Reality...

As many of you already know, my brother and his wife are expecting their second little girl. In June, she was diagnosed with Anencephaly, a condition where there is no brain or skull above her eyes. There is just nothing there. Anything short of a miracle of God, she (Bethanie Grace Baker) will pass away soon after birth. Missy was put in the hospital yesterday morning (10-30-08) and she is probably going to be there for the duration. They are just waiting for her water to break, which is also another issue. She is producing to much amniotic fluid. She is miserable, and starting to be in a little bit of pain. Please pray for her safety, and then for guidence, strength, and grace!

She's Coming!

We are so excited today because Mary is on her way here. They left this morning about 9:30 Missouri time and they will stop and stay in Oklahoma somewhere, then head on in to Springfield by Wednesday. We are very anxious to get her here. She is also very excited. Continue to pray for traveling mercies.

The Waiting Game

We have been waiting for a while for Mary to come and live with us. Well, we thought that it was all going to happen this weekend, but God has other plans. It is very close and I need to be patient. I am getting very excited about her being here and I would ask that you pray with us for God's perfect will and direction. We (John and I) haven't felt that great the last couple of days. Just a typical cold, but life does go on and there are things to do. I did start my Project 365 over and the pic that I posted for today is of John and John watching National Treasure 2 while we sit around and try not to use our brains. It kind of hurts! LOL Anyway, I just felt the need to type a little bit, but I do think that I will head to bed and call it a day!

Night, night!

Spooktacular!

Okay--so we don't celebrate Halloween, but we have a zoo pass that gets us in the zoo all year for free, and they were having their annual Spooktacular event. We decided that it would be fun for the kids to go to the zoo at night AND get candy! How fun is that! We are REALLY looking forward to next week, though. On Thursday, we will be heading to Incredible Pizza. This is just something that we started several years ago on Halloween to get the kids out of the house from Trick or Treaters. So since it falls on Friday this year we will go to Incredible Pizza on Thursday and then on Friday we will be out at the farm that our Pastor works at to have our Church's annual Fall Festival. We always have so much fun and the kids get soooo much candy! We always have a big bond fire and roast hot dogs and marshmallows for Smores, an dthe kids run around and go on hayrides then we have a great devotions from God's Word! It is wonderful to be with a church family!

Here are some pics from the other night and I will post some more of next weekend!





This was a picture that I took inside the anaconda exhibit. It made me laugh!

Well.......

Once again I find myself at the computer, late at night, with the realization that I need to write something, yet there is so much to write about.

We found ourselves at church 4 of the 5 weekdays last week. We hosted a Home Missions Conference that lasted 2 1/2 days. I cannot explain how incredible it was to be there. We were able to serve home missionaries and New Testament Church Planters. What an amazing experience to be able to sit and talk with those that have a passion to win American souls for Christ. I must confess that I was not looking forward to the exhaustion that I knew the week would bring, nor was I excited about not being at home much and my house going to pot while we were working at the church. However, I prayed that God would take away those feelings and give me a passion and a compassion for those that we were serving so they could go out and serve. Boy, did He answer my prayers. I have to tell you, I was embarassed by the fact that I have a healthy body and the ablility to work and there was a couple at the conference that had to give up traveling because he just physically could not do it anymore! I was ashamed of myself and asked God to forgive me! I received such a blessing this last week. I wouldn't change it for the world.

We are still in prayer about when Mary will be able to move up here. There have been a few hang ups, but we know that God is in control and the He has the best plan, so we are going to sit still and just let Him work. We are very excited about her moving here though. We are still making the preparations and still looking for that day. We would appreciate all your prayers. I know that Mary would too.

I would like to ask prayer for Michaela. She is asking alot of questions about salvation and baptism. We are treading lightly on what we say and trying to answer the way that God would have us to. As a mom I would ask God that she go straight from "safe" to "SAVED".

We are all doing well. We have missed being at home and we are looking forward to the next couple of weeks when we are able to be home more, but we love b ing on the go and to not be on the go would feel quite strange! I know that there are alot of you that feel the same way.

Here are a few pics of this last weekend! We had a great time at O'Reilly's family Funfest and then at the zoo. This first one is of Thing One and Thing Two--Hey I think that they live with me!

Yep, I was right--they do.....


I guess that this will be all for now. We have a few fun things coming up....so I will be blogging and posting more pics then.

Oh I almost forgot...I have to post a pic of this cake. A good friend of mine that goes to church with me makes these beautiful cakes and this is one that she made for the Music director at our church. We celebrated their 20th anniversary at our church, which is a feat for this day and time.


Yes that is a cake! Isn't she incredible!!!

Oh My!

Well, I guess that I should be shot for letting my blog go this long without but a single note or picture. We have been busy, but so is everyone else, and that is really no excuse for letting the time slip away. We recently got back from yet another journey to New Mexico. We are praying that Mary will be with us soon. We should hear something soon.


We surprised Mary with Mom and Dad coming with us to her graduation then...


We surprised her with Angela getting to be there also.

She was totally overwhelmed

Mary and Sam

Mary Signing with the children's choir at her church

Mary and Sam

John doing the morning devotions the day we left!

We had such a wonderful time. Now we are just looking forward to what God is going to do in the future. I will hopefully get my rear in gear and get this and my Project 365 totally caught up.