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Over the years, we've always compared our family life to a wagon train heading west. Just as everyone had to do his part to get to Oregon years ago, so everyone in our family must do his/her part to make our journey through life successful. If somebody climbs in the wagon and lets the others do the work, we just don't make any progress. We all have to pull our weight and work together. Along the trail we find lots of pebbles that make for a smooth ride and some bigger rocks that jar us a little; we hit the occasional pothole that can slow us down. But if we purpose to search diligently, there are countless gold nuggets and precious gemstones along the way as well. This journal is an attempt to preserve some of those precious moments for our children, and our children's children, as together we travel this trail called life.

Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. Psalm 16:11


Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Life

by Jewel
 
Last Friday night, which would have been April 5th, we had four cute Aberle kids here.
 
 
We had a good time watching a couple cartoons before their parents came .
 
The next day, Saturday, Sarah, Josh, and I helped Dad fix the floodgates down at the big creek. Josh ended up swimming, and I got wet a little past my waist. The water was so cold. 


   Tim and Em dropped by to look at the old truck, which Dad was hoping to sell, and so while Dad and Tim talked, Emily and the kids came to the back yard. Tim ended up taking the truck for a month-long trial run.

 
Hank wasn't too sure about Brandi.
                                                                            
 
Meanwhile, Ben was at the Seven Rivers Regional in Wisconsin. They ended up ranked number 1, and in this picture their alliance became the first one to have  two robots up on the top platform. They got knocked out in the finals though, because one of their alliance partners' robot got messed up, and then, once that one was fixed, the other partner's robot had technical difficulties too.
 

 
Saturday night was the choir benefit dinner. Our whole family went (besides Ben), and some of the kids went early and helped too.
 

 
I'm not sure what's going on here. I guess Dad and Josh went fishing on Sunday afternoon.
 


 
Monday we met A. Sarah at Culver's for her birthday, even though her actual birthday wasn't until Tuesday. We still had a good time though.

 
A. Sarah also used the opportunity to give me some bars she made for my birthday, which was on Wednesday.

 
Josh apparently enjoyed the sunshine that day.

 
Levi and Echo went fishing but got skunked and then stopped by on their way home from the lake and just spent some time hanging out. Jesse and Lucy came over too, and so we all ended up out on the patio around the fire burner.
 



 
 So, it was a great evening, a lot of fun, and now everyone's sort of in summer mode (I am anyway). We're all really excited for the lake this summer, and hopefully we'll have lots of fun there.
 


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