Yesterday

Yesterday was such a beautiful day, it was int he 70* and there was no wind. 

 I took my camera out with me while we were doing chores and took a few pictures. 

 These are them, hope you enjoy!



 Jody had the idea that we should set up the tramp.  While it wasn't that easy to just go get it an put it together.  **Story**  A few years ago I think in 2007 we had a bad wind storm with about 80 mph winds.  we weren't home we were at a friend's house but when we got home we saw what had happened.  The wind took part of our new wind break out,  Through one of our watering tanks into the shed door denting it,  and there were lots of other little things.  The tramp though, the tramp got lifted up and blown over the garage roof, it dented the corner a little and took apart the tramp.  We found a few springs here and there but we couldn't find them all.  We said to each other "Just keep your eyes open all the time and maybe in time we will find them all.  I think it took about a year and a half but we did find all the springs!  The last one we found while we were riding horse.  One of us girls happened to look down and saw the last spring almost covered up by mud.  We were very excited that we finally had all the parts to our tramp!  But with parts broken we had to get quite a few places welded.  It hasn't been quite the same since.  That's why it wasn't as easy as just getting it out and putting it up.  Jody spent quite a bit of time getting all the pieces to fit into each other right. 

 Yesterday Paul found this bird wraped up in baler net wrap.  He caught it and we cut the net wrap off.  But Paul made sure that everyone that wanted to, got to see it and watch him let her go.

Look at the birds of the air: They neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns,

 and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.  Are you not of more value than they?

  Matthew 6:26

Our Day

Our Day Consisted of..........

Friends

Love

Cousins

Animals

Joys

Sisters

Laughter

Muttenbusting

Sunshine

Games

Memories

and sports

Philippians 2:8

And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and
became obedient to death--even death on a cross! ...

Daisies

Areospace

This last week we had the privilege of going to Grand Forks ND to the University of North Dakota (UND) for their Areospace program.  There were about 60 4-H kids from around ND there.  The Areospace program is to show kids a crash course on how to fly air planes and to show them the air program that the College has.  UND has some of the best training stuff for the Whole Nation.  They have over 120 air planes for student pilots and their flight simulators are some of the best in the world.  About 1/4 of the students at UND have something to do with the Areospace program.  It was very impressive, the kids that are in the Areospace program at UND showed us around.  We were 1st priority and they did an excellent job answering questions and being our tour guides. 

 First we rode in 3 UND buses to go out to their air port

 When we got there they divided us into 3 groups each with about 20 kids

 They had 5 air planes on display for us to crawl into and check out!

 We all really enjoyed it but Paul enjoyed it the most.  He has a flight simulator that he uses on the computer here at home.  It was fun for him to see that all a little bigger and close up.

 There was always someone to show you something or to answer your questions

 After our tours we went to one of the schools 4 cafeterias for dinner

 In the afternoon we built rockets to launch.  We never got to launch them though because it was too wet outside .

   We got to see their 360 wrap around screen for their Control Tower training.  When you were in the inside of the 360 wrap around screen it felt like you were in a real live air port tower.  all the screens around you were moving and the guys in the "tower" were telling planes where to go and when to land.

                They added snow just for us since we are having such a wonderfully springy April!!

The flight simulators were really cool.  you sat in a little plastic cockpit and you have controls in front of you just like in a real air plane.  They had 3 projectors shining in front of you and it was live just like you were flying it.  It was really real like.

Stephen Miller one of our Church friends is going to school at UND and so we went out to Culvers for ice cream and them to our Motel room for a while.

Just when we thought that spring was here to stay, we got this. 

10 inches of snow in one night and it's still coming down.

Blessed be the Lord who daily loads us with benefits, The God of our Salvation!  Psalm 68:19