Finally, Snow!

It was -1 degrees Saturday morning!  I began my day with a walk through our field, it was one of the most beautiful mornings I have ever seen!  After my walk, I came inside to campaign for others to come back out with me.  Haley and I did a photoshoot while Dad and Grant went snowshoeing.  Later we had a great time sledding in our front yard! 

 

Noela is becoming quite the snowboarder!

Color!!

Oh the deep, deep love of Jesus!

Oh the deep, deep love of Jesus

Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free

Rolling as a mighty ocean

In it’s fullness over me.

Underneath me, all around me

Leading onward, leading homeward

To Your glorious rest above.

Oh the deep deep love

All I need and trust

Is the deep deep love of Jesus

Oh the deep, deep love of Jesus

Spread His praise from shore to shore

How He came to pay our ransom

Through the saving cross He bore

How he watches o’re His loved ones

Those He died to make His own

How for them He’s interceding

Pleading now before the throne



Oh the deep,deep love of Jesus

Far surpassing all the rest

It’s an ocean full of blessing
In the midst of every test

Oh the deep, deep love of Jesus

Mighty Savior, precious Friend

You will bring us home to glory

Where Your love will never end

Ducklings....then

The ducklings are adorable!  I love these little things! I will be posting some pictures of them now...they have gotten a lot bigger! 

Finally, pictures!

I finally was able to get a couple pictures to upload!  These are two {of the many} pictures that I took during my photography class this winter. 



Self Promotion

This morning I was reading an article on setappartgirl.com about self promotion.  Way too often we feel like we need to promote our self to get attention, popularity, and "get our name out there."  Are you willing to give up your dreams and popularity to the Lord for Him to take care of? 

"He does not call us to be noticed and applauded by the world.  He calls us to decrease, more and more, that He might increase within us." ~ Lesli Ludy 

Luke 14:11 says, "...he who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

Photo tour

For my birthday mom and dad paid for me to take a photo class at a nature center down the road.  It was a very profitable afternoon, I learned so much!!  My pictures are looking a lot better all ready.  We learned about the composition of photos, how to draw your viewer's eyes into it, have it tell a story.  I always wondered how people got clear pictures in dull lighting, well now I know!  Also, see that +/- button on your camera?   Use that setting to change the exposer, normally photos are over exposed so they look a little washed out, with this button you can make your pictures have a much richer color!  You probably know this, but I didn't and it was a BIG break-through in my photography!

I really wanted to post some pictures for you all to see, but our Internet is working really slow and refuses to upload photos.  I will post them as soon as I can.

Lydia

morning frost

fruit

That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Colossians 1:10

Sunshine after rain

He is like the light of morning at sunrise

on a cloudless morning,

like the brightness after rain

that brings grass from the earth.’

2 Samuel 23:4