My 100th Post and Some Really Fun Pictures

Hello to all my blog readers! I hope you are having a wonderful stress-free week so far. It's easy to get busy and into the hustle and bustle of the season, but it's important to sit back and thank the Lord for all he has done in our lives, and for sending his Son down to earth to save us from our sins. We serve a wonderful God, don't we?




Well, it seems I have already reached my 100th post! I really have enjoyed the time of blogging that I've had and am very grateful for all the many like minded Christians I have "met" through the blogging world. If I have any readers that have never commented, please feel free to do so! I love hearing from you, and of course my other readers as well. :)







For my 100th post, I thought I'd post some random pictures. They are mostly of my two youngest siblings, Josiah and Keturah. As Mom said, as she was looking at the pictures with me, "You find out who the biggest hams of the family are!" I hope you enjoy these pictures.

 

Josiah and Keturah Dancing in Mykaela and Keturah's room

Smiles of the best kind!

Tiki's Favorite Place! :)

Mykaela and Tommy

Jeremiah and Zinc

Micah and Joshua laughing about something Mom read in our advent book, "Bartholomew's Passage"

God Bless and have a Merry Christmas!

Kelsey

Some Fun Pictures

Hello All! I thought It would be fun to share some pictures with you.  Enjoy! :)

Zinc walked over to me, while I was doing my reading, to say hi. I picked him up and he made him-self comfortable. I had to set the book down for a while! :)

 Both pups are growing so much! It was a difficult task that required some of my siblings to lend a hand, but I was able to get them both sitting still at the same time for this quick snapshot.

                                                     Josh and Copper

Mykaela and Copper

Copper, Zinc, and Joy all made themselves comfortable on the dog bed. They are such wonderful buddies.

Sweet Copper

Zinc and Copper

...And here is Joy!

Here is my sweet cat, Tiki, thoroughly enjoying the warm fireplace in the living room.

Mykaela was sleeping with Copper only and Zinc decided to stuff himself in with the pair! (Has anyone heard of the story, The Mitten?)

I thought this was a sweet picture of Mykaela...

...And here, my handsome (and cute) brother, Josiah, who dressed himself up, ready for the morning!

Hope you all enjoyed the pictures.

God Bless,

Kelsey A.H.

Judgement by the Cone

Our family recently got two boxer/mastiff/lab pups from Arizona. We have been integrating them with our other two dogs, Scooter, and Joy, in hopes that they become friends with each other.

Our black puppy, Zinc, chewed on his stub tail, recently after it had been docked. Because of that, he has to wear a cone on his collar, to prevent him from chewing his tail again.

Our other puppy Copper Penny, was a good girl and she is cone free. :)

It took her almost a week, but Joy, who is close to the puppies size (at least right now she is) began to play with Copper. They are now best buddies. Zinc, on the other hand was sort of left out. Scooter feels to old and grumpy to play and run around with a young energetic pup, and Joy is scared of Zincs' cone. Whenever Zinc ran over to join the fun, Joy would tuck in her tail and slink off. After watching this happen for several days, we took off Zincs' collar for a moment, making sure to keep a close eye on him so he didn't chew his tail. Seeing the cone-less Zinc, Joy ran over and all three dogs began doing laps around our Family Room. Joy then wrestled with Zinc, having a grand time... That is, until the cone had to be put back on, and when Zinc tried playing with her, Joy ran away.

Isn't this how it is with people? We judge others by their looks and what kind of person they "seem like" Something that I have found that I need to work on, is being careful not to look at a total stranger and judge them by what they look like. It's easy enough to do. It's our sin nature to look at someone and decide right then and there whether we like them or not. That is why we have to be so careful of how we react and think about others. Have you ever seen someone and decided you don't like them, only to meet them later and find out their not that bad after all?

Samuel 16.7 ...Man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

Even if your "judging" is correct, we need to have grace and still be kind to others, whether you get along with them or not.

Mostly, try not to think of others in a negative mind, or compare them to how "bad" they are from your measuring stick. This is pride on our part and if they are in the wrong, it is between them and God.

Our dog Joy, took one look at Zinc and decided he was scary and mean. As soon as the cone came off, to Joy, Zinc was an exciting and fun play-mate. (so much so that it was Copper who got left in the dust!)

Joy was "judging" what Zinc was like by the cone he was wearing. Joy, of course is a dog, so she can get away with it. What about when it comes down to us? Will we be a stranger to many because we judged them by their "cone"?


Philippians 4.8
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.