Last week we got rain and it coated everything with ice. All of the tree branches, weeds, bushes and blades of grass visible, were coated in a thin clear glistening layer of ice for two days. It was beautiful, absolutely beautiful! When the sunlight hit the tree branches covered in ice the tree looked like it was covered in lights. Anyway, during this time I made it outside with the camera and managed to take some pictures and now I am going to share them with you!
As I mentioned in my Goodbye 2019 post I love music, singing and listening to music. Every month or so I come up with a playlist for myself and like I have a couple of other times, I decided to share a version of my January playlist with you all. So let’s get started!
2018 was a very busy, full year! It definitely had it’s low points but overall it was a good year!
Here are some of the highlights from my year!
Camp!!! I went to the camp my dad went to as a kid, for the first time! It was definitely the best full week of my year!
Watching the Winter Olympics! We watched as much of the ice skating and ice dancing as we could! It is so amazing to watch how they move across the ice!
Starting Writings From A Farm Girl! I am so glad that I started this blog! I have so enjoyed writing and taking pictures to share with you and reading your lovely comments! I look forward to improving my pictures and writing in the new year!
Christmas and Advent! I already can’t wait for next year!
What are a few highlights from your year?
My favorite pictures I took and/or posted this year!
These two albums are definitely my favorite albums that I have heard this past year! I have most the lyrics for both memorized!
What is your favorite song or album that came out this past year?
My favorite books I read (or reread) this year are…………….:
I love these books so much! I cannot wait for the next Green Ember book!
What was your favorite (or one of your favorites) book you read or reread this year? Have you read either of these books?
I guess that’s all for today! Sorry this is short (again), I am hoping to do some longer posts soon!
I am so excited to be sharing this post! Kaelyn and I really enjoyed coming up with these questions and interviewing each other (and ourselves 😀)! It was really fun to get to each other better!
Here are the questions that I came up with and Kaelyn’s answers!
1. Do you cook or bake?
Kaelyn: “I do not cook or bake really. Although, when I am at my grandparents house I cook and bake with my Nonna.”
2. What genres of books do you read?
Kaelyn: “I love to read historical romance, realistic fiction, and books by Christian authors. I will basically read any genre, unless it is scary/ haunted.”
3. Who is your favorite author?
Kaelyn: “Probably Nancy Rue, Melanie Dickerson, Robin Jones Gunn, and Adrienne Kress, S.D. Smith, and many more. 🙂 “
4. What is your favorite thing about blogging?
Kaelyn: ” I love sharing what I am learning about God and what He is teaching me. Doing Mini-Makers on my blog and doing tags, and prayer requests are such great parts about my blog.”
5. What is your favorite season?
Kaelyn: “I love spring and summer. And well all seasons really.”
6. Do you like the sunrise or sunset better?
Kaelyn: “I love sunsets and sunrises. I don’t think I can choose…”
7. Do you have siblings?
Kaelyn: “I have a younger sister and two younger brothers. :)”
8. What is your favorite color and your least favorite color?
Kaelyn: “I love purple, pink, and green. My least favorite color is, I am not sure. I am not crazy about black but, I do not hate it. Hmm, I am not sure if I am crazy about the color orange or anything to neon. It just depends…”
9. What is your favorite book of the Bible?
Kaelyn: “I love Esther, Ruth, and Psalms.”
10. What is your favorite song right now?
Kaelyn: “I love New Wine by Hillsong.”
11. Who is your favorite Christian musician/artist?
Kaelyn: “I like to listen to Hollyn, Tauren Wells, Toby Mac, Mandissa, and Jaime Grace. :)”
Please make sure to go check out Kaelyn’s blog to see my answers to these questions!
I was looking at some of the photos I have already posted and I saw this one! I hope you don’t mind that I posted it again!
Now here our answers to the questions Kaelyn came up with!
1. How did you start blogging?
Kaelyn: ” I made a blogging account so I could follow a certain blog and then I started blogging on the account I made with WordPress. Then I stopped and decided to come back to blogging two years later. I have been blogging since then.”
Esmeralda: I started blogging at the end of the summer this past year! I had been wanting to start blogging for awhile but it took a bit of convincing to get my mom to let me (and agreeing to have it be apart of my school). 😀
2. Do you have pets?
Kaelyn: “We have two cats. A one year old orange tabby boy cat, named Bengali. We also have another cat named Kikko and she is a one year old tortoise shell cat. We also have fish. We have three male guppies and one female. My brother also has a a beta named Eclipse.”
Esmeralda: Yes! We have a indoor dog, two livestock guard dogs and five (or so) cats! We have a bunch of other farm animals, but they definitely aren’t pets!
3. What are you excited about for Christmas and why?
Kaelyn: “I am excited to do Secret Santa on Christmas Eve and to watch my family open the gifts I gave them. Seeing my family and eating food are also such great things to look forward too.”
Esmeralda: Everything! I am really looking forward to spending time with both sides of my extended family!
4. What is your favorite music/song?
Kaelyn: “I listen to a lot of worship music and Christmas music. I enjoy listening to Hollyn, Toby Mac, Tauren Wells, and Capital Kings.”
Esmeralda: “I basically only listen to Christian music and movie soundtracks, so I guess those are my favorite kinds of music! I LOVE Lauren Daigle, Riley Clemmons, Jesus Culture, For King & Country and many others!”
5. What is your favorite subject at school?
Kaelyn: “My favorite subject is probably English and I love drama class.”
Esmeralda: “Maybe math this year, I also really enjoy literature!”
6. What is your favorite candy? Why? 🙂
Kaelyn: “I LOVE CHOCOLATE! I love Hersheys and Kit-Kats. I love sour candy and jolly ranchers.”
Esmeralda: Anything and everything chocolate!
7. What is your hobby or hobbies?
Kaelyn: “I love to read, write, blog. I love spending time with my family, friends, and cats.”
Esmeralda: Reading, knitting, blogging, cooking and baking.
8. Do you do any extracurricular activities?
Kaelyn: “I do choir and I take drama as an elective at my school.”
Esmeralda: “I do a homeschool choir group.”
9. What is your favorite color?
Kaelyn: “I really like purple, pink, and green.”
Esmeralda: “Red and aqua!”
10. What are you learning right now with Jesus?
Kaelyn: “I have learned about patience, rest, faithfulness, and trust. I have been growing in Him and learning about how to be more connected with Him. At camp, we talked about being undaunted and identity. I am growing in my identity every day. 🙂 :)”
Esmeralda: ” I am learning to Trust GOD.”
11. What is your favorite Bible verse?
Kaelyn:“My favorite Bible verses is 1 Peter 2:9 and Psalms 46:10.”
Esmeralda: “I love all of psalm 23. I don’t think I could pick one verse!”
I hope you all enjoyed this post! What did you think of our answers to the questions? Feel free to answer any of these questions in the comments!
This week we don’t have a weekly verse, my mom decided that it wasn’t realistic to try to memorize a new verse this week, because I don’t know about you, but we are going semi-crazy getting ready for Christmas. I have no idea how I am going to have everything done in time! Every time I finish a project I feel so much closer to being done, until I think about what I still have left.
I wanted to share several of my favorite Christmas carols, so here you go!
Oh holy night, the stars are brightly shining It is the night of our dear Savior’s birth Long lay the world, in sin and error pining Till He appeared and the soul felt its worth
A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices For yonder breaks, a new and glorious morn Fall on your knees, oh hear the angel voices Oh night divine, oh night, when Christ was born Oh night divine, oh night, oh night divine
Truly He taught us to love one another His law is love and His gospel is peace Chains shall He break for the slave is our brother And in His name, all oppression shall cease
Sweet hymns of joy, in grateful chorus raise we Let all within us praise His holy name Fall on your knees, oh hear the angel voices Oh night divine, oh night, when Christ was born Oh night divine, oh night, oh night divine
Christ is the Lord, O praise His name forever His pow’r and glory evermore proclaim Fall on your knees, oh hear the angel voices Oh night divine, oh night, when Christ was born Oh night divine, oh night, oh night divine
I LOVE O Holy Night! It might be my absolute favorite Christmas carol! So putting my favorite Christmas carol and my one of my favorite singer together is just amazing!
Our nativity set or as my little sister calls it our “activity set”.
Oh Lord, my God, when I in awesome wonder Consider all the worlds Thy hands have made I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder Thy power throughout, the universe displayed
Then sings my soul, my Savior, God, to Thee How great Thou art (how great Thou art) How great Thou art (how great Thou art) Then sings my soul, my Savior, God, to Thee, oh to Thee How great Thou art (how great Thou art) How great Thou art
When through the woods oh, and forest glades I wander And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees When I look down, from lofty mountain grandeur And hear the brook, and feel the gentle breeze
Then sings my soul, my Savior, God, to Thee (then sings my soul) How great Thou art (how great Thou art) How great Thou art (how great Thou art) Then sings my soul, my Savior, God, to Thee How great Thou art (how great Thou art) How great Thou art (Great Thou art)
When Christ shall come With shouts of acclamation And take me home, what joy shall fill my heart (shall fill my heart) Then I shall bow In humble adoration (adoration) And then proclaim, “My God, how great Thou art”
Then sings my soul, my Savior, God, to Thee How great Thou art (How great Thou art) How great Thou art (How great Thou art) Then sings my soul, my Savior, God, to Thee How great Thou art How great Thou art How great Thou art How great Thou art
I love Pentatonix and especially this song!
Well, I guess that is all for this post! I am not exactly sure when I will be posting next other then my BIBPC #6 picture for this week, but I should be posting again soon!
What is your favorite Christmas carol? Do you have a favorite Christmas album?
Happy Thanksgiving (a few days late)!! I want to share some of the things I am Thankful for this year! Without further ado, here you go! 😀
MUSIC:
I am so Thankful for music! Music is so amazing, I listen to music almost constantly, either on our family computer or on my phone while I am doing school. I don’t know how people lived before they could listen to music at home! 😀
Some of the songs I have had on repeat recently are:
I LOVE reading so much! Sometimes I think that without books I would go crazy. Books are such a gift from God! I am so glad that there are many talented people who love to write and are willing to share their stories with us! I am so Thankful for our wonderful library system that makes it possible for me to get new books to read regularly.
Several of the books/series I have really enjoyed this school recently are:
All the books that I currently have out of the library.😀
MY FRIENDS:
I have a couple of amazing friends who I have gotten to know better this year. I have been pen-pals with one of them for several years, but this year we have gotten very close! The other friend I am thinking of I have known (sort of known of) since kindergarten when we did homeschool stuff together. For a long time our families didn’t do anything together, but last year and this year we started doing things together, again. I have really enjoyed getting to know this friend!
You two know who you are (at least I hope you do!)! I am so Thankful to have you as apart of my life! Thank you for being my friends!
Another friend who I am Thankful for is someone who is like an older sister to me! Thank you for all the letters you write me and everything!! I am so Thankful for you!
Isn’t this great? I saw it somewhere and I just had to repost it. Some friends and one of my amazing sisters.
MY FAMILY:
I am so blessed to have the amazing family that I have! I so admire my parents and I am so Thankful that I am their daughter! I am so Thankful for every single one of my wonderful siblings! I love you guys!
I am also so blessed to have my grandparents be in my life so much! I am so Thankful for my amazing Tia! They are all such a blessing to me and our whole family!
This isn’t all of my siblings. 😀
What is something you are Thankful for? How was your Thanksgiving?
Thank you for taking the time to read this! Have a wonderful week!
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