It's Been a while...

So as ya'll can tell I haven't posted in a while and that seems to be happening a lot and that's cause I haven't had anything to post and because I've been working on my Instagram account. All the photos on there are coming from my Droid Turbo phone but there might be an occasion where it will be from my Fujifilm camera. I'm just trying to spread the word about my photos!

So today there is/was a beautiful crescent moon that I shot with my Fujifilm...

Ya'll have a great evening/weekend cause I'll be working :)

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Droid Turbo

Sorry for not posting lately! 

I haven't had anything to say or any picture to upload but recently I got a droid turbo phone that has a 21 mp camera which is better than my actually camera and I've been having a lot of fun with it lately. So here are a few of my photos, the rest are on my Instagram account Miller_STSL Hope ya'll check it out and give me a follow!

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Prayers.

I believe it was yesterday that my right knee started to hurt and today it's swollen a little bit, anytime I have put pressure on it, I start to limp. My knee also hurts when I try to lift it while sitting in a chair. It has me worried because I don't want to go to the doctor, I hate doctors and I don't have the money to pay for an expensive visit, but I also don't want something to be wrong with my knee.

Right now I'm laying in bed with my knee raised and being iced hoping it helps.

I have to go to work tomorrow (I'm a waitress and that requires a lot of walking/fast walking) and I'm worried it will hinder me and hurt it worse. I don't want to have to limp all the way to my tables, and doing that for over eight hours is going to do my knee no good.

So what I'm asking is that ya'll say a prayer for my knee to cease the swelling and the pain. I thank you all in advance!

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Lights...Camera...Action!

Ok, so last week I ordered some lights so now my photos won't have a crappy yellow tint to them when they are shot inside. I'm sooooo excited! They are so bright and perfect that my photos will turn out beautiful! I got home from work today and there they were! 

These are the lights and I got the photo off Amazon.

Studio PRO 2 Table Top Lighting Kit

I know it's a short post but I wanted to update ya'll and tell you my exciting news!

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Nature's Beauty

My little friend :)

Not much to write at the moment but this little guy was so beautiful and I thought I'd share him!

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July Full Moon

So tonight is/was a beautiful full moon. I took my puppy, Buster outside to try out his new collar light (It's this little twist-able light that you hook onto their collar and it's amazing! Specially since he is as black as night itself.)

But I wanted to take a photo of the moon and I wasn't sure if my Finepix camera would do the job so I tried it out anyways! I'm in love with what it did. I know they aren't perfectly clear, but considering how far away the moon is, I think it did a pretty good job!

You can buy the collar lights from Academy Sports & Outdoors.

PetLit LED

The good thing is they are cheap and you can change the batteries inside.

Test Me in This.

Ok, so this one is a little personal. 

Lately we have been struggling a little bit, wondering where some money will come from and it doesn't help that I'm PMSing so I'm crying a little bit extra. But I was talking to my wonderful momma and she reminded me that God wants not only our first but our all. I know that, but it's just hard when you don't have anything extra after bills, food and gas.

So I was laying in bed and got this urge to get out a new journal, kinda make it my struggle journal. If I'm struggling with something and I don't want to talk about, I can write it down, say what I want and what I mean without anyone saying something. My first page is what it feels like to be broke. In short...It sucks! And with that I wanted to look up verses to go along with financial problems.

(This week Derick and decided to tithe the first 10% of our checks, it's not much but it's what we've got. I used to tithe when I was single, but that was also when I didn't have bills and I lived with my parents.)

Well the site I chose has verses that were talking about what I needed and the one I've known all my life hit me so hard!

Malachi 3:10

"Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the Lord Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it." 

Did you see that? He said to TEST him. 

It was like he brought out the three snap 'z' formation thing with a little attitude.

I cried when I read that because I'm struggling to give that little bit of tithe but I know that's what he asks for and He is not going to ask me to struggle. He is asking me to trust him, to obey Him. In retrospect He isn't asking for much, but to us it's horrifying even knowing He will protect us. He doesn't want to see me fail, and I know in God we won't fail.

It's hard typing this because I don't want people to think we struggle, but it's the truth in our nations economy now. Almost everyone struggles and I know I'm not alone.

But I will keep praying because God answers prayers and we have to have faith. Cause without faith, what do we have?

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Catching Up!

I know I haven't posted in a while, nothing has really happened around here. I've been picking up some extra shifts at work lately so that's where I've been a lot. I've also had a small cold the last few days. Runny nose and a lot of tissues lol.

The other day I went to the flea market and bought some fresh green beans, they look so pretty.

 

 

I had also bought a big watermelon but it turned out to be bad. I was so disappointed because I was looking forward to a delicious, sweet watermelon.

But at least I got some bright strawberries from Walmart and they are so sweet!

 

 

Oh and I also made a new cover photo/ad for my twitter account

@Miller_STSL

Give me a follow :)

 

 

What do y'all think? Let me know in a comment, I'd love to hear them!

 

 

                                                                          STSL



The New Miller Home.

So, it's official, we are moved into our two bedroom, one bath mobile home. We are so un-believably happy, finally on our own and have plenty of space. I still have quite a few boxes to unpack but I have my kitchen all set up...so I'm good! Today was our second day living here and my brother and sister-in-law brought us some furniture down from Tennessee (my old home) and I made them dinner as a thank you. Usually I take a photo of it but we were all sitting down so I didn't, but it was good! I made Skillet BBQ chicken stuffed with cream cheese, twice baked potatoes, baked beans and rolls. Everyone was so happy and I had enough leftovers to send to work with my husband tomorrow.

 

Sorry for such a short post.

 

 

                                                       STSL

My Birthday!! #20

 

So today is/was my birthday and I turned 20.

   No, I didn't have/do any party or crazy fun things cause I had to work, but they had a cookout at work and I got to have a burger in the middle of work :) I love burgers!

But this coming week my parents will be back home and we will be going up there to spend time with them, go camping(sad fact: I've never got to go camping with my family) and fishing. This is sooo amazing. I love them!

Then I was on my way home when I remembered that my in-laws were working on my house(so ready for it to be finished) and when I got there, so much had been done. So much progress means I get to move in sooner and then I can decorate it any way I want and that makes me sooo happy! And since so much has been done we will be able to move boxes in soon so that my granddad can come get his pull behind trailer that he lent us when we got married. That was amazing of him and I love him.

Thank you granddad!

 

 

                                                                                                      STSL



Spring Is Here.

 

Even though it has been warm for the past however long, Spring is finally here for me because today when I went out to my car(my internet won't work so I have gone to McDonalds to use my computer), it was covered in pollen.

And as my husband text me, he called me a 'rebel' cause I brought my route 44 Sonic drink inside McDonald's. hehe Hope I don't cause trouble.

 

But it's official...10 Days left and then I turn 20. I'm so beyond excited! I don't know what we will do but my sister-in-law said she really wants to hang out, I miss her and my brother so bad! I used to hang out with them all the time but since I moved and just started working I don't have the money to drive up there all the time but I'm hoping to hang out with them soon! Maybe they would want to come see the movie 'UNFRIENDED' in theaters with Derick, his sister and I.

It's a movie about five friends that are Skyping and scary things start happening when someone they don't know joins the call and starts doing sorta supernatural things to them and they think it is the ghost of the girl who shot herself at school because of something that happened at a party. It's supposed to be awesome and it comes out the day before my birthday(the 18th).

 

So some machine in McDonalds is like freaking out because it will not stop beeping. I thinks it's lost its mind.

My Lapse in Blogging.

 

        I Don't know if anyone actually reads this or not, but if you do and are interested in what I write then I give you my apologies! I get into a grove of doing something I like, hoping to do it daily but then if I don't have something or someone forcing me to keep going I tend to slack off till I have stopped in all. So this post is going to be filling in some things I missed, but it's going to be random and probably not in the order of when they happened, just that they did happen. lol

 

         It's almost my BIRHDAY!!!! I'll be 20! I know it's not the big one but hey I'm won't be a (teen) anymore(but when I do turn 21, I will not go out drinking like most. I will be going to get my carry permit and the gun of my liking). Only 14 days to go! I won't be having a party on my birthday cause we work and my parents are across the country...so I'm going to wait on them. But my mom said I get a goodie package on my birthday :) yay! I love packages!!!!

      I got a job!!! Finally! I had been unemployed since the wedding and it was high time I got a job, after applying to what I think was 12 jobs and being told I didn't get some I applied at Academy Sports & Outdoors...they called and I got it! I am a cashier, it's a little different than being a waitress, I stand still more than I walk around so my feet hurt quickly and just get worse as the day goes on...I'm working on finding some shoes with amazing comfort! So far it is going pretty well, I get along with everyone, it's really relaxed and it gets me out of the house :)

        So to go along with the job story, I have gained some unwanted weight after the wedding and was wanting to start the Squat Challenge along with my new job...well not too long ago I had been doing T25(till I slacked off :( I know I'm bad at that!) but other than that I wasn't doing anything so after the first day of the challenge (60 squats) I could hardly move the next day, my quads were in so much pain and I could hardly walk, let alone go on stairs! But none the less I tried to do (40) more the next day and barely made it. Lets just say I haven't done any since, but I should, I want to lose this weight!

I don't remember if I have mentioned this before but Derick and I will be moving soon, hopefully. We will still be in the same town but a home of our own! Yay!! We are renting a two bedroom mobile home from a family member, we are just waiting for repairs to be done then we can move in. We have to paint it, lay down flooring and fix flooring where there was water damage and change some plumbing but hopefully it will get done soon. I'm sooo excited to have my own place, I'll get to decorate it the way I want it and I will be in charge, (I'd say large and in charge but I don't want to be large lol) We are turning the second bedroom into an office/game room, I say that because my half will be the office and his will be the game room.

          Again, I don't know if I mentioned it before but we have Poodles, little toy poodles. Buster, the all black one and Homer, the black and white one, he kinda looks like a cow. haha They are cuties but they don't listen worth a lick! Oh and we can't get mad when Buster barks because it's this little one, it's so stinking cute! Derick and I really wanted to buy Buster but Wendi is really attached to him. He knows we love him the most though. lol

                In the middle of February I started a bible study, I hadn't been reading my bible like I should or even at all. So I was looking on Pinterest for a "Read the Bible in a year" plan, then I found, #365SheReadsTruth. I downloaded the app so that I have it on my phone. Just go the 365 day plan, it says what the current date is and what you should be on for that day but I just started from the beginning. I got my self some new pens and a new journal. I sectioned off the journal for Study, Prayer, and Sermons. They are pretty self explanatory, and I just write the day, date and verses at the top of each study page and I use it for notes as well as I underline and write in my bible. I'm currently using only a blue pen, I don't know if anyone cares about that or not. But recently since I started my job I have missed a few because I'm just so tired and then the day is gone, so whenever I do the next one I just do the one I missed too. There is always a prayer day with each study, and when I miss a day I just combine the two days prayer to one page and write the dates at the top. I don't have much in the Sermon section, I try to get as much as I can out of them but I just don't glean much from the sermons. Right now I'm going to a Baptist church, yes I grew up in a Baptist church but once I got older we started going to an Assembly of God church and that is where my heart belongs...There just isn't one near me :( I miss my old church! I miss the amazing band(my mom, and sister-in-law are in it). I miss my pastor, I always got something from his sermons, I could fill up almost two pages worth. Now I'm lucky if I get half a page. I'm not dogging the church I'm going to now, I just wish it was an Assembly church.

 

Side note: I'm writing this outside, it's bright and sunny, it used to be warm but the wind has picked up so it's starting to get kinda chilly. I think I'm about to go inside.

 

I'm so glad Spring is here and Winter is gone!!

 

P.S. about a month or so ago I decided to not have my Lifeproof case on my phone when I went out...I dropped it at the gas station and cracked the top of my screen, it's up at the ear speaker so I can still see everything perfectly but lets just say I keep my case on from now on. lol

 

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What Did You Make for Dinner?

As a wife we make the dinner, whether it be just for our husbands or for the family of our husbands.

What would be your favorite dinner to cook?

I don't know if I, myself have a favorite dinner to cook, but none the less I love to cook.

My Chicken and Rice Casserole.

It's really simple and cheap!

 

 

 

 

 

Ingredients:

 

Two cans Cream of Mushroom

Two cans of shredded chicken

One cup shredded mild cheddar cheese

Two cups of dry rice

Crushed Ritz crackers

 

Instructions:

 

Bring four cups of water to a boil, pour in rice, stir, drop to a simmer and cook covered for twenty minutes.

Pre-heat the oven to 350

Mix together cream of mushroom, chicken and the rice.

Spread into 9x13 pan, lightly cover with Ritz crackers and smother with the cheese.

Place in the oven and cook till the lightly browned on top. 

 

Serves about four to six people.

Enjoy!

 

 

                                                                                             STSL

 

 

 



New Day, New Week, New Year.

 

It's a new week and that means Christmas break is over so we go back to our regular lives. We start work and it's no longer an everyday vacation.

Derick, my husband went back to his second/third shift job, I'm looking for us a new home and starting to look for a part time job. I'm 19, only had one real job that lasted almost a year and a half (it only ended because I got married and moved out of state) so I'm a little nervous about getting another one. What's it going to be like? Will I get another serving job or will I go for retail? There are so many questions that are running through my brain about job hunting.

Getting another serving job means I have to memorize a whole new menu, learn the lay of the land and get to know all new people. Which getting to know the people won't be so bad because I also need to find some friends, I know I've probably said that before but it's true!

 

One a different note...

 

One of my new years resolutions was to keep a journal for the year, a page a day, at the least. And so far I'm going good. I'm not a big journal keeper but I want to have something to look back on when I'm older and be able to relive the memories. Last year I ended up putting the journal on a shelf and I forgot about it and didn't complete it, so this year I'm going to keep it out in the open to ensure I complete the journal.

I always write in cursive, I think it is so beautiful. Do any of ya'll write in cursive? When I was younger I hated to write that way but one day I saw a friend writing cursive and I was like I have to write that way, her notes look so much better then mine do.

 

 

                                                                                                  STSL