Nana's Miracle!

Thank you to everyone for your prayers for Nana. Nana is not one to let people know she is ever in pain. The pain became so strong on Wednesday that she had to leave during service that night. Afterwards, we took her to the hospital. While in the ER, just before seeing the doctor, Nana tells us that she has been feeling a mass in her lower right abdomen for quite some time, but has not said anything about it. They ran lots of tests all through the night on her. On the CT scan it showed a hernia that had one of the small intestines pertruding through it. All day they worried over her blood pressure. So many people from our church and across the country were praying. When the Doctor went inside, she found a much smaller hernia and no intestine pertruding in it!! She was very amazed because that was not what she had seen on the CT scan!! In fact, she wanted to run some dye today to make sure everything is okay! We know what happened!!! God did a work between the CT scan and the actual surgery!! To God be the glory!! Today Nana has sat up in a chair and has taken a walk. God is so good!! Thank you for your prayers!

PRAYER REQUEST

Please be in prayer today for Steve's Mom, Margaret Saiz, or as she is affectionately called, NANA. She will be having surgery later on today. She was in the emergency room all night and was moved to a room a couple of hours ago. Margaret, Steve's sister, will be flying in this afternoon. We appreciate your prayers.

A Comical Evening!

I had something really comical happen to me this evening. I had opened our sliding glass door in the den for Bauer, our boxer, to go outside in the back. I am sitting at the bar on my laptop. All of a sudden I hear something hit the screen door and turn around to see a bird flying into our den! He flies all over the den and the kitchen, then into the front room. I have the doors open trying to get him out. Bauer is all excited running and jumping after him. I had called Steve who was at the church, he tells me to open the windows and take the screens off. So now, the front door is wide open, the windows are open with no screens on, and the den glass doors are wide open! Bauer has the poor scared little bird cornered behind my curio cabinet, so I had to put him on his leash until I could get the bird out. Yes, it was quite a sight! Here I am afraid of what germs this bird has, praying and running around after him trying to get him out. Finally at last, he flew out the same door he flew in! I was so releived and had to sit down and just laugh at what I had just been through! There is not a dull moment in this life!

Today is Jeremy, my nephew's birthday.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEREMY FOSTER!! I love you!
Here is a pic of Jeremy with his 2 girls, Jayden & Jesi.

Steve's Birthday

Steve had a great day for his birthday! All of the Saiz family was together! That was a real treat! We gathered at Nana & Ampa's place to take a family picture. I brought my camera and set up the tripod to get the pictures. Amidst all the jokes and cutting up, we did get some good pics! I am used to this from all the Foster Family photos over the years! It was a great day!

After Thanksgiving

I love Thanksgiving! I love all the cooking, family getting together, the eating, and then what we are doing today. . .eating the leftovers!! We always spend Thanksgiving with Steve's family at our house. It is a fun time! Our first Thanksgiving married, Steve & I decided to start a tradition in our home for the Saiz family. We have cornbread dressing, green bean casseraole, sweet potato casserole, brocolli & rice casserole, turkey, pink stuff (my creation), rolls, & gravy along with pecan pie, cherry-o-creme cheese pie, pumpkin pie, & peanut butter bars! That first Thanksgiving, my Dad commented to my brothers, Mark & Tom during their Thanksgiving dinner in West Monroe, "Your Mom sure fixed a good meal in California today!" He was referring to all the phone calls that I made to Mom on that Wednesday and Thursday! I made a joke to her when I would call that I was calling 1-800-ASKMOM!!! I must say that the 800ASKMOM phone calls were not near as many this year, our 4th one married! Today we will enjoy the leftovers. Nana & Ampa, (Steve's parents) will most likely come by to eat some as well. This morning, I packed a leftover bag for Stevo to take to work for their Potluck at work. So he'll get his leftovers for lunch. This year, we missed Margaret, Joe, & Che (Steve's sister & family). The Apostolic General Convention was moved to Dallas from the L.A. area, so they were in Dallas. My brother Tim was supposed to come in, but his wife had doctor's orders to not travel because of her back. Steve & Stevo were disappointed because the three of them were going to ride horses in the hills on the pennisula of Palis Verdes, not too far from our house. Steve & Tim are already making plans for a later date to ride those trails that have an ocean view. Steve will go spend some time with his horse, Rocket this afternoon. As for me, I am hanging out here at the house getting some things done that I have needed to.

Happy Thanksgiving!

From our family to yours! HAPPY THANKSGIVING! We love and appreciate all of our friends and family!

The Saiz Family

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY HUSBAND!

My sister-in-law Paulla always told me, "God gives the best to those who leave the choice to Him." She was right! I always knew that one day the right man would come into my life. It was worth the wait! I'm glad I left the choice up to Him!! I'm thankful for such a loving, fun, awesome Godly man who is my best friend! HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEVE!!! I love you! You are the BEST!! I love life with you!!

Honoring Our Veterans

We want to say "Thank You" to all of our nation's veterans and active troops that serve around the world. Thank you for your sacrifice and courage in protecting and defending our liberty and democracy. We enjoy the freedom you have secured through your selfless and heroic efforts during your call of duty. We appreciate you and pray God's richest blessing on you and your families!

Debbie and I have two very special veterans in our family that we would like to honor this Veterans Week, EM3C Fred J. Foster (Navy) and Pvt. Paul F. Saiz (Army).

EMC3 Fred J. Foster



Bro. Foster served in World War II aboard the USS Vigilance (mine sweeper) in the South Pacific. His training brought him here to Southern California in March of 1943. He was in San Diego for "Boot Camp" and then went to Terminal Island Navy Base in Long Beach where he boarded the Vigilance and then sailed to Pearl Harbor and then on to the Marshall Islands.

USS Vigilance


After being on ship for over a year, they asked if anyone was interested in "Military Government Training" which he agreed to enroll. The training was in preparation for the invasion of Japan which was planned for November of 1945. He was learning the Japanese language. This training was held at the Presidio in Monterey, CA. It was here where the war ended after the Japanese surrendered. Bro. Foster was honorably discharged in April of 1946.

He joined his Father, John Wesley Foster, who was in the Merchant Marine Corp as well as with his older brother, Paul Foster, also in the Navy. John W. Foster had served in the Navy during WWI.

Pvt. Paul F. Saiz


Dad entered into the Army in April of 1951. He did "Basic" at Ft. Ord near Monterey, CA. He had only been in Korea for a few months when he was wounded. A mortar shell exploded about ten feet away as he was running up a hill on that cold January morning. Shrapnel from the shell hit him in the chest that caused him to lose half a lung, a kidney and ripped his liver into two pieces. Another fragment went through his right leg, grazing the bone. The doctors at the MASH unit sewed his liver back together and for the next two years he was hospitalized in Tokyo, Japan. He was awarded the Purple Heart for his injuries.

Below is the newpaper article reporting his injuries.

Urgent Prayer Request for Bethani Roam

I am sure many of you have already heard that Bethani Roam was airlifted to a San Francisco Hospital for an emergency liver transplant. Please pray for her and Brian and of course all the family. The family has set up a blog to keep everyone posted of her progress!

http://bethaniroam.blogspot.com/

QUENCH Conference in Ashburn, VA.

Here's some pictures from the QUENCH Conference in Ashburn, VA. Thanks to Camille Harris for sending me the pictures.

The Universe

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I have always been fascinated by the expanse and the beauty of the Universe. These pictures taken by the Hubble Telescope, give us a closer look into the far reaches of space to help us get a better understanding of how stars are formed and how galaxies come together and even in some cases, interact with eachother. What is amazing to me are the distances between stars and galaxies to even our own galaxy, the Milky Way. It is more evidentiary proof of our Divine Creator. He just keeps blowing our minds the more we uncover and discover the incredible workmanship of the Universe.

The above picture: This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. During the course of the collision, billions of stars will be formed. The brightest and most compact of these star birth regions are called super star clusters. The new image allows astronomers to better distinguish between the stars and super star clusters created in the collision of two spiral galaxies.

Two galaxies perform an intricate dance in this new Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxies, containing a vast number of stars, swing past each other in a graceful performance choreographed by gravity. The pair, known collectively as Arp 87, is one of hundreds of interacting and merging galaxies known in our nearby universe.Arp 87 is in the constellation Leo, the Lion, approximately 300 million light-years away from Earth.

With light traveling at 186,000 miles per second, it flashes through space

11,160,000 miles per minute,

669,600,000 miles in an hour,

16,070,400,000 miles in a day,

112,492,800,000 miles in a week and

5,849,625,600,000 miles in a year.

That's almost 6 trillion miles in a year's time. In the picture above it says that the Arp 87 constellation is 300 million light-years away......go figure! Smile!

The Spiral Galaxy

The Crab Nebula