SICK SO SICK

Well since the week before christmas we have had the FLU and then we had a 4 day break and got the stomach FLU... We are on our last child now with a few symptoms and then I think we are doing better!!! Im so ready for spring , We tilled the garden up today and Nikki got to drive the tractor... Wow i have my first driver... she is so cautions and careful... We really thought Nikki would be our crazy , fast one but... NOPE She is driving Ms. Daisy lady...lol its so funny.. Now Emma on the other hand... watch out... she will be on the 4 wheeler looking back at me ful throttle and just having a ball... the faster the better... and she is my miss prissy gotta be pretty and hair done all the time... sheesh... I give up on tryn to figure these kids out.. Im so ready to be out yard selling and going to antique stores and thrift shops... I HAVE CABIN FEVER.... and im so tired of cleaning up throw up... now I know the look and just bring them the bowl... they say im fine mom...and there they blow seconds later...lol Is that something to be proud of? well its all about Glory and Honor right... ha ha.. ok well im rambling on a Saturday night and ready for some coffee and a movie with the sweet heart... Oh he tells me to say that he is the most wonderful , hard working man and all of you should know this!!! lol I love that guy. Hes my GUY... I m so blessed really I am.. :o)

Beth

ITS ALMOST HERE!!!

Children are a Gift from the Lord!

blessings from above!

(cousins)

Sweet Girl

Papa John and Joseph

Busy is such an easy word to say... We have been FRANTICALLY BUSY...(smile) wraping presents, baking cookies and lots of yummy food, being with family and friends. And all the while God is still the same...... I LOVE THAT. He truly is my rock. I depend on Him to carry me through when im tired or my leg hurts and that still small voice say's " Im with you , you CAN do it! I pray for blessings this year for my friends and family.. And if you do not know the Lord personaly, YOU ARE SO MISSING OUT! I truly do not know how people make it through life with out Jesus... Call me or text me.... Lets talk about my Jesus, I will share! The greatest gift you can ever give anyone is to tell them the TRUTH about life and the life there after! Have a great Holiday Season , Christmas and New Years , be safe and have FUN!

The Christmas Season is Here.....

Well the smell of cinnamon fills the air with the warmth of our wood stove in the living room. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving and the day after put up our Christmas tree. The children are so excited and faces just light up when they see the tree all pretty and of course the presents underneath that find there way to front often... ((no peeking)) !!! Here are a few pictures ! Have a blessed week and see yall soon~!


Beth

Getting ready for the Holidays

I love leaves~

It shoots better this way...lol

Go Cowgirl!

So funny!

We have so much to do and so little time! I LOVE IT. I like it when Im forced to clean out that closet ive been neglecting or vacuuming places that I normally wouldn't or washing windows {for them to get smeared up again} lol what is it any way about wanting to lick a perfectly clean window.... beats me... but maybe i'll get the urge.. you just never know with me! So we are cleaning this and moving that in preparation for friends and thanksgiving and a Christmas party! Lots of functions at the Determan homestead this time of year. Thank the good Lord for a great big house to have all the people I could ever want over. Elizabeth is now 1 and wow is she so CUTE! She is walking all over the place and her little Lady personality is adorable. The other children are busy doing school and playing in the last warm days of fall. I love this time of year my electric bill has been cut in half and now were planing on what to buy for Christmas. Fun times. Singing Christmas music and just playing together. I realize that all the work I have now is for but a season that I will miss like crazy some day. Seeing my children and being all together is so wonderful. As they grow and move on to other places or "in the back yard" thats what they tell me now...lol I will never grow tired of seeing there faces... I refuse to be sorry that I have "all those children" ! It is amazing to me that people apologize to me for having them... Im sorry they don't. I love my kids... They are what keeps me going and keep it worth it. Oh and a huge prayer answered..... I have no pain.... no sciatica ,..... no ligament pain.... THIS IS THE WHOLE REASON FOR SURGERY.... So im so glad... Im exercising and TRYING to loose weight... very slowly.... HOLIDAYS...ahhh I still have hormone crazy ness...... {just ask John} but I hope I can figure that out with some natural stuff.. So for now no surgery in the future who knows... but Im thankful for today... besides as the kids get older it will be easier for me to be down for a couple of weeks if that ever happens.... John Michael is POTTY TRAINED... so only one in diapers and this is so cool. That has not happened to us in a VERY long time.. and no im not pregnant..... Yet any way..lol So have a great November and God Bless YOU!

A wonderful Saturday in the Fall!

Well as I woke this morning and we got daddy off to work , I wondered what to do with our day. We always have laundry and dishes and sweeping and cleaning to do so I thought why not let that sit for the morning and play with my kids. I rarely take the time to just go and be with them. I do sit and read or color a picture and of course we do school every day but they wanted mom in there element! so ... me and my hair brained ideas we built a fort. Fort Dixon to be exact! With boards , sheets , screws and huge nails and hammers and a drill thingy we got er done! ... Money could not buy what we made...lol (no one would pay for it) but the memories made were priceless. I have 5 girls but im not the "tea party" kind of mom (though im learning) im a fort building, in the dirt and woods kinda mom(my boys really like this) lol... Love being out side! My children are one of the most important things in life to me. I want to do the things they like so that they like helping me! and IT REALLY WORKS THAT WAY. You be a buddy to your children and help them make a fort...or have tea and play dolls.. They will clean to the moon and back because there helping there friend , Mom! I love it. So here are pictures... Yes i look absolutely hilarious but you know what... They didn't care one bit! have a great day and go play with your kids!

faith making a path

guarding the fort! Armed and dangerous

Nikki in the tree

Hope in the tree

Lookin' for dinner

The Fort~!

Joseph~ smile... mom it hurts to smile that long! lol

The men folk

Ty

Joseph

My wild Indians~

Mom and Ty


playing in the fort~

Pictures of Us!

Best Buddies

Im walking!

Sweet John Michael.....for this picture any way.
His latest stunt has been eating 7 pieces of gum and swallowing it...

my 6yo boy... .need I say more...lol

Sweet Sisters.

Hope Bday

Elizabeth Bday

Faith Bday

Well we are doing fantastic! We have had 3 birthdays this month and also took a trip to the hunting ranch, we have been having so much fun! Today would have been my surgery and I would now be in recovery but I AM NOT. Im still very ok with this decision. Meanwhile Im doing school with the children and just keeping up with house work. Today is grocery day and well im on a task to feed 10 people for one week and well here are some fun Determan facts. So that adds up to

for 1 week

21 meals

210 servings

22 hours or cooking or preparing

24 loads of dishes

And wouldn't you know I love it! sometimes its a little crazy and wild around here and the house is not always clean and the dishes are not always done but..... I wouldn't have it any other way. .... Except a maid .... lol what I would do to that poor lady!

Surgery Postponed

Im so grateful for a God that will give us that unrest and feeling of dread if we are not doing according to His will... And this is exactly what I have felt for the last couple of days. I have prayed and sobbed that God would help me with an answer. I felt like i was making a wrong decision. I feel that I need to exhaust every effort in loosing weight and seeing a good chiropractor before i do something so drastic. My Dr. is very good and I am so grateful to him !
I do have an enlarged uterus, but that poses not life or death situations. Many people have this there whole life and never know it. But they only treatment is hysterectomy or learn to live with it. I have had a CA 125 test done and there dose not appear to be any cancer. With that said. There is NO guarantee that they take my uterus and my Sciatica goes away. Well I would be so mad if I went through all of this with no relief. So for now we wait and see if I can find relief through prayer and weight loss and getting back in shape.

So my Goal

1, Seek God With every part of myself to do His will for my family and take care of my self.

2, LOOSE WEIGHT!

3, be on my face with prayer for strength and for healing!

Thanks again for being here for my family. We feel truly blessed! Know that we are really doing what we feel lead of God to do! This world is not my home! and Praise The Lord Heaven is for Eternity! I hope that you all reading this Know that. Because if your Home is not Heaven then It is Hell. CHOOSE this day whom you will serve!

Beth