Snow!!!!

Yesterday we got 4-5" of snow!!! SOOOOO Excited!!!! :D
Tooks lots of pictures! (of course) So thought I'd share them. :)

And this weeks photo challange theme was red & pink.... well I've decided this is my weekly photo challange photo. :)

 And of course other randomness. 

Frozen Bubbles! They are SO COOL!!!

Ever wonder what happens to a popped frozen bubble? Well here ya go. ;)

Spider web!

LOVIN the snow here! And it started snowing again tonight! :D
Can ya tell I love the snow just a little bit. ;)

Stay warm and safe everyone!

Sweets!

So.... this week's theme for pictures is sweets. Well, I think I got some. :)

Here is my "Sweets" theme of the week picture.

And I had some fun with a cup of Hot Chocolate with whipping cream as well. :)

Thanks Megs for letting me use your cup! :)

We woke up to SNOW on Valentines day!! :D
So of course had to go out and take some snow/ice pictures. :)

For my birthday, which was on Monday, mom and dad gave me some lens adapters for my camera!
My favorite of the adapters is the 10x Macro lens attachment.

Here is what it can do!

And here are some I took on my birthday in the nice sunny chilly weather. :)

Blackberry leaves have "hair"!

Next week's photo theme is "Pink & Red"....so I'll have to think up some fun ideas for that. :)

Weekly Favorite

So.... I kinda didn't do the Joy theme photo challenge.....due to lack of imagination. :/
But! This weeks theme was easy as it is my weekly favorite which means my favorite photo for the week. :)

So here is my favorite photo I took this week:

Dash! Also known as Dash-Man, and Mini-Mac as he looks just like his daddy :)

 And I also took a walk with Kai today and took several fun pictures. :)
We have green things growing now people!!! :D

 Awww. Green things. :)

So this week my "baby" sister turned 17!! She got a camera for her birthday from mom and dad!
Which means..... she won't need to borrow mine anymore!! Yes, I know... it sounds selfish of me... :/
But I'm so happy for her, she can take pictures when I'm out taking pictures and not have to wait to use mine. :)

We have our 2nd day of 2nd-year school at the Fort tomorrow!
Last month was great fun and tomorrow I'm teaching scrimshaw. :)
1st year is going well and so far it looks like we have a bunch of good kids.


Next weeks photo theme is..... sweets! Yes! Easy! Kai! I need you to bake something for me to shoot! ;)
Ok... that sounds bad. ;P

Puppies!!!

I got my camera back last Tuesday!!! The shutter busted and needed to be replaced.
So they fixed it and cleaned it and it's like it's brand new again!!! :D
I'm SO Happy!!!!!!
I found this weekly photo challenge for the year. so I'm gonna try and to it and post weekly of what I got based on the subject given. :)
This week is purple, I haven't figured out what to do yet.......

I got a picture of a puppy Kai was holding and Kai's shirt was kinda a purple color so I think I'll go with that. :P

We took the puppies out to play this afternoon. They are now 5 weeks old! :D
Here are pix of each puppy plus a couple of my favorite pix I took today. :)

Holly chewing a stick

Comet being held

And here's my weekly pic, Ivy with a purple "backdrop" :P

 

Comet biting the blackberry vine that "attacked" him, he ran into it. ;)

Ivy being held

Cute little Holly

Dash in the "woods"

Dash-man! :)

Adorable little Ivy. :)

Tinsel! She wouldn't hold still for me to get many pix of her. :P

Blitzen, cute little fella watching the others while he sits by his mamma. :)

Next weeks photo challange is "Joy". Gonna have to do some thinking of that one and what I will try to get for that subject. :)


Hope you're all having a great January!  We only have 3 days left of it!!!   ͒ - ͒  Sheesh!

More than Anything

 This is my prayer for 2018, and forever.

I know if You wanted to You could wave Your hand
Spare me this heartache, and change Your plan
And I know any second You could take my pain away
But even if You don't, I pray

Help me want the Healer
More than the healing
Help me want the Savior
More than the saving
Help me want the Giver
More than the giving
Oh help me want You Jesus
More than anything

You know more than anyone that my flesh is weak
And You know I'd give anything for a remedy
And I'll ask a thousand more times to set me free today
Oh but even if You don't, I pray

Help me want the Healer
More than the healing
Help me want the Saviour
More than the saving
Help me want the Giver
More than the giving
Oh help me want You Jesus
More than anything

When I'm desperate and my heart's overcome
All that I need, You've already done
When I'm desperate and my heart's overcome
All that I need, You've already done
Oh Jesus
Help me want You more, than anything

Help me want the Healer
More than the healing
Help me want the Savior
More than the saving
Help me want the Giver
More than the giving
Oh help me want You Jesus
More than anything

Help me want You Jesus
More than anything...

~Natalie Grant

 This song is absolutely beautiful, I can't believe I've only just heard it for the first time this week!

New Year!

The New Year came in amidst lots of fun, games, fire crackers and hanging out with friends. :)
Our friends the Hazens came over to share a taco/taco salad dinner and play games and have fun.
 So after a game of hide and seek in the dark, which is quite fun, we played board games.
We played Catan, which is really fun! Megs won, I didn't do so well, need to strategize where I put my settlements a little more next time. :P
Then we fed the critters and milked the goats, then back to games!
Megs won the short version of Outrage and successfully stole away and escaped with St. Edwards crown!
Played Pictionary, Megs and Matty's team won... (anyone seeing Megs on a pattern here?) ;P
The parents plan was to stay till 9 or 10...... but before they noticed it was 1/2 hr till midnight.
Aha! Yes! Us kids got our wish! ;)

The minutes leading up to 12pm, us kids went outside, ready with firecrackers.
I pretty much didn't have to look at my watch to know when the New Year rolled in, the fireworks going off up and down the valley did that for me!
So we light firecrackers and threw those pop bomb thingy's. (I've actually had those things for 2 years!)

That was a great start to the New Year!

Then "later" after I woke up for the day, I found I woke up with a cold. :/
A week and a half later, I think I'm finally getting over it.
Though it might not be a cold, doctors are calling what most folks think is the cold a sinus flu or something like that and if not taken care of can turn to pneumonia. :/

So, we missed the 1st day of 1st yr. at the Fort.
Those who went said it was a good day though, so I'm looking forward to next month!
Hoping I'm fully over my, whatever it is I have, and can go to 2nd year this Saturday!

We did go down on Tuesday to the fort 'cuz they needed dancers and a musician for OPB who were there for 3 days filming!
I heard it should come out in May, so I'm super excited 'cuz after they were done filming us dancing, they had just Megs, who played the penny whistle for the dancing, stay behind and do close up filming of her playing the whistle! :D

I'd post pictures, but my camera is non-functioning and is currently on its way to CA to hopefully get repaired.. :/
Wait! I took pix on Christmas I could share!

We had snow on Christmas Eve! So we had a White Christmas for the first time in forever!!!

I got some cool ice pictures. :)

Hope you all are having a great start to the New Year!

So Long, Farewell

I cannot believe there are only 8 hours left of 2017!!!!!!

I'm not very good at writing, which my friends that I ever text or email can attest to... Sorry guys. :P
This year was a pretty good year, better than last year, which I'm very grateful for.





Since I can't really think of anything to say at the moment....

Last weekend I had the opportunity to go take family pictures for my friend Sarah!!
It was really interesting using her camera, it is SO different from mine!
Since I used her camera, I'm sharing pictures she edited herself as she is a photographer and knows how to do all that fun details really well and I didn't get an original pix. :)

This is 5 pictures put together to get the goats in it and everyone looking at the camera!!

I'll tell ya, I think it was harder getting Sarah to look at the camera than the kids! ;P

But, I'm happy to say I got some good ones for Sarah. :)
I actually have another friend who asked me to do photos for their family as well! But in the Snow!
So hoping for snow! So Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!

Well, I should go, we're having some friends over to share New Year's Eve with, so gotta make sure everything is ready to go.

Hope you all had a good year, and God Bless you in 2018!!
Happy New Year!!!

Merry Christmas

"2000 Decembers Ago"

Did it feel like a night any different?
Then at least a million before
Was there any rare expectation
Like there was some kind of somethin' in store

Did the sky have to hold back the thunder?
Did the moon find new reasons to glow?
Could the children somehow sense the wonder
2000 Decembers ago?

Were the sheep as amazed as the shepherds
At the new star that lit up the sky?
Did the willow trees whisper excitement
To the rivers and streams passing by?

Did the joy ricochet off the mountains
'Til it filled up the valleys below?
Did all the world sense love abounding
2000 Decembers ago?

Was anyone able to look at the stable
And not see a child but a King
I wish, I could hear back over the years
As heaven and nature sing, heaven and nature sing

Did the walls of the barn start to tremble
With a glory they could not contain?
Did anyone wake with the feeling
Of peace that they could not explain?

Oh, the love must have been overwhelming
As it warmed everyone in its flow
For all of the earth is still telling
Of 2000 Decembers ago

Was anyone able to look at the stable
And not see a child but a King
I wish, I could hear back over the years
As heaven and nature sing

Was anyone able to look at the stable
And not see a child but a King
I wish, I could hear back over the years
As heaven and nature sing, heaven and nature sing
Heaven and nature sing

Oh, the love must have been overwhelming
2000 Decembers ago

~ Joy Williams

Even though we're not sure the day or what time of year our Savior was born, this song is beautiful. :)

Hope you all had a Merry Christmas!!

"Thank you, God, for Jesus!"

It will always be Christmas to me

Call it what you may; just a winter holiday
Or a season filled with fun and fantasy
Call it anything you wish, but December 25th

Will always be Christmas to me

It will always be Christmas to me
It will always be Christmas to me
This one sacred day will forever stay
The birth of my Savior and King
It will always be Christmas to me

When I see the lights; I still think about the nights
When a wondrous star showed over Bethlehem
In the children’s caroling, I still hear the angels sing
Announcing, “Christ is born” once again

It will always be Christmas to me
It will always be Christmas to me
This one sacred day will forever stay
The birth of my Savior and King
It will always be Christmas to me

Every time I hear you say, “Merry Christmas”,
Those words mean so much more
For they help me to remember
What this celebration is for

It will always be Christmas to me
It will always be Christmas to me
This one sacred day will forever stay
The birth of my Savior and King
It will always be Christmas to me

This one sacred day will forever stay
The birth of my Savior and King
It will always be Christmas to me
It will always be Christmas
It will always be Christmas to me

~Booth Brothers -  

It will always be Christmas to me

 Christmas is Jesus' birthday! So the Christmas tree, the decorations, it's all birthday decorations for Jesus!
Did you know the Candy Cane was even made to represent Christ?
Actually the Christmas tree, wreaths, and many other things also represent Christ. Isn't that cool?!

It's sad how the world has commercialized, and holiday-ified Christmas till almost everyone forgets the "Reason for the Season" as they get caught up in shopping and gift wrapping, children hoping for Santa Claus to bring what they wished for, and some even replacing "Merry Christmas" with "Happy Holidays"or "Seasons Greetings"!

Lets remember to take the time to read the real story of Christmas on Dec. 24th or 25th this year, and gives thanks for the First gift ever given on Christmas. Love. :)

Merry Christmas!

It's that time of year!

"It's the most wonderful time of the year"

I'm Celebrating Jesus, that's what Christmas means to me.

Yesterday we went and got our Christmas tree!!
We usually go the weekend of Thanksgiving, but we all ended up getting the flu that weekend. Yuck..
So.... We now finally have our tree up!
I'm the official tree lighterer, so we had some fun while checking the lights last night....

Peanut was not amused though..... :P

I was thinking, "Hey! It's Tigger!" (anyone remember the old short Winnie the Pooh movies?)
So after having to go get another string of lights as one we had went out, we got the tree all decorated last night!!

We have now watched 3 of our "I've lost count of how many we have Christmas Carols".
2 of which are musicals. :)

My favorites are Muppets Christmas Carol and Albert Finney's Scrooge.
Here is one of the songs from Scrooge.

This upcoming Saturday is the annual Christmas at the Fort!
I can't wait! There will be caroling, Wassail (a type of cider), wreath making, spinning top making, tassel making, potpourri making (my station), games and dancing (Megs and Kai's stations) and other fun things!
The kitchen will be making food so will be warm and cheery!
It's from 10am - 3pm if anyone wants to come. :)


How's your December? Is your house decorated yet?

Christmas Countdown! It is only 21 days away!!!