Spring

With the weather turning warmer(60's)we've been spending alot of time outside, working on the garden, yard, etc...so there is alot less time to update this blog. It's been really nice to be outside working the soil.

Mason worked his first job last week. Mason's friend, Isaiah, invited him along to help him brand cows for the rancher that he works for. At the end of the day the rancher handed Mason $75. Mason told him no I just came to help Isaiah. The rancher told him he did great work and would like him to come back and insisted he take the money. Mason usually has a hard time falling asleep at night, but when he comes home from helping the rancher he's out like a light by 7pm.

Simple Math

Humor

Funny and sooooo true

Good post on parenting at Conversion Diary. Here is the link. I appreciate her humility.

Please Pray For Sarah

One of Christopher's co-workers has a friend in CA with a daughter suffering from Lukemia. Go HERE to see a website dedicated to her. Please Pray that God would heal her. She is Six yrs. old.

Children's letters to God

Stocking up on chicken feed.

Mason prepping the grain bin.
After shoveling snow all winter the boys didn't mind shoveling 288 cubic ft. of grain into the grain bin.

Montana Wheelbarrow

Plane crash kills children, grandchildren of abortion profiteer Bud Feldkamp

Interesting read go here.

Starting to Thaw.

Our driveway is turning into a small pond with the thaw coming on (It's almost April!!).
...and we're still wearing coats...

Daddy's Girls

Yogurt & a nap.

Laura

Random Pictures

Heather and Emily
Amber
Our family drawn by Emily, from l to r: Mom, Dad, Mason, Mitchell, and Paul D. I like Mitchell's round face to Paul's oval shaped face, and Heather's curly hair (look below). Too Cute!
Again, from l to r: Heather, Amber, Emily, Laura, and Mom.
A winter dessert of snow with rootbeer on top. We have also tried kool-aid and maple syrup as toppings.
I love the color combination here.
Amber and Paul D.

Consider This......

I am currently re-reading a few chapters from the book The Shaping of a Christian Family. This is not a how to book. The book tells of the childhood, family life, and the growing up years of Elisabeth Elliot. She was blessed of the Lord to have God-honoring parents. Her parents lived and raised their children for God's glory.

In chapter 14 she tells of the order in the home and time management. There are a few lines that I would like to share. I quote:

While some may regard strict punctuality as an amusing peculiarity
or an irritating compulsion, it was a matter of Christian conscience
to my father and hence to us. Lateness is stealing, he said. You
are robbing others of their most irreplaceable commodity, time.

Every Christian worker can discipline himself to be habitually on
time, by careful management and foresight. It relieves other people
of much anxiety, helps them not to waste time, and thus makes life
easier for them. It is a matter of common honesty and Christian
courtesy, and is in line with the injunction to "let all things be
done decently and in order" (1 Corinthians 14:40[AV]).

I was convicted when I read these lines. I reflected upon times when I have been inconsiderate and arrived late for whatever it may be. Courtesy, considering others before ourselves is practiced very little in our world. All we must do is look around us, and just maybe all we need to do is look within our own households. You know, our children learn best from us, so what are we teaching them? May we live the days that God graciously gives us for His Glory. Hebrews 10:24 - And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works.

Chicken Broth

If you're searching for a good chicken broth recipe. Try this one. I highly recommend this tasty broth. I have made it several times and have a good stock of it in the freezer. The recipe can be found at Pioneer Woman Cooks. She also supplies you with step by step photos of the recipes. It's hard not to get it right. While there you can view all of the other recipes she has available.

Heather Draws Mamma

Don't I look cute!

Happy Birthday Heather and Amber

Cozy

Amber's cozy little PJ's...

Science experiment

Dad and Mason put on "safety goggles" that were enclosed in the science experiment for a silly pose. They built a solar powered car. The motor barely turned under artificial light, but when put under the sunlight, it turned and burned...as Chris put it.

...and more snow.

The snow conditions have surpassed the limits of our little 26" snow blower!
Mason
Mason

Things to do during a Blizzard...

Put up the Christmas Tree.



Bake bread
Not pay $12 for a Haircut...
Before and After
"What! Give me a mirror!
Make Amber laugh

Sleep (Laura Lynn)
Take pictures of Amber

After the Blizzard - 6 a.m. -30F/noon -15F

MASON
MITCHELL
PAUL D.
This is a tomato cage in the garden.


Mason clearing the two foot drift in our driveway, it's -15F.