Besties :)

Soo I took senior pictures for this beautiful girl the other week (you can see some of them here: www.capture-beautyphotography.blogspot.com ) This was a special session for me though, because it was of my bestie (one of my closest friends). I'm SO grateful to God for you Becs! You're such a blessing to me! Thanks for always being there for me, for being crazy with me, encouraging me, praying for me, loving me, giving me massages and doing my nails and going on crazy adventures! & having the same name as me! Let's stay friends for a long, long time okay? I hope you like your pictures and that you have an awesome senior year!

Sunrise

The Heavens declare the glory of God, and the Sky above proclaims his handiwork. Psalm 19:1

"He made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding. Jeremiah 51:15

Praise God for his beautiful creation!

It only happens once a year!

(ignore the bad quality)
I am one very blessed girl! Today is my birthday here's a list of things that made my birthday extra happy! :)

1) i woke up at 12:03 to a birthday text from my big brother!

2) got to spend extra time with God

3) started the morning with a text from my favoritest snaps

4) was greeted at school with a big birthday hug from my sarahbearah

5) opened my locker to find a sweet b-day card

6)tons of birthday texts and wall posts

7) all of my classes were extra short today :P

8) picture day

9) amazing chapel!

10) I got a hug from my sister

11) writing with my favorite pen

12) my mom brought me lunch to school

13) got the bestest balloon

14) only got 1 wrong on my AP U.S chapter

15) got to clean my room

16) family time

17) my marine is home

18) wearing my favorite dress

19) dinner at Unos

20) no math homework

21) it rained ( i love the rain)

God has truly blessed me! I do not deserve it! Today reminded me just how many people love and care for me! I love all of you so much and I have the bestest friends and family! & all the undeserving grace God has poured out on me! God has given me the best birthday present by showing me more of himself. I can't wait to follow God's plan and see what he has in store for me this year! :) Let's get started!

God First!

Wow sorry for the lack of posting! But life has been crazzzy!

Anyways I just wanted to start off by saying that God is SO good and he knows just what we need!

In case any of you didn't know spending time with God is the most important thing you can do in a day, and should be your top priority. However, with so many things crammed into our schedule (school, volleyball, drama, youth group etc), it can be hard to keep it a priority and set aside time to read God's word and pray. These past two weeks have been quite a challenge for me in having my devotions, I would get home at 8pm have lots AND lots of homework to do and then by the time I finish it all I'm exhausted & go to bed. Then I get up, get ready and go to school and the cycle continues. But last night was different, I still got home around 8pm and started my homework & I said that I was going to go upstairs and have my devotions once I finished up all my homework, but then at 11pm I was tired and I still had to study for my AP test...I sat there a minute and I realized what was happening I have been putting my school before God and that is not okay. I decided to go spend time with God instead of studying and then I just reviewed a little in the morning. Spending time with God was exactly what I needed that night and it helped me SO much! I had been so stressed out because I hadn't been relying on God. But the story doesn't end there? Do you know what happened? I took my AP US test at school and I ended up getting the SAME grade on it as I did my last test that I spent an hour studying for! Do you realize how awesome that is? God was showing me that he will bless me when I put him above everything else and that he is really ALL that I need! Now I'm not saying to ignore your homework and spend all night reading the bible (although that would be nice). But God should always be put first and is always more important than school. It's something that I still struggle with, but I think it is awesome how God has such perfect timing and knows exactly what we need to be encouraged and reminded of!

Sorry for the long story, but hopefully it encouraged you! :)

hopefully more posts will be coming soon & pictures too!

random thoughts

Sometimes I sit here and wonder...

Why is it so hard to do the things that are most important? Why is it so hard to do something that I love so much?

I love God's word and digging into it and seeing the new things that he teaches me & the way that it feeds my soul...but why is it so hard for me to find time to read God's word? To just stop in the business of life and seek God and his word! To be in constant communion with my savior.

Why is it that I love God and say that I trust Him above all else...yet when troubles come why is he not the first person that I run to? And why is he not the first person that I praise and thank?

These are questions that I wonder about!

Dear Jesus! Please help me to put you above all else

and to make you the most important thing in my life!

Quote of the Week....

"All who call on God in true faith,
earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard,
and will receive what they have asked and desired,
although not in the hour or in the measure,
or the very thing which they ask.
Yet they WILL obtain something greater
and MORE glorious than they had dared to ask.”

-martin luther

God may not answer us in the exact way that we want...but instead he will answer in a way that is far better than we could

have ever imagined and greater than we could ever comprehend! :) How encouraging is that?

I'm a Senior!

I always love back-to-school shopping! Getting all your notebooks and supplies, color coordinating, getting fun pens & pencils, everything is fresh and new and then you get to organize it all! I just love it, but this year it is different, because this year it is....

The beginning of the End....

Tomorrow marks the first day of school for me, I will be a senior!

This will be my last first day of school!

It's bittersweet, I'm so excited to reach the end of what I've worked so hard for since I was 5yr to graduate high school, but at the same time it's sad knowing that I will be leaving behind so many friends and memories and all that I've known! The fact that next year I will be starting something completely different and this chapter of my life will be over, is so weird to think about . I don't think I can grasp it quite yet. I'm growing up and life is changing. I'm excited for what the future holds, to go out into the world, meet new people and try new things, but I have this one last year here where God has placed me! One last year in my school, one last year with these fellow high school students, one last year to make a difference and leave a lasting impact! Will I waste this year simply longing to graduate and move on? Or will I push hard this year and invest in where God has placed me, looking to love and serve others and share my passion for God with my classmates?

I don't want to spend this year straining to look at what's ahead and longing to move on, instead I want to be content exactly where I am. I want to seek to take every opportunity that God has given me, and glorify him in all that I do!

This is my senior year and by the grace of God I am going to give it everything that I have!