Three Things to Remember

Three things that I walked away from the Texas Faith and Freedom Tour with was:

1.-We must recognize God's Providence, for it is God who governs the affairs of men.

2.- We should honor our father's sacrifices, in accordance with the Word of God in Deuteronomy 32:7.

3.- Persevere! The next generation depends upon us- we are the ones who will be leaving the legacy to the next generation.

Texas Faith and Freedom Tour: Day Two

Day Two of the Texas Faith and Freedom Tour has concluded... already! Time is going by far too fast! I wanted to share with you all some of the photos I got today. Our day began by boarding a bus at 8:00 am, and heading for Austin, the Capital.

Our first stop was to the Texas State History Museum, where this HUGE star was.

Daddy and Myself

Daddy, Mamma, and Myself

Taken by Bill Potter

From there we traveled to the Capital Grounds, where we had lunch, fellowshipped, and enjoyed the friendly squirrels and birds. (They really enjoyed our chips!)

After lunch, Wesley Strackbein and Bill Potter spoke to us about various topics, including Bill Potter sharing the story of Robert Louis Dabney.

We then toured the Texas State Capital

And finally, we visited some memorials surrounding the Capital, and the Texas State Cemetery before loading up and heading back to the Menger Hotel. While we were at the Texas State Cemetery, we saw this gravestone- a distant relative perhaps?! :)

A monument to the author of Old Yeller and Savage Sam

After we arrived back at the Menger Hotel, some dear friends of ours from here in San Antonio, Diana and Regina Hawley, picked us up for dinner. We met some other friends, Matt and Emily Deamer at a Mexican restaurant, and they had a surprise for us! Our friend Micah Pogue, from back home, had flown in early today! It was so nice to see the Hawleys and Deamers again after six months, and we all had a wonderful time of fellowship, filled with much laughter! :)

Emily and Matt Deamer

Back row: Daddy, Micah, Diana Hawley, Matt Deamer

Front row: Mamma, me, Regina, Emily Deamer

In Memory of Roy Rogers

Twelve years ago today, Roy Rogers, "King of the Cowboys" (1911-1998) died. One of my personal heroes, I would encourage all of you to read this biography of him.

Roy Rogers and Gabby Hayes

Roy Rogers and Pat Brady

Roy and Dale

Happy Trails!

Pictures from the Texas Faith and Freedom Tour

Remember the Alamo!

The first day of the Texas Faith and Freedom Tour is over! It's so hard to believe- the day went by so fast.

It all started in the Menger Hotel's Lobby

Bill Potter and Myself

Then we went to the Moses Austin Memorial

Where Wesley Strackbein and Doug Phillips spoke on the lives of Moses and Stephen Austin, and gave some details on the original layout of San Antonio.

Then we walked to the Benjamin Rush Milam Monument, where Wesley Strackbein and Bill Potter spoke.

Mamma and Daddy

We then ate lunch- with Bill Potter! Following Lunch we went to the Alamo, where Doug Phillips, Bill Potter, and Wesley Strackbein shared the history of this amazing "holy ground" of Texas.

Good night, and God bless!

Happy Fourth from San Antonio!

Happy Fourth of July

from San Antonio, Texas!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful day celebrating the mercies of our Heavenly Father, and the many sacrifices of our heroic forefathers!

I wanted to share with everyone something I saw today in a store along the riverwalk:

Hope to see ya'll at the Baby Conference this week!

May's Best Books

It is so hard to believe that June is almost over! It's also very exciting because that means that it is only ten days until we leave for the Baby Conference! :) 

I also just realized that I hadn't posted about the books I read in May! Since we did the Great Authors Webinar, I read many of the books that those authors wrote during the month. But overall, I think the two best books I read were Killer Angel: A Short Biography of Planned Parenthood’s Founder, Margaret Sanger by George Grant, and The Philosophy of the Christian Curriculum by R.J. Rushdoony. Both of these books reflected a common theme that has been on my heart and mind these past few months as I've contemplated babies, birth, children, education, and life in general. (Perhaps this has been encouraged by my great anticipation of the Baby Conference, and also that my Mamma and I are attending a Doula Course in late July)


Not a book for young children, Killer Angel, while being very discreet, was shocking and nauseating. While I  knew that Margaret Sanger was a wicked woman, as I read the book I gained a chilling realization that she was even more despicable and vile than I realized. It is easy to see how she was one of the most dangerous people in history, falling in the ranks of Hitler.

The Philosophy of the Christian Curriculum was a wonderful book, as well. It caused me to stop and consider some of my own ideas about education, and curriculum in particular. I would not recommend this book to the new home educator, simply because of Rushdoony's stance on home education. However, I would highly recommend it as a very useful tool, when read with caution, and most of all, a Biblical view of education, as according to Deuteronomy 6:7.

Something that was once again thrust before my view as I read these books, was that ideas have consequences, and also that culture is religion externalized.


The way we look at education impacts our view of curriculum, and our methods of teaching our children. In the same way, the way we look at babies and children impacts our view of family, church, and state.

Margaret Sanger's view of children (and, in some cases, entire people groups) as a burden, inconvenience, etc. gave us the Pill, abortion, and euthanasia. We must embrace a Biblical view of life, babies, children, and family if we will reform our culture! And for that reason, I would greatly encourage you to attend Vision Forum's major 2010 event- The Baby Conference: A Historic Summit on the Triumph of Life over the Culture of Death.

 I hope to see some of you there!

Patrick Cleburne on the War

"Every man should endeavor to understand the meaning of subjugation before it is too late... It means the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by  Northern schoolteachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the war; will be impressed by the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit objects for derision... It is said slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if this were true, which we deny, slavery is not all that our enemies are fighting for. It is merely the pretense to establish sectional superiority and a more centralized form of government, and to deprive us of our rights and liberties."

- Major General Patrick Cleburne, January 1864, writing what would happen if the South lost the War Between the States

Remember those who fought for your freedom! Happy Memorial Day!