Anna Gabrielle Pancho

Anna Gabrielle Pancho

June 7th 9:30 pm 2012 

7 lbs. 6 oz. 20"

Lakeside Birth Center, Lake Tapps WA.

What a delight and blessing our Anna is. Everyone really loves her so much. Her sweet smiles are contagious. What a wonderful addition to the family the Lord had given us. 

Awaiting a blessing..

Heather Marye

I am 40 weeks and 4 days pregnant with our 4th baby. I never had such dreams for my life as the Lord had for me. He has blessed me beyond anything I could even imagine I would never have thought of being a mommy to such wonderful kids and even have the opportunity to stay home with them. They don't have the best mom but I sure do love them and in-spite of me they are some of the most wonderful loving people I know. They have a great Daddy who I could have never dreamed up as well he is a man who loves the Lord and knows that the children the Lord has giving us for a time are indeed a gift. My husband, kids, family, church family, and friends are all such blessings. Our home and the way the Lord provides for us is always such a blessing as well.

The amazing part of this story comes to the surface as I wait for number 4 Anna Gabrielle Pancho. I was born at 36 or 37 weeks, I weighed 4 1/2 lbs. with hyaline membrane disease my Dad was told to prepare my Mom that I would not make it. Well HEB hospital in Fort Worth TX had just opened a wing for premature babies and had a nurse trained for premature babies and specializing in hyaline membrane. I was the first baby to try out the new physicality. So the Lord knew all the parts that went together,  all the way to me sitting here now loving all of you who read this and waiting for yet another gift from Him. I don't deserve the children or the life that He has given me. Not one day of it. As the Lord Himself has said in His Word I am but filthy rags and a sinner (for all have sinned) so not only does He give me life but He saved me from sin and has made me ALIVE in Christ. After spending much of my life believing in Christ but not following Him. He brought me to understanding that I needed to turn from my sin and make him the Lord of my life and follow Him. So the greatest gift the Lord has given me is not that He let me live that day August 23 1973 and not that He gave me a wonderful husband and not even that He is giving us yet another gift in baby Anna. But that He has giving me eternal life!! Life even when this one ends, life everlasting in glory with my Lord begins!! I pray that all of our wonderful children will be given this same gift and all of our friends and family will as well. The Gift of salvation through grace alone in Christ.

So "waiting" not such a bad thing... My cousin and his wife have babies who come early. The latest baby Matthew came at 33.5 weeks and weighed the same as I did. They didn't get to hold him for 24 hours I know that had to be hard on Shannon the mommy. and I think of my mom who didn't get to hold me for almost a month I believe it was. Matthew Jacob is doing great now and gets held a lot! he has two sisters and a brother just like Anna will. So I'm glad to wait, thankful to have full term babies and to even have babies at all. But what my eyes are on as I enjoy the good and the bad of this life knowing that God has a plan and is in control, is the eternal gift. Waiting for heaven with the Lord. What a glorious truth we wait for. I pray you wait with a glad heart and rest in His work in the here and now. Even in what seems so bad and horrible in the moment can be the Lord working miracles and pulling a beautiful plan together one full of gifts best of all the gift of salvation.
So I'm waiting.. :-)

Matthew Jacob 

Resurrection Week

Well after reading about the origin ( http://christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-t020.html?zoom_highlight=easter ) of the name Easter.. I felt convicted to make some changes to the way we celebrate our Lord's Resurrection. With nothing coming to mind I was getting a little let down. Then after a little brain storming with my mom the day before Good Friday. God answered our prayers for something that would be a celebration but honoring to the Lord. So I want to share one of the ideas now. I will put more up later. Praise the Lord HE IS RISEN!

For Good Friday we made a tomb this idea came from friends years ago but this is the first year we have made our own and we where a little late .. if you plan it just right you can have grass on your hill by Sunday.

Saturday we painted stones! not eggs but stones. I believe we are going to call them Stones of Truth. The stone is a reminder to us of the stone that was rolled away to show that the Lord was no longer held by the grave but had conquered death. The bright colors remind us of the new life we have because of the sacrifice that the Lord made for us, making us a new creation if we repent and believe Jesus is the Christ.

That night Grandma put the scripture versus on each Stone of Truth. Today on Resurrection Sunday we hunted Stones of Truth and then gathered together taking turns reading from the Word of God the versus found on each child's stone. So we looked for God's truth found it and hid it in our hearts! What a blessing! We drank lemonade and played with balloons after.

What a wonderful day and what a wonderful new tradition for our family! Thank you Lord!!

First Lost Tooth... Growing up!

Leah has been messing with her wiggle tooth for so long now.. Everyone was very glad to see it come out. (Judah helped by hitting her in the mouth with a block.) I was looking back on our blog and saw that Sarah lost her first tooth when we where expecting Judah. Now here we are expecting Anna and Leah loses her first tooth.
This does mean that my Leah is growing up... She was the baby for so long and has always been small but now she is starting to change and grow. It's hard sometimes to think of the girls getting so grown but it is a blessing at the same time. God didn't give them to us for a time to keep them little. He gave them to us to help them grow, grow in Him. We don't always do a great job at this but the are wonderful girls all the same. And they do know the truth of our Lord.
Blessed are we by girls growing up, in my heart they will always be my babies.

More Pancho Blessings!

Little Anna Gabrielle Pancho is getting bigger everyday! She will be 23 weeks on Friday. We are so thankful for the little life that grows inside now and are very excited to see her when she comes. Anna is due June 1st. So we are working hard on school and other things to make sure we are ready for number 4.. Thank you Lord for another gift!