my conclusions

I know that I just wrote but I came to a conclusion that I felt needed to be shared. The last two or three weeks I have been struggling with an issue. Not an issue that I myself am experiencing, but an issue that I have found myself judging for the last twenty some odd years. Homosexuality. Like I said, I am not struggling with it personally, but my entire life I have been taught that it was wrong. Everyone has told me that the bible says that it was wrong and I always believed them. Because of that way of thinking I have spent alot of time judging homosexuals and even avoiding having them as my friends to an extent. However, in the last two or three weeks I have been questioning that way of thinking. So as a result of that I have been doing some thinking and some studying. As I said I have always been told that the bible says that it is wrong. Well I did a bible search and could not find homosexual, homosexuality, or gay. I did find where it says that sodomy is wrong, but in alot of cases that isn't even a factor. And alot of people say that it is sex outside of marriage, but as of right now most states consider gay marriages to be an actual legal marriage, so that way of thinking is blown out of the water. Today I was doing another bible search and came across two verses that helped bring me to the conclusion I reached. I remember when I was about 15 or 16 and I was living with my grandparents and my grandmother had a daughter that was openly homosexual and living with her girlfriend. When I first moved in with my grandparents I tried my best to avoid having to be around them but it wasnt always possible. After I started actually being around them I realized that they were very cool people and they both had awesome personalities. Well, back to today. Like I was saying today I was looking at biblegateway.com and discovered two verses: Matthew 7:1 and Luke 6:37. Matthew 7:1 says, " Judge not or you too will be judged." and Luke 6:37 says, " Do not judge , and you will not be judged. Do not condemn and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven." Those two verses made me come to this conclusion. Who cares if they are homosexual! I couldn't find any passages about homosexuality but I did find passages about not judging. So maybe if I am going to concentrate on what the bible says not to do, I should think about things that apply to me, not what everyone else shouldn't do. I know that there is another verse that says something about let he who is without sin cast the first stone. Although homosexuality may not be one of my sins I do have plenty of other ones to worry about. So maybe I should just accept them as they are and let God sort out the details. What do you think?

Frustrating!!

I dislike New Mexico so much!!! As everyone knows, we just changed our names and now we are having to go through changing all of our documents. And of course that includes our marriage certificate and Lee and Kayde's birth certificates. Lee's certificate was easy because with Texas there are forms online to fill out and mail in. However, with Kayde's birth certificate and our marriage license. I could find any information on the website and they didn't even have a phone number to call. Heck, for that matter they didn't even give me an idea of who I should call. So now I have to figure out who I have to call and then call them. This is so frustrating!!!!

WOW!!

That race totally rocked!! Man I have never been to anything like that but that was awesome. We ended up taking both girls and we put ear phones on them to block out the sound and neither one of them were even bothered by the noise. As a matter of fact, Kylee slept through most of it, which was amazing because those jet cars were really loud. Anyway they had the jet cars against the funny cars and of course the jet cars blew the funny cars out of the water. And after that they had the monster trucks come out and they jumped some tires and some wooden ramps. And the coolest thing !!!! One of the trucks jumped over the other one!!! I couldn't believe it. Man those things are huge. But not as big as robosaurus. He was awesome. It was this giant remote controlled machine that picked up cars and set them on fire and ripped them in half. The sound effects for him were kinda cheesy but other than that the show was really good. And then they had a fireworks display that was huge. We had to leave after the fireworks display because Lee and Nick had to be at the firing range by 7 am but we had a blast. I believe Matt and Cristin had a blast also. Anyway, if you ever get the opportunity to do something like that I say you take it because you will never experience anything else like it. Until next time, God bless you all. Brandy

Raceday!!

I am so excited! Tomorrow me, Lee, Nick, Matt, and Critin are going to the races. I have never been to the drag races, so I am psyched!! I know that is gonna be hot but it will be worth it. And just for those of you that are concerned, miss Kylee is not going with us, I am trying to find a babysitter for her. Kaydence is going, and I think she is gonna love it!! The website shows inflatable toys so she will have stuff to do. Anyway, I will write and let ya'll know how it went!! God bless you all. Brandy

here we go!

http://www.markehrlich.com/humor/uselessfacts.htm. Ok everyone this is a website that I just found that ant fact on. I also found several other interesting but useless facts. Enjoy them! Brandy

pointless

Hi guys, I know that this may seem like something that should be on Bill's blog, but I just heard on tv that when you get an ant drunk they always fall over to the right. I don't know if it is true but I thought it was interesting. The thing I wonder more than whether or not its true, is who had enough time on their hands that they got ants drunk so that they could find out. And why would you want to do that? It just goes to show you that even though you always hear people complaining that they are way to busy, obviously there are people that have way too much time on their hands as well. I know that this seems pointless, but my grandmother always said that you learn something new everyday and when you stop learning you die. But I never thought that the something I learn everyday could be so stupid. I know that my life now seems horribly pathetic because this is all I have to write about ( you would think with two kids I would have better things to write about). But you know what at least I am writing something ( um hum). LOL, anyway I guess that is about it for now. Until next time, God bless you all. Brandy

From Ellsbury to Orr

Well, it is official!! We are the Orr family. As of yesterday June, 5 at 4:30 pm the Ellsbury family became the Orr family. Damon Henderson Lee Ellsbury is now officially Leif Henderson Orr. He has wanted this name since he was 19 yrs. old and he finally gets to realize it. Other than that, not much has happened, thank you to everyone for coming to Kaydences birthday party she had a blast and has been playing with her toys constantly since we got home. I know that this week has just started but so far it has gone really well!!! Well, until next time. God bless ya'll.