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meet asher kallen williams...

on a warm summer day at the beach....

sporting his new mohawk!!!

the anakin skywalker loves princess amidala syndrome....

since asher was born,

my friends little girl, alyssa,

has been the love of asher's life....

and even though she's

four years

his senior...

he can't resist her adorableness...

(she did NOT put her legs over him....
he wiggled his way underneath of her, lol!)

for all my photographer friends....

here's some of asher's latest photograpy

accomplishments....he may have a

natural gift for this....ya think?

cool upward angle...

capturing the action...

good night...

nice perspective... (notice the crumb? lol)

kind of a cool angle and nice hue...

not too shabby for a five year old beginning

PHOTOGRAPHER!

the Frankemuth Ice Festival 09'

amazing ice sculptures....

fantastic fireworks.....


a phenominal christian band
rockin' the house...

and a super laugh from a

friend falling in the snow...

what a blessed evening it was!!!

who he is...not just what he does.......

k...i had the most amazing revelation and experience over Christmas....sadly just now getting to sharing, but hey, better late than never eh?

so our family was fighting a "BUG" for the the third Christmas in a row....what is up with that??????

one sleepless night, i was confessing, as i had been doing for days, healing over my son, who was at the moment, suffering quite a bit....and it HIT ME.....

even if you've never had the experience of being in a dysfunctional relationship with a member of the opposite sex, you've at least had a friend who experienced one, or at the VERY LEAST seen a episode of "jerry springer" in passing, LOL!

we've all seen this though....they ask the person WHY they "love" the other person and their answer goes something like this, "because they treat me good or do things for me." i've experienced this and it stinks!!! i WANT to be loved for who i am as a person, not for what i can do for the other person...

so here i am 'thanking GOD' all night for healing but it's just not getting there fast enough and my little one is suffering so that i'm starting to loose a little faith....

it was then i realized that GOD is no different than us in that aspect...he too wants to be loved and/or praised for who HE IS and not just what he does for us...the moment i started PRAISING HIM, things immediately started to turn around for us....PRAISE HIM, PRAISE HIM!

does anyone remember.......

does anyone remember their first or second grade spelling tests?????

well...i kinda do, but i don't remember words like these being on it......

yeah, i know....my son loves his dvd's probably a little too much, but it goes with the territory of autism.

when we talk about the things he writes, sometimes i get the feeling it's either not believable to some or hard to wrap your head completely around. so here's his latest example above.....

in case you can't capture it all, it says......

"walt disney pictures presents, a pixar animation studios film, monster (should be monsters) inc, coming soon to disney dvd, summer 2008."

this was with no prompting, help or even suggestion, just off the top of his adorable little head...

how you like those apples?

you can't please everyone....so ya?

asher's new "converse" shoes

his uncle sent him from florida

for Christmas! how cute are they...

you can't please everyone so what do you do????

a friend and i were recently having this conversation. she expressed how much was expected of her that day but all she wanted to do was CHILL....

today that same friend called me...she noticed right away i was busy but proceeded to talk another 15 minutes and seemed offended when i said i had to go.....

it occured to me that i'd done essentially the right thing but still put myself somewhere in there....and more importantly God too! she needed to "vent" about some offenses she'd incurred. i told her that maybe God wasn't able to give her what her heart desired in that situation because she was in offense over not receiving it already. i really needed to eat at that point (diabetic if you don't know and VERY cranky when i need to be fed, lol!). but i gave her some time anyway. she didn't have much interest at that point in what was going on with me so i just listened. but then i had to go.

i couldn't PLEASE her completely, so i had to please myself...or feed as the case was. my point is....

DO YOUR BEST, AVOID GOSSIP, GIVE A LITTLE MORE THAN YOU THINK YOU CAN ORIGINALLY AND THEN MOVE ON WITH THE PEACE OF KNOWING YOU DID YOUR BEST...even if it didn't meet someone else's expectations.....blessings...