The Shrum Family Adventures: New Life

Saturday, May 2, 2009

New Life

What do you think of when you hear the words new life? For me it is Spring time when everything busts into bloom and makes everything look new again.... a whole new world. It also makes me think of babies!

This is a rose that Josiah picked me yesterday. Notice how big it is compared to his hand under neath it. This is the largest rose that I have ever gotten off of this bush that is many years old.

Then he and Joel went around the yard gathering more flowers for me. This is a little bouquet they picked to put in a small vase.

My whole yard is is bloom right now. I have roses every where!!!! Someone stopped by the house for Karlton the other day and said what are you growing? Your yard smells sooo good!! I said roses!

This is a lady banks that is growing on my pergola. They are very light yellow.

Then I have my monster rose bush that has taken over everything! The more I prune it the faster it grows.

These are the tiny roses it grows.

Then the other new life that is at my house right now is a batch of new baby bunnies.

We have white w/ black, and black w/ white, and one solid black.

Here are all 5 of them. Anyone want a baby bunny????? I have 4 that needs to leave now!!!! If you live in the Charlotte ,NC / Lancaster, SC area and want one let me know! karlton5@juno.com

This is Macadamia , Josiah's bunny. See how tiny they are.... We will be keeping this one.

8 comments:

jodi said...: awwwwwww those bunnies are so cute!!!! and your garden is beautiful, you really have a green thumb! (i do not have that!!); May 2, 2009 at 9:04 AM
Nana said...: Love your flower pictures and the bunnies, too. They are so cute. I
miss having bunnies.

Love, Mom (Nana); May 2, 2009 at 12:21 PM
Anonymous said...: What a great name Macadamia is! I would love to have a yard with all those flowers! It's just so stinkin hot where I live I never want to go outside!!; May 2, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Faith, Hope, and Love said...: Beautiful roses!!! My kids would love to have a bunny but we are quite the distance from NC. :)

Enjoy your weekend!
Robin; May 2, 2009 at 8:52 PM
Leah Maya Benjamin said...: I am so jealous, we are slowly but surely warming up, but no blooming roses, mine took a hard hit this winter, and have to keep them away from all the deer. I love love love outside flowers, and those are very cute little bunnies.; May 3, 2009 at 8:59 AM
Judi and Elaina said...: What a gorfeous yard!! Your roses are beautiful!!; May 3, 2009 at 8:38 PM
Jenny said...: Your garden is just beautiful and those bunnies are adorable!!! I LOVE spring!!!; May 4, 2009 at 12:23 PM
Mama Bear said...: oh my gosh what gorgeous pictures of your "green thumb". Wish I had that talent. Love those bunnies and how tiny they are. Love the Macadamia name. TOOOOO cute!; May 4, 2009 at 2:12 PM

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Verses that really spoke to me and helped me get through our adoptions.

(John 14:18) " I will not leave you as orphans, I will come to you."

(Isaiah 43:5-6) "Do not be afraid, for I am with you,
I will bring your children from the west. Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth."

(Proverbs 25:25) "As cold water is to a thirsty soul : so is good
news from a far country."

(Matthew 6:25-34) The do not worry chapter.
This is the chapter that told me we would adopt again and the
baby girl woud be named Lily (Lilee). "The lilies of the field".
This is a great reminder of why we should not worry, God will take care of his people!

(Psalms 82: 3-4) "Defend the cause of the weak and the fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Resue the weak and neady; deliver them from the hand of the wicked."

(Psalms 68: 5) "A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling."

(Deuteronomy 10:18) " He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow and loves the alien, giving them food and clothing."

(Philippians 4:13) "I can do all things through him who gives me strength."

(Philippians 4:6-7) " Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present
your request to God. And the peace of God,which transcends all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."

(Romans 8:28) " And we know that all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."

(James 1:27) "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after the orphans and widows in their destress, and to keep oneself from being polluted from by the world."