Summer Fun

As summer is coming to a close for my baby girl I thought I would blog a post for her and our summer together! Just a few pictures :) This summer has been an interesting summer! A  lot of new things and a lot of challenges but overall a great summer and one that I will never forget. One fun addition to this summer has been the amazing man that I have been dating. He really is a rock for me at times. I love him... :) And I'm happy to say that we have been dating since February so I know that this is not just a summer fling! Haha :)

 Bella spending some awesome time at Cherry Hill with her best friend Mosi!

 My little princess! See she has the crown to prove it!

 Another lazy day spent at Cherry Hill :)

 My little fashionista with her accessories! haha

 Oh boy... :) This is me and my Hannah before entering... Crossfit. It was good I enjoyed it! But it just wasn't for us...

 Although I will say chin ups are a lot easier with the band thing to help pull you up!!!!

 After a cross fit session! The board behind us!

 Sitting out in front of the building before walking in... for 15 minutes...

 Beautiful breakfast with beautiful Elaine and her handsome son!

 Bella LOVES baby Daniel... even though he's not really a 'baby' anymore!

 Lunch with my two favorite "B's" <3 <3 <3

 Pad Thai from Noodles.. Mmmm my favorite!

Bella trying on Brian's sun glasses

Handsome made me dinner! :)

 Daddy.. The working man!

 Sunny on the way home from Bear Lake!

 Beautiful drive through the mountains on our way home from bear lake

 Playing at the "Beach" at Bear Lake

 SO beautiful... the pictures do NOT do it justice! Bear lake

 Bella trying on Brian's sun glasses...

 Brian trying on Bella's ... haha

 Caught YOU!

 YUMMY appetizers! That would be asparugus wrapped in Ham and cream cheese... mmmmm

 Drive to go camping... forgot to take pictures WHILE camping! UGH

 OMG I love this kid... :)

 He LOVES it when I take pictures of him...

 On the road with the back seat filled up for our two night camping excursion!

I must have made a funny... he was smiling in the pic... Haha :) <3


There was SO much more fun.. But I can't find the pics haha! :) But this is just a PIECE of my summer in 2012! Happy School year beginnings!

When life gets ya...

I hear a lot of people talk about life lately. How life is up, or life is down but my constant question is where is your heart through it all? A question I ask because I am constantly having to check my own. When life gets me down am I still giving my thanksgiving and praise to God? Or am I so weary and put down that I wallow in my own pit? God says to stick with Him and He will stick with me...

The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. Those

who know your name will trust in you, for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who

seek You. (Psalm 9:9-10)

His word says He has never forsaken those who seek Him. Over and over again in His word we read that He tells us to seek Him. To seek Him and he will give us the desires of our hearts. To seek Him in trouble. I know it's so easy to say the words, just seek God in times of trouble to calm your heart and your spirit, but in action is where it gets to be hard but let me tell you something. It starts with having a relationship with the Lord Jesus. But like all relationships they have to be built. 

Religious Freedom?

Something I have never really quite understood. How can people say that we as Christians are infringing on their right for religious freedom when they can turn around and say that they do not want God anywhere in the judicial system, in our schools, in city buildings or anywhere they go. Isn't that an infringement on my rights for religious freedom? Don't I have the right to see God everywhere I look? Don't I have the right to go to a public park and watch a christian concert without someone saying, "Hey you can't listen to that music?"

Does everyone remember that saying, "Can't we all just get along?" Here is the way that I see it. God loves you. He's trying to reach out to you in any way shape or form, but, I respect the fact that you don't want to hear it. That you don't want to know about God's love. I respect that because I know that God is going to reach out and try to make himself known in any way shape or form that He can. So I am not going to sit here and bash you and your beliefs. I'm not going to call you a fool, or other names. I'm not going to label you a sinner (mostly because we all sin). Why? Because I respect you. Can you not respect me?

I'm not saying that you have to agree with everything that I say and believe what I believe, because I believe that God will get a hold of your heart one day. But again I say why do you try to push your beliefs on me? You yell out that God's not real. That my beliefs are dumb and not worth anything. That there are 'holes in the story'. You want to take down the name of my God from everywhere that I go. You want to separate me   from years and generations that have sought Gods justice, help and wisdom. In other words you want to shut me up and shut me down. So tell me now. Who is infringing on who's religious rights?

I'm telling you my God cannot be contained in a building. Why you ask? Because God does not reside in a church building. He resides inside of me. He is a light inside that shines where ever I go. He cannot be left in church where you can't hear Him because I do not just sit in a church building 24/7 and I carry Him everywhere I go in my heart.

I'm not an idle person that allows people to walk over me when it comes to my beliefs in God, but I do not fight people and sit in an argument with someone who doesn't believe the same as me. At the end of the day no one wins an argument. I will say that although, I will defend my beliefs, my God is bigger than I and He doesn't need me to defend Him or His word. I love my God with all that is in me and He asks me to love everyone, even those that bash me and my beliefs. So I am not going to sit here and say mean things to you and call you a liar. I'm not going to label you as 'one of those people'. I am going to love you.

So to those of you who are infringing on my religious freedom, I love you.