May...Full of Adventure and Challenges

So I realized the other day that it has been a long while since I have written on my blog...oops...I have been so busy with life, that it is hard to stop for a few moments and get things that need to be done, done. When Tyler got home from his first rotation off shore, we went to Port Aransas for a week of relaxation and to celebrate our anniversary. Yay for one year! God has truly blessed me with the most
amazing man! I am so encouraged about this first year. We had our ups and downs and have learned so much! I can't wait to learn more about my husband and learn to take care of him better:) This year is

Tyler fulfilled my dreams and took me on a horse back ride on the beach

 going to be a stretching year for Tyler and I as we learn to grow our love for each other from a far. Starting in August all the way through till March of the following year, Tyler will be on a job rotation of, off shore two weeks, home one week and one week in the office. Those two weeks away are going to be the hard ones. We covet your prayers as we learn to communicate clearly and in a loving way.
Other crazy news to add to my life this summer:)...I am leading a girl's high school bible study at our church with another girl this summer:) We are going to be going through the book, "Crazy Love" By Francis Chan. Wow, so thus far I have read the first three chapters, and I feel as though this study of God is going to be just as life transforming for me as I hope it will be challenging to those girls! To give you a taste of what this book is dealing with, I want to share on of the things that stuck out to me in the second chapter called  "You Might Not Finish This Chapter" In this chapter, Francis Chan begins to tackle the area of antiousness or worry and stress. These are the definitions he gave of both. "Worry implies that we don't quite trust that God is big enough, powerful enough, or loving enough to take care of what's happening in our lives. Stress says that the things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, our lack of grace toward others, or our tight grip of control. Basically, these two behaviors communicate that it's okay to sin and not trust God because the stuff in my life is somehow exceptional. Both worry and stress reek of arrogance." He goes on to say that the story of your life is not yourself, but rather God. God is the main event. He created, he sends a flood, He singles out Abraham, He sends judges and prophets, He sends his only son to die...we are like the extras in this big story...we have two-fifths of a second that we are in that picture and than we are gone...I love how Francis Chan finishes this part of the chapter. "To be brutally honest, it doesn't really matter what place you find yourself in right now. Your part is to bring Him glory- whether eating a sandwich on a lunch break, drinking coffee at 12:04 am so you can stay awake to study, or watching your four-month-old take a nape. The point of your life is to point to Him."
As I read that, I got a big kick in the pants! I worry about everything. I never thought of worry as arrogance...but he's right. When I worry, I am saying God is not big enough to handle my problems and I am...yeah I am realizing that I have alot to work on in allowing God to transform this "Much Afraid" little girl into the fearless woman of God he wants me to be. And to think I get to bring these truths to the girls at our church! I feel so humbled! Pray that God would use me in spite of my sinfulness and struggles with most of these topics in this book.
 The summer is not full yet, though...on top of the art program at the hospital and doing the bible study, God has also opened up doors for me to help with Sandy Creek Bible Camp's horse program. I will be helping on a bigger level than before:) Larry has I asked me to head up the program this year. YAY! I will hopefully be going once a week to just prep the wrangler and make sure everything is going smoothly and that things are getting done around the place:) YAY! And I will continue to train horses:) God is good:) Yesterday I took Karen and Dennis and Dani to camp. We wormed the horses...and at moments it felt like I got wormed too:P

 I don't think that Storm liked it very much:P
I have been working on getting the barn ready at Sandy Creek for summer. Here you can see I am working on putting up a new dry erase board and putting a frame around it. It looks so good. I will have to post pictures of the final product later.

Zed in his usual spot

  Other News: My porch garden is doing fantastic:)



My young tomato plants:)


Cilantro:)








The Clementines are growing so fast:)




These will be colored peppers...Red and Orange I think.


I did some Jalapeno plants for Ty too





 These are the yellow cherry tomatoes that Karen got for me a little bit ago:) They are so good:) Did you know that you could plant the little suckers that grow in between the vine and the leaf branch? I didn't until I did it by accident and now have two little cherry tomato plants growing below the big one:)

I am most excite about the lovely strawberries I am getting off my plants:) So far I have eaten 3 and there are still more to come:)

I made this out of old barn wood

Wood projects have been one of the things I have been doing alot of while Tyler has been gone. The hanger I made out of old barn wood and some hooks I got at Hobby Lobby half price. I think it looks fantastic.
The cabinet was originally just blonde colored shelving. I didn't like it so I decided to paint it and cover it with wood and make it into a cabinet...I bought the door knob at Hobby Lobby as well:) I think it came out great!
Well I have got to go get going on my day.
Love ya all and thanks for reading!
Jules Kaminski