A full plate

Dear Heavenly Father,

Thanks you for your sacrifice to us and may we always celebrate in joy that your ALIVE.
AMEN!!

EASTER!!

I didn't get a picture in our Easter outfits from church, which I'm very sad about, so this one will have to do.

We had a great time and got to see a lot of my family! :-) And spend time with my brother and SIL! :-) We had a really fun night! We also made lots of food for Easter!

We went bowling!!

Treats!

Kirby loves his uncle!

We enjoyed being home with my parents and had  wonderful Easter! The Kirbster also turned 6 on Monday!

He was very spoiled all day! 

Monday my handsome hubby also had his last day of classes for his architecture program!! He is now a certified drafter!!! CONGRATS!! I am so proud of you!! 

Have a great day!

Genesis & Matthew

The morning started out with rain...

(courtesy of google)

A strange kinda day... it makes you think.... Good Friday and Earth day..... can they correlate?

Answer: ABSOLUTELY!!!

When searching for an answer to a lingering question in your head, what better place to go for an answer than the bible. 

Let's start at the beginning with Genesis, the first book of the bible. In Genesis 1:1 it states, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." In 1970 when Nixon was president, it was the time when the US was becoming familiar with the Environmental clean air and water acts. Which means that Earth day has only been a  designated national holiday for 41 years!
I know I have some goals of my own to be better at taking care of our earth. I believe that God created this earth that we live on and that we should do our best conscious effort to take care of it. 

(courtesy of google)

Whether that means small things like planting a tree, using LED light bulbs, or taking shorter showers, recycling, driving cars that get good gas milage, carpooling. Whatever it might be, we all can do little things to help take care of this world that has been created by God for us. 

Today was not only Earth Day it was Good Friday, which is the day Jesus died on the Cross. Today I saw rain, then I saw a hint of sun, then I observed this....

An image that really caught my eye... It's almost like a hazy fog that has lasted through the night. It reminds me of what it may have been like the night Jesus was crucified on the cross this day thousands of years ago, between two criminals. In Matthew 27:51, "It says the earth quaked and the rocks were split." 

The bible clearly tells us that God created the heavens and the earth, and that God sent his own son to die on the cross for our sins. God is love, he always has been, always will be. When we need answers he's the one we need to go to. 

John 3:16, "For GOD so loved the WORLD he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life. 

Amen!!

Happy Easter! & Safe travels!!

What I'm Loving Wednesday!

Leading off today I'm first and foremost always loving my husband. :-)

I'm loving my easter dress and am so excited for Easter weekend with my family! :-)

I'm loving that it was an early out today.

I'm loving that I am planning on bringing dessert to easter..

YUMM!! I'm hungry!! :-)

I'm loving the IZZE drinks right now, sparkling blackberry, especially since they come with a coupon at the gas station so it only makes it a dollar!!

I"m loving the noise of the train as it passes through out little town every night!

I"m loving that the button on my right black shoe fell off and I fixed it at school with a brass fastener and then used a black sharpie and you can't hardly tell!

I'm loving that the asparagus I planted last year is so eager to get out of that ground!!

I"m loving me a handsome CLEAN almost 6 year old puppy! :-) 

I'm totally in LOVE with the skirt I'm wearing in this picture was made by my MIL and I love it and my new school bag is made out of black and white skirt! I'm in Love!!!

I'm loving the beautiful orange, purple, red, white, and pink tulips coming up!!

I'm loving that when I walked to the mailbox today that there wasn't any bills in the mailbox with my name on it! :-)

Happy Wednesday!! :-) 

magnificent

One thing I have always loved doing is rock climbing. It is one of the most liberating and thrilling moments in my life when I was climbing a tree, a wall, monkey bars. I will never forget the day I learned my neighbor had put up a rock wall at his house. WOW!!! My mom always wanted to call 911 every time she saw me up so high, but I always assured her I would be right down. This weekend couldn't have been better spent with good friends, laser tag, and ROCK CLIMBING!!

I'm holding it in, but I'm dying to race up that wall and see how fast I can get to the top...

so off I went... and I was tired, but all I could think about was climbing and getting to the top. :-)

If you have never been rock climbing I strongly encourage it, it is one of my top 10 favorite things to do! :-) 

What a great start to a magnificent weekend! 

Happy Monday!!

shine your light!

The past couple weeks we have been going through a sermon series about being a light to those around us and blessing others. Shine the light on those around us, and take the attention off ourselves and love others, then we will be truly blessed!

Which, technically I was going to title my blog, "Blessed to be a Benge" according to my URL, but according to my title I tried something a little shorter. Who wants a long title to a book? I like one word titles words that give you the gist of what is going to happen within a 2 to 3 syllable word. This way I remember it too, otherwise I go to the library to look for a book I don't look like a goofball wanting a book I can't even say the title too.. for instance take this book.... a book by Donald Miller, "What I learned while editing my life a million miles in a Thousand years". It is a great book and would recommend it very highly! However, the title of this book makes my brain think of a title to another book, and therefore confusion... :-)

Anyways, who am I kidding the weather has been absolutely GORGEOUS and I'm thrilled to have sunshine on this skin!! :-) 

Last week has gone so fast and hubby got a really nice hair cut, although I do like the grizzly adams look he gets going within a week of not shaving.

I went to our little town store, "Whiskers on Kittens" and found a cute small inexpensive little cheer up  decoration for the coffee table. My husband enjoys trying little decorations in new little places and I thought the coffee table was bare and thought it needed a little something. 

Our lawn has gotten a lot of attention over the past week, it has fertilizer and seed on it. Compliments to the hubby!

Hopefully we can get rid of any crab grass we have it infects your entire yard!! The flowers are beautiful and the tulips are almost ready to open up!! 

The tranquility of being outdoors brings the body peace.

photography by Nolan :-) 

On the way home cows feeding....

notice the little baby at the end.

A stunning sky in front of us.

burning some more oriental grass and playin' bags

notice how the grass is still a little brown(very sad)... hopefully not much longer and it should all be green.

And now for the long awaited... the 1st debut of the Husky... that's right we purchased a riding lawn mower and are very happy with our choice...

the man is in LOVE!!! :-) 

HAPPY SPRING!! 

and never forget to....