A little bit of Painting

My weekend has been filled with lots of this.

In this stage of my life, I have a lot of time on my hands... sometimes I think a little too much, but I'm taking full advantage of all the time I get. I know it won't always be like this :) 

Anyways... I've decided to take up painting. Ha... we'll see how long this lasts. But I'm really liking it. I spent hours and hours painting this weekend. It's just so fun and relaxing! I've learned something about myself- I really love to create. There's something so incredible about being the artist and making something that is yours. 

Here's some random ones I've done: 

Can you tell what's on my mind? I'm craving cozy, chilly weather :) 

Obviously, I'm a newbie but I'm having fun learning! 

Today.... I'm thankful for the God-given ability to CREATE 

Hope you all had a relaxing weekend! 

Rainy days

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It feels like its been raining for a month straight in these parts. It's weird, because I guess I've just always assumed that Florida was constantly sunny... but we've had so much rain! 

We were talking to someone and they said this area has two seasons, dry and wet.

 I'm thinking that we must be in the wet season ;) 

Although I don't really like the rain all the time... it can be quite cozy. Rainy weather makes for a perfect time to snuggle inside, watch movies, drink warm drinks, and DIY crafts like this or this 

Happy day, friends!

If we could just peek behind heaven's curtain...

looking cute wouldn't matter so much... 

having a lot of money would mean nothing...

having a great job would be meaningless...

keeping a cute house wouldn't be on the top of our lists...

shopping would seem stupid...

driving a great car would be worthless...

what would matter? 

KNOWING God might actually be of importance to us...

having an actual relationship with God might come before everything else in our lives...

reading His word would never be left undone...

serving others might finally take priority over serving ourselves...

taking time to love the unlovely would matter more then ever...

eternity would finally be a perspective that we would actually live by...

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My man's Birthday!

Monday was Lee's 21st birthday! 

It was such a great day. We've both learned that when you don't have much money to spend, little things are just that more special and fun. I love it, really. 

Who needs money anyways?! ;)

We drove to Fort Myers and went to this pet shop someone had told Lee about. It wasn't just ANY pet shop. It had wild animals. Like, monkeys, lemurs, and other awesome animals that I don't know the names of... ha. Apparently its legal to have a pet monkey (and tons of cool wild animals) in the state of Florida which, I must say, is pretty cool. Lee was super excited to go check it out and it was not a disappointment! Like seriously, who doesn't love watching a monkey?! We could have stayed there all day watching. Were pretty easy to please, I guess ;) 

After going to the beach and out to dinner, we came home and just relaxed. 

I'm so grateful for Lee. And so happy he was born. I love this man more then I can explain, and I can't wait to see our love grow more and more in the coming years! 

So, to my best friend, happy birthday! (a few days late ;)

the birthday boy!

oh yeah.... I made Lee a cake. It was the first cake I've ever made (I'm sure you can tell). Anddd the second layer broke :( oh well... it still tasted just as good. 

Homemade peanut butter frosting and chocolate cake are always yummy :)