Youth Rally

Yesterday Mom took us girls up to the Clevland church for a Youth Rally. It was lots of fun to spend time with other kids and to be with friends.  We were blessed with the messages and were encouraged. 

Jody and I had fun playing some hand games with the little kids

The speakers were really good and we enjoyed the meetings a lot.

For an after noon project we marked Bibles for signs boxes.  We enjoyed that a lot and hope someone will be blessed by these gifts.

There were about 35 youth there from around the area.  In North Dakota small communities it was a pretty good turn out.

Mr. Griffen is one of the best song serves leaders you will ever find.

For the evening we went out to Sund's farm for supper and an evening filled with lots of fun.  They had quite a few group games to play and they were all enjoyed.

For this game you had 2 teams and you had to pass a balloon all the way down your line with your feet. 

Musical chairs is always a fun game.  If you have the right people playing it can even get wild!

For a relay race you and all your team mates had to run down to the other end of the shop and get dressed in the winter stuff and then tag the next team member

Then to top off a day full of laughs we played some long games of good old lightning

One of the fun things we did was play pit.  For some reason I'm not sure why ? we always seem to get in trouble for being too loud when we play this game :)

with Sund's having so many little animals on their farm this time of year the little kids got to enjoy the new little babies.

For you are my hope, O Lord God; You are my trust from my youth. Psalm 71:5

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Teach me Your way, O Lord;  I will walk in Your truth;

 Unite my heart to fear Your name.

 I will praise you, O Lord my God,

 With my heart, and I will glorify Your name forever.

 For great is Your mercy toward me,

 and You have delivered my soul from the depths of the lowest.  Psalm 86:11-13



Guess what?

We started Calving !!!!!!!

And God said "let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, Cattle, and creeping thing, and the beast of the earth after his kind, and it was so"

Genesis 1:24

Freeze branding heifers

Yesterday Clarence (Dad's Brother) was here to freeze brand our heifers.  We gave them new ear tags, gave them a pinkeye shot, and freeze branded them all in one pass through the chute.  Everything went well and we were blessed with a beautiful day to do it too.  It was 45* yesterday and everything was melting!

 The tags we put in the heifers

 It is always fun working cows with Clarence

 Mom wrote numbers down and helped get the tags out

 Janae always brought the calves into the allyway

 

 Paul liked to help pick out the tags

 Janae taking a break

 Jody helping Clarence time the brand (18 seconds).

I am with you and I will help you because I am your God.     Isaiah 41:10

Woman's retreat

Today Mom, Janae, and I went to Edgeley for a after noon women's retreat.  Our church in Edgeley put it on for the other 2 Churches in our district.  It was fun to be out with some friends for a day to visit and learn more about our Savior Jesus Christ.  I hope each heart was touched in a special way. 

They had everything decorated a nice

Mom, Janae, and I led out for some group songs and we had 2 special musics

Gerry our pasture's wife led out in the meeting and she did a really good job.

It was nice to visit with friends.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.  Proverbs 24:11

Funny Faces

Here are a few funny pictures Mindy and I found! :) 

Micah 6:8

He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?

Bottle Lambs

Today was an exciting day!!!!! We got 9 bottle lambs from some friends of ours from SD.  We are haveing so much fun already and are enjoying them so much.

All we, like sheep have gone astray,

 each of us has turned to his own way; and the

Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. 

  Isaiah 53:6