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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not a lot to tell???

Well today our baby girl is 11 months old. Oh my goodness I cannot belive how fast time has gone by. I think we are going to have a small family get together for her birthday. Nothing to elabrate because that could get pricey. Other than that there is not been a whole lot going on. I have been going to a lot of garge sales & finding a lot of baby stuff for Jessa & I found 2 car sets for Libby I was super happy about that. Well I guess that is all I can think of at the moment........untill next time......Have a blessed day :)  

Loving the Weather

This weather that we have been having is absolutely amazing!!!!! I LOVE IT!!!! Justin & I have been able to do so much outside. Its wonderful. We have been working really hard on trying to make our house looking nicer & have better landscaping. Justin is in the process of building a deck on the back porch. He is doing a wonderful job I am so proud of him :) Lord willing we are planing on putting our house up for sale next year so we are trying to get ahead of the game & start doing things to make it look better :)

What else......Oh Libby has a new tooth. Its on the bottom & you can see it now :) She didnt act like she was in to much pain when it came threw so I am thinking it came in while she was sleeping. That was a blessing :)

Today is my Birthday!!!!! For some reason I always like to reflect on the past year. What God has done for me, Helped me threw, & brought me threw. I remember this time last year I was in my third trimester & of all days Lyberti decided to move head down into my pelvic bone. OH THE PAIN. I was so miserable last year on my birthday I did not want to do anything except lay on the couch & eat ice cream.....lol I am so thankful God was with me each every moment. He was there helping me when I was in labor with Lyberti, He was there giving Justin & I strength when Libby has jaundice, God was there comforting me when my Grandpa passed away. I serve such a mighty & powerful God. I so thankful for all his goodness & mercy.

Here are some recent pics of the house & Lyberti :)

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I didn't realize how long its been since I blogged. I guess there has not been to much going on.

Lyberti did get sick about a week ago. She had an upper respiratory infection & we had to give her breathing treatments every 4 hours :( Thank the Lord we caught it early & she didn't have to go to the hospital. Her doctor said that she has had to send numerous numbers of babies this winter to the hospital because of an upper respiratory infection. Glory be to God for protecting our baby.

Um........what else??????? Oh....my mom, Grandma, & I are taking Lyberti to get her 9 month old pictures done on Wednesday so I am really excited for that. She has not gotten professional pictures taken since she was 4 months & now she is sitting up & doing more so this time should be a lot more FUN!!!!

I will try to post her pics so everyone can see them :) Have a blessed day!!!!

When I Think About The Lord

Before you listen to this video read my most resent post 1st please :)

What a WEEKEND!!!!!

OH MY GOODNESS WE HAD ONE CRAZY CRAZY BUSY BUSY WEEKEND!!!!! I have never been so happy that a weekend was over with. I need the rest......lol. This is how our wonderful weekend went.......

Friday, we went to Justin's mom's house & visited with his family!!!! had a GREAT time & we got some adorable pictures of Noah & Libby :) Then Friday evening I got a call from one of the Family at our church asking me if I could watch there two kids on Saturday so that they could be at the hospital with her mom. (A lady at our church had a brain tumor & they had to go in & remove it.) So, I said "YES" that I would.

Saturday, WOW what a day!!!!!! Alani is 9 & Estella is 13 months :) & Libby is 7 months......need I say more.......lol. No, they were all very good :) Libby & Estella played a little bit (what little Libby can play.....lol.) Alani mostly watched movies all day & she & Justin helped me with Estella. Justin really stepped in until he had to go to work (3-11). They picked the girls up about 8ish I wanted to go to bed right away. The girls were very good but Estella is walking & into everything. Which is fine, it is to be expected. I was just so so so tired. But do you think I was even close to being able to go to bed nooooooo waaaaaaaaaaay. Miss Lyberti has started this new thing lately that she wants to be a night owl & sleep in. I did not get to bed till almost 1am.

Sunday, after church we went to Columbus to the hospital to see Sis. Caroline. We were there all day. For those that have taken care of a baby in a hospital. That is exhausting in its self. We survived & made it back just in time for evening service. I was wiped OUT......I was so happy when it was time to come home. Lyberti even went to bed early.....Praise the Lord!!!!!

Okay now a wonderful praise to God for his healing power. There truly is power in prayer. The lady at our church that had a brain tumor ( Sis. Caroline) she had been getting really bad head aches for awhile & she has been having problems with her leg. So she went to the doctor & they told her she needed to get an MRI done. They found a brain tumor the size of a tangerine. They rushed her into emergency surgery & they completely removed the brain tumor with out any complications......Glory be to God. After surgery he said now its going to probably take up to a year for you to have full use of your leg again. The next day after Sis. Carolin's surgery she was able to push with her leg on the bottom of her bed. The doctor was amazed!!!!! The day after that she was walking just fine........Praise the Lord!!!!! She had just had brain surgery two days ago & she is doing better than ever. The doctor said his one year recovery rate for her has turned into a one min recovery........Thank you Jesus!!!!!

I don't no what kind of God you serve but I serve a wonderful power & Awesome God. He is so worthy to be praised & high & lifted up.

VENTING!!!!!!

Okay this is a venting post...........

I have been so upset lately of different people saying my daughter is spoiled. I cannot help it if she does not want other people holding her. I AM WITH HER 24/7 it is natural for a baby to cling to the person that takes care of them the most.

For example, we were at church one evening & Justin was trying to get Lyberti to calm down so he took her in the back so she would not be a distraction. I was just going to let him take care of her but she kept crying & crying & I no Justin was probably getting stressed so I went back to try & help. So, eventually she did calm down, (I can't really remember what she was so upset about) but after church someone told Justin that I should not have went back there to help because I was interfering with him disciplining her. That is NOT what Justin was doing at all. That made me so mad.

Second example, we went over to a friends house this weekend & we were eating pizza & Lyberti was trying to grab mine & I kept telling her no (she is 7 months might I add) & the people we were visiting with said why don't you give her some she is old enough. They were serious too. Justin & I both said NO of course she is to little for that & her belly can not handle that yet. I think they got upset with us. But my goodness.......

Third example, We were at prayer meeting a few weeks ago & someone was trying to hold Libby while I ate (Thank you). Well Libby was tiered she wanted to go to sleep. Well they were trying to comfort her but it was not working. (She likes to be held & rocked a certain way) So, I took her & someone said she is not spoiled.

Can I ask what is so wrong for me wanting to hold my daughter & comfort her when she is crying or tiered. I no what she wants & I no what she likes. So, to me it is just easier to take her & fix whatever the problem might be. My, mom tells me all the time that Lyberti is not spoiled she just wants me all the time because I am with her more than anyone else. I don't no maybe I am the one in the wrong. Okay, I do feel a lot better getting this off my chest.....Thanks for reading......lol