Child Rearing

U.N. Convention on the Rights of a Child.

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Exploring God's Creation

At the beginning of our hike I dropped this little camera and it fell about 30 feet and bounced off of some rocks at the bottom. To my surprise it took the following pictures of the Montana Badlands south of Glendive, MT.














Paul D. rinsing out an old whiskey bottle he found
a loaf of bread.
















The trip home. It won't be long and I will be able to do this on long trips.

Around the yard

Baby Fawn

Chris came across this baby fawn at work. He said he was able to sit there and pet it.

Happy Birthday Paul D., Mitchell, and Laura.

Laura Lynn was born on the 16th of June, she is 3 now. Laura is our only child that was born at home using a midwife. I wish I could've had all of my children at home, it's the only way to do it if circumstances allow. Thanks to our Midwife Stephanie Fritz for her knowledge, experience, confidence, and her great attentiveness to a mother in labor!
Ice cream sandwich cake!
It was 10 yrs. ago June, 15th that these two big boys were born 6 wks early. By the Grace of our Lord they entered this world weighing 4 lbs 12 ozs and 4 lbs 15 ozs. They tried to arrive 2 months early. I was put on bed rest 2 months prior to their due date. The Lord blessed us with many, many, people who helped us during this time. Thanks to all of the many friends and family that helped us during that time. Paul D. and Mitchell were born at Tucson Medical Center, They spent 2 wks in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Paul D. and Mitchell requested one of our favorites for their birthday dinner, Sweet and Sour Pork.

The Cultural Impact of John Calvin and Charles Darwin on Western Civilization

Heather Update.

Thank you all for praying for Heather and sending your love and gifts. They said to wait 10-12 days to take the stitches out. We took her on day 15 to a pediatrician in Williston, ND to have her stitches removed and to make sure it was healing properly. The Dr. said there was no infection and it looked good. When she started removing the stitches Heather kicked like a mule and her cut started separating and bleeding. The Dr. put some sticky strips on it and said lets give it another week. Thank the Lord she will be OK, it's just a bad place to get cut and takes alot longer to heal.

Heather's injury.

Mitchell was giving Heather a ride on the back of a mountain bike and heather's ankle became tangled in the spokes of the tire. It caused a large gash on the back of her foot. The local Dr. here did not want to touch it. We had to drive two hrs to Glasgow. Heather did not respond to the oral sedation. After the 2nd oral sedation Heather was still suffering. The accident happened at 11:15 a.m., at 8:00 p.m. the Dr. finally decided to send her to the operating room and put her out. We left the hospital at 9pm. It was very difficult to watch Heather suffer for so long. The medical service we received was sub-standard. The Dr.'s and nurses had little compassion for Heather's suffering as we waited the first two times for the oral sedation to take affect. At one point a female physician's assistant responded to Heather coldy with, "we're waiting on you", after one of Heather's many pleas for them to stop hurting her. More and more we are witnessing in our culture that there is no time or compassion for children, they are a burden to everyone.

Planting

Amber and Laura helping with the Strawberries.

Strawberries