A year from today...

...Kellyn and Amber were united as one!

Happy 1st anniversary you two!  May the Lord richly bless you in the many years to come.

"Going Home"- Wissmann Family

I hope you all enjoy this song from the Wissmann Family!

"Looking for Jesus to come any day" - Wissmann Family

More pictures {heeheehee}

I know I've post A LOT of pictures, but I got a new camera from my grandma, so I've been playing around with it :D You know how it is...you get a new camera and it becomes your new best friend. OK...well maybe only for me. Anyhoo...enjoy all these pictures [grin]

Sydney has become a BeAuTiFuL young lady of the Lord!

Mari loves to be around Sydney 24/7!

Sydney loves to smell the Lord's beautiful handy-work (OK I admit this picture was posed...but it turned out descent).

Toby loves God's handy-work too...he had just caught the poor butterfly. Luckily I was able to save his "captive" (praise God)!

I love the face she's making in this picture!

Sydney takes picture taking very seriously!

I told her to act goofy...oh the faces 5 year-olds can make at a camera

I'm not sure if I like this picture...I think I do. Let me know what you think

Notice anything cool about this shot...(hint: look inside my ring) Tell me what you see

We were at a pizza place and I was bored. Now luckily I had my camera, a clean napkin, and a pen. Those three can create a result like this picture :D

This picture is for you all...notice anything in my hair? I'll try to get better pictures up on here soon, but this will have to do for now.

*Have a great Wednesday night!*

PICTURES!!

OK...I know there aren't any pictures of my new hair-do, but there are pictures of what's been happening in our family lately :D Don't worry I'll get the hair pictures on here SOON!! But for now...ENJOY :D

These are the flowers my dad bought for me

My friends and I had to make banana splits with our FEET!!

My friend Kassi was in control of the ice cream

Even though Kassi's feet was in the ice cream container...that didn't stop HUNGRY teenagers :D But the three of us LOADED the ice cream with pecans, chocolate syrup, and whipped cream...YUMMY! (Far left to far right: Hanna, me, Kassi)

Since Kassi, Hanna, and I were the 1st place winners we decorated our feet. Hanna's is on the far left, mine is in the middle, and Kassi's is on the far right.

I had the BEST 16th birthday EVER! We had some friends over and the we all went to the park in our neighborhood...well all except our parents :D

This is my friend Rick...Izzy loved to be around him.

Rick's sister was burying her twin brother

We had dinner with my dad's aunt and uncle who live in England. For dinner we took them to the Magic Time Machine in San Antonio.

This is what our waitress (who happened to be Dora the Explorer) did because it was my birthday (well that night my birthday was 3 days away).

Look what happened to Sydney the day after my birthday! She wiped out pretty bad on her scooter and mildly fractured her growth plate.

*Hope you all have a blessed Monday!*

Our family is growing AGAIN!

This is Mari, she is an absolute cuite and is VERY fun to be around!

Plus VERY, VERY active

 This is Isabella (Izzy) she is very strong willed, but is an absolute cutie as well (unless she wakes up on the wrong side of the crib!).

She loves to say "uh-oh"!  I caught her saying it after she dropped her rubber duck.

The Lord apparently needs us to continue with foster care so we are now a family of six!  We seriously thought we were done, but God turned the table on us (I just love it when He does that!).

*I hope you all have a fun and blessed weekend!*

A HUGE picture post

I know, I know these are a lot of pictures to look at, but I just wanted to be nice and share some of my favorite pictures of Sydney with you :D  ENJOY [grin]

This was another one of Sydney's "super-model" pictures

 Dad and Sydney walking toward our picnic table at the park.  Dad just got a new job, and was thrilled to wear nice work clothes.

Sydney on the tire swing at the park, she has gotten so BEAUTIFUL :D

 Sydney was trying to figure out how to get up to the monkey bars

 Once she got up she was insistent on getting across to the other side 

 OK I admit this WAS POSED, but who cares?  It turned out pretty cool!

 Sydney was trying to get off the tire swing, but was stuck...I just love her face :D

 She's still trying to get off...she didn't even ask for help!  She has such an independent personality 

 My mom, OK I stole this idea from Sam :p  Thanks Sam for the awesome picture idea!

Toby and Sydney just LOVE each other, I just love this picture of them

 Toby loves getting his face scratched...he is an absolutely cutie!

I got this picture if she is enjoying school...can't you tell she absolutely enjoying it?

AWESOME...you made it to the end of the post!

*I hope and pray that you all have a wonderful Wednesday!*

Upcoming posts:

• my sixteenth birthday
• Psalm 27
• Amber and Kellyn's anniversary

plus a whole lot more!

Blessings,

Ali

"River flows in you"

Some of you might recongnize this song from the movie Twilight. It's commonly known as "Bella's Lullaby", but to us piano players it's known as "River Flows in You". I Love playing this song on the piano, and was actually going to play it for one of my piano recitals...but didn't. Now I just play it for fun :D I hope you all enjoy this song as much as I do!



*I hope you all have a happy Friday!*

Blessings,

"Are you washed?"

We sang this hymn at church last Sunday...and it wasn't until then that I fell in love with it! I hope you all enjoy this hymn as much as I do!

I Love being washed in His blood...don't you?

Blessings,

"Amazing Love"

This song is one of my favorite contemporary Christian song.  I Hope you all enjoy this song...as much as I do.

Blessings,

Weekend Felowship

Yesterday my friend Sam and her family came to fellowship.  We all had a GREAT time playing games, and Sam and I had a WONDERFUL time making cards!  Here a few pictures from our day of fellowship:

(photo courtesy of Sam)

(photo courtesy of Sam)

Sam was trying to figure out how to work the die-cut (both of us didn't know how to use it)

Our finished cards:

the two I made are on the far left and far right.  The one in the middle is Sam's work of art

One of the note cards I made

The note card Sam made.  Sam is VERY, VERY creative!  She is really good at card making and at photography.

*I hope you all have a good week!*

Hugs and love,

 

Capturing God's amazing handy-work

I just love to capture God's amazing handy-work, it is amazing to find the beauty in something so small!

Hugs from Texas,
Ali