Natalya~Thanksgiving pic!

One of my favorite things to do is decorate. I just LOVE making beautiful things. So, this year I got to do all the decorations for Thanksgiving! Obviously, Thanksgiving isn't about the beautiful table, or the fantastic food. (And it was fantastic.) It's about remembering the first Thanksgiving, where the Pilgrims shared all they had with the people who had taught them how to have it, (AKA: The Native Americans) and praised God for all he had given them. I wanted to have a "harvest-y" theme for the table, and candles and what not, so here's the result!

Instead of doing place cards...which can lead to disturbances because the kiddies want to sit next to someone else...I decided to just put verses and a decorative leaf sticker on "place cards".

~Natalya

Esther ~Week 26~

Hello all! I had a really bad cold yesterday and so wasn't able to post! I am on the mend now thankfully! Here I am a posting a day late but I am doing it now!

I had a really good Thanksgiving with my family! I realized how much I love my family! I just thought a lot about how much they mean to me and how much I love them!  The Lord has truly shown his love to me through my family (immediate and extended)!

Here is a collage of some of the things we did this last Thanksgiving!

My Grandma taught my sister and I how to paint china! On a wall in her kitchen she has all the extended families' plates (with their picture and name painted on it) on the wall. It was quite fun to learn how to paint, though it was very tough!!!

Then in the next picture is my Mom's parents(my grandparents obviously) kissing! We gave them those salt and pepper shakers (they kiss each other, cute huh?)!!!

The next picture is my cousin Maryanne! She just got engaged to Nick! We are all very excited for them!

The last is a picture of the plates we all painted! We are giving them to some of our dear friends to put up on their wall!

 Love you all and hope this month before Christmas is a blessing to you all!

{Patricia}

Bonjour!

I took this photo at Disney World in line for the Everest ride.

I have a loooooooove of close-ups(:

Have a good day.

Au revoir,

Patricia

Theme for this week...

Something we are Thankful for!

Rebekah Joy ~ Week 5 (skipped 4)

Hi people!

I had a great week and a great Thanksgiving, and I'm hoping ya'll did too! I did go shopping today... (It's so ironic that Black Friday is RIGHT after Thanksgiving.) Tomorrow is my mother's birthday, then we have elk meat to process, and our family is leaving on a vacation to Florida not soon after. These next few weeks are so busy, and I'm SO excited for all of them! :) Here's the black&white picture we were supposed to post. It's my sister, Emily. I'm DEFINITELY thankful for her (even though we do have our moments). She's really good at improv cooking, so she's always the one that saves all my bland concoctions and turns them into gourmet food. Of course, she does a lot more than just that. She goes on runs with me, shares in my love for hunting and camping, and encourages me all the time. Yep, she's just that fantastic... Make sure you tell the people you're thankful for that you're thankful for them. It'll probably mean more to them than anything else!

Oh, and try to make a point of reading Psalm 104. It talks all about God's amazing creation, and it makes me so appreciative of every thing He creates!

Giving thanks even when it's not Thanksgiving,

Rebekah Joy

Natalya~Black and White theme

Black and white photos. Yay! :) :) I hope black and white effects photos count. ;)
Here's one a took a while ago of my cousin Eliana when she was little (she's gotten so big now!) I get to see her tomorrow for Thanksgiving (uh...along with the rest of her family) so I'm excited. :) She was wearing the cutest green flower sweater, so I couldn't resist leaving it green. :) Don't I have a beautiful cousin? ;) A sweet bonnie lassie she is.

This next one I took last fall of my friend Kali. She was 15 at the time I think. :)
Again. This is black and white effects, because I like color. ;)

HAPPY (slightly early) THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!

What are you most thankful for? Leave a comment and let me know. See if you can think of something that's rater unusual to be thankful for. I'm thankful for my weak back and bad shoulder, because it makes me work hard to try to heal them. It gives me dedication and endurance. By my weakness I can show God to be strong. :)

~Natalya

Esther ~Week 25~

Let me remind you (us) to be thankful for all the Lord has blessed us with!  Hope you all have a blessed Thanksgiving with your families!

Psalm 147:6-8 "The LORD lifts up the humble; He casts the wicked down to the ground. Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving; Sing praises on the harp to our God,  Who covers the heavens with clouds, Who prepares rain for the earth, Who makes grass to grow on the mountains."

Theme for this week...

Black and White Pictures!

Esther...

Hi everyone!

I am on a trip right now, so I will be posting tomorrow instead of today.  :)

Happy-early-Thanksgiving!

Natalya~Fire themed! (I lost count too...) ;)

Ah, fire... *sigh* I love flame :) It's so beautiful. It never looks the same way twice. I have lots of pictures from "days gone by" (I'm not really old enough to say that, but oh well...) and here are some of them. I like watching the "pictures in the fire". If you look closely at it you can see all kinds of things, especially if you look at the shape of the wood too. It's like finding pictures in the clouds, only better. :)

I have better pictures of flame (and the flaming sun, which I think counts!) on my laptop, but the computer I blog from is not my laptop so I can't post them here now...I'll try to upload them later. :)

Psa 18:28 For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

~Natalya