Clairebear Photoshoot

last week i did a photoshoot of the cutest and sweetest little gal on earth!!! .. Claire! yep yep!! im so glad i get the oppertunity to babysit her every week! she is such a DOLL!!! so enjoy the pictures!! :D

this is like my FAVORITE!!!! :D

well thats all for now! sorry i havent been able to post very much lately! were getting ready for my graduation! i'll try to keep posting as much as i can! ttyl!

GRRRRR >:(

ok so i just have to say something real quick. i guess right now a lot of werstlining is going on right now? idk if its all state matches or what (i dont keep up) but anyway iv heard several storys about guys standing up and saying NO when they were paired up against a girl. even one dude who coulda won the state finals. you know what. good for them. those boys are getting a lot of ridicule for not wrestling them... but they shouldnt. the ones who have said no.... are doing whats right. and ya know what else.

a girl shouldnt even enter.

shouldnt even be ABLE to enter. ... unless its a seperete girls class. it is just not right for a guy to touch, and take down a girl in the way that wrestlers do.

ugh so that just kinda got my kettle steaming right now. thought yall might care to know what i think! lol

Piano and Barrel Racing

would you believe me if i told you that learning a really hard/fast song on the piano... is exactly like training a horse for barrel racing? yeah i know... crazy hu?? but REALLY!!! this makes so much sence to me!

so im learning this really difficult song on the piano... a TON of notes, supposed to be really fast... very challenging. but this is where its so neat! before you can play a difficult speedy song like that you have to learn the notes first. (the fundementals) you have to teach your fingers where to go.. and most importantly before you play really fast.... it has to be smooth.

well teaching my horse (or any horse) to barrel race. you have to work on fundamentals first. teach them the ground work. show them where their feet should go! and most importantly... get it smooth before speed. you practice slow... slow.. and slow some more... just like learning a song on the piano... once you finally get it down slow, speed comes!! its so cool...

so thats just what i was thinkin about :D

This morning i woke up, and thought "hey! today is saturday! i should have some time to do a blog post!" and i prayed that God would give me something to post about... something from his word, that meant so much to me. so i got up and went to do my devotions. iv been reading through Jeremiah... and i opened to chapter 18. the first 6 verses that i read... answered my prayer! i couldnt believe it! thank you LORD! so here it is... i hope you enjoy

!! pay close attention to this seiries of pictures. !!

Jeremiah 18:1-6 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.

Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.

And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter:

so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD.

Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand,

so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.

go look at those pictures again... that first picture? ... that is MY life.. thats YOUR life before we met Christ! really were just a bunch of rubble, crumbles of dirt all scattered and broken up.

the second picture... thats when we allow Christ into our life. he takes us in his hands... and he has a plan.

the third picture? is God at work. he sets our world to spinning, he starts pushin on us... streching, forming, some of Gods forming and molding can test us to the limits, it may hurt... we may feel broken... but God is busy... at this point in the picture... we cant see what the end product is. but God works and works

and the last picture? thats the finished product!

who am I? that God would see my broken crumbled goop mess... and pick me up? who an I... that God would show his tender love in forming and molding me? who am I that God has such a beautiful design for my life? i am humbled by Gods love for me.

he Loves you to! weather you know the Lord already or not. no matter where you are in life... GOD has a plan for you... he want to make you into something beautiful. i pray that we ALL will surrender our Lives to our creator... to our potter.

Isaiah 64:8 But now, O LORD,

thou art our father; we are the clay,

and thou our potter;

and we all are the work of thy hand.

My Brothers

sometimes when people hear that i have 3 brothers (and no sisters) they (especially girls) "pity" me and ask me how in the world i live with 3 bros. I laugh. i used to wish and wish and want a sister so bad. but i have some of the dearest friends...that i feel truely are sisters... and im thankful for them... but i absoutly LOVE my brothers!

• they make my heart melt

my big (little) manly, macho (so they think) tough brothers, often make my heart mealt by randomly giving me big huge hugs...or little winks, and wide grins... always wanting to be my "body guard" and often treating me to a soda/candy bar/ice cream cone :D

• they make me Cry

not because im sad....but we laugh so hard...that tears cant help but slip out! i wont even begin to try to describe the things we laugh about...(you would think that we all lost our marbles and were off our rockers)

• the make me sing like a fool

um...i wont get into details... but it usually involves putting on concerts for the horses down at the stable. .. some how the center allyway turns into a stage, and our pitch forks turn into microphones...and the horses turn into an amazed audience ;)

I could go on forever and a day about my awesome brothers,... but to the biggest point. I am just sooo thankful that the Lord has blessed me with the most amazing, wonderful brothers in the whole world! :D (enjoy a few picts)

Hair doo night with Skylar! :D

Chillin with Brandon in the Horse tank :D


Crusin the highways in the minivan!!! :D (on vacation lol) (haha yeah he should be focusing on the road hu?)

having no hope

i just want to take a quick minute and post some thoughts about this verse that i read thismorning.

Ephesians 2:12 "that at the time ye were without Christ,

being aliens from the commonwealth of isreal, and

strangers from the covenants of promise,

having no hope, and

without God in the world:

ya know... that is right where this world is today. having no hope, and without God in the world: take a look around you. teenagers in this world... have no hope so what do they run to? drugs, cutting, relationships, and when all of that fails ... sucide. why? because they have NO HOPE. why? because God is not in this world. that just makes me so so sad to see. even in my own extended family i see that happening, Christians. we need to stand up! we have such an oppertunity here to share the HOPE that we have because of Jesus Christ i did a quick word study on hope. and im just amazed! AMAZED by Gods grace, AMAZED by the fact that ONLY because of Jesus Christ we can have hope. its not denyed us, or hiden from us. We can have hope because of Jesus. people in this world need to be pointed to that ray of hope,

2Thessalonians 2:16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,

1Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, - because we have a LIVING God ... we have HOPE! we know that Jesus Christ is not in the grave, and we can have hope of his second coming, hope of our future,

Romans 15:13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

Romans5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

Lamentations 3:24 The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

Psalms 43:5 why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? HOPE IN GOD: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God

I stand amazed!

who are we to be given the Hope of Jesus Christ?

who am I to claim that hope because of him?

Lord, may I always point others to the hope that we can have in YOU.