Happy Monday Link up

Here's my entry for today's Happy Monday. 

The theme for this week is Christmas decorations.

And this is one of my favorite Christmas decor pics for this year.

the last "A Merry Christmas Linkup" faces

This is my favorite Christmassy people picture of this year. I'm entering it in the Christmas link up here. 

It's of my best friend Megan. We have a lil tradition that when we open presents, we put the bow on our head.

So here it is!!!!

I love you, dear friend! =D

Happy Monday ~ Self Portrait

Sorry. 

I know this pic seems to be around here a lot lately, but this week's Happy Monday theme is self portrait.

So, once again.......

here it is.

Updates

Sorry it's been so long since I lasted posted. I have a lot to catch up on, so I'll get on with it. =P

First up...we got our hamsters! The one in the pic above is mine. I haven't gotten pictures of the other two yet, but they're both black with a few white spots on them.

....I got some sunglasses! Rachel's are the pink ones, and mine are the white. I've put off getting sunglasses for a while, but I really like these.

Day 5

Day 6

Sorry for not posting for the What's your Focus? Challenge the past two days. I've been really busy. Once again, I'll only be doing it the second week of every month from now on.

And lastly....

......my entry for the A Very Merry Christmas link up found here.  It's one of the Christmas lights from the string I have hanging around my room.


Good night!!!

What's your Focus? Challenge: Day 4 (sky)

Beautiful sunset.

Well, this is the fourth day of my second week of the What's your Focus? Challenge.

I've decided that instead of doing it every day, to do the challenge for one week every month. Probably the second week of the month.

What do you think? 

I would do it the first week of the month, but I do the Femininity Challenge from Feelin' Feminine blog that week. If you want to learn more about that, go here.

Good night!

What's your Focus? Challenge: Day 3 (sky)

Here's my entry for today's What's your Focus? Challenge. 

I like it, and I hope you do too!

Worship Wednesday: Focus~ Peace

I don't know about you, but there's nothing more peaceful than a soft burning, sweet scented candle in a dimly lit room. 

I'm participating in Liz's Worship Wednesday, and the theme for this week is peace.

If you have the time, I'd suggest you go check out Liz's pictures for today. It's simply beautiful, and so peaceful.

Wordless Wednesday: memories of Thanksgiving

Hannah at Aspire posted a photo from her Thanksgiving for today's Wordless Wednesday. 

So, I decided to follow the pattern.

Here's my photo from Thanksgiving, our centerpiece pumpkin.

Happy Monday Photo Challenge!

Allie at "Allie Photography blog" is hosting a weekly Monday photo challenge here.

Since I normally do not care much for Mondays, (it's a whole another week until the weekend comes again!) I've decided to add this challenge to my weekly photo challenges I participate in.

The others are:

A very Merry Christmas Link up here hosted by Sereina every Sunday.

Wordless Wednesday here hosted by Hannah every Wednesday.

What's your Focus? Daily photo challenge here hosted by me everyday (except Sundays)

And now.....

Happy Monday Photo Challenge hosted by Allie every Monday.

The goal for this week was to add a picture that made you happy.

This one, makes me happy. =D

My handsome brother and adorable sister

What's your Focus: New Week! New Theme!

Hi!

If you're anything like me, you probably have many sky pictures 

(but maybe not over 200 like me??)

So, this week's What's your Focus?  challenge is sky. 

If you have any questions about what this challenge is all about, visit my What's your Focus? page here. 

Now, here's today picture!

I love the sky's many moods, don't you?

Christmas decorations

Besides the bokeh pictures, these were the only  

good Christmas decoration pictures.

So here they are!

and here's some cute pictures I got of my sister in her cute Christmas colored outfit. 

I couldn't resist these adorable red stockings and white shoes!

Oh by the way! 

I'm going to enter one of the first three pictures in Sereina's Christmas link up here. 

Good night!

What's your Focus Challenge: Day 6 (flowers)

Here is the last flower of this week's challenge.

I learned some things this week.

I learned that it's hard to post every day.

I learned that doing this challenge reminds me to think of God's Handiwork 

every single day.

And I also learned that we can learn something from all of God's Creation, 

big, and small.

Good night, folks!

I'll try to participate in the "A Very Merry Christmas Link Up" tomorrow.

What's your Focus Challenge: Day 5 (flowers)

Nothing too spectacular for today's photo (what am I saying?! All of God's creation is amazing!)

These are Azaleas, a very common flower in Louisiana (well, at least I see them a lot.)

I took this pic when I went with my brother's church school to the zoo. I was a "counselor", (O come on! I was as excited as the other kids! Lol!) 

Anyway, here's my picture for today.

Have a good night!

Oops!

Just realized that I didn't post a flower for the themes yesterday! 

I was rather lazy yesterday, because of it being Thanksgiving and all.

I suppose that when you're THAT stuffed with turkey, you forget about some things.=)

This picture was not edited, and was taken with my first digital camera (look at "my gear" page), so it's not the best of quality, but I still like this flower.

Have a lovely day!

Themes: Day 3-Flowers

Here's my themes flower picture for today!

This little flower (though some may call it a weed) represents what I'm thankful for this Thanksgiving. 

I'm thankful for the little things. 

I'm thankful for the things some people call insignificant or unimportant (like this little flower). 

I'm thankful for everyday blessings.

      Things like grading a perfect paper, getting dirty with my little brother and my dog, Sarah, feeling a strong, cool breeze, drinking a perfect cup of coffee out of a simple, pretty mug, taking a picture I'm awed at because of the way it captured God's beautiful creation, the little nuggets of knowledge God reveals to me in my Bible reading, my dad reading to us and replacing the character's names with our own, looking at a sink recently emptied of dirty dishes through working together with Mark, laughing at my little sister's silly antics, sitting quietly on the swing at church with Megan, each of us thinking our own thoughts, the simple pleasure of learning something new on the piano thanks to wonderful friends, and the list goes on and on.

Anyway, that's a few of the things I'm thankful for. And you know what else? I'm thankful that Thanksgiving does NOT only come once a year! It can be every day for the rest of your life.

"In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you."

~1 Thessalonians 5:18~

Wordless Wednesday

I'm participating in Wordless Wednesday (or not so wordless Wednesday) for the first time! 

It always sounded like a lot of fun. I couldn't get the button on this post, so I have it on the side. Sorry!

But here's my entry for today.

Themes: Day 2-Flowers

I took a lot of pictures today, but I'll have to post them tomorrow.

For now, I'm going to post my flower of the day. It's one of the ones I took today, and I think it came out very good. 

The first one was the original, but then I had fun experimenting with different colors. I decided to post them all. Which one do you like?

original

boosted color

black and white

sepia

Be sure to leave me a comment with which one you like best!

Themes!

Hello there! 

How is everyone?

I've decided that, in honor of my new blog, I'm going to do a week long theme of posts. This weeks theme will be "a flower a day keeps the grumps away!"

What do you think?

If it works, I'll do a different theme every week. 

Here's today's picture!

Good night!