12-31-15 More Days Go By

This week has been a week of visitors, the kind we like best - - little people! Monday Kate watched four sweet Rassis, and, just like the last time they were here (so they say; I really don’t remember this at all but kids are pretty adamant on it), the power went out! The windy rainy ice storm took power from a lot of folks around; with the extent of the outages we were pretty convinced it would be awhile before our power was restored. Happily, though, we were wrong! All the long-term preparations we made were unnecessary, and we were so glad to have power back on by midnight. I was reminded once again that I would not have made a good pioneer.

This is the only picture from Monday’s visitors – Lincoln and Ben were puzzle buddies for awhile.

I didn’t take other pictures of the cords and lamps stretched throughout the house Monday because I thought I’d have more time to do that Tuesday – thankful that I was wrong; and most of the cords, lamps, and flashlights were put away before we headed to bed Monday night.

Highlight Tuesday was another adorable little visitor who never lacked for attention!

Wednesday morning brought snow and a crowd of Sauder kids; it wasn’t much snow but the kids enjoyed it thoroughly.

Now today Kate has our Rassi cousins here again, and, except for a few brave kids who went out earlier (very briefly at that), it has been a happy warm crowd inside. Yes – it is finally cold outside, and I’m finally enjoying the woodburner coziness again!

And that about catches us up again, and that’s just about it for 2015.

May God be with you all in 2016!

12-29-15 Days Go By

by Kate

Seems that our blog has been badly neglected this last while. This post should get us caught up to Christmas.

Last week Leann came and walked with Mom so I gave some of the kids horse rides.

Roxy came for lunch one day last week. Why do little kids like to hang upside down?!

Last Wednesday, we had the Steiners for supper and evening.

After supper some of us went to see A. Sarah’s new house. Leah and Tess stayed overnight while the rest of U. Jeffs headed to U. Daves for the night.

Thursday, Christmas Eve, we went to dinner at U. Dave’s and had the main Christmas gathering. All of Uncle Jeff’s stayed overnight at our house and then went to church with us Friday morning.

U. Dave had a little relay thingy. Everyone was split into teams. One of the “assignments” was to take a bunch of pictures of your team.

Another team taking pictures.

Spend 10 minutes working on this puzzle.

Another team taking pictures.

Very creative.

After the relay was done, we did more of just hanging out, reading, playing pingpong and Euchre etc.

A. Sarah’s traditional gift of socks.

AJ, Leah, and Tess, got a selfie stick which got used tons……

All the grandkids with Gpa and Gma.

Typical Andrew…had to try and use the selfie stick……

and the whole Steiner family (Levi and Echo weren’t able to be with us due to other Christmas plans.).

Men’s sing for some of the guys……

and Around The World for the rest of us who weren’t too full from dinner.

Of course we had to have a couple rounds of the Name Game.

After church on Christmas morning, U. Jeffs came back for a quick lunch before hitting the road. Josh opened one of his Christmas gifts while U. Jeff’s were still here because U. Jeff was involved with the purchase and delivery of it.

Later that evening we had our family Christmas.

                                                                                                 THE END.