Our Day

This morning we said our good byes to Tabby and Kayla as they started back to Union College.  They are almost back, they left at 11:00. 

It has been nice here the last 3 days,  in the 30s.  Today we got a lot done outside while the weather lasted.  Lately we have been keeping busy with feeding cows and calves.  This year we kept all our calves back and are back rounding them and then selling them next spring.  We are giving them a diet diffrent amounts of corn, silage, mineral, and a by productsof ethanol in their diet. 

we are also doing school, piano, cleaning the house, and all kinds of other stuff.

 I thought I would show you some pictures of our day.  This picture is of Paul on the computer looking up some stuff that he is interested in.  He enjoys doing stuff like that.  He  like finding deals and comparing different website to see witch one is a better site.

 This picture is of Jody playing on the piano out of our new Christmas book we just got yesterday.  We started our first piano lesson 3 weeks ago and sense, been spending even more time playing piano.  We all have enjoyed taking piano lesson at one time or another in our live.  We have all enjoyed it too.

Today for School we worked on our Algebra.  With Mom teaching high school math for 10 years we have always had the best math teacher ever.  At least in our eyes we do. 

~Sisters~

Happy Thanksgiving

Hello all!  I hope everyone had a really great Thanksgiving We did.  We weren't sure if everyone we had invited were going to make it because it was a little icy out.  But God saw fit that we should spend the day with friends and family even if we were stuck inside being it was -35 degrees wind chill.

 Paul is always excited to spend time with Leyton and Brannen.  Most of the time they were down in the basement playing legos, all 3 of them love legos. 

 Mom made this really yummy Thanksgiving dinner.  Susie brought some yummy food too.  We had much to be Thankful for while we ate, that's for sure.

 Then right after dinner out came the games.  We played Scrabble, camp, othello, and lots of other games.

 Bowen is sooooooooooo cute he is such a sweet baby. 

This is Kayla and Bowen

 Paul and Brannen

 Tabby brought home a really yummy recipe for these cute cup cake pies.

 Then to finish the evening we played a big game of Pictionary

 Bowen fell asleep in Jody's arms.  After all the passing around he had to put up with, he must of been tired.

 Us 5 kids secretly bought a dozen fall colored roses for Mom.  She was so excited, it made our day to do this little act of kindness for her.  She liked them a lot.

I would love to have everyone leave a comment and tell us something you are greatful for!

In erverything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.  1 Thessalonians 5:18

New book shelves

The last 2 week we've been really busy with cleaning up in general but mostly the back bed room.  My Uncle Kimber works in a cabinet shop and got us some really nice book shelves for the North wall.   So with the need to clean out for the book shelves we made it pretty much a full house cleaning session. 

 We moved the computer out of the back bedroom into the living room.

 Jody and I had the job of pudding cracks shut so we could paint.

 Another not so pleasant job was scrapeing old wall paper off.

 One of my favorite things about redoing the back room was looking at different colors to paint the back room. It was almost as much fun to paint as it was to pick the color.

 It was fun to work together and then to see the progressing project.

 Mom redoing the base board.

 Then Sabbath afternoon Kimber, Tami, and Cara came down and after sundown Kimber put the new book shelves in.

the finished product!

Party in the Bunk house

We have been having loads of fun with Tabby and Kayla home! 

Last night we had a party night in the bunk house. 

 ~Friends~

Mindy and Kayla goofing off.........

  and then came the wrestling match

 Mindy and Kayla at 1/2 time in our wrestling

 Mom, Dad, and Paul came over to the bunk house for worship

the night wasn't complete without Dutch blitz

Then after the wrestle we gave back rubs

Tabby

YAAAAAAA Tabby is home!!!  She got home Friday night and we have been having lots of fun.  She brought Kayla ( one of her friends ) Home with her and we have been having lots of fun with her too.

Saturday after church I got to take some pictures of Tabby and then a few more today at home.  It was a lot of fun to be together and take some pictures hope you enjoy.

Tabby and for those of you how don't know Kayla this is her

THE STRANGER

(AUTHOR UNKNOWN)

A few months before I was born, my dad met a stranger who was new to our small town. From the beginning, Dad was fascinated with this enchanting new comer, and soon invited him to live with our family.


The stranger was quickly accepted and was around to welcome me into the world a few months later. As I grew up, I never questioned his place in our family. Mom taught me to love the word of God, and Dad taught me to obey it, but the stranger was our storyteller. He could weave the most fascinating tales. Adventures, mysteries and comedies were daily conversations. He could hold our whole family spellbound for hours each evening. He was like a friend to the whole family. He took Dad, my brother and me to our first major league baseball game. He was always encouraging us to see movies and he even made arrangements to introduce us to several movie stars.


The stranger was an incessant talker. Dad didn’t seem to mind, but sometimes Mom would quietly get up (while the rest of us were enthralled with one of his stories of far away places), go to her room, read her Bible and pray. I wonder now, if she ever prayed that the stranger would leave.


You see, my Dad ruled our household with certain moral convictions. But this stranger never felt an obligation to honor them. Profanity, for example, was not allowed in our house-not from us, from our friends, or from adults. Our longtime visitor, however, used occasional four letter words that burned my ears and made Dad squirm. To my knowledge, the stranger was never confronted.


My Dad was a tea-totaler who didn’t permit alcohol in his home-not even for cooking. But the stranger felt like we needed exposure and enlightened us to other ways of life. He offered us beer and other alcoholic beverages often. He made cigarettes look tasty, cigars manly and pipes distinguished.
He talked freely about boy-girl relationships. His comments were ally embarrassing. I know now that the stranger influenced my earliest concepts of the man/woman relationship.


As I look back, I believe it was the grace of God, that the stranger did not influence us more. Time after time, he opposed the values of my parents, yet he was seldom rebuked and asked to leave. More than thirty years have passed since the stranger moved in with us, but if I were to walk into my parent’s home today. I would still see him sitting there waiting for someone to listen to his stories and watch him draw his pictures.


His name?


We always just called him………..TV

:)

"I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:14

Aberdeen Regional

Saturday morning we woke up pretty early but even after a few set backs and a few answered prayers we were on our way to Aberdeen, SD for our Church's regional meeting.  It was fun to have time to fellowship with friends.  After Church and potluck DAA (Dakota Adventist Academy where Tabby went to school) had a concert.  The day was even more special because Vickie and Doug  joined us for the concert and then we got to spend some time with them afterward. 

 Jody reading on the way

 Paul with one of his friends from church.  They dressed the same without knowing what the other one was wearing, they both were pretty excited.

 It was nice to see Brienne again.

 DAA's choir

DAA's select choir

working cows

Thursday Uncle Clarence was here and we worked all the cows, calves, and bulls.  We ran the cows through before dinner and then the calves and bulls after dinner.  We worked hard and got about 211 cows PGed, and poured.  Then we ran all our calves through and gave them 2 shots and poured them also.    We had fun even though some of the time we were more then cold.  we were blessed with safety and a nice day without  rain or snow to work. 

I ( Mindy ) Poured the calves and Dad kept the calves coming in the alleyway.  Janae and Paul were the trusty ones how brought the calves into the holding pen and then into the alley.

 Clarence gave the shots to the calves,  Jody ran the head gate and helped refill the syringes

 Dakota my trusty old boy

 Champ Jody's old boy and trusty sidekick

Paul took the job of cleaning out the chutes afterwards

Holiday baskets

This last week our church family put together our annual Fall holiday baskets.  The church ladies got together at 2:00 and put the baskets together so they were ready when the kids got there at 4:00 to hand them out and sing.  We went to the Wishek nursing home first and handed out 61 baskets.  Then we went back over to Lehr and handed 34 baskets out to the elderly in Lehr.  We had a fun time and hope many were blessed.

We also had our first piano lesson for the year on Monday so we had to take turns

helping put the baskets together.

 It was fun to see the older people's faces light up when they recieved their
basket of goodie and had the chance to hear the children sing.

 In all we had 17 kids help hand out the baskets and sing.

 When we were all done going from room to room we sang a few songs for the ones who were already down in the dining room