Cupcake encouragements! (and Gaucamole!) : )

This summer has been filled with SOOOOO very many blessings!

Some have been HUGE ones and some have been smaller ones! Some of the smaller ones (in size, but definitely not in impact!!!) have been cupcakes and guacamole! Ive always wanted to know how to cook (as im definitely very bad at it) hahah but this summer ive been going crazy with baking cupcakes and making guacamole whenever the ingredients are on sale!

 

Yeah Lauren!

Smashing a cupcake in Laurens face!

mmm.... sweet yummy goodness!

These next cupcakes are from the Fourth of July (my momma found some boxes of cupcakes mix and frosting for only $1.00!)

Happy 4th of July!

This last week we were able to have a movie marathon with my young cousins Johnny, Zack and Caroline and our neighbor Morgan and we made Pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese frosting and little chocolate chips on top!

THEY ARE SCRUMTRILESCENT!!!! : )

 







hahahah Caroline and Morgan!







A pure bundle of yesness!




 

Amazing Forgiveness!

This story of a Muslim man named Rais Bhuiyan is such a beautiful example of love, compassion and forgiveness! What an example! I pray that i could show even a hint of such forgiveness as Jesus has so amazingly forgiven every single human being when He so lovingly died on the cross for our sins, taking and paying our debt completely, so that we can now be free, free from the penalty of sin, free from the bondage and burdan to sin! We once were dead because of our trespasses and sins, but PRAISE THE LORD we are now alive in Him!

"For while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us!"  Romans 5:8

Hallelujah, what a Savior! What a most precious blessing!

Link to the article!: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/18/rais-bhuiyan-pleads-to-spare-mark-stroman_n_902137.html

Hand and Cloth! : )

 What a precious Saturday! Just yesterday i was able to spend the day with my momma as we went to Ten Thousand Villages located in Geln Ellen for a Hand&Cloth get together with Hand&Cloth as well as an organization called As Our Own (i also have the link to these organizations at the top of the blog website to click on!)
It was SUCH a blessing to be able to see Sarah and such an encouragement to see and hear from those whose hearts are soooo full of love for these women who are now set free from sex trafficking and able to have the hope that is only found in the Lord Jesus Christ, our loving Lord and Savior!
While there my momma and i were able to drop off a thank you for the woman who had so preciously made my Kantha quilt, as well as look around in the Ten Thousands Villages store while eating pumpin cupcakes! Oh Lord thank you, what a blessing and encouragement!
p.s. my momma and i were also able to find some good buys at a resale shop while we were downtown Glen Ellen as well! : )

The thank you note as well as my new Kantha Quilt!

With love from Chicago to Bangladesh!!! : )

Making pancakes with LAURA GRUBBSKI!

One of Laura's marvelously precious pancakes!



This last weekend was SUCH a blessing having such a dear friend of mine, Laura Grubb, over at our house!
We were able to take it easy, make pancakes and play BINGO with my grandma and grandpa, where Laura won a stunningly beautiful apron that used to be my grandmas as we also had home made spaghetti made by my grandma!
hahahah the whole weekend was such a blessing and i will definitely miss my dear precious friend until we are able to return back to Emmaus Lord willing in the Fall! : )



hahahah Laura!

LAURA!

















 

Prayers for Egypt...

An update on Egypt and the believers undergoing much persecution and hardship... but still remaining faithful to God's word and even praying for our country that many would come to accept Christ as their personal Savior! Hallelujah!

http://www.cmml.us/news/2011-07-13/update-egypt