Meet Jalyn!

Meet my friend Jalyn!  I met Jalyn four years ago when she was a freshman in high school through Young Life and I have LOVED every minute I have gotten to spend with her.  Jalyn not only has a contagious joy about her (you will see it through her sweet laugh in these pictures) but she also loves Jesus in a beautiful way.  Jalyn has decided to follow Jesus and give up all else.  For anybody that is difficult not to mention a high school student.  She has taken the verse where Paul describes being set apart for the sake of the gospel to heart and is living it out!  I am encouraged by seeing how she loves Jesus.  I just loved getting to take some photos of her and she put up with me literally taking 1000 photos of her!  I just couldn't stop she was so easy to photograph and the location was my FAVE ever!!  I am sorry for the massive amount of photos I just couldn't decide!

Enjoy!

  

 

I just love this laugh!!

 

Welcome Haddie Jo

My dear friend Meg just had her baby Haddie Jo.  I saw her at the hospital and was just snapping away with my camera.  I just love getting to capture these beginning moments of Haddie Jo's life and the sweetness of this family.  Seriously one of my favorite families ever!
Just seeing a new life makes me see how obvious it is that Jesus is in charge of creation.  He knit Haddie Jo together, grew her to the perfect moment and gifted her to Meg and Brett for her time on Earth!  What a beautiful thing!  Jesus is so good, so intricate and so on purpose! 

For you created my inmost being;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 

 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,
    I know that full well.

My frame was not hidden from you
    when I was made in the secret place,
    when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. 

 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.

Meg's reaction to some LuLu pants :)!!

My Favorite!

I love the Hokies

For the second year in a row I have gotten to take some of my high school friends to visit Virginia Tech.  It makes me so happy to get to share this wonderful place with some of my Young Life friends.  The fact that they can see the place where I developed these amazing friendships and learned how to walk with Jesus is such a gift!  Andddd not to mention they are considering going to tech so I get to talk about its amazingness all weekend long!!!
We went in the fall but it was an absolutely beautiful day and the pictures were so sweet I had to share them!

Just an adventure....

Ever have those really great days with friends where you laugh a lot, take a ton of pictures and end the day thanking Jesus for such great friends?

Well, this was one of those days!  It had been rainy and gross for most of my weekend up in DC, but we planned an outing anyway!  I mean I didn't get to see these friends that often and by golly we were going to have an adventure.  

We headed out on our adventure and began by driving through an area in search of a cute winery.  Literally just started driving, didn't know where we were going.  Those are the best adventures anyways, the ones you just happen to fall upon. 

We ended up in super cute Leesberg for some yummy food :) and went antiquing.  

Then went on our way to find a winery.  Saw a sign for one and it ended up being an old barn that they had turned into a winery!  Adorable and GORGEOUS!  Suddenly the day was beautiful!

Thank you JESUS!!

Then we left the winery and found a...

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wait for it...

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FLOWER FARM!  

Who even knew those existed?  But seriously amazing!  It was an old barn and FIELDS full of flowers!  You literally walk in, grab a bucket, fill up the bucket and drop your cash into a jar before you leave!  It was amazing!  We had the best time and made for some beautiful pictures of my model friends :)!!  

 

 I loved this picture so much I put the color version and the black and white! ahhh just so fun!!

The model Leanne!

 

Beautiful Booe!!

They had sunflowers as big has my head!!

 I know you are still in shock by the flower farm right?  I know, I am too.  It was just so much fun!  
I want to know where there are these flower farms in NC?  

Such an amazing day with some of the sweetest friends I have ever had.  I literally met these two girls the FIRST week of college and we were inseparable after that!  The Lord has blessed me so much to know them and have them in my life!  I do not know where my life would have headed in college had I not met them!  They teach me a LOT about Jesus, how to love others and find such JOY in life!  They are beautiful inside and out!