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We are excited to announce that the Hagen Homestead is now a Vision Forum Affiliate. What does that mean? It means that if you click on the Vision Forum Affiliate button at the bottom of the page or one of these other Vision Forum hot links here, it takes you to the Vision Forum site, and you can browse around like always. But since you came from our site, we earn a commission on any sales. It costs you absolutely nothing more, but is just something that Vision Forum has recently launched to allow entrepreneurs to participate in their ministry. So when you feel like doing some shopping at the Vision Forum, just stop by the Hagen Homestead and click on the button at the bottom of the page.
If you would be interested in also becoming a Vision Forum Affiliate and adding their links and banners to your website or blog, just go to the Vision Forum (using one of these links), and click on the "Affiliate Program" link on the left side of their website. Signing up to be an affiliate does not cost anything, and it is quick and easy. Besides, it is a great way to help them in their mission to rebuild the Christian family.
We also have just become a distributor for Michael Pearl's ministry, No Greater Joy. This is a different setup, since we have to purchase the inventory from them and then sell it ourselves, but this also is a great way to help rebuild the Christian family. If you want to purchase any of the titles from No Greater Joy, just contact us. We will be glad to help you out. We will have our web store up and running in a few days, and then you will be able to go right to our site and make your secure purchases online.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Saturday, January 24, 2009
The Shower for Carlos...
...during which nobody got wet! LOL!
Monday afternoon we celebrated the arrival of baby Carlos! It was a delightful afternoon filled with laughter, chit-chat, food, and most importantly, adorable babies! Many thanks to the FrRoberts, Hiers, and Rachie for hosting the event.
Mrs. Hiers adorable decorations.
The guests of honor, Kress and Carlos.
Adeline and baby Owen.
Master Joe-Joe
A most wonderful older sister. Miss Amanda and her
Conversation
Dee
Abbi, It was so great to see ya'll!
Opening gifts.
Monday afternoon we celebrated the arrival of baby Carlos! It was a delightful afternoon filled with laughter, chit-chat, food, and most importantly, adorable babies! Many thanks to the FrRoberts, Hiers, and Rachie for hosting the event.
Mrs. Hiers adorable decorations.
The guests of honor, Kress and Carlos.
Adeline and baby Owen.
Master Joe-Joe
A most wonderful older sister. Miss Amanda and her two little sisters, and Daisy.
Conversation Dee Abbi, It was so great to see ya'll!Opening gifts.Snatcher of the pins. LOL.
Martha with her nephew Joesph.
Here we observe Pepper the dog trying to devise a way back in, after he was unceremoniously shown the door during the festivities.
Camera wars.
The world-famous Kress expression.
And I will leave you with a picture of the man of the hour.
God bless you Michael, Kressant, Mikey, and baby Carlos.
We love ya'll
Be blessed,
Angela
It's a boy!!
Just so nobody gets too excited I'll clarify! LOL. Our milk cow, Poppy, had her baby calf about two weeks ago. We named him Poppyseed, isn't that cute?
Here he is! (sorry it's kinda blurry)
There's just something about our pond that just calls for pictures.
City folks have "hello kitty," us country folks have "hay kitty." LOL.
Now that Poppy's had her calf we can have raw milk again. Whoohoo!
God bless,
Angela
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Tagged...AGAIN!
Well, we've been tagged again!! This time by the Bessinger family. We are supposed to find ten books and post the fifth sentence on page fifty-six...without posting the title! Your job: to figure out what the ten books are! LOL. On a comforting note we are to supply five hints to help you out!
So here goes.
1) The materials for the raft were scanty and weak, and when Captain Francis with three companions got fairly out of the bay the raft sank so deeply in the water that they were completely standing in the sea.
2) Their dress was very smart, their manners very civil, they were delighted with the house and in raptures with the furniture, and they happened to be so dotingly fond of children that Lady Middleton's good opinion was engaged before they had an been hour at the park.
3) He ate in silence, busily filling the big emptiness inside him, while Father and Mother talked.
4) Most of the time I spend on my knees I am either stupid; feeling nothing at all, or else my head is full of what I was doing before I began to pray, or what I am going to do as soon as I get through.
5) "I am Queen, 'tis true but I begin to be tired of it, I think I would like to be pope next."
6)"I suppose so," Mrs. Paget went on with her bread cutting.
7) Here and there, on elevated platforms, or even on the top of a pile of tubs, were friars occupied in haranguing the soldiers, and in inspiring them with enthusiasm for the cause upon which they were embarked.
8) For truth is in this proverb, and no lie, men say well thus: it's always he that's well nigh.
9) Yet if he could have helped, he would not have done it; but he had not the discretion either to stop his ears nor to know from whence those blasphemies came.
10) Yatsar describes the action of a potter forming a vessel for a particular purpose.
Hints:
1) All those who participated in the commands study should reconize one of these!
2) The acronym of our beloved state should give you a hint of one of the authors.
3) Think 'Austen' girls!
4) Dig into your libraries. A few of these books were written quite a while ago.
5) Famous pioneers!
Well that's all folks!! Now here's who I'm tagging:
The Smiths
The Antonians
The Sanders
The Parishs
God bless,
Angela
So here goes.
1) The materials for the raft were scanty and weak, and when Captain Francis with three companions got fairly out of the bay the raft sank so deeply in the water that they were completely standing in the sea.
2) Their dress was very smart, their manners very civil, they were delighted with the house and in raptures with the furniture, and they happened to be so dotingly fond of children that Lady Middleton's good opinion was engaged before they had an been hour at the park.
3) He ate in silence, busily filling the big emptiness inside him, while Father and Mother talked.
4) Most of the time I spend on my knees I am either stupid; feeling nothing at all, or else my head is full of what I was doing before I began to pray, or what I am going to do as soon as I get through.
5) "I am Queen, 'tis true but I begin to be tired of it, I think I would like to be pope next."
6)"I suppose so," Mrs. Paget went on with her bread cutting.
7) Here and there, on elevated platforms, or even on the top of a pile of tubs, were friars occupied in haranguing the soldiers, and in inspiring them with enthusiasm for the cause upon which they were embarked.
8) For truth is in this proverb, and no lie, men say well thus: it's always he that's well nigh.
9) Yet if he could have helped, he would not have done it; but he had not the discretion either to stop his ears nor to know from whence those blasphemies came.
10) Yatsar describes the action of a potter forming a vessel for a particular purpose.
Hints:
1) All those who participated in the commands study should reconize one of these!
2) The acronym of our beloved state should give you a hint of one of the authors.
3) Think 'Austen' girls!
4) Dig into your libraries. A few of these books were written quite a while ago.
5) Famous pioneers!
Well that's all folks!! Now here's who I'm tagging:
The Smiths
The Antonians
The Sanders
The Parishs
God bless,
Angela
Monday, December 15, 2008
A white Christmas after all!
Daddy had this great idea last year for the perfect Christmas picture for us in South Georgia. Unfortunately, we did not get it done last year before they picked all the "snow," but we got it this year:
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas!
God bless,
Angela
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas!
God bless,
Angela
Monday, December 8, 2008
Tagged!! :)
Hello folks! Well, we have been tagged by the Morton clan. The requirements: to post 7 interesting facts about our family.
So here goes:
1) Everyday speech around the Hagen house includes alliterations, TLA’s (three-letter-acronyms), and rhymes. We are always immensely amused at ourselves, often laughing so hard that we start choking. T.J., the only serious person in our family, tries to hide the fact that he is amused by pulling at his mustache so as to hide his mouth. Unfortunately, this only makes us all laugh harder. –BTW using TLA’s is a hereditary condition passed down from my grandfather, so we do have some excuse for our sometimes undignified hilarity. LOL.
2) Mumsie’s family, that is, the Beville family, can trace their family line all the way back to the time of William the conqueror, approx. 1066 A.D. The Beville family came to Virginia in the early 1670’s and settled near Jamestown. Their descendents still own the original land granted to them at that time. Essex, Virginia is named after Essex Beville.
3) Our family is descended on Daddy’s side from the Norwegian Vikings, hence the preposterous height and size of almost every male member of our family. To state it more plainly: don’t mess with us!! :)
4) We REALLY do say ‘Woohoo’ everyday before family worship.
For those of ya’ll that have never been to church at our house this statement would obviously leave you in the dark. I will enlighten you.
Every morning Daddy says:
“This is the day that the LORD has made”
and the proper response is:
“Let us rejoice and be glad in it, WOOHOO!! (really, really, REALLY loud)
5) We love chocolate!! (Woohoo!)
6) As a family we have traveled to several states like Oregon, Nevada, Texas, and Arizona. We had a lot of fun traveling together. And trust me, there is nothing like tent camping in the snow with your family in the middle of nowhere. Nothing.
7) We are probably the only people who ever answered the phone to hear: “Oh, ya’ll weren’t supposed to be home!"
For those of ya’ll who has never heard (or heard of) one of our answering machine messages, I’ll have to explain. Usually, Daddy will take a song and, keeping the tune, change all the words to fit our family, and then records it on the phone. Complete strangers have called us because somebody we know told them about it!!
Here’s an old one:
Properly sung in a very low, bluesy voice.
The phone, the phone,
can’t come to the phone.
Can’t take your call ‘cause there’s nobody home.
There’s nobody here to talk to you now,
so leave us a message, make it silly somehow!
Just leave us your message when you hear the beep,
we’ll call you right back, and that’s a promise we’ll keep.
The phone, the phone,
can’t come to the phone.
Can’t take your callallallalll…’cause theirs nobody hooooooommmee.
Well that’s all for now folks. Sorry Adeline, I couldn’t come up with 7 other people to tag. But here’s a few.
Campana family
Frost family
Parish family
Slaughter family
And anyone else who wants to join in the fun!! :)
Rules are as follows:
1) Link the person who tagged you and post the rules on your blog.
2) List 7 interesting facts about you/your family.
3) Tag 7 other people and include links to their blogs.
4) Let each person know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
Ya’ll come back now.
God bless,
Angela
So here goes:
1) Everyday speech around the Hagen house includes alliterations, TLA’s (three-letter-acronyms), and rhymes. We are always immensely amused at ourselves, often laughing so hard that we start choking. T.J., the only serious person in our family, tries to hide the fact that he is amused by pulling at his mustache so as to hide his mouth. Unfortunately, this only makes us all laugh harder. –BTW using TLA’s is a hereditary condition passed down from my grandfather, so we do have some excuse for our sometimes undignified hilarity. LOL.
2) Mumsie’s family, that is, the Beville family, can trace their family line all the way back to the time of William the conqueror, approx. 1066 A.D. The Beville family came to Virginia in the early 1670’s and settled near Jamestown. Their descendents still own the original land granted to them at that time. Essex, Virginia is named after Essex Beville.
3) Our family is descended on Daddy’s side from the Norwegian Vikings, hence the preposterous height and size of almost every male member of our family. To state it more plainly: don’t mess with us!! :)
4) We REALLY do say ‘Woohoo’ everyday before family worship.
For those of ya’ll that have never been to church at our house this statement would obviously leave you in the dark. I will enlighten you.
Every morning Daddy says:
“This is the day that the LORD has made”
and the proper response is:
“Let us rejoice and be glad in it, WOOHOO!! (really, really, REALLY loud)
5) We love chocolate!! (Woohoo!)
6) As a family we have traveled to several states like Oregon, Nevada, Texas, and Arizona. We had a lot of fun traveling together. And trust me, there is nothing like tent camping in the snow with your family in the middle of nowhere. Nothing.
7) We are probably the only people who ever answered the phone to hear: “Oh, ya’ll weren’t supposed to be home!"
For those of ya’ll who has never heard (or heard of) one of our answering machine messages, I’ll have to explain. Usually, Daddy will take a song and, keeping the tune, change all the words to fit our family, and then records it on the phone. Complete strangers have called us because somebody we know told them about it!!
Here’s an old one:
Properly sung in a very low, bluesy voice.
The phone, the phone,
can’t come to the phone.
Can’t take your call ‘cause there’s nobody home.
There’s nobody here to talk to you now,
so leave us a message, make it silly somehow!
Just leave us your message when you hear the beep,
we’ll call you right back, and that’s a promise we’ll keep.
The phone, the phone,
can’t come to the phone.
Can’t take your callallallalll…’cause theirs nobody hooooooommmee.
Well that’s all for now folks. Sorry Adeline, I couldn’t come up with 7 other people to tag. But here’s a few.
Campana family
Frost family
Parish family
Slaughter family
And anyone else who wants to join in the fun!! :)
Rules are as follows:
1) Link the person who tagged you and post the rules on your blog.
2) List 7 interesting facts about you/your family.
3) Tag 7 other people and include links to their blogs.
4) Let each person know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
Ya’ll come back now.
God bless,
Angela
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Happy Thanksgiving!
We all have so much to be thankful to God for. I was reading this morning in Deuteronomy 8 where the Lord reminded the Israelites to remember Him. It is so easy when everything is going our way and when everything is good to forget the Lord and think that we could do it ourselves. As it says, "when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, then your heart will become proud and you will forget the LORD your God." Remember to thank God, the Creator of all things, for all of the things that He has blessed you with.
And for a little Thanksgiving fun, click here.
This Thanksgiving, be blessed and be a blessing!
-by Mr. Larry
And for a little Thanksgiving fun, click here.
This Thanksgiving, be blessed and be a blessing!
-by Mr. Larry
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