Pastor Ralph

I just thought I would share some happy memories I had in knowing Ralph and how he affected my life.

Ralph was always a huge blessing in the lives of everyone in my family.  He always displayed the joy of the Lord through his actions, even in the simplest of things. When I was little, I loved it when he played worship at the home bible study we hosted years ago and that was one of my favorite things about those bible studies, singing along to those fun songs :)

Him and his family always made sure I was able to go to the crusade and it was always a blessing to go with them.

I remember once Ralph was dropping Andrea (his step-daughter) and I off at church and as we were walking away from the car he jokingly said "bye girls! and remember, all boys are ugly!" hahahahahahaha  Ralph was very funny. :)

Also, he always made sure I had a ride home from Day7.  On our way to my house he would always ask me how my whole family was doing and everything.  

Once Ralph was talking to me about Brian and April when they got together and he told me "at first I wasn't sure about Brian because of his piercings and such, but after I met him, I wanted some!!"  hahahahaha :)

He dedicated Abby, He came to every birthday he could like Aprils 18th and my 16th and many others, he took the time to write a letter of recommendation for me

he did my parents vow renewal last month!! such a blessing and honor 

    

I can't express how thankful I am for Ralph, he's done so much for my family and I and gave so much of his time for us and countless others he has affected.  He was an amazing reflection of the Lord Jesus  and I'm going to miss him very very much 

Please be praying continually for Cheri, Andrea, Caleb, Tommy, and David.

He's in heaven with Jesus...there's no better place to be! :)

I love art :)

If you didn't know, I love to make art! It's been something I've been doing for a while and the Lord has been blessing it. :)  I had to come up with a theme for my AP portfolio this year for 12 of the pieces and I thought...what could be better than making my theme God's word!? :)

So what I did was I would do a painting and put a verse on it that related to it, thankfully the Lord gave me ideas and help from my family so I have completed the 12 pieces! :).....now...... for the other 12.....hahaha :)

 It's been such a blessing using my "ability" for God's glory, because if you think about it, art has no practical purpose, really, at all, it really only sits there to be aesthetically pleasing and to get dusty...haha, so using it to share the message of Christ to others through it gives it such great purpose because it's for him! that's awesome.....

Also, its not me creating anything because the Lord has created everything already, its just me visually representing what he does for me and for everyone.  Jesus is the ultimate artist!!! :D

well.....here are some of them I hope you enjoy them...yeah :)

(Matthew 25:40)This is part of a painting I did of my sister Abby when she was a baby.

This is another one of Abby :) Ecclesiastes 12:1

and another of Abby- Matthew 19:14

(John 1:14) This one I love because i was able to use tons of bible verses on it haha :)

There's a big canvas and a little canvas.  The little canvas has a baby arm in the hay with old testament verses about Jesus' birth and coming on the arm.  The big canvas has Jesus' arm on the cross with more OT verses about his death.  Get it?......the word became flesh! :)

well thanks for reading this, I thought you guys would like to know maybe :)

have a blessed night friends ohhh! and tell me what you think :)

My dad's Valentines Day present to my mom!

Isn't she adorable!!!!!! Her name is Gwendolyn 

(haha) and we got her for free!

I can't wait to see my mom's reaction, she's gonna flip :D my dad's really good at this whole valentines day thing lol

also Brian delivered April some flowers to our house and they're going out to eat later....so he's good at that whole Valentines day thing too haha

yeah......

I hope you're all having a blessed day, tell me how your day was.  :)

Happy Valentines Day everyone!

I got 3 large chocolate hearts from See's candy from my mom and dad and they are amazingly delicious haha :) yummm

well my plan for today is to just stay home and be with my family

ohh and Jesus is my valentine :) theres no better Valentine in the world ha :) I'm spending time with him all day :))

well I hope your valentines day is filled with love even if your not doing anything today.  Today we should show God's love which is the only love worth having and is the only true love in the world. :)  Let's show our love by serving others

well God bless you guys love you all 

have a nice day

:)

Disneyland yesterday!!! :D

Brian, April, Abby, and I went and it was very fun! :)

Isn't this the cutest picture?!!! awwwww

Aww mickey hahaha

She loves Mickey! haha :) she kept talking about him the whole time haha

haha somehow they always find a way out lol

It was a fun day and was a total blessing. I can't wait to go again, I don't know when that will be haha

well I'm off today and Monday from school so yay! for that .......yeah

have a blessed day! :)

Jon and Kate plus 8!!

If you haven't watched it before you should! they are an amazing family and they love the Lord and are such a blessing to watch.

Jon and Kate had twins, then sextuplets!!! so they have the 2 girls Cara and Mady and then the 3 boys and 3 girls Alexis, Hannah, Aaden, Collin, Leah, and Joel. :)

It's one of mine and April's favorite shows, especially since her kids are going to look like that someday hahahaha yeah :)

you should watch it! also April and Brian were Jon and Kate for Halloween haha :)

my Friend Alyson

is turning 18 on the 20th!!!!!!

so if you see her say happy birthday haha

yeah

:)

Camp was a blessing! :)

There was no lifeguard so I thought I would take on the duty ha

AWW!

My snowball fighting action photo hehe

haha that's Denesha, and then there's me randomly running by hahaha

Camp was, like I said, a big blessing, it always is.  I'm always amazed by the Lord's amazing creation.  The landscape was beautiful and so were the stars, that's one of my favorite parts of camp is being with the Lord while marveling at His creation and thanking Him for it.  I hope you guys had fun there to and were blessed :)