Hello

Okay-so it's been 6 months since my last post and I'm sure no one will even read it, but I want to blog. I'm such a terrible blogger, I'm just so very, very busy. So in case anyone is wondering what we've been up too I'll fill you in. Both my children have had birthdays since my last post making my little man 10 and my little angel 2, yep she's two and boy has she entered the terrible two's. I don't remember my little man being this way, but my little angel is very hard headed and very independent. She thinks she can do EVERYTHING by herself and as other moms out there know--she can't! Yep my angel is 2 going on 22. She can be so sweet though, I just love to look into her eyes at night while I hold her and wait for her to fall asleep in my arms and it's so sweet when she looks up with those beautiful eyes and says "love you mommy". Just melts my heart. Then there are times when she makes us laugh, well I'm sure we laugh at her at least once a day--she loves to sing and praise the Lord. Our pastor often says that we could all learn a lesson from her praise to the Lord. She doesn't understand it yet, but she loves to sing praises unto God. My prayer for both my children is that they know God early and form that personal relationship with Him. I want them to realize early that there is a heaven to gain and a hell to shun. I want God to use them however He sees fit and want Him to give me the strength to be able to handle their calling, which may call them across the sea! My little man isn't such a little man anymore. He is getting closer and closer to those teenage years---sigh---I sure hate to see him grow up, but it is inevitable, he's gonna grow up, I can't keep him 10 forever.
Well Christmas is gone and Spring has sprung and everything is getting green and beautiful again. I just love to see all the easter lillies or butter cups as some call them springing up everywhere. I guess that is my favorite little flower besides the yellow rose. I just love spring. The weather isn't too hot (most of the time) and I just love it. This is my sons spring break week and tomorrow I'm off work to spend the day with the kiddos and I can't wait. I hope it's pretty, I want to get outside and enjoy the day.
In other news we are in revival with Bro. Brian O'dell and praise the Lord, God has given him some very great timley messages that have spoken to my heart in so many ways. So far for me last night was the best message about "he built a fence" he preached about the importance of the Advice to Members and all I can say is Thank God for the Fence!!! Well I guess that's enough for now. God Bless each and every one of you!

PICTURES

Thought I'd share some updated pictures of the family.

Well that's about all I have for today! Hope you have a great Wednesday Night Service.

Well I Woke Up This Morning...

With my mind stayed on Jesus! This is true! I did wake up with my mind stayed on Jesus. God has been so good to me that I'll never be able to praise Him enough for his goodness and mercy!

I was going thru my work computer and found some old pics of Anna Claire and some of our church kids and thought I'd share so here it goes.

Bro. James Gaskins and Anna Claire around Christmas last year.

Sis. Honeycutt and Anna Claire

Paydon and Anna Claire's Me-Me (Deb Walters)

This picture is really old, Paydon doesn't have his glasses yet.

Hayden and Haley Wilson

This is the first picture of Anna Claire and Paydon together.

Well that's about it from here. Hope you all have a great day. God Bless you!

Great Ladies Retreat

Well as you that read the last post know I was worried that Anna Claire would have a really hard time without her momma while I was gone to Ladies Retreat. Do you know that God moved and worked and she never really even asked about me?! She was even in bed on Friday night about two hours earlier than normal! I Praise God for that!

Praise God for a wonderful ladies retreat! I had such a wonderful time in the Lord and enjoyed the wonderful fellowship so very much. God is so good to me that I'll never be able to tell all that He has done for me, but please know that we serve a great big God! Our Ladies Retreat theme was "Committed to Service". Everything from open to close went with being TOTALLY committed to God! A total commitment is what is required from us. Sis. Tammi Adams was my TAPS (talk and prayer session) leader and I so appreciate everything that God gave her, she may have been out of her comfort zone, but she still allowed God to use her to minister to those of us who were lucky enough to be in her group. She talked about how if you go to the bank to cash a check, you must have the whole check. The bank will not cash a check if you only give them part of it, part of a check is of no value. Much the same, God desires all of us and only a partial commitment will have no eternal value. God has taught me several things throughout this weekend and I can't really explain it all, but God is doing a work in me and I'm thankful for that. My desire is to be totally committed to Christ and His Church and to move closer and closer to God, I want to live for him and if need be I want to be willing to die for Him. I want nothing between my soul and the savior!

The fellowship is always wonderful around Gods people! I can truly say that laughter doth good like a medicine. Those of us at Ladies Retreat truly got an overdose on laughter. Many laughed till it hurt to laugh, but laughed some more. Sis. Janet Talley was our guest speaker and she shared so many things, some that made me laugh and just as many that made me stop and examine myself and at times cry! I want to worship the Lord not WARship the Lord and I want to do in spirit and in truth. I don't want to fail the Lord and if I'm totally committed to Him I will not! One thing that sticks out is the little story Sis. Tammi put in our Journal's that she gave each of us in her TAPS group and I'll share it with you and pray that it blesses you as it blessed me.

A chicken and a pig were walking down

the road together. They passed a sign for

a local diner advertising its breakfast

special: "Ham and Eggs--$2.95!" The

chicken said, "That's our whole

contribution to society: breakfast food!"

The pig replied, "For you, it may be a contribution.

For me it's total Commitment."

Are you like the chicken and merely contributing or are you like the pig...

TOTALLY COMMITTED!?

In closing I'd like to say to all those that attended the retreat Wee Wee my Ladies! :)

Ladies Retreat

Well today is the day we are leaving for AR/MO/OK Ladies Retreat. I leave in about 15 minutes and am pretty excited and praying for a great out pouring from the Lord! Sis. Janet Talley is out guest speaker so I'm sure with the help of the Holy Ghost she will feed our souls just what the doctor, I mean just what God ordered. Looking forward to it, however, not so much looking forward to leaving the kids behind. I'm sure it's gonna be a rough night for Josh with Anna Claire, but hopefully she will adjust just fine and make it thru the weekend without her momma. Please pray she does well! Also while your on your knees, please pray for Paydon. He's had a sore throat for about 3 days now and just all in all feel yucky, and I know that God can heal him and want to depend upon him. He's only running a low grade fever 100.5 or less so I'm not too concerned about strep throat, but who knows. I know God can supply all our needs and I need Paydon to be well!

Well I'm gonna go, just wanted to post while I had a minute hope you all have a great weekend. It's sure to be a great one weather wise around here, fall is finally at our doorstep and I can't wait for those nice autumn nights.

God Bless you all!

The Weekend

Well what did we do this weekend. Hmmm, I remember Josh letting me sleep late Saturday which was a great blessing! I got to sleep till about 10am and Anna Claire even slept in too! We had a good lazy Saturday. The kids and I hung out at the house most of the day and they played and played. They love the weekends when they can finally be at home and play with their toys and just relax and I love getting to spend uninterrupted time with them. Makes one happy momma! We had revival service that night and Bro. Don Pate preached a really good message and then we all got together for some good fellowship. I love fellowship with Gods people, makes me so happy, however, we also stay up way too late which makes for a rough Sunday morning on us all, but always such a blessing! Then Sunday morning and evening service was again a great message by Bro. Pate. I just love revivals! Not only the refreshing we get from God, but getting to know people better. You see people at the Assembly and at Conventions, but you hardly ever get to really know them. Revival's let you do just that, get to know people. You find out that people aren't always as they seem and it brings on a new realization that you truly can't judge a book by it's cover. We so enjoyed getting to know Bro. Pate better and look forward to seeing him at upcoming conventions and retreats!

Now onto my Anna Claire Story! Sunday night Josh took Anna Claire outside while he let the dog out and she looked up at the starts and said "luv you Jesus" then a second or two later she looked back up and said "luv you too" as if Jesus was answering her, it was so cute! Kids are just so loving they have an unconditional love especially at that age, I just love it!

Well my work is calling me to get back to it so I need to go! You guys have a great day and until next time God Bless you all!

I'm Trying Here

Okay so I really am trying to do better at blogging. See I'm blogging two days in a row. On the other hand I have no idea what to blog about. I guess one really great thing is that we are currently in a revival with Br. Donald Pate from Shawnee, OK this week and last night we had a wonderful service. I really needed to be revived and the Lord did not disappoint! He opened up the windows of heaven and we had a time in the Lord. Br. Pates' preaching has been wonderful, but I really needed the touch from God last night and I thank Him for it, He always supplies my needs! We also had one filled with the Holy Ghost last night, to God be the glory!

I also learned yesterday that Paydon has decided he wants to write a book. The name of his book is Pippy Dippy Do, and it is going to be a children's book about a giant. His teacher was so excited when she e-mailed me yesterday especially since Literacy isn't his best subject. Hopefully this will spark his interest in reading and writing.

Anna Claire is just my little ham. She loved shoes! When we went on vacation we found a 4 pair pkg of Disney Princess play shoes and last night after we came in from church she went and got a pair to wear while she ate her chicken. Then she had to give us all a kiss at bed time and she had to show us her happy feet dance. I tell you the older she gets the more of a ham she becomes. I guess she learns from her brother. I guess all kids at that age do all sorts of funny things from time to time and right now hers is her happy feet dance.

Well I've succeeded, I've blogged two days in a row, hopefully this is the start of something, we shall see! Hope you all have a great weekend.

This is Paydon and Anna Claire in their Easter best this year. Enjoy!

Where did the time go?

I cannot believe that it has been so long since my last post. No wonder no one ever follows my blog, I'm such a terrible blogger. I'll try to do better and blog more often.
First off there is no way I can back track almost a year and catch everyone up on my life so I'm not even gonna try. I will back up and share some highlights of our year with all those who might still stop by. I guess the first highlight was Anna Claire's first Christmas. It was fun! She doesn't remember it and I'm sure she will not remember much about Christmas this year either, but it was fun seeing her eyes light up with the sight of all the decorated trees and all the lights everywhere. I'm sure this year will be even more fun for her and us as well as she is now older and will really enjoy all that Christmas has to offer.

Then came January, the month that both of my children were born, howbeit 8 years apart! We celebrated Paydon's 9th birthday the first part of the month with a party at Pizza Hut. I learned a few years ago that with Pizza Huts pizza deals I can feed everyone pizza and be just a cheap as if I bought the stuff for hot dogs and such and the clean up is a breeze, we tip the waitress and leave and they clean up the mess---for someone his age it couldn't be better! On the 23rd of January we were not able to have Anna Claire's b-day party, which was her actual birthday, do to everyone having a conflict in their schedules, we did however have out pastor and his wife over for cupcakes and chili, I think, and Anna Claire enjoyed feeding herself a pink cupcake. She really got into it! Oh if I was only at home and could add in some pictures of her enjoying it, you'd all laugh! She had icing up her nose, gross I know, but so cute on a 1 year old!

Then came the spring, nothing I can remember there except at 15 months Miss Anna Claire finally decided it was time to take those oh so cute first steps. I jokingly called her my lazy kid because she was much later in crawling and walking that Paydon, but the her pediatrician brought a point up at her twelve month check-up with these simple words, "I wouldn't walk either is someone would carry me." Ok doc point taken, she started walking at almost 15 months. Then the fun began! She gets into everything from the toilet to the bookshelf, something Paydon never did. She is also way too smart for her age. Shortly after learning to walk she also learned that from my chair in the living room I could see her if she went into our front bathroom and soon also learned if she went to the bathroom in our room that I could not see her. She had found Paydon's battery operated Pound Puppy and decided it needed a dunk in the toilet, then when she picked it up it got her wet so she thought it had pee'd on her and she proceeded to carry it to the door and in this gibberish that no one understood began to get on to the puppy for peeing on her. Shortly after that we started shutting every bathroom door and making sure all toilet lids were down! No more giving things baths in the toilet for her!

Well now I'm on to Summer. We've had one hot summer! It has just been terrible around here, 110 one week and the heat index above that, then the humidity and it was just a nasty sticky Summer. Some good did come out of it all though. June 26th Josh and I celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary. We took a little mini-vacation to Little Rock the 24th and stayed at the Robinwood B&B, www.robinwodbnb.com and it was absolutely wonderful. We had the best time even though we left the kids with relatives and I missed them, Josh and I needed to time for us! Summer drudged on and then in August right before school started my wonderful boss sent us to Branson for vacation for the kids and we enjoyed that as well. We went to see the Noah musical and it was wonderful. If you ever have a chance to see any of the biblical shows at any of the Sight and Sounds Theaters I highly recommend it! It's a little pricey, but well worth it! The very next week school started and my little man entered the 4th grade!

I guess that pretty much brings everything up to date. We are all doing good and just staying very busy! Hopefully I'll blog more--no promises though!

Is it Chrsitmas Already??

Well we all know the answer to that question--Yes Christmas is here.

I guess I'll back track a little here--we had a great Thanksgiving. Anna Claire had her 9 month (she was actually 10 months) check up on November 23 and she was in the 50th percentile for height and weight. She also got a flu shot, which she actually did great with--not even one single tear. She is getting around pretty good now--she isn't crawling much, but she can sure scoot where she wants to go.

After Thanksgiving our office went on Vacation to Branson. We had a great time and really enjoyed it. Friday night we went to Dixie Stampede and it was actually very, very good. We have seen the show before, but never the Christmas show, but it was well worth the money and Anna Claire LOVED it! On Saturday we went to Silver Dollar City and about froze to death and it was much to crowded for me and Paydon didn't enjoy it either because there were way too many people trying to get around it just wasn't enjoyable at all. We did manage to see one show while there and it was a 20 minute Frosty the Snowman show, but Paydon liked it--Anna Claire slept thru it, so I guess she enjoyed it too. Sunday we headed back home, but stopped on the way at Springfield for Paydon to look around at all the animals at the Bass Pro shop there--it is huge! Paydon really enjoyed it. We then got back on the road headed home, well we thought it was the road to home, it was actually the road north and we do not live north of Springfield we live southeast of it, so after about 35 minutes we realized we missed our turn back toward home, so we spent about 35 minutes backtracking, but finally got on the correct road home. We had a very enjoyable trip, very relaxed, we really needed it too.

In other news the kiddos are both doing well. Paydon is doing well in school and Anna Claire is doing well at eating, and eating, and sleeping. She jabbers up a storm now. She will try to say Ho, Ho, Ho, but it comes out with just the "H", it is so cute though. She is growing up so fast, she'll soon be 1 year old--it is very hard to believe that time has flown by so very fast, but it has. My babies are growing up. Paydon will be 9 January 4th and that doesn't seem possible either but it is. He'll enter the 4th grade next year, *tear* I can't believe it!!

Well since it is so close to Christmas, I guess I'd better go ahead and wish you all a very MERRY CHRISTMAS! Jesus is the reason for the season! Let us never forget the First Gift of Christmas--Jesus!


MERRY CHRISTMAS FOLKS!

Hello

Just wanted to take a few moments and say hello to everyone out in blog land. Life has been great around here. Anna Claire has had a few little things we have had to deal with, thrush, colds, and the such, but she is doing better. She was doing great at sleeping thru the night, but for some reason she has recently been getting up about every 3 hours. Then if I put her into our bed she sure doesn't sleep well. So just pray she gets back to her schedule soon, because it is making me very tired.

We are also in revival with Sis. Betty Bishop this week and we had a wonderful service yesterday--the Lord really poured out his blessings on us! God is great and Greatly to be Praised. He has already do so much for me that I'll never be able to repay Him, but as the song says "Here Lord I give myself away tis all that I can do"! If you are in the area we would love to have you come out to revival--7pm 403 W Peck Road Harrisburg, AR. If you can't make it please be in prayer for each service and that God's anointing fall upon each part of the service and upon our hearts throughout the week that we could move up in the Lord.

Where has the time gone?

Boy it has been so long time since I have posted anything. Well we just got back from our annual General Assembly of The Church of God and had a great time in the Lord! SO much has happened that I'm sure I can't pick it all back up, but I'll try to do better. I'm now into FB so check me out there if you want. Have a great day!

Pictures

Well I have been playing with photos the last few days and it would really consume all my time if I allowed it too. I've decided that I would love to take photos part time as fun for a hobby so this is my first attempt at any type of editing and photo taking.So you all will have to let me know what you think!

Is this the way we would sing these well-known hymns–if we were honest.

I Surrender Some

There Shall Be Sprinkles of Blessings

Fill My Spoon, Lord

Oh, How I Like Jesus

He’s Quite a Bit to Me

I Love to Talk About Telling the Story

Take My Life and Let Me Be

It is My Secret What God Can Do

There is Scattered Cloudiness in My Soul Today

Onward, Christian Reserves

Where He Leads Me, I Will Consider Following

Just As I Pretend to Be

When the Saints Go Sneaking In

When I led songs Sunday Night we started with Psalms 100. After we sang thru once the Lord impressed upon me to stop and read the words of those verses. At times we sing songs without actually thinking about what we are singing. We sing from memory so to speak never stopping to think about what the song means. If we would think about the powerful words behind each song we sing what a wonderful blessing we could receive. I think that true worship begins once we stop and HEAR the words of a song and stop just singing from memory. So next time you are singing a song, take a minute to really focus on it's meaning.

Beth

“The early church fasted and prayed, today's church prays fast.” Joe Lewis

“The greatest of all disorders is to think we are whole and need no help.” Thomas Wilson

“The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, and he that has no cross deserves no crown.” Francis Quarles

“Why not get out on a limb for Jesus? That's where all the fruit is!” unknown

"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."

“The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.” Herbert Agar

“Worship helps people see God in the midst of their troubled lives.” Paul Anderson

“The best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is never to forget the presence of Christ.” William Barclay


I posted these quote back in April of 2007 and thought I would pull them back out. They make you stop and think!

Have a great day!

Mothers Day

Well Mothers Day is just right around the corner. I was reading today online and they were talking about what mom's really wanted for Mothers Day and none of them listed "GIFTS" but they all wanted to just spend time with their children. We sometimes get wrapped up in the hustle and bustle of life that we don't take the time for the little things in life. For instance have you ever told your child it was time for bed and they asked you to tuck you in and you asked your spouse to do it so you could finish up the dishes? I know I have, but I want to cherish every minute I have with my children. They are truly a gift from God and I never want to forget that. I was reading Brother Queeners book Sunday and was reading of how he and his wife lost several children with in an hour of their birth and I thought about how horribly it would be to loose 1 much less 3 or 4. God has truly blessed me with two wonderful children and I never want to take that for granted!

I hope all you wonderful Mothers have a great Mothers Day and get to spend time with your family.

Paydon & Anna Claire

I just have a minute and wanted to put an updated picture of the kids up. This was in March 2009 so Anna Claire was two months old. She has grown quite a bit, but this is a great picture of them both!

Life is Good

Just wanted to take the time to blog. I really like to blog more than I like to do Facebook, I guess in part because I can do Blogger at work and when I'm home I never have time to get online. Anna Claire is doing great! We have started her on cereal and she is doing pretty good with that. She is also sleeping great she normally only gets up once and it is about 5 or so that really isn't even considered getting up in the night if you ask me. Paydon is also doing well--he is doing really good right now with his reading. As a matter of fact he made a 102 on his reading test today. PTL. He wasn't doing too hot, but all of a sudden he has made a complete turn around. Please continue to remember my father. He is doing well, but still needs our prayers. Well I need to do some laundry so I best go. Have a great weekend! And if I don't make it back till weeks down the road "HAPPY MOTHERS DAY" to all you wonderful moms out there!

What have we been up to?

Well starting with last Thursday my father was put into the hospital after almost blacking out during a stress test. He had been having some chest pains off and on so his heart doctor recommended a stress test and some other tests. They ran a heart cath on Thursday afternoon late and it came back clear with no blockages, however they still needed to find out why he almost blacked out. So they referred him to a doctor in Memphis, TN and transported him there Friday afternoon. They met with the doctor on Friday at Memphis and he stated that he would probably need to install a defibrillator. They went in on Monday afternoon and installed that device and he came home on Tuesday. He seems to be doing good. They are worried about the hospital bills and the fact that he will not be able to continue working at his current job, but God knows all about it and God will supply the need! Just please say a prayer for them that God give them the peace that only he can. One more thing--when the Doctor in Jonesboro done the heart cath he was amazed to report that the main artery that was clogged 100% in 1999 when he had his heart attach is now only 30% blocked. To God be the GLORY!

This week we began our Youth Week and boy have we had a good time. The services have been absolutely wonderful to say the least! God has surly visited us in a mighty way. Tonight we wind down with a social at Trumann as well as watching "Facing the Giants". I've seen it before, but it's just such a good movie that you can handle watching it time after time. Then Saturday we are having an afternoon at the park with a singing and preaching. It should be a very nice warm day for that. Thankfully no rain is in the forecast. I hope all of you out there have had a great youth week as well. God bless each of you!

Hmm?

I found this article on our local news site and thought it was worth posting.

Grape juice no more: Ark. church to worship at bar

Please click on Link to read the article.

http://www.kait8.com/global/story.asp?s=10151228

I know we should take the whole message to the whole world, but we are also to abstain from the very appearance of evil. What are your thoughts?


In other news we are all doing great. We got back home from Youth Convention around 8pm Saturday and we had a good trip there and back. I was worried a little though because Ms. Anna Claire is not a fan of the car seat and the 3 1/2 hours in the car had me worried, but she did great! PRAISE THE LORD.

We had a great convention, but somehow it just didn't seem like the conventions that we used to have. I know that God has not changed, so I wonder what has changed. Maybe I'm the only one that feels this way and if so I guess it is me that has changed. Not that convention wasn't good, but people don't seem to come out as much as they used to for conventions--that goes for all conventions, not just Youth Convention. I know that money is tight and it takes extra money to travel, however have we forgotten that our Lord will take care of us if we will put him first in our life? I just wish that people could get their want to fixed. God will soon be telling Jesus to come get his Bride and I want to be ready to meet him in the air! One of these days we will witness that Meeting in the Air we have been singing about for years! Oh I want to see Him!

Well I guess I've rambled enough. I hope you all have a great week and a Happy Easter. Let us not forget what Jesus has done for us during this Easter Season!
God Bless You All!

Pictures

Well I just thought I would put up a picture of Paydon and Anna Claire. They turned out so great! I have several more I may put on here, but I don't have time to scan them in yet.

Well Youth Convention is TOMORROW! We are hoping for a great out pouring of the Holy Ghost.

Also while I'm here can you all please pray for Anna Claire. As I said in my last post she got her first round of shots on Monday and she now has a snotty nose and it's feeling very well. We leave out tomorrow for the Youth Convention and I want he to be well!