Thankful 11-18

#11 For Sarabeth and Luke, our youth group co-leaders, with out them the group may have fallen apart.

#12 For all the men and women who have served, are serving, or will serve to protect the people of the United States of America.

#13 For books, they are my mini get aways when all I can afford is a library card. Ha ha ha.

#14 For seasons, for the first 18 years of my life I lived in states with one maybe two seasons. Now in Virginia I have been blessed to live in them all.

#15 For my grandma Cathy who took the time when I was young to teach me how to things like sew and have a love for all things craft. And that we still talk to each other at least once a week.

#16 for our new phones, I can now rely on Levi's phone to get my texts.

#17 for the National Zoo, a wonderful place the spend the day with two active little boys

# 18 the option to worship our Savior at home in the car at a movie theater or in a sanctuary.

Thankful 9 and 10

I am thankful for my husband who puts up with my crazy whims and spends a friday night shopping with me to make a mini portable photography studio and then spends the next day helping me make it.

wood that we stained 

Levi sanding the chest i got at the goodwill

Chopping down the base board 

An idea of how it looks 

Titus being the first subject 

an idea I am working on for my grandmas challenge 

I love love love Levi.
Of course there are many many many more reasons why I am thankful for my hubby, but those are just two examples for the last two days. 

November Thankful 6-7-8

I am thankful for my camera that my parents bought me my senior year of high school. 

I am thankful for the opportunity to live in places that most people will never live. 

I am thankful that my mother planted and cultivated the seeds for the love of reading and learning that I have. 

Thankful November 5

I am thankful technology. I now live almost 2,700 miles from my parents and brothers, but I still feel like part of the almost everyday happenings due to Facebook and Skype. And just this last weekend, I was able to see my youngest cousin (me being the oldest at 20 and him, grandchild number 15 at the age of 1) walk. I still wish I could see them in person, but this makes being a Navy wife that much easier. 

Thankful November 4

Today I am thankful for my relationship with Jesus and that he loves me enough to talk to me personally to show me the plans he has for me (and Levi).

Something huge was revealed to me today, but first I will tell you the back story. 

November is National Adoption Awareness Month and today is Orphan Sunday. The church Levi and I attend did a service specifically for Orphan Sunday. Needles to say I bawled the whole time. 

Now levi and I have talked about adoption before, but today, I just knew that we are supposed to.  It wont be tomorrow or even next year, but we will adopt someday. 

But then my mind went to the cost of an adoption and my heart sank. How would we ever be able to save enough to complete our family. But then a small voice said "photography". 

So from now on, all the money I make through my photography business BeautyBeingPhotography, will be placed in a special savings account so that someday, Levi and I will adopt a little one into our family the same way Jesus was adopted into the line of David by his earthly father Joseph.  

Please keep this in your prayers especially over the next year as we take the first steps towards this goal.  

Thankful November 3

Today I am thankful that we had our last Soccer game of the season! I loved our kids this season, and we only lost 1 game (but we don't keep score ;}). I am sad that we wont be here next year to coach soccer, I find it fun. 

Thankful November 2

Today I am thankful for my "more than bible study" group of ladies. 

Every Friday there is a group of 7-15 of us that get together eat some breakfast, drink some coffee, and talk about life. These women have been there to pray for me through some of the toughest times this past year.  They give me so much hope and inspiration.  

Thankful November 1

Today's thankful is a little silly, but I am thankful for modern medicine. This past weekend we babysat for two little guys both Saturday and Sunday. The 2 year old started to have a runny nose that quickly progressed from clear to green with a cough. Thanks to my mommy, and being a babysitter since I was 11 I knew how to help the little man. However, I have not been around sick kids in over a year and do not have my normal immunity that gets built up. Thus I am now sick. Scratchy throat, nasal drip and all. And this brings me back to I am thankful for all natural Vicks stuff, robitussin, and Motrin.