The Goings On of Life

Sorry I haven't been around lately! November means the beginning of many birthday celebrations, holidays are soon arriving, and a lot of church events are getting ready to happen! So here's what's been going on at our place! : )

I'm helping out with a Chrysalis Flight this coming weekend. If you've never heard of Chrysalis, you should definitely check it out! I've been to a few trainings over the past couple of weekends, and now we are ready for the flight!

The husband's birthday is this Wednesday so this past weekend we went to Academy and bought him a meat grinder. He's been wanting one for a while, so we finally got one. And wow. Who knew grinding up deer meat could be so not fun! I had a pretty good idea I wasn't going to enjoy it, and after last night, I am now certain I do not like it.... But at least we now have a lot of deer meat to eat!

I've also been working on a few photos that I took - well, photos that I, my mom, my younger sister, and the husband took! We like our photo sessions to be a family event! : )

And, yes, that is me...

in my wedding dress...

a year after the wedding....

I can't help it if I like to play dress up in my wedding dress....

Enjoy the rest of your day!!

31 Days of Virtue: Day 8

She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life. Proverbs 31:12

All the days of her life. That's a long time. Does that remind you of a certain vow you took on that special day?

I, Jamie, take you, Ragan,

to be my lawfully wedded husband,

to have and to hold from this day forward,

for better or for worse,

for richer, for poorer, 

in sickness and in health, 

to love and to cherish, 

from this day forward 

until death do us part.

A promise to have and to hold, to love and to cherish during better times and worse times, when we are rich and when we are poor, when we are sick and when we are in good health. A promise made to last until death do us part; all the days of our lives.

It's easy to bring our husbands good when everything else around us is going good. What we have to remember is that the woman of Proverbs 31 brings her husband good all the days of her life, and we promised to do the same thing.

We can't let ourselves get caught up in the little annoyances of everyday life. We have to remember to look at the big picture. We are going to be with this man for the rest of our lives. Why would you want it to be filled with bad attitudes, fighting, nagging, bitterness, disrespect and no love? That is no way to live. Make a choice today to fulfill this promise. We married our husbands for a reason. Remember divorce is not in our vocabulary. Let's go back to that reason and bring our husbands good, not harm.

Archive of 31 Days of Virtue:

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Day 6

Day 7

Happy Anniversary to us!

Source: None via Jamie on Pinterest

Our 1st anniversary was yesterday, August 28th. I got this idea (photo above) from Pinterest.com. This couple took a photo every 5 years. So here is Ragan and my try at it. : ) Our one year anniversary photo!

Have a good day!

Ding! Ding! Ding!

Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!

That's me ringing my bell!! (you know us scrapbookers have to ring our bell anytime we finish a page! : ) )

I've finished my wedding scrapbook! And just in time for our 1st anniversary! Yay for me! Now on to the next scrapbook! I'll be doing one of all the holidays, birthday celebrations, and vacations which will start with our honeymoon in Eureka Springs, and I'm also wanting to do a smaller book of us getting our house fixed up before moving into it.

What scrapbook have you been working on?

Check out some pages from our wedding scrapbook!