Wild Flowers




For Mother's Day, Michael let me pick out some new picture frames and a shelf for the living room to make a sort of collage wall. Since then, we have gotten everything placed like I like it and I have been dying to get some new good pictures of the kids to fill them! My friend Kathryn told me that their wild flower fields were in full bloom so we (mostly I, but Michael said he would go along) jumped on the opportunity to head out to the fields. 

 The quality is not the best, but here is Kathryn and I during our freshman year of college and again during our senior year!

Kathryn is now pregnant with her second child and is still beautiful as ever! Michael and her husband Chris, also graduated high school together. So it is always fun to get to hang out with them! They also have a little boy Graham that is just a few months younger than Eden.

So thankful they allowed us to come out and take a few pictures. It was a gorgeous evening, right before sunset and the flowers were breathtaking. We were told that we missed the "peak bloom" by a week, but they were still beautiful! 









Asa baby is just too precious at 6 months old!

Eden is so serious, and will NOT smile on demand. You have to catch her just a the right moment to get one!







On the other hand, Jude will smile for you in about a split second!


Next we headed down the road to the poppy fields with not much light left!






















The sunset made for the most beautiful pictures, that we decided to try again the next day at 7:45 (crazy late) to get a better picture of the three of them and possibly a family picture!

Day Two: Notice how much the flowers have died in one day! :(



  
  

And after much editing this is what we ended up with:



I set my camera on a tripod and just continually clicked. Since everything was almost the same in each picture, I was able to swap a few heads around in photoshop! Not too bad for getting everyone to look at a camera without anyone standing behind it!

As I keep going back looking through all the pictures, I am reminded of how blessed I am. As our family is continually reading through the book of Matthew, this passage of scripture instantly comes to mind:
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?[g] 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, andyour heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you."


Thinking of how beautiful the flowers were, I am reminded that I have nothing to be anxious or to worry about. Money, the church, car accidents, the children, schooling, death, I really have no control. I can worry all day long but it will not change a single thing. However, God made these beautiful flowers. He made them grow, He made them radiant and He allowed them to die. And since He did this for these silly flowers, of course he will do it for us. We are his children. Sometimes we just have no faith and forget who actually has the control. And still God is so good and so gracious every time.

 I need to continually seek God and His righteousness. I have nothing to fear in life or death because Christ is risen. Christ is my righteousness, my wisdom, and also my redemption. He has given me so many wonderful things in this life but may I boast only in Him because 
He made all things for His glory.






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