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20180131

Photographing Four Generations

Angel Buff January 31, 2018 0 Comments

It is not often that all of my [Dad's side of the] family is able to get together. We all live in different states, scattered throughout the country. It has been a long time since we have all seen each other, and it was the first time all the great-grandchildren were together. We tried to use this rare opportunity to capture a family photograph of the four generations.

How complicated could it be? 😎

20171229

VLOGmas 2017

Angel Buff December 29, 2017 0 Comments

My collection of Christmas vlogs for this year.

On our first day of Christmas (December 22, 2017) we were all scheduled to go to Maw's house, but plans had to change... #shingles

On our second day of Christmas (December 23, 2017) we spent some time with Mamaw Ann and had dinner with some family and friends.

On our third day of Christmas (Christmas Eve 2017), I totally failed filming #OutOfFocus #ForgotToHitRecord

On our fourth day of Christmas (Christmas Day 2017), we had a slow, peaceful day spent at home with a visit from Nana and Poppy.

On our fifth day of Christmas (December 26, 2017), we had visited Granny and at the end of the day Sera left us to spend the night with Nana and Poppy.

20170314

Our Family Is Growing

Angel Buff March 14, 2017 0 Comments

A double blessing............twins.

(Expected late October/early November.)

20161022

Nichole & Chad - Wedding Highlight Film

Angel Buff October 22, 2016 0 Comments

We had the privilege of being a part of a wedding (September 24th); John as the officiant, Sera as the impromptu flower girl, and myself as the videographer. It was an honor to be part of their special day.

20131030

Are you willing?

Angel Buff October 30, 2013 0 Comments

If God asked you to do something, or to give something up - would you? Do you love Him [and your family] enough to do so? Is there something that you have already felt a conviction over that you are hanging onto? What blessings that could be in store for you, if you would just obey! What does the Lord require of you? And are you willing?

20131011

A future filled with hope...

Angel Buff October 11, 2013 0 Comments

I have been feeling pulled in every direction. I am tired. I am worn. But I have been away too long, and I miss being here. I have missed the connections and friends I have made here. I miss the quality time with my family, and my husband. And I miss our plans and our goals. But our dreams and goals have definitely evolved over the last year with all of the changes within our lives. And – despite the challenges we have faced – we are blessed. We have grown a little more and gotten a little older [and hopefully a little wiser] along this way. We are not the same people. So, I am not sure how this blog will evolve as well. At this point we still have uncertainties [of course with life there are always uncertainties]. We are wondering about the future – thinking about the business and our careers, family plans, homesteading ventures, ministries, etc. We are looking forward to a hope.

20121225

Tradition

Angel Buff December 25, 2012 0 Comments

For years John and I have built and decorated a gingerbread house together as one of our Christmas traditions. This year was the first time we decorated gingerbread as a family of three. Sera was very excited to be involved. We picked out a train this year, and though it never actually went together exactly the way it was supposed to, we all had a fun time together getting messy with icing and candies.

Learning how to set the camera timer and getting everyone to 'look' at the same time.
:)

We hope you all had a very merry Christmas!

20121216

Mama's Little Helper

Angel Buff December 16, 2012 3 Comments

Our baby girl is quite the ‘little helper.’ She is so eager, insistent really, to be involved and to learn. And I want to take the time to make the learning fun for her, to cause her to want to continue to be involved and helpful. And while I am taking the time to teach her, I also want to take the time for myself, to enjoy these moments that will become cherished memories in my own mind. It too often is these simple moments of chores or other usual daily activities that we tend to just take for granted. I don’t want to take these moments for granted - the time is going by too fast, and my baby girl is growing up!

Linking up with Raising Homemakers.

20121215

Christmas (a little early)

Angel Buff December 15, 2012 0 Comments

This year our persepective has changed a little bit about having to "wait" until Christmas Day. And since Sera's present arrived a little early and Daddy had a little time to assemble it while Sera was napping, she had a nice suprise when she woke up...her very own kitchen!

20121111

Trying to Find the Right Words

Angel Buff November 11, 2012 0 Comments

Firstly, I want to apologize for our absence. It feels like it has been so long since I have been here. So hard to believe that a month has went by! It isn't that we haven't had anything to blog about. There have been posts swimming around in my head for a while, but the timing hasn't been right.

When John's dad passed away, John and his brother were left to take over the family business. There has been a lot to figure out and still some hurdles that must be crossed. I have been back to work, helping at the business as much as I can, so I haven't had as much time to work on blog posts, and neither of us have even had much of a chance to think about all of our homesteading projects that were started months ago. We are just now getting some of our focus back, along with some new ideas because of our new circumstances. Truthfully, we have been so busy and so rushed lately that I haven't even had a chance to walk to our little garden in a couple of weeks. I finally got out there today, just to check on things, and I was excited to see how well our lettuce and spinach is doing.

We want to thank you all for your prayers and understanding. We miss being here, and are looking forward to getting back on track.

20121014

Peaceful Retreat

Angel Buff October 14, 2012 0 Comments

“Peaceful Retreat”

(written by Sherrie Bradley Neal)

Down a narrow hidden path.

Sought out by Wisdom’s eye.

A peaceful place of refuge calls.

To come rest awhile beside.

Listen to the waters.

Falling over mountains steep.

To gently flow for endless days.

Through eternity’s retreat.

And on the far horizon.

Of the never setting sun.

The harvest of the whitened wheat.

Is very nearly done.

As work on earth comes to a close.

Peace will be complete.

Surrounded by the beauty.

Of eternity’s retreat.

Lee Buff (aka Dad), 1959-2012

This week has been such a whirlwind. Unreal. A shock. Sadly, and very unexpectedly, my husband’s dad passed from this life on Tuesday, October 9th. Our world will never be the same. We appreciate your thoughts and prayers.

20121007

The mountains are calling...

Angel Buff October 07, 2012 0 Comments

We had a cold, but, nonetheless, a lovely and peaceful weekend in the mountains, visiting family and enjoying the start of the fall colors. Weekends just are never long enough, and there is still a lot that needs to get done today, so for now I am going to leave you with a few pictures from our Saturday.

20120903

Labor Day Weekend

Angel Buff September 03, 2012 0 Comments

We hope that everyone had a wonderful Labor-Day weekend! We celebrated my husband’s birthday over the weekend, and we also went out of town Sunday to my [paternal grandmother’s] annual family reunion.

Following are some highlights from our trip...

My great-uncle's home, where we had the reunion.

The muscadine vineyard.

My Dad and Daughter hunting/picking muscadines.

Some of the delicious muscadines.

Hibiscus.

The little pear tree.

Foxglove.

We also experienced some pretty bad storms Sunday afternoon throughout the ride home, and unfortunately when we arrived back home we found that our pecan tree had lost a rather large limb. :(

20120831

Singing Psalms

Angel Buff August 31, 2012 0 Comments

When I was a kid, my mother used to wake me up in the mornings, singing this Psalm to me – every morning. I didn’t realize it at the time, but this was becoming instilled in me. So much so that when I moved out, when I would wake up on my own, I could still hear ‘her singing’ in my thought processes each and every morning – but it was a good thing to be thinking of every morning [Thank you Mama!]. There is something about knowing that, whatever the day may bring, the Lord is in control because He made ‘THIS DAY.’

I couldn’t help but reminisce this morning about my mornings waking up back at home with my mother, as this morning I was singing this same Psalm to my 1½-year-old little girl as she was awaking from her slumber. I pray that these moments will also be a blessing to her life and that they will create good memories for her and, who knows, maybe the tradition will continue and one day her child(ren) will be waking up to her songs too.

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