Something Greater video...

   Yeah, so just last night we went to our drummer`s house and rocked it out. And no, this is not our only song, we have many more, but this is probably our favorite one just to JAM to. I think that`s why there`s so many videos of this song, but here`s another one for you. I encourage you to watch it. It`s fairly entertaining. I think South Pole even drops a drum stick.






--Rye Bread

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  Wow. I nearly cried when I saw how long it`s been since I`ve posted. Just kidding, but seriously, it was kinda sad. It seems that I have been extremely busy lately, but, maybe that`s just me. :) Of the many things that have been going on lately, one of them was my sister`s graduation open house party thingy. It was a blast!! Here are some pictures:

Photo credit: my father

  From left to right in the above picture is my sister Sunshine and her friends India and Anna. It was awesome getting to know both of these girls. :)

Preparing the coffee punch!! Photo credit: my father

  

Sunshine with her buddies Lindsey and Alexa. Photo credit: myself :)

Photo credit: probably my dad

  The fabulous, delicious, fantastic, mouth-watering, irresistible, delectable, rich, unbelievable cakes made by none other than the amazing Cassandra!!!!! Thanks for the cake Cassandra!! It really was delightful. =)

Uh-oh....   photo credit: my father

Everyone was rather impressed with South Pole and Mark`s jumping skills.

Ginger, eh, not so much. ;) Photo credit: my father

 All in all, it was quite a fun time and thank you to all who came. :D Here are some other random pictures of happenings of late:

Baseball with the boys and Peaches.

Playin` out in the cornfield.

Bacon Creek Park

     These are just a couple of things that have been going on, along with some other things that were not photographed. ;) I hope you all have a wonderful rest of the week, and I`m really sorry that T-bird hasn`t posted yet!!
            

--Rye Bread

Randomness....what a surprise!

   Random. It`s a word that applies to me a lot. This will be, like so many other posts, a random one. So please, if you don`t enjoy reading random rambling things, press the x button on your screen; although I would really love it if you read this, but, whichever you choose is fine with me. :) Anyway, life has been CRAZY, getting ready for my sister`s grad party, cleaning, cleaning, cleaning, etc... But hey, at least we don`t have school! =) For now, I guess. Our youth group has been reading this awesome book called When Helping Hurts. Since most of the youth group (including myself and T-bird) are going on a mission trip to New Orleans, we thought it would be a good book to read before we go, not just for the team, but for the whole youth group. It`s been a really good, eye-opening book. You should definitely check it out. :) We had a really fun frisbee game with some of our peeps after Bible study last night (including JD). My team lost all two and a half games (of course), but we were outnumbered, and the other team had The Big C, who probably could`ve beaten us all by himself. Oh well, we are planning another, more official game next week at 5:30 (5:00 if you want pizza) before Bible study, and I will be coming to win. Haha I`m horrible at frisbee, so, that`s not really saying much. :D And one of our friends was driving T-bird, me, and this other guy home after frisbee, and we were driving down this guy`s street to drop him off, driving reeeeeaaallllly really slow, banging Tedashii and putting on our gangsta faces because we knew no one else was around, and all of a sudden we`re like, "Uh, there`s a car right behind us." Whoops. So, we sped up really fast and we didn`t feel very cool anymore. Ah well. Sorry, I really like run-on sentences. Anyway, in the past couple weeks we`ve had two drama performances, a symphony concert, T-bird`s piano recital, AVENGERS!!, de-sandbagging 2,000 sandbags, building a hoop house, chopping up tree branches, taking down our raspberry bushes, dusting ceiling fans, cleaning windows, and desperately trying to get the grass to grow. And it`s only just begun. But it`s pretty amazing to know that God is sovereign, even over the grass growing or not growing. It`s pretty awesome that we serve an all-powerful God. Sorry, that was a lot longer and way more random than I thought it was gonna be. I apologize. T-bird said he will post soon. :) Have a great day and an awesome weekend!!



--Rye Bread

Videos.....

      Check out these awesome videos featuring Something Greater and a really randomly epic video made by Bertrum, Katie, Sunshine, T-bird, and myself. So please, enjoy. :D








  Hope you liked these videos!! :) Have an awesome day!!!! :D :D






--Rye Bread

Goodbye, 2011... Part 1

     2011 is almost over. A year really isn`t as long as it seems. I hope you all have had a wonderful, Christ-centered year and don`t even try to make a New Year`s Resolution because you probably won`t even be able to keep it. Just kidding, you can if you want but nothing too big. :D :D Anyway, I thought I would post some pictures from our family`s 2011 and I hope you enjoy!!

We went to a couple of weddings including The Big C`s sister`s.

And, Aaron and Anna Nix`s wedding. Yeeaahh, I`m not sure what we were doing.

         One of the most memorable things of the year was when T-bird, me and my parents flew to Ethiopia to meet Peaches for the first time. I`m not sure what that picture is of up there but I thought it looked cool. =)

         That was an amazing, unforgettable trip!! And after waiting about a month we brought our Peaches home. Here are some pictures of that day:

     It`s so amazing to have her in our lives. It was incredible to see God work and time it perfectly. It`s so awesome to look back and see how God worked it out and brought Peaches to our home who is sitting in my lap right now. Wow. Thank you God. Over the summer me, T-bird, and Sunshine went on a mission trip to inner city New Orleans where Hurricane Katrina hit pretty badly. We took pictures, but unfortunately I don`t have access to them right now. Perhaps for another time..... it was an amazing, faith-stretching trip and I really hope we have the opportunity to go again this coming year. Also over the summer we got together with most of my dad`s side of the family at the legendary Johnson Lake. Fun times. However I don`t have time to post any pics so I promise you will get some next part... I hope you have enjoyed these pictures and look out for Part 2!!


--Rye Bread

Rye Bread`s Random Rambles

    I can`t apologize enough for not posting since Thanksgiving! But, sorry anyway. This will just kinda be a random post about this and that so sorry if I begin to ramble. Amid the recent December craziness  we had our church`s annual Night of Christmas Music in which Something Greater and our family performed songs, plus an awesome Nativity that the Youth Group and Company put on! Here are some videos of that night:







  I hope you enjoyed these!! Adding to the fun and craziness of December, we were invited to our friend`s very belated birthday slumber party (we managed to pull off an all-nighter. yeah, I`m kinda out of it =) ) We had a lot of fun and these are some pretty professional-looking pictures taken on the impressive camera on an iPod touch. All sarcasm aside, sorry about the blurriness :)

Video games of course!

What`s a party without skittles and m&m`s?!

And making cappucinnos at 3 in the morning, naturally. =)

And, when you`re at a sleepover with The Big C, you know this movie is gonna show up!! :D good times...

   Well, I want to once again apologize for not posting in FOREVER!!! But, here you go, and I will try to post more frequently in the future, not that anyone really cares. XD I wish you all a Merry CHRISTmas and I hope that you remember it`s about Jesus CHRIST, not Santa. Although, I have been pretty good this year... jk jk. :)



--Rye Bread

Fifteen?!

     Yeah. It`s hard to believe but me and my brother turned fifteen on Sunday. And yes that means we are old enough to get our learner`s permits. O____O   But don`t worry, we haven`t gotten them yet. Soon though.... very soon. Driving aside, we really did have a fantastic birthday. On Saturday we went to Starbucks with who else but the band. After grabbing our coffee we went and had an epic jam session. Here are some pictures:

              After that, we headed back home for guy time with a bunch of our friends. It consisted mostly of air hockey, John Smith, capture the flag, and foursquare. Here are some pictures from our evening:

   


          Well, we are both so thankful for our family and friends who made it such an awesome birthday. Have an excellent night and watch out for us driving on the road. Be a twinkie not a ding-dong...



--Rye Bread

Something Greater

       As you may know, both of us love music. We love to play it, write it, listen to it, you name it. So, once me and T-bird became pretty experienced in the instruments we play, (T-bird: piano, trumpet, a little guitar; me: guitar, trombone, a little piano) we decided to form a band with a couple of our friends. Our band is called Something Greater and I decided to post a video of us playing one night at church. On the drums, we have "South Pole", (looooong story) on the electric guitar is "The Big C", playing the piano is T-bird, and me completely destroying the song on the microphone. Without further ado, here is the song "Lights" from Something Greater:












--Rye Bread