Visit to Another NY State Park

Mandy and the kids met me and Uncle J on our trip back from Canada fishing in Ithica, NY. We were looking for a park for the kids to play at, and found this place instead!

We had a blast looking around the park, and playing on the gymset they had a bit away. Here are some current pictures of the kids for your perusal.


You can click on any picture to see the larger size.

We'll also post all of the pictures on our shutterfly site - if you need that address, please let me know.

Thanks!

Benn

What a Glorious Day!

Well, today is the day Josiah accepted Jesus as his Lord! We're truly excited!

Please pray for him as he's got a struggle on his hands. Satan has warred long and hard for him, but today, God won!

PRAISE GOD!

Pictures!

Pictures are here.

Here's one to satiate the click monsters.

We're off

Well, we're off for this birth of this baby.

You can pray for us, as this is #7, and we're really excited.

C-Section this time, so it's very planned.

God's been very good to us through this pregnancy, and we're excited to see our new little one!

Will send out pics and whatnot as they are available.

Thanks!

Hope you're enjoying the Christmas Season!

Saw this today - Yep, he's right, "Best Christmas Decoration Ever!!"

Click on this, or the title!


Hope you and your family are enjoying all of the Christmas music and events, and The Reason for the Season!

~Benn

Home again, Home again, Jiggity Jig!

Well, after a week in warmer Georgia, we're home again in Colder PA! We had a very good time seeing Mandy's extended family over the Thanksgiving holiday, and talking, playing games, and building a pumphouse for Grandma Bell.

Travel was smooth, other than a God blessed flat tire that was caught by a good citizen who pointed it out during our trip home - change was quick, and necessary, and on our way again.

Glad to be home (Benn!) and in my own bed again. Kids running all over the house, as we get ready for the new arrival of the baby! Thanks for all your prayers, and hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving!

Have a merry Christmas, as we remember another baby that came!

Benn and Mandy and the Kids!

updated and very quick family pics

here are some quick family pics, everyone is being themselves! All 9 (NINE!!!) of us in this pic. And this is a bit of what we see out on the front porch.

Sink #1 installed and ready to go!

well, after a tough day doing stuff we've never done before, we got a sink installed in our kitchen downstairs - only 5 months with no water in the downstairs!!

Here's a very bad pic taken with my computer:

You'll get to try it out when you come up for a visit - which is open to anyone reading this!

Thanks!

Benn

Working on the Kitchen

Well, we've been hard at it - we're redoing the kitchen for the past 6 months - we're cutting into our brand new Amish-made counter tops tonight.

Here's some pictures for you to see.
We're all doing well - I've(Benn) been sick for about 3 weeks, and just getting over it. Mandy had another Dr. apt today - she's doing well with this pregnancy, and we're looking forward to another blessing from God in February. Keep in touch. You can reach either Mandy or I at our email addresses. If you don't know it, it's our first names at our last names (plural) dot com.

Thanks for all your prayers and if anyone wants to visit - we're up for that!! Come on up!

Later!

Forgot?

Don't think we've forgotten about this blog - we've just been very busy - Quick jots as we can.

Sorry for the delay!

Pictures by Benn

Click here to view these pictures larger

An update on the Gehmans

Well, hello. Guess you might be wondering what we're up to, or perhaps new blog post is reminding you to wonder what we are up to. =-) So, I'll fill you in.

I have been continuing to meet with my Jehovah's Witness friends on a weekly basis. For several weeks, I felt like God had been preparing me to talk with them about Jesus being God. They believe that salvation is through Jesus, but not that Jesus is God, which I figured out from reading some of their literature. Well, this past Friday, I felt that God was letting me know it was time for this conversation. You can hardly imagine how it went. As soon as we launched into this conversation, we had more interruptions than in all our previous conversations combined. I could tell that the spiritual battle was getting intense. I am so grateful that when I am weak, He is strong because I have definitely been seeing more and more clearly how weak I truly am. Anyway, we are to continue on with this topic at our next meeting, so please pray about this.

Also, this past Sunday we had someone join us for church! This was such a blessing to us and we really enjoyed studying the Bible all together and then fellowshipping with lunch afterward. It was so exciting for us to be able to share church with another family.

The kids and I have joined a homeschooling group that meets weekly. It is nice to be able to get together with other Christian families and visit. The group meets in a central location and people come from as far as 1 1/2 hours away to meet. It takes us about 45 minutes to get there. Through this group we met a couple families that have started a house church. They live about 20 minutes from us.

Other than that, we are excited to begin seeing the first signs of spring - robins are coming back and trees are starting to bud. No daffodils yet, but we are looking forward to those happy little yellow flowers.

I tried to put in a picture of our house for you to see, but I am not sure if it will actually show up or not. If not, I will try again later. If you see a picture of a house on this post, good chance it ours!