running and other random things

we are in AZ.
yesterday i went running. i think i ran a little more then 3 miles. it is different running here because we are so high. i think i am going to do a very short run today. maybe 2 miles. i don't know. the Philippines is getting closer!!!! i am writing a noval this school year. it is very hard. i like writing but a whole very complex noval is hard!!!

we have been seeing many people. the most made comment is "wow you have grown" i just nod and say it has been 4 years. or else i say "can you pls tell my dad i am taller then him?" i just have to make sure my dad does not forget!!!!!:)

i am having fun doing card tricks on people.

i better go do some more school.









wind blown sand burns my eyes. the sun scorches every thing it touches.


i fry eggs out on the sand. just kidding but it feels like i could.

alive

well i am alive...... sort of.besides going crazy packing i am alive. we leave for AZ at 4:30am tomorow morning. i have not written in forever and i will explain later.

life will be suitcases for 6 weeks now. and it already has been for 9days. we moved out of our house 9 days ago. we are now living in some one else house.
i have driven dirt bikes a few times since last time i wrote. i will post all kinds of pictures when i get on my own computer. right now i am on my grandpas computer because we have no internet at the house we are staying.

yesterday we went to the mennonite haritage village yesterday and saw all kinds of ol steam tracters that was cool.
well i will write later.


kevin

Eagle lake

We got back from Eagle Lake on Saturday evening. we were there to celebrate my Grandpa and Grandma's 50th anniversary. we got there on Tuesday. Tuesday evening i went canoeing with my cousin Margret. we were having lots of fun until i decided i wanted to get off on the floating dock. getting off was no problem it was the jumping in that caused so much pain. anyway we ended up in freezing water (we are in Canada remember) with a sinking canoe. lots of fun. we got out ok. and we saved the canoe. if you think you have ever been cold you are right. oh i mean you have never been this cold. what was worse is 3 days later my cousin David made me go swimming in that very freezing water. i am sure i saw ice floating around.(just kidding) i stayed in for 10 minutes and when i got out i could not move i was so cold. i went and sat by a fire and after i warmed up a bit i started shivering a lot, as in i could hardly even sit. other things i enjoyed a little more would be:

• canoeing when i did not fall in
• hiking
  
• table tennis tournament (which i won)
  
• jumping on the trampoline
• shooting bows and arrows
• eating great

i am looking at my last blog and i did not say any thing about our trip. here it is.
we went to Indiana and stayed with some good friends. we stayed there 2 nights. we had lots of fun. then we went to Pennsylvania and stayed there a while. i don't know how long. while there i spoke to the teens of our church there. that was ok. i did not do well but hey who does on their first try? after that we went to Maine and stayed with my uncle and Aunt and all my cousins. that was fun too. we went back to Pennsylvania then we came home. i would put pictures but they are all on my moms computer.

Dirt Bikes, professionals, and other cool things

on Monday some people took us to Sandy Lands to dirt bike. we went on all kinds of cool trails, some if them very sandy. that was tons and tons of fun. when we got back to their house we went on a track. there where some huge jumps. i went on some of the smaller ones. that was fun!!! as in extremely cool!!! Awesome, and every thing along that line.

my dad cleaned out my computer and reinstalled every thing. this morning i thought i would do math. i turned on the computer and opened up my math. nothing..... tried again....nothing...again...nothing.... ahhhh!!! oh well no math today. oh no, how sad. sorry mom maybe tomorrow:)

yesterday we spent at the court. in the morning David Snider (the number 1 Canada singles player) asked me if i wanted to do some drills with him. that was cool!!! not many kids get to do that.

well maybe i should try to do some school even if i can't do math.

rafting, and other stuff.......i plan to put pictures on too.

yesterday we went to somebody's house for the afternoon. we had lots of fun. plus they had really really good food. while there we watched "Prince Caspian". that was cool.
My mom got an ipod yesterday. did i say the reason we were at peoples house is because my dad and mom went shopping? well that was the reason. so now we have and ipod. that is cool.

i sit here writing and listening to music. i wonder....how it would be to live in the same house all your life, to know the same people. to never see any thing except what is here. of all the strange things that would be strange.
for me life is not knowing and yet trusting. uncertainty is forgotten by faith. yesterday is a memory of another world, a distant land. A fairy tale? maybe. dwarfs and elves? i would not be surprised. yesterday is a smell, a sight, a feeling that comes back only when unexpected. yesterday is something i will never know for sure. tomorrow? i don't know. God does and i will leave it to him. today is something i have never known, something that shocks me and yet brings back memories of of other places where the joy was the same. today is a joy, a journey, a God who never fails. I'm so mixed up i don't know what is up or down. God keeps showing me things about him and about my self. up or down doesn't matter any more, only he does. following him and getting to know him more is all that matters now. every thing may be new yet he stays the same. so worry is forgotten in the joy that overwhelms. i have peace in him. so why worry?

wow i just said a lot!!!! when i start writing i can't quit can i? so if you totoly got lost on what i was saying, it was just every thing that goes through my head. so now you know what i think about:)

kaleb and i made a raft and went rafting down the dich

our fort a long time ago before it turned to water:)

bike

one thing i forgot to say last time is that i got a bike!!! yea!!! if you don't already understand, i am very excited!!!
my mom is going to a concert this evening. i hope maybe i can go to the court while she is there. unfortunately i don't think it will work. oh well.

i just finished writing 2 more stories. now just editing.... or torture which ever you would rather.

we just found out that training here is over. to bad...to sad......I'm not glad....I'm just a lad....I'm not that mad..... its not a fad....or an add for that matter.....i think i lost my mind....will you help me to find?.....it would be kind....yikes I'm going insane.
maybe now you know why my mom some times gets headaches. but if you were to listen to Kaleb you would under why my head always hurts. (just joking Kaleb)
Kaleb broke a racket the other day in training. only the 3rd.




well now i am going to go eat because I'm hungry. that would be the reason i eat wouldn't it? man talking is so much work... i can say things so many wrong ways.

having not written in a long time

well I guess i have not written in years. Maybe not years, but you get what i mean. i have tried and tried to post but something happened on my computer because i could not. it has gotten a lot warmer since i wrote last. today is 0 degrees. i think. it was 15 a couple days ago. it did not stay.
i am not totally sure what i should say, lots of things have happened. i got a 2 day job at a turkey farm a week or so ago. i worked from about 2 till 4:30. that was cool. mmmmmmmm........ and i started carving a little man.
i finished writing another story. i am going to send it to some writer dude to look at. we went to somebody's cabin for a day, we drove a quad and a snowmobile. that was fun.

i got stuck with the snowmobile, one trucks got stuck and one of the quads got stuck and the other quad got a broken track. that made it even more fun!!!
to get to the cabin we drove on a frozen lake. that was awesome.

Words hide their meaning,

The false smile disguises pain,

Anger covers a broken heart,

But joy can never hide.

Smile. I hope they understand what I want it to mean. Hope they understand. Talk to them….. NO WAY!!! Why would I tell them? So I wait… hoping somebody tells them. But we have the gift of life so why do I sit smiling and hoping? Fear. Fear of people, fear of myself, that I won’t say the right thing. Is it courage I need, or faith and trust? Faith in the fact that He is stronger in me than he that is in the world, trusting He will give me the words to speak when the time comes. That is the courage that I need.

Moose hockey game and other stuff about something

on Saturday somebody gave us tickets to a hockey game. we had the best seats ever. It was really fun. My first ever hockey game! i have a cold today. a nasty cruel mean cold who for the sake of torture lives. he or it loves torture but i like getting rid of it. there is another tournament in 2 weeks.


on my last post i posted a video but it was not the one i wanted so here is the one i meant to put on.























they don't really understand what they talking about, if they did they would not say such silly things. science they say. were they there in the beginning? did they see it? so they believe some dude who says he knows every thing. if they have faith in a human dude that fails every day why don't they think the truth is true? why is faith in a human guy who is stuck up and self filled so much better then faith in a God who proves himself every day? humans always fail you will find, but God never does. the dude who knows every thing knows only what he wants to know. he might have found the truth but it was hard so he made up what he thinks is easy but what is really death. they fell to the trap.

others say it can't happen but they say they believe in God. if they really believe they would believe that he can do every thing, he is God after all! they saw but they did not believe, they heard but they did not believe.

2 silver medals

In the last tournament i got 2 silvers. no medals, just prizes. between Kaleb and i we got a coffee maker, 2 suit cases, some gadget for counting your steps and some thing that waters your plants for you.
i hurt my back in the quarter finals doubles. Kaleb and i still won the semis ( Kaleb did most of the work) but champion ship game for both doubles and singles i did not do well because of my hurt back. oh well it was tons of fun.

in this video Kaleb fell and lost the point.

mmmmmmm, i love snowmobiles....some times i like school other times i like other things

the other day (last Friday) i went to my friends house and we went snowmobiling. very much fun. my bear is going good. it is not hunting yet but hey maybe it is a vegetarian:) he also is missing his head and feet.(they are not carved yet) my mom is out, doing something. i have some school left, maybe i should get it done. on the other hand i could always do extra tomorrow though i doubt i would feel any more willing to do it tomorrow. although there is always a first.











"wish i would have the courage to totally surrender, to give very thing i had but it is so hard and i so much want to do this or that, they say. i ask what could be more worth your life than the one who placed you on this earth and made the feeling you call happiness. there is joy in the suffering and in the living and giving him every thing, i don't say it is easy, only that there is joy, for does it not say that "let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and protector of our faith, who for the JOY set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of God. consider him who endured such opposition for sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart"? "i did not know it was this hard" they say, but it says "In fact, every one who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted" but is is in our weakness that he speaks the loudest to others i think. "but he said to me "my grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness" "
by some writer guy.
just some thoughts maybe not complete but thoughts all the same.

mmmmmmm somthing about freezing rain, carving, and my brother being really smart and making a grape machine

Today there is freezing rain. This morning we pushed somebody out of the ditch. the roads are solid ice. my dad had to stay home from work today. there is another tournament at the end of this month. yesterday Kaleb and i went rollerblading around our neighborhood. it was really really warm yesterday

here is a picture of my work shop

my boot toothpick holder

my bird that is not finished yetkaleb and i went nicely down a ice hill and he nicely scraped his eye.

Kaleb made a grape machine for my mom for her birthday. you pay a coin and it gives you a grape.

Tournament, bronze meddles, raffle prizes

the tournament went good, Kaleb got bronze in singles under 12. i got bronze in under 16 singles. in doubles we had to play against number 2 seed players first game. we lost. we did win consolations though.

my latest carving protect is a bear.




"wind blows over a field of white, trees are few but all the more beautiful, people say it is a wonderful sight, how it happened they don't know. How could they miss a glimpse of their creator? I don't know. for me it shows a little of what he is. I find peace there in the quiet of the out doors, there I find time to talk with the creator of all the earth. be still a moment and know he is there, always. not just a feeling but a fact and a love that never ends, not just a whim that came floating on the wind but a solid rock to build your life on."
by somebody who wants with all his heart to be like his savior, to follow him in every thing.

mmmmm....the title of this post will be.......I'm not sure what it will be so this will be it.

i am sitting in a chair at the computer blogging. i hear my little brother singing, my dad getting ready to talk on Sunday night, and my mom telling my dad he could do such and such on his power point. i hear the heater running, i feel very cold in spite of all its work. not a very uncommon feeling here in Canada.

the tournament is in 6 days. I'm not nervous yet, and I wont be till I get into the car to go. then I will be really nervous. and I wont stop being nervous till I start playing.



Here are some Christmas pictures. they are not the most interesting pictures in the world. but they are pictures. not that i needed to put pictures on here it just seems better if i do.




well maybe I should think about going to bed. i hope thinking does not involve doing whatever I'm thinking about. no, but really i better go to bed.


feelings i feel of cold wind, sights i see of plain white fields. this is Canada after all.

New Year, And School Again.....

I started school on Monday. yea!!!!!! (that is what i am supposed to say right Mom?) Pain some people say is school, but for me, i love it!! (school)

Yesterday we went to a court. i got to play with some really good guys. that was really fun. we are now members of that club. the tournament is in 9 days. i am still training hard. i hope to get at least to the semi's. I have to play in under 16 because i was born in 1994. they don't seem care that i was born at the very end of 1994. so i guess i will be the youngest in my category.