Coming and Going

Well we have been busy with friends and family lately! We were super blessed to have the Latham's twice this month already, The children are doing great with all the friends around lately and we are having fun doing school. We are now the proud parents of 5 school age children! So my days are filled to the brim with cooking , cleaning and teaching and of course the most fun of all being a wife to MR. Wonderful! The Shop is being built right now and its amazing the transformation. Im so excited for my husband to have his own work space !!! The Lord has blessed us beyond measure and we are truly thankful for his provision. :O) We hope to be going to Florida sometime in the end of September or first of October. We had to put it off a bit to have time for the building and staying with Grandma Jerri . (she has roomates at the moment) And with 10 of us we will wait on a room ! We are so excited!!!!!!!!!!! So hopefuly we will have a shop by the end of Sept. and off to vacation and back home for work and Holidays then BABY..... She is doing great by the way. Baby Grace is growing and so is her mother (sheesh) , We are so blessed to have another sweet little girl. My big girls are so WONDERFUL, we are in a new stage of parenting with our girls and wow is it nice to have helpers. We are learning how to deal with crying.. and laughing... and then crying..lol but its all in growing and me , (me) learning to treat them like ladies and not toddlers anymore. :O) I must say this is like trying on a new pair of shoes.. Its cool to have a new stage but it hurts a little at first untill we get all broken in.. :O) lol so maybe not the best anology but best i could do. We pray diligently for our children to honor Him with there lives and love Him... my purpose in life. Im a missionary to my Children... So glad for JESUS... :O) will post building pics soon!!! its so neat

Racing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1965 Pontiac GTO (the friends car)

The Determans love Racing! We like to go FAST! and we like to be LOUD! We are blessed to have a friend that my husband helped build a race car for! So we try to go to the track as we can to support and enjoy all the cars. We all (me included) have the best time hanging out in the pit's, and running to the fence to watch the cars race. We hope to have our own race car some day! It of course would be a mustang! Its a family tradition. So enjoy our pictures and maybe we will see you there sometime!

Its a Girl!!

We are proud to announce that our newest blessing is a wonderful , precious little Girl... We are rejocing over this blessing to our family! Here are her first pictures. They never do them justice!

Her First name is a Secret until birth! but her middle name is Grace. So the kids and I call her Baby Grace!

Butchering Day

The "Whiz Bang " Chicken Plucker


The Children are mourning the loss of the dead chicken in the tree!

A Job for everyone!

Meet the killing cone!

Chicken Feet.....ewww!

Careful!

Marking the bags for momma!

A happy Mom with naked chickens... Life is good!

Our maiden voyage with the Chicken plucker that John built... Its so fun being married to the most talented man on earth! Its ok you can be jealous!

Wow was that a fun time with the kiddos. We love our little farm and are thankful to God's provision for growing our own food! Enjoy the show... hope your not squmish.... :O)

Oklahoma Fun~!

Well guess its been HOT... lol understatement we have had 28 days of over 100.... and it only cools down into the 80 at night.. I would not know what to do with out AC.. we keep ours on 82 and that is just great with me. If i get hot I just go out side awhile and come back in and wow... It feels great! Well we are just about over our sickness with the kiddos.. since June we have had 4 coughing and hacking... and we are pretty sure we survived whooping cough~ glad thats under my belt. So I hope we can go back to getting sleep and CHURCH we have been so lonely.... lol but with the obvious COUGHING.....WHOOPING AND COUGHING we could not be there.. now on to more exciting things. The baby is moving all the time and TUESDAY (26th) I find out what this sweet baby Boy or Girl is up to. I L.O.V.E. ultrasounds.. they are an amazing glimpse in to the most amazing creation of God~ So im pretty excited and it can not get here fast enough. I will be posting Tuesday afternoon what this sweetheart will be. We have now filled the holes in the yard and are leveling the pad for John's Shop... this is a true miracle of God.... Years we prayed for God to make away for him to work from home and we have our answer to prayer... not in our timing but God's .. and now to see it from the start to now... It is the perfect time. Our son's and daughters will have the benefit of watching daddy work. And my boys know so much for there age. Its so neat for them to tell me stuff about cars or hooking up trailers and driving the lawnmower... He is such an amazing Dad! and an even better Husband... He wants to be here to help me.. Not go to work somewhere to escape his family.. But he puts God & Family first.. Love that Man! Here are my children playing in a whole that they filled with water so it would be easier to pack since we are SOOO dry... well They only were supposed to dangle there feet in it... and well you see what happened... this is an OKIE SWIMMING HOLE... See ya'll Tuesday...

Beth

HOT

WELL its hot...106.2 today.... sheesh.. will it ever end. We have been doing school and playing in the little pools i got for the children.. but other then that pretty much the same everyday. Ready for the heat to slow down so we can do more field trips with the children!

Beth

July

Celebrating our Anniversary 13years

Cutest Girl in USA

knocking tree over! TIIMMBERRRR

Get out of the way.

Massive Root Ball.

Well we made it to July. We have had 11 days in June over 100 and it looks like many more for JULY... TODAY IS 101.7 in the shade. and the kids are playing in the pool's i got them ... We have been clearing the land and getting ready for the shop to be put up. God has just been blessing us with loads of work and we are so grateful! We find out in 25 days or on July (26) what this sweet baby is going to be... a boy or a girl. I think it will be a boy. but only God knows , for now anyway! Our children have had a cough for over 2 weeks now and im hoping we are just about over that! We last week had strep throat for the first time... so anti bio's for the Determans. The first time ever.. thank God we are usually pretty healthy.. Well all for now hope you enjoy your 4th of July...and stay COOL.

Beth