Jonathan

Well here are a couple of pictures of little jonathan. We'll have to post more later. Isn't he just beautiful!
Praising the Lord,
~Rachel

A Grand Announcement!!!

With great rejoicing we announce the arrival of Jonathan DeWet Morton! The Lord is good! Jonathan was born early this morning around 12:53 am. Hopefully we will be able to post some pictures before too long:) He's just beautiful, weighing 8lb. 6 oz. with black hair and chubby little cheeks. Michael and Kressant are resting and praising the Lord for the precious new blessing the Lord has given them:) There are a bunch of mighty proud Grandparents, uncles, aunties, and cousins here at Calathora today. Praise our gracious and merciful God!!!

~Rachel

Smithy Doings

Hello Readers!
What a month we've had! Our 6th grandson (nephew) William was born, our church hosted a camp meeting, we had the P. children for a couple of weeks and the dear Smith family from Jacksonville visited us! What fun it was to fellowship with them one on one and get to know them better!
Our Tilapia came in last week! We now have 200 little fishy's (give or take a few) out in our Florida room, growing fast we hope, till we can either sell or consume them!
Today we are trying to tie up all loose ends and pack for when Kressy calls and says it's time for her little one to come! Ah, how fun!
Well, it's off to laundry for me,
God Bless and have a great day!
Beth


Mr. Smith and Esther


The table of spoons players!!


Determined players


The spoons await!



The sudden and desperate struggle!


"Oh, this looks quite dangerous!"


Miss Gracie blessing us with her wonderful piano talents!

Miss Rosemary and her new kitten

Miss Margaret and Gavido

Maud and Elena picking some fall leaves to decorate the house with

Abstract art

Char-Char

The official tug-o-war contestants! Girls against the guys, which doesn't really seem all that fair, but, I bet you'll never guess which side won?!! LOL!!

Yup, it was the girls. What are the odds?

Ron stands on the side lines, "I can't believe it! C'mon boys, lets try it again!" he yells

"I can't believe their going to loose AGAIN! " Bravely Ron runs to save the day

But, alas he slips! The boys will have to win on their own now!

With their last ounce of strength the boys heave the girls across the line!! There is victory! Hurrah!

Our new temporary radio system;)

Our Tilapia

Just how did we all fit around the table again?

Madeks and Yerik showing me the camels the wise men rode on to go see Jesus!

I guess we never really learned the "Don't play with your food" rule!

All the little tree monkeys

A M&K visit!!

About two weeks ago Mike brought Kressy up for a midwife visit!! Praise the Lord she is doing well! I can't believe that I'm going to be an Auntie for the 8th time!! I am praying that she'll have her wee wittel won soon;)

Doesn't she look great?! Love you Kress!

"See the Kitties Beshi?!"

"Oh! Daddy's calling, it's time to go!"

Mikey with his side kick, Carlos the Oso (aka bear)

"Why am I chained to this car seat, I'm not a criminal!" (Movie quote;)

"This is a gruelling experience" (another movie quote;)

"Take my picture Beshi, I NEEEEEDD it!"

Don't look at me look up there!

"AHH! Bright flash!"

"Mikey sheepy, I need my pillow!"

"Mikey go night night!"

God bless y'all!

Beth

Welcoming William Stone Morton!!!

William Stone Morton was born to Wesley and Rachel Sept. 9, 2009, weighing 5 pounds and 12 ounces!!! What a tiny little cutie!! I just got off the phone with Rachel and she says he now weighs over 7 pounds and has red hair and gorgeous blue eyes!! Praise the Lord that he is growing so quickly!!!

Here's a close up of little precious one the day he was born!

Joey contemplating all the wonderful adventures he'll have with his new brother!!

William meeting his Pop

The happy family enjoying their beautiful front porch!

Brothers napping;)

Joey with his daddy's tractor!!

"I'm 1 now, I can do this;)"

We thank the Lord every day for you dear little William!! God Bless you my little nephew!!

~Bethany

Cuties in Cozy Coops!

Labor Day family weekend!

Labor day weekend the Sheats family gathered at my Uncle Wally's and Aunt Debb's house for a party!! It was a blast of 3 days filled with card playing, dancing, swimming, great food and catching up on all our dear families news!!!

Here is my dear Cousin Christina's adorable girl, Madisen!! I just love her red hair!!

Mama and Rhiannon chatting by the pool

Daddy-O!!

Where we spent most of our 3 days:)

Doesn't Yuchi's nose look good after his surgery? Praise the Lord that all went well!

The boyies enjoying the great back yard

Nanny with her 2nd great grand daughter

It was so exciting because we had all the S'Morton grandkids there at one time!! How fun!!

Ah! what cute cousins!!

All the little boys running to their Auntie Maud, she's so good with the nephews!!

Joey trying out the pool;)

Mama and her brother Wally

Carlosito, the cute one! Joey and batter-man!!

Uncle Ed and his 'Baby'

Having trouble breathing Yuch?

Here is the Wesley Morton family a few days before William arrived!

"Happy birthday Aunt Diana!!"

Kate and Kressy-B

Bret being such a great big brother!!

The Wallace Sheats Family, from left to right: Rhiannon, Aunt Deb, Uncle Wally and Sarah-JO

Grandpa Charles, Nanny and Uncle Jon

Nanny with all her children

Sweet little polka-dotted Madisen

Sarah, the boyies and I out watching the guys

Kisses;)

Well, here we are y'all! La Familia Smith!

At present we are scurrying around getting ready for the Campmeeting this weekend! What fun! It seems like such a long time since we've had an event!

Poor Alan and his boys have been struggling off and on with a fever so please keep them in your prayers! Esther is getting so big! She scoots and crawls off everything you put her on and looks around with the biggest, prettiest brown eyes ever. Kate has taken some 4 month photos of her that I hope she will soon blog.

We have been canning tomatoes today and Mother has fixed almost all of our repair pile! A rare occurrence indeed;)

I hope y'all are having a good week!

Dios tebendiga,

Bethany

Anniversary cruise

In July Daddy and Mama had their 29 anniversary!! To celebrate they went on a cruise to Mexico!!

Their ship The Holiday!

The harbor in Mobile, AL.

Leaving the harbor

Their first stop was Cozumel, where they took a Catamaran out and were lifted up in the air with a sail!! Not exactly para-sailing but we're not sure what to call it.

Daddy got to do some fishing too!

Their second (and last) stop was in Chichen Itza where they went to see the Mayan Ruins!!

There is a very interesting DVD by Doug Phillips about the Mayan people in the History of the World Conference!! They were an extremely smart but horribly wicked people. Their buildings are huge and very elaborate and filled with carvings and statues of snakes and skulls.

Inside the Sports Arena, which is about the size of a football field!!

People that have studied the Mayans (like Mr. Phillips) think that in this Arena you had to throw a ball through that hoop in the wall, kinda like basket ball!

One of the thousands of statues of snakes that are EVERYWHERE!

This is a stone wall with a carving of a warrior kneeling down and his head is cut off. I'd hate to have that carving on my walls

More snakes

On the way home they stopped at a little restaurant where Mexican ladies danced with platters of jars on their heads.

While they were at sea Daddy and Mama took a tour of the kitchen!! What fun!!

These are huge soup pots!! Think of how many people we could serve with that thing!! That's what we need!!

Daddy showing a beater to what must be a massive mixing bowl

Happy Anniversary Daddy and Mama!!