Kindred Spirit Award

I have been awarded the kindred spirit award by Courtney, at Courtney Michelle Photography.



I would now like to award it to a couple of my kindred spirit friends. :o)

Tori, you are truly a kindred spirit of mine. I think we've known that, ever since that first day at the Coffee Cabin! :o) I love you!

Lanae`, even though you don't have a blog right now, I'm still giving you the award, because, well, how could I not?!?!? :o) You are one of my very closest friends. Love you!

Amber, you are an encouragement to me, and I love talking to you. We are kindred spirits across the miles. :o) Hugs! Love you!

Angela, this award makes me think of Anne of Green Gables, which makes me think of you. :o) I love the friendship that we have, and I pray it continues to grow. Love you!

Bek, your blog has been such an encouragement to me lately. I love the way you write. I miss you, and I pray the Lord continues to give you the strength that you need. Love you!

So now, all of you who have been awarded, go here and copy the image, and add it to your blog! :o)

And I guess that there is a Kindred Spirit Network that you can join, if you go here. It's actually a cool idea. Go to the site and check it out! Love you girls! :o)

Camping Trip

Alright, so here are the first half of the camping trip pictures. I don't really know what the deal was yesterday, but blogger was freaking out at me. So, here they are. :o)


We were loading up the truck here.


We had a lot of stuff, and there were only 4 of us, for 1 night! :o)


Getting ready to head out. We were very excited. :o)





We're here!!!


Ok, as I said in the previous post, I was enthralled with this bench. There will be a few more pictures of it before the post is over.


It was SO beautiful out there when we got there. I can't even describe how happy I was to see the sun.


A set of stairs in front of where we camped. They were half-way under water because of the flooding, but it was kinda cool. We spent a lot of time on the steps.











I made Charlie sit on the bench and pose. :o) He wasn't listening very well though. He was WAY too distracted at everything around him...as you can see. :o)


Setting up camp





I love how the Glory of God is so evident in nature around us. I think this captures that quite well.





Haha, Josh and Ang's tent is the ginormous yellow igloo lookin' thing. :o) Ours is the dark one, in the shadow of the big one. Haha. It's ok, ours was PLENTY big for us. :o)


Love this picture.





My model shot of Charlie. :o)





So, I was supposed to be watching Charlie, and he went in his kennel, so I kinda forgot about him, and at some point, he got out of his kennel and wandered off. Whoops. So, Mike comes over and he's like, "Babe, where's the dog?" and I say, "Oh, he's in his ken- umm, I dunno. Great. Where did he go? He was there just a minute ago." So we yelled for him, and Mike found him wandering around by the bathrooms or something. This picture is of when they were walking back to then tent. Haha, Mike has that look on his face that he gets when he's annoyed at me. ;o)





Tearing apart a wood pallet for firewood.


Cooking my hotdog on the camp stove, because the fire didn't work out too well, with everything around there being soaking wet, from the recent rain and flooding. We tried. We did get one going the following morning though, so it was all good. :o)




Well, there's the first half of the pictures. :o) You can look at the previous post, below for the second half, if you haven't already. Hope you enjoyed. :o)

Lambert/Ryan Camping Trip

So on Friday after work, Josh and Angela and Mike and I went camping out at Birch Lake. The lake was flooded (as you'll see in the pictures) so we were the only ones out there, except for these people in a camper, and this hippie-ish guy. It was funny. When we got there, he was wading out in the water, in his shorts, washing his clothes. Then he hung them up on a tree, on a little hill away from the water. Later we heard him playing a Ukulele or something to that effect. then he just got in his sleeping bag and camped out the rest of the night. Anyways, we had a good time. It was so quiet and peaceful out there....and there was SUN!!! It's amazing, I know. I didn't realize how tired of the rain I was, and how much I missed the sun, until we got out there, and there it was. God is good. :o) What a blessing that was. Anyways, here are some pictures (there's a lot). :o)

Me and the hubby. :o)

Josh and Ang, just chillin by the lake


I was enthralled with this bench that was partly under water. It just looked so cool, so Ang took some pictures. :o)


She told me to "throw your arms up in the air!" and this was the result: :o)


Mike, making wood shavings to start a fire


The hippie-ish guy's little camp. :o)


Sun set




Saturday morning, after we woke up. :o)

Cookin breakfast


She was messing with her camera:



My nature pictures. :o) Ang and I decided we would take some. I'm especially happy with my mushrooms. :o)


Oh yeah, I like these ones too. Kinda mystical. :o)



Aren't they cute?


I thought this was funny:



So cute. :o)

This sign cracked me up.



We walked over to the military side of the lake, and they had all these beach chairs lined up, and it was actually pretty nice over there. Lame. Luckily we were the only ones there, so we could actually get over there.

The lighting didn't turn out right in this one. It was way cooler in person. :o)


Haha, this is what you get now that I'm married. You have to have a kissy-face picture every once in a while. :o)


The lighting was bad in this one too. Hmm, I wonder if that's what you would use a lens hood for?

Group pictures! This was right before we left to go home.


Oh yeah, then Ang and I decided to get on the bench together. :o)

Good friends. Love it. :o)


So, I think I got too many pictures in this post or something, because blogger won't let me load any more. So, I think I'm going to post the first half (I load them backwards, so they stay in the right order) in a different post. :o)