a jolly Christmas to you!

jolly: adj. in good spirits, merry, joyous, informal, happy, cheerfully festive, delightful

I don't know about you, but I absolutely LOVE Christmas music!

Here are some of my fav's this year[in no particular order]

Here With Us - Joy Williams

Winter Wonderland by Newsboys

This is Christmas - Kutless

You're Here - Francesca Battistelli

Songs from David Archuleta's cd 'Christmas From the Heart'

Christmas This Year - TobyMac
How Many Kings - Downhere

BarlowGirl's cd 'Home For Christmas'
'A PureNRG Christmas'

What Child is This - MercyMe

Christmas Makes Me Cry - Mandisa with Matthew West

Songs by Jump5

Joyful, Joyful - Casting Crowns

The Night Before Christmas - Brandon Heath

What was your favorite Christmas song this year??

I'd love to know!

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I got PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 9 for Christmas!!!!!

So please bear with me through trial and error(: Any tips from you pro's are gladly accepted!



{taken the last day we were in Indiana}
and yes, edited on PSE (:



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Don't forget the REASON for the season and have a wonderful day!

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-corina.dm 

about the {new song} on my playlist

It's a song I've been hearing pretty often on the radio recently....
When we're having a bad day and things aren't going our way, its easy not to take time and just praise Jesus for everything that He sends our way, fun and not-so-fun..
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I'd Need A Savior
AMONG THE THRISTY 

How many names
Can I use to explain
The love of my Jesus
The life that He gave
And so many times
Will I praise You today
I lift up my life
Cause You're always the same
And my offering
To you I bring

Your name is Jesus
Your name is Jesus
You're the wonderful, counselor, my friend
You're what I hold on to
I know that You brought me through
All the days of loss and to the cross, You knew
That I'd need a Savior

How many songs
Can I sing to proclaim
Your wondrous love
Oh and beauty so great
Oh and, What would I say
If You brought down the rain
And everyday I walked through the pain
My heart would still say…

......All the days of loss, and to the cross You knew,
That I'd Need a Savior Well, I'd need a Savior
You're what I hold onto, I know that You brought me through
All the days of loss and to the cross You knew,
That I'd need a Savior
I'd need a Savior,
I need You Savior.

*For some reason its more quiet than the other songs on my playlist so you might have to turn up the volume a little so you can hear it better.
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Some of my awesome cousins came to visit us last week! :) We met them at the Tennessee Aquarium..

As you can tell with 17 children (over half of them under age 11), its hard to have everybody looking at the camera! 

Chelsy and I had fun taking pictures in a giant mirror!! :)

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One of my favorite quotes right now:

"Any concern that is too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden."
-Corrie ten Boom

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I love my little sisters............As I was writing this post I played dutch blitz with Elise and put together puzzles with Courtney. They absolutly love when you spend time doing things with them. :)

Harrison's getting so big!

Right now I'm holding him and he's slobbering all over my phone.....He loves my phone and I can barely talk on the phone and hold him at the same time cuz he jus wants to grab it!

And the reason he's drooling so bad right now is because he's teething.......again.....but this time its eye teeth......fun,fun,fun.....I know!!! But I do love how his top teeth now show when he smiles...... :)

corina.dm~

fun self portraits~& an aWeSoMe old building

This beautiful old building is believed to have been a slave cabin. It's right behind some of our friends' house so when we went to visit them this week I just had to take a few pictures!!

    

So I set my camera on a chair and set the timer!!lol

These aren't the best, but I laugh just looking at them...remembering hitting the button than running a few yards to the place I needed to be before it took the picture!!

NOTE::these pictures are cropped...(my camera doesn't have THAT good aim. smile)

If you ever want to try something different or new, grab your camera and set it somewhere, set the self-timer and try out some new poses!! lol. I'm telling you, it REALLY is fun(even though people give you funny looks)!!

"Costume change"!!

Yup..I love to snoop in old buildings.haha

If you can't tell by now...I absolutly LOVE sunflare!! Every chance I have, I take pictures with it!!

I'm not sure how many of you listen to my blog playlist(at the bottom of the page), but on there is a wonderful song I found by Laura Story called "Grace". The lyrics are so amazing~

My heart is so proud. My mind is so unfocused.
I see the things You do through me as great things I have done. And now You gently break me, then lovingly You take me and hold me as my father and mold me as my maker.

I ask you: "How many times will you pick me up, when I keep on letting you down?
And each time I will fall short of Your glory, how far will forgiveness abound?"
And you answer: " My child, I love you.
And as long as you're seeking My face, You'll walk in the pow'r of My daily sufficient grace."

At times I may grow weak and feel a bit discouraged, knowing that someone, somewhere could do a better job.
For who am I to serve You? I know I don't deserve You. And that's the part that burns in my heart and keeps me hanging on.

I ask you: "How many times will you pick me up, when I keep on letting you down?
And each time I will fall short of Your glory, how far will forgiveness abounds?
And you answer: " My child, I love you.
And as long as you're seeking My face, You'll walk in the pow'r of My daily sufficient grace."

You are so patient with me, Lord.
As I walk with You, I'm learning what Your grace really means. The price that I could never pay was paid at Calvary. So, instead of trying to repay You, I'm learning to simply obey You
by giving up my life to you For all that You've given to me.

I ask you: "How many times will you pick me up, when I keep on letting you down?
And each time I will fall short of Your glory, how far will forgiveness abounds?"
And you answer: " My child, I love you.
And as long as you're seeking My face, You'll walk in the pow'r of My daily sufficient grace."

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Jesus is the one that gives us the grace to be able to continue each day. Even though "at times [we] may grow weak and feel a bit discouraged, knowing that someone, somewhere could do a better job", He loves us for who we are....no matter how many times we "fall short of [His] glory", He still says "I love you" and gives us the grace to continue as long as we seek His face.

We can never pay what was paid at calvary. All we can do is to "simply obey" Him and give up our lives to Him for all He's given to us.

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I took some hilariously fun and awesome pictures of Courtney today!! I'll try to get more of them on here soon!!

::corina.dm

Surrender

-BARLOWGIRL

My hands hold safly to my dreams
Clutching tightly not one has fallen
So many years I've shaped each one
Reflecting my heart showing who I am
Now you're asking me to show
What I'm holding oh so tightly
Can't open my hands can't let go
Does it matter?
Should I show you?
Can't you let me go?

Surrender, surrender you whisper gently
You say I will be free
I know but can't you see?
My dreams are me. My dreams are me

You say you have a plan for me
And that you want the best for my life
Told me the world had yet to see
What you can do with one
That's committed to Your calling
I know of course what I should do
That I can't hold these dreams forever
If I give them now to You
Will You take them away forever?
Or can I dream again?

What Faith Can Do~

BY:KUTLESS

Everybody falls sometimes
Gotta find the strength to rise
From the ashes and make a new beginning
Anyone can feel the ache
You think it’s more than you can take
But you are stronger, stronger than you know
Don’t you give up now
The sun will soon be shining

You gotta face the clouds

To find the silver lining

I’ve seen dreams that move the mountains

Hope that doesn’t ever end

Even when the sky is falling

And I’ve seen miracles just happen

Silent prayers get answered
Broken hearts become brand new
That’s what faith can do

It doesn’t matter what you’ve heard
Impossible is not a word
It’s just a reason for someone not to try
Everybody’s scared to death
When they decide to take that step
Out on the water
It’ll be alright
Life is so much more
Than what your eyes are seeing
You will find your way
If you keep believing

I’ve seen dreams that move the mountains

Hope that doesn’t ever end

Even when the sky is falling

And I’ve seen miracles just happen

Silent prayers get answered

Broken hearts become brand new

That’s what faith can do

Overcome the odds
You don't have a chance

(That’s what faith can do)

When the world says you can’t

It’ll tell you that you can!

I’ve seen dreams that move the mountains

Hope that doesn’t ever end

Even when the sky is falling

And I’ve seen miracles just happen

Silent prayers get answered

Broken hearts become brand new

That’s what faith can do

That's what faith can do!

Even if you fall sometimes

You will have the strength to rise

--Keep pressing on through the hard times "even when the sky is falling".
Having faith in Jesus Christ is essential for us to be able to pull through difficult times and still "have the strength to rise".
Even if "the world says you can't", "you don't have a chance", put your faith in Him! He will "tell you that you can!"

corina.dm~