The Smith Family

New Nephews, Thanksgiving and more!!

2009-12-01T08:18:00.017-05:00

Hello readers!!
I hope y'all are having a blessed Christmas season!
These past couple of weeks I was in Moultrie with my dear sister Kressant, helping her out with her three precious little boys!! Jonathan is now 3 weeks old! Last I heard he already weighed 10 pounds! What a big boy, I'm sure he weighs even more now!
My family went down and we celebrated Thanksgiving with the Morton's and Campana's. What a joyous time we had with friends and family remembering those who first obeyed the Lords calling and came to this untamed land, so that we, they're descendants could be free to worship our Lord! It was a most lovely and exciting two weeks with my S'moton family!

Here is the first picture I got of dear little Jonathan, when he was only a few minutes old!!

Mikey and Carlos meeting their new brother

Micheal and his neat bunk bed he built!

The Carlo doing his impersonation of Buz Lighter

Carlo inspecting his new play toy

Jonathan and William. They look so different!

The hambone Joe

"Give it meeee!"

A sun-in-the-eyes picture of my two cuties, Muad and Madisen!

Two wonderful ladies I greatly admire!!

The boys attacking Willy at the campmeeting!

La Smithey sistas!

Thanksgiving prep (love your pose Dee!)

The boys helping:)

"What's all this?!"

My kitchen crew

Two precious girlies!

"Good heavens, people!"

"So you took the last of the sweet potato casserole!"

What cute fat cheeks you have William!!

The Cave man and I! (Cave men are people too!!)

Thomas and Joseph

All the lovely desserts!!

Kress and Addie enjoying the meal together! Doesn't Kress look great?!

Twilight poser

And I'll end with my favorite picture from my stay!! The sky is just so beautiful, it looks like a painting!

Hope y'all have a wonderful week!

Bethany

Jonathan

2009-11-16T08:17:00.002-05:00

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!!!

2009-11-15T14:32:00.003-05:00

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

The baby shower for Christina Tremblay and Rachel Morton

2008-04-10T10:15:00.012-04:00

Last Saturday Alan and Katie hosted a baby shower for our dear cousin Christina, who had her baby on Tuesday!! and our sister Rachel
Kressy and Addie were kind enough to do the decorations for us!!
Addie's beautiful handiwork

Grandmama's and grandbabies!

Aren't they beautful! Thank y'all so much

Adeline with our dear Aunt Gina

the 4 little blessings!

How many vehicles do you need to start a truck?

2008-12-13T14:03:00.002-05:00

Well, um for us on Sunday, 3!!!!!! yeah, it's pretty sad when your late for church cause your cars won't start :)the Lane ladies play their Dulcimers!! It was so pretty y'all, thanks for entertaining us!Playing "Take A Hike"Ki-ki trying to take my chair!!Love your enthusiasm Ansley ;)

Yup, it was chaos!!!!! had fun time y'all!

Bethy

Our monthly sewing day

2009-01-18T14:51:00.001-05:00

Last Wednesday we gathered once again at the Birdie Club house for another wonderful day of sewing, laughing, eating, dancing and fellow-shipping!!!!

Annie and Maud, dear friendsAll the kiddies busy coloring and pasting

Yucho enjoying Miss Elena's delicious pudding!

Fiona and Neicie

Brittany's elaborate braidingKi-ki, Fiona, Ansley and I

Ki-ki and YerikSweet little Annie Doing the Virginia Reel ;)

My dance partner!!!

Gavido's little town

The other B :)

Maud's very first apron!! It looks great sweetie!

Hope to see y'all next month!

Beth

Our Snowy weekend

2009-03-09T22:43:00.005-04:00

Yes, I can hardly believe it myself! It actually snowed in Georgia! Mother told me that morning that the currently warm weather was going to give way to some real cold temperatures, and it MIGHT snow, "So dress warmly" she told me ;) Well, me being the smart, obedient daughter that I am I didn't even bother to take a proper coat, or shoes for that matter. Yes, the poor idiot with flip-flops on in the picture below is me;) It was a delightful surprise none-the-less and I did get some pretty shots! We were able to make a decent snowman and we had snow left on our roof for 3 days afterwards! I bet we set a record;)

Shelby and WallyThe kiddos eatingMaud and "Ham Mikey"Dear Brittany and her betrothed Andy Vawser! We are so excited for you!!!

For pictures of the betrothal you can go to my brothers blog http://malachi4-6.blogspot.com/

My hooded friend ;)

Red leaves, snow.... ahhh, it's gorgeous!

Some of the girlies going to take a walk

Our Georgia feet ;)

Trying to catch snowflakes on our tongues!As it got cold my camera started acting real strange and hazing the pictures up! I thought this one looked kinda neat.

B and B

My dear Maud

Some of the forsythia bushes at home!

Michael throwing snowballs at Wally Cute little Mikey all bundled up!

The kitchen crew

Melli-O come back for a visit! It was good to see you again!

Direct my footsteps according to your word; let no sin rule over me. Redeem me from the oppression of men, that I may obey your precepts. Make your face shine upon your servant and teach me your decrees. Streams of tears flow from my eyes, for your law is not obeyed. Righteous are you, O LORD, and your laws are right. The statutes you have laid down are righteous; they are fully trustworthy. Psalms 119:133-138

-Bethany

The Premiere

2009-05-27T18:00:00.001-04:00

I know it's a bit late but I thought I'd post a few pictures of the Premiere we did on the 9!!!
It was such a touching video, especially for those of us who personally knew Pop and it was really wonderful to have been able to show it at the church where he used pastor!! It brought back such a flood of memories as I walked through the building!!
The video "The Amazing Journey of Pastor Ron" is now available to watch at http://homeschooladvantage.us/Movies/MoviePlayer.cfm?MovieID=41 !!!
Oh, it is so exciting!!! Just this week we have had people from England, the Netherlands, Australia, Jamaica and Mexico as well as cities all across the United States visit our website!! How amazing to think that Daddy's messages and other's that he promotes are affecting people all over the globe!!!

For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
Hebrews 4:12
Before we showed the movie we sang a few songs, one in particular Pop used to like called "I have something to sing about"
After the showing we went to the down stairs for refreshments and fellowship!I just love this picture of Daddy with his sister!!!Thank you to everyone who brought food!!Maud and Annie and Ronnie a-visiting in the kitchen

My youngest Smithie!! What a cutie you are!!!

Visiting with two precious young ladies

Mama and Auntie Niecie talking

Oh my, I think I have the cutest little nephews ever!!! (Can you tell I'm partial;)

Another of my cute Nephews!!My Uncle DavidAnd my cousin, Nathan

What special picture of Kate darling!! Whenever I think of Kate this is the kind of picture that comes to my mind, she just being so sweet, surrounded by bunches of children, always smiling, always ready with an encouraging word!! Thank you Kate for being such a wonderful sister and friend to me!!

Well, Daddy just called and he's almost home so I'd better hop off!!

Have a blessed week!!!

Bethany

Smithy Doings

2009-10-23T10:00:00.002-04:00

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

2009-10-23T09:55:00.000-04:00

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!!

2009-10-19T20:47:00.003-04:00

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

Stone Mountain Family Reunion: Sunday

2008-06-13T07:58:00.013-04:00

On Sunday the Antonions joined us for worship!
Samu with Rachy
Cuty little Roni

Piggin out! LOL!
You eat enough watermelons Bretski?

That night the Antonions went to the Laser show with us!
Samu ready for it to start!
Hmm, I'm not sure whats going on here, but it looks like everyone is enjoying themselves! :)
"Ooh, ahhh, wow, Awesome!"

Beth and Muad

History of Fashion (according to Smith's and Antonions)

2008-07-26T13:53:00.016-04:00

One afternoon the girls and I enjoyed some dresses from different time eras. We laughed, climbed on roofs, played with babies and had an impromtu tea!

Maud and Sami in Regency dresses (If you look in the far right corner you can see the blue and white school sign! Quite authentic, ehh?!)
"Emma, Careful the baby!" :)
Sweet Jenna in The Titanic dress
Me in the Edwardian Dress, though I don't think the hat is quite right for the era!

Abby as a 20's girl
Such a little cutie!
Brittany as a modern day, uhh, Sri Lankan??
Modern day
Colonial and Edwardian excited to meet each other
Tired sisters
Saying Goodbye Brittany's way! :)

Have a blessed day!

Beth and Kate

A wonderful week with the P. Children!!

2008-11-11T17:36:00.011-05:00

This past week we had the pleasure of keeping the P. children!!!

"Planning your next move?"

Through the kitchen window! Watching the birdies Dear Melissa helping out

At the Fall Festival!!

Mumsie and the kiddies Me and a cute little bunny! Annie- Twiddle-dee from "Alice in wonderland"

Y'all come back soon!

Beth

2009's Spelunking Expedition

2009-04-08T10:47:00.017-04:00

Last weekend was to the Saltpeter Cavern in Tenn.!! Armando all packed up and ready to go! It was about a 1/2 mile hike to the base of the mountainHere we start ip the mountain towards the entrance of the cave Maud and Marth taking a rest at the entrance of the cave At our base campsite inside the cave

Kennedy D.

Danny L.

All the beautiful lights at base camp Mariah

The Campana Family

Rappelling down the H.H.

Thank you to Daddy and Alan for making this whole trip possible and to the Morton, Campana, Lane, Slaughter and Decker families for coming along and making the trip so wonderful and memorable! Thank you Adeline for daring to take your camera into all the dust and taking such wonderful pictures!!

Can't wait till next time!

Bethany

We have Bees!!

2009-07-24T11:12:00.009-04:00

Last week Daddy went and got our Bees!! We are all so excited!! Can you imagine?! Our own honey!! He bought about 3000 bees and a Queen to start our first hive!!

There are so many of them! Daddy said that in a healthy hive there are usually 30,000!! Wow, our little bees better start reproducing!!LOL! All our equipment My new French hat;)

"Beth, I think these are a bit big!"

Can any one guess which Smithie Kid these eye's belong too?

Daddy dearest, the Bee keeper!!

Indian Springs

2009-06-24T22:00:00.002-04:00

Last Wednesday we went over to Indian Springs for the afternoon!! It was so fun! We played in the rocks for a bit then ate lunch on the lawn under a beautiful shade tree! Then we went over to the beach. It was quite overcrowded though and filled with smoke, so while the kiddo's swam and I went over to a cute little pavilion in the woods and played cards;)
Ahhh, how peaceful it was! Unfortunately I only have pictures up till lunch, I guess after then I was either to lazy or to tired to take any more!!
Hope y'all enjoy 'em!!

The boys working on their sun tans;)

Water....(how original right? I guess I could say 'Beautiful water' or 'gushing water' or something more dreamy but I'm not feeling very creative right now!!)
Madek's going down the 'Slide'

While looking for a place to eat lunch us girlies stumbled across some very pretty flowers and bushes with a cute little bench in the midst! We got a few pictures but decided to come back later for a photo shoot when we'd put back on our normal clothes;) well, let's just say, never put off what can be done right now! We forgot later so these three photos will have to do;)

Dear Maud and the beautiful flower that we found out later we weren't supposed to pick;)

Some Smithy Ham shots

As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.

Psalms 42:1

Dios te bendiga!!!

Bethany

Labor Day family weekend!

2009-09-28T21:57:00.012-04:00

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

Welcoming William Stone Morton!!!

2009-09-29T18:50:00.001-04:00

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!

2009-09-29T18:40:00.000-04:00

Anniversary cruise

2009-09-08T11:56:00.001-04:00

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!!

Once there was a girl...

2009-08-30T23:19:00.004-04:00

I wanted to take a little space to honor my sister Beth. I have watched her grow into a lady who loves the Lord and seeks to honor Him with her whole heart. I've seen her honor and serve her parents, encourage and inspire the other kids,and be Mom and Dad's right arm as she has helped make some of their greatest dreams come true. Thank you Beth!
Love, Alan and Katie

Smithy update!!

2009-08-28T19:35:00.011-04:00

Hello readers!
I hope all is going well with y'all!
We went to our Cousins Crystal and Jennifer's children's birthday party and brought back Ariel!! What fun she has been these past two weeks!! We have baked all sorts of yummy goodies and played cards almost everyday;)
Daddy has been working on our Tilapia tank! We have 9 little Goldfish that we're experimenting with to make sure it works! So far so good!
Yerik had surgery on his nose Monday and it went really well! He is doing great! Thank you to every one who was praying for him.

The boys eating cake!!

"E's Gooood" (movie quote;)

Gavido in the Kitty pool

Playing cards Sunday night!

Yuchi the morning before his surgery

And here he is yesterday!

Getting pictures out in the field

Trying a self photo with Daddy!

One of our RIR hatched out some chicks!! They're so cute

Max getting hen pecked;) These two just don't like each other!

Our Tilapia tank

Ariel and Bretski

Our A/C went out last week so here I am trying to set up a fan;)

Our dishwasher broke too so we got a new one, Madi!!! Thankfully for her the Sears man came today and fixed it!

Taking pictures for Daddy's speech on Monday Flute ball;)LOL! For those who might be worried about our sanity we didn't actually hit the ball with the flute;) It's all for daddy's speech

Well, have a wonderful week!

Dios tebendiga!

Bethany

2009-08-13T12:00:00.005-04:00

Wwweeeeheeewwweee we-dom-dom de-way!!!......

In the jungle....

the mighty jungle...

The Lion sleeps tonight!!!!!

Iiinnn the jungle

the quiet jungle....

The lion sleeps tonight!!!

Weeeeeweeweee a we-dum-dum-da way!!!!

Hush my darling, don't fear my darling......

The lion sleeps tonight!!!

Hush my darling, don't fear my darling...........

The lion sleeps tonight!!!

Weeeeee oweee weeee we-dum-dum-day way!! A wheema pep a wheema wepp a we dum-dum da way!!!!! ;)

Hope your having a great day!! (we are;)

Dios tebendiga!

Bethany

2 Random pictures for today!

2009-08-10T20:44:00.003-04:00

I just wanted to blog something and I liked these two pictures!! Isn't Bret a cutie!

Dios tebendiga!

Beth