Happy Birthday To Me......

My dear husband and children are so sweet to bless me this a Happy Birthday this morning and tonight John is taking me to my favorite place to eat.... JOHNNY CARINO'S yummy.... And we are going by ourselves... Aunt Kelli is coming over to watch the kids for us... She is so sweet.. As for me as I reflect on the last 28 years of my life I am most grateful to my HUGE GOD... Without Him my life would be pointless and I couldn't live the life I have with out Him. As most of you know I did not become a Christian until I was 23 years old.... oh how I wish it had been sooner.... I could have done alot more work for the Lord as a younger person... But no since dewling on the past...

My Testament to the Lord..


I was 23 and a working mom , I had a great job (I thought) as an Secretary/AP Clerk for Uhaul and made great money... John was also doing well and man should we have saved our money... LOL Hind sight is always funny. I was always fasinated since a young age with ghost and scary stuff that pertained to witches ( I blame this on Scooby Doo) and so I never had a Godly foundation established to know truth from fiction or evil... So I had played around with witchcraft and diffrent cult stuff.... Never fulfilling but scary...LOL But I was diffently searching for something meaningful in my life and having a new baby girl I just some how knew that I needed something. Well of course we had attended a catholic church but I new nothing about it and didn't understand half of what they were doing any way even after the classes and there wasn't a personal message or outreach to us at least where we attended at the time. so this was just something we did may be 1 a month but as I said nothing was real to me. Growing up sometimes a Church van would pick us up and take us to sunday school and Wednesday night classes and I remember hearing the gospel but never really put allot of thought into it. Well one normal day I was working in my office and listening to the radio and thought it was silly that people would call in and make fools of there self and was talking about them to a co-worker and she said well you just remember that what ever you do Nikki will do...... Wow did that hit me like a ton of bricks .... and I do not know why it was a simple statement but I can tell you from that Feb. day my life has never been the same. I thought and thought about what she had said and It scared me to death.... parties ... drinking...hard rock music.... smoking .... you name it we did it.... Well God brought me to my knees and driving to work that next morning I surrendered my life to Him. I didn't even know what that ment really at the time I just knew for some reason that to make my life count and to be right for my daughter that God was the only answer.... No one ever witnessed to me how my life was wrong the only thing i can think of is of course the small information I got as a child or just seeing Kelli and Roger and Tammi maybe..... But as I had said before I had not really paid attention to that life style before except to think it of boring.... So here i am in my car and have asked God to forgive the person I was and to make me better.... but I remember thinking all day so now what do I do.... I had not a clue and was scared to death to tell John.... Well first things first I got a King James Bible and started to read it... and from then on Power of a praying wife and God did the rest.... I stopped using bad language and then Became more modest because the Bible says to and stopped listing to regular radio....it is awful anyway/// stop for awhile and then turn it on..... NOISE..... pure noise.. lol Then I started to respect my husband the right way and let him lead(still working on this one to day... somethings take longer to fix....)and this is all before I told John what had happen to me.... JESUS. Well he noticed and liked what he saw in me. We did talk and I remember sweating and being so nervous ... He was raised catholic but did not know the Lord he had no personal relationship with him so this was hard for me to talk to some one about Jesus.... Well God took care of this to... I just explained to him that I wanted to try a another church and I suggested Roger and Kelli's, Western Hills and man am I thankful for a Church that preached God's Truth.... John gave his life to the Lord in June and Both him and I were baptized in July and It has been wonderful ever since.... My marriage , My life and of course all the children God has given us.... God calls them blessing in the Bible and they really are. John is one of the most Godly men I know and he leads His family Victoriously for the Lord... Lord thank you for being so forgiving to a sinner like me and HE is not finished with me yet.... I can't wait to see what the Lord has in store for me.

Happy Birthday to me..
Beth

Christmas Eve Gift

Had some time so thought I would add a cute picture of Hope. Also a neat tradition in my family growing up was to be the first one to call some family member and say "Christmas Eve Gift" As you can imagine this would wake some poor unsuspecting family member and start there day off with a bang calling as early as 5am ... Who wouldn't love that.. But as My family has changed and Grandparents older I only got 2 calls in and 1 made to me.... It is sad to see a tradition fade but My kids will older someday with family of there own I plan to continue this fun thing to do... Besides they have woke me up early for years...... You can bet that a 4am or 5am call will not be out of the question......

We are having a great time today and plan to see family and friends this evening and of course

CHRISTMAS AT 5:30 AM AT OUR HOUSE WITH 6 KIDS........ WOW.......LOUD.......AND LOTS OF PAPER......HOW BLESSED WE ARE.

Beth

Merry Christmas

One of my precious gifts is Faith... and of course all of them but this picture was so cute I had to post it. Well the kids are counting the days until the Birthday party (Jesus Birthday that is) we make a Birthday cake and Cookies and then of course presents. What a great Christmas... My Kids knowing the real meaning of Christmas is what makes it so much fun... They know the price He paid and some day I hope they except and fully understand what it means to be a true "Christian". Living by faith, Reading and Living Gods word daily and trusting God enough to let him lead and not lead there self. That is my Christmas wish not only for my children but for all of my family. As our life shows God is every where all the time and always caring for those that our His. I am truly blessed to have Gods mercy upon me.

God Bless You

Beth

God did it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can you even imagine our surprise when God did exactly what I joked about...... I always said the only way that we would ever get a van is for The Lord to drive one up and park it in the drive way...... Well that is exactly what happened last night... Someone from our church donated this van to us and had one of our pastors Greg Werner drive it out to us last night..... and the best part is that it is FREE............................ WOW ................................FREE....No payment no debit ..... GOD IS BIG ENOUGH FOR ALL OUR NEEDS..... Nothing is to big or small for Him... I am so excited to show my children how living by faith and prayer and waiting on the Lord he will supply..... We have been praying for a van and he answered our prayer..... How undeserving we feel and thank you can never seem enough but we are truly thankful and Blessed beyond our imagination.... Our Children know that God is real and that he is the one in control not us.... This is the biggest blessing of all... THANK YOU LORD FOR YOUR MERCY AND KINDNESS .. FOR EVERY GOOD AND PERFECT GIFT IS FROM ABOVE....


SO a little about the Van... It is 1999 Dodge Ram 15 passenger Van which is set up for 10 right now but the owners gave us 2 bench seats to replace the buckets when our family grows past 8 children. what a double blessing. It looks completely brand new the interior is so nice and has rear heat and air... Tented windows and new tires ... The tag is good until Feb 08 ... The blessing just keep adding up.. We could not get to sleep last night ... We couldn't wait to tell the Kids and man was that a LOUD event... They were so shocked as were we... PRAISE THE LORD.

Beth

Sniffels and runnies.......

This week has been crazy...... It is 6 days until Christmas .......yyaaaaaaa... All the kids have had runny noses this week and Nikki got pink eye... We had a Christmas Party for Johns Family and that was great ... Grandma Janice always makes everyone feel so special with her goody bags... Monday was Christmas Party #2 for my mothers family and then #3 party will be Christmas day with my Dad and his family. Whew.... Then comes New Years...... My Resolution..... To have a Baby...... LOL I can sucessfuly do this.... I will not fail..... Ohhhh Victory is sweet..


Beth

Court Day

Well we went to court and got 2 more court dates... Yippi.... LOL The first one is the Pre Trial on 1/31 and then the Jury Trial is March 10th. We will see what happens and how long this takes. The DA assures us that this is normal and The Dad dose not have a case. The Dad admitted that he hadn't done anything as far as his program he just wants to be apart his kids life.... They do not know him... But we thinks it is all for show for his new girl friend ... But any way. We are riding the
roller coaster but We know that God will work it all out.

Thanks
Beth

ohh the weather outside is frightful but the fire was so delightful!

Well our yard looks like a war zone but we have our power back so what a blessing. It went out on sunday about 3am and we got it back Tuesday at 6pm so not to bad we are very thankful to have our wood stove and my oven is propane so i could still cook and we took our precautions and got about 10 gallons of water in jugs which we ran out this morning and so we used the rain water to cook and clean with. The kids thought I was silly putting all those pots on the picnic table but when they seen all the water I brought in they asked can we drink this stuff.... Yes you can.... Of course we didn't but i did have to cook with it and flush toilets ... . We did have a generator to run our freezer and fridge monday night and today so not too bad at all just camping at home. We have lots of trees down i mean lots..... so John will have allot of clean up to do. Court is Thursday and of course the DHS worker heard from Todd on Monday of course a week before court.... He just wanted to make sure it was still set for thursday... LOL So it looks like he will show up and ask for a jury trial which will add about 3 to 6 months to the process but he still will not get his rights the DA and social workers assure us... so we will just try to see it as a blessing and try to use the extra money they send us wisely like new appliances (washer and dryer , another dish washer and a new Fridge .) all of my appliances are at least 10-15 years old and with a family of 9 we deffinetly cause wear and tear. Of course we will also try to save what we can for a van. It is hard to know what to do so we just trust the Lord will provide. The kids are doing great just runny noses but it is that time of year again. I will update again Thursday afternoon with the Court update... Please pray for us.

Beth