10-29-11 Fast Week

Kate took this one evening while Dad & I were walking. I was so glad because we enjoyed this view on our walk but neglected to take the camera. Thanks Kate! Beautiful!!!

Everyone enjoys new library books!

Precious littlest :)

??  I don’t know who took this but I like it.

Saturday’s job - heading out to pull out remaining fence posts from Uncle Harley’s pasture and bring home some firewood from someplace.

We enjoyed having Matthew, Alex, and Savannah for awhile  - - - the kids had much fun with them!

Back with a nice load of wood.

Find of the day.

Alex liked the red shed zoo.

Mouse house.

 

Good chore helper!

Ben’s smiles have been missing lately thanks to some nasty cold sores :(

 

More trampoline fun after chores are done.

So we all had a fun day which ended with a wiener roast with the Sauders and the River Valley Dairy crew and their families. We enjoyed our tour of the dairy, especially the robotic milking machines. Amazing!!!!! 

10-27-11 Noodles

by Tori

It’s been another slow week here again. Restmor singing was on Tuesday, but other than that we haven’t been anywhere. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday were cold and sometimes rainy  so we got out the Farming Game yesterday afternoon. I’d forgotten how fun it is to play. We also made noodles again yesterday and for some reason it didn’t take near as long as it did the first time.

Last night we also went to church and when we got home the noodle machines were sitting on the cupboard. Jacob found a m&m wrapper and it went through the cutter part of the machine. So just for the record, a noodle machine can take a m&m wrapper and shred it up real nice.

 

The finished product.

 

Busy little construction worker.

 

10-26-11 Chores

by Ben

My chores are to give the chickens water, sweep out the garage, take out trash, and sweep the blue rugs.  I like to take out the trash the best because it’s the easiest.  Sweeping the blue rugs is the worst because it takes so long.

10-24-11 Last Night

by Sarah

We went to the Fellowship Hall last night.  We sang some songs.  Then we had a snack.  Then we went to the play room.  We had so much fun. It was great.

10-23-11 Tori’s Baptism

To God be the glory - - great things He hath done.

So loved He the world that He gave us His Son,

Who yielded His life an atonement for sin

And opened the Lifegate that all may go in.

Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,

Let the earth hear His voice!

Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,

Let the people rejoice!

O come to the Father through Jesus the Son,

And give Him the glory - - great things He hath done.

O perfect redemption, the purchase of blood,

To every believer the promise of God;

The vilest offender who truly believes,

Will surely from Jesus a pardon receive.

Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,

Let the earth hear His voice!

Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,

Let the people rejoice!

O come to the Father through Jesus the Son,

And give Him the glory - - great things He hath done.

Great things He hath taught us, great things He hath done,

And great our rejoicing through Jesus the Son;

But purer and higher and greater will be

Our wonder, our transport, when Jesus we see.

Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,

Let the earth hear His voice!

Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,

Let the people rejoice!

O come to the Father through Jesus the Son,

And give Him the glory - - great things He hath done.

 

Praise God for a wonderful weekend, and I sit here and sit here and don’t know what else to write. 

 

When words fail, music speaks.

 

Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,

Let the earth hear His voice!

Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,

Let the people rejoice!

O come to the Father through Jesus the Son,

And give Him the glory - - great things He hath done.

10-23-11 To Stephanie

on the back:

I love you.

From Sarah.

10-22-11 Kate Flips

10-22-11 Saturday Report

by Kaitlyn

Saturday afternoon we all went across the road and cut down a tree for Dad’s cousin. Then there was a tree down in a ditch that he wanted us to pull out with Grandpa’s tractor. We had to chop it into a few pieces because it was so big. But we got ‘er out!! Mom and the little kids also came over. So Mom took a bunch of pictures!

Here are the pictures of them trying to pull the one out of the ditch.

At the bottom there was a big root ball that Dad had to cut off! It was a huge log!! We snapped two chains and one cable.

Gettin’ the cable untangled.

What are they looking at?

OOPS!!!

The busted cable!

Goofin’ off.

Levi bein’ weird. Like usual.

Here are some pictures of the watchers hangin’ out on the truck!

I took this picture and Mom really wanted me to post it. I don’t know why!! Don’t you just love my duct taped shoe!!

Me do it too Mommy! Josh was so fun to watch play on the ladder.

Joshua playing ‘horsey’! So cute.

Here are two pictures of the tree that we cut down.

It was a great Saturday!