Summer (+pictures)

Some of you know that I lost my camera.  :(  I haven't posted a lot of pictures (or anything really) lately.  However,  I figured out that my dad's old iPhone takes pretty good pictures.  I thought that I would share some of the ones that i have taken with it recently.  These pictures just say summer to me.  A lot of them are of Kate because we had a "photo shoot."

Without further ado.....

 

  

Selfie :D

Kate wanted pictures in her new, fancy outfit.  We found out that it was a great spinner! 

What's a new outfit without shoes?

I hope you are having a wonderful summer!

What have you been up to?

Day 1 of our Special Time Together

This week Cole and my dad are both in Honduras and Kate and Molly are at my grandparents.  This means that my mom and I are able to spend a few days together.  It has been a blast so far and I am looking forward to the days ahead.

We started our first day together on the porch.

Then we started a book together.  It is The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne.  Many reviews say that it is a heartbreaker but we are enjoying it so far.

Next we watched The Princess Bride.  That was the first time I had seen the movie and I really enjoyed it.

For dinner that night we ate Brown Rice Pasta With Tuna, Olives, Fried Capers & Parsley.  It was delicious and very picturesque.  

We ended the evening by watching a bit of My Fair Lady.  We will finish the rest sometime today.  It is very wonderful so far :)

I can't wait for today's adventures.  Hopefully I will post about them tomorrow.  Chao for now!

Meg

Inspiration

After a busy day...  I have finally had the chance to just lean back and say ahhh.   Today I picked up Kisses from Katie and was quite inspired.  I walked into the living room after a while to give mom an update on the progress I had achieved book.  She reminded me of an email forward that she sent me a few days ago of a Holy Experience blog post that I hadn't had a chance to look at yet.  So, I hopped on the computer to check it out.  The post was about Kisses from Katie and talking about a lot of the things in the book that I had just read.  Every day Katie finds at least 100 children in her yard ready for lunch, homework help, and showers.  This chapter was about how Katie found scabies on some of the children that were in her backyard on that particular day.  She took them into her home, gave them food, a bed, warm baths, and courageously treated their scabies with the risk that she our any of her girls could catch them.  Katie's willingness just blows my mind!  A convicting fact from this chapter was that if 8 percent of Christians would care for only one more child, there wouldn't be ANY orphans or needy children left.  Katie also says that if you go into a village to teach a child about God's love, how will they ever understand if they don't know what is?  The only thing you can do is just love.  Love.  That should be our goal.  Love.  That's what we can do.  Love.  That's how we will make a difference.


Let's love others together.  What do you say?

Books

Hi! :)  I wanted to tell you all about some books that I've enjoyed recently.  The first one is Perfectly Unique by Annie Downs.  

This book is perfectly charming.  It teaches you to use your body to glorify God in many different ways with many different parts of your body.  Annie writes in a fun loving, down to earth tone which I enjoyed greatly.  She blogs here.  The appendix of the book contains many recipes, websites, and more.  I loved Perfectly Unique.

The next book happens to be a fiction book that I zoomed through.  It is called The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, The Mysterious Howling.

This book is well written, different, and captivating.  It is about a well educated woman named Penelope who is looking for a job.  She finds an ad that says there is a position for governess available at the house (more like mansion) of Lord and Lady Ashton.  However, Penelope does not find the children in the nursery where she expected.  She keeps hearing mysterious howls that seem to be coming from the barn.  She strolls outside to take a look.  She finds......  THE CHILDREN!  They are howling like wolves.  Most think they've been raised by wolfs.  They are drooling, licking, and did I mention howling.  With sooo much to teach them, Penelope is not pleased to figure out that Lady Ashton is hosting a Christmas ball... and inviting the children!!!  With many mysteries along the way, this adventure is thrilling.  It is one of the many books in the series.  The Mysterious Howling is a great read.




These are the recent favorites of mine.  Next are some that I have started reading and plan to finish soon.

Amazon says Graceful goes along wonderfully with Perfectly Unique.  So far, this book is great!  I hope to read more of it soon.  Emily blogs here.

Kisses from Katie has been both heart breaking and gripping.  It tells the story of how Katie came to Uganda and became used to the culture there.  It is interesting how she planned to go on a trip to Uganda for a week and then it turned into coming back for a month which turned into living there and adopting many children.  I can't wait to finish Kisses from Katie.  Katie blogs here.

I got a hold of this beautiful book yesterday.  I am loving it!!!  I love Jenna's writing.  Redefining Beautiful is about what true beauty means.  I have read another book by her called From Blah to Awe which I posted about here. 


What are you reading lately.  Comment and let me know!


Meg

Check it out!!

Check out the new video on my ukulele page!!!! Finally put one up!  Hope you like!!! <3

.....and a Happy New Year!

Christmas came and Christmas went.  It was fun, enjoyable, and lovely except for the part where I had the flu :P.  I am thankful for all that I was blessed with this Christmas season.  Here are just a few of those things and people (in no paticular order) :

• Family
• Friends
• Cousins 
• Love
• Jesus and His birth
• Snow
• Surprises
• Books
• Goals
• YOU, my readers!!

I am very blessed with all of these people and things.


2012 has ended well.  I am hoping 2013 will kick off to an amazing start!  I Hope you had a Merry Christmas and I am wishing you the best for 2013!

Meg
 

I am ready

I AM READY!!!!!

I am going to the Hits Deep Tour 2012!!!!!!  :)   TODAY!   Tooo excited!!!!! Can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will get to see: Toby Mac!!!!!!!!!!!, Brandon Heath, Mandisa :) :) :), Chris August, Britt Nicole!, Jamie Grace,  and.... Group 1 Crew.

These are some of my VERY favorites!!!


I AM READY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!