My Cup Runneth Over at Heritage Acres Farm...

VBS is Super Fun...

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Hello Dear Ones... I hope your week has been especially sweet.  Lately things have been a bit crazy, but last night as I was teaching my class at Vacation Bible School I was just overwhelmed with God's goodness and mercy.  I love teaching children about our Lord.  VBS is super fun... here are a few pics from this week and the great thing is, we still have tonight and tomorrow!!!
Our theme is Outrigger Island.  And the motto is~
Know the Truth
Speak the Truth
Live the Truth
So we are all dressed in Hawaiian clothes... Last night was Mu-mu night.  I felt like Mrs. Roper... remember?
I didn't get a full body shot, but you can kinda get an idea from this picture Cameo and I took before we left...
Here are some pictures from the first night...
If it weren't for photobooth I would never have pictures of me.. haha
Here is my Carlie Jean and Logan...
Here are the girls in my class... My Cameo is there on the far right.       I am excited for tonight and tomorrow and hopefully will have a bunch more pictures.  Have a great Friday!
My Cup Runneth Over...Chas

08:31 - Friday, July 25, 2008 - comments {3} - post comment




Praise the Lord!

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Praise the Lord, we are officially home... we are so thankful to you our friends and family who have loved and prayed for us while we were in such a time of uncertainty... And even though we do not know what the future holds, we know Who holds the future!  Thank you and God bless you for you love and prayers for our family. 
Shannon is very far from being "well".  He is still recovering from such a fight... He was officially diagnosed with camplyobacteriosis and will remain home until next week when he hopefully will feel well enough to get back to normal...
Again, thank you, thank you, thank you... I can't say it enough
xoxo
My Cup Runneth Over...Chas

06:23 - Thursday, July 10, 2008 - comments {10} - post comment




A Quick Update on Shannon...

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Hey Everyone, I only have a minute, I am here with the children for a few minutes before I go back to the hospital. 
First off,  Bear Hug THANK YOU for praying for Shannon and checking on things.
It is crazy....
They are still not sure what is going on with Shannon.
Last Tuesday he came home from work not feeling his best, he went to visitation and came home, worked in the garden a little bit with me and then announced, I am going to bed.  I thought he was irritated with me or something, I had no idea he was feeling so bad.
Wednesday he went to work... he came home, said "I don't feel like going to church" (VERY unlike him) and went to bed.
Thursday morning he couldn't even get out of bed.  I thought he had the flu or something, he was almost in tears with a headache, a stomach ache, fever and chills.
This continued to Friday morning when he got up and vomited.  He said he felt much better after that, his head eased up and he felt better.  We went over to a friends house and let the kids swim and we sat around and watched.  He was SO pale and so weak.
That night we watched some fireworks off the back deck and he still said he was improving.
In the wee hours of Saturday things went back down, lots of stomach cramping, lots of pain.
Saturday evening he was feeling a bit better... saying yet again, I am getting better.
I stayed up watching him and tidying the house until 1 am Sunday morning. He was sleeping very soundly and looked like he might really be feeling better.
I went to bed a little later...
Sunday morning before 6 I hear him up... I wake up to find him lying in the floor and saying "Something is wrong, I am having bloody diarrhea... let's go to the hospital."
We rushed to the ER.
We walked right in and they started doing tests, kinda treating him like a 'no big deal' case because it sounded like a stomach virus... until he had bloody diarrhea again...
After it happened again, they got serious about treating him and decided he needed to be admitted.... They did a CT scan and blood tests, a urine culture,  and a stool culture...
So here we are, in the hospital since Sunday morning, the children being shuffled between his parents and mine. 
Waiting and waiting and waiting for his culture to give us some answers. 
Today the on call doctor said it was campolybactera (spelling) which I looked up and it sounds like "We have no idea what is wrong so we are going to throw some general, fancy sounding term to you and give you and antibiotic." Which is basically what is happening.  It doesn't look like we will be home for one to two more days at least.  Please pray we can figure out what is going on, that the doctors will be wise in their diagnosis and he will get better... we have been out of work since last Thursday and he has no vacation time or sick time or of the like... (his job doesn't do that).  That scares me to death... I know that God is going to take care of us, I know it... but it still scary to know that we have no income if he doesn't work...
Our children are suffering, we are suffering without them, I feel torn in two, I need to be there with him because he is sick, but I need to be here to give my kids stability and love and they need their family...
Thank you so much for praying and please continue to do so.
I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!

My Cup Runneth Over...Chas

05:38 - Wednesday, July 9, 2008 - comments {22} - post comment




Please Pray my Friiends...

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Please Pray for my Husband, he has been unwell for several days now... he is still sick this morning and has admitted that he needs to go to the hospital.  We are leaving shortly.  Please lift him up in prayer, I am quite scared. Thank you all...
My Cup Runneth Over...Chas

06:17 - Sunday, July 6, 2008 - comments {30} - post comment




Sunday's Scripture June 22, 2008

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Matthew 21:22 (King James Version)

 22And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

*** If you haven't read my earlier posts this week, My Daddy got SAVED!***

My Cup Runneth Over...Chas

12:00 - Sunday, June 22, 2008 - comments {0} - post comment




One of the best days of my life!

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I know you know how I have been praying for my Daddy...
Well, you see that picture above that aisle he walked me down to give me away in marriage... He walked that same aisle last night for a different reason... He walked down and knelt at the foot of the cross and invited Jesus in his heart!!!!!!!
I am so proud of him, I know how hard it was for him to step out... words can not describe how I feel.  I have chills as I type about this, I have goosebumps and I feel like shouting all over again!
God was at work all day, I felt the heaviness... it was a feeling that I have never had...
It is so hard to describe, words are not adequate for the experience.
I have been saved for 18 years, and I have been praying for my Daddy all through that time. 
God worked through my Moma, who was the one to invite Daddy and his wife Vickie and their family to church. 
I am so proud of you Moma, for moving when the Lord prompted you to move. 
I am much more aware now of how God wants to work in my life... He wants to do incredible things if we are obedient enough to go when He says go and move when He says move.
I believe God brought revival to our church, to our hearts and to our family...

2 Chronicles 7:14 (King James Version)

 14If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

I have a couple of songs on my heart... one is...

Shoutin Time
I will arise and go to Jesus
He will embrace me in his arms,
In the arms of Christ my Savior,
Oh there are then thousand charms

Chorus)
Its shouting time in heaven
A sinner once lost is found
Its shouting time in heaven
Salvation has been brought down,
No wonder the angels rejoice to know
My sins have been covered by the crimson flow
And now I’m feeling fine
I’m walking on the highway with my Lord
My name is written down in courts above
Its shouting time in heaven,
Oh yes, its shouting time.

Come ye weary, heavy laden
Lost and ruined by the fall
If you tarry till your better,
You will never come battle

My Cup Runneth Over and Over and Over...Chas

08:03 - Thursday, June 19, 2008 - comments {15} - post comment




Devestating

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My husband called me less than 20 minutes ago. This may be old news to some but we don't watch television so we had not heard.  Steven Curtis Chapman the Contemporary Christian singer, his youngest daughter was run over by a car... It absolutely broke my heart... Please pray for this family, what a heartbreaking, heart wrenching, horrible thing to happen. God be with this family!

My Cup Runneth Over...Chas

06:59 - Thursday, May 22, 2008 - comments {1} - post comment




HE IS RISEN!

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My Cup Runneth Over...Chas

06:02 - Sunday, March 23, 2008 - comments {1} - post comment




Weekend wipeout!

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This weekend was unbelievable... it was SO busy, and yet so fun and I am really glad it is over, and we can get back to life as usual!
Friday night we had a Youth Rally at our church.  It was a lot of fun and there was 2 people who got saved! PRAISE THE LORD! 
Yes, those are Little Debbies in my children's hands... we were on sugar overload come Sunday, and I got back on my game yesterday starting everyone out with Kefir smoothies.
Saturday morning we had Angel Food Ministry and it was so rainy and stormy,  we love helping at this ministry... what I love is that we all can do a part, and then the kids can play in the gym right there with us after they help.
Saturday night was the Youth Rally #2.  It was at the local middle school.  Shannon and I recalled the last time we had been in that gym would be 14 years ago this June when we were at graduation practice, at that time it was our high school gymnasium!!! Ummm.... can you say ANCIENT?
Saturday night's youth rally was great as well, one more person got saved and we praise God for that one also.  Something beautiful happened while we were there too.  There was a point where a youth asked prayer for a person that was having some seizures... they stopped the rally and prayed.  Eli said.... "Dad!  I need to go and tell that man that my Popa Ronnie is not saved and we need to pray for him too!!!" Shannon started not to let him interrupt the man who was speaking, but decided to anyways.  He had come off the stage already.  So Eli went and told Mr. Carver (the man who was announcing things)  and he let Eli write "Popa Ronnie" on the cross.
 There was a cross set up to write names of those who were not saved, and then you could kneel and pray for them.  I watched my 5 year old son write my Dad's name on the cross and kneel down and pray for him.  My heart was overflowing by this time and my eyes were swollen and puffy.  It was incredible.

This weekend was really fun, really busy and really tiring, and I am glad it is Monday. Have a great day my friends, and I look forward to getting started on my normal routine any minute now.
My Cup Runneth Over...Chas

08:31 - Monday, March 17, 2008 - comments {3} - post comment




Happy Palm Sunday

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Matthew 21

The Triumphal Entry
 1As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, 2saying to them, "Go to the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt by her. Untie them and bring them to me. 3If anyone says anything to you, tell him that the Lord needs them, and he will send them right away."

 4This took place to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet:
 5"Say to the Daughter of Zion,
      'See, your king comes to you,
   gentle and riding on a donkey,
      on a colt, the foal of a donkey.' "[a]

 6The disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them. 7They brought the donkey and the colt, placed their cloaks on them, and Jesus sat on them. 8A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 9The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted,
   "Hosanna[b] to the Son of David!"
   "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!"[c]
   "Hosanna[d] in the highest!"

 10When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, "Who is this?"

 11The crowds answered, "This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee."

My Cup Runneth Over...Chas

05:04 - Sunday, March 16, 2008 - comments {1} - post comment




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Wednesday 7/23-VBS
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Foods Put By ~2008~

8 half pints Strawberry Honey Preserves
21 quarts of Strawberries in Freezer
24 half pints of Honey Sweetened Peach Jam
8 pints of Honey Sweetened Peach Jam
11 pints of Salsa
11 pints of Honey Sweetened Plum Jam
3 half pints of Honey Sweetened Plum Jam
3 quarts of Tomatoes
10 cups of Blueberries in Freezer

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Chas, Chas, How does your Garden Grow?

12 Rutger Tomatoes
6 Marglobe Tomatoes
6 Roma Tomatoes
1 Early Girl Tomato
6 Jalapeno Peppers
6 Anaheim Chili Peppers
1 Red Bell Pepper
1 Multi Bell Pepper
2 Habanaro Peppers
6 Romaine Lettuce
12 Red Leaf Lettuce
6 Buttercrunch Lettuce
12 Cabbage
6 Burpless Cucumbers
6 Pickling Cucumbers
6 Crook Necked Squash
6 Zucchini
55 Garlic
12 Tires of Potatoes
22 Luffa
Beetroot
Sunflowers!

In the Orchard

1 year old Winesap Apple Tree
1 year old Red Delicious Apple Tree
1 year old Golden Delicious Apple Tree
1 year old Bartlett Pear Tree
1 year old Peach Tree
2-1 year old blueberry bushes
2-1 year old grape vines
25-1 year old Strawberries
25 new Strawberry Plants

Herbs...

Cilantro
Oregano
Chamomile
Dill
St. John's Wort
Lavender
Thyme
Rosemary
Lemon Balm
Fennel
Stevia
Mint
Sweet Basil
Sage
clay pots

On my Bookshelf Today

The Bible
Raising Godly Tomatoes by L. Elizabeth Kruegar
On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Homeschooling with a Meek and Quiet Spirit by Teri Maxwell (again) Plus Study Guide

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What I've Read Recently

Mother by Kathleen Norris
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Becoming a Woman of Excellence by Cynthia Heald
To Train Up a Child by Micheal and Debi Pearl
Homeschooing the Child with ADD by Lenore C. Hayes
Like Dandelion Dust by Karen Kingsbury
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Tender Years by Janette Oke
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith


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