A very generous family from church brought us over numerous treats the other night. One of the treats was a platter size gingerbread man made of Rice Krispie treats. The girls were also given several bags of goodies to decorate the man. It actually fit in perfectly with our Family Home Evening lesson as the [...]

Mike had a friend in town to hunt again this weekend. We decided to do some Christmas shopping in town after his friend left on Saturday evening, but we checked out a new place to eat first. It was an Irish pub and eatery called Dempsey’s, and it gave us lots to keep the kids [...]

Now that the weather is taking a turn for the cold (it got down to 2 degrees last night) we have been staying closer to home base. The girls have been wanting to go to the Lanes, the local bowling alley, since we’ve moved here. We finally had a quiet enough weekend to go check [...]

People who know Mike know that there are a lot of things he wants in this world. Many of which he has gotten his hands on despite my trying to deter him. I don’t know if I ever posted about the tractor he got a few weeks ago. Here it is (that’s Dale on it, [...]

We finally had our first overnight visitors in the form of Jake, Steph, Dylan, and Maya. Ok, I know technically we’ve had an “overnight” visitor, Sara, but she was here for business not pleasure and without her family. {Hint to Sara: You and your family need to get your buns out here for a REAL [...]