It is fun learning about gardening, and the more I learn, the more excited I get about it.  I’ll try to keep you updated on the progress of my garden. I am so looking forward to spring!

So it begins, my journalling blog.
I started a one year Bible reading plan this year. I’m a little behind in my reading right now, but I’m sure I’ll be able to catch up in time to finish by the end of the year. I have definitely been reading my Bible more this year than I did last year. I have never read through my Bible before so this is an adventure for me. I am glad I started this Bible reading plan. I know this is an area in my life that I need to work on, but I have grown a lot this past year, and I am thankful to God for His faithfulness to me and His patience with me. Like the song says. “He’s still workin’ on me.”

Another area of my walk with God that needs work is my prayer life. Right now I am reading the book “A Young Woman’s Call to Prayer” by Elizabeth George and it is a real challenge to me and it is helping me to grow in my relationship with God. It is a huge privilege to be able to communicate with the Creator of the universe! It is just so amazing that Somebody so important would even want to listen to me for just a second, to say nothing of the fact that I can talk to Him whenever I wish, wherever I am! That’s even better than texting and Facebook and IM. I can’t get on the Internet everywhere, and I would have to pay to text (plus I don’t actually have a cellphone : ). I have nothing like the power of prayer. There is nothing so instant and accurate and easy. I am humbled that I have such an opportunity, and I must remember that God can stop listening to me and answering my prayers if He chooses, but He doesn’t. God is faithful to keep His promises and to answer my prayers. The least I can do is be faithful to Him and glorify Him.

My friend brought these marker things called “Sprayzas” when she came over last week. This is a picture I made with them. It’s a marker that you hook up to a tube that you blow in and it sprays color. They are pretty cool, but you can get lightheaded doing all that blowing!

Mom took down the Christmas decorations today. This is a picture of one of the ornaments that I took before Christmas.

This is a poster I made a while back. They are really easy and cheap to make. Here’s what I did.
I started with a standard size piece of poster board and taped 6 pieces of
scrapbooking paper, overlapping like shown in the photo, to the poster board. See? Very simple, and very cool too.

This is my fish, Phil. My friend got him for me for my birthday.

Some sunset pictures on Lake Charlevoix. We camped at Young State Park on Lake Charlevoix. It was a very nice lake and we got a lot of swimming in.

A day-time picture of the lake

A couple more pictures . . .

Josiah . . . the happy camper

The fire ring. The campfires were fun. We had some good s’mores.

- sorry about the dates on the pictures. I had the date stamp setting on on my camera, but I turned it off so it won’t happen again. oops

The lake

Daisies

The sky on a beautiful day

Mint leaves (they smell really good)

Some kind of berries, I’m not sure what they are

Flowers