My life right now.

Life! It's a beautiful thing. Full of joy, trials, times to grow, simple everyday moments, big milestone moments.... So don't get so caught up in your "life" that you forget to really and truly live!!! We are so blessed by God to be living in this time in history, what are we doing to grow His kingdom?

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 Here's a few iPhone shots from my life right now (I promise, one of these days will do a post with only pictures from my "real" camera) :) I'm SO thankful to the Lord for giving me this wonderful life to live!!!! 

When you're planning a wedding this is what your desk looks like: full of lists and papers and everything else in between with iced coffee and dark chocolate ;) The coffee is definitely needed as sleep isn't much of an option ;P But oh! It's Such fun!! And the chocolate just adds a smile...

Sister wedding shopping dates! Yay :) 

Had some extra time to make dinner the other day....

Lots of bridal shower invitation making. 

National Cheesecake Day was July 30th. It's a day that is tucked into busy life that just makes me smile :-) So I made a brownie cheesecake to celebrate, and we ate it, yum. 

Been walking/running my dog and I love it. Oh yes, it's so that I can eat more cheesecake, haha, just kidding ;P 

Crazy sibling car ussies. We take so many of these I think I'll be able to fill a book someday ;P 

Treasuring every memory with this girl before she is no longer a Miss but a Mrs.!  {scream} I'm s.o. Excited!!!! 

Lunch in the midst of a wedding dress shopping day. Speaking of wedding dresses....why do they have to be so expensive, and why is it so hard for the bride to find the one?;P haha.

In the midst of all this busyness my little nephews are growing way too fast. So what's more fun than to take them outside and just get all dirty an dusty with them?;) 

My reminder right now, to stop talking about doing things and just doing them!! So, I decided I'd do this quick random post rather than just talk about it ;P 

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God is above and beyond good. I know I say this all the time, but I just can't help it!!  Lately I've been constantly left amazed at His provision and goodness. Alrighty, now I'm going to go get stuff done, instead of just talking about it ;-P 

One more thing, I love this verse. Thank you Jesus for all your many gifts! 

"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change."

James 1:17

A baby blessing...

We are so excited and happy to welcome 

Jesse Calder 

into our family!!

 He was born on February 22nd... 

"The Spirit of God has made me,
    and the breath of the Almighty gives me life."

Job 33:4

Look at that double chin!! ;-) 

We are so thankful for this little bundle of joy, God is so good!! Mommy and baby are doing wonderful, and Daddy and brothers (not to mention all the Aunts, and Uncles, and Grandparents;)) are loving this new little guy!!

"I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well."

Psalm 139:14

Happy New Year (yes, it's late ;p)!!

We pray you have a blessed New Year!! 

"Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope 

by the power of the Holy Spirit."

 Romans 15:13 

The Joshua Leever family :)

A month or so ago Janelle and I got to do a fun little photo shoot with the Little Leever's....!! I always love taking end of the year family pictures, it's so much fun to then go back and look at the past years... 

Anyways, here's some for you all to see of the ones we took :) 

Let's go take some pictures!:) Although it's definitely not the most exciting thing for little boys... ;)

Brothers... 

Daddy and his sons... I love this one!

Look at that boys eyes...!!!!

~ Family love ~

Playing in the leaves... :) 

I can hardly wait to meet this little boy... :D 

Another one of the boys... 

Such a cute couple ; ) 

I love this candid picture! 

Beach Camp 2013 : )

 

I must say that this camping trip is pretty high on my list of "most favorite" camping trips... :) It was such fun and a huge blessing getting to know so many friends better - like: learning a little about peoples personalities when its really late (I won't say the hour :) - just know it was late!!), and who wakes up and is out of their warm sleeping bags and sitting around the campfire in the morning first, and all the other little things you don't always notice about people unless you are with them for several days in a row ;) Bible time was very encouraging (and convicting for me) also - the theme was "Dive In", we can't just be partly in Christ, we've got to dive all the way in and live fully for Him everyday. All the games were so much fun also, and we all had a blast playing football for several hours each day!!:)

Here is a link to an album of a bunch more pictures: Beach Camp 2013
My mom and Janelle took basically all of these pictures, and they got some really good ones :)

* Little Birdies *

I love Spring...we have several bird nests, one on our well house and one in between two brooms in the garage!!! It's been so fun watching the baby birds grow, and the parents so diligently feeding and caring for them!

 

The two pictures above this picture is a week or so ago, look how much they have grown!!

 

The nest in our brooms, can't wait for them to hatch!:)

 

 

 

"Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap

 nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them.

 Are you not of more value than they?"  

 

Matthew 6:26