good stories about the trip!    So... Hawaii next time!!!  Hehehe!

Denise's show was so happy!  I will post the pictures when we get them developed!  We also saw her Concert!  Some amazing talent!  The choir preformed songs from Wicked!  I love how they did the song "For Good".

Thought I would share with you some verses for this week of Easter.

There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him. He was despised and rejected- a man of sorrows, acquainted with bitterest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way when he went by. He was despised, and we did not care. Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God for his own sin! But he was beaten that we might have peace. He was whipped, and we are healed! All of us have strayed away like sheep. We have left God's paths to follow our own. Yet the LORD laid on him the guilt and sins of us all.                                                                     Is. 53:2-6

Blessings on your week! 

Love you all lots!!! 

~Annie B.~

Happy St. Patrick's Day! 

I love this holiday, guys! 

Here is an Irish blessing...

May the road rise up to meet you,

May the wind always be at your back,

May the sun shine warm upon your face

May the rain fall soft upon your fields,

And until we meet again,

 May God hold you in th palm of His hand.

Here are some pics from our trip to

 Ireland in 1999.

Have a wonderful day!!!

   Love,

~Annie~

Hi guys!  I have been enjoying this song...thought I might share it with you!

What a friend we have in Jesus,

All our sins and griefs to bear!

What a privilege to carry

Everything to God in prayer!

Oh, the peace we often forfeit,

Oh, what needless pain we bear,

All because we did not carry

Everything to God in prayer!

"Heaven is full of answers to prayers for which on one ever bothered to ask."

                                                                                         Billy Graham

I sought the Lord, and he heard me, he delivered me from all my fears. Those who look to the Lord are radiant; there faces are never covered with shame. This poor man cried and the Lord him. He delivered him from all his troubles. The angel of the Lord encamps around     those who fear him, and delivers them. O taste and see that the Lord is good; happy is the one who takes refuge in him.                                                    Psalm 34:1-8                    

(I memorized that for the County Fair when I was 10 with my daddy.) 

Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly. Others give but an occasional pluck at the rope. But he who wins with heaven is the man who grasps the rope boldly and pulls continuously, with all his might.                                     Charles H. Spurgeon  

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. Don't worry about anyhing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made know to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard you hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.                                                                                      Phil. 4: 4-7

Romans 8:28

And we know that God causes all things to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.

We know what real love is because Christ gave up his life for us.

And so we also ought to give up our lives for our Christian

brothers & sisters...Dear children, let us stop just saying we love eachother;

let us really show it by our actions.            1 John 3:16,18

Dear children, keep away from anything

that might take God's place in your hearts.

                                                    1 John 5: 21

I like these two!  the 2nd one says...Girls just want to have fun!

Some fun memories from Oliver and 7 Brides...

  Question: When is your birthday?  What kind of cake do you like?    

 May God bless,

 ~Annie Lucy~