Saturday, November 14, 2015

~ Love ~ Our Fall Family Pics ~ Love ~

Can I just express how grateful I am for a Father in Heaven who hears our prayers?

I wanted so much to take fall family pictures. And there they are just as amazing and beautiful and heartfelt as I imagined them to be. I have always dreamed of having a family, and now that I have one it would only make sense to share my love with the world. I am so grateful for the power of love. The power of families. I am so grateful for the learn and growth they bring to me each and everyday. I pray that as I lose myself to serve them, Heavenly Father will bless us with more power to love and serve.

"Maybe later we can go up to the moon

Or sail among the stars before the night is through
And when morning comes we'll see the sun is not so far
And we can't get much closer to God than where we are

We'll go to a place only lovers go
To a spot that we've never known
To the top of the clouds we're floating away yeah
Ooh this feels so crazy
Oh this love is blazing
Baby we're so high
Walking on cloud 9" - Songwriters: JOHN STEPHENS, PAUL CHO, LEON WARE, DEVON L. HARRIS,

PAMELA JOAN SAWYER

Photography by : AG Photography

Friday, November 6, 2015

Thanksgiving season

As this season approaches, I think its time for me to sit down and write down all the things I am grateful for. I know we all get caught up in the routine, sometimes we forget to slow down and be grateful. I love how we get this time here in the USA and the weather is a lot like it too. It is getting colder and colder with the days and I as a Brazilian always get scared because I think I still haven't gotten used to the culture yet. My body craves all things sugar and fat. but enough of venting, I am here to be grateful haha. So as I washed the dishes I prayed to my Heavenly Father to think about the things I am grateful for. And so many blessings has come into my mind. Here is a list I pray I can always think about and ponder whenever I am stressed or feeling hopeless.
1. I am grateful for living in a country with endless opportunities to success and for freedom.
2. I am grateful for living in a country where there are seasons. I am sure I am grateful besides the downsides of not knowing how to appreciate the changes just yet.
3. I am grateful for having the opportunity to learn so much about life and marriage and being a mom.
4. I am grateful for all that my parents have done for me to have had me here for the longest time possible.
5. I am grateful for them always believing in me and always prayed for me to get to where I am to be.
6. I am grateful for my mom, my sister and my mother-in-law and sister-in-laws and for their amazing example. I just pray I can be at least 1% like them. They have gone through so much in life and have always kept their faith in God. I do get a little insecure as I try to measure myself up to them.
7. I am grateful for being healthy, for having an amazing body and for being able to have giving birth to a wonderful, full of love daughter.
8. I am grateful for an amazing husband and for all the capacities he has to grow and to become the best he can each and every day. I just pray I can become the best version of myself to him. Although I still don't know what the best version of myself is or will be. I just hope my sister can come and help me find out. (by the way I am praying so hard to my Heavenly Father to let her have a VISA so she can come visit me and Erma) Only Heavenly Father knows what I have been through this almost 7 years living away from home (Brazil)
9. I am so grateful for the opportunity my husband and I are having of going to school and having this time to ponder about what and how we want to make a difference in the world and to the people around us and in our community. I hope and pray me and Stirling will find what it will be that we want to do.
10. I am grateful for the home we live in right now and for the love we have for each other here and the memories we have made together.

I am running out of gratitude for today. Erma's crying haha.

Partiu!

Monday, November 2, 2015

food for thought

As of right now, I wish I had 5 thousand dollars to give to my husband. Or I wish he would make that 5 thousand dollars extra at his job so we can pay for the debt we made to go to Brazil and have a marvelous time with my family and friends. I am so grateful for the opportunity we had and the memories we made and hope to cherish them forever. I am grateful Stirling finally had that time to get to know my past and my background better and for all the things he learned and was able to become. I am so grateful for all my Heavenly Father blesses our family with. But something I have learned while living away from my family and from my past is that we have to continue cherishing everyday. That is something I strive to as I have faith me and my family will be together again. If it will be Heavenly Father's will, my family will get their VISA and be able to come visit me and if it will be their will, they will find a living here in Provo. But while that doesn't happen I keep getting distracted by the things I like to do but am not able right now. Like shopping for cute outfits for me and my family. Shopping for housing and for housing deco. I have always dreamed of having my own family, having family around me and my house and how I would be as a wife, mother and daughter. I remember as a teenager as I cleaned my mother's house, wash the dishes and take care of my brothers, my hope of having my own everything. I think every girl dreams that, maybe?! But I did and I did it a lot. Now I just need to keep praying and keep the hope that soon I will be able to make my dreams come true. I have learned that it takes a lot of hard work to keep up with our dreams, but I am willing to work hard and never give up. I am grateful I am living in a country of endless oportunities to grow and to make an income. As I look forward to the future and my dreams I also want to be able to help everyone around me have their dreams come true. My hubby for example is passionate about playing the guittar and music. I have so much to write about this I can keep going on and on but I need to register here the websites I love shopping or would like to shop.

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