Whatz Up With Kenz

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!!!!!

2009-12-23T19:22:00.000-08:00

I wanted to wish everyone a merry Christmas and a very happy new year!!!!! Man alive I have not been on my blog for such a long time!!!!!!! It's soooo crazy how time fly's!!!!!!! It seems like summer just ended!!!!!!! I know that might sound crazy but that's what it feels like to me! For you who don't know I have a new baby brother and his name is Haden Luke, and he is the cutest little thing ever!!!!! He was born Sept. 22. Family is doing well. Nolan has grown like crazy!!!!!! He is taller than me now! Mia loves snow white or actually how she Say's it ''Ho white'':-) She is such spoiled little girl! I mean she really is!!!! And how r the evil twins??????(Levi and Logan;-) They still get into trouble:-) Noah is completely into video games right now and Hailey is maturing a little TO FAST! She already act's like a teen and she is only eleven! Justina's doing well, she's like a second mom to Mia. And mom and Dad??? Their very busy taking care of there oh so perfect kid's. The best they could ever ask for:-) And me? I can't believe this is my last year of high school!!! It's cool, but nerve racking all at the same time!!!!! I'm still praying as to where the lord would have me to go to Bible College. But anyhooooo TTFN!!!!!
Love In Christ,
Mackenzie

Congrats!!!

2009-06-16T14:19:00.000-07:00

Rachel White,Me,Megan Fillmore,Hannah Skean,and Tiffany!

Nicholis,chris huff,chris,Eddie,and Richard!

I just wanted to say CONGRATULATION'S!!!! To all my friends who are graduates this year!!! And that I wished I could have been there to see all of them graduate!!! But I did have the privilege to see Eddie, Richard,and Hannah graduate. Both their services turned out great!!! The preaching and the fellowship! I can't believe half of my friend's are graduated!!! Time sure does go fast! And I can't believe that I'm a Senior!!! It's Great!!! Life is GREAT!!! And all the credit goes to GOD! He's has been sooooo wonderful in my life!I thank God so much for the wonderful godly parents I have! He truly has been good to me and my family! So much has went on since last time I was on here! Well we moved into a house that is owned by friends of ours from our church. The house is located in Yelm,WA Lawrence lake. They have a very nice park that you can go to and a nice looking lake.We actually went swimming yesterday:-)We have also had Car Wash fundraisers going on for camp. And we also had a barbecue at my youth director's house Sunday afternoon. We went swimming in there lake also. It was a whole lot of fun!!! We had to get to the church early so us teens just talked up a storm! We were laughing and talking and laughing and talking and listening to Douglas who was telling us his update on who his crushes were:-) it was a lot of fun talking and getting to know our fellow teenager's better. On Thursday's we clean the church in the afternoon and in the morning's my mom is out on visitation with the ladies. So we are at the church all day! It's a lot of fun. We usually take the foster kid's down to the gym and play games with Arianna,Nolan,Justina,and Caleb Matheny. And last Thursday was very different from all the other Thursday's My friend Rachel White chose to come and we had a good time. We talked a lot and played Smash face. And I also watched my brother's wrestle Caleb and Caleb came out alive, but he had a few bite mark's and Scratches:-) But I warned him before they started wrestling not to WRESTLE WITH MY BROTHERS!!! Because they don't go by the RULES:-) I have to admit it was funny to watch! Well that's it for now!!! TTFN:-)Caleb Wrestling!LOL

Caleb and Nolan playing the piano:-)
Justina and Arianna. In Tan Wax Lake:-)
Me and Megan.
Ericka,Jaz,Me,and Jordyn:-)
Me and Jaz!

Charlie and Arianna!
Me and Jaz

Me and Douglas in the Background:-)

The All Nighter Spring Formal!

2009-05-04T16:03:00.000-07:00

Mother daughter Banquet (Me and my Sis:-)

Enjoying Beautiful Spring Weather!

Well last week we went to a All nighter banquet and it was a blast!!! We went with our youth group. And two of my friend's that are from different church's drove with us Jared and Rachel. We had a good group come from our church.The schedule we had for the banquet was at 6:00 p.m. we depart from the church, 7:30 p.m. we arrive at the hotel for the dinner, at 10:00 we heard some preaching at Bible baptist church of Everett,WA! The services went great! After the services we went to go skating and Bowling it was a whole lot of fun! And we didn't get home til' 4:30 A.M.!!!!!!!! Then the next day we had a Mother Daughter Banquet so I was really tired! But it was fun:-)Here are some pic's.

A Wonderful Drive Home:-)

Our Youth Group

Somebody who got a hold of my camera(Caleb and David!)
These are from our friend Jared.

The Youth Conference!!!

2009-04-20T21:04:00.000-07:00

We went to a great youth conference last week! It was soooooo much fun! I got to hang out with friend's that I haven't seen in a long time! I got to hear great preaching from Pastor Jones! He was such a blessing and soooooo funny. On Friday we went to Sprinker in Spanaway,WA. There we played broom hokey,ice skating,Volley ball, and a whole lot more. Easter went very good. I got to help out with junior church Sunday morning and it was fun! Next Friday Me,Justina,and Nolan are going to a Formal all nighter! I am sooooo excited I have never been to an all nighter banquet and we are also going to go skating and do some bowling. And it doesn't end til' 3:00 A.M.!!! This Saturday we are having teen soul winning I'm excited about that also. And next week is our Mother daughter banquet. So I've got plenty of stuff to look forward to! Today We cleaned the house and us kid's got wet today on our porch and enjoyed some tanning:-) It was really warm today so we took advantage of that! And the kid's had fun because mom bought a pool too. Logan said the cutest thing today. He said ''I broke a bee and I saw his heart!'' Oh! And the grandparent's, Uncle Matt and cousin's came over today and had dinner. Well that's it for now! TTFN! Kenz

It is Raining.

2009-02-23T16:23:00.000-08:00

Well it is raining right now and I'm just waiting for my Grandparents to get here with some of my sibling's. Today we cleaned the house and we finished watching the movie The Hiding Place. If you have not seen that movie or read the book you should because it shows what the Jew's and many other people went through at the concentration camp's. But any way's as I was saying......yesterday was fun! After church my youth leader's(Bro.Aaron and Mrs.Jayme) took Me,Justina,Nolan,and my friend Charlene to Pizza Hut! And we talked,ate,talked,ate,and talked some more! And let me tell ya those Hershey bread stick type of thing's are soooooooo good!!! I love em'. But anyhooooo we had a good time to say the least! It was my turn to watch the nursery for choir (which was before evening service) and I had a good time. There is this one girl her name is Audrey and she is sooooo cute and funny. I was talking to her and her mother about what we wanted to be and Audrey said she wanted to be an archaeologist and I wondered how she knew that word at her age and I asked her where she learned that word and she said '' I was born with the word!'' I thought that was to cute. Church went very good. We celebrated Pastor Stows Birthday yesterday and he preached last night. And we had cake after the service's. The children of the church right now are raising money for summer camp by selling Little Cesare's food. And I think that there is not one Adult in our church that can say no to any child that comes up to them and asks!I am blessed with such a loving and caring church! This Saturday is going to be our first Youth visitation! I am sooooo excited! We tried it before but nobody showed up and then we tried it again and Mr.and Mrs.Irlbacher had to go out of town. So we are hoping and praying it goes through this time. Well that it for now! TTFN,Kenz

BEAUTIFUL DAY!!!

2009-02-20T16:31:00.000-08:00

Today was a beautiful day!!! Not one cloud in the sky! I may sound ridiculous but when you don't see the sun for a LONG TIME then you really get excited when you do! Anyhoooo....I hope everyone had a Wonderful and Romantic Valentines Day:-) For me Valentines day is a day to realize how God has blessed me with such a loving and caring family and to show my love back. I didn't really do anything for Valentines Day But the night before Me and My sis Justina got to go to a Valentine Banquet I wish i got pic's but I didn't:-( Anyhooooooooooooooo we had a great time talking and laughing with friend's, and us teenager's to got to model off the stuff the church was auctioning. It was held at my friend's church in DuPont,WA. This week has been pretty good. We have been going to a park near us and we have met a couple of new friend's. We've been quite busy with our church lately. We just had a Mission's Conference and on the last night of the conference our youth group served probably a 100 people dinner and it was a lot of fun!!! I got stay at church all day that Sunday and help my Grandma with the great helper's Mrs.Lanway,Justina,Nolan,and Megan. We had fun that's all i can say about that! I'm sure everyone knows by now that my mom is expecting another baby but ya never know. Today me and some of my sibling's are going to a Sport Activity tonight with the Sunquist's and their College and career class so I'm excited. Well i better get ready ttfn! Kenz

Where Has The Time Gone?!?!

2008-12-26T18:57:00.000-08:00

Hey Everyone it's been quite a while since I've done a post! I don't even know where to start! Well Me and my family have a house now. And we will lord willing be living here in Graham,WA til' July. Then from their I have no idea! We are member's of my Grandparent's church their in Roy,WA. Everyone there at Calvary in Roy have been an encouragement and a blessing to me and my family. We moved into the house with practically nothing and now our house is filled with stuff that the people of the church gave to us. We have Couches,Table's,desk's, TVs,Matching Twin Bed's,and all sort's of thing's! I love it here in Washington! It has snowed now for about two week's now! And we have a huge hill behind us that is perfect for sledding! We also got to have the cousin's over to spend the night. And we had a blast! We played murder in the dark,Mophia,and we went sledding for about half the day! And we were also planning on taking the bus with them to the mall. And we walked quite a way's to the bus stop and we waited at the bus stop for about an hour and i was not wearing snow clothing so I was so cold,frozen, and numb! The bus ended up not coming and we had to head back! So most of us kid's took the key's and ran a head to the house. When we got there we turned on the fire and watched a movie! I am so thankful for a fire place!!! But other than that we had a good time:) Christmas was great. But the day went by so fast!!! I had my first white Christmas! And i got my boot's that i wanted really bad and Nolan got a hamster for Christmas and now Noah wants to buy a hamster! He's actually buying one tonight:) Hope everyone had a great Christmas! And hope you also have a Happy New Year. TTFN,Kenzie

Update

2008-10-11T15:24:00.000-07:00

Hey Everyone! Its been a long time since i've posted! Well i got to go to NYC and BROADWAY SHOW!!! It was so much fun!!! If you want to see the pic's of the broadway show just go to my mom's blog. I'm in Washington right now and my dad has a job. We will be here for lordwilling 6 month's so we can get some thing's done and organized. Just wanted to give ya'll an update! Kenz

Hello from Florida!!!

2008-05-25T13:50:00.000-07:00

Greeting's from Florida! We have been in Florida now for more than three week's and I'm having a blast! We got to go to a church on a Sunday night and we got to meet an impersonator of John Wayne! He has a very cool and unique ministry! It was a real pleasure meeting him! I got to see and swim in the Atlantic ocean for my first time! And to top it off i got to see the space shuttle take off from the beach! It was a really cool experience! We are staying at a KOA RV park in Orlando that has a pool...so we are doing a lot of swimming! The day we got here we found out that they hold church services here in the park! The pastor is Jeff Burris he and his family r a huge blessing! The RV park is Refuge Baptist's temporary home! Two Friday's ago we started our 10 day pass to Disney World! It has been so much fun but it is miserably hot!!! We have a Pet now! We (I) found a Snake by an outside bathroom! My dad caught it and brought it to church the next day. We did not touch it til we knew what it was! Come to find out Pastor Burris is an expert with snakes! We also found out it was a corn snake.It Is one of the perfect snakes for a pet! And has Beautiful color's! We named it Freddy! We all put our money together and bought all it's special Needs! Some of my friend's out there are probably thinking I'm gross or crazy but i love snakes! I actually asked for a snake for Christmas when i was ten and now my wish came true:-)

Here's Nolan holding Freddy!

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2008-05-25T13:17:00.000-07:00

They say a picture can say a THOUSAND WORD'S SO.......here ya go:)

Where to Start......

2008-05-24T13:32:00.000-07:00

Incredible American pizza Co.

Pastor Pope and us!!!

Richard and Grace MacQueen
The Mooney's and us!
Mother Daughter Banquet

Me and Bekah Petrick

Knouf family!

I don't even now where to start! We have been at so many places since the last time I posted! Well....I'm finished with school for the year! We have been to so many places! A few week's ago we were in Oklahoma city. I had so much there!!! I got to be at an all week preacher's meeting! It went great! There was a lot of preacher's there and their kid's! So i had a lot of fun fellowshipping!!! On Thursday night my cousin Grace Knouf Graduated! Then on Saturday she became Grace MacQueen! The wedding turned out great! What was really funny was when we first came to Oklahoma city they had a tornado!!! And we found out it was 5 block's away from us! We didn't get to see it though:( We got to sing in Pastor Sisson's church on mother's day! The night before mother's day they had a mother daughter banquet and my mom was the special speaker! She did great! Mrs.Melinda Sisson bought us all new outfit's for the banquet! We also got to sing at Pastor Heinz church in Lawton,Oklahoma! It was a blessing being there! On Sunday's they pick up soldier's for church and then they provide lunch for them! It was fun being there! I beat one of the soldier's in checker's:) And i had a really good time hanging out with Emily Heinz!(Pastor Heinz daughter) We had so much fun with them! We got to hike,see tar pit's,the holy city,Buffalo, prairie dog's, wild turkey ,deer,and a museum! It was a really good experience!!! After that we went to Texas then came back to Oklahoma got to have a day with Mrs.Melinda Sisson's and her son's Sean and Jacob! We got to go to Incredible American pizza co. It was a lot of fun! I got to Go kart race! Sadly I came in 2ND place:( On Sunday we visited southwest baptist church,Pastor Davison. There we got to see the Mooney's! I didn't get a picture so I'll have to use the old one:) Last Monday we stayed in Lawton RV park on the base! There we stayed with the Petrick's! We had a lot of fun! We found a perfect part of the creek for us kid's to go swimming in! We had a great time! On Tuesday we left heading for Florida! Wed we stopped and stayed and visited at Pastor Pope's church in Houston,Texas. It was a blessing meeting the pastor and his church! Thursday night we stayed in Louisiana! It was very pretty, but very humid!!! Then Friday night we stayed in Alabama and now we are in Florida looking for a place to stay for the night! That's it for now! TTFN!

(((Sring Break)))

2008-03-26T13:30:00.000-07:00

My cousin's and us!

Hey Everyone!!! Hope everyone had a Happy Resurrection day! My Spring break was last week and it was great! Justina celebrated her b-day party last Thursday at the Olympia mall here in WA. We did a Scavenger hunt there and we got a lot of cool stuff! My cousin's got to come and also the Sunquist's....it was a lot of fun! The next day me and Justina got to go to a youth activity,it was a progressive dinner! And we played a really hard but fun game! The game went til' the activity was over. The game was you couldn't say certain word's like no,yes,and,I,is! It was really hard! I got second place!(Surprisingly!) The next day I got to go to another youth rally with my friend's at Bethel Baptist! It was a lot of fun! We went hunting for candies and every candy we find you get a dollar! Then after that i got to wrap Jessica(my friend) in toilet paper! It was Great:-) Easter Sunday was great! Somebody accepted Christ! And they had a full Auditorium! After services we went to Olive Garden with my Grandparent's,Uncle Steven,and family! It was good food! And i think that's it for now!TTFN!

Great times!

2008-03-17T14:10:00.000-07:00

Special Speaker's!
Mrs.Teft and Me
Ladies from Bethel Baptist church.
Dad,Pastor Graves,Bro.Burden
Justina,Me,and Ashleigh
Grandma and Mrs.Balinda

Me,Kaitlynn,Moana,and Jessica!
We just had a youth activity last Friday! It was SO.........FUN! We had a great devotional by Bro.Aaron, had taco's from jack in the box, and played fun games! We turned all the light's out every where! and we played a game called alien's vs predator it was so fun! I was an alien:) Oh... and Justina's friend Ashleigh got to come and also spend the night! The next day we started heading towards poulsbo,WA.. Before we got there we stopped at one of my family's favorite restaurant Godfather's pizza! It was so good! The next day we went to Bible Baptist, Poulsbo,WA, Pastor Graves. It was a blessing being there! My dad preached and we sang. After the evening services we started heading for Roy,WA. I also wanted to tell you that about a two week's ago we went to a ladies Conference it was alot of fun! It was at pastor Cambell's church in Marysville. The theme was Addicted!It was so cool. The messages were great! And met new Friend's there. The main speaker was Mrs.Teft from Hammond,Indiana. She was great. The teens had their own special room and speakers it was cool. After the services me,mom,Justina,grandma,and the ladies from Roy went to DQ it was alot of fun! I want to give a special thank you to my Grandma for paying so i could go!Well that's it for now:)TTFN!

Saying Good-bye:(

2008-02-19T17:03:00.000-08:00

Bekah,Me,Jeff,Justina,and Brock

There's Kevin,Zac,Laurie,and me

Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't posted in a looooooong time!!! Busy is the only word I can use and sick. Well......on to the subject:) I think this was one of my hardest good-bye's ever!!! Especially to my family! And also my church. We only had an hour with the Nolanite's to say good-bye:( I miss them already! And we only had after church services to say good bye to my friends! But i'm thankful that they had the youth snac on my last sunday there. It was a lot of fun!!! We got to have ho-bo soup......it's where everyone bring's a can of some kind of vegetable and we mix all of it together......I was not planning on eating it but certain people(Wendy,sam,Bro. Mason:) was telling me to eat it.....so i did! And it was very GOOD surprisingly:) After we ate we played extreme duck,duck goose it was fun but it was pretty hard running on tile. We were planning on doing it in sock's but thank the lord we didn't because it would have hurt!!! And we played another game,but i can't remember the name of it. Oh Ya.....and before we ate Bro. Casey gave a really good devotional on being a Ho-Bo.(You don't want to be a ho-bo) Well right now we are in Klamath,Ca. It is pretty here!!! We just went to a park yesterday....... It was a lot of fun just spending time with family. Last week we were in Santa Cruz,Ca. It was really pretty there also! We got to walk along the beach and watch the sunset!!! The next day we got to go see a old wrecked ship on the beach. It was cool, but we wanted to here the story on why its there ,but there was no story on why its there. I thought that was kinda weird. We also stopped and took some pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge that day......it was fun! I am so excited to get to Washington! We will lord willing be there on Monday! Well that's it for now!

Eva,me,and Mr. and Mrs.Purdy on top.
Youth Snac

Wendy,Laurie,and Me!

Yucky Juice!!

2008-01-08T15:30:00.000-08:00

Here's Logan,Kaylyn,and Grace.
Logan has said quite a few cute thing's lately. We were at Aunt Sileena and Uncle Matt's house and Logan wanted juice and they only had Vegetable juice. So i told Logan that they only had yucky juice and he said '' well we could clean it'':) I laughed! Right now we are having to give a quarter for every name we call each other so one day Logan got me so mad i said "You Blank" and he started crying saying I'm not a blank!!! I think that's it for now! TTYL!

FUN,FUN,FUN!!!

2007-12-14T14:59:00.000-08:00

Me and Sophia!

Last week was a lot of fun!!! We went to Disneyland last Tuesday, Wednesday,and Thursday! We got to see all the Christmas decoration's and one thing we were looking forward to was seeing the big Christmas tree! We left Tuesday after noon for Disneyland and we got there about 2:00 p.m.,and basically saw Santa Claus, the Christmas parade, and fire work's at Disneyland. Then we went to California Adventure ate dinner and went to go on more rides! And this is really cool! Me, Justina,Nolan,Hailey,and Noah got in line for a ride and while we were in line i looked over into another lane and i saw some one who looked very familiar and she started looking at me and then i realized that it was Sophia my cabinmate this year at camp Ironwood!!! We were both excited to see each other! I was able to get her e-mail and stuff. And I cutted in line with my some of my sibling's so me and her can catch up on talking and I also got to meet her brother. Seeing her there got me all excited. After the ride she had to go so we didn't get to hang-out to long:( Wednesday was a lot of fun and we did not stay there all day. We went to church wed. night at Pastor Schriber's church in Norwalk it was great being there! We got to sing unexpectedly and they also celebrated the pastor's wife's birthday after services!!! It was a lot of fun fellow shipping with them!!! They were a great blessing to us! They spoiled us rotten!!! On Thursday we went to Disneyland again! It was a lot of fun spending the last day together as a family!TTFN" P.S. I also got a Minnie Christmas hat!

HEY!!!

2007-12-01T15:28:00.000-08:00

Me,Mia,and Molly
Mia's cute new outfit!!!

I had an interesting weekend. We sang in a church in Sutherlin, Oregon. It was a lot of fun being there! In the worship service all of us sang then Logan,Levi,and Noah went and sat down while the rest of sang. We were up there singing then all of a sudden Logan and Levi started singing while we were singing,then Levi and Logan started playing. And then Levi ran up on stage! Mom went down off the stage during mine and Justina's part in the song and told them to stop and then got back on stage! We got done singing and the kid's went to there classes. After services we had a pot luck and the food was great!!! After that I met a new friend Molly and we played with her and the teens of the church it was alot of fun!!! I also found out that she knows the Sunquist's real well and the Eackhart's too! After the evening services we started heading for California. We drove all day Monday. And it was not fun I had to sit on my parent's bed in the back and watch Mia and do school! The hard part was doing school in the most moving and bumpy part of the RV! But i lived:) Once i got done with school we went and ate at Home Town Buffet!(oh ya) when we got back to the RV dad started driving and we piled in the back and watched a movie. Except for Levi, he came in when it was basically the end. When it was over I went to my bed to get my night gown and my bed was soaking wet!!! The first thing that went in my Head was someone took a nap on my bed! I went to one of the evil twins (Levi) and he was changed into his night gown already and asked him if he took a nap on my bed and he didn't answer. Then i said where's your clothes that you took off and he pointed to the Washing machine and I knew from that point he was trying to hide what he did,so i pulled out his pant's out of the machine and yep they were soaking wet!!! Now don't forget were driving and it's almost midnight and every one's in bed except for me and dad! We finally got to Anaheim,Ca we parked and I had to wait to get my bed apart because the slide out was in so i couldn't do anything. And finally the slide-out was out and mom woke up so she helped me. So i ended up getting to bed like at 1:00. And that was how my drive was up to California.
Sutherlin,Oregon

Blessing's

2007-11-30T13:39:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't posted in a while. There is so many thing's to post, but I'm gonna talk about the blessing's I've had. First of all Thanksgiving was great! We spent Thanksgiving with my Grandparent's, my Uncle Steven,and the Nolanites. My Grandma gave us all presents! My Grandpa also spoiled me,Justina,and Hailey before Thanksgiving he took us shopping and bought us all jacket's, a scarf,and a new dress for each of us he spoiled us rotten! Now back to Thanksgiving.[lol] I got a pretty red necklace from Grandma! After we opened our presents we said what we were thankful for, then a devotional from Grandpa, prayed, ate, and then all the kid's, dad, uncle Matt, me, and Grandpa went for a walk\hike. It was so much fun! We also played picturnary and my team won!(oh Ya!) My mom took all of us kid's to Godfathers pizza and chuck-e-cheese it was so much fun just spending time as a family. I got to go to the home mission's conference I was wanting to go to. It turned out great! I got to see friend's that i wanted to see there and the preaching was great! I also got to go with my dad to this restaurant where all the preacher's meet after the services and we went there at 1:00 in the morning and we didn't get to the RV til' 3:00. We had a family conference last week at my Grandparent's church in Roy,Washington it was great! I got to give a testimony about being the oldest of eight,and it was also my first time so i was nervous! We sang at a church in Longveiw,WA it was a blessing singing there and the people were so friendly! After the Sunday night services we went to a really neat coffee shop with the church and there i got to get to know the teens there and they are so friendly. The next day me,Justina,and these girl's we met at the church Shelby and Katie went shopping and then went to the coffee shop again and had girl talk.(which could be anything[lol])After that Katie drove us to meet our parent's at this family's house that was having us for dinner and we had another great time there. And that family had eight kid's also so we could relate with each other.[lol] We are now heading towards California very slowly. We are in Sutherlin,Oregon right now on our way here we stopped to see one of world's largest sea lion cave it was so cool and big! And that is some of my Blessing's!TTFN!

Me,Katie,Shelby,and Justina

Mean flies and Nice praying mantice

2007-09-10T16:02:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone, i just want to tell you what happened to my brother's and my dad who went out to pic blackberry's. They were walking along a railroad track picking blackberry's when all of a sudden someone starts crying and everyone started crying and by that time they realized it was bee's( or mean flies) and they all started running or hurrying along when they realized they left one of the poor evil twins!(Logan)But it was only for a moment when they realized they left him! So they ran as fast as they could while the bee's(or mean flies) were chasing them down the railroad track! But finally they think while the sting of torture was on them and they hid beneath a bush. And fortunately they lived! When it was safe they got up and called mom (Praise the lord for technology!) and mom picked them up and they got home safely. It got very crazy when they got home. There was brother's crying,talking, and asking for food! And that is some thing I'd like to call crazy!(Especially at a time like that!) They all had pretty bad stings like Logan for instance;PRETTY BAD. Dad seemed fine. He was making humor out of it!(like he always does!)And the other's were just crying because it stung.(it didn't look to bad at all)

Now, about the praying mantis. It is a nice bug according to Levi(one of the evil twins). And of course he's the one who named bee's-mean flies. Why is the praying mantis a nice bug you may ask? Because it does not bite or sting! My dad discovered one at a church in Greeley Hill's. He let Levi and Logan hold it and of course i did not even touch the thing or get near it. Some of you may have known me as someone who catches bug's with my bare hand's. But that Mackenzie is long gone! I got's to go!

Back to school!

2007-09-06T14:16:00.000-07:00

I just thought that this picture is cute!

Me and my sibling's just started school yesterday.........which was Wednesday. We are on a complete schedule for each and everyday during school day's! I'm glad we started school now because i don't feel like I'm lazy! But I'm not completely happy about the schedule! I wake up at 6:45 a.m and to 8:30 i have to do my routine plus my chore and getting my brothers something to eat. At 8:30 we have devotion's, prayer, and we practice song's. And 9:00- 12:00 a.m we do school. 12:00-1:00 is lunch. P.E. is 1:oo-1:30 and my computer time and Nolan and Justina's instrument practice is 1:30-2:30. And to 3:00 it is reading time and quite time. And no movies til' after dinner,chores,and bath's! So we basically have the whole in tire day planned! It's just like actual school!

Oh........i have to tell you what my optimistic mother said! I was looking through my b-day card's asking if i should keep the ones from her and dad, so i can enjoy looking at them in the future. And she said: No, they will only get you depressed! And i asked: Why on earth would i be depressed? And she said: Because when you read it in the future you'll be wishing and saying ''I wish my mother was still alive.'' Can you believe she said that! But of course some of you can believe that. It didn't upset me, i actually thought it was funny. I love to tell it to people. I was not majorly surprised because she's like my optimistic grandpa. But there not really depressed they just like to irritate us in that way.(lol)

Justina plays the piano a little! She is still learning and Nolan is learning how to play the trumpet. I'm not doing any instrument right now. Ummmmm i think that is it for now.

On the road again

2007-09-03T15:58:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone, me and my family are on the road again! It was pretty hard saying good-bye, but you got to hand it to me i did not cry! But of course i was excited about seeing all my other friend's and family. We are now in Washington, but our trip up here was slow because we went to Disneyland. And then we went to see the Yosemite which was sooooooo beautiful! But it's one of those park's where you got to have at least a whole day to see everything. Me,Mom,and Dad enjoyed seeing the Yosemite,but we were only there two hour's because it was Wed.. So we didn't get to see a lot of it. The evil twins of course was interested in nothing except for jumping and running around the theatre room that the Yosemite park had. And it was of course dark and full of people trying to watch the film about the Yosemite,but they can't watch a film with the evil twins running around the front platform laughing. I have learned not to get embarrassed as much because i know they will not stop! We just went to godfathers today with the Sunquist's. They have seven kid's going on eight so when we get together it's a crowded restaurant! I love to see people's faces and comment's when were together. Me and my sister Justina are good friend's with the two oldest. We love talking with them because we can relate with and understand each other. One of the thing's this year I'm hoping and praying to go to is the Yakima missions conference they have great preaching and i want to see all my ministry friend's that i can only basically see at mission conferences or preacher's meeting's. So far my parent's say we are going! So i am very excited! Me and my sibling's are starting school the day after tomorrow. And i think I'm the only one who's KIND-OF excited about school this year! Me and my sister are so funny we will say we love school one day and then the very next day we will say we hate school! But i think most kid's are like that.(i think) We are doing the ACE program this year so i hope it's a little easier. But i don't know? That's all for now!

Summer Blast

2007-08-28T11:53:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone this summer has been so fun! But very fast! There was quite a few thing's that happened this summer. Like my new baby sister Mia Joy Knouf. She is so precious in our family. We knew that some of my brother's and sister's would start acting weird with a new member to our family. But surprisingly everyone has been taking it pretty well. Except for one of the evil twins Logan. He loves to kiss baby Mia, but he also loves to scream and cry a lot over the dumbest thing's! And there has got to be love and patience with my evil twins. I got to go to camp Ironwood this year it was a lot of fun and the preaching was great. I also got to go to a youth conference in long beach and got to go to Disneyland! And this year i had a big 50's birthday party it was so fun and there was a great turn out. I got to see some friend's that i haven't seen in about over a year! I have my grandma to thank for my costume and most of the decoration's! And of course my mom and dad for the effort and money. And who are the waitresses you might ask, the one the right is my Aunt Sileena and the one on the left is Mrs. Esha a good friend of ours. Thank you mean waitresses. And i got my first cup cake smashed in my face by my good friend Priscilla. Of course i got her back! Justina,Nolan,Hailey,and Noah left with our Grandma to Washington. Such a relief! But then again we have the evil twins Logan and Levi! And of course precious Mia. We went to Disneyland again and it was interesting. Me,Mom,the evil twins,and Mia all went while dad took the RV in to get fixed. My mom could only take care of Mia, so guess who i had, you guessed it the Evil Twins! They were literally dunking there head's in the water fountain! And they were running any where and everywhere! Me and mom were sooooooooooo thankful dad came to Disneyland to help after he picked up the RV. I was sooooo tired after the end of the day! And now we are heading towards Washington very slowly because we are gonna stop and see the Yosemite. And that's my summer blast!