Well.....

I honestly have not idea where to begin. This past month has been a crazy busy whirlwind. I thank the Lord so much for all his blessing and for answering prayer. I am so thankful that I patiently waited on God.

We had a Wonderful Christmas!!!!! It was so much fun this year with Lyberti!!!!! She LOVED opening all her presents. I am so thankful for the time we had together as a family & then with Justin & my family. We are both so very blessed to have such wonderful families.

Justin, is doing good. He has been very busy working overtime at work & trying to find himself a new truck. The day after Christmas his truck that he had about 9 years FINALLY died on him. He was so down about it because he loved that truck. I kinda felt sorry for him.....lol no I really did because then that meant he would be driving my car till he found another truck. So, this past weekend he bought my Grandpa's old truck from my dad. He does not like it that it is a "FORD" but it gets him to point "A" to point "B" so he is trying not to complain to much.....lol Poor guy.......He is still looking into trying find a different truck but who knows when that will be.

Lyberti........Need I say more.....lol No, I am just kidding. She is EVERYWHERE!!!!! She has been walking a little over 2 months now & we are loving it!!!!! She is advancing so much & she is starting not to act like such a baby anymore. I think she is getting to that toddler stage. Which is okay she has come a long way & I am proud of her. She is such a FAST learner. I am hoping that will be an advantage when it comes to potty training. I have not pushed that issue to much but I will before to long. I hoping she will be potty trained by her birthday in June but I am not going to hold my breath. She put her first two words together this week. She said "baba please." I was so excited!!!!! FINALLY!!!! We are getting somewhere.....lol

I am doing GREAT!!!!! I will go back to what I was say in the beginning about waiting on God & him answering my prayer. Since about September I have been praying about wanting to try & babysit again since Libby was getting to that age where it would not be to difficult to do. Well the beginning of this month God answering my prayer. I got a babysitting job :) It is 3 or 4 day a week for a about 2 hours. Which is PERFECT!!!!! I knew if I waited patiently God would provide & I am so Thankful!!! Then my friend Amber called me last week offering me a cleaning Job. I will be cleaning this HUGE HOUSE two days a week!!!!! I said YES!!!!!! I was more looking fwd to getting out of the house a couple days a week & getting a break from Libby will be GREAT & it will be in the evenings so Justin will be home with Libby. God is so good, I am just so blessed & I am so so so thankful for all his goodness & mercy on me & my family. What an AWESOME GOD WE SERVE!!!!!! 

Sickness & Power in Prayer

Wowza this has been one crrrraaazzzzyyy faaassssttt month. I was going to wait & blog untill after Christmas but I decided to do it now because I have no idea if or when I would have time.

1st off Sickness........Well about the binging of the month I got a really bad cold & then it got passed to Lyberti & then Justin. Ugh.....that was horrible all of us being sick at the same time. I started getting over my cold & then Justin developed Bronchitis & Libby got a sinus infection. My word........it was one thing right after another. I really think what set in Justin's Bronchitis & Libby's sinus infection was we had our Church Christmas Banquet & them going out in the cold when there were not totally over there sickness made it worse. Thank the Lord we are all healthy now.

2nd Power in Prayer.......For about 4 or 5 years our church has been praying for a member of our church & this past year we have all been praying even harder because in our business meetings his membership has been brought up about dis-fellowshiping him. Which no one wanted to do but it needed to be done to keep Biblical order in the church. So he had been coming off & on threw the summer but we were not seeing any change in him so he was dis-fellowshiping. It was a very very sad & hard thing to dis-fellowshiping a brother in the Lord but it needed to be done. So, the months past he still continued to come off & on. Then he happen to come a couple weeks ago Sunday morning & Sunday night. He usually only came Sunday mornings. Anyways, that Sunday night as soon as you walked in to the doors there was such a sweet calming spirit. During worship service & then the Holy Ghost took over the service. I cannot describe the somber spirit that was there. It was so rich and sweet. Oh how I love the Sweet Holy Ghost Power. Anyway......long story short my dad saw Craig in the back & he went back & asked him "Are you ready to come back home?" Craig ran to the alter & he got saved. There is truly Power in Prayer we had been praying & praying for so long for him & FINALLY our brother came home. It was seriously like the story in the bible of the Prodigal Son. Craig came running home. Oh what a GLORIOUS service. We are all still rejoicing in the Lord for bringing our brother home. He was deeply missed. Thank you Lord once again for answering prayer. It has encouraged all of us to pray harder for the other lost sheep in our church & I no one day God will bring them home. Praise the Lord!!!!!!

I am so looking foward to our church Christmas plays tomorrow night. The Corothers chruch & I think the Bucyrus church is cancelling there service to be with us tomorrow night. Its so nice to get together with church fmaily you dont see very offten. It will be one big happy church family reunion & of course there will be food. We cant have a church gathering without food.......lol  I cant wait!!!!!  

Well I pray you & your family have a Happy & Blessed Christmas!!!! Remember he is the REASON for the SEASON!!!!!!!

Tis the Season

Oh my goodness I cannot believe this week is Thanksgiving. This year has went byyyyyy sooooo ffffaaasssstttt. Thank the Lord he has been there with us helping us & giving us strength. To be honest I am not looking forward to this weekend at all. It will be the 1st Thanksgiving without both my Grandpas & my other Grandma is flying the coop with her new boyfriend for Thanksgiving. So needless I have been an emotional wreck the past few days. I just keep praying & asking God to give me peace about the situation because I honestly cant do it without him.

LYBERTI..........OH MY WORD!!!!!! She is so so so so so so much like me!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!! I give Justin a hard time that he was just the sperm donner for her because she is so much like meeeeee......lol Did I mention I LOVED IT!!!!!! She is so rotten. She is into EVERYTHING she does not sit still for no longer than 2 min. She climes everywhere eats everything in sight. Talking & walking more & more each passing day. I had to lower her crib this weekend because she discovered she could climb out of her crib. My goodness but I do adore that precious little girl God has blessed us with.

Justin has been doing good. He is very much enjoying hunting season. He has shot 2 deer so far this year. We are so thankful to God for providing for us because we really needed the meat. This past weekend Justin got himself another boat. He is very excited!!!!!! Its bigger than the one he has now which is what he wanted. So, whatever floats his boat.......lol  Oh how I love my dear husband!!!!!!

I already of course have our Christmas tree up & some decorations. I LOVE CHRISTMAS!!!!! Its my favorite time of the year. I just love the music & the lights & decorations. I don't feel like only being able to decorate my house for Christmas for one month out of the year is long enough so I usually have all my Christmas stuff up by the 1st or 2nd week of November.

I am just so Thankful to the Lord for his wonderful blessing he has upon my family. He has NEVER let us down. I want to give him all the Glory & Praise he deserves. I pray you & your family have a HAPPY & BLESSED THANKSGIVING!!!!!!!!   

Glory to God

WOW!!! GOD IS SOOOO SOOOOO GOOD!!!!!!!

I cannot express Gods goodness these past few months. He contiues to pour out his love & mercy each & everyday!!!! I am ever so so thankful to him.

There has been so many many wonderful things going on at church that I have not had time to blog about it. SO.........here we goooooo.

At the end of July & the beginning of August we had both our missionary's that our church supports come & visit our church. The 1st one that came was Bro. Demia Kavalouski. He pastors & starts new churches in Russia. Glory be to God!!!! GOD is working & moving & blessing the churches in Russia. They are growing more & more each & every time Bro. Demia comes he tells of Gods goodness & mercy on there & family & Mission field. The 2nd missionary that came to visit us was Bro. Gena. Now he is a character. He can speek a lot better English than Bro. Demia but its okay we can all still make out what he is saying.....lol Anyway, Bro. Gena & Sis. Larisa (his wife) came from Belarus once again. Thank the Lord :) They are constantly doing so many things in Belarus. They especially focus on building strong spiritual family's in churches. They have had so many many family's come back together. Praise the Lord! They do a mighty mighty work there. It was so good to see both our missionary's once again this year. We are all looking forward to them come back next year.

Up next, Vacation Bible School (VBS)
We had a wonderful VBS this year!!!!! We averaged about 40 kids every night. It was so wonderful to see the kids learning & wanting to know more & more about Jesus. It was such a blessing. I was the helper for crafts this year & I really really did enjoy it!!!!! I am hoping to do it again next year but with my dad being incharge of VBS I usally dont get to pick......lol Its okay.......I am just glad to help work for the Lord & I am looking foward to see what God is going to do next year.

We had a wonderful Sunday School Picnic!!!!! We had one Family & a few kids come from VBS to the picnic. It was so good & we had the most perfect day for it. It was a wonderful day of Godly fellowship, food, & games :)

I am so so thankful I am a Sunday School teacher :) I have really been praying Gods will & wanting to do more for him & a couple of weeks ago God opened the doors. All the little ones in our church are getting bigger & it was time we started a Sunday school class for them. So, I am super excited!!!!

I just cannot express Gods goodness. Our church is growing & growing more & more. God is moving in each & every service & we are just so blessed. We are looking foward to our youth bon fire & Ladies Day coming up next month. This evening after service we are going to be having a Church Members Auction. To help raise money for our Ladies Day!!!! I am excited to see how much money raise for the event because last year our Ladies Day was gloriouse!!!!! I cant wait to see once again what God is going to do.

Well untill next time........Have a Blessed Day!!!!!!

Spaghetti........

Okay, so you are probably wondering why my post is labeled Spaghetti???? Well my dad always says women have Spaghetti brains because we can talk/type really fast & do more than one thing at a time. Which is what I am doing right now......lol

So, much has went on the past few weeks. The Lord provided us a car. Thank the Lord. We had been looking for awhile & right when we were thinking we better take a break from car shopping God opened the door. Glory to his name.

We went on our 1st family vacation at the end of June. It was so wonderful we had a blessed time. We didn't do a whole lot Justin made a campfire both nights we were there & we of course went fishing. We went hiking a little bit. That is about it. Lyberti did so good. She is a home body so I was not sure how she would do being away from home for a few nights. Thank goodness we didn't have any issues.

We have been having a Glorious Glorious Revival all this week at church. Gods power has moved each & every night. Our evangelist Bro. Cruz has been preaching about the church & about how God is coming back for his bride. It has been so wonderful to hear more & more of Gods word. We have had several of our surrounding churches visited us all this week. The Toledo church visited us last night & Bro. Cruz preached both in English & Spanish. That was such a blessing watching him do both. I just can say how good God is. I love being in his presence & feeling his sweet sweet Holy Ghost moving threw me. Thank you Jesus for you wonderful spirit. 

We are planing on getting family Pictures taken tomorrow. This will be the 1st time we have gotten professional pictures taken since Libby has been born. I hope she is in a good mood & smiles pretty :) :) :)

Here are a few family pics of our vacation........

Lyberti's Birthday!!!!!!

WOW!!!!! We could not have asked for a better day for Lyberti. Her 1st Birthday was Sat, June 2nd. I cannot believe it had been a year already. Time does go by waaaaayyyy tooooooo faaassstttt when you have a baby. Thankfully she is still small so she still does feel like my little baby :) I took her to the Doctor on Monday for her one year check up. She had to get 3 shots plus blood work poor baby :( Thank the Lord she did not get fever & her blood work all came back normal. I was really praying everything would go good. She weighs 14lb 2oz & she is 27in. God has richly blessed her & kept her this past year I cannot thank him enough for his goodness.

In other news we SOLD my car!!!!! YAY!!!!! We are so happy!!!!!! We really need a 4 door car because my 2 door that I have had since I was 16 was not cutting it anymore with having a baby. There was nothing wrong with it & if it would have been a 4 door we would not have sold it. It was kinda bitter sweet to see it go because it was my 1st car but its all good. I am on to newer & better things.

I have been so anxious lately for my whittle nice to arrive. I have been on pins & needles. Every time my mother in law calls I think my sissy in law water broke. All though we only have one vehicle now I am not sure how I would get to Willard at the moment but I would find away to be there for her :) I really hate this part of pregnancy because you are at a point when it could be any day. ARR ARR I no Jessa is probably glad Selah has held off because they are in the process of moving but my goodness Selah stop putting your Auntie in such suspense......lol

Okay, I think I am done!!!!!!

In Loving Memory

Well the past week/5 days have been really really hard on me & my family. My Grandpa Chuck Graham passed away on Sunday May 27, 2012 at 11:40am. His birthday was May 17 He had just turned 81 years old. He went into the hospital on Friday May 18 because he was having trouble breathing. We found out on Wed May 23 that he had lung cancer and that it was the fast moving kind of cancer & that there was really nothing we could do for him except keep him comfortable. He was gone by Sunday. I am so so thankful that we had those few good days with him. He loved having Libby in bed with him and visiting with his family. He was such a good man & he had such unconditional love for my grandma.

I love how he considered my grandma so much even though he was going to pass away. We were going to take him home & have him on Hospice but he said "NO, I just want my family here at the hospital that's all I want." He did not want to go home because it would have been to much on my grandma to take care of him after everyone had went home for the night. Which makes since but I just love how he considered how hard it was going to be on her & that he wanted to make things as easy as possible for her. I just love that kind of love he had for her.

He did pass away peacefully with his loving family all around him & holding my grandmas hand (which is what he wanted.) He was my last Grandpa I lost my 1st one passed away the day after my birthday in 2008 my 2nd one on Nov 25, 2011 & now him. It is just so hard on me. I have always had my grandpas in my life until now & now I don't know what to do. I miss them both so so much. I pray I will get to see them both once again when God decides to call me home. Oh Glorious Day!!!!!!

This is at Christmas. 

 

He LOVED it when Libby would pull on his oxygen cord.