{Katie}

This is my friend Katie. :) Last Sunday we went to downtown Wheaton, and did a photo shoot. It was so much fun and Katie is a perfect model!! I barely had to tell her what to do because she is just that awesome! :)

Here are the rest of the pictures and I hope you all enjoy them!

This is probably my favorite!!!! She is soooooooo beautiful!!

{Sneak Peek}

A sneak peek from a photo shoot I did with a friend yesterday!!! She is such a natural in front of the camera, and I have had so much fun looking through her pictures. :)

Katie, you are amazingly gorgeous!!! Love you!!
More pictures to come soon! :D

{Winter on a Farm}

Finally posting!!!! I'm really sorry I've stayed away so long!! :( These are some pictures I took a couple months ago at a farm. It was still winter then, but now it's beginning to look a lot like.....Spring!!!!!!!! I love snow and winter, but I love Spring as well, and I've been sooooo happy to see little buds sprouting and beginning to bloom!! Sooooo here are some wintery pictures!! :)

Clam shells.

Isn't this little guy adorable? :)

"Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything."

~James 1:2-4

Some random snow drawings. ;-)

{My Mom}

Today was my mom's birthday!!! I am very thankful for my mom, and I love her very much. She has been such an encouragement in my life. God has been working in incredible ways in her life, and I see the wonderful progress. She has been a wonderful friend as well as my mom.

During these past two years, since my dad started his own business, it has been incredible to see the way she and my dad have trusted God when we might not even know where the next meal is coming from!! It has been inspiring to see her grow deeper in her relationship with the Lord these past few years as well. She loves to study the Word of God. To see that in her, encourages me to be more diligent about being in the Word of God, and studying it from cover to cover.

We have had conversations over the past few years (more than I can count) where I will be completely discouraged, and she will talk it through with me, and reminds me that God never will give up on us. Don't look back and worry about all the things you've done wrong (not that we should ignore the fact that we have sinned), but to pray (and if need be, repent) and ask the
Lord for mercy and forgiveness, and then get right back up and lean on Him!!!!! The thing that I am most thankful for, is her encouraging us kids to learn to love the scriptures, and to STUDY, not just briefly skim over a few verses every morning, but to study the Word of God, so that we will be able to discern right from wrong.

The book of Proverbs is one of my favorite books of the Bible, and there are underlined verses everywhere!! There is so much wisdom hidden in this wonderful book, and I realize how sinful and wretched I really am! This verse in Proverbs 5:21, has been a big help in realizing that I am not in control of my life. GOD IS!!!!

Sorry if these pictures aren't very clear!! I hope you can still make out what the verses are. This one, I believe, is Isaiah 40:7.

This picture is of my foot. ;) Trust me, I had to get in a very awkward position to capture this shot. ;)

She has also encouraged me in my pursuit of dance, and has been an enormous help with my passion for photography as well.

I L.O.V.E you mom and it was really fun to go shopping with you today!! Thank you for all you do for our family!!

Matt

So, I'm finally posting something!!!! This is one of my younger brothers, Matt. He is really awesome and is an AMAAAAAAAZING artist!!!!! He would like to be a graphic designer, and he is working on designing my photography website!!! He is 15!!! Wow, I can't believe that he'll be sixteen in a few months! He is slowly passing me up in height, and is actually able to wrestle Phil without completely being demolished! ;P and he almost can beat me in an arm wrestle now too! ;) Ok, anyways....he is an amazingly talented artist and has his own business with his best friend Josh. I think he has a blog so when I find out the address, I'll have to tell you.

Isn't he such a good lookin' guy? :) He's the quiet type like me, and is a Civil War buff, does Martial arts, likes things that have to do with explosions :P, etc. ALL boy! Oh, and he also enjoys eating!! ;)