Dreaming of Spring...Rain...

Today it is raining out...there is no snow, just rain. It actually rained all last night. Anyway, before I start rambling about the weather I'll get to the point. :)
So today, like I said, it is raining. So I thought I would post about rain and how I adore rain boots (even if it's not raining I LOVE to wear my cute lil' gray rain boots!) and umbrellas! :)
Sometimes I kinda really like when it rains. Feels cozy in the house, you can hear the rain on the roof, and all the windows are wet with dripping water.


not my picture

Oh, I especially love warm spring rains! Where you can go out in your rain boots and grab an umbrella and go splash in the puddles. (loveee doing that!)


not my picture

But as I was looking for pictures of my own that I have taken of thunderstorms and rain and noticed I really haven't taken any rain pictures! So I need to really do that sometime I guess.

 

If you knew me well you would know that I'm a bit obsessed with rain boots ;) I don't know why, but I l.o.v.e rain boots! I could easily start collecting rain boots! I already have a gray pare (that I wear all.the.time). And I have one dark green "hunter's" rubber boots, (that I also love!). 

But I really, really want a pare of bright red rain boots. Like ya know, the traditional red rain boots?! I think they are so adorable! So I'm saving up for one more pare of rain boots. Bright red. Then, I will be content :) Now, seriously, it's not a life and death situation that if I didn't get my red rain boots I would just die! No! I rather spend my money on useful things and use it on giving gifts to others. But you know, I can dream I guess, right?! So, I dream of getting a pare of red rain boots :)

Have you ever splashed around in puddles or played around in Spring rain?! If you haven't, you need to do both at least one time in your life :) It is so fun! haha, I know, I'm kinda lame ;) but come on! I delight in simple things! Like the smell of fresh flowers, catching snow flakes on my tongue, seeing the grass start to turn green in the Spring, running in big fields, listening and watching little birds fly around and perch themselves on branches in trees, splashing in puddles in the rain, ect...

All these simple but sweet things that I take delight in make me feel like a little innocent girl again.

 A girl that use to run in the forests imagining she's on a big draft horse galloping through the country side.

A little girl who dreamed big dreams without letting people steal her joy away.

A little fearless girl who didn't have a care in the world what people thought of her as she sat at the top of a big trees with her siblings at her side.

 

A little girl who would lay in the big field of violets and not have the slightest care if there was little creeping spiders in the long grass.

 

 Yep...those were the good old days of my childhood life...

Anyway, now that I just took you down a rambling memory lane, I think I shall end this post before you find this post is too long to read and decide to skip over my blog. lol.

Comment and feel free to make my day!!! God bless!

A Servant 4 Christ,

Lizzie

Blizzard 2013

Yesterday, January 20th I got back from my youth group's annual winter retreat called "Blizzard".

I cannot believe Blizzard 2013 is over. I have to wait a whole year to go to it again. It is so fun.

We go to an awesome camp up North and we stay there for three days and have sessions every hour and we meet in the Chapel and listen to the awesome speaker and have games, worship and fellowship. On free time you can ice skate, go tubing down a huge hill, horse back riding (which I didn't do this year. :/ My allergies were wayy to bad. FYI: I'm allergic to horses :{), walks, broom-ball, hockey, and so much more!

 

Not my picture. (didn't take but like two pictures up there).

 It was a great time. The whole day Saturday we had a biggg game of Nerf war. It was all day and we had names of specific people we had to shoot to make the game longer than a half an hour. I got about four people out until a leader I had nooo idea had me came up and shot me with a Nerf bullet :/ It was awesome while it lasted though!! 

 

 

It was so beautiful up there! The trees full of snow. Even though surprisingly there was that much snow. There was enough to make it beautiful though ;) The stars at night were incredible, twinkling brightly through the tippy tops of the tress! The moon was just as pretty and bright lighting the trail with shadows through the trees at night.

 

 On Saturday night we had a Torch Walk! Where you hang onto a huge torch and walk on the lake! There were only a few torches, so not everyone got to hold one, which was alright, but it was a lot of fun and I always love it! It was superrrr cold that night too!

After the Torch Walk some of us (about 12 of us, including about four leaders) enjoyed the walk so much we wanted to go on another! We decided to walk on the tree line of the lake (which was a steep hill). It was quite the adventure. No, seriously. I'm quite the adventure girl, and loveeee adventures, but this one...? This one was a rough one. I was a bit freaked out some of the way because at times it was a lil' dangerous. But we all were fine and got through it without a broken bone ;) It total darkness only with the light of the moon we went. It was about 11:30 at night. Our "get back time" was suppose to be 12:00 but we ended up getting back at 12:30am. (Oops!) It was a lot of fun, stress, exhaustion, fear, and sweat. lol.

Though it was the coldest night of the year we were sweating too much to think about the cold, from the hard walk. We walked on the side of a steeeeep hill along the lake. It was icy and if you didn't grab the trunk of a tree as you went along you would have slipped down the rest of the hill. It was a bit scary but awesome and quite the memory! We call it our "Expedition" ;)

One of the only pictures I took while up there.

Anyway. It was a great time. Met a lot of new kids from the two other Churches that came up for the retreat too from around here that we partner up with a lot for big events. It was a great time. Good fellowship with everyone. Great messages I heard and good time with my Jesus, great worship to my King and so much more.
Hope you had an awesome weekend! Comment and tell me what ya think!!! Blessings to you!
A Servant 4 Christ,
Lizzie
 

Crayons Inspire Me...

I don't know about you, but I loveee crayons! Their bright colors make me so happy! So I thought I would do a little photo shoot of them today ;) Here is just a few photographs I snapped :) Enjoy!

 

 

 

 

Tell me what ya think! God bless! :)

A Servant 4 Christ,

Lizzie

{Jar Of Blessings}

On January 1st I started something...

Start on January 1st with an empty jar. Throughout the year write the good things that happened to you on little pieces of paper. On December 31st, open the jar and read all the amazing things that happened to you that year...

My friend Brooke posted on her blog this idea she got from somewhere. And I loved the idea so much I just had to do it this year :)

 On January 1st I put my first note in my adorable jar! Okay, there is something about glass jars and me. ;) I loveeee glass jars! So this idea made my week!

 I got the top from one of our old jam jars we were saving :) And I knew a ribbon would just make the jar that much more cute, so I tied a red one around the top!

I cannot wait when December 31st hits with my little jar full with little cute notes! I think I want to do this every year :) Wouldn't it be cool down the road, like a few years later, and look and see a few jars filled with little notes of happiness?!?! I lovee the idea! Thanks Brooke for posting this little idea on your blog and inspiring me :)
Write me a comment and tell me what you think :) You should try it! There is still time!!! :D
God bless!
A Servant 4 Christ,
Lizzie

Welcome 2013...

Happy New Year! Hope you all have a blessed 2013 and that God would show you the special plans He has for you in 2013. (Jeremiah 29:11)

What are you excited about in 2013? Write a comment and tell away! I can't tell you how much I'm excited about so many things. Excited about the people I meet, being used by God to encourage and love on people more, maybe even transforming a life through Jesus Christ! I am excited for what God will do in my life, the victories I will conquer through Him, the lessons I will learn through mistakes, the things God will reveal to me, listening to His whisper even more, the adventures He has in store for me, and my list could go on. I'm excited to be able to look back at the end of 2013 and see the work God has done in me that year just like I have done looking back at 2012.
There is so much I'm looking forward to in 2013 and I just can't wait to see where my Father will lead me.
I don't have a verse that will take me into 2013 quite yet, but I'm patiently waiting and trusting He will show me His truth if I stay in His Word continually :)
There is a couple of verses though that I do like that are perfect to start the new year off.

"Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I AM doing a new thing; now it springs forth do you not perceive it?" Isaiah 43:18-19

"Make me know Your ways, O LORD; teach me Your paths. Lead me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; for You I will wait all the day long." Psalm 25:4-5

"Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you. Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure. Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your feet away from evil." Proverbs 4:25-27.

Have a blessed new year! Blessings to you!
A Servant 4 Christ,
Lizzie