House Projects

     We have been doing a lot of projects around the house. Mostly they were effects of the move, but there are some pieces that just needed to be painted and we finally got around to them. We have painted a headboard,  a large throne looking chair (a hall tree), and a bedroom. We have cleaned up around the yard and have emptied out and organized the garage. We hung all kinds of art and pictures (plus weapons). We have been running around like a one legged man in a butt kicking contest! The new house is beginning to look like it's actually livable, and we are getting up to speed on our schooling.
Billy  :D

San Joaquin River Gorge

I recently went to the San Joaquin River Gorge with my boyscout troop. It was fun to camp out there. It ended up being more of a drill though. We set up camp in the rain and the dark. We build a rain blocker to protect our food. This is a tarp with ropes thrown through trees. You have a tall stake at one end and a short stack at the other end, so that the rain would roll down and off of the short end of the set up. Unfortunately we learned all about scotch guarding our tents because even though we were under a tent with a rain cover on the CRAZY WILD RAIN seeped into our tent soaking us all. I was at the top of the hill, which meant the rain hit me first and then rolled down to the others. Eventually the Scout Masters called the whole thing off, because the rain got even heavier. I was bummed because my family has been trying to go here for a long time. My Mom said as I left to scope out some fun places for the family to explore while I was there. I also never got to see the gorge is the light. O well, I still get credit for a campout and drill to check of my list.
 DAVID

Hangin' with the fam

My cousin's came over and we had a blast! We played volleyball with a football, soccer ball and a basket ball. Because we couldn't find our volleyball. After that we went inside and played wii band hero. My cousin Bryanna has a good singing voice so she really likes to play that game.  Well we all like it really. After that we had pizza and then they went home.

RICKY

Saint Patricks Day

Well  it was last month and this month is almost over, but I'll write about it anyway. We were in the middle of our insanity issue so we couldn't really have a full on traditional Saint Patrick's Day feast. Especially if we wanted Ruben's the very next day, from the leftovers. So we decided to just make the corned beef and have Ruben's on Saint Patrick's Day. We ate our sandwiches and watched a new movie. We would have liked to go to our Aunt & Uncles party...sorry about that, maybe next year.

ERIC

Riverpark Jr High FUN Times!!!

First the Jr High guys had another night of Ultimate Frisbee, which is kinda like football but with frisbees. We had a good time. Then we closed the year at Laser Quest. This will be my last Jr. High Guys Night out ever! That's why it was such an awesome one. We had a good time here too. We do stuff with they girls too. It's just once a month we have a guys night out. With the whole Jr. High we went to Broomball. It was fun, to say the least!

Dave

Gleanings for the Hungry

  About a month ago we volunteered at Gleanings for the Hungry, which is an organization that in it's simplest definition hands out food to those who cannot buy enough food for their families. While we were there we cleaned and sanitized over two-hundred buckets!
  There were several stations of bucket washing. First they were hosed off. Then they were put in the awesome steam cleaner for a couple circuits. After that the buckets were scrubbed in soapy water. Next they were soaked in bleach water. After that they were dried up. Finally they were stacked in a pyramid.
   We all switched around on the jobs, but my favorite was the steam cleaner. It was a really cool machine!
Billy :D

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Mens Bible Study

  My dad, my brother, and I went the mens bible study at Riverpark this week. It was really good aside from the need to get up at 5:00. Pastor Micu was preaching on the trinity. He talked about how the trinity was         under-worshiped. Also how each part of the trinity has part in our salvation not just the Son. He also mentioned several other aspects of the Godhead. I really enjoyed it!
Billy :D

Running with Weston

  O.k, so I like to run. I'm not that good at running but I like it nonetheless. So Friday I went running with Weston. I mapped out a mile with Google pedometer. This is a really cool program that is run off of Google maps. We met at Peoples church, which is a mid way point between our houses. We ran it in 8 minutes which is better than I expected, but not great. I plan on getting my time up by running a mile at least once a week, hopefully more like three times, but I doubt I'll have time for that until the summer. Then I'll want to run at midnight or something. Even then I'll have to jump in the pool when I get home.
Billy :D

The craziness of washing dogs

Okay so this might sound CRAZY and it is, so you'd be right. My dogs are both CRAZY nut jobs! My Dalmatian Eddy is a whining and shivering and howling drama fest when I bathe him. Through the whole thing. From start to finish. As soon as he see's the soap and towels. CRAZY. Our other dog Leroy (a chocolate Lab/German Shepherd mix) is a growling and whining (even louder than Eddy) mess when I spray him off. He loves it when I dry him off and even when I'm soaping him up, again CRAZY! I always think animal control is going to be called or something when I bathe them. I know they are all mouth but I wonder what the neighbors think they are doing, or what I'm doing to them. So why do I bother? Well they smell better, so our house smells better, and I love them.

DAVE

Guitar @ Riverpark!!

I Started going to a guitar group put on by my church. Our teacher is GOOD! He is different then my other teacher who is also GOOD! It's kinda like I'm learning in traditional and nontraditional forms. I think they are both fun!

Ricky

Insanity update

We have been doing this for 3 weeks now. It is cool, but painful and then some!! I still say do it though, it's awesome because after we workout we feel great!!

Ricky

RP Guys Night Out

Okay so this time we played Ultimate Frisbee. We sorta played football with the Frisbee too , that was cool. It was kinda hard, but not really once you got the hang of it. You should try it with your family.

Ricky

100 Day of School

Dad got a Best Buy gift card from a client. He doesn't like to shop at Best Buy for work stuff because so many of his clients bring him stuff that is messed up that they got from there. So when it came around to our 100 day of school Mom and Dad decided to spend the gift card on something fun for that celebration. They bought a Wii Band Hero. We all played this game. It's the first time I ever saw my Mom play a video game. She normally doesn't like them. She sang into the microphone. The rest of us took turns playing the guitar, drum set and singing into the microphone. It is fun! Thanks Mom & Dad!!!

Ricky

Lunch with my church peeps

   This Sunday I went to lunch with my friends from church. We went to Wendy's & stayed for around an hour. While we were there I got in a debate with Bethany about the definition of predestination. Which provided amusement for everyone else at the table. I had water with my chicken sandwich to keep a semblance of staying with our nutrition plan for Insanity.

Billy :D

Spiritual Gifts

I enjoyed writing the last article on my thoughts. It was a new venue for the Vincent boys blog. So I will be trying to write more on the Christian faith, attempting to voice my opinions and why I hold them. 

  First I want to state what I do not believe to save time later in the article. I do not believe that God grants us everything we pray for. Second I do not believe that we can chose the spiritual gifts that we want granted to us. Thirdly I do not believe that Gods giving is controlled by how much faith we have in his power. God does not restrict giving because of lack of faith. I would go further & state that all three of these are blasphemous ideas. Each contradicting main points taught in the Scriptures.


  Now I will state that which I do believe. I do believe that God answers prayer. I believe that God gives us spiritual gifts so that we may further his glory while on earth. I believe that faith does not help or hinder Gods grace & perfect kindness in giving to us.

  To defend that which I have stated I will prove false the points that I do not believe in & by inductive reasoning prove that which I believe true. First I stated That I do not believe that God grants everything we pray for. God answers all prayer, but he doesn't always say yes. He might say yes, but often he says later or even no. God is not required to give you ANYTHING! He has already given us more then we will ever deserve. Yet we have the arrogance to tell our King that he will give us more!

We are completely evil according to Romans 3:10. Now to solve this problem for us God sent his only son to die a tortuous death to pay our death penalty. This is Grace! We should be thanking him constantly for what he has given us. Even getting up in the morning is a gift! We don't deserve life for even 10 seconds & he gives us years, but what do we do? We complain to him & have the guts to order the creator of the universe to obey our every whim! When you tell God I claim this car in your name or I am thanking you for this boat that your getting me. We are ordering our King to serve us!


   How is this obeying the Lord with all of our heart, mind, & strength? It isn't! I would say that it isn't honoring him at all. In fact it is dishonoring him. By doing this you are putting yourself over God which would be considered idolatry. Which is completely against all of the teachings of the scripture.

  My second statement was that God chooses the gifts that we will receive. This is much the same as the previous statement. God is supreme over man not the other way around. We can't decide that we want to serve a different purpose. We are part of a body, & God decides what part of the body we are to be. You cant decide that you want to serve another purpose. Each Christian is given a part in his plan. Think of it as an honor that you a sinner are allowed to serve in the plan that GOD devised!

  The third and maybe the most important point is that our faith has no influence with Gods Grace. Many Christians believe that if they only had more faith that they would get the truck they've been praying for. This is absolutely ridiculous!  Do you think that God waited till we had enough faith in him to send Jesus? NO! He decided that he would extend mercy to us so that we might be saved! Yet we claim that we have the power to decide to get something from him. This is not only false teaching but is amazingly arrogant! It is stating that you have the power to command the God of the universe tho obey your summons. It's ridiculous!

  This point is very personal to my family. It influenced both of my aunts lives very heavily. Two of my moms sisters have Muscular Dystrophy. This is a muscle deteriorating disease. My aunts grew up in a church where they were taught the name it & claim it philosophy. This philosophy states that if you pray for something & have enough faith that God will grant it to you. My aunts told my Mom that they truly believed the only reason they weren't healed was because they did not have enough faith in their savior! The older of the two  DIED still believing that she did not have enough faith! Rebekah died in sorrow, that she couldn't trust her Lord enough to be healed. Bethany is still alive, but has to live with the burden of thinking that she is less than a truly faithful christian. She tells my Mom this every time she sees her.

  I see the unnecessary pain this doctrine causes, & see the complete futility of it. It is just one more way for man to try to gain control of their king!

  Again GOD is in control & he will give or take away as his holy will dictates. We can do nothing to influence this. Our desire shouldn't be to control God it should be to surrender & let God control us.

Billy :D

Insanity

Okay so we started "Insanity" which is a work out, diet plan thing. We have been doing it for about a week. It is hardcore! My brother Dad and I thought we were in good shape...well not good enough. The Insanity people say if you follow the program it is supposed to make you buff in 60 days. Well we are doing it for 120 days so we better be buff !!! The madness ends for us in July. So July 1st and I are all about the pizza!                          
                                        
                                                                                                                                               rickydave

wood carving

Well my brother and I  have started our wood carving projects. As of now I am carving a candle stick engraved and I will be staining it. Billy is making a wooden chain. This is awesome-fun! You should give it a try

Dave

BEST GAME NIGHT

Okay, so  I went to my school groups Game Night it was fun.  We played  Spoons, Apples to Apples, Uno, BS and many other games as well as eating lots of junk food (that is not allowed at my house), like I said, it was fun!

                                                                                                                                                   rickydave;)

Abortion - A Poem

Can you feel it?
Can hear it, can you touch it?
I can
Do you see it?
Can you taste its stench?
Death
but no not of men or women
asleep in their beds.
No, it is much more filthy.

Death
The death of thousands
In my mind i see death.
Death of hundreds nay millions!
They block all other thought.
Do you feel their terror?
The terror of those destined to die
But no, not even in battle do they die
Nay they get no such honor.

Innocent people die
In their beds, in the field of battle
Still others die of sickness.
not these
Do you see them?
I do
They are murdered, with no chance to cry out.
Murdered in the dark.
Do you see them?
The unborn, the slain.
                         B.V