New lens

My new 50mm lens came in the mail yesterday. I've already taken a few photos in our backyard...

It's good at blurring the background (because it has low aperture settings). I'm still learning :) It's going to be good for portraits... all I need is people to take photos of!

2 years

Today two years ago I married my best friend and husband. It's crazy to think it's been two years already... it seems like it has gone so fast. Yet, at the same time, we've experienced a lot together over the past two years that make me feel we've been together much longer.

We celebrated this Friday with a nice dinner in Savannah and a stay at the Westin. It was a relaxing time with good food: fried shrimp, steak, sourdough bread, Leopold's ice cream, Zunzi's, and cupcakes... YUMMY

The Ferry

Cool ferry lights

River House Seafood

We just sat in this square for a while enjoying the trees and people watching.

Cupcake Emporium: Coconut, Red Velvet, and Chocolate Chocolate

Enjoying cupcakes

Model pose

We had a lot of fun trying to find the Forrest Gump bench(sadly, we failed because neither of us thought to use our smartphones to look it up) and searching for letters to make up our last name around Savannah.

My new hobby

This summer I realized that I didn't really have any hobbies or activities I enjoyed... and that needed to change! So, I decided that I would try my hand at photography. I took these with a borrowed Dslr, but am getting one soon so I can learn how to take photos. These were just all taken on the auto setting. You can click on them to see them bigger.

Sweet/Funny things my husband has done/said today

He surprised me with a Chick-fil-a chicken biscuit in bed this morning.

He told me that he thinks the theme song for our life is Tubthumping... except for the "pissing the night away" part... haha

I said "everyone makes mistakes", in which he replied... "everyone has those days." Who knew he knew the lyrics to Miley Cyrus? not me!

Thankful for the chicken and laughs my husband brings me :)

Kimyal people

The Kimyal people receiving the New Testament

This video is about the Kimyal people receiving the New Testament in their language for the first time. It is a very convicting video. I know I do not hunger and thirst for God's Word like these people do. I also am not as grateful and thankful for the gift of His Word like these people. I so often take the Word for granted. I pray God moves in my heart to truly hunger for the Bible and have a thankful, rejoicing heart. Reminds me of some scripture in 2 Timothy about the uses of God's Word and how important it is to share it...

"But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work." - 2 Timothy 3:14-17

"I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry."
- 2 Timothy 4:1-5

Let us all immerse ourselves in God's Word, thank God for his Word, and go out and share it with others!

February Prayer Letter

I always forget to post our prayer letters. I don't know the best way to do it yet... I see other people put it right in their post, but I don't know how to do that yet! Here is a link...

Please join me

in praying for one of my good friends. She is on the World Race right now, which is where you minister in a different country for a month for 11 months. She is currently in Australia for month three. Her blog is amazing and has helped open my eyes more to the need around the world for the GOSPEL of JESUS!

If you want to check out her blog go here.

She posted a video of pictures from her month in Cambodia, and it broke my heart to see all the faces of children who don't know Jesus. I praise God for Cathy and her team that are talking the gospel to these remote places... to children and their families.

The video is here.

The video also had an amazing song on it that I had never heard... it's called "Hello Sunshine" by Barlow Girl. The lyrics really resonated with me...

"Hello sunshine it's been too long
since I felt your warmth upon my face
And how much have I missed
'Cause I've been focused on everything wrong
This road just felt so long
I forgot to lift my head to see you"

In the long road of support raising and just life in general, I always need a reminder to lift my eyes to Jesus.

You can listen to the song here.