New things going on around here........

Hello Blog readers!

Thanks for being patience with me! Lots of new things going on in my life! First of all we are saying goodbye to Hanna and Tricia today!  I really enjoying having you both be a part of this blog! Love to you both!

Second we are welcoming Ashley to our team! We are excited for the blog to start up again! Please check back every week for a new post from the girl of the week! I pray this blog will be an encouragement for many! Here again is our missions statement if you have not read about the purpose of this blog:

Five Perspectives Blog

Mission Statement

The purpose of the Five Perspectives blog

is to encourage each other by sharing about our daily lives through pictures

and sharing Scripture verses that are impacting our lives to the Glory of Jesus Christ!

I Thessalonians 5:11 says,

 “Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.”

Colossians 2:1-3 says,

“For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea

and for all who have not seen me face to face,

that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love,

to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery,

which is Christ,  in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.”

Philippians 2:1-2 says,

“So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love,

any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy,

complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love,

being in full accord and of one mind.”

Here Comes The Bride...

In August of this summer my oldest sister, Kendra, got married to Trevor Gaines. This was an amazing and beautiful gift from the lord. They had it outside and were married in front of a gorgeous water fall. I was very excited to be a bridesmaid for the very first time ;) 

 

Kendra and Trevor

From Left to right: Leah, Katie, Trevor, Bre and Hanna

I love them both so much. God has truly blessed us by bringing Trevor and his Parents into our lives. Please be praying for Kendra and Trevor. They are in Hong Kong right now doing mission work.

Have a great week! ~Hanna

Favorite Website's:

A few of my Absolute Favorite blogs and Websites are these.....

Make it - Love it Blog

For those who love creative ideas, sewing and More

http://www.makeit-loveit.com/category/clothing

Diviine Modestee

Adorable, yet modest dresses and swimsuits!

http://www.sweetinnocencedresses.com/shop/sweetinnocence

Have a Blessed week.      ~Hanna

"Above all else, guard your heart,
    for everything you do flows from it.
 Keep your mouth free of perversity;
    keep corrupt talk far from your lips.
 Let your eyes look straight ahead;
    fix your gaze directly before you."

Proverbs 4:23-25

Recipe...

Hanna~ Recipes From a Modern-day... 

                                               ~Pioneer WOMAN~

Peach Crisp with Maple Cream Sauce

Prep Time:

 20 Minutes

 

Cook Time:

 45 Minutes

 

Difficulty:

 Easy

 

Servings:

 8

Print Recipe

Ingredients

• 5 whole To 6 Whole Fresh Peaches (best When Not Overly Ripe Or Soft)
• 1 cup Flour
• 1/2 cup Sugar
• 1/2 cup Light Brown Sugar, Firmly Packed
• 1/2 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon Ground Nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon Salt
• 1 stick Butter (1/2 Cup)
• 1/2 whole Lemon
• 7 Tablespoons Real Maple Syrup, Divided
• 1-1/2 cup Whipping Cream
• 3 Tablespoons Light Corn Syrup

Preparation Instructions

In a medium bowl, mix flour, sugar, light brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt using a fork or pastry cutter. Cut butter into small pieces and gradually add to flour mixture until evenly mixed.

Peel peaches into a bowl. Add the zest from half a lemon. Squeeze juice from lemon half and stir in with peaches and zest. Add 2 tablespoons real maple syrup to peaches, stir well.

Pour peach mixture into a small pan (8” or 9” square) and cover evenly with crumb topping. Cover with foil and bake at 350ºF for 15 minutes. Remove foil and bake for an additional 20 to 30 minutes or until crisp and brown on top.

Maple Cream Sauce:

Pour whipping cream into a saucepan. Add 5 tablespoons real maple syrup, 3 tablespoons corn syrup and stir over moderate heat until thickened and reduced by about one-third, approximately 15 minutes. Refrigerate mixture until it is cold and thick, or set the saucepan into a small bowl of ice (the ice will melt and turn into ice water). Stirring your mixture, it will cool and thicken in about 15 minutes. Drizzle sauce over peach crisp. Serve warm.

The Pioneer Woman Cookbook, Recipes and Much more! From a real farm girl!

Her cookbook is great and her recipes are AMAZING!!

Black and White

The Two Cutest little Blondie's... 

After looking through all my Black and White photos I came down
to two of my absolute favorites...

My Favorite little Boy and Brother

Bryan Charles Age: 5

My Second favorite little boy

Jake Oakamura 

Age: 3

~Hanna

Beautiful Weather in Colorado

In February me and my family went to Love Land Colorado and went skiing! The weather, despite the freezing wind, was beautiful. All the snow swirled around us as we flew down the hill!

Exodus 14:14 
The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.” 

~Hanna

Hanna's Favorite Book...

One Thousand Gifts

By: Ann Voskamp

                              "Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever."

In the Book, One Thousand Gifts, it tells us all about the everyday things we should be counting as blessings. This book has inspired me to live my life fully for God, not holding back. And learning to count my everyday simple gifts from God. I also love how Ann puts it.......

“The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.” 
― Ann Voskamp

This Week Count your Blessings, in everything... Nothing is too small. God Makes it all Good...

~Hanna

“I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

The Best Chirstmas Present...EVER!

Welcome Lydia Noelle 

My Family on Christmas eve. Left to right: Kendra, Dad, Bryan Jr. Hanna (Me) Emma, Breanna, Mom and Lydia

This Christmas we had a really exciting christmas present! Lydia Noelle Helgesen was welcomed into the world!


    7 lbs.      23 In. Long

Born December 17 2012

           12:26 p.m. 

She had a Home-birth and I got to be there! I was so excited to be the first to dress her, with my love of Fashion and all :)

Babies are miraculous Miracles! I would encourage you to sit down right now and watch "Fearfully and Wonderfully made" It will change your  Perspective  and it will build your faith.... If it doesn't I don't know what will! This is an amazing process... We are actually knit together by our God and diffidently made wonderfully Made.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kt3Kk8mtlo&noredirect=1

 "For You formed my inward parts;  You wove me in my mother’s womb. 

 I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;  Wonderful are Your works,  And my soul knows it very well. 

My frame was not hidden from You,  When I was made in secret,  And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth; 

 Your eyes have seen my unformed substance;  And in Your book were all written  The days that were ordained for me,  When as yet there was not one of them." ~Psalms 139:13-16

~Hanna

"Fearfully and Wonderfully made" By: Answers in Genesis, Featuring Dr. David Menton,

Watch Here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kt3Kk8mtlo&noredirect=1

Week 10- Love through Suffering...

Love Through Suffering...

This christmas season, I have really been captured by this particular picture. From the time Jesus was born, until his horrid death for us he was always loving, always serving us, his people. We didn't deserve his gifts yet he gave. We didn't except his glory, yet he still came. This Christmas Season may you find yourselves with open hearts to him and be captivated in his arms.

Merry Christmas...

XOXO-Hanna  

          

"For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood. This sacrifice shows that God was being fair when he held back and did not punish those who sinned in times past."    ~Romans 3:25 NLT

Hanna... A little piece of Spain

A Little piece of Spain...

MARTA GARCIA

This summer my family and I had the chance to visit with our great

friend from Spain, Marta (American: Martha). She loves America

and we took her to Wal-Mart for the first time in her life! She

said it is way too big and "How could someone even need

all this stuff?" She loves chocolate and while she was visiting we made

                  about 4 batches of chocolate chip cookies... not to mention our fondue

night!

L-R... Marta Garcia, My sister Breanna and My Mom

Marta had never been so close to a horse before!

She came with us to our county fair...

 ...And we went to the Rodeo.

L-R Hanna, Emma, Marta, Breanna and my little Night in shining armor... Bryan

 ...Again... Chocolate can never get tiring!

Bryan and Marta love marshmallows!!!

 We had a huge girl sleepover! Marta's second favorite thing!

Bryan loves Marta...

 The next morning after the sleepover... We ate chocolate chip

waffles with chocolate sauce, whip cream and strawberries!

L-R, Hanna Breanne Lane, Marta, Madison Otto, Emma Helgesen and Breanna

Happy Weekend!

XOXO-Hanna

“Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.” ~Mark Twain

Hanna...Week 2

Some of the things I really enjoy doing are photography, Dance and Sewing/Fashion.

I own my own business, Sugar 'n' Spice where I sell doll, Baby and Women's attire. Visit:

sugarnspicedesigns-h.blogspot.com

In the past year I have really grown to love photography. Taking pictures is something I really enjoy. This was one of my favorites.

I have been dancing with CMA for 5 years and this year at their summer dance camp I choreographed my own dance and performed it at their reach-out project. Dancing is diffidently one of my passions. Besides worship dance I enjoy Ballet and Hip-Hop.

Have an awesome weekend!!
XOXO- Hanna

"She sets about her work vigorously;
    her arms are strong for her tasks.
¹⁸ She sees that her trading is profitable,
    and her lamp does not go out at night.
¹⁹ In her hand she holds the distaff
    and grasps the spindle with her fingers." 

~Proverbs 31:18-19

My Summer 2012- Week 1

This summer my family and I traveled to California for our family vacation.

We went to Disney Land and it was my little Bro's first time on an airplane and his first time to go to Disney Land. He was pretty excited ;) We also went to the beach, but in 70 degree weather with wind we naturally didn't want to put swimsuits on. So as you can see in the picture below, we went in with sweatshirts and jeans. Bre and I told my mom we were only going to go up to our knees, but that didn't happen! We went all the way up to our necks and let me tell you... it was a pain trying to get sand out of my sweatshirt pockets the next day :)

Bre and I doing the dramatic 'smolder' look  

 On our way to Disney Land!

 Half the day into Disney Land, I saw this roller coaster. It's in the back of me. It was the best roller coaster. Despite the fact that we waited 2 hours in line to ride it.

 The best pie ever! Julian's Pie company. They have apple pie with cinnamon sugar ice cream. Yup. I went home and did Jillian Michaels after that one ;)

 Up in the "mountains" in California we walked around an old fashioned town called Julian. In this town there was a candy shop and Bryan and Emma got pop rocks. Their faces were hilarious! 

Hope you all have a great weekend! 
XOXO- Hanna

“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.  Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven." ~Matthew 5:13-16