Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Quick Family Photos

AND...
~My personal
favorite~


The 4th of July weekend and the Blackberry Festival

~4th of July~
We had such a great time and I'm so thankful that I got to see all my family! We spent most of the time at the lake... got sun, swam, and ate!
When your drink is as big as a child you have a problem :-)Minor explosion but they held the pose... that's what I call photogenic!Poppy helping light the fireworks!
So we decided that when you get rained into a bus with 30 people making these faces seems pretty normal!
Awe the joys of insanity!
She's so cute and I love that face!
Poppy walking the kids!
Yummy! Yummy!

Laundry day!

Keely just chillin' in the dirty clothes, she stayed like that the whole time I clean the house! It was too funny but now she is a liitle too big for that basket :-)

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

God is...

FAITHFUL
Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
Deut 7:9

The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.
Deut 32:4

But as for me, my prayer is to you, O LORD. At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.
Psalm 69:13

God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 Cor 1:9

Our STRENGTH
The LORD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
Exodus 15:2

My heart exults in the LORD; my strength is exalted in the LORD. My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.
1 Sam 2:1

The joy of the LORD is your strength.
Neh 8:10b

Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise any; He is mighty in strength of understanding.
Job 36:5

The LORD is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.
Psalm 28:7

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Psalm 46:1

My flesh and my heart may fail,but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Psalm 73:26

LOVE
How precious is your steadfast love, O God! The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
Psalm 36:7

Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster
Joel 2:13

Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever,because he delights in steadfast love.
Micah 7:18

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love
1 John 4:7-8

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
1 John 4:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16

GOD IS GOD
For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe. He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.
Deut 10:17

Truly, your God is God of gods and Lord of kings, and a revealer of mysteries...
Dan 2:47

Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
Deut 7:9