Manifesta Family

 

We Are Back!

Here I go!
To all my friends and family This blog will attempt to be a weekly update on fun facts and info on the four of us. I am not much of a typer, but I know I always forget to tell you little things about the kids over the phone. So I hope you enjoy this site.

I Thank God everyday for my family, Our health, home and time we get to spend together. Everytime Stephen is gone flying I am reminded of where my help comes from, the Lord.

			My help [cometh] from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
			He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
			Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
			The LORD [is] thy keeper: the LORD [is] thy shade upon thy right hand.
			The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
			The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
			The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

Collette Loves to play!!! She has been pretending to be Laura Ingalls from "Little house on the prairie" She even calls us 'Ma' and 'Pa' She wants Steve to call her halfpint. Whenever I am nursing or she sees an opportunity to play with me she grabs her horses comes up to me with a big smile and an arm full of ponies and says"Play with me?" who could resist. I love to see her play pretend when she doesn't know I'm looking. She walks around with her baby and her mom bag I made her, soo cute!

Joseph is getting so big and cute! He is rolling around so much. Joseph Loves playing with water, pulling Collettes hair, eating any type of material especially his little pillow case, and my red lentil soup. I catch him sucking his thumb and I want to eat him up! Collette is so good to him, I am thankful!

We have been going to the tennis courts as a family, Collette eats some breakfast and rides her bike while Steve has been helping me get the ball over the net. We have been enjoying the mornings before it gets to hot.

I found the coolest site for anyone who is looking to study the bible or a devotional to go through its called blueletterbible.com easy to use and awesome commentaries. I love the daily promises and the part where I can look up any verse and get greek/hebrew translation commentaries and different versions of the verse. I have been blessed by it, just wanted to share my find!

My dear Collette. She is not only beautiful, but smart! her favorite recent movie is Annie! She loves her ballet class, her favorite thing to do is the chicken dance, she has even requested it to her teacher. At home she loves to dance around the house in her princess Ariel dress or her white country dress I bought at a thrift store; Her ensemble would not be complete without her tapper shoes, either her red sparkly Dorothy shoes or pink dress shoes with a bow on the front. She loves the movie Emma and so does mom, today she even taught Dad the dance from the movie and curtsied towards her Father before running to hold his hand and walk in a circle. Collette often wants to dance outside in the backyard where she requests music, which usually consists of the radios classical station! Her favorite instrument is the violin, she can even pick it out of a song or notice when its not playing. Her latest excitement is Opera she loves to listen to the ladies sing and tells me every time the radio features an opera singer.
Collette loves to eat Sushi roles with miso soup; I make roles at home with cooked fish and some days Collette and I just eat the seaweed! I just made a chore chart for her daily chores. Everyday Collette's jobs are watering the plant, wiping her little table, putting her toys in her basket, making sure her face is washed teeth brushed and hair done by mom, and making sure mom doesn't forget to take her vitamins! (I never forget my vitamins now that Collette reminds me, she loves her orange vitamin C.) I let her draw stars or at least her interpretation of them in the boxes to check off when she has done a chore, its so cute and every star unique! Two days a week we try and do school together; This consists of : Songs- her memory verse song we put to hand motions and her season songs, Math- counting with shapes or other seasonal objects, and Art- finger painting, play dough, paper projects, creating just about anything out of anything. She loves school time...and so do I!
My little- little is getting bigger and so is my belly, She can't wait until baby Bubba arrives (She chose the nickname!). We are having so much fun with our little Collette, and if you call her by anything else she will remind you, " No, Collette". I Thank God for her health and her beautiful smile! I Love you baby! XOXO

His ways are Perfect

-Psalm 18: 30-32-

We live in the shadowlands,
Making up reason or rhyme;
Though aloof to the truth
Most the time.

Pressure and pain
Always have an explanation.
Life and Love
Always need validation.

Stressed and depressed
From no control or understanding.
We play amateur providence,
Waiting for Gods blessings.

We serve a God
Who's ways are not our own;
In fact, they are perfect
And to this we still moan.

He is a good God,
Faithful to the end.
How can it be
all we ask is not had then.

His ways are still perfect,
His plans still sure.
He knows our needs
And what we need to endure.

Joseph was falsely accused
Spending 13 years in prison.
Ruth was gleaning for her food
After losing her husband.

Innocent, faithful,
But their lives appeared lost;
Until Joseph was esteemed,
And Ruth redeemed into the lineage of Christ.

His ways are perfect!
Even when we can't understand.
Our life is to Love,
And trust the One with the master plan.

When unsure of the future
Weak, tired, out of control;
Its Gods Love that holds us
And makes all things whole.

By: Cara Manifesta

*Dedicated to the aglow women from the
Thursday Morning Bible study
Summer 2007- Elko, Nevada.


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My hero

Its 7pm and Collette is still asleep, my hands are busy with dishes and Stephen has been called to the air. My thoughts bring me to "Above Rubies" and the women I met there. These ladies I look up to, women so strong so blessed. They are not Business women, famous artists, or missionaries; they are mothers who tackle life's challenges and open there home to adoption as well, caring for children the best they know how. They are not boastful and proud but humble and sure of the calling to raise there children, to teach, to train, to love, and discipline; They are to me models, not of clothes or diamonds but of Gods chosen jewels, daughters who represent the King of Kings.
I just met these ladies this week in an "Above Rubies" magazine. They made me remember my hero, the only women I ever wanted to be, my mother and my friend the women who taught, cared, and cried with me. No one was stronger, no woman worthy of her shoes. She always was a pillar of strength, She was the woman I wanted to be. I must confess as I got older her pain I could see, my heart hurt when she hurt I wanted to save my queen. I know at times she held in pain in life, but always appeared the stronger. When her hearts pain traveled to her body I new my mother needed a hero, our heavenly Father.
Today my mother is my hero every time she runs to the arms of our God most high, Its her example I've learned from most, more then the math lesson or starting school on time. Mom, the biggest lesson I've learned from you is to lean on our faithful God and not ourselves; to keep from holding in all our fears and continue in the good work God calls each of us to do, even when that meant getting up to school us when you didn't want too. Thank You for your Love and the strength when you feel weak. Lord, heal my mothers legs and feet and bless her with your perfect peace.

The Lord gives strength to His people; the Lord blesses his people with peace.
Psalm 29:11

I forgot to mention how fun it was to have Pat and Mary out to visit! We enjoyed singing, playing cards and going out on adventures. One adventure was to Tuscarora an old mining ghost town, The only people who are there now are artist from California that come up in the summer where they work in their studios. There is also a pottery school in the old hotel.
These pictures are of our hike up in Lamoille canyon. Yes, Collette is eating a snowball, stephen and I got into a little fight, I started it and I was the one with snow up my nose but I was able to get some down his pants! There are still patches of snow as you hike up the mountain. It was so beautiful Stephen and I are planning on hiking up there for our anniversary this week. We are going to find the high mountain lakes that are up there.

All ya'll

it has been a few days since the last post, yes we know, but...hope you all enjoy the picture of Cara as waist gunner on a B-17 flying fortress. they didn't call 'em "flying fortress" for nothin'. fighter pilots in the german luftwaffe had to think a little when attacking these prickly bombers. judging from the picture i think WWII would have ended sooner had Cara been there zeroing in on the nazis.
this will be a different sort of blog. i will spare you the mundane details of our daily chores and share instead thoughts on life, faith and people. can you have life without people? well a bug's life i guess. is there faith without people? are there people without people? where am i going with this? just stop trying to figure it out okay. this is called incoherent rambling designed to make most of you log off and succumb to increasing demands on your time. those who have leisure to sit or stand and continue reading.....i'm writing now to you.
tell me do you know this type of person? I'll call them B.K's : like to talk; maybe even good at it; like to hear themselves talk; usually bring conversation back around to his or her own experience; act like they are listening but never many follow up questions to prove it; can tell they're thinking about how to bring conversation back around to their own experience while you are talking; awkward at times just chit-chatting with individual? just wondering. i know we all probably have bits of this person in us. maybe you're a full blooded B.K. anyway, i'm searching for a root to this problem. yes i consider it a problem because as i've witnessed, this person tends to isolate him/herself and loses the ability to have intimate or close friendships. let me know what you think. and for those of you hardliner, everything is easy for me to explain types, don't give me a simple one or two word supernatural enlightened answer without some explaining and practical examples connecting your thoughts. Oh yah and what does B.K. stand for? You have to wait till next time...
au revoir