My Birthday-Day!

So I thought I would share some photos about my fun and beautiful birthday-day :)

A vintage shop we went to had a huge book room....but not fill with vintage books. Yes I know VERY disappointing.
The tea room we went to was so pretty and fun! Me with my sisters and cousin Hannah and Mom and my cousin Hannah's mom..my Aunt. :)
I had some yummy potato soup...Mmmmm.

I had some delicious spice tea. Yum!

The tea cup I had the privilege of using...Isn't it lovely!

A birthday tea set..adorable!

My sister Katie trying on a hat, a cute hat.

Now this picture is a picture I hope one day could be a reality in my own room...I love it! The pink the green..the vintage rose paintings on the walls the floral quilted bed spread and pillows. All of it I loved..but maybe the green a shade lighter. :D

In just the next couple of days I will be having my blessing ceremony.. I have already received a gift for my hope chest..I still have not seen the gift or the hope chest, I will be getting the chest on the day of my blessing ceremony. My sisters and cousin Hannah are actually practicing the "Sabbath Prayer" for a dance at the ceremony...I have not seen that either. All of these things, from the purity ring to the hope chest will all be given to me on the great blessed day of my pass into womanhood. I'm so excited but yet something in me is realizing what is happening...I will no longer a child prancing throe fields with wondering of the future..I will me a young women walking the ground of God and knowing the responsibility's of tomorrow.

~Child verses Womanhood~

For I am a child today and a woman tomorrow.

My past child ways will soon be pushed aside for the present age of womanhood and the mystery of new ability's of this new season.

Life as a child was of foolish wandering and of selfish childhood ways but, now that I am transferring, now that I have learned.

I cross the line not being called a child again but being called a women and crossing that fine line.

I see the the virtue, and the calling of everything a women should be and at this fine line is where I decide to to be everything a women should be or everything she should not.

This new season is new and I hardly know what to do for childhood is all I have ever known, which step to take is a new question, which thing to do is a new activity.

But THIS is where the study and learning of womanhood begins.

Loving God~

Yesterday me and my cousin and Aunt went to church...hard lesson for me and hard word's from my Aunt on the lesson taught.

My mom gave me a word in a recent situation that came up and basically just spoke blessing and encouragement over me and in the way I'm growing in the Lord! <3 I cryed on that phone call...(Love you, Mom!)

Then today I read this and this hit me right at the heart....Miss Jasmine Baucham wrote a post on "God gives us Answers..via Ten booms."


"Corrie," he began instead, "do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain.
"There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill the love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or, Corrie, we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.

The whole post is about learning to love others in God's love! Which has definitely been hard for me...for I have learned the human way of love and the lie of its natural to be and act on this saying "Its okay not to love that person as long as you like them and are friendly to her/him." I did not know how much I received that till I read Jasmine's post. For God says to love others as you love your self...but the thing we miss in those verses is..love that person through God's love not human...human love will never succeed in the type of way you are trying to love in...it will only bring the opposite.

I have tried to love in God's way..but it has never worked for me...because I was still using the dynamics of Human love. You can never love in God's way if you do not know what true love looks like. It is not roses and cards or mushy names...or the buying of gifts.

True love is unselfish with no pride or selfish desire of own interest, it is a work of dealings that you do for another...but not by the way of Gifts but by the way of looking at that person's heart and reaching out and speaking to them throe the words of God.

True love does not alter when one ignores you or when one hates you it pushes through and fights to the end of that thought that says "He hates you! No reason to love him, no reason, no reason at all." you do have a reason to love that person..for the same reason as to walk away..the person who can't stand you is the one who needs love most! Christ centered love...everlasting-ever fulfilling-Love! God had no reason to love us, he could of left Us to be thrown to the wolfs...to the pit of Hell. But instead he took mortal souls and sinful beings and decide to love us, who, by any other could not truly love us. God died for love...he died for his bride. A bride that came from the dirty streets, the other side of the tracks, he fell in love with her, even though he was a prince who was spotless...Satan saw the hidden jewel in the dirty soul of the bride and decide to take her for his own...but God saw this bride and so did Jesus and Jesus feel in love with the bride and died for her as the price of getting her back! Are we willing to die for our brother in that unconditional love? To look past the sin?

These are my thoughts...right out of my heart.

May God bless the sinful bride that he dressed in jewels.

Kassidy

A Day Out~

I'm turning sixteen next Tuesday and if you know my family we are doing something big in honor of how I've grown in God and maturity. For my sixteenth birthday we are doing a pass into womanhood banquet with classical music, formal dress, and yummy gourmet food! So there were a couple things needed for this great day..such as gloves and a hair piece. So where is the best place for gloves? a vintage store, of course. :) So me and my aunt and cousins, who are also homeschooled, went off to a cute little street with cute little stores, called Carytown.

On the way, we watched "Return of the Daughters" in my cousins van. That movie is a big encourgment to me!

When we got to Carytown...I couldn't remember the name of my favorite vintage store. So we decided to walk around and look to see if we could find it. Well we ended up stopping in a different vintage shop.

Old pictures in the shop. Are they not interesting?

Hannah, my cousin, looking at old fashioned dresses. They had very pretty and some not so pretty dresses.

My three year old cousin Joseph just loved this hat!

Hannah...really would of liked to have this hat to go with a dress she has but, she did not end up getting it. Isn't it pretty?

We found my favorite vintage store! Which by the way it's called Bygones. It has the prettiest things.

We found the gloves...they are a lot prettier in person. :)

My cousin Jack decided to try on a hat. he quoted "This picture looks just how they looked in the oldin' days"

My little cousin Joseph put another hat on, a flat cap, well he loves the movie "The Greatest Game Ever Played" (Its a good movie, about a boy becoming an amazing golfer!) So he was so excited he got to wear a hat like Frances (the main character). He said "Mommy, Mommy! Look I wearing Frances's hat!" He was so proud and happy about that hat. Joseph LOVE's old movies, well the classics. Like "Pride and Prejudice" which he calls Mr. Darcy and "The Greatest Game Ever Played" which he calls Frances and a couple more. Unfortunately I was not able to get a picture of him in the hat but here is a picture of Frances.

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So that was carytown..then we got lunch at a pizza place. Which was yummy!

After that we took a drive through the country and stopped at a civil war battle field. Which was fun. Then we came back and me and my cousin Hannah washed the dishes and vacuumed. Then me and my cousin went with my dad to go look at cars and then went out for some tasty BBQ. Then we decided to go to an ice skating rink to just see what was going on. :) An then we went back to Hannah's house to play the wii which I never do...This was a every couple months thing for me. Well we played a couple rounds of a mini golf game an then me and my dad went back to where we were staying...

Adventures at Midnight~

Well, we went to unlock the door at my Aunt and Uncle's and well the dead bolt was locked, my dad does not have a key for that one, so then we decided to call my aunt and uncle who we were staying with. Well that didn't work so.... we decide to call my other Aunt and Uncle which are the parent's to the cousins I told you about. Me and dad thought we would run up to a gas station to get a drink of water and to take a bathroom break..it is now 2:00 am still no one is answering the phone. So we go back over to my other Aunt and Uncle's and we knocked on the door.."banged" on the windows. Well they answered the door and we were able to get some sleep and not sleep in a hotel room!

Well, I hope you all have a blessed day.

Kassidy