As long as I'm at it---

I beg you to watch this. These are the candidates in their own words.

Value Voters USA

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"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."

Thank you for encouraging me!

I want to thank whoever it was that nominated me for a Divine Caroline award! You are too kind! When I got the notification, I thought, "oh no, I don't want to put a badge up and go against some of the other great gals that are in the running with their adoption blogs." I was so relieved when I saw that my blog is in the style category for photography.

I can not tell you all what an encouragement this is to me. I am still learning and still have lots to learn...but to have people think that my pics are great, well, I can't tell you how much I needed that. :) I get really, really hard on myself with my photos...I nitpick them apart. When someone says they like a photo...I can tell them all the things wrong with it. It's part of growing as a photographer. So to whoever believed that my pictures are beautiful...you've blessed me immensely! I am incredibly grateful for this boost!

If you would like to vote for me...click on the link and take a moment to register yourself so you can vote. I have a chance at winning a $250 gift card. and WOW...that would be AMAZING!

you're never going to believe this...

I'm part of Clickin' Moms photography forums. Love it! Anyway...we were playing a game where we had to post a pic of ourselves on there. I had my dd take a quick pic of me this morning. I posted it on the boards, and within a couple of minutes here is the first response I got--"I think you look a lot like Sarah Palin...and coming from me, you can be sure that it's a compliment!"

She has no idea that I got Sarah Palin's back on my blog! :) You all know I took that as a compliment!

A word about Sarah Palin from Lou Engle

A Word About Sarah Palin--

45 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. subpoenaed the conscience of America and drove the injustice of segregation like a wedge into the soul of the nation. The wedge has been driven again. When Senator John McCain courageously chose Governor Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential running mate, he drove family values back into the conscience of America.

The liberal media played into the hands of a Higher Wisdom when they injected former Vice President Dan Quayle into the debate by comparing Governor Palin to Dan Quayle. Now, everyone is beginning to realize that this election is not about a man’s charisma or his nebulous notion of change. No. This election is a battle for family values and to the victor goes the soul of this nation.Governor Palin is more than just a brilliant choice for Vice President. She and her family stand as a sign and a wonder for life and for children. They are a living parable parading in blazing Technicolor before the eyes of the whole nation. This goes way beyond elections. This is about us healing our families, regaining moral responsibility, and exhibiting forgiveness.

Palin boldly stood by her conviction that all life is sacred and chose to have her Down Syndrome child while leading her state. Senator Barack Obama, on the other hand, declared that the first thing he will do as President is pass the Freedom of Choice Act, which will remove every restriction from all abortion procedures, including many restrictions that most Americans agree with, By doing this, he will open up the doors to promote deviant sex education to kindergarteners and exclude even parents from their right to know of their underage daughter’s potential abortion.

When the pregnancy of her 17-year-old daughter became an insensitive liberal media circus, we were given a rare view into love and support as Governor Palin embraced her grandchild in her daughter’s womb as a blessing. Again, on the other hand, Obama was once quoted as saying that if his two daughters made a “mistake” and became pregnant, he would not want them to be “punished” with babies. What a stark contrast of the value of human life! The ideological beast of Obama’s worldview has been drawn out of its lair and now stands naked and exposed by Palin’s compassion and conviction. The beast is not just Quayle hunting. It is hunting our children, our nation’s destiny, and us. The rage of the media against Palin simply further exposes the moral bankruptcy, bigotry, and lack of compassion of liberalism. The media, Obama’s court prophets, have become Selma’s new sheriffs of the South beating the new heirs of the civil rights movement – the millions of unborn children attacked in the womb and countless women hurt by abortion – with their journalistic Billy Clubs and loud hectoring.

With his choice of Governor Palin as his running mate, John McCain has once again gone to war. However, this time, not in the distant lands of Vietnam and Iraq, but he has gone to war for America, for our families, and for our children. And this war, we cannot afford to lose.

www.LouEngle.com



This was too profound for me to not share with you all. The very foundation of our country is at stake. The future for our children is being defined in this coming election. The media wants to define who our president will be...but I believe we have a God more Powerful than any billion dollar network. We must stay strong in prayer, crying out to God to preserve the morality of this country.

Praise Jesus for Eternal Life through Him Alone!

My heart has been overflowing with God's Goodness in answering prayer! On Monday morning, I picked up my book Praying the Bible for Your Children by David and Heather Kopp. I've started a new Bible study and haven't read any prayers out of there for awhile. But on this morning, I was lead to open it up to the page where I had last left the bookmark. Here is what I read...

Early Salvation

Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come. ~Ecclesiastes 12:1

Loving Heavenly Father, Before dawn I pray for my children. See each one asleep, Lord, zipped snuggly into a flannel cocoon or swirling like a dancer in twisted sheets.

In so many ways they're still asleep in their childhood, yet I pray that at the youngest age possible they would see You and respond to You (Ps. 63:1). I ask specifically this morning that my children will receive slavation early in their lives--before troubles and distractions and ambitions get in the way (Eccles. 12:1-8).

Early, Lord, because my children even at their sweetest and most innocent--yes, even from birth--need a Savior. (Ps. 51:5).

Use the Scriptures planted in their hearts from infancy, as You did with Timothy, to draw them to You (2Tim. 3:15). May Your Holy Spirit break through any spiritual bariers that are keeping themfrom asking to be born into Your kingdom (John 3:5-6).

Yes, early, Lord, because You invited children to know You and love You. And because You have promised that everyone--ieven someone who sleeps inside zippered flannel--can receive the power to become a child of God (John 1:12).

I ask this in Jesus' powerful name. Amen.




I went on about my day. We had our ups and downs of the day. Supper time came and we sat down to eat. Matt and one of our girls were at basketball, so it was just me and four of the kiddos. Our youngest daugther out of the blue said, "Are we going to die?" I answered her a quick answer as the morning prayer started racing through my mind. I knew I was being given the opportunity to explain salvation in Jesus to her. I explained that yes we all will die at some point, but we can live forever with Jesus in heaven if we believe in Him. She wanted to know if we would still live in our house. I told her we would live heaven...and now she is convinced she will get to live in a rainbow house in heaven. As we carried on our conversation with her two sisters chiming in to tell her about Jesus, I asked her if she would like to pray to ask Jesus to come into her life forever. She said, "Sure!" We sat there holding hands, praying together and her sisters praying along with us. It was an amazing moment as her mom. After she said, "Amen." We all cheered and told her how excited we were that we were all going to be together in heaven someday now that she was a Christian. I looked into her face and told her just that morning I had prayed for her salvation. I was able to testify to our whole family how amazing God is in answering our prayers!!!!!

I don't know who all reads my blog. But my prayer is that if you have never believed in the Lord Jesus Christ for your salvation that your heart would be drawn into a personal relationship with Him. If you have any questions or if you have recently begun a relationship with God, please email me-- yackity at gmail dot com.



Praise Jesus with me for the eternal life that has been given to our little girl this week!!!!!

lesson learned

i learned a valuable lesson. i need to increase my shutter speed when capturing a group of kiddos. we celebrated my father in law's birthday on saturday. we wanted to get a pic of grandma and grandpa with all of their grandkids. umm yeah, i didn't do such a hot job of capturing my nephew in action. ugh...what a bummer! not how i had hoped they would turn out...but i sure learned a lesson. :)