Philippians 3:8-11

Last night as I was preparing for Sunday School, I fell in love with this passage! In Sunday School, we do a study on the passage that the pastor is preaching on that way we are much more prepared for the sermon. We are currently going through the book of Philippians.

⁸ What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ ⁹ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in^[a] Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. ¹⁰ I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, ¹¹ and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.


 This passage is so full of encouragement and advice! I found it such a blessing and I was awestruck, as I often am with how Great a God I serve. He works in wonderous ways! I needed to hear these works and I need this message and what did God do? He put it right under my nose! As I studied this passage and read it in CONTEXT, (Context is King is it not?!) I discovered the true Principle of the passage and that is what I will leave you with!

Strive to live like Christ, because He saved you! Don't worry about what people will say about you/us because of our Faith; YOU have CHRIST and that is ALL that matters!

~Sarah

Product Review- Udi's Gluten Free Three Cheese Pizza

So last night my wonderful mom and I tried Udi's Gluten Free Three Cheese Pizza. And I was greatly disapointed.

The Pizza Box



When we opened the package we were quite surprised, the pizza was much smaller than the box led us to believe.

The Cardboard it came on... Smaller than the box and the pizza was smaller too.

 The sauce was too spicy for my taste too. It says on the box "Straight Up Cheesy Lovin" but frankly there wasn't that much cheese! I will admit that I like my sauce mild and a LOT of cheese (Sarah is smiling at that!) but it fell short of my expectations. Have you tried it? What do you think? Leave a comment below!

~Sonja~

Welcome!

Welcome to our Blog!

We are working hard to get this blog up and running smoothly as soon as we can! We are currently sitting next together each doing something different to get this done! We started this blog because we are crazy and spazy and we thought we could provide entertaiment to you all! A real post should be coming in the near future! We are full of surprises so stay tuned!

~Sarah

I baked a cake

So today was 2 of my friends from churches birthdays. So what did I do? I baked a cake! I split it in half so that they each had a side... :) they loved it and it tasted really good! :) Barbara likes to garden so I filled her side with flowers and on Bob's side I put a tennis court with a tennis net made out of melted chocolates because he likes to play tennis. What do you think?! ;)

The completed cake



my shirt looked like when I was done decorating and baking... I was a mess! :)



Barbara's Side of the cake

Bob's side of the cake

A close up on the tennis net I made. It stood up in the frosting and was made out of melted chocolates.

My Camera

So if you have been following my blog for a little bit you will know that I have a new camera! It is a Canon T2i! And I LOVE it! :) Before it I had just a point and shoot so this is an awesome step up! I am loving every moment with it.

All of the pictures you have  seen (so far) are taken with the t2i (Since Christmas 2011) with a standard lens. (18-55mm) I hope soon to get a new lens- possibly 2! I do have a small studio in my bedroom. I will include pictures of it soon! I now have studio lighting too! :) I also have a Fisheye Lens too but I don't think I have posted any pictures of it so far...

I have a multitude of different filters so I don't know which ones were used when in each picture. I have Starbursts, Macro,UV, Florescent, Polarizing, Rainbow, Prism... a few others too. :) I was truly blessed that when I got a DLSR my grandmother gave me her old camera accessories! (Thanks Meem!) They were made for a 52mm but some are 58mm and they make step up adapters and step down adapters which is wonderful! I love my camera! I hope to keep posting picutes up and I hope you will keep taking the time to look and comment on them!

As for other acessories... I have a remote shutter release, and a tripod. Not to exciting but still fun!

~Sarah

New Dress!

I LOVE to sew! I love it! :) So when I first found Pinterest I feel head over heels in love with this dress! I finally made it! What do you think?! I LOVE IT! :)

The Front

The Back

I finally learned how to use Photoshop enough to twirl my face out! Yay! hehe!

The dress took me about 1 and 1/2 hours to make... not bad. I have never made any piece of clothing from start to finish all by myself and I did this time so I am very happy! I hemmed it too! :)  A first for many things! :) It was super fun and a wonderful learning experience! If you want more specifics let me know!

~Sarah

Circle Bead Bracelet Tutorial

So I have a new tutorial for you!!! Wahoo! I pulled out one of my old designs and decided that you may like to see how I make it! I love this design! I used to wear it every day when I was around 7 years old. I designed it then. Its cute and easy!

Here is the finished product... :)

What you need:

Beads

Beading Thread

Scissors

A Clasp

To Start, cut a piece of thread 3 inches longer than 2x the length of your wrist.

To start thread 8 beads on to the center of your thread. Then take one of the ends of beads and thread it through the center of the last bead on the opposite thread. (Confusing language but look at the picture...) Make sure that your beads are in the CENTER of your thread otherwise your bracelet will be completely off!

Pull tight.

Next, Put 4 beads on one end of the thread and 3 on the other.

Like we did before, only this time it matters which one you stick through the center! Take the thread that has 3 beads on it and stick it through the 4th bead on the other thread.

Continue! At this point I realized that I did not want to be sitting there doing this all night because I was using seed beads and they were way to tiny. SO I did 3 of these circles and then moved on to E beads because they are bigger. You can do what ever you want- you can do them all small or all big or mix them up!

Here is my transition to the bigger beads. I like these ones better...they don't make as nice circles but I think that was just me. :) (just keep going)

I kept going with the big beads and then I switched back to the smaller ones so it would look like I did it on purpose.

Tada! All you need to do now is tie it off and add a clasp!

All Done!

So what do you think? Is there something else you want me to post about? Let me know!!! :)