Sunshine Blogger Awards...

When we awarded the Sunshine Blogger Award awhile back, I left out ONE sunshine blogger... MISS RAQUEL!!!! :) Enjoy your award!!!! :)

Some more pictures I wanted to share. We girls wanted to try lots of different poses and the black and white was fun to play around with too! :) :) What a blessing siblings are, don't you agree? I love each and every one of mine. What a blessing from God!

I won't say something on each photo, but we had a wonderful family time! :) Hope you enjoy the pictures.

This picture... We were being funny! :) We all decided to put wheat in our hair and take a picture... the first one you could see Leah, but it didn't turn out as well as this one, but Leah was hiding. Sorry about that! :)

Dear Ladies,
The LORD has been doing so many amazing things in my life lately, as I've been trying to serve my LORD better. He has used my family and other people to show me areas to work on and become more like Christ. I am excited to continue in my Christian journey and it's always exciting to learn something new and grow more in the LORD. We have started a devotion by Bible Bee (they put it out for the summer) and we're going through the book of Colossians and really dissecting it. What an exciting way to study the Word of God!!! I highly recommend it. If you're interested, I can post a link to where Mom printed out the devotional for us! :) Anyways, our family has been very busy besides all the normal thing of life and growing in character. :) It has been good though... I was just thinking, Mom shared something with me the other day. When life gets busy and sometimes overwhelming, I think it's easy to get overwhelmed, but a good friend of ours shared with Mom that God knows the exact ingredients to put in our life to make us turn out into the perfect YOU! He allows certain things in each of our lives to grow us in the ways He wants to make His "recipe" turn out! So don't reject the hard times and trials... embrace them as on of the ingredients to make you grow into the person God wants you to be. I was encouraged by that, because I know for me, it's easy to get frustrated at the small irritations in life and let things get you down, but when you realize God sees the big picture and has a plan for each of us, knowing that what He allows will grow us in His image, it's easier for me to accept those hard things.

Part of my family and I went on a walk a couple nights ago in this BEAUTIFUL weather we're having here!!! What a blessing and a fun time to spend as a family. It was gorgeous, and I brought along my camera and really wanted to post some pictures. :) So I hope you enjoy the pictures. May the LORD richly bless you all.



















Samuel and Rebekah being CUTE!!























Emily and Leah together



















Every one but me on the walk! :) This is just up our road.


















I wanted a picture with Leah, so she smiled with me! :)























During our walk, Leah just plopped into the wheat field, and I caught the cute smile!

Blessings,

An Award from Peace on Earth Someday

We got an award from Imma, at Peace on Earth Someday. It is the Sunshine Award! Thank you Imma! :)I award:

Luci at Virtuous Girlhood
Irie at Daughters of Liberty
Jessica at Life in the Shoes of A Country Girl
Katie at Katie Enders
Katelyn at Grammar Girl

...to all the Sunshine Bloggers I know! :)