HO HO HO

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!?! We had a good one so far. We are heading to Mountain View today to do Christmas with my family (and right at this moment we are just waiting on Scott!) Jason, Jill and Jase will be there too and I'm looking forward to the weekend.

Here is a picture of our family from Christmas Eve when we opened presents at our house. Dad had to work on Thursday so we did our gifts on Christmas Eve and then had a nice dinner on Thursday when my parents came down.

MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Okay, I know it's been a while and for those who don't know... Grandma Lorene Beltz passed away on Monday, Dec. 8, 2008 at her home in Willow Springs. Services were last Thursday and Friday. Although we are sad, we know she's in heaven now with her creator and we'll do our best to keep her awesome memory alive with the happy stories.

With the services at the end of last week, we got to see Jason, Jill and Jase again. I'm including some pictures of the fun time we had on Saturday when we got to see Santa Claus come in to town in Uncle Scott's Air Evac Lifeteam helicopter. Jase was pretty excited. Enjoy these wonderful pictures of family and true Christmas happiness.

Jase and Uncle Scott with the helicopter

The Moodys -- Dec. 13, 2008

Matthew showing Jase the inside of the helicopter

Steph and Scott on Dec. 13, 2008 -- one day before our 1st Anniversary

December is here!

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Do you hear the music? I love the holidays and they are in full swing this year. However, our family has had some dark clouds following us and we're trying our hardest to shine through them.

Daphne's boyfriend (they might as well have been married) passed away last weekend after a short fight with an illness. His funeral is Friday. And of course Grandma Beltz is still on all our prayer lists.

She came home on Monday Nov. 24 and has been home just over a week with Hospice care and round-the-clock family care. Georgia has been the strongest patient aid as she's spent most of the nights with Grandma, seeing to her needs. The past few days and nights have been rough and the hospice nurse says there are a few more days to go.

Grandma seems to be ready and has said her good byes and has her affairs in order. The family has all been there and had their chance to say good bye and all in all, we're dealing well. We know she's in pain and once she goes to be with God she'll be pain free again. So I ask everyone who might stumble upon this blog or those who read it on purpose to pray for our family. It's a rough time of year to deal with the loss of a loved one, but at the same time, what a glorious time to go and be with the Lord. We just pray she won't have to suffer much longer.

At the same time, we're trying to keep life as normal as possible for the kids and we're trying to prepare for Christmas. I feel like I'm behind this year, but not doing too bad. Matthew and I are going to work on the Christmas tree some more tonight. Hopefully we'll be able to decorate it some on Saturday with Scott. We still have some work to do on our outside lights too and I hope we can get that done this week.

Pray with me and for me! God Bless... stephanie