Keep your kids away from "The Golden Compass" movie!!

If you are a Christian, believe in a loving God and in spiritual things, you should be concerned about the upcoming movie "The Golden Compass." I would go into greater detail about why you shouldn't support this movie; however, http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/compass.asp has already done the work for me. Please view this link! To say just a little, this movie is based on a trilogy for children that has won many awards. The author is an athiest and wants to turn children against God. As you will read, in the end of the third book in the trilogy, a young Adam and Eve actually kill God. If you watch the trailer to the movie http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/compass.asp you will see how this looks like it would be a good movie. But please read the snopes link above to see why it surely isn't good in any sense of the word. As you will read, the author hopes that after children watch this movie (which is based on the first book- the most innocent of the three books in the series) they will want the all the books in the trilogy as a Christmas gift. Scary! Children are the future and if they turn against God and against spiritual things I am scared.
Let us trust in God and remember that He is loving and that He has a plan for the happiness of His children!
Proverbs 3:5-6
"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths."
President Gorden B. Hinckley, Prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (often known as "Mormons") said,
"I believe without equivocation or reservation in God, the Eternal Father. He is my Father, the Father of my spirit, and the Father of the spirits of all men. He is the great Creator, the Ruler of the Universe. He directed the creation of this earth on which we live. In His image man was created. He is personal. He is real. He is individual. He has "a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's." (Doctrine and Covenants 130:22- scriptures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)
--- I also believe in God. I know that He loves me and knows me. I feel His love when I pray. I know that Jesus is the Christ and my Savior and Redeemer. I have hope in this life because of His loving sacrifice on my behalf. I want to live worthy to return to live with my Father in Heaven and my Savior Jesus Christ after this life. I know God and Jesus Christ live and love me (and you)!

Melanie's belated Birthday wishes

Hey smelly! I do regret to inform you that your birthday was 2 days ago and I neglected to wish you a happy one that day on my blog. If it helps you feel better, you can at least know that I thought about you that day and then next. I hope you had a good one. I love you!
-Tye Marie

Birthday wishes!

I have an announcement to make:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERIN E. BECK!!!!!
I hope your day is as delightful as you are!
much love,
Tye Marie

I am Emma Woodhouse

Hi. I don't understand how to copy and paste the picture, but I took a fun jane austin character quiz which revealed I am a modern "Emma Woodhouse." She is awesome so I hope I can begin to live up to her awesome-ness. If you, the reader (although I don't know who reads my blogs because there seems to be a lack of comments from many), would like to know which character you are, you may visit http://www.strangegirl.com/austenquiz/

Tag this!

Jobs I've Held:
1. Guymon Electric (my dad paid me to do random things here and there)
2. Rags
3. Sensuous Sandwich
4. RC Willey, otherwise known as "the Willey"

Movies I Can Watch Over and Over:
1. The Count of Monte Cristo
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. National Treasurer
4. Legally Blond
5. The Sound of Music

Places I Have Lived:
1. Wyoming (don't remember the city)
2. Provo, Utah
3. Ann Arbor, Michigan

Shows I enjoy:
1. Ellen
2. AFV
3. The Great Race
4. American Idol

Places I Have Been on Vacation:
1. San Diego, CA
2. Various National Parks in Utah
3. Yellowstone National Park
4. Does camping count? backpacking in the Uintahs National Forest
5. Nauvoo
6. Lake Michigan

Favorite Foods:
1. Guacamole
2. oatmeal cookies
3. Indian food
4. roast beef and potatoes
5. Cafe Rio (I can't wait until I can experience this pleasure again!)
6. parmesean chicken
7. twice-baked potatoes
8. I could go on and on but will stop now

Websites I Visit (almost) Daily:
1. gmail
2. webmail
3. elearn.byu.edu
4. google
5. blogs (not daily but sometimes)
6. noaa.org
7. aadl.org

Body Parts I Have Injured:
1. right ankle- broke it in 4th grade
2. right ankel- sprained it over 50 times
3. my whole body was injured during pregnancy and childbirth but is slowly recovering from it (this is supposed to be humorous, not sad or depressing- pregnancy does a doozy on the body but gives you a baby, so it's worth the cost)

Nicknames I Have Been Called:
1. tatron
2. twi-tatron-co-ann
3. tron
4. tae
5. detmer

I'm tagging (to blog this):
1. erin e. beck
2. becca l. s. meeks

Birthday wishes!

Happy birthday to Rebecca Lark Smith Meeks!!
You are loved by someone in Michigan very much.
Have a good one.
You have been briefed.
Love,
Tye Marie

What time is it?

It's 2:00 am. Why am I awake? Well, I just don't know. I watched a movie tonight with Quinn, Maecy, Mom, and Dad (A Knight's Tale) and afterwards went to go to sleep (11:00) and haven't been able to get any of it (sleep). I do not feel tired, that's for sure. I'm just annoyed that I can't sleep because I want to and there's nothing else that sounds as wonderful as sleep. I just hope I'm not awake all night- it's definitely a possibility that I would be because it's happened before. Luckily I probably won't be tired until Friday because I'm not usually too tired the day after a really bad night's sleep. I think this is because the body naturally releases hormones that make you super awake when you're sleep deprived, but this only happens for so long. Eventually you get very tired and maybe even a little cranky and have to make up some of the lost sleep. I've tried reading, singing hymns, relaxing (not very effective at 2:00 am), eating cereal, just sitting, making myself lay in bed, turning on a fan, etc. and here I am feeling just as awake and wired as ever. I haven't had a night like this in a long time so I guess I had it coming to me.
Now I will talk about school. I am enjoying my classes thus far. My substance abuse and addictions class is quite interesting. Now that I have learned more about addictions and what happens in the brain when someone becomes addicted to something, I will be more understanding of those that have addictions. Drugs literally do alter the chemical processes of the brain and make it almost impossible for someone addicted to drugs to stop- this is why professional help is there for these people. My other class is intro to epidemiology. I wasn't very excited to take this class because I thought it would be boring- but I was wrong, it is very interesting to me.
Hmmm... what should I say at 2:15 am. I'm so excited to see Kyle this Friday. He will be getting here at almost midnight. On Saturday night, he is going to go with me to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting- I have to go to one for my drug addictions class and don't want to go alone. I'm glad that he agreed to come. I think it will be fun and interesting to go to it.
Welp, now I will turn off the computer and sit on my bum for a while.

on the radio

i just barely finished posting but remembered i wanted to write another sumpin.

first of all, i want to thank nikki again for providing me with a new mix of music recently. on the mix was "on the radio" by Regina Spektor. I hadn't heard her music before but kyle and i both like her now. here are some of the words to that particular song:
This is how it works
You're young until you're not
You love until you don't
You try until you can't
You laugh until you cry
You cry until you laugh
And everyone must breathe
Until their dying breath

No, this is how it works
You peer inside yourself
You take the things you like
And try to love the things you took
And then you take that love you made
And stick it into some
Someone else's heart
Pumping someone else's blood
And walking arm in arm
You hope it don't get harmed
But even if it does
You'll just do it all again

There is a deeply powerful message in this song. You can interpret it however you like. I think it's saying that life is mundane and happiness will be absent unless we change our attitudes about things and try to help others along the way. "and walking arm in arm, you hope it don't get harmed, but even if it does you'll just do it all again and again." when we make friendships and extend ourselves in service and love to others, it is challenging because we step out of our comfort zones. but how else are we to find happiness? we need people and people need us. it's as simple as that. there may be someone who will not be loved when they need to be unless we extend ourselves and look beyond our own sadness and self pity.

it's not long now

welp, millie has been a sick one and now it's kyle's turn. it's totally the wrong time for kyle to be sick- i feel bad for that guy. his finals are coming up in a week and he really needs this time to study but instead he's spending a lot of time on the pot- as i'm sure he'd want you all to know. millie's feeling a little better and eating a little more now and that's good. when you have these little ones, you worry about what they eat and don't eat and i certainly hope she wants to eat more and more soon- she's always been a great eater and so it's wierd for her not to eat whatever i make for dinner.
today the weather was actually decent so we went for a walk. by sunday, it's actually supposed to get over 70, which is so amazing to me. the last couple of weeks, it's been under 40 most of the time.
so i'm going to utah next week to attend byu for spring semester. i'm excited to be with family and friends but i'm not too excited for the school part of the plan. i think i will also miss being with millie every second of every day- sounds funny, but as much as i'd like to have a break from her sometimes, when i do have one, i miss the little cutsie.
i want you all the know how awesome georgette heyer is. maybe you already know about her but i just discovered her recently. she is an author that wrote a lot of books very similar to the jane austin type. i just finished reading "sylvester" and i must say i have not enjoyed a book that much in so long- not that i've read a lot of books lately, but i must say that i love it love it love it. maecy wants to collect all the books georgette has written (over 60). maecy told me georgette also wrote some mystery novels- they ought to be fun too.
when i come to utah i want to do lots with lots of people. but i need to be organized with my time if i want to see a lot of people because when i went there for christmas, i assumed that because i was going to be there for a month that i would magically be everywhere i wanted to be and see everyone i wanted to see before i came back to michigan. but when i left, i realized there were things i would have liked to do and people i would have liked spend more time with.

i hope everyone enjoys their day.

monday

i don't know how to post pictures on this blog (actually on this computer), otherwise, i would post one and then no one would have to read about the boring things i might say.

yesterday was april fools day and i played no silly tricks on anyone

millie likes to climb the stairs at the park and laughs when she does

kyle's easter break is this weekend

i'm thirsty

goodbye

nikki-
i just commented on your blog but it says you have zero comments- maybe it's because i use my google account to blog with so i have to go to a whole seperate page to comment on blogs. so sorry. if you click on "0 comments," it will take you to the comment i made.

today

today i saw water
ripples
moss
today i saw trees
blowing
high
today i heard birds
swings
laughter
today i felt wind
rain
happy
now i feel peace
renewed
strong
and tomorrow i will be okay

I hope so

The sun is shining so very brightly today- what a dang blessing. yesterday i decided it was time to buy some sunblock for my silliest and i was shocked to see how blasted expensive it is- $10- what the heck! It's one of those things i always took for granted because my mom always had plenty in the closet but now i know that it costs money- poop. it's probably silly to some that i would find this to be such a shock, but there you have it, it was.
i have my weekly playgroup soon so i guess i better getoffmyduffandgetoutofmysillypajamasnow:). okay bye

just another monday

tonight i went on a fantastic bike ride. the wind was blowing through my hair and that is quite the feeling. biking has always been one of my very favorite things to do- i used to go on what i called "high speed bike rides" along the Provo River trail back home. i had the same route i'd always take that was about 4.5 miles. the reason they were called "high speed bike rides" is because from the moment i got on the bike, i would ride as fast as a could the whole time and it was magnificent.
tonight after millie went to sleep, i finally got up the gumption to clean up my apartment a little bit- i think i'm the only one who really understands the significance of that accomplishment because i have lacked the motivation to do this thing for quite some time. i go through cycles where i want to be really clean for a while and then i don't want to be clean at all and everything piles up. usually the unclean spells last much longer than the clean ones. hopefully i can stay in the clean mode longer than tonight.
welp, got to go

Just thought I'd add a picture to begin with!!! I know, I know Millie looks like a durf(?) but she doesn't care:)!