Bella

I realized that I have never put any pictures of our sweet, fur baby on here… I’m an awful mother! She really enjoyed the camera.

 

Me and Bella

~Bex

May Photo A Day Challenge – A Smell You Adore

Day 8 – A Smell You Adore

 Kenny thought I should put his picture up here for today but he doesn’t always smell so nice so… :) I’m a candle fan, and for my candle scents of choice – Vanilla, Mulled Cider, Buttered Rum, Cookie, Cinnamon, basically anything that smells or relates to food! One thing I adore is walking into my house and it smelling like something is in the oven – its a very home-y, inviting smell for me.

What’s your favorite scents?

May Photo A Day Challenge - Someone that inspires you

Day 7 - Someone that inspires you

 

May Photo A Day Challenge - You

Day 6 – You

This isn’t a picture of me but rather who I want to be. Last year before Kenny and I got married I stumbled upon “Revive Our Hearts – The Counter-cultural Woman” series. I was so blessed, encouraged and convicted about being a godly wife and future mother that I decided I would go back each year and do some kind of study on the Proverbs 31 woman for our wedding anniversary. Its hard to believe that Kenny and I will celebrate our 1st anniversary in less than a month! So needless to say this passage of scripture has been steady on my mind and heart. I am learning to love this woman and slowly realizing that God didn’t put her in our Bible to make us feel guilty about what we are not doing, but to show us that her actions were done in love, a love for her family, for those around her and, most importantly a love for her God – my God. If you get the chance I hope you’ll go and read about her, she’s an amazing woman!

May Photo A Day Challenge - Bird

Day 5 – Bird

May Photo A Day Challenge – Fun!

Day 4 – Fun!

Something I’ve really come to love doing recently is taking pictures of flowers. It’s the simple things that make me really happy :) These are pictures I’ve taken the last couple days – really I just couldn’t choose one to put on here – I like them all!

May Photo A Day Challenge – Something you wore today

Day 3 – Something you wore today

All you get today is a picture of my shirt… I took several shots this morning and didn’t like any that showed my face (I always look goofy when I take a self portrait, plus trying to get my outfit in the picture…) Any ways this shirt was a hand-me-down (which I love getting because I don’t have to pay for it), its cute and, believe it or not, when I’m cutting hair this shirt repels the hairs, so its perfect for working in the barbershop! (which is what I’m doing today)

So there you have it :) Something I am wearing today.

May Photo A Day Challenge - Skyline

Day 2 – Skyline

 

I stopped to check the mail at the Post Office and noticed this chapel for the first time. This is the “Benjamin F. Long Chapel” at the Crossnore School in our little town.

May Photo A Day Challenge

Any one who has followed my blog for very long can tell you I’m not the most consistent blogger. Entering in this challenge really will be a challenge for me if for no other reason than simply getting my posts in each day! You can read all about this challenge and the “prompt words” for each day at Fat Mum Slim.

Day 1 – Peace

 

My “peace” picture is inspired by a couple songs we sing at church one is called “I’ve Got Peace Like a River” – its a kids song – and the other is “By The Still Waters of Peace.”

The picture below is the same river as the one above but it was taken yesterday after a major storm.

Business Opportunity – Opinions Needed

I am considering opening an Etsy© Store to sell some of my photography. To be completely honest I’m a little nervous about putting myself “out there.” :S What I’m asking for here is just an honest opinion of whether you all think I could make a go of this as a small business. – I really do what an Honest Opinion, if you don’t think it’ll work or if you have suggestion for improvement I’d be glad to hear your idea’s :) Anyways that’s enough said here are some of the pictures:

I wouldn’t be my Father’s child if I didn’t include a cup of COFFEE :)

     

  I would appreciate if you passed the word around to get others to view my pictures, in an effort to receive unbiased opinions as to whether you all think these will sell.  These photos are only posted here, on my blog.

Thank you all, in advance, for taking the time to look and review my work.

Take a Tour Tuesday…on Wednesday

This week we have the Guest Bedroom, Bathroom and the Storage Room – which we lovingly refer to as “The Man Cave.” :) I’ll show you the man cave first so we end on a high note.

The reason its call the man cave is; this is where the hunting, motorcycle, car stuff goes. Oh, and the seasonal decor. Now on to the bathroom.

When Kenny and I were first dating he told me, if we ever lived in a house with 2 bathrooms I could decorate the spare bath with ducks.

I wonder if he thought I’d never actually do that :S

Down the hall from the man cave and the bathroom is one of my favorite rooms

This room, along with the Master Bedroom and Den all have a lot of natural light.

I also like this room for the closet :) This is where all the extra stuff is, cleaning supplies, gift wrap, ya know “extra’s that you don’t know where to store” :)

That’s all for the Home Tour! I hope you’ve enjoyed taking a look at our house. I’m hoping to start next week with showing how we’ve made this house our own space.

Fall Scenery

 

Here is the picture I promised. This is on Hwy 221 just as your coming into Crossnore.

These next few pictures were all taken on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

The mountain peaks on the right side of this picture is a set of peaks that together make “The Grandfather’s Profile.” If you look closely you can make out the forehead, nose and mouth of the sleeping Grandfather.

Happy Fall Everyone!

Hiking with the Teens

Last Wednesday Kenny and I took six of our teens hiking the Grandfather Mtn. Profile Trail. Let me just say right off the bat it is not a trail for the faint of heart! (unless your only planning to do a small portion) None the less we had a great time huffing and puffing up and down the sides of the mountain peaks and enjoying all the wonderful views.

Here we are getting ready to embark on our grand adventure at 10:30am. In this picture (left to right) Becky (me), Brock, Mary Kathryn, Emily, Kenny, Dustin and Dakota.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the first peak on the profile trail, one of three that we would climb!

 

 

 

After Hiking for two hours we took break #13 for lunch

 

I couldn’t resist putting Brock in “tree jail.”

 

 

Break # 21 - This place was called “Shanty Springs” the sign said that this was the last “for sure” watering hole… do you see the black pipe Dakota has his water bottle under?

Break # 25 – I had everyone get on a different rock, I thought it turned out nice except for the fact that you can’t see Mary Kathryn :S

 

Break # 26 – the guys trying to move the boulder.

 

 

Our first Mountain Top Experience…

 

 

 

 

 

…and break # 31. It was up here that my phone ran, it was my nephew, Austin, calling me from Kansas to tell me about camp and spending time with his cousins. Yeah I’m pleased with my cell service :)

 

I wanted to show this picture because that is the trail they are standing/sitting on. And yes, that is aprox. 70-90 ft drop off to the right! Like I said this trip was not for the faint of heart!

 

  Break # 52 – Mountain Peak two. I was too scared to look over the edge so i held the camera out and took a picture instead… needless to say I backed off that ledge VERY carefully!

We next had to hike down the other side of the peak we had just come up. We all started referring to this section of  the trail as “The Cliffs of Insanity.”

And back up again, you know its steep when they give you a ladder and rope instead of stairs and a hand rail.”Excuse me, Kenny, next time can we just take the elevator?

This was the last and highest peak. The sign on the ladder they are climbing says “Macrae Peak, 5844 ft.”

Worth every step!

I didn’t take very many pictures on the way down – not much to look at when you’ve just seen the top of the world.

Break # 79 - The last picture of the weary travelers! By the time we finished it was somewhere around 5:00pm so we drove into town and got a bucket of chicken for supper and went to a picnic area on the Blue Ridge to eat and have our Teen Service.

Just for the record, I didn’t actually keep track of how many breaks we took but there were a lot! Brock said he wanted to design a shirt that says; (front) “I survived Grandfather Mtn. Profile Trail…” (back) “Never mind how many breaks I took!”

We had a great time with the teens and will probably go again next year… after the soreness wears off :)